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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It was not easy for Nigerian Maj. Gen. Godwin Mutkut to take a week away from his post as force…
Graphic videos of a massacre in villages surrounding the western Burkina Faso town of Solenzo spread rapidly on social media…
Across the northern reaches of Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo, there is relative peace compared to the dire situation in…
Sudan’s 2-year-old war began as a fight for supremacy between the leaders of the national Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and…
Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta in mid-March announced it was recruiting 14,000 soldiers to fight rebels affiliated with al-Qaida and…
Chinese companies are involved in one-third of Africa’s 231 commercial ports, a significantly larger presence and influence than anywhere else…
ADF STAFF Somalia’s al-Shabaab and Yemen’s Ansar Allah rebels have struck an alliance that threatens to destabilize more of the…
Djibouti’s position at the southern end of the Red Sea’s Bab al-Mandeb Strait has made it vital to international and…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans to activate its standby force as terrorism from Burkina…
For most people in the volatile Tigray region, the two-year war fought against Ethiopian federal forces with support from the…
Speaking to the United Nations Security Council in February, the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Minister for Foreign Affairs, Thérèse…
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) on March 13 announced the termination and phased withdrawal of its military mission in…