Terrorist groups are becoming more daring with increased attacks on military camps across the west Africa region.

Following are the top five African countries with the most powerful military in 2024, with South Africa ranking fifth on the list. The significance of military power ...

South Africa's foreign minister on Monday deflected criticism of joint military drills planned with Russia and China, saying that hosting such exercises with "friends" was the "natural course of ...

The military juntas of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso signed a treaty of confederation Saturday bringing together 72 million people into the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). It’s a decision, they ...

Five years since the Mali coup of 2020, the key lesson is that the international community must move beyond the view of coups as isolated events.

South Africa has sent additional troops and military equipment to Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, political and diplomatic sources said, after 14 of its soldiers were killed in ...

Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back. In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. arrow-down ...

Russia will deploy telecommunications and remote-sensing satellites over three West African countries led by military juntas that had already cut ties with American and European allies and turned ...

Presently, South Africa’s exports represent barely 1% of the military juntas’ total imports, showing the already limited leverage Pretoria enjoys towards these predominantly West African states.