Africa accounted for 7% of global major conventional weapons imports over the period 2005–2009, compared with 6% for 2000–2004. During the period Algeria and South Africa were the two largest arms importers in Africa, accounting for 43% and 28%, respectively,...

Airbus Military A400M head Domingo Urena says he sees an export market for at least 500 of the aircraft – in addition to the 184 currently on order. Urena also said Airbus plans to begin production of the military transport aircraft at the end of this year, after...

The top US arms buyer says no protectionism was involved in the potential $50 billion refueling-aircraft competition that Europe's EADS quit this week along with Northrop Grumman. "We value the contribution of the European industry to the choices we can make as...

French navy officers handed over 22 suspected Somali pirates to semi-autonomous Puntland's authorities and they will be arraigned in local courts, officials said.

A Chinese fishing vessel with seven fishermen aboard was hijacked off the coast of Cameroon in the latest attack in the waters of West Africa's Gulf of Guinea, the Chinese embassy in Cameroon said.

The number and scope of pirate attacks is seen increasing worldwide and could trigger more joint military operations to keep shipping lanes safe, a top NATO official says.

The UN Security Council voted to keep peacekeepers in Chad for at least another two months, but diplomats said the government is pressuring the world body to withdraw them.

Democratic Republic of Congo called for all UN troops to pull out in 2011, a move which human rights groups say would spell disaster for civilians caught up in conflict there.

Sudan summoned the acting head of international peacekeepers in Darfur to express concern over a rebel ambush last week in which vehicles and equipment belonging to his force were seized.

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Ghana will set up a commission by the end of the month to begin talks with Ivory Coast over their maritime border, negotiations that could be complicated by Ghana's big offshore oil finds.

A donor conference for Darfur this month is intended to raise $2 billion for infrastructure, health, water and other projects in the war-ravaged Sudanese region, the Egyptian hosts said.

Thousands of Nigerians marched to the gates of the presidential villa yesterday to demand an end to the presidency of ailing leader Umaru Yar'Adua so acting President Goodluck Jonathan can take over as head of state.

The city of Amsterdam must face full responsibility for failing to supervise a ship that later dumped toxic waste in the economic capital of the Ivory Coast, the Dutch Supreme Court ruled yesterday.

Irish police arrested seven people in connection with an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist over a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.

At least 27 people were arrested in northern Egypt after fighting erupted between Muslims and Christians over land, security sources said.

Two French aid workers kidnapped in the Central African Republic last year were freed in Sudan's Darfur region yesterday, after more than 100 days in captivity.

Minister of Defence and Military Veterans Lindiwe Sisulu says she must still approve the details of next month's return of the South African National Defence Force to the country's borders.