Ysterplaat for the AFB Makhado – the Limpopo base regarded as “fighter town” in the SA Air Force (SAAF) - was no ...
Armscor, South Africa’s state arms procurement agency, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) as it explores the available options to replace the Vektor ...
When Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) extremists launched four simultaneous deadly attacks against Nigerian military forces in late October 2025, ...
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE’s) EDGE Group has delivered half a dozen ANAVIA HT-100 NAVAL unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the Angolan Navy as part of a €1 billion deal for three BR 71 Mk II ...
Morocco is aggressively modernising its air force to counter Algiers’ formidable arsenal, thanks in part to a large defence budget increase. Complementing acquisitions, Morocco is fostering a ...
South African authorities have apprehended eight people suspected of illegally siphoning 2.3 billion rand from small lender VBS Mutual Bank, which collapsed in 2018 because of the corruption scandal.
Two of the previous instalments in this series argued that South Africa’s defence funding constraints are unlikely to ease in the foreseeable future, and that the South African National Defence Force ...
Methamphetamine cooks supplied by Mexican drug cartels have been discovered working at several drug laboratories in Africa over the past two years. Several arrests, including Nigeria’s largest-ever ...
Parliament’s Research Unit has raised concerns about the achievability of the South African National Defence Force’s (SANDF) proposed future force design, as, if fully implemented, the ‘Journey to ...
Russia has used deceptive, coercive and exploitative practices to recruit foreign nationals into its military forces and send them to fight in Ukraine, Amnesty International said in a new briefing ...
The Department of Defence (DOD) has a unique supply chain management (SCM) process within government given its unique security and protection mandate. The terminology used for supply chain activities ...