The current board and management of Armscor will this year mark the 50th anniversary of the State-owned defence and security acquisition agency, but there will be no gala events, coffee table books or commemorative conferences.

The new Denel board, confirmed late last month by Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, is tackling at least some of the irregularities which have seen the defence and technology conglomerate accused of corruption.

Alaris Holdings is currently establishing a third operating company, in the United States, which will focus on passive radio frequency and microwave antenna solutions.

Within a month of joining Combined Task Force 150 (CTF150), the French frigate Nivose has seized 251 kilograms of heroin in the latest success for the Marine Nationale (French Navy) in the Indian Ocean.

The French Navy (Marine Nationale) polar patrol vessel L'Astrolabe made her first port call in Cape Town on Tuesday 19 June as part of its inaugural patrol mission to the southern Indian Ocean.

Somali pirates have released four Iranian fishermen captured three years ago in international waters off Somalia.

The Ugandan Police Air Wing has refurbished its oldest helicopter and commissioned back into service after it was grounded for more than 15 years.

The German military has stopped flying its Tiger attack helicopters in Mali and has sent them home after 14 months.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has taken back into service an EC-135 light helicopter after maintenance, and has completed the first local overhaul of an Mi-35P attack helicopter.

Six years after they were first offered for sale a tranche of unused – and undocumented – SA Air Force (SAAF) Cessna 185s are again up for sale, this time by Armscor via a tender.

The Botswana Defence Force (BDF) has acquired a second hand C-212 light transport aircraft to replace one that crashed in 2017.

Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Bulelani Magwanishe is leading a delegation to the UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE+50), which started on Monday.

Weapons stolen from the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) have been used in cash in transit heists, Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has revealed.

The days of fraudulent call-ups in the Reserve Force are numbered, SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Chief Reserves, Major General Roy Andersen, warns.

The South African soldier who was force commander of the UN’s single largest peace support mission retired from active service earlier this year has resurfaced in a top position at the Department of Military Veterans (DMV).

The Indian Navy has completed the refit of the 32 year old Mauritius Coast Guard service vessel MCGS Guardian.

Somalia and Ethiopia will jointly invest in four seaports to attract foreign investment to the countries, another move in a tussle for access to ports along one of the world’s strategic waterways.

The South African Navy has graduated its latest batch of 146 Military Skills Development System sailors after 22 weeks of Basic Military Training.

Seven Islamist militants surrendered to Algerian authorities near the North African country’s border with Mali, the defence ministry said.

Cash-in-transit robbery is one of the fastest growing forms of aggravated robbery in South Africa. It poses a significant threat to public safety and South Africa’s economy.

South African insurer Liberty Holdings said it was the victim of a cyberattack after an external party claimed to have seized data from the firm and demanded payment.

US petroleum company Anadarko placed staff working on a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in northern Mozambique under “lock-down” due to the threat from suspected Islamist militants in the area, a regional security consultant said.

Eight Kenyan police officials were killed in the eastern part of the country after their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device planted by Somalia’s al Shabaab militant group, police said.

Blasts killed at least 20 people in north-east Nigeria, police said, while residents said the toll was even higher in the largest attack for weeks in a region blighted by the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency.

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Americans make up 4 percent of the world’s population but owned about 46 percent of the estimated 857 million weapons in civilian hands at the end of 2017, a survey showed on Monday.

Rolls-Royce is to cut 4,600 jobs over two years in the latest attempt by boss Warren East to reduce costs and complexity and make Britain’s best known engineering company more profitable and dynamic.

Ethiopian Airlines may decide on possible orders for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and smaller CSeries or Embraer E2 jets at the Farnborough air show, the African airline’s chief executive said.

Eight passengers and two pilots were killed when a scheduled domestic flight to Kenya’s capital Nairobi crashed into a mountain late on Tuesday, a senior government official said on Thursday.

The wreckage of a small passenger plane which went missing flying to Nairobi has been found, a senior government official said.

Taliban militants killed 30 Afghan soldiers and captured a military base in the western province of Badghis on Wednesday, the provincial governor said, their first major attack since a ceasefire for the Eid al-Fitr holiday.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was not planning to withdraw its forces from Syria for now, and would keep them there for as long as it was in Russia’s interest.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday announced an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban until June 20, coinciding with the end of the Muslim fasting season, but excluded all other militant groups, such as Islamic State.