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 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…
ADF STAFF The captains of industrial fishing vessels Friendship 806 and Friendship 888 had no idea they were being watched.…
ADF STAFF A large trawler shined its huge, stadium-style lights into the deep waters of the western Indian Ocean. The…
ADF STAFF Russia’s Wagner Group fighters broke the cease-fire in Libya’s civil war when they recently flew military aircraft over…
ADF STAFF In the presence of violent Islamist extremism in the Sahel region, efforts are underway to protect young people…