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Newly minted SAAF pilots get their wings

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SA Army chief dies

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Drones providing valuable skills to SA children

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Former Algerian prime ministers jailed

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RDM investing in the community

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What started three years ago as a company department effort to provide some festive season cheer has grown into a fully-fledged company event with...
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NCACC regulations ‘could destroy the industry’

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South Africa and Egypt looking to strengthen defence cooperation

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Global arms sales up by 5 per cent

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AEROSPACE

Aerospace

Newly minted SAAF pilots get their wings

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The South African Air Force (SAAF) has 12 new pilots in its ranks, after a Wings Parade at Air Force Base Langebaanweg in the...
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SAAF hosting Young Falcons camp in KwaZulu-Natal

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New South African space industry body launched

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PAL Aerospace ISR aircraft spotted in Mozambique

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SA DEFENCE

SA Defence

SA Army chief dies

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President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), and Defence and Military Veterans Minister, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, are...
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SANDF wraps up 2019 with gospel and thanks to God.

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Portfolio committee told about Reserve Force contribution and plans

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Dead MP’s body handed to family

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GOVERNANCE

Governance

Former Algerian prime ministers jailed

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An Algerian court jailed two former prime ministers for corruption two days before a presidential election which protesters want cancelled. Ahmed Ouyahia, a four...
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ISS: The various layers to the Somaliland-Puntland discord

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Former Sudan ruling party to continue reforms

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LAND

Land

US hands over more military hardware to Niger

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The United States has handed over a second tranche of military equipment to Niger, including 13 Mamba armoured personnel carriers (APCs). The equipment was transferred...
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US Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians host training in Uganda

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Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians assigned to US military Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 8 are in Magamaga, Uganda, from October 2019 to...

High demand for less lethal rounds

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South Africa’s Industrial Cartridge is seeing high demand for less lethal ammunition for crowd control, with orders from South African entities taking up much...

Ghanaian military interested in equipment from Indonesia’s PT Pindad

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Indonesia’s PT Pindad and Ghana’s Ministry of Defence have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) as part of efforts exploring the procurement of weapons...

SEA

Sea

Greece claims Libya/Turkey accord invalid and in bad faith

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Greece lodged objections with the UN over an accord between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries as a violation of international law, the...
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Joint Libyan, Turkish exploration can happen in Med

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Turkey and Libya can carry out joint exploration operations in the eastern Mediterranean a deal was signed on maritime boundaries, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan...

Nigerian Navy lays keel of new tank landing ship

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The Nigerian Navy will be getting a new tank landing ship from Damen Shipyards in May 2020, with the keel laid on Monday during...

Weifang arrives in Kenya

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The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) missile frigate Weifang has arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, after taking part in Exercise Mosi in South Africa with...

MARITIME SECURITY

Maritime Security

Seven crew kidnapped from vessel off West Africa

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Seven crewmembers from the offshore supply tug Pacific Warden have been kidnapped off the coast of Equatorial Guinea. Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO), which operates the...
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Strengthening regional co-operation to up maritime security

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States in the western Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden area adopted a plan of action to ensure better co-ordination of regional efforts...

Exercise Cutlass Express 2019.2 concludes

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Maritime forces from 17 East African, European, North American, and West Indian Ocean nations joined several international organizations in celebrating the successful conclusion of...

Senegal orders three patrol vessels from France

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Senegal has ordered three OPV 58S offshore patrol vessels from France’s Piriou, which will start construction in early 2020. The vessels will be used...

CIVIL SECURITY

Civil Security

Police at Ethiopian universities to stop violence

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Ethiopian federal police were deployed to universities across the country on Tuesday, government said, as authorities attempt to calm ethnic tensions which claimed the...
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World leaders risk anger, protests over inequality

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Political leaders around the world could face growing citizen anger if they cannot re-engage with unhappy populations, a United Nations official said as heads...

Ethiopia told not to shut Internet down

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A senior United Nations official urged Ethiopia to stop shutting the internet without legal basis and revise a draft law curbing hate speech to...

