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 Three years after Burkina Faso recruited civilian volunteers to join the fight against terrorists in its northern regions,…
The war-weary people of Casamance are desperate for peace, but timber and cannabis trafficking continue to fuel conflict. An agreement…
ADF STAFF Despite much speculation that Chinese lenders were constructing a so-called “debt trap” as a way to claim key…
ADF STAFF There was no gunfire in Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, on December 20, 2022, or the next…
ADF STAFF Many rural West African communities rely on donkeys as a source of labor, transport and income. Traditional Chinese…
ADF STAFF To help authorities detect illegal fishing, a new study combined the identities of 35,000 vessels with a decade…
ADF STAFF As Mozambique tries to quell illegal fishing, drug trafficking and other maritime security threats in its waters, the…
ADF STAFF The United States has given $9 million in weapons, vehicles, medical supplies and other equipment to the Somali…
ADF STAFF Until November 2021, Benin had been spared from the kind of extremist violence that has ravaged its neighbor…
ADF STAFF As it seeks to expand its presence in the Sahel region, Russia appears to be following the same…
ADF STAFF China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promised huge investments in ports throughout the world. But the environmental and…
ADF STAFF Bright Tsai Kweku knows well the perils of working on board a Chinese-owned fishing vessel in Ghana. He…