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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Ghana has acknowledged that its fight against illegal gold mining, known as galamsey, is a matter of national security. Now…
After 18 months of laying siege to el-Fasher, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) finally defeated Sudanese government troops there,…
Gas stations in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR), Bangui, are a good indicator of a country in…
Woodcarvers in China’s eastern city of Dongyang produce billions of dollars in expensive furniture every year, much of it made…
China is promoting its DeepSeek-R1 AI chatbot to African users, with some experts saying the system is a threat to…
There have been 11 successful coups on the continent since August 2020, when Malian military officers arrested President Ibrahim Boubacar…
In West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire is viewed as a bastion of stability with a strong track record of economic development.…
South African authorities have launched an investigation to determine how locally made technology turned up in kamikaze drones deployed by…
The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin terror group declared in September that it would stop any fuel tanker entering Mali from neighboring…
The target was a small, flagless motor vessel called the Mashallah that had been under the watch of international drug…
Relentless Russian-backed propaganda portrays Burkina Faso as opening new factories and paying off its foreign debt. The reality is something…
Somali police officers trained in Turkey are fighting on the frontlines of the country’s war against al-Shabaab, leading counterterrorism and…