Burundi vote funding allegations

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The youth league of Burundi’s ruling party is forcing citizens to donate money to fund next year’s election, Human Rights Watch said, as fears...

BORDER SECURITY

Border Security

Interpol discusses wildlife crime

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Wildlife crime is a global concern and its illicit activities encompass many sectors and industries. The consequences of wildlife crime are far reaching, affecting not...
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Mauritanian coast guard intercepts migrant boat

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A boat carrying 180 migrants was intercepted by the Mauritanian coast guard the U.N. migration agency said, less than two days after 62 migrants...

Migrant boat sinks off Mauritania

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Up to 57 people died after a ship from Gambia carrying 150 migrants sank off Mauritania, the UN migration agency said. The perilous sea...

SARS destroys illegally imported goods

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South African Revenue Service (SARS) customs officials started destroying illegally imported vehicles and clothing valued at over R7 million in Durban, in a bid...

HUMAN SECURITY

Human Security

Calls to release Sowore

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Human rights groups called for the release of a former presidential candidate facing treason charges re-arrested a day after being released on bail. Omoyele...
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Iranian violence on protesters denounced

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Iranian security forces shot at protesters from helicopters and a rooftop and aimed at peoples’ heads using “severe violence” to quell anti-government unrest, UN...

10 dead in Kenya bus attack

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Kenyan police officers were among those killed when gunmen suspected to be from Islamist militant group al Shabaab attacked a bus near the border...

Sowore re-arrested

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A Nigerian activist and former presidential candidate whose detention prompted protests by rights groups was re-arrested at a court hearing hours after he was...

MIDDLE EAST

Middle East

Sudan reduces troop numbers in Yemen

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Sudan’s prime minister said his country had reduced its troops in Yemen from 15 000 to 5 000, confirming a drawdown in a conflict...
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Houthi prisoners freed

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A Saudi-led military coalition said it freed 200 prisoners from the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in a move that could further efforts to end the...

Iran protest deaths

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At least 106 protestors died in 21 cities in Iran during unrest over fuel prices rises last week, Amnesty International said. “The organisation believes...

Ship seized in the Red Sea

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The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen said the Houthis seized a vessel towing a South Korean drilling rig at the...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

International News

China is least journalist friendly country in the world

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China imprisoned at least 48 journalists in 2019, more than any other country, displacing Turkey as the most oppressive place for the profession, a...
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Global violent deaths on the rise

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The year 2017 saw the second highest annual rate of global violent deaths in the period 2004–17, according to new data from the Small...

Intelsat General advancing the missions of ground forces across the globe

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Trump administration to ease gun exports

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The Trump administration passed a key milestone in a long-delayed rule change that would make it easier to sell US firearms, including assault rifles...

SCIENCE & DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY

Science & Defence Technology

Electronic warfare evolving rapidly in the hands of irregular forces

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Electronic warfare is advancing rapidly and is increasingly being used by irregular forces, defence expert Helmoed Romer Heitman has cautioned, and urged governments and...
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DEST Conference 2019 prepares SANDF engineers, technologists and technicians for the fourth industrial revolution.

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The Department of Defence Engineering, Science and Technology Conference (DESTC) this week explored the Department of Defence (DoD) preparing for the fourth industrial revolution...

Connectivity key to the fourth industrial revolution

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The fourth industrial revolution needs the right infrastructure, particularly information and communications infrastructure as exchanging information is fundamental to modern society. It is for...

Quantum Stealth aka the invisibility cloak is now patent pending

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Indivisibility cloaks now no longer belong in the realm of fantasy and science fiction as Canadian camouflage company, Hyperstealth Biotechnology Corp officially apply to...

MILITARY HELICOPTERS

Military Helicopters

17 Squadron to the rescue

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AFB Zwartkop-based 17 Squadron took to the air on Monday for a pair of rescue missions on opposite sides of the Tshwane Metro. First...
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French president pays tribute to fallen soldiers

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President Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to 13 French soldiers killed in Mali and vowed no respite in the fight against Islamist militants in the...

