The Islamic State in Somalia is an affiliate of the transnational jihadist group Islamic State, known in short as ISIS. Based in the semi-autonomous northern Somalia territory of Puntland, the ...

Vice Admiral Admiral Monde Lobese’s SA Navy (SAN) is fully onboard the latest Cuba/South Africa military collaboration – Project Kgala – which the official SAN publication has it will “ensure ...

Like its new colleague the Border Management Authority (BMA), the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) has to put up with and under-funding and, to a lesser extent, short staffing. In July, Commissioner ...

There is no longer an obstacle blocking promotion prospects for a uniformed SA Air Force (SAAF) staffer thanks to the country’s largest military labour organisation. Sandu (the SA National Defence ...

Sudan’s south-western city of Nyala in Darfur recently became the centre of a significant political development. After more than two years of fighting Sudan’s army, an alliance of armed and political ...

The South African government has long positioned itself as global human rights champion, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in South Africa’s approach to conventional arms control – or at ...

SA Army soldiers confiscated more than R4 million worth of contraband and narcotics from smugglers along four South African land borders in July as part of the standing Operation Corona border ...

The South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) five Oryx transport helicopters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are not stranded there, and will return home. On the weekend, City Press reported that ...

Alliance Fleuve Congo (AFC) and Rwandan forces in early 2025 triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity across the Great Lakes region. In February, the African Union (AU) endorsed a Southern African ...

On Friday 15 August, United States Army Garrison Stuttgart Military Police fired a salute battery across the parade field as US Navy Admiral Christopher Grady, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ...

In the shadow of South Africa’s 30-year democratic milestone, a chilling narrative has emerged: the spectre of a coup d’état. On 16 July 2025, Minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni stunned ...

The reintroduction of large-scale combat operations on the continent of Europe has reinvigorated calls for increased defence investments. Most recently at the 2025 NATO Summit, member nations pushed ...