Africa Defense Forum
ADF is a professional military magazine published quarterly by U.S. Africa Command to provide an international forum for African security professionals. ADF covers topics such as counter terrorism strategies, security and defense operations, transnational crime, and all other issues affecting peace, stability, and good governance on the African continent.
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ADF STAFF The captains of industrial fishing vessels Friendship 806 and Friendship 888 had no idea they were being watched.…
ADF STAFF A large trawler shined its huge, stadium-style lights into the deep waters of the western Indian Ocean. The…
ADF STAFF Russia’s Wagner Group fighters broke the cease-fire in Libya’s civil war when they recently flew military aircraft over…
ADF STAFF In the presence of violent Islamist extremism in the Sahel region, efforts are underway to protect young people…
ADF STAFF Anger at the harm caused by fishmeal factories in The Gambia turned violent in March when protesters burned…
ADF STAFF A recent terror attack on Palma, a strategic port town in northern Mozambique, left dozens of Mozambican troops…
ADF STAFF Three years after Russia’s Wagner Group began arriving in the Central African Republic, international observers have raised concerns…
ADF STAFF The gun-toting men arrived on motorbikes outside the boys’ secondary school in Kankara, Nigeria. They shot the school…
ADF STAFF A gory two-week siege in Palma, a port city on the northern end of the Mozambique Channel, rattled…
ADF STAFF As moonlight glints off the waves of the Liberian coast, a group of divers with blowtorches and breathing…
ADF STAFF Military and public health leaders from across Africa gathered virtually for the African Partner Outbreak Response Alliance (APORA)…
ADF STAFF A piracy incident last year in the Gulf of Guinea exposed the use of illegal and dangerous tactics…