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 International observers showered Liberia with praise after the West African nation with a grim history of conflict conducted…
ADF STAFF Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s call for direct port access on the Red Sea has Horn of Africa…
ADF STAFF Political instability, disputes between farmers and herders, unemployment, ethnic divisions, and the rise of extremist organizations are among…
ADF STAFF Kenya’s Chinese-built Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was supposed to be an economic engine for East Africa, linking the…
ADF STAFF Just 2,700 kilometers separate northeastern Brazil from the western coast of Africa. Traffickers use this proximity to move…
ADF STAFF With cybercrime growing rapidly across Africa, the Ghana Armed Forces plans to launch a Directorate of Cyber and…
ADF STAFF Peacekeepers are on the move across Africa. But rather than rushing in to quell violence, they are withdrawing…
ADF STAFF Two Malian Army aircraft came under gunfire from rebels in mid-August when they landed at a United Nations…
ADF STAFF Seven Nigerien Soldiers died during a late September battle with hundreds of insurgents on motorbikes in Kandadji, a…
ADF STAFF The battle to control the Sudanese Armed Forces’ (SAF) Al Shajara Armored Corps base in southeast Khartoum cost…
ADF STAFF Sahle-Work Zewde may hold a largely ceremonial role as Ethiopia’s president, but she succinctly captured the plight of…
ADF STAFF Ugandan authorities on October 15 prevented the Allied Democratic Forces from bombing two churches in central Kibbi, about…