The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin terror group unexpectedly stormed the northern Burkina Faso town of…
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.
Moroccan Royal Armed Forces Brig. Gen. Aziz Idrissi Yazami stood in front of a packed…
It is around midnight and a Namibian vessel’s radar detects a foreign trawler notorious for…
In a continent brimming with conflict, Kenya stands as an example of effective peacebuilding. Borne…
Shipments of high-tech weapons from Yemen’s Houthi rebels to terror groups in Somalia could undermine…
Mustafa Ibrahim was in a financial bind. The 48-year-old was a welder in a suburb…
Since arriving in Mali almost four years ago, Russia’s Wagner Group mercenaries have kidnapped, imprisoned…
Zimbabwe lost one of its most experienced pilots, Ritswanetsi Vuyo Ncube, when his fighter jet…
In 2024, a United Nations monitoring team reported that the relationship between Somalia’s al-Shabaab terrorist…
ADF STAFF For a nation’s military to be ethical and effective, it must adhere to…
Amina J. Mohammed of Nigeria is deputy secretary-general of the United Nations and chair of…
The Economic Community of West African States conducted Operation Safe Domain III, aimed at keeping…
Just three years after the Nigerian Air Force took delivery of a dozen A-29 Super…
Guinea-Bissau, a West African nation once known as a “narco-state,” intercepted 2.63 metric tons of…
The remote town of Birao, Central African Republic, sits close to the borders of Chad…
The Cameroon Army is equipping its special forces with Turkish-made MPT-76 assault rifles. Developed in…
Tunisia is on track to buy an undisclosed number of 20-meter Archangel patrol boats from…