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 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…
ADF STAFF Days after a coup d’etat in Burkina Faso in early 2022, a reporter stood on the campus of…
ADF STAFF When experts and activists gathered recently to advance a different approach to conflict resolution in Africa, they found…
ADF STAFF In 2020, Zimbabwean journalist Hopewell Chin’ono published an article online that exposed government misuse of funds intended to…
ADF STAFF Collectively, Africa’s coastal countries are responsible for more than 13 million square kilometers of maritime territory, a huge…