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 Africa’s coastal nations are fighting a rising tide of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, piracy, and drug…
ADF STAFF The United Nations’ Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide is sounding the alarm over “atrocity crimes” in…
ADF STAFF Peter Kiano, a math professor from South Sudan, had just finished eating breakfast at Khartoum’s Souq Abu Hamama…
ADF STAFF The sound of gunfire and land-shaking explosions are routinely heard and felt in Timbuktu, the northern Malian city…
ADF STAFF The Sahel and West Africa have seen their share of crowds waving Russian flags, chanting, and holding posters…
ADF STAFF The recent military coup in Niger has not made life easier for Nigeriens or people in the wider…
ADF STAFF Senegalese authorities in February seized 805 kilograms of cocaine in waters about 530 kilometers off the coast of…
ADF STAFF Kibsa Ouedraogo is chief of Noaka, a community in north-central Burkina Faso that is surrounded by artisanal gold…
ADF STAFF Shouting and gunfire filled the air on an August night in the central Malian farming village of Bujo.…
ADF STAFF In response to brutal attacks against civilians by militia members, some of Sudan’s pro-democracy groups who once protested…
ADF STAFF More than 100 Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) vehicles deployed in a slow-moving convoy from the city of Gao…
ADF STAFF The Nigeria Customs Service in mid-July seized 31 weapons, including pump action rifles, various pistols and 442 rounds…