Nearly a year after stopping in South Africa, the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet training vessel Smolny is back in Cape Town for a visit as part of its Africa-Asia voyage. The Smolny left Kronstadt at the ...

Somalia loses around US$300 million annually to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in its vast waters. Boasting ...

A helicopter crash in Ghana on 6 August claimed the lives of eight people, including two prominent government ministers and several high-ranking officials. The Ghanaian military confirmed that a ...

When the Nigerian Air Force celebrated its 60th anniversary in May 2024, its spokesperson declared it was set to become the third largest air force in Africa within the next two years. This is based ...

The third iteration of the tri-nation naval exercise Mosi, between Russia, China and South Africa, is set down for Western Cape waters in November. The exercise is confined to original BRICS (Brazil, ...

Kenya’s inventory of armoured vehicles continues to grow, with the country recently taking into service new DCD Springbuck armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from South Africa and second hand M1117 ...

The possibility of the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) being placed under administration has been deferred to the end of August – something the Amalgamated Veterans of South Africa (AVSA) ...

The Department of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities has expressed concern over the pervasive “hidden crisis” of domestic and intimate partner violence, which is highlighted in a Human ...

The US Senate has confirmed US Air Force General Dagvin R M Anderson will serve as the next Commander of US Africa Command ...

Amid a convergence of threats—weapons smuggling, illegal fishing, maritime terrorism, and drug trafficking—Africa’s vast ...

The Malian Armed Forces (FAMA) have taken delivery of a batch of CS/VP14 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from China’s Norinco, with more apparently on the way. Images shared on social media showed ...

More than three years ago, South African Air Force (SAAF) firefighters lost their technical competency-based incentive pay (TCIP) due to what the SA National Defence Union (Sandu) called “a military ...