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 Since its creation in 2016, Nigeria’s disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) program has sought to rehabilitate former Boko…
ADF STAFF With smoke grenades providing cover, a platoon of Soldiers from Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania exchanged fire with…
ADF STAFF A dengue fever outbreak killed nearly 600 people in Burkina Faso in October 2023. A stream of disinformation…
ADF STAFF Niger’s announcement that it will suspend military cooperation with the United States is reverberating across the region, with…
ADF STAFF As piracy, illegal fishing and human trafficking continued to plague East African waters, navies from 11 African nations,…
ADF STAFF After months of relative calm, a surge of new attacks by the Islamic State-Mozambique (ISM) terror group is…
ADF STAFF As the Islamic State group (IS) has shifted its focus to Africa, South Africa has emerged as a…
ADF STAFF Somali national forces and Jubaland regional forces in early March killed scores of al-Shabaab fighters during operations in…
ADF STAFF Col. Alpha Yaya Sangaré flashed a proud smile in front of a roomful of people at the Alioune…
ADF STAFF The recent deaths of South African Soldiers, deployed in December to confront M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic…
ADF STAFF Two gym instructors in Oromia, Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, were detained on suspicion of working with…
ADF STAFF Thousands of civilians in northern Mali have fled their homes in recent months, running from what they call…