On the evening before the opening, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, inspected the venue and ...

Egypt and Somalia signed a military cooperation protocol in August 2024. Cairo then flew and shipped arms to Mogadishu, and announced in December 2024 that it would join AUSSOM. The AU council later ...

I have watched North African airpower arguments recycle the same claim for two years. Algeria, we are told, has entered the fifth-generation club. Morocco will answer with the Lockheed Martin F-35 ...

GIDS is Pakistan’s state-owned defence export conglomerate, established in 2007 in Rawalpindi. Its portfolio includes the Shahpar family of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the Fatah guided rocket ...

Libya remains split between the Government of National Unity in Tripoli and the eastern authorities aligned with Khalifa ...

The Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD) opened a national pavilion at the Marrakech Airshow in Morocco on 8 October 2026, its first official presence at a Moroccan defence show since the two countries ...

Ugandan troops from Battle Group 48 assumed frontline duties in Somalia on October 10, 2026, replacing Battle Group 45 in a ...

Taking place from 26 to 29 October 2026 at Eko Atlantic, Lagos, the Africa International Defence Exhibition will convene senior military leaders, government representatives, capability planners and ...

Airbus and South African flight training provider ALT Academy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 16 September 2026 at the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) Expo in the City of Tshwane, ...

Netro Optronics delivers advanced multi-sensor electro-optic solutions for situational awareness, surveillance, reconnaissance, and target acquisition — across soldier and platform domains.

Emerging technologies such as unmanned systems may help African militaries fight non-state armed groups, but militaries across the continent must look beyond the technologies themselves and adopt a ...