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Shoke promotes generals to top positions

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The Chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) General Solly Shoke today promoted a number of senior generals to key positions in...
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Diplomacy & Peace

Peace efforts in South Sudan stall

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Human Security

Ebola screening suspended in South Sudan

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Xenophobia arrests in Cape Town

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UAE withdraws troops from Aden

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INDUSTRY

Industry

Russia keen to manufacture military hardware with South Africa

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Russia has expressed interest in jointly producing military equipment with South Africa, as South Africa is the leading defence hardware manufacturer on the continent. This...
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RDM identifies electrostatic electricity as cause of deadly explosion

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South African Radar Interest Group conference coming up in November

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Armscor cutting the dockyard deficit

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AEROSPACE

Aerospace

Zambian SuperJet 100 deal falls through

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Zambia will no longer be receiving a Sukhoi SuperJet 100 VIP passenger jet from Russia as it lacks the funds to pay for the...
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Denmark to send three aircraft to the Sahel

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No new SAAF aircraft acquisition until budget changes

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Russian Tu-160s depart South Africa

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SA DEFENCE

SA Defence

Shoke promotes generals to top positions

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The Chief of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) General Solly Shoke today promoted a number of senior generals to key positions in...
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SANDF self-financing expenditure to benefit peacekeeping, Defence Review

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SA Military Ombud opens first session of the 11th international ombud conference

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Ministerial nod of approval for Koba-Tlala as an efficiency improver

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GOVERNANCE

Governance

New Guinea Bissau PM named, incumbent refuses to leave

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Guinea-Bissau President Jose Mario Vaz named a new prime minister but his sacked predecessor refused to step down, intensifying a power struggle between Vaz...
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Tunisian ministers dismissed

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Nyusi retains power in Mozambique

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Ruling party wins Botswana election

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COLUMNS

Check before you speak, Minister!

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South African Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula needs to verify her facts before she speaks, or risk further embarrassment to the South...

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LAND

Land

Global armoured vehicles market set to reach up to $27.5 billion by 2029

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The global armoured vehicles market, currently worth $19. 5 billion, is set to grow to $27.5 billion with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)...
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Latvia receives Husky mine detection vehicles

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The Latvian military has taken delivery of several Husky mine detection vehicles from the United States. The Latvian military on 18 October held a ceremony...

US advisors train with Nigerien forces

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United States airmen assigned to the 768th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron instructed Forces Armées Nigeriennes (Nigerien Armed Forces) personnel during a week-long Improvised Explosive...

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SEA

Sea

46 countries sign fishing vessel treaty

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A total of 46 countries have signed the Torremolinos Declaration, a non-legally binding political instrument aimed at improving fishing vessel safety and reducing illegal,...
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Nigeria’s HIOSL receives Damen patrol vessels

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Nigeria’s Homeland Integrated Offshore Services Limited (HIOSL) has taken delivery of two new Damen FCS 3307 Patrol vessels, which will be deployed in the...

Indian Navy training squadron visits Tanzania

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The Indian Navy's First Training Squadron has visited Dar Es Salaam and Zanzibar, Tanzania, as part of the African leg of its voyage. The squadron...

Deputy defence minister visits Naval Base Durban

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Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, Thabang Makwetla, has visited Naval Base Durban (NBD), and was hosted by Southern African Shipyards, which brought...

MARITIME SECURITY

Maritime Security

India to deploy maritime patrol aircraft to Reunion in 2020

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In early 2020, the Indian military will deploy a naval aircraft to France’s Reunion island as part of a joint surveillance mission with France. Indian...
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Operation Junction Rain 2019 held in West Indian Ocean

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For the first in the West Indian Ocean, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Seychelles Coast Guard conducted a combined maritime law enforcement subject...

Visible policing sees a drop in abalone poaching

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Inshore and ashore operations against abalone poaching in the Overberg region of the Western Cape this month yielded good results in line with one...

Royal Navy makes large drug seizure in Arabian Sea

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The Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Montrose has, with the assistance of the French frigate FS Jean Bart, seized a large haul of...

