Military spending in Africa increased by 8.3 per cent in 2013, reaching an estimated $44.9 billion, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), which noted that global military spending has decreased in the West but is rising everywhere...

Denel is using this week’s Defence Services Asia (DSA) exhibition in Malaysia to showcase its products to countries in the wider Asia-Pacific region as well as the Malaysian defence sector and that country’s armed forces.

Denel Aviation has secured a R65 million contract to provide ship-to-shore helicopter services over the next five years to the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA).

Ghanaian and U.S. maritime forces completed a three-week combined maritime law enforcement operation as part of African Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership (AMLEP), on April 11.

South Africa’s maritime capability, both in terms of manpower and equipment, has shrunk dramatically since democracy but the Navy can do the job it is tasked for if properly resourced.

“Last out, first back” is an apt way to describe the current and immediate preceding task of the Navy’s Valour Class frigate SAS Spioenkop (F147).

ZU-800, the first Mirage 111CZ to be taken into service by the SA Air Force (SAAF), is currently languishing at AFB Hoedspruit but plans are afoot to make the Black Widow airworthy for one last flight to the SAAF Museum.

The death toll from the Namibia Defence Force Z-9 helicopter crash on Friday has risen to six, after two critically injured passengers succumbed to their injuries.

Cubic Defense Systems has been awarded a $5 million contract to supply its P5 Combat Training System (P5CTS) to the Royal Moroccan Air Force, which will use it to train its F-16 Fighting Falcon pilots.

A possible record number of wreaths have been laid at the Gunners’ Memorial Service in Potchefstroom on April 13 including international military attaches, local dignitaries, serving military members and veterans organisations.

Thursday is D-day for the SA National Defence Force’s (SANDF) board of enquiry to report on all aspects of military involvement in Nkandla, the Presidential homestead in rural KwaZulu-Natal.

The Ceasefire Campaign has called on South Africans to resist further defence spending as advocated by the Defence Review, during the annual Global Day of Action on Military Spending.

One year ago, on March 15, we reported on the unlikely link between the tiny west African country of Gambia and Turkey which were establishing a logistical military assistance agreement. On April 3 this year, both countries decided to reinvigorate their military...

A five month long voyage by an Italian Navy (Marina Militare) task group came to an end this week in the port of Civitavecchia.

The Royal Navy (RN) Type 23 anti-submarine frigate HMS Portland arrived in Cape Town last Friday, having spent three months undertaking maritime security activities off the coast of West Africa.

Nigerian security forces say the number of civilian casualties caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) declined in 2013 due to the use of new technology and public awareness.

The U.N. mission in Democratic Republic of Congo is seeking to locate a group of militia fighters who surrendered to the Congolese army, after their leader was killed in custody.

Two bomb attacks wounded three policemen in central Cairo on Tuesday, a security source and state television said.

An Egyptian court sentenced 119 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood of former president Mohamed Mursi to three years each in prison on Wednesday in connection with protests last October against his overthrow, judicial sources said.

The kidnappers of Jordan's ambassador in Tripoli on Tuesday demanded the release of a Libyan who is serving a life prison sentence in Jordan, a security source said.

Suspected Islamist insurgents have abducted more than 100 female students from a secondary school in Nigeria's northeast Borno state, a teacher said on Tuesday.

Antonov has announced that its An-70 airlifter has completed its user trials, carried out jointly by the company and the Ukraine Ministry of Defence’s State Scientific and Test Centre (SSTC), and that the aircraft is ready for production.

A U.S. Navy underwater drone sent to search for a missing Malaysian jetliner on the floor of the Indian Ocean could take up to two months to scour a 600 sq km area where the plane is believed to have sunk, U.S. search authorities said on Tuesday.

Search and rescue officials in Australia are confident they know the approximate position of the black box recorders from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday.

France’s Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Afrotech Project and the Swiss National Centre of Competence for Research in Robotics (NCCR), have sponsored a project aimed at using drones as a means of transport in Africa.

That the SA Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is making inroads into people from all walks of the aviation sector is apparent in 95 criminal cases opened between January 2013 and last month.

German airline Lufthansa and its subsidiary Austrian Airlines have halted flights to Libya indefinitely due to security concerns after a bomb at Tripoli airport two weeks ago, a Lufthansa spokesman said on Monday.

Online videos show Syrian rebels using what appear to be U.S. anti-tank rockets, weapons experts say, the first significant American-built armaments in the country's civil war.

President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday that Syria's three-year conflict was at a "turning point" due to his forces' military gains against rebels, state media said.

For two weeks now, the rifles have been silent along Syria Street in Lebanon's Tripoli, an area shot up so often that even memorial posters of men killed just a few months ago are speckled with bullet holes.