ESPS Santa Maria keeping a weather eye on a suspected hijacked fishing vessel. Picture: Op Atalanta. One of three European Union (EU) naval operations off Africa continues surveillance of a Chinese ...

Indian Navy commandos en route to rescue the Genco Picardy from Somali pirates. Maritime security is no longer about the threat of nations at war, but the threats of yore, piracy on the high seas, and ...

Burnt out school in Sudan. Picture: United Nations. The Sudanese civil war, dubbed by some as “the war the world forgot”, has in its 20-month existence seen more than 12 million people driven from ...

Weapons recovered by the SAPS. Mass killings have wreaked havoc in numerous South African communities in recent months. Along with the devastating murder of 18 people in Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape ...

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According to many international organisations, Africa is in a parlous state, with the Geneva Academy reporting that Africa has the second-highest number of intra-state conflicts in the world (35) ...

After years of fighting terrorism in the Sahel, experts say one counterterror tool has been badly neglected: economic development. Job creation and economic growth ...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa doing the honours on the site of the SADC regional logistics depot. Picture: SADC. A ceremonial “ground breaking” in mid-December marked commencement of ...

The recently published Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Yearbook sheds light on the worrying current state of the global nuclear arsenal. Russia and the USA possess nearly 90% ...

defenceWeb is Africa's largest and most trusted online source of news, information, research and insight on aerospace, defence and security matters.

defenceWeb is Africa's largest and most trusted online source of news, information, research and insight on aerospace, defence and security matters.

defenceWeb is Africa's largest and most trusted online source of news, information, research and insight on aerospace, defence and security matters.