A near on two–year positions hiatus, filled by acting appointments in Denel’s senior management team, has ended with the announcement of a chief financial officer and group company secretary, but the state-owned defence and technology conglomerate still has...

There are several South African companies that meet the ammunition needs of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) and South African Police Service (SAPS), but the local military ammunition production industry is largely dependent on exports, with much...

Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies has gazetted the draft Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) Defence Sector charter for its second round of public comment and input which lasts until October 4.

Bangladeshi shipbuilder Western Marine Shipyard (WMS) has handed over the offshore patrol vessel MV Doria for Kenya's Ministry of Fisheries, Livestock and Agriculture at its facilities in Bangladesh, and will sail it to Kenya at the end of this month.

The armed Houthi movement and their foes in Yemen's civil war, the Saudi-led coalition, on Saturday gave conflicting accounts of a Houthi attempt to attack shipping in the Red Sea port of al-Mokha.

Pirates have kidnapped five sailors from the vessel of a Polish company off the Nigerian coast, including three crewmembers from Morocco.

The lifesaving and humanitarian side of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) was again demonstrated this week when a 15 Squadron Oryx helicopter airlifted critically injured schoolchildren from an accident scene in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

German investigators may need months to determine what caused an Airbus military helicopter to crash during a peacekeeping mission in Mali, killing both crew members, defence ministry spokesman Jens Flosdorff said on Wednesday.

Germany's defence ministry defended the performance of its Tiger helicopters as part of a UN peacekeeping mission in Mali amid indications Wednesday's crash of one of the aircraft was due to technical factors.

Opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party shadow defence and military veterans minister Kobus Marais and defenceWeb are both being kept in the dark by the Defence Ministry and the SA National Defence Force (SANDF).

South African aviators have pioneered an astounding number of aviation stunts, such as the Flying Lions team water-skiing four Harvards across a dam. These brave pilots bring the same skill and bravado to the airshow circuit, and have performed physics-defying...

The “cockpit ambassadors” of the SA Air Force – the Silver Falcons – will this year mark the 50th anniversary of the aerobatic team with a reunion and airshow at AFB Langebaanweg, the team’s home base.

Armscor has issued a tender for the acquisition of six Type 63 107 mm multiple rocket launchers (MRLs).

Exercise Ndlovu, the SA National Defence Force’s (SANDF) annual force preparation exercise which finishes today (Friday) this year concentrated on border protection.

South Africans see them mainly at official state functions such as the opening of Parliament and state visits to the Union Buildings, but the National Ceremonial Guard is also employed in the role of bodyguard and personal protection duties for the top echelon...

With a handful of exceptions the blue economy component of government’s Operation Phakisa appears becalmed.

The Chief of Staff of the Algerian military, General Ahmed Gaid Salah, has commissioned into service the domestically manufactured corvette Rais Hassen Barbier.

The Italian Navy has deployed the Tremiti, a maintenance ship and a crew of 50 sailors to the Libyan Navy base in Tripoli, which is home to a section of the navy loyal to the Government of National Accord (GNA) led by Prime Minister Fayez Mustafa al-Serraj, who...

Three U.S. air strikes killed seven al Shabaab fighters in Somalia, the U.S. Africa Command said on Thursday.

Grenade attacks on two bars killed at least three people and wounded 27 others in the Burundian capital of Bujumbura, police and hospital sources said on Friday.

The Kenyan government ordered the suspension of moves to shut down two rights groups who raised concerns over last week's election, hours after authorities raided one office.

More than 100 girls who were kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in the Nigerian town of Chibok in 2014 are ready to return to normal life after being released and receiving psychological and medical treatment, the government said on Friday.

Several members of the U.N. Security Council called on U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday to establish an international investigation into the murders of two U.N. investigators in Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this year.

The number of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda hit a million on Thursday, the United Nations said, as hundreds of desperate families pour across the border every day seeking a haven from the civil war.

A manhunt was underway for the driver of a van that mowed through crowds of tourists on Barcelona's most famous avenue on Thursday, killing at least 13 people in an attack claimed by Islamic State.

Disarmament experts have urged Europe to be vocal in helping to halt what they regard as a new Cold War in which global powers have embarked on a new conventional and nuclear arms race, Germany's foreign minister said on Wednesday.

Australia's main scientific agency said on Wednesday it believed with "unprecedented precision and certainty" that a missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft crashed into the sea northeast of an area scoured in a fruitless two-year underwater search.

Kenya Airways cancelled an unspecified number of flights on Monday after pilots refused to take up some shifts, the airline said.

Boeing has released its 2017 Pilot and Technician Outlook and projects a demand for more than 1.2 million pilots and technicians over the next 20 years, including 24 000 new pilots in Africa and 23 000 new technicians.

Elsenburg farmers in the Western Cape have found valuable ways to use drone technology in their farming efforts, so says Western Cape MEC for economic opportunities, Alan Winde.

An advisor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the six-year war is nearly over as foreign states cut backing for rebels, and vowed the government would confront any "illegitimate" forces, whether Turkish or American.

The United Nations hopes for a "serious negotiation" between the government and a still-to-be-formed unified Syrian opposition in October or November, U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday.

A Hamas security man and a member of a rival Islamist militant group were killed on Thursday in a confrontation in the Gaza Strip near the Palestinian enclave's border with Egypt, security sources said.