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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South Africa’s Border Management Authority (BMA) has deployed four drones and added 40 body cameras to halt illegal migration, smuggling…
Fake investment scams, ransomware, digital sextortion and business email compromise are surging across the continent. Experts say African countries must…
African nations’ counterterrorism strategies range from battlefield combat to cat-and-mouse hunts in cyberspace. But there is one aspect of counterterrorism…
The World Hongmen History and Culture Association is a modern organization that describes itself as an ethnic fraternal group dedicated…
Liberia and Côte d’Ivoire have launched joint patrols along the Cavalla River, which forms part of their border, as part…
Al-Qaida-linked terrorists attacked seven Malian military posts July 1 in a series of coordinated, simultaneous early-morning assaults on urban centers…
At least four vessels from China’s Liao Dong Yu distant-water fishing fleet have operated illegally in Somali waters since at…
In September 2024, Col. Assimi Goïta, Mali’s junta leader, traveled to Beijing to visit Norinco, a weapons manufacturing company. Mali…
Ask experts for solutions to Africa’s myriad security challenges, and many are likely to call for greater cooperation, training and…
Now in its third year, civil war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces…
Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania lost up to $142.8 million annually between 2015 and 2021 to illegal fishing of…
With more than 100 armed groups operating in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the region is one of the…