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INDUSTRY

Industry

RDM wraps up successful ammunition capability demonstration

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Rheinmetall Denel Munition (RDM) has concluded its third ammunition capability demonstration, which saw 800 attendees congregate at the Denel Overberg Test Range to witness...
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Saab Grintek Defence wins South African Exporter, Enterprise Development awards

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Paramount Advanced Technologies, Hexagon announce partnership

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Former Denel chair expresses concern about board changes at Zondo Commission

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AEROSPACE

Aerospace

Egypt orders Su-35 fighters – report

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Egypt has reportedly ordered Sukhoi Su-35 multi-role fighters from Russia for an estimated $2 billion. This is according to Russian newspaper Kommersant, which has reported...
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Algerian L-39 lost in crash

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More details emerge on Seeker 400 export order

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Tyre burst touchdown for the Deputy President

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SA DEFENCE

SA Defence

South African military assets evaluating post-Idai damage in Malawi and Mozambique

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Tropical cyclone Idai was downgraded after making landfall on the African east coast last week but the destruction it wrought was significant and South...
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SA soldiers in Goma receive goodwill parcels

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Goodwill Parcel Project delegation arrives in Goma

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New Defence and Military Veterans Minister?

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GOVERNANCE

Governance

Bouteflika at bay – Why protesters are taking on Algeria’s ruling system

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Protests that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets in Algeria over the past month led President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to scrap plans to run...
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U.S. sanctions Congo election officials, says they obstructed vote

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Anti-Bouteflika protests shake Algeria’s business community

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Nigerian presidential election result challenged

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NATIONAL SECURITY

National Security

Somali government troops vacate some bases in row over salaries

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Somali soldiers have vacated at least three of their bases in protest over months of missed pay, a military officer and residents said on...
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Suspected Islamic State militants killed in Tunisia

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Malian army base attack death toll rises

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Sudanese protesters keeping pressure on al-Bashir

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COMPANY NEWS

COLUMNS

Lessons learnt from latest Op Copper deployment

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The most recent Operation Copper deployment in the Mozambique Channel, in addition to providing valuable "on-the-job" training for both sailors and airmen,...

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AFRICAN MILITARIES

LAND

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RDM Ammunition Capability Demonstration 2019 day 1

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RDM Ammunition Capability demonstration 2019 day 2

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Nigeria operating Marauder armoured vehicles

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Nigeria is a new customer for Paramount Group’s Marauder armoured vehicle, with the type having being delivered a few weeks ago. News of the type...

DCD getting ready to deliver Springbuck APCs to African client

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DCD Protected Mobility is getting ready for another delivery of Springbuck HD (Heavy Duty) armoured personnel carriers (APCs) to an African client in the...

SEA

Sea

Nigeria’s HIOS orders two Damen patrol vessels

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Nigeria’s Homeland Integrated Offshore Services of Nigeria (HIOS) has ordered two additional Damen 3307 Patrol Vessels from Damen Shipyards Group. This further increases the total...
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Combined Task Force 150 seizes 4 085 kg of narcotics

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Over a 24 hour period, Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 seized 4 085 kg of illegally smuggled hashish from two separate boarding operations by...

South African Sea Cadets drum up support for SA Navy warships

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Sea Cadets from TS Woltemade represented the South African Sea Cadets Corps at the 2019 Armed Forces Day recently held in the Cape Town. ...

Seychelles receives patrol boats from Sri Lanka

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The Seychelles Coast Guard has taken delivery of two Wave Rider inshore patrol boats from Sri Lanka, and will use them for maritime surveillance. The...

MARITIME SECURITY

Maritime Security

French naval task force on extended mission

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A French naval task force is currently steaming down Africa’s east coast as part of an extended five month mission that will include South...
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New force commander as EU NavFor marks 31st rotation

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The European Union (EU) naval task force off the Horn of Africa this month marked its 31st rotation since counter-piracy operations started in December...

Pirates kidnap crew from vessel off Nigeria

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Armed pirates have kidnapped five crewmembers from a vessel off Nigeria and shot dead a member of the Nigerian Navy who was guarding the...

Pirates kidnap three in Gulf of Guinea

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Pirates off the Gulf of Guinea have kidnapped three crewmembers from a Malta-registered tanker. Histria Ivory was sailing 20 nautical miles off the port of...

CIVIL SECURITY

Civil Security

Thousands of Algerians rally to demand Bouteflika quit

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Thousands of Algerians rallied again on Friday to demand the immediate resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who is fighting for his political survival in...
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Boko Haram fighters kill 23 Chadian soldiers

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Boko Haram militants killed at least 23 Chadian soldiers overnight, two Chadian security sources said on Friday, in what appeared to be the deadliest...

Massive counterfeit seizure in Kenya

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Kenyan police seized $20 million of counterfeit banknotes stored in a personal safety deposit box at a branch of Barclays Bank Kenya, the directorate...

Three days of national mourning in Mozambique

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Mozambique started three days of national mourning on Wednesday after powerful cyclone winds and flooding killed hundreds and left a swathe of destruction across...

BORDER SECURITY

Border Security

At least 30 migrants believed missing after boat sinking off Libya

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At least 30 migrants are believed to be missing after their boat sank off the western Libyan city of Sabratha this week, a coastguard...
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ISS: The Great Lakes can’t afford more instability

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Regional tensions in the Great Lakes are reaching an alarming level, with neighbours Rwanda and Uganda publicly raising the tone over the past few...