CIVIL SECURITY

Civil Security

Algerian protesters march in defiance of “The Power”

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Riad Mostefai has marched through the capital of Algeria every Friday since February to demand a purge of the ruling hierarchy, an end to...
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FF+ reaction to new rural safety plan

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Freedom Front Plus (FF+) leader Pieter Groenewald maintains the latest SA Police Service (SAPS) rural safety plan is “encouraging, but nothing will change if...

Iraq anti-government movement gains momentum

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Thousands of Iraqis protested in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square for a fifth day, angered by reports of security forces killing demonstrators in Kerbala and...

Iraqi protests ongoing

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Thousands of Iraqi protesters stood fast in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square, defying a bloody crackdown that killed scores over the weekend and an overnight...

BORDER SECURITY

Border Security

Charity rescue ship can dock in Italy

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Italy will allow a French charity rescue ship to disembark 104 migrants after the vessel spent 11 days at sea waiting for authorisation to...
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Tripoli migrants seek refuge with the UN

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Migrants were released from a detention centre in Tripoli as heavy gunfire rang out across the city, witnesses and the United Nations said. At...

Sudan/South Sudan border dispute can be resolved – UN

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Sudan and neighbouring South Sudan “have never been closer” to reaching sustainable peace with each other and their internal armed opposition groups, the head...

UN study on why people illegally migrate from Africa

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More than 90% of African migrants who embark on the perilous and sometimes fatal journey to Europe in search of a better life would...

HUMAN SECURITY

Human Security

Ebola screening suspended in South Sudan

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The UN migration agency suspended screening services for Ebola after three aid workers were killed in South Sudan, the latest incident involving relief staff...
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Xenophobia arrests in Cape Town

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Around 100 people were arrested as part of an operation to disperse refugees and asylum seekers staging a prolonged sit-in near the United Nations...

Egypt’s treatment of journalist “outrageous”

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The US State Department’s senior Middle East diplomat said Egypt’s treatment of a prominent journalist and activist was “outrageous” and had been raised with...

Moroccan activist on hunger strike

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An activist jailed in 2017 after protests in northern Morocco was admitted to a Tangier prison clinic after a seven-week hunger strike, his brother...

MIDDLE EAST

Middle East

US presence in Syria is illegal – Russia

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Russia’s defence ministry attacked US plans to maintain and boost the American military presence in eastern Syria as “international state banditry” motivated by a...
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Syria assault paused as Kurds withdraw

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Turkey agreed to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish forces withdraw from a “safe zone” Ankara sought to capture,...

Turkish offensive on Syria continues

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]Turkey vowed to press ahead with offensive in northern Syria despite US sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria’s Russia-backed army...

US to deploy more forces to Saudi

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The US announced the deployment of additional American military forces to Saudi Arabia to bolster the kingdom’s defences after the September 14 attack on...

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

International News

Season of discontent as protests flare worldwide

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On Monday it was Bolivia - angry people clashed with police after the political opposition said it was cheated in an election won by...
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US policy shift on Syria a sign of Trump “unchained”

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In just a few hours US President Donald Trump upended his own policy on Syria with a chaotic series of pronouncements, blindsiding foreign allies,...

New missiles in China anniversary parade

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China’s military displayed new equipment at a parade in central Beijing to mark 70 years since the founding of the People’s Republic, including hypersonic-glide...

Taliban talks dead – Trump

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US President Donald Trump proclaimed talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders dead, while the general in charge said the US military is likely to ramp...

SCIENCE & DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY

Science & Defence Technology

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...
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Gun with a chip: U.S. Army contracts may lead to a smarter firearm

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A carbine that can call in an airstrike. A computer-aided scope on a machine gun that can turn just about anyone into a marksman....

ISS: Libya’s war becomes a tech battleground

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Libya’s current conflict is emerging as a very different one to what has been fought before in the country, or the world. Fleets of...

Multiple projects lined up for world’s largest 3D printer at the CSIR

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR’s) 3D metal printer – the largest of its kind in the world - is being used...

