African leaders have announced the withdrawal of thousands of troops from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi who were sent to fight insurgents in mineral-rich eastern Congo, where M23 rebels have kille ...

South Africa’s defence budget has increased by just R400 million from 2024/25 to R55.94 billion for the 2025/26 financial ...

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana, was unequivocal in stating that overall SANDF expenditure would remain constrained. Instead of increased spending, he emphasised budget restructuring as the ...

Air Zimbabwe 's single B767-200ER has been used to repatriate almost 200 injured soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania, and ...

Analysts say President Ruto’s friendliness with regional rebel groups positions Kenya as a country that ‘takes sides’.

Ukrainian president said he was ready to sign rare minerals deal after the Trump administration paused all military aid to ...

Notwithstanding operational deaths and battle injuries close on four thousand kilometres from South Africa as well as a cancelled Armed Forces Day, the SA Army marches on ceremonially and in planning ...

The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, declared yesterday that “we are at a crossroads in history,” and announced that ...

Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have captured swathes of eastern DRC despite military support provided by several countries, including South Africa, to the Congolese ... Defence Force said in a statement.

The Democratic Republic of Congo says it’s suspending cobalt exports ... The measures came into force on Feb. 22, according Luabeya. A day earlier, the prime minister and mines minister signed ...

After Kabila pushed him aside, he led an assault with hijacked airplanes at a Congolese air base in an unsuccessful attempt to ... In 1996 Kabarebe led a mixed force of rubber boot-wearing Rwandans ...

Kinshasa estimates that more than 7,000 people have been killed in eastern DR Congo since M23 rebels began seizing territory there this year, while the Rwanda-backed rebels claim to be ...