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 Illegal gold mining is a growing problem in Nigeria that is benefiting terrorist groups, causing violence and increasing…
ADF STAFF For more than nine months, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of Sudan have controlled large parts of the…
ADF STAFF As the civil war in Sudan raged into its ninth month, the Sudanese Armed Forces faced allegations of…
ADF STAFF South African troops working with the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have been deployed to the conflict-ridden eastern…
ADF STAFF Drug confiscations at Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa Bole International Airport have more than doubled over the past year, an…
ADF STAFF About 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, with many of them hiding their…
ADF STAFF Sub-Saharan Africa in 2023 emerged as the region with the highest number of terrorist attacks worldwide, a new…
ADF STAFF What began as Ethiopia’s aspiration to regain access to the Red Sea turned into a threat of force…
ADF STAFF Days after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of Sudan’s second-largest city, the militia’s leader launched a…
ADF STAFF The United Arab Emirates’ support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s civil war is drawing criticism…
ADF STAFF As commander of the Nigerian Army’s Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Maj. Gen. Kevin Aligbe believes that Soldiers…
ADF STAFF Growing up in internally displaced persons camps in northern Uganda in the 1980s, Hakim Owiny was surrounded by…