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, ...

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

South Africa is approaching a strategic inflection point in its national security trajectory. The continued decline of the defence budget, despite mounting ...

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

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 ...

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

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Proof the sky is not the limit comes from the Armscor enterprise and supplier development (ESD) programme where incubation ...

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.

Africa’s militaries are built on imported power. Foreign countries such as China, Russia, the United States, Turkey and France dominate Africa’s weapons market. Between them they supply everything ...

The African continent accounts for 30% of Russian state arms holding company Rosoboronexport’s order books, with contracts for technological cooperation projects worth over $1.7 billion. This is ...

The future of Africa’s defence industry will come under the spotlight during Day Two of the African Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2026 Conference, taking place from 16 to 18 September 2026 at Air Force ...