Vapor Wake K9 to demonstrate at Securex 2019

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Vapor Wake K9 SA will be showcasing the innovative Vapor Wake method of training working dogs in the detection of explosives and other illicit...

Migrants hurt in detention centre clash

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At least 50 migrants were reportedly injured after a protest in a detention centre in Tripoli, the United Nations said. The protest was “driven by...

HUMAN SECURITY

Human Security

Burkina Faso forces, jihadists execute dozens of civilians

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Burkina Faso security forces have summarily executed more than 115 civilians since mid-last year during operations against Islamist militants who themselves have killed over...
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Death toll jumps as aid workers fight clock to rescue more African cyclone victims

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Rescue workers plucked more survivors from trees and roofs to safety on Thursday, a week after a cyclone ripped through southern Africa and triggered...

Mozambique Idai death tolls tops 200

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The number of people killed in a powerful cyclone and flooding in Mozambique has risen above 200, more than doubling the country’s death toll...

Mozambique cyclone death toll could pass the 1 000 mark

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The number of people killed in a powerful storm and preceding floods in Mozambique could exceed 1,000, the president said, putting the potential death...

MIDDLE EAST

Middle East

Battle for Baghouz rages

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Falling bombs raised smoke over Islamic State’s last enclave in east Syria, obscuring the huddle of vehicles and makeshift shelters to which the group’s...
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Timeline: Syria’s eight years of fire and blood

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On the eighth anniversary of Syria’s crisis, this timeline shows how the war flared, the country splintered, foreign powers waded in, peace-making efforts failed,...

Islamic State militants surrender in Syria

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Islamic State militants along with women and children surrendered in the hundreds to US-backed forces in eastern Syria as the jihadists lost ground in...

U.S., Taliban talks end for now with no Afghan peace deal

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U.S. and Taliban negotiators wrapped up their longest round of peace talks on Tuesday with progress made but no agreement on when foreign troops...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

International News

China says 13,000 ‘terrorists’ arrested in Xinjiang since 2014

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Authorities in China have arrested almost 13,000 “terrorists” in Xinjiang since 2014, the government said on Monday, in a policy paper defending its controversial...
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Suspected white supremacist charged with murder after New Zealand mosque shootings

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Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after 49 people were killed and dozens wounded in...

New Zealand mosque shootings shock the world

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At least one gunman killed 49 people and wounded more than 20 during Friday prayers at two New Zealand mosques in the country’s worst...

Families can sue gun maker for Sandy Hook school massacre

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Families of schoolchildren gunned down in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre can sue Remington Outdoor Co Inc, a Connecticut court ruled on Thursday, in...

SCIENCE & DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY

Science & Defence Technology

CSIR’s passive radar system now running at five sites

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR’s) passive radar system has been rolled out to five different sites in the North-Eastern part of...
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Hypersonic weapons: a challenge and opportunity for strategic arms control

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In February, the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs – jointly with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research - released a 50-page document...

MBDA and Milrem Robotics unveil anti-tank UGV

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MBDA and Milrem Robotics are showcasing what they call the world’s first anti-tank unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) at the IDEX 2019 exhibition in Abu...

CSIR develops wide area surveillance system for armoured vehicles

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a panoramic 360 degree Wide Area Surveillance System which would give armoured vehicle crews...

MILITARY HELICOPTERS

Military Helicopters

Rwandan Mi-17 crashes in South Sudan

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A Rwanda Air Force Mi-17-1V helicopter has crashed in South Sudan whilst on a United Nations flight. The aircraft came down outside Pagak in northeast...
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Romania sending Pumas to Mali

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The Romanian Air Force will later this year send a contingent of IAR 330L Puma helicopters to Mali to support the United Nations’ Minusma...

Royal Air Force Chinooks continue with operations in Mali

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Royal Air Force Chinook helicopters from RAF Odiham continue to support French forces in Mali on operations countering the ongoing insurgency there. The Chinooks have...

Djiboutian Air Force receives upgraded Dauphin helicopters

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Djibouti’s Air Force has taken delivery of four AS365N Dauphin helicopters upgraded by Airbus Helicopters in Romania. The four helicopters arrived in Djibouti on 16...

CIVIL AVIATION

Civil Aviation

High speed followed by failed climb for doomed Ethiopia flight

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Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 had an unusually high speed after take-off before the aircraft reported problems and requested permission to climb quickly, said a...
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Ethiopia crash black box data review starts

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France’s air safety agency began studying data from the black boxes of a Boeing 737 MAX plane that crashed in Ethiopia, as regulators the...

Ethiopia crash brings wave of Boeing suspensions, Trump anxious

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Britain joined a growing wave of suspensions of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft on Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump waded into the debate over...

IATA cuts annual air cargo traffic growth forecast citing trade frictions, Brexit

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Tuesday nearly halved its annual forecast for traffic growth in the air cargo market to 2 percent...

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

NATO to receive first Northrop surveillance drone, years late

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NATO is to receive the first of five Northrop Grumman high-altitude drones in the third quarter after years of delays, giving the alliance its...
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Airbus’ Skyways drone trials world’s first shore-to-ship deliveries

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Airbus has begun shore-to-ship trials in Singapore with its Skyways parcel delivery unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone. This marks the first time drone technology...

Libya’s Tripoli airport reopens after drone alert

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The airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli reopened on Saturday after a brief closure due to an unidentified drone flying in the area, officials...

XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator completes inaugural flight

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The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle (UAV) completed its inaugural flight on 5 March at the Yuma Proving Grounds,...
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