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Phillip Saunders appointed interim SAA CEO

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Phillip Saunders has been appointed as the interim South African Airways (SAA) CEO, the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) announced on Tuesday. An experienced airline...

ISS: Maritime security can help resolve the Mozambique insurgency

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Over recent months the bloody insurgency in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado has taken an unprecedented maritime turn. If it worsens, it...

ISS Africa: Police and courts must do more to reduce gender-based...

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On average, 856 women and 321 children were murdered over 107 days in 2018/19, according to South African Police Service (SAPS) crime statistics. In response...

ISS: Zimbabwe to change its constitution under cover of COVID-19

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President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration is in the process of pushing through dubious constitutional amendments under the cover of COVID-19, reversing years of effort that...

Rolls-Royce burns through £3 billion, expects more cash outflows

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Aerospace engineer Rolls-Royce burned through 3 billion pounds ($3.8 billion) in the first half as the hours flown by its engines halved due to the...

COVID-19 shutdown at Western Cape Joint Tactical HQ

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Two positive COVID-19 tests at the Western Cape Joint Tactical Headquarters of the Joint Operations Division resulted in immediate closure with deep cleaning and...

Protests hinder water delivery services

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The Department of Water and Sanitation has called for a speedy resolution to protest action at the King Cetshwayo District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal. The protests...

Peacekeeping operations set to contract as Africa sees exponential growth of...

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African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions in Africa have been slimmed down, rotations have been frozen and most staff are working...

Military medics in Eastern Cape to help provincial health department

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A team of 50 plus SA Military Health Service (SAMHS) professionals today (Monday, 6 July) started duties in the Eastern Cape, a province ravaged...

9 SAI soldiers test positive for COVID-19

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The SA National Defence Force (SANDF) confirmed “around 40 soldiers” tested positive for COVID-19, at least two days after a provincial Member of the...

Ramaphosa extends SANDF Op Notlela employment

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The “employment” of soldiers and other military personnel as part of the national effort to combat coronavirus has been extended until the end of...

ISS: Can the AU protect citizens against COVID-19 abuses?

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Lockdowns and curfews to fight COVID-19 across Africa have been designed as an abuse of fundamental rights. This was the view of Mélanie Sonhaye...

Cabinet backs establishment of new airline

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Cabinet has expressed support for the establishment of a new airline and has backed the concerted efforts to mobilise funding from various sources that will...

ISS: Domestic violence during COVID-19: are we asking the right questions?

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The number of domestic violence cases reported to the South African police between March and April dropped by 69.4%. This figure makes it tempting...

ISS: Lifting lockdown: a double-edged sword for public safety?

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South Africa’s first levels of lockdown substantially reduced violent crime, making it one of the few countries in the world to record fewer deaths...

14 police officers succumb to COVID-19

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While police officers have gone out of their way to enforce COVID-19 lockdown regulations for the past 80 days, 14 of them have succumbed...

Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab sets up COVID-19 treatment centre

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Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab said on Friday they had set up a COVID-19 treatment centre in the country, and said the disease posed...

South Africa’s Life Healthcare hit by cyber attack

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South Africa’s Life Healthcare said on Tuesday its southern African operation was hit by a cyber attack affecting its admissions systems, business processing systems...

SAA rescue plan delayed again after unions object

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Creditors of South African Airways (SAA) on Monday approved another delay in the publication of a rescue plan after the cash-strapped airline’s administrators requested...

ISS: Africa must unmute its mic as e-diplomacy takes root

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COVID-19 has forced the world to work, meet and socialise online, and mostly from home. Countries are even conducting their international relations differently to...

Burundi court affirms ruling party candidate’s presidential victory

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Burundi’s constitutional court has said last month’s elections were flawless and upheld the victory of the ruling party’s presidential candidate, dismissing a complaint brought...

Coronavirus protests spread to Senegal’s capital

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Protestors in Dakar set tyres on fire and threw stones at security forces on Wednesday night during protests over a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed...

ISS: Does the Sahel really need more AU troops?

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Last year saw a significant resurgence of extremist violence in the Sahel, especially in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, where the United Nations (UN) recorded over...

Google sees resurgence in state-backed hacking, phishing related to COVID-19

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Security experts at Alphabet Inc’s Google sent 1 755 warnings in April to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers, following a resurgence...

