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 Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made it clear after winning a second term last year that defeating al-Shabaab…
ADF STAFF Although military and intelligence operations have weakened al-Qaida in recent years, the extremist group is trying to make…
ADF STAFF For two days, members of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) defended a military industrial facility in Yarmouk from…
ADF STAFF As its battlefield losses mount in Ukraine, Russia is looking to Mali as a way to obtain weapons…
ADF STAFF Few countries are controlled as tightly by one man as is Eritrea. Having recently marked 30 years of…
ADF STAFF After more than a decade of heavy borrowing from China, the bill is coming due for some African…
ADF STAFF In 2021, Kenya launched a program to send 400 police officers each year to China for training, despite…
ADF STAFF In late 2022, Togolese gendarmes stormed a restaurant in a counterterrorism exercise that simulated a response to a…
ADF STAFF Less than two years after Guinea’s military seized power from then-President Alpha Condé, the junta is facing a…
ADF STAFF As a journalist in Kenya, a doctoral student at the Communication University of China and a professor in…
ADF STAFF Sudanese military officials reported on May 26 that they had intercepted a cache of weapons as they were…
ADF STAFF Crime organizations and terrorist groups have woven a complex trafficking network moving illicit goods such as assault-style rifles,…