The organisers of biennial Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition are working hard in preparation for the September 2018 edition, and note that more than half of indoor and outdoor space has already been booked.

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...

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.

Veterans of 61 Battalion Group remembered their fallen comrades and discussed the most intense periods of the “Border War” in southern Angola from August 1987 to August 1988.

The proof of the pudding, if there is going to be any, will only be seen when the defence budget is tabled in Parliament next year but one initiative to get a larger slice of the national financial pie announced by the Defence and Military Veterans Minister is...

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

Mauritius has commissioned into service its second patrol vessel, CGS Valiant, which was built by India’s Goa Shipyard Limited, during a ceremony in Port Louis.

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.

A roadside bomb in northern Burkina Faso killed three soldiers and wounded two, the military said.

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.

A Malian Islamist police chief who cut off people's hands as part of a harsh form of Islamic law during an occupation of the north in 2012-13 by jihadi rebels was handed a 10-year jail term, his lawyer said on Saturday.

Two protesters were killed and 13 others wounded in Togo when security forces opened fire to break up demonstrations against the ruling Gnassingbe family dynasty, the security ministry said.

Armed civilians briefly abducted a South Sudanese rebel spokesman in Uganda and told him to stop talking to the media, two rebel officials said.

A Moroccan man who was arrested for killing two women in a knife rampage was an asylum seeker who appeared to have targeted women in Finland's first terrorism-related attack, police and a Red Cross official said on Saturday.

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.

Rand Airport hosted its annual air show on Sunday 20 August, which saw a varied lineup of aircraft take part in an action-packed show. This included a mass helicopter formation, Aeronca C3 (the oldest flying aircraft on the South African register), a mass radial...

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.

Iraqi security forces launched an offensive to take back the city of Tal Afar on Sunday, their next objective in the U.S.-backed campaign to defeat Islamic State militants, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said.

The Lebanese army launched an offensive on Saturday against an Islamic State enclave on the northeastern border with Syria, as the Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah announced an assault on the militants from the Syrian side of the frontier.

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.