Civil Security

On March 5, the Saudi Embassy in Islamabad reportedly received threatening e-mails warning of attacks on Saudi interests in Pakistan. According to...

Madagascar's army gave the country's feuding leaders 72 hours on Tuesday to resolve a political crisis that has killed about 135 people...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is in Mauritania in the highest level attempt so far to end the political crisis since a coup in the...

Police and other law enforcement agencies will be out in full force to ensure security for the general elections to be held...

Oil thieves sabotaged a Chevron-operated pipeline in the restive Niger Delta but no oil production was affected. Colonel Rabe Abubakar, spokesman for the...

West Africa has seen an "absolutely shocking" increase in narcotics trafficking, which disrupts local communities and threatens the entire region "It is absolutely...

Nigerian oil workers are threatening to strike in three weeks if the government does not take steps to improve the security in...

The son of Guinea's late president said he had been part of a drug smuggling network in a televised confession filmed after...

Statements made by Local Organising Committee (LOC) CEO Danny Jordaan, over the allocation of R3 billion for 2010 safety efforts, have caused...

Bua News reports a draft strategy to address gangsterism in prisons, presented during special session of Round Table on Combating Gangsterism in...

The Internet Service Providers' Association of SA (ISPA) is helping the South African Police Service to clamp down on Internet crime.The industry...

The Gauteng provincial government has donated 42 cars, worth more than R7 million, to the SA Police Service (SAPS). The cars are all...

Finance minister Trevor Manuel has set aside R5.4 billion for safety and security to be ploughed into technology solutions. In his budget speech...

Britain no longer trusts South African passports. The country's Home Secretary says South Africans will now need to apply for visas to...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has dispatched a senior United Nations official to Madagascar, where serious unrest has led to the death...

Units of the South African National Defence Force have deployed to two drought-stricken districts in the south to the county to assist...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the significant progress made in consolidating peace and stability in West Africa in recent years are...

On Jan 8, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs heard testimony from a number of experts about the...

Work on the Department of Home Affairs' (DHA) controversial but key "Who am I (I am I said)" security project is on...

The opposition Democratic Alliance says two-thirds of the posts in the South African Police Service (SAPS) office tasked with crime research and...

The top United Nations relief official in Somalia has voiced grave concern at the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the strife-torn nation, where...

"Homeland" or "civil" security is a useful concept for which a functional framework already exists in South Africa, says Professor Mike Hough,...

The United Nations crime-fighting agency has proposed a regional approach to bringing pirates off the Somali coast to justice similar to one...

City of Johannesburg executive mayor Amos Masondo has taken official delivery of a R42 million inner-city electronic surveillance system consisting of 216...

South Africa's Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is taking a leaf from the US Department of Homeland security in introducing API or...

United Nations-backed talks between the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and a main rebel militia are underway in...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is calling for improved disaster preparedness and response measures in countries...

Discipline is starting to fail in the ranks of the Zimbabwe Defence Force as rampant inflation, food and potable water shortages as...

The South African Police service has budgeted R1.3 billion to safeguard this June's Confederation Cup and 2010's Soccer World Cup. Police spokesman...

United Nations humanitarian officials say last week saw some of the heaviest fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia's capital, in recent months. At least 55...

The Eastern Cape police say they have "noted with great concern" newspaper reports that the Parliamentary portfolio committee on safety and security...

The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission has called on Guinea-Bissau's Government and other senior national figures to do all they can to maintain...

Last week, the Mexican government carried out a number of operations in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, aimed at Jaime "El Hummer" Gonzalez Duran, one...

The police lack the equipment and resources they need to fight against crime, the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) says. Party spokeswoman on...

The French Gendarmerie National and Police National, that country's two law enforcement agencies, have just completed a four-week train-the-trainer programme with their...

South Africa's official unemployment rate edged up to 23.2% in the period July-September from 23.1% in the three months before that, a...

By all reports criminals have taken to abusing information and communications technology (ICT) in a big way, but the same does not...

On the morning of Oct. 20, as humanitarian aid worker Gayle Williams walked to work in Kabul, Afghanistan, two men on a...

The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has resolved that the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) be instructed to suspend its key "Who...

Health and disaster management practitioners are meeting in Ermelo, Mpumalanga, next week Wednesday to tackle hospital safety and disasters management at health...

BAE Systems is entering a new SA market – homeland security. It fired the first shots at this month's Africa Aerospace & Defence expo...

The Civil Aircraft Missile Protection System protects civil aircraft against ground-launched missiles.Saab has had two successful sales of its Civil Aircraft Missile...

Law enforcers "seriously" consider robot planes for the Soccer World Cup.The SA Police Service is considering acquiring unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) –...

And FIFA needs thousands of IT-savvy volunteers.The police plan to spend R640 million securing the 2010 Soccer World Cup by deploying about...

The Israeli army provides several tips on safety during rocket attacks, during an Internet discussion.Avi B wanted to know if he could...

The company will invest R80 million to safeguard airports.The Airports Company of SA (ACSA) is to spend R80 million to upgrade perimeter security at...

The new contact centre and management system have improved Gauteng policing, says the community safety MEC.A new management tool and police emergency...

Investing in technology will give the police a "competitive edge in combating crime, their annual report says.The police are investing in ICT...

The hi-tech contact centre replaces six outdated facilities and is expected to enhance the province`s fight against crime.The police will on Monday...

SA-Swedish-UK collaboration may stop killer missiles aimed at airliners.Saab Avitronics, part of the Swedish-South African Saab Grintek group, has demonstrated a system...