MILITARY HELICOPTERS

Military Helicopters

Retracting mechanism coming for Rooivalk chin gun

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Work is underway on a retracting mechanism for the Rooivalk attack helicopter’s chin mounted 20 mm cannon as part of efforts to make...
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SAAF Hostile Fire Indicator successfully demonstrated

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A successful demonstration of the Armscor-sourced hostile fire indicator (HOSFIN) capability is rated as one of the 2018/19 financial year’s highlights by the State-owned...

Nigeria confirms order for a dozen Mi-35 helicopters from Russia

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Russia and Nigeria have confirmed a contract for the delivery of 12 Mi-35 attack helicopters, with six having already been delivered. Nigeria ordered 12 Mi-35Ms...

MINUSCA helicopter crash

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A Senegalese combat helicopter from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic crashed, killing three people, the mission head said. The crash...

CIVIL AVIATION

Civil Aviation

Tanzania plans to double aircraft fleet

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Tanzania’s state carrier plans to double its fleet to 14 aircraft by 2022 and is exploring new routes and code-sharing agreements with other airlines,...
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SA airlines’ safety record lauded

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South Africa has a zero fatal accident record in relation to airlines and other scheduled commercial operations, exemplifying the high standard of aviation safety...

Leonardo signs distributorship agreement with Absolute Aviation

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Italy’s Leonardo Helicopters has signed a distributorship agreement with Absolute Aviation Group covering the civil and commercial market in South Africa. The Agreement, announced on...

Grounded SA aircraft flying again

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Forty of 46 aircraft grounded this week owing to faults at the maintenance unit of state-owned South African Airways (SAA) have been returned to...

UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Sentian Aerospace wins AVI Awards 2019

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  South African aviation innovation company, Sentian Aerospace, has won the overall winner and small, micro and medium enterprises (SMME) winner accolades at the fifth...
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Drugstore drones

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United Parcel Service’s new Flight Forward drone unit will soon start home prescription delivery from CVS Health Corp. The service, which will debut in...

Drones help Ghana farmers

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Ephraim Kofi Kenney does not like to work in the fields scaring pests away. But today he must. A flock of migratory birds repeatedly...

Drone Con 2019: redefining the future of work with drones

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The theme of this year’s Drone Conference, held in Durban this week, was ‘redefining the future of work with drones’ and saw advances in...

NATIONAL SECURITY

National Security

UAE withdraws troops from Aden

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The United Arab Emirates said its troops left Yemen’s southern port Aden and returned home, handing control to Saudi Arabia which is leading an...
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Nigerien soldiers killed

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Twelve soldiers in south-eastern Niger were killed and eight wounded in an overnight attack by gunmen likely belonging to Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram,...

ISS: Togo ups its ante against terror threats

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Until early 2018, violent extremism in West Africa had been largely confined to the Sahel region. Since then fears of a spillover into neighbouring...

Mitiga Airport reopens

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Libya’s internationally recognised government reopened Mitiga, Tripoli’s only functioning airport, after a two month closure and flights will resume in two weeks, the transportation...

CYBER DEFENCE

Cyber Defence

Facebook suspends Putin ally accounts

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Facebook suspended three networks of Russian accounts attempting to interfere in the domestic politics of eight African countries and tied to a Russian businessman...
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Georgian police investigate massive cyber attack

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Georgian police are investigating a massive coordinated cyber attack that took thousands of websites offline and could have been carried out from abroad, the...

Africa takes on cyber crime

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Separated by cultures, religions, languages and 8,458 kilometers, Morocco and India appear to have little in common. And yet, in late 2018, the two...

Russian operatives sacrifice followers to stay under cover on Facebook

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Efforts by Russian influence campaigns to stay undetected on social media ahead of next year’s US elections are undermining ability to gain followers and...

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS

Government Affairs

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...
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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...

Zimbabwe lawmaker charged with subversion

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A Zimbabwe opposition lawmaker was charged with subversion, his lawyer said, after a video surfaced where he purportedly said President Emmerson Mnangagwa would be...
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