Ghana hosted the first African Maritime Security Forum at KAIPTC in Accra, where speakers looked beyond piracy to governance, drones...

Thirteen Nigerian Air Force technicians are training in Italy to maintain the M-346FA fighter-attack jet as the first of 24...

Bell has started building the first of 12 AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters for the Nigerian Air Force in Texas, with...

Kenya has taken delivery of eight refurbished MD500 helicopters donated by South Korea and rebuilt with US funding, boosting Kenya...

Museveni has commissioned a $53 million package of Russian-donated military facilities in Uganda, led by a mechanised repair base at...

The Nigerian Air Force has accepted three Leonardo AW109 Trekker helicopters in Lagos after in-house reassembly, with seven more due...

The Russian Baltic Fleet training ship Perekop has called at Walvis Bay, Namibia, with Namibian cadets aboard, as part of...

Ethiopia has taken delivery of its first twelve Russian Su-35 fighters a year ahead of schedule, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed...

The navies of India, Brazil and South Africa commenced the ninth India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise (Ibsamar) at Naval Base Simon's...

Nigeria's Defence Minister, General Christopher Musa (retd.), met the European Union's Ambassador to Nigeria and the Economic Community of West...

British High Commissioner to Kenya Matt Baugh visited the Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (CJIATF) at Manda, on the coast...

On October 2, 2026, the US State Department approved a possible $832 million Foreign Military Sale of Javelin anti-tank missiles...

Video footage circulating online shows dozens of Turkish-made BMC AMAZON 4x4 armored vehicles in service withLibyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF)...

Airbus and South African flight training provider ALT Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 16 September 2026 at...

Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, told Bangladesh's High Commissioner to Nigeria that the Nigerian Army...

Uganda hosted the first African Chiefs of Defence Forces Conference on Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) from October 5...

Nigeria's Minister of Defence, General Christopher Musa (retd), told the head of US Army Southern European Task Force, Africa that...

Airbus used a newly delivered Angolan C295 maritime surveillance aircraft at Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) 2026 to pitch the...

On September 20, 2026, during an official 3-day visit to Ostrava, which encompassed participation in the Czech Air Force Days...

On 27 August 2026, Kenyan and US forces held their first combined, installation-wide base defence exercise (BDEX) at Manda Bay...

The 21st iteration of Exercise Phoenix Express concluded on September 18, 2026, at La Goulette Naval Base in Tunisia. A...

South African defense company Milkor Group and France’s Safran Electronics & Defense signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the...

On September 10, 2026, Italy’s Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Luciano Portolano, met his Libyan counterpart, Lieutenant General Salah...

Since 2025, the Turkish Navy has kept a rotating team based in Dakar to fly regular search, rescue, and surveillance...

Turkey’s state defense manufacturer, Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation (MKE), has opened its first company in Africa, a Cairo-based subsidiary...