Aerospace
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,...
Read More...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...
Read More...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...
Read More...Sea
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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...Command & Control
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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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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Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...People
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.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...Civil Security
At least 27 people were arrested in northern Egypt after fighting erupted between Muslims and Christians over land, security sources said.
Read More...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.
Read More...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.
Read More...Land
The Egyptian armed forces is to receive more than 75 next-generation Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTT A4) from Oshkosh Defense Corporation at a cost of $29 million.
Read More...South Africa exported over 700 new and refurbished armoured personnel carrier and infantry combat vehicles to 11 countries and two peace missions in 2008 according to the UN Conventional Arms Control Register.
Read More...The US Army says improved versions of its M-24 sniper rifle are expected to undergo into testing in coming weeks.
Read More...Human Security
The United States has intensified its criticism of Eritrea, saying the Red Sea state systematically abuses human rights and is a destabilising influence in the Horn of Africa.
Read More...A Somali businessman linked to Islamist rebels who likely received a ransom paid for kidnapped French aid workers was a contractor for the World Food Program and UNICEF, a UN report says.
Read More...Niger needs $123 million in international aid to combat the risk of food shortages this year, the northwest African country's prime minister said.
Read More...Logistics
The South African Army has placed significant defence orders with a variety of contractors for a new generation of high frequency radios, the supply of Starstreak very short-range air defence missiles as well as the further development of a new infantry combat...
Read More...Armscor, the state arms acquisition agency, has requested quotes for the following contracts:
Read More...The Democratic Republic of Congo wants the United Nations to pull its troops – including many South Africans out of that country next year, a move which human rights groups say will spell disaster for civilians caught up in conflict there.
Read More...Big on spit and polish and parades but short on experience, new technology and force coordination, China's military has far to go before its bite begins to approach its increasingly loud, and for some fearsome, bark.
Read More...The Africa Centre for Strategic Studies, located at the National Defense University (NDU) at Fort Lesley J. McNair, welcomed, 62 military officers representing 38 African nations to its 2010 Next Generation of African Military Leaders Course.
Read More...Governance
Algeria is to host a meeting of foreign ministers from Sahara desert states this week to try to hammer out a joint plan of action for tackling the growing threat from al Qaeda insurgents, officials said.
Read More...Niger's ruling military junta has sacked the West African country's eight regional governors all political supporters of the previous regime and replaced them with soldiers.
Read More...Lam Akol, the sole challenger to south Sudan's incumbent president Salva Kiir, launched his campaign in the region's capital, promising an end to corruption if he wins April's election.
Read More...SANDF
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) has given the public until April 6 to comment on what it describes as a first-in-the world educational qualification for Special Forces operations.
Read More...The Ministry of Defence says Parliament should ask it to brief members on the state of readiness of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF). That after another question by a MP on “the actual readiness” of the military.
Read More...Treasury has turned down Department of Defence submissions for additional funding over the next three years totaling some R11.3 billion, equivalent to just over one third of this year's R30.7 billion budget. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan also cut...
Read More...National Security
A Ugandan rebel leader wanted for war crimes may be in Sudan, whose President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is wanted by the same war crimes tribunal, Uganda's president said.
Read More...In the evening of March 4, as U.S. Department of Defense workers were wrapping up their day, a man wearing a suit and displaying what guards later referred to as a “nervous intensity” approached the entrance to the Pentagon. As he walked up to the guard...
Read More...Ugandan rebels notorious for mutilating their victims and abducting children have found a safe haven in Sudan's western Darfur region, an anti-genocide group said in a report that Khartoum dismissed as a lie.
Read More...Operations & Exercise
Darfuris helped two UN-African Union peacekeepers who had been missing following an ambush return safely to their base after almost two days lost in the Sudanese desert, the mission said.
Read More...An UN-backed military operation against Rwandan Hutu rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been launched, a UN official said.
Read More...The US military command for Africa (Africom) has started training 1000 Congolese troops in the north of conflict-driven Democratic Republic of Congo, the US ambassador to the central African country said.
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Book Reviews
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Book Review: Goodbye Dolly Gray Rayne Kruger's Goodbye Dolly Gray is a remarkably prescient and erudite single-volume account of the South African War, aka the Second Boer War. First published in 1959, the book concludes that the Boer...
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Book Review: How SA built six atom bombs This rather repetitive and somewhat superficial book is a history of the South African nuclear weapons programme that by late 1989 had yielded six gun-type atom bombs as well as a missile programme that...
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Book review: Sunday, Bloody Sunday Jake Harper-Ronald had no quiet life, and as the title of this autobiography suggests, he was indeed present in Derry on Sunday, January 30, 1972, when British paratroopers opened fire...
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Book review: Those Who Marched Away Those Who Marched Away is an anthology of extracts from some 200 diaries from the 1660s to the present days. Peppered with pathos, hopes, despair and dreams,it recounts the thoughts of nobles,...
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Book review: A world of trouble I forget who wrote that events in the Middle East were bloody-minded “spite and malice passing as normalcy”, but that would be one part of an executive summary of Patrick Tyler's A world...
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Book Review: Berlin Battlefield Guide Simply spell-binding! In the words of that mangler of English, George W Bush, “unputdownable”.
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Book Review: The Rise of US Grant The Rise of US Grant is an education in leadership, the value of incremental experience at various levels of command and the importance of a proper staff system. First published in 1931, it tracks the...
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Book Review: From Tailhooker to Mudmover From Tailhooker to Mudmover is another excellent title from the pen of retired South African Air Force (SAAF) Brigadier General Dick Lord.
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Book Review: German Order of Battle Samuel W Mitcham Jr’s German Order of Battle describes itself as the “definitive reference on the German [military] in World War Two, covering the organisation, combat history and commanders of each...
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Fact Files
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Fact file: Comparative military and civil service grades Comparative rank tables
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Fact file: 16 Maintenance Unit 16 Maintenance Unit was established on October 16, 1973 at Grootfontein to render 3rd line logistical support to deployed forces in Namibia.
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Fact file: 44 Parachute Regiment 44 Para Regt is the successor to 44 Parachute Brigade, established as an integrated fulltime/reserve formation in April 1978.
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Fact file: 121 SA Infantry Battalion This unit was established in April 1979 as the nucleus of a future KwaZulu defence force. Zulu chief minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi however refused “independence” for his homeland and the battalion...
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Fact file: 21 SA Infantry Battalion In 1973 the apartheid government decided to train black soldiers. The next January, a team of ten, led by Major MW Pretorius were sent to the then-Bantu Training College at Baviaanspoort, north of Pretoria,...
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Fact file: 15 SA Infantry Battalion This battalion was established in 1994 from the ranks of the former Venda Defence Force. The unit badge reflects its location. Thohoyandou means “head of the elephant”.
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Fact file: 14 SA Infantry Battalion This battalion was established in 1994 from the ranks of the former Transkei Defence Force.
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Fact file: 10 SA Infantry Battalion This unit was formed in 1994 from the former Bophuthatswana Defence Force.
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Fact file: 9 SA Infantry Battalion The Cape Corps was one of the oldest organised military units in South African history, tracing its ancestry back to a “Corps of Bastaard Hottentotten” raised in 1781 from the Khoikhoi...
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Fact file: 8 SA Infantry Battalion The unit was established at Upington in the Northern Cape in October 1973 and received its first batch of national service trainees the next January. They could, however, not cope with the Gordonia heat...
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