The relationship between the South African defence industry, the Department of Defence (DoD) and the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) will be strengthened by the establishment of the National Defence Industry Council (NDIC).

Denel Aerostructures is 95% of the way through its turnaround strategy and is on target to break even in the next three years, and is trying to attract further business and diversify its revenue streams, particularly in the commercial aviation sector.

The factories belonging to Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) are at 100% capacity, with an order book of R3 billion, and are being expanded to cater to demand.

The Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) International Maritime Bureau (IMB) has raised concerns over a worrying trend of small tanker hijacks in its 2014 half yearly report.

NATO’s counter-piracy Operation Ocean Shield warship ITS Mimbelli has concluded a port visit to Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, designed to deepen ongoing co-operation with the Tanzanian Navy in an effort to eradicate piracy off the coast of eastern Africa, protect...

The EU’s maritime capacity building mission in the Horn of Africa and Western Indian Ocean, EUCAP Nestor, has completed the first Basic Seamanship Training course for the Seychelles Maritime Police Patrol Unit (MPPU) and Forensic Crime Scene Investigation Training...

With seven months to go before the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) defence and security exhibition opens its doors for business, 85% of indoor and half the outdoor exhibition space available at AFB Waterkloof has been snapped up.

Switzerland is the latest addition to the list of countries that will be using national pavilions to showcase defence and security equipment at this year’s Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition.

The importance of Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) to the international defence industry can, with just under nine months before gates open for the 2014 exhibition, be seen from the fact that six countries have already committed to national pavilions.

The US State Department has approved the sale of 12 Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Tunisia, worth $700 million including equipment, parts, training and logistical support.

Uganda’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has ordered one A109 GrandNew and one W-3A Sokol helicopter for the Uganda Police for law enforcement across the country.

The SA Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has decided its quest to legalise unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in South Africa will see them called remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS).

The US Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) has issued US airlines with new prohibition notices covering specified flights within the territories and airspace of Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Egyptian Sinai, Libya, Mali, Somalia and Kenya.

The Nigerian government has confirmed the death of two airmen who perished when a Nigerian Air Force Mi-35 helicopter crashed yesterday in the insurgency-riddled northern state of Borno while on a routine training mission.

Judge Willie Seriti’s Arms Procurement Commission will head into the final stages of it public hearings without two evidence leaders, leaving seven out of the original ten.

Changes planned for the human component of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) announced by defence Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula in her budget vote last week will see the retention of leadership experience and technical skills.

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is so hard pressed to continue and maintain its current level of commitments that only the 2014 Defence Review will save it.

Students of military science, particularly in the maritime domain, have an opportunity to stand up and be counted in the IONS (Indian Ocean Naval Symposium) 2014 essay competition.

Armscor has issued a Request for Proposals (RfP) on behalf of the South African Navy for a new hydrographic survey ship and related equipment.

The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries’ research vessel Ellen Khuzwayo is back at sea after a seven-month layup.

Three people were killed in a car bomb blast on Wednesday in Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's state-run Nile Television said.

Militant fighters overran a Libyan special forces base in the eastern city of Benghazi on Tuesday after a battle involving rockets and warplanes that killed at least 30 people.

At least 30 people were killed overnight and Tuesday morning in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi during heavy clashes involving war planes and rockets between government special forces and Islamist fighters, medical sources said.

More members of religious communities around the world were forced to flee their homes last year than at any time in recent memory, the United States said on Monday, in its annual report on religious freedom.

A Maltese oil worker abducted by a Libyan militia 11 days ago was released unharmed on Monday and flown back to Malta.

France on Sunday called on all French nationals to leave Libya, which in the last two weeks has descended into its deadliest violence since the 2011 war that ousted Muammar Gaddafi.

The shooting down of a Malaysian Airlines plane over eastern Ukraine may amount to a war crime, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said releasing a new report that details a total breakdown of law and order and a reign of fear and terror inflicted by armed...

Global airlines will push to get "neutral information" on whether to use or avoid airspace over conflict zones at Tuesday's meeting of the U.N. aviation agency and other airline bodies, a European-based airline industry source said.

More than half of China's military airfields have flight paths that are obstructed by tall buildings, causing accidents and airport closures, Chinese state media reported on Friday.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Airports Council International (ACI) and the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO), jointly express strong condemnation of the use of weapons...

Scheduled flights from Skukuza Airport are improving travelling time to the Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga, one of the country’s most treasured gems in tourism.

South Africa’s newest low cost airline, FlySafair, will take to the skies by mid-October, after having been granted its domestic scheduled passenger services license earlier this year. The airline was originally scheduled to begin flying last year but was blocked...

Islamic State, the al Qaeda spin-off that seized wide swathes of Iraq almost unopposed last month, has released a video warning Iraqi soldiers who may still have some fight in them that they risk being rounded up en masse and executed.

A grim-faced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday of a protracted war in Gaza, dashing any hopes of a swift end to the three-week conflict as Palestinian fighters launched an audacious cross-border raid.

Salman Khaled has already lived through Baghdad's sectarian disintegration; with Iraq now splintering into Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish regions, he says this time the survival of the country is at stake.