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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Three Mexican nationals were among nine people arrested by Nigerian authorities on May 20 at the largest industrial-scale methamphetamine laboratory…
Members of the Libyan and Ivoirian armed forces say that the 2026 edition of Flintlock demonstrated how special forces operators…
A propaganda video showed a boatload of heavily armed Boko Haram fighters heading toward a Lake Chad island held by…
Strife is growing in eastern Chad’s ethnic Zaghawa communities amid allegations of support for Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
A few weeks after Tuareg fighters pushed the Malian Army and its Russian supporters out of the northern city of…
Boko Haram fighters killed nearly two dozen Soldiers in early May when they attacked a Chadian military base on an…
More than 400 Congolese were killed in bombardments and executions in eight South Kivu province towns over a one-week stretch…
Two raids on terrorist cells in Tunisia earlier this year demonstrate security forces’ ability to detect and neutralize plots against…
Southern Africa remains a significant source of rhino horn entering Chinese markets, despite an overall downturn in rhino poaching on…
Nigerian authorities arrested a Chinese grandmother in mid-May when they discovered more than 1,825,000 tablets of Indian tapentadol worth nearly…
In a provocative move, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) announced it was taking back control of the regional government…
Russian cargo aircraft were tracked making at least 167 flights to five Algerian air bases between March 2025 and April…