Some African air forces are overhauling their fleets while weighing affordability, the types of fighter aircraft to buy, and getting rid of older aircraft too expensive…
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The Congolese military targets M23 areas around the lucrative Rubaya mine, JNIM defections spark a crackdown across the central Sahel, and the RSF moves into North…
Gulf states have become increasingly prominent in the squabbles, civil wars and inter-country tensions in the Horn of Africa over the past decade. The countries in…
The histories of Eritrea and Ethiopia have long been closely intertwined. Once part of Ethiopia, Eritrea launched an armed struggle for independence in 1961 that resulted…
US Africa Command (Africom) Commander General Dagvin Anderson has moved in his first five months to implement military collaboration and capacity-building partnerships with security implications. This…
South African Navy Chief, Vice Admiral Monde Lobese, used his keynote address at the closing cocktail function of the BRICS Plus maritime Exercise Will for Peace…
In the last decade, armed drones have become one of the most visible symbols of modern warfare. Once the preserve of advanced militaries, armed drones are…
On 16 October, the Commission of Inquiry on Tigray Genocide (CITG) released its landmark report documenting atrocities allegedly committed during the northern Ethiopia war from 2020-2022.…
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…
Early November saw central east Africa host two conferences and a high level defence visit all with the common cause of strengthening continentally led peace and…
Recognised experts from the eight-nation East African Community (EAC) spent three days in Tanzania’s Arusha talking mutual defence for the regional economic community (REC). Defence was…
A stated Armscor aim to reposition the South African defence and security acquisition and project management company to leverage opportunities in Africa has to date seen…
Nearly a dozen South African companies as well as state defence material agency Armscor, the Border Management Authority and National Intelligence Co-ordinating Committee, are preparing to…
Ethiopia is in the grip of a civil war between federal government forces and the Fano, a loose alliance of ethnic-based militia in the Amhara region.…
Ethiopia and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on 6 May 2025. Under it, their national police agencies will cooperate on security and intelligence. This…
