Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) and Rwandan forces in early 2025 triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity across the Great Lakes region. In February, the African Union (AU) endorsed a Southern African ...

SA Army soldiers confiscated more than R4 million worth of contraband and narcotics from smugglers along four South African land borders in July as part of the standing Operation Corona border ...

On Friday 15 August, United States Army Garrison Stuttgart Military Police fired a salute battery across the parade field as US Navy Admiral Christopher Grady, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...

In the shadow of South Africa’s 30-year democratic milestone, a chilling narrative has emerged: the spectre of a coup d’état. On 16 July 2025, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni stunned ...

Fatalities and violent events linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa sustained near record pace, with the Sahel and ...

The Beninese Armed Forces has introduced new equipment into its inventory, including Cayman and MCAV-20 armoured personnel ...

The reintroduction of large-scale combat operations on the continent of Europe has reinvigorated calls for increased defence investments. Most recently at the 2025 NATO Summit, member nations pushed ...

The South African government department tasked with diplomacy and foreign policy points out, in the wake of SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief, General Rudzani Maphwanya, apparently encroaching ...

Lanseria International Airport has become the first in Africa to install the FlightLine air traffic surveillance system, which uses ADS-B technology for cost-effective airspace awareness. SSASS ...

Nigeria is looking to buy $346 million worth of munitions from the United States, including guided bombs and rockets, with the State Department approving the possible sale. The US Defense Security ...

Vice Admiral Monde Lobese’s SA Navy (SAN) this week put three platforms into False Bay as part of its national force preparation exercise Red Lion 2025, and these were briefly joined by the new French ...

All is proceeding to plan with the Western Cape leg of the SA Navy (SAN) force preparation exercise Red Lion. The Western Cape has by far the major SA Navy representation nationally with Simon’s Town ...