Botswana police order three Enstrom 480B helicopters

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The Botswana Police Air Support branch has ordered three new Enstrom 480B turbine helicopters from Safomar Aviation and these will join its fleet of...

Crashed French helicopters ”not under fire”

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Two French military helicopters that crashed in Mali this week were not under fire from Islamic State jihadists a senior French officer said, contradicting...

CIVIL AVIATION

Civil Aviation

Qatar Airways is major stakeholder in new Rwanda airport

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Qatar Airways agreed to a 60% stake in a new $1.3 billion international airport in Rwanda, state-run Rwanda Development Board said on Twitter. The...
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African airlines are a problem for governments

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Governments from Kenya to South Africa are struggling to turn around loss-making state-owned airlines through restructuring or by bringing on board private partners. Ethiopian...

SAA business rescue only viable option – Ramaphosa

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South African Airways (SAA) had to be placed in “business rescue” because there was no other viable and financially workable option to secure a...

Air Senegal receives second A330neo

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Air Senegal has taken delivery of its second Airbus A330neo airliner, nine months after the first arrived in West Africa. The second aircraft was delivered...

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Drones providing valuable skills to SA children

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Drones, also known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are being used by athletes and coaches to improve performance and by the media to enhance...
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Balloon internet service for Uganda

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Loon, a unit of Google’s owner Alphabet, which uses high-altitude balloons to provide mobile internet to remote areas, signed a key access airspace agreement...

US drone apparently shot down in Libya

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The US military believes an unarmed American drone reported lost near Tripoli was shot down by Russian air defence and is demanding return of...

US loses UAV over Libya

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The United States military has lost an unarmed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over Libya, a day after an Italian Predator went down. US Africa Command...

NATIONAL SECURITY

National Security

Bashir questioned on coup

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Sudan’s ousted long-time leader Omar al-Bashir was summoned for questioning on Tuesday over his role in the 1989 coup that brought him to power....
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Mogadishu hotel attack claims 10 lives

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Somali security forces shot dead five Al Shabaab gunmen, who killed three civilians and two soldiers during an attack on a hotel in Mogadishu...

Iraq protest death toll rises

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Iraq’s top Shi’ite Muslim cleric said a new prime minister must be chosen without foreign interference in an apparent nod to Iranian influence, as...

ISS: How has Mauritania managed to stave off terror attacks?

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No terrorist attacks have been recorded on Mauritanian soil since 20 December 2011. On that day, a gendarme, Ely Ould Mokhtar, was kidnapped in...

CYBER DEFENCE

Cyber Defence

US to crack down on Evil Corp hackers

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US authorities on Thursday took aim at Russian cybercriminal group Evil Corp, indicting its Lamborghini-driving alleged leader and ordering asset freezes against 17 associates...
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Millions of child abuse posts removed from Facebook

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Facebook removed 3,2 billion fake accounts between April and September including millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content...

ISS: Taking social media at (Face)book value in Africa

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Last week Facebook revealed that it had disabled hundreds of fake accounts that had sought to meddle with the electoral processes of eight African...

Government officials targeted with hacking software

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Senior government officials in multiple US-allied countries were targeted this year by hacking software using Facebook WhatsApp to take over users’ phones, according to...

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

Government Affairs

Speech by SAAF Chief at Unisa graduation ceremony

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Message by Lt. General Fabian Zakes Msimang, Chief of the South African Air Force, at the University of South Africa graduation ceremony, Tshwane, on...
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Speech: SAAF chief on opening of SAAF Museum Air Show

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Address by Lieutenant General Fabian ‘Zakes’ Msimang at the opening of the South African Air Force (SAAF) Museum at Air Force Base Swartkop on...

Defence and Military Veterans Minister’s budget address

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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans presented her budget vote to the National Assembly on Wednesday, July 17. defenceWeb publishes it as...

Budget vote speech by Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Thabang Makwetla

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“Noluthando alias ‘Agnes’ Ncwana, to whose memory I wish to dedicate my remarks in this budget debate this morning, was a military veteran who...
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