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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Seven armed pirates attacked and boarded a cargo ship sailing from Cameroon to the Democratic Republic of Congo on May…
Nearly 40 people died in the early hours of July 27 when terrorists from the Islamic State-Central African Province attacked…
After extensive discussion during the African Chiefs of Defense Conference in Nairobi in May strengthening security partnerships and facing shared…
Authorities arrested six people in South Africa on August 19 in connection with an international rhinoceros horn trafficking network. They…
Mauritania signed a 25-year fishing agreement with China in June 2010. After 15 years of overfishing by Beijing’s industrial trawlers,…
One year after the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared mpox a continental emergency, countries have…
In the cattle markets of northern Ghana, butchers and brokers have decades of experience buying cattle from herders in Burkina…
APT41 is a well-known cybercriminal syndicate with many aliases: Wicked Panda, Barium, Brass Typhoon and Winnti. The group is notorious…
Terrorists have killed more than 150,000 people across Africa over the past decade, with most of that violence taking place…
Cybercrime is a growing threat in Africa, accounting for nearly a third of all crime in some regions. And the…
The modern incarnation of fighters for hire in Africa, known as private military companies (PMCs), such as Russia’s Wagner Group,…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) is working to improve the serviceability rate of its fleet to 90% by the fourth…