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

Turkiye’s Assan Group has acquired South Africa's Dynaflow Technologies, which specialises in fuzes for bombs and other applications.

In the military, the sergeant major is responsible for discipline be it at levels ranging from company to service and – at the top – an entire defence force.

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 ...

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

Kidnapping for ransom has a long history in the west African Sahel. In 1979, a rebel group led by Chad’s future president Hissène Habré kidnapped a French ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

On 14 December 2025, two gunmen killed 15 people, including a child, during a terrorist mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, during a Hanukkah ...

The Sahel region, south of the Sahara, is notorious for being the global epicentre of terrorism. With a combined population of 75 million people, the region ...