In September 2024, Col. Assimi Goïta, Mali’s junta leader, traveled to Beijing to visit Norinco,…
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.
Ask experts for solutions to Africa’s myriad security challenges, and many are likely to call…
Now in its third year, civil war in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and…
Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania lost up to $142.8 million annually between 2015 and…
With more than 100 armed groups operating in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the…
Social media has become a key communication tool for terrorist groups across Africa, presenting governments…
The South African National Defense Force faces a R41.2 billion (more than $2.3 million) budgetary…
For decades, Russia has used vast, shadowy networks to prey on fears about pandemics and…
About 80% of the world’s oil trade moves through the Western Indian Ocean, which faces…
CMDR. OWONAM EQUERE, NIGERIAN NAVY Africa has witnessed a troubling surge in coups d’état, reminiscent…
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…