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Roughly 21 000 children have been recruited as soldiers by government forces and armed groups across Africa in the past five ...

February – earmarked as Armed Forces Day in South Africa – is just over five weeks away and a decision on venue is apparently ...

Egypt is looking to acquire Hellfire missiles and 70 mm guided rockets worth nearly $700 million. On 20 December the US State Department approved possible foreign military sales to Egypt of 2 183 ...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister Angie Motshekga maintains the Department of Military Veterans (DMV) provides services ...

With the growing global interconnection of trade and communications networks, cyberthreats are evolving into a global crisis, ...

Terrorism remains a pervasive global threat, with its complex manifestations and far-reaching consequences necessitating a ...

The United Nations (UN) and African Union (AU) decided in December 2024 to replace the current AU Transition Mission in ...

One of the key projects being pursued by Pretoria-based electronic engineering company Sparcx is an artificial intelligence ...

Six weeks after surveillance was mounted on a Chinese fishing vessel pirated off Somalia, the unnamed vessel was “liberated” ...

The Zambian military is looking to expand its Bell 412 helicopter fleet and has requested the sale of additional rotorcraft ...

Operation Vala Umgodi National Intervention (Roving) Team successfully disrupted a large-scale smuggling operation along the ...