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 On December 22, units from the Somali National Army joined local clan militias to liberate Ruun-Nirgood, a strategically…
ADF STAFF Fisheries officials have long known that trawlers involved in illegal fishing turn off their automatic identification systems (AIS)…
ADF STAFF Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing continues to rob the Gulf of Guinea of precious fish stocks and…
ADF STAFF Nigerian authorities in early December reopened the railway linking Kaduna to Abuja eight months after it was attacked…
ADF STAFF Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing continued to be a costly issue around the continent in 2022. That…
ADF STAFF When he took power in Eritrea nearly 30 years ago, Isaias Afwerki promised multiparty elections and the development…
ADF STAFF With the signing of a truce in early November, the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels ended their brutal…
ADF STAFF The attempted coup that shook São Tomé and Príncipe in late November likely had its roots in the…
ADF STAFF As 2022 ended, the story of African security was marked by continuing conflicts, coups and the unrest caused…
ADF STAFF As Ukraine acquires weapons and materiel from NATO and other Western countries, Russia is pushing disinformation using social…
ADF STAFF Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea continues to drop as a result of efforts by regional and international…
ADF STAFF Having overfished its own waters, China is sending its heavily subsidized industrial and semi-industrial trawlers to fisheries near…