Ghana’s military is bolstering its presence in the north, where people are moving south due to the rising threat of terrorist ...

I was in Khartoum when the conflict started. Armed soldiers of Arabs came to our house and they wanted to loot groundnuts, but my mother resisted opening the ...

For democracies to function well, citizens have to trust their institutions. Every incidence of bad service delivery or ...

Military elements attempted to topple Benin’s government in early. However, unlike other coups across the Sahel and west ...

Further indications of what appears to be an increasing interest in the well-being – now and into the future – of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) by ...

Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s ...

E-System Solutions has acquired what it says is a significant interest in precision and infantry weapons manufacturer Truvelo Specialised Manufacturing.

A unanimous United Nations Security Council (UNSC) year-long mandate extension for the world body’s peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

South Africa’s security environment is entering a decisive and dangerous phase, not because of a single event or adversary, but because the state itself is ...

Small, weak, and under-resourced, the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces (FADM) remain heavily reliant on foreign assistance as they combat a persistent Islamist ...

Large, fragmented, and ineffective, the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) have yet to stabilise the country’s conflict-ridden east ...

The Egyptian Armed Forces (EAF) is one of the most capable and politically influential militaries not just in Africa, but also in the Middle East. The EAF’s ...