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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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