South Africa's military ranks 4th in Africa and 40th globally, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses, as outlined by the ...

Tensions are escalating in Pretoria as President Cyril Ramaphosa faces serious questions regarding his authority over the South African National Defence Force (SANDF). Reports indicate that the ...

Six months ago, Anne Ndarua’s only son went to Russia on the promise of a job as an electrical engineer. She says he was forced into military training and she no longer knows if he’s alive.

In a report last year, a researcher at the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies, Taiwo Adebayo, wrote that to ...

Military planners from U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) convened in Rome, Jan. 26-29, for the final ...

Whether the optics of working with Iranian security forces as they massacred their own citizens troubled him or not, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa reportedly was concerned that doing so ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — It had become a familiar scene in West Africa. A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power. A few hours later, the ...

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The exercises were the second time in six months that President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to be blindsided by his own military ...

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