The continent's peacekeepers are key players in its conflict zones. However, southern African troops are withdrawing from one ...

South Africa’s first line of border protection in the form of 15 companies of mostly infantry soldiers deployed along just on ...

South Africa’s defence budget has increased by just R400 million from 2024/25 to R55.94 billion for the 2025/26 financial year, representing a below inflation increase in what some defence experts ...

A copy of the UN experts’ report, leaked to local media recently, showed that Mansudae Overseas Projects (MOP) was used to, among others, construct a new munitions plant for the Namibian Defence Force ...

The government will spend about N$30 million on expenses related to transporting founding president Sam Nujoma's body across the country.

China’s ships carried out live firing in the Tasman Sea last week. Last year, the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) was part of the US-led Valiant Shield exercise that did live firing of ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Sam Nujoma, Namibia’s founding president who steered the country to freedom from apartheid South Africa, was laid to rest in the country’s Heroes Acre cemetery on Saturday ...

A torpedo on the beach at The Spit which was an Australian Defence Force training torpedo. Picture: Surf Lifesaving Queensland. Asked if it was now safe for the public, he replied: “Absolutely.