Washington has announced the suspension of military assistance and cooperation with the South African National Defence Force.

Musk himself has admitted on more than one occasion that he left South Africa in part to avoid compulsory military service, saying he would not fight for an apartheid state. We thus rate this claim as ...

ARLINGTON, Virginia (CNN)-- The honors were late but still well-received Wednesday for members of the first all-African-American, all-female unit to serve overseas in World War II. During the war ...

South Sudanese soldiers surrounded Vice President Riek Machar's home in the capital on Wednesday and several of his allies were arrested after an armed group allied to him overran an army base in ...

The Associated Press reports: Russia’s top army general and his South African counterpart discussed “military cooperation” while meeting Monday in Moscow, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

Sudan’s military has recaptured the presidential ... in a catastrophic battle for supremacy that has expanded into Africa’s largest war — and is tearing Sudan apart.

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir as a tense rivalry with his deputy ...

Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military ... in the south of France ...

The UN was transporting wounded troops from the conflict zone (file photo) Several people have died in South Sudan after an attempt by the UN to evacuate members of the national army came under ...

Reclaiming the east African country's seat ... expected to carry on as the army tries to corner remaining fighters, who occupy swathes of territory to the south of the palace.

JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese soldiers surrounded ... were arrested after an armed group allied to him overran an army base in the country's north. Machar, whose political rivalry with ...

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