For democracies to function well, citizens have to trust their institutions. Every incidence of bad service delivery or ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) was at the Department of Defence (DoD) Mobilisation Centre on Monday ...

Fuelled by, among others, wars in Gaza and Ukraine as well as rising global and regional geopolitical tensions, 2024 saw arms ...