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 When Sierra Leone’s government inked a $55 million deal with China to develop an industrial fishing harbor on…
ADF STAFF Across Africa, countries have eagerly adopted Chinese technology to build communications networks and monitor public spaces. However, the…
ADF STAFF Despite efforts by coastal African nations to curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, one of every four…
ADF STAFF Lt. Gen. Dennis Gyllensporre of Sweden, force commander of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali…
ADF STAFF A skiff carrying up to 10 armed pirates approached a Sea Shepherd Global vessel off the coast of…
ADF STAFF The Kenya Air Force (KAF) recently became the first African country to take ownership of the C-145A Skytruck…
ADF STAFF When the extremist group Boko Haram kidnapped 276 schoolgirls in the remote town of Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014,…
ADF STAFF For nearly a decade, the people of Mandera County in northeast Kenya have lived under constant threat from…
ADF STAFF Last October, two workers from the Samira gold mine in western Niger died when their vehicle struck an…
ADF STAFF Recent satellite images of West Africa showed a concentration of light blue dots from Mauritania to Gabon. Farther…
ADF STAFF When given the keys to one of two newly constructed health clinics, Gado Guidami raised and shook them…
ADF STAFF A rapid response by public health officials armed with vaccines appears to have contained the latest Ebola outbreak…