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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As Russia’s war on Ukraine staggers into its fifth year, the Kremlin is turning to increasingly deceptive and unusual recruiting…
ADF STAFF About 160 suspected members of the Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) terror group on January 11 attacked three factories…
To help Mauritania address growing security threats from the Sahel region and West Africa, the United States government in December…
More than 570 cybercriminals were arrested as part of a sweeping international operation aimed at stopping online fraud operations. Interpol’s…
Authorities in semiautonomous Puntland State are warning that collaborations between Somali pirate groups and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen…
One year into his retirement, a Colombian military drone specialist noticed a WhatsApp message: “Any veterans interested in working? We’re…
Somali fisherman Sadiq Mohammed Abdulle returned to shore with empty nets in a village near Mogadishu. The waters there once…
Mozambique’s leadership is weighing creating a national defense fund to finance its military at a time when the government has…
Botswana recently joined a growing list of African countries whose citizens have been tricked into fighting for Russia in its…
Battles between rival terror groups in the Lake Chad basin are causing residents to flee and stirring panic in surrounding…
Among the civilians fleeing violence in Mali, many tell stories about “the white men” — the mercenary fighters working for…
Nigeria is getting closer to adopting a new disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program that aims to rehabilitate former combatants…