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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Amid a spate of recent arrests on charges of human trafficking, police and government officials in Zimbabwe are investigating an…
Boko Haram’s first female suicide bomber killed herself and a Nigerian Soldier in 2014 at a barracks in Gombe State.…
Across the Sahel landscape, an old security feature is returning: fortified barriers. Inhabitants of rural towns are building rings of…
As naval leaders from across the continent gathered in Rabat, Morocco for the fourth annual African Maritime Forces Summit they…
Terrorist groups increasingly are targeting roads, communities and commercial hubs within a 10-kilometer radius of mines in the Sahel, according…
In Sierra Leone, the illegal activities of foreign industrial trawlers are decimating fish stocks and threatening the livelihoods of artisanal…
As terror groups from the Sahel encroach on coastal West African states, Mauritania has remained relatively peaceful. The country has…
Tuareg herders Ousmane Ag Sidi and Abdoulwahab Ag Mahamad were working in and around Zahro, a village on the Niger…
The Nigerian government’s Terrorist Prevention Act reclassified violent bandit groups, criminal gangs and kidnapping syndicates as terrorists in 2022. The…
While piracy is down in the Gulf of Guinea, the region remains the world’s hot spot for illegal, unreported and…
A northern region of Cameroon in the Lake Chad Basin has become a focal point of pressure by terrorists trying…
After years of losses to the joint military forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, the Islamic…