Over the last decade, India has emerged as a key security partner for nations across Africa with particular emphasis on terrorism, piracy and maritime ...

As of 1 January, African Union (AU) efforts to bring peace to Somalia changed names for the third time in 18 years. What is now ...

Thirty-five years after a United Nations (UN) commitment – by way of a convention – to protect children from being recruited as soldiers, the ...

In the wake of violent protests and unrest in Mozambique post the October general election, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is to send ...

South Africa faces a crisis of unemployment exacerbated by a stagnating economy that in turn is lowering the tax base and harming the country’s ...

A Nepalese Reserve Force battalion serving with the United Nations mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is the 2024 UN Medal of Honour for Exceptional ...

With seemingly only months before the United Nations (UN) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ceases operations, its Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) ...

Nothing on earth is as fast as the speed at which Artificial Intelligence (AI) experts have appeared and security companies have added those two ...

A week before the latest and third iteration of an African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission came into being in Somalia, a requested United States ...

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Soldiers, not necessarily infantry, on border patrol. South Africa’s ongoing border protection tasking – now in its 16 th year – executed in the main by infantry units, shows how short of boots on the ...

Thirty-five years after a United Nations (UN) commitment – by way of a convention – to protect children from being recruited as soldiers, the ...