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 Fabrice Kighoma was dismayed last December when he heard that the United Nations renewed the mandate for its…
ADF STAFF Al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya’s Northeastern and Coastal regions over two weeks in June killed 23 people, including security…
ADF STAFF Residents of Dofinega, a village in central Burkina Faso, heard the rumble of approaching motorcycles in January. The…
ADF STAFF Bodies lie scattered across El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur in Sudan. According to reports from the…
ADF STAFF Multinational collaboration was on full display at the 2023 African Lion joint military training exercise from May 31…
ADF STAFF Fatima Abdallah is among more than 100,000 Sudanese who have fled to Chad since fighting broke out on…
ADF STAFF About 100 armed men on motorcycles killed 18 civilians in Kaobagou, Benin, near the tri-border area with Togo…
ADF STAFF Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) Gen. Francis Ogolla took command of the country’s military in early May when Gen.…
ADF STAFF On a recent oversight visit to South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, the Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD)…
ADF STAFF Samuel Otoo and Alfred Ofore Kae launched their artisanal fishing canoe into the waters off Jamestown, Ghana, before…
ADF STAFF When a terrorist group launches an attack these days, it is likely that one or more airborne drones…
ADF STAFF Decades of warfare, corruption and ethnic conflict have left West Africa awash in small arms that continue to…