The inaugural game of the 2010 Soccer World Cup kicks off in South Africa in about four months time and the South African Air Force is confident it, and the Gripen, is ready.

Iran has successfully tested a radar-evading aircraft, a commander said, in the country's latest announcement of technological advances as it marks the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution.

It appears the damage to a South African Air Force Lockheed Martin C-130BZ Hercules transport that suffered a nose-gear collapse on the evening of January 25 may be more serious than initially thought.

The Royal Navy warship HMS Chatham has arrived in the Gulf of Aden to take part in NATO's counter-piracy mission, Operation OCEAN SHIELD, off the Horn of Africa.

Danish Special Forces who were taking part in the NATO mission against Somali pirates have stormed a Slovenian cargo ship seized by pirates and rescued 25 crew members, EU naval officials and the Danish navy said.

The Yemen-based wing of al Qaeda called for a regional Muslim holy war and a blockade of the Red Sea, between Arabia and Africa, to cut off US shipments to Israel, a further sign of the group's ambitions to mount new strikes outside its base.

Armscor, the state arms acquisition agency, has placed further information and communications technology contracts with the South African defence industry.  

Bilateral discussions, a C-130J static display, and media roundtable event comprised the agenda for US Air Forces Africa's latest senior leader engagement visit to Algiers, Algeria January, 2010.

Chad has told the United Nations peacekeeping mission to withdraw its soldiers and civilians, and wants a timetable for ending a deployment which the government never fully accepted, diplomats said.

Nigerian government spending has not slowed in the absence of President Umaru Yar'Adua and the economy is on course to grow a minimum of 6 percent this year, Finance Minister Mansur Muhtar told Reuters.

A US Senate subcommittee has issued a 325-page report highlighting four shocking cases of African countries trying to funnel millions of dollars into the United States via American institutions and persons by corrupt African officials.

The United Nations has confirmed it has ordered about eight tons of ammunition from a Pretoria munitions maker, adding that all the necessary permits and end-user certificates were in order. This is in contrast to allegations by the police's Directorate of...

A verdict in the long war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is not now expected until the end of this year, although the defense is cutting back on witnesses, a prosecutor said yesterday.

The International Criminal Court dismissed charges against a Sudanese rebel leader yesterday, ruling against allegations he helped orchestrate the killing of 12 African Union peacekeepers in Darfur in 2007.

The three Botswanan rangers were fined US$100 apiece in a court appearance in Zimbabwe yesterday after being found guilty of unlawful entry into the country, but were acquitted on arms charges

At least three people have been killed and dozens more wounded in south eastern Guinea, from three days of clashes between Muslims and Christians, witnesses and officials said.

Ethiopian troops in armoured vehicles crossed into two border towns in south central Somalia and seized the family of a man with links to al Shabaab insurgents, residents said.

Global attention is turning away from the AIDS epidemic at just the wrong time and that means a fresh wave of the disease could infect millions of people in high-risk countries, a leading expert said.