Denel, the State-owned defence and technology conglomerate, is one of a number of SOEs (State-Owned Entities) expected to soon have a second draft of a new shareholder oversight policy.

Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) aims to keep growing at 20% a year until at least 2020, and expand into a R4.5 billion company. It aims to reach R3 billion in sales in 2017, and has a number of big potential deals in the works.

In what is probably its first international outing following a R64 million revamp, Armscor will be using this week’s Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London to show its new face to the international defence community.

Gambia is negotiating deals with three private companies to crack down on rampant illegal fishing in its territorial waters, a senior official with the fisheries ministry said.

The international Maritime Organisation (IMO) has this month worked with Liberia to enhance maritime security and assisted Mauritania with port security training.

Libyan naval forces seized a Liberian-flagged oil tanker and detained its mainly Filipino crew on suspicion of smuggling oil off the Abu Kammash area, a naval spokesman said.

Burkina Faso’s military has ordered two Mi-171Sh armed helicopters from Russian Helicopters, and these will be delivered in 2018.

Russian Helicopters will deliver 15 Ka-52 Alligator attack helicopters to Egypt by the end of the year, and has already handed over the first three.

Russian Helicopters has concluded training of the first batch of Egyptian personnel on the Ka-52 attack helicopter, with a total of 30 pilots and 70 technicians undergoing training in Russia this year.

Denel Aeronautics has received a contract to produce A350 components for one of Airbus’s biggest suppliers.

Zambian President Edgar Lungu has commissioned a simulator centre for the Zambian Air Force’s recently acquired L-15 jets.

Chiefs of Southern African Development Community (SADC) air forces met in Ondangwa in a consultative forum at the end of Exercise Blue Kunene earlier this month.

The Department of Defence (DoD) aims to keep the numbers of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) employees the same in spite of the reduction in its human resources budget.

The SA National Defence Force’s fourth component – the SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) – is this week marking its achievements in the wider medical field, as well as those directly associated with the military.

A runaway fire swept through parts of the Wallmannsthal military base destroying 83 vehicles, the majority of which were Samil trucks said by the military to be “unusable and awaiting disposal”.

The Egyptian Navy will soon receive a naval vessel from South Korea, possible a Po Hang class corvette.

Approximately 80 aircraft carriers and major amphibious warfare ships, valued at $59.37 billion, will be commissioned between now and 2026, according to a new report.

The global anti-ship missile market is predicted to grow in value over the next 15 years, and will be worth around $20 billion between 2017 and 2031.

An Egyptian court sentenced hundreds to jail for murder and illegally protesting after a mass trial criticised by rights groups.

Ugandan police arrested 10 youths staging an illegal rally to oppose a planned constitutional amendment to allow President Yoweri Museveni, one of the world’s longest serving rulers, to run for a fresh term.

Hundreds of Tunisians protested in the streets of the capital against a widely contested new law granting officials from the former regime involved in corruption amnesty from prosecution.

Suspected suicide bombers killed at least 12 people and injured 26 in Nigeria’s Borno State, epicentre of the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency, the chairman of the local emergency agency said.

A record number of people - more than 1.1 million - have been uprooted in Central African Republic (CASR) by spiralling violence between armed groups threatening to plunge the country back into full-blown conflict, the United Nations said.

The United Nations is looking into allegations that complaints of sexual abuse and exploitation made against its peacekeepers in the Central African Republic were mishandled or unreported.

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Qatar’s defence minister has signed a letter of intent to purchase 24 Typhoon jets from British defence group BAE Systems, in a move that could anger other Gulf countries boycotting Doha.

A home-made bomb exploded on a packed rush-hour commuter train in London injuring 22 people on Friday, police said, in what was being treated as the fifth terrorism attack in Britain this year.

Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says any funds that are being considered to help address South African Airways (SAA) maturing debt will have to be appropriated through a special appropriations bill that will be introduced to Parliament.

The United Nations’ aviation agency is backing the creation of a single global drone registry, as part of broader efforts to come up with common rules for flying and tracking unmanned aircraft.

The Antonov An-2 biplane ‘Little Annie’ has found a new home at Grasslands airfield southwest of Pretoria, as she celebrated her 30th birthday.

Insurgent groups launched a big attack on government-held areas in northwestern Syria on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a media outlet run by the Lebanese group Hezbollah reported.

Turkish tanks carried out drills at the Iraqi border on Monday, the army said, a week before a referendum across that frontier on Kurdish independence that Ankara has called a threat to its national security.

Syrian troops seized a suburb of the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, tightening the noose around Islamic State, a Syrian military source said.