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 Women living under the yoke of al-Shabaab terrorists suffer from abuse, coercion and severe social isolation. But a…
ADF STAFF Methamphetamine cooks supplied by Mexican drug cartels have been discovered working at several drug laboratories in Africa over…
ADF STAFF Piloting a drone, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Edem Srem flies high above polluted waterways in his native…
ADF STAFF A string of devastating attacks by Sahelian terror groups in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have shown Russian…
ADF STAFF As it seeks to expand its territory, the Sahelian terror organization Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin has launched violent…
ADF STAFF In June, soldiers from Mali and Niger graduated from special forces training in Isparta, Türkiye, becoming the latest…
ADF STAFF Industrial development is booming across much of Africa, and with it comes the use of hazardous chemicals and…
Cameroon is working to deregister and sanction foreign vessels that illegally register with the country to avoid detection. These shadow…
Over the past three years, insurgent groups across Africa increasingly have deployed weaponized drones against security forces, leaving militaries racing…
Zimbabwean researcher Charles Moyo believes that Southern Africa is a region at a crossroads. While it enjoys peace and stability…
The terrorist attack in April that killed Mali’s defense minister in his home added fuel to the notion that Jama’at…
Beijing’s official stance of neutrality and nonintervention in the paramilitary M23’s rebellion against the Congolese government is increasingly being challenged…