Over the last decade, African arms imports dropped by 22 per cent, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), but Algeria, Morocco and Nigeria continued to order large quantities of weapons and equipment.

During 2017 Russia exported some $15 billion worth of weapons around the world. This included African nations, which received an array of equipment from fighter jets to ballistic missiles – Africa accounted for 13% of Russian arms sales over the last five years....

Indications are one of the first tasks facing new Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan is the appointment of a chairman for the Denel board.

Germany has donated five patrol boats to the Nigerian Navy, which will use them to patrol Lake Chad.

The Kenyan government has asked parliament to pass a bill proposing the establishment of the Kenya Coast Guard Service (KCGS), a maritime security force that will operate on the high seas to prevent maritime crimes such as robbery, piracy, drug, arms and people...

The crew of Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Warramunga has intercepted two vessels and seized approximately eight tonnes of hashish valued at approximately $400 million during operations in international waters of the Arabian Sea.

A military helicopter crashed in south-west Senegal, killing eight people and injuring 13 others, the army said.

The Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo was held in Las Vegas from 27 February to 1 March and attracted 17 312 attendees according to Helicopter Association International (HAI) figures, with 705 companies exhibiting and 51 helicopters on display....

German officials investigating the fatal crash of a military Airbus Tiger helicopter in Mali ruled out external attack or weather factors and said they were focussed on an aberration in the aircraft’s control systems.

The Zambian Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) has taken delivery of several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that will be deployed to look for wildlife poachers.

The Angolan military has ordered three C295 transport aircraft from Airbus, and will use them for transport and maritime surveillance duties.

The Nigerian Air Force on 2 March graduated its first locally trained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pilots and also confirmed that it is flying Chinese-built CH-3 UAVs.

Talk of “sweating” defence assets and facilities to provide much-needed extra funding for an ailing SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has been bandied about by senior public sector officials without much to show for it to date.

The utilisation of scarce skills in the service of the South African military can be seen in the Pool of Specialists (PoS) approach which, in the case of the SA Army, aims to enhance, develop and augment capacity in the landward force.

Changes to the Reserve Force service system have been approved by the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Military Command Council, but, as with all matters defence nowadays, finance is the bugbear still to be overcome.

The hydrographic and survey services undertaken by the SA Navy hydrographic office have been recognised at national level with Cabinet this week approving the 2018 Hydrographic Bill that will see the SA Navy hydrographer in future known as the national hydrographer....

The Indian Navy’s sailboat INSV Tarini docked in Cape Town at the beginning of this month as part of a round-the-world trip, and her crew recently visited the South African Navy’s Flag Officer Fleet Naval Base Simon’s Town, Rear Admiral (JG) Joseph Dlamini....

The Nigerian Navy will soon receive two new FPB 110 patrol boats from France’s Ocea, which has completed sea trials of the vessels and will load them onto a freighter for Nigeria.

A South African court granted bail to six police officers charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with the 2012 killing of striking mine workers at Lonmin’s Marikana mine.

Two people were shot dead during riots in the capital of Guinea as authorities clashed with anti-government protesters, a senior police source said.

Moroccan protestors clashed with security forces in a poor mining town where residents demand government help to tackle poverty, officials and activists said.

Eritrean authorities detained hundreds of perceived opponents this month after a school director who defied government orders died in custody, the United Nations said.

Nigeria’s president told parents of 110 abducted schoolgirls he ordered all military and security agencies to search for them, in his first visit to their home town since suspected Islamist militants took them a month ago.

UN investigators of war atrocities in South Sudan urged the African Union (AU) on Tuesday to make a final push to secure justice for millions of victims.

The Trump administration on Thursday blamed the Russian government for a campaign of cyber attacks stretching back at least two years that targeted the U.S. power grid, marking the first time the United States has publicly accused Moscow of hacking into American...

General Electric has begun flight trials of the world’s largest jet engine after delays caused by technical problems, the U.S. conglomerate said on Wednesday.

Germany’s Rheinmetall said on Thursday it expects success in Australia with different vehicle types after beating BAE Systems to a $2.5 billion order for armoured reconnaissance vehicles.

Embattled national carrier South African Airways is determined to turn around major losses and address the Auditor-General’s damning findings on the airline.

Canada’s export credit agency sought in a Johannesburg court on Friday to have a Bombardier luxury jet grounded, saying South Africa’s Gupta family had defaulted on repayments of the loan they used to acquire the plane.

Nigeria ordered an audit of domestic airline Dana Air after one of its planes overshot a runway in the city of Port Harcourt last month, the latest in a series of incidents, a presidency spokesman said on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if its arch-rival Iran does so, the kingdom’s crown prince said in remarks released on Thursday, raising the prospect of a nuclear arms race in a region already riven with conflict.

Saudi Arabia and its adversaries in Yemen’s armed Houthi movement are holding secret talks to try to end a three-year-old war that has unleashed the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, diplomats and Yemeni political sources said.

Syrian government forces and allied militias have raped and sexually assaulted women, girls and men in a campaign to punish opposition communities - acts that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, U.N. investigators said on Thursday.