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.
Browsing: Daily News
Russian mercenary organization Wagner Group is being replaced in the Sahel by the state-controlled Africa Corps. However, it seems unlikely…
Shock and frustration colored Abdelaziz Ali’s face as he walked out of the primary school where he worked in Khartoum.…
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) recently took control of the country’s northwestern corner that borders Egypt and Libya. The…
The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin terror group unexpectedly stormed the northern Burkina Faso town of Djibo early May 11 and…
Moroccan Royal Armed Forces Brig. Gen. Aziz Idrissi Yazami stood in front of a packed conference room and painted a…
It is around midnight and a Namibian vessel’s radar detects a foreign trawler notorious for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing…
In a continent brimming with conflict, Kenya stands as an example of effective peacebuilding. Borne of its own past struggles…
Shipments of high-tech weapons from Yemen’s Houthi rebels to terror groups in Somalia could undermine security across the Horn of…
Mustafa Ibrahim was in a financial bind. The 48-year-old was a welder in a suburb of Lagos, Nigeria, but business…
Since arriving in Mali almost four years ago, Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries have kidnapped, imprisoned and tortured hundreds of Malian…
Zimbabwe lost one of its most experienced pilots, Ritswanetsi Vuyo Ncube, when his fighter jet crashed during what the Air…
In 2024, a United Nations monitoring team reported that the relationship between Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorist group and Yemen’s Houthi rebels…