Iraqi militiamen drop guns to dig graves for coronavirus victims

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Iraqi paramedic Sarmad Ibrahim cut his teeth treating fellow Shi’ite Muslim militiamen in the war against Islamic State. Now, he buries COVID-19 victims -...

Soldiers not only manning roadblocks and patrolling during lockdown

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What the various disciplines and taskings in the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) are doing in contributing to mitigating the impact of the coronavirus...

ISS: Benin’s local elections further reduce the political space

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On 17 May 2020 voters in Benin elected their communal and municipal councillors. Elections went ahead despite the COVID-19 pandemic and political tensions, and...

ISS: Security vs efficiency: smart ports in a post-COVID-19 era

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Around 90% of Africa’s trade is seaborne. The World Trade Organization has predicted a decline in consumer spending due to COVID-19 that will decrease international trade...

Hundreds killed in South Sudan tribal clashes – ICRC

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Hundreds of civilians, including three aid workers, were killed in a series of tribal clashes in villages in South Sudan’s vast Jonglei state, the...

As flying returns, jetmakers seek to quell fears over cabin air

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Jet manufacturers and airlines are launching an urgent initiative to convince nervous travelers that the air they breathe on planes is safe, believing this...

Zambia reopens border with Tanzania to cargo after COVID-19 closure

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Zambia reopened its Nakonde border with Tanzania on Friday for cargo after a five-day closure of the transit point for copper and cobalt exports...

Kenya closes borders to Tanzania and Somalia over coronavirus

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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday banned movement across the country’s borders with Tanzania and Somalia to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. He...

ISS: Has Haftar’s ‘Ponzi scheme’ imploded?

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Turkey’s dramatic military intervention into Libya’s civil-cum-proxy war on the side of the Tripoli government has changed the narrative from ‘Haftar tightening the noose...

State backed hackers targeting COVID-19 responders

Government-backed hackers are attacking healthcare and research institutions to steal information on efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, Britain and the United States said...

No Cabinet decisions yet on post-COVID-19 South Africa

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South Africa is in lockdown and on hold as far as any government decisions to return to a semblance of normality. This is the essence...

Four COVID-19 cases in the SANDF

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The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has recorded four positive cases of COVID-19. In a statement, the Surgeon General said three cases were in...

Change of direction for ECM Technologies as focus shifts to coronavirus...

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ECM Technologies have responded to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to put together a portfolio of products to meet the huge demand for items such...

COVID-19 impacting on the European aerospace and defence industry

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The coronavirus, or COVID-19, is wreaking havoc on the European aerospace and defence industry and is taking a huge toll on air travel demand....

CSIR’s Cmore tapped for COVID-19 situational awareness

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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR’s) Cmore situational awareness system is being customised to service the COVID-19 coronavirus response in South Africa. This...

US Embassy donates ambulances, medical equipment to Namibia to fight COVID-19

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US Ambassador Lisa Johnson has handed over to the Ministry of Health and Social Services three ambulances, hospital beds, and other medical equipment to...

COVID-19 impacting maritime security

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The COVID-19 coronavirus will have a profound impact on commercial and security trends within shipping this year, and efforts to mitigate maritime crime in...

SAA suspends all international flights until June

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South African Airways (SAA) on Friday announced it will immediately suspend all international operations until 31 May 2020 in response to a government travel...

IATA calls for urgent emergency support for African, Middle Eastern airlines

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The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is calling for governments in Africa and the Middle East to provide emergency support to airlines as they...

SA confirms 62 cases of Coronavirus

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The Department of Health has confirmed that as of Monday morning South Africa now has 62 confirmed and verified cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19). It added...

COVID-19 sees SA declare national state of disaster

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster on Sunday announcing a range of measures to contain a COVID-19 outbreak that...

Call for heightened land border protection in the face of COVID-19

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South Africa’s ports of entry are covered by Department of Health representatives supported by military medics checking for coronavirus but what about the thousands...

Senegal confirms first COVID-19 case

Senegal’s health minister announced the first case of coronavirus in the country, the second in sub-Saharan Africa after one confirmed in Nigeria last week....

SANDF part of China COVID-19 evacuation plan

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Wuhan, the Chinese city where COVID-19 first made its presence felt in December, is currently part and parcel of the SA National Defence Force’s...