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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared a national security emergency, ordering the recruitment of more security personnel alongside other ...

Well before she saw for herself what SA Army soldiers are doing to safeguard South Africa’s land borders last week, Defence and Military Veterans Minister ...

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