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

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea and Gabon have all suffered regime change in the last five years, led by men in military ...

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 ...

The long-simmering debate over South Africa’s declining defence capabilities exploded into the public arena in the past few ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fuelled by, among others, wars in Gaza and Ukraine as well as rising global and regional geopolitical tensions, 2024 saw arms ...

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 ...

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

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 ...