Islamist militants are exerting growing military strength in targeting the state forces and civilians across several regions of the continent, the Armed ...

Durban’s King Shaka International Airport (KSIA) has become one of only two airports on the African continent to operate purpose-built bird detection radar, ...

South Africa recorded a 9.5% decrease in murders during the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, with 546 fewer people killed compared with the same ...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga and her two deputies racked up a R14 million travel bill in the period ...

The challenges facing South Africa’s justice system are numerous and well known; limited resources, corruption, ageing ...

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Denel PMP is in the process of developing an automatic variant of its 20 mm Inkunzi Personal Area Weapon (PAW), able to fire 200 rounds a minute. Carel van der Merwe, Executive Manager R&D and ...

Small and lightly equipped, the Beninese Armed Forces (FAB) are facing an increasingly challenging security environment as rising insecurity spills over from the Sahel to West Africa’s coastal states.

South Africa has been designing and manufacturing world-class aircraft for over a century, and much of its current capability will be on show at September’s Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) ...

Türkiye’s leading defence and software technologies company HAVELSAN took part in EFES 2026 with both its operationally deployed systems and software-intensive defence capabilities. EFES 2026 stood as ...

Although the South African defence budget allocates 65% of its funds to paying salaries, when other expenses are taken into account it is in fact closer to 70%, leaving little for operations, and ...