Military Africa

Lockheed Martin has announced that the first F-16 Block 72 Fighting Falcon for the Royal Moroccan Air Force (RMAF) has made its maiden flight, bringing the programme closer to first delivery. The company announ...

An Indian Navy delegation led by Commodore Kartik Srimal paid a courtesy call on Commander Kenya Navy, Major General Paul Otieno, at Kenya Navy Headquarters on 5 October 2026, days after an Indian frigate concluded a four-day stop in Mombasa.

The visit followed the arrival of INS Tarkash, a