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The U.S. will be giving $9 million in new military aid to help Somalia's ongoing campaign against al-Shabab militants. It's...
Read moreThe French military has completed it's withdrawal from the Central African Republic, as the last soldier left the capital Bangui...
Read moreAn airstrike which targeted a base housing troops of the Central african republic (CAR) and their Russian paramilitary ally Wagner...
Read moreSouth Sudanese President Salva Kiir has announced that his country has sent a battalion of 750 soldiers to DR Congo...
Read moreIvory Coast will gradually pull out its forces and police from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali...
Read moreThe Unites Kingdomw will withdraw its troops from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) early, Minister...
Read moreThe European Union Naval Force’s Operation Irini has intercepted a cargo ship ferrying dozens of BATT UMG armoured vehicles to...
Read moreJihadist group affiliated with Jama'at Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati-Jihad (Boko Haram) terror group on the night of 21-22 October sacked Cameroonian...
Read moreThe government of Burkina Faso this week launched a drive to recruit 50,000 civilian defense volunteers to help the army...
Read moreAllen-Vanguard will deliver electronic countermeasure (ECM) equipment to Somalia in a multimillion Canadian dollar deal, the company announced on 21...
Read moreOne of the main security concerns in Libya so far has been the lack of border control. Libya is the...
Read moreThe Kenya Defence forces marked its 11th Kenya Defence forces Day in a style. The year’s theme being “soldier centric...
Read moreNigér has been supplied with several pieces of military equipment from Washington to support its fight against jihadists plaguing the...
Read moreUganda and Israel on Tuesday 20 September signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on defence amid growing criticism in the...
Read moreThe Moroccan army on Monday confirmed that its personnel will participate in an international military conference in Israel this week,...
Read moreGermany has resumed reconnaissance patrols in eastern Mali as part of a UN peacekeeping mission known as MINUSMA, the military...
Read moreThe world around us today is rapidly changing in a globalizing community. One can fly to many destinations at ease...
Read moreIt was former president Jacob Zuma who once said that “I wondered, having not been here, am I telling the...
Read moreMinister of Defence, Maj.-Gen. Bashir Magashi (rtd) on Wednesday hosted the Iranian Ambassador to Nigeria to promote military ties between...
Read moreIn a hearing of the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, earlier in March, former Commander of the African Command, U.S....
Read moreGermany’s military has suspended all reconnaissance and transport operations in Mali after a planned personnel rotation was blocked by Malian...
Read moreSouth Africa’s level of insecurity has reached an alarming scale with the level of organised crime, socio-political violence, protests, poverty,...
Read moreFew days after reports that the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has ordered six Turkish-built T-129 ATAK helicopters, the Chief of...
Read moreThe European Union mission to enforce the United Nations (UN) arms embargo on Libya announced for the first time on...
Read moreThe African Union(AU) has gifted a range of military equipment to the Headquarters Sector 3 of the Multinational Joint Task...
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