Somalia's government would welcome US air support for an expected offensive aimed at retaking control of areas from al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels, President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed said.

A decision by planemaker Airbus to increase its output of A320 aircraft from 32 to 34 aircraft a month from December will benefit the company's South African suppliers.

Airbus parent EADS has ruled out a solo bid for a lucrative U.S. tanker contract and said production niggles on its A380 superjumbo would hit core profit substantially this year, knocking its shares this afternoon.

Pirates have seized a Kenyan-flagged fishing vessel off the Somali coast for possible use as a "mother ship" to launch more attacks, a maritime official said.

Indian navy commandos thwarted a suspected Somali pirate attack on the Greek bulk carrier Melina 1 off the Indian coast, East African maritime officials and the Indian navy said yesterday.

Three crewmembers of the South African Navy frigate SAS Amatola have died in what is described as a horror car crash along Boyes Drive above Kalk Bay near Simon's Town early on Saturday.

Forecast International's "the market for electronic warfare systems" projects an estimated $28.4 billion will be spent over the next 10 years on the development and production of the major EW systems.

The United Nations could begin withdrawing troops from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the biggest UN peacekeeping mission in the world, as early as June, the peacekeeping chief said.

Lockheed Martin, the No. 1 information technology provider to the U.S. government, is working hard to better predict and protect against increasingly sophisticated and stealthy cyber attacks.

Nigeria's fuel importers claim the government owes 880 billion naira ($6 billion) in subsidies accrued over the past five years, highlighting the urgent need for deregulation, the finance minister said.

Uganda's opposition will revoke existing production sharing agreements and force oil companies in the country to renegotiate their deals, a senior official said yesterday.

Solidarity, the trade union representing 1500 of Denel's 6000 employers,says it will resist the group's attempts to impose a “meagre” 4% salary increase. Denel last month conceded this was below inflation and effective amounted to a wage decrease, but said...

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.

Lawyers for Zimbabwean opposition politician Roy Bennett asked the High Court yesterday to drop terrorism charges against him in a trial which has raised tensions in Harare's fragile unity government.

A South African sound engineer kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's restive Niger Delta oil region has been released, his employer television company M-Net said today.

The police say they have so far collected over 6000 firearms and more than 82 288 rounds of ammunition in an amnesty that started in January and runs until April 11.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has welcomed the viability studies being conducted by the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) into satellite tracking devices which monitor probationers and parolees.

Gambia's president said he would rather die than let his country become a haven for drug traffickers, many of whom have infiltrated other parts of coastal West Africa.