Come 28 September the captains of South Africa’s defence industry as well as those who use its products and services will gather for the 2017 edition of the Aerospace, Maritime and Defence Conference.

Turbomeca Africa (TMA), which is being acquired by Denel, will shut down its manufacturing side, but will continue is special processes and maintenance divisions.

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.

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, Senegalese Marines, Senegalese Navy, and Cabo Verde Coast Guard came together for a debriefing conference concluding Operation Junction Rain (OJR), the operational phase of the African Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership...

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.

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.

Under a cloak of secrecy, the South African government has returned to Angola a MiG-21 fighter jet that it acquired during the Border War conflict in 1988.

The Angolan Air Force has taken delivery of its first two Su-30K fighters, and will receive another ten by early 2018.

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

Armed Forces Day next year will be held in Kimberley, capital of the Northern Cape, with a week’s worth of military events centred around February 21.

All that is needed to move a project that started more than four years ago into the next phase is a ministerial signature.

SA Army boss, Lieutenant General Lindile Yam, this week acknowledged there are “problems” with Badger, the new infantry fighting vehicle that will replace the ageing Ratel.

South Africa is set to take over the chairmanship of the Indian Ocean Rim Association Council (IORA) in October until 2019.

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.

Residents of South Sudan’s capital say they are collecting cash to pay police unofficially to patrol their neighbourhoods, amid a crime wave and a cash crunch that means authorities often cannot pay their wages.

The Ministry of Police and AgriSA will work together to develop a plan of action to create safety in farming communities.

Ugandan police fired teargas to disperse demonstrators who gathered to march on parliament to protest draft legislation that could extend long-time leader Yoweri Museveni’s rule.

An improvised bomb wounded three policemen in the main city of Cameroon’s minority English-speaking region on Thursday, the regional governor said, in an attack a senior security source blamed on separatist militants.

Hundreds of rioters in the Guinean bauxite mining town Boke burned down a police and a gendarmerie building and clashed with security forces wielding batons, leaving 17 people injured, the local Red Cross said.

Austria said it had evidence nine foreign oilfield workers abducted by Islamist militants in Libya in 2015 were killed the same year, but it was still trying to verify the information.

A record 29 states, including China, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have retaliated in the past year against citizens who cooperate with the United Nations, the U.N. human rights office said on Wednesday.

Dozens of countries signed a treaty to ban nuclear weapons on Wednesday amid tensions over North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, although the United States, Britain, France and others boycotted the event at the annual United Nations gathering of world leaders....

The Trump administration is preparing to make it easier for American gun makers to sell small arms, including assault rifles and ammunition, to foreign buyers, according to senior U.S. officials.

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.

Turkey escalated its opposition to a Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq on Tuesday, training tank guns and rocket launchers across the southern border and saying the break-up of its neighbours could lead to global conflict.

The Afghan Air Force took delivery of its first four U.S.-made UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters on Tuesday as part of a planned replacement of its ageing fleet of Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters, officials said.

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.