Angola has made significant progress in clearing land mines and other unexploded ordnance left over…
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.
Political and military analyst Gregoire Cyrille Dongobada has authored more than 75 articles in two…
With several arrests in the past year, Liberia is the latest West African country to…
Faced with continuing terror attacks, Burkina Faso’s ruling military junta has tried to silence citizens…
As peacekeeping missions stretch miliary resources, governments are increasingly turning their attention to partnering with…
Security forces in Somalia’s autonomous northeastern Puntland region have made significant progress in ridding the…
Militant Islamist violence in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is continuing to expand to the…
In the wake of the success of aerial drones, naval forces are exploring ways to…
ADF STAFF | Photos by ATMIS In the yearslong war against violent extremism across Africa,…
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…