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 Fireworks erupted at a recent Nigerian National Assembly meeting. The explosive subject? A probe of loans from China…
ADF STAFF The sight of 50-meter-long trawlers has become increasingly common at the port in Monrovia, Liberia. The arrival of…
ADF STAFF Young Gambian men balance heavy boxes of fish on their heads as they hurry across the slick floor…
ADF STAFF In April 2019, officials in Singapore intercepted nearly 13 metric tons of pangolin scales. They were hidden in…
ADF STAFF As Chad fights extremism, technology donated by the U.S. is helping unite a diverse group of far-flung civil-society…
ADF STAFF Foreign trawlers engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing off the West African coast are decimating once-abundant…
ADF STAFF Striking an important blow against wildlife poaching, Malawi recently sentenced members of the Lin-Zhang crime syndicate to a…
ADF STAFF The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) recently donated a new police station to the Somali Police Force…
ADF STAFF Fake medicines — materials posing as authentic pharmaceuticals but containing anything from industrial solvents to plain water —…
ADF STAFF In the black of night, the Sam Simon, a vessel in the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society fleet, silently…
ADF STAFF Members of the Nigerien Armed Forces recently participated in discussion groups with U.S. Soldiers designed to promote mutual…
ADF STAFF Lamin Sanyang has had enough. A commercial fisherman in The Gambia, he is frustrated to the point of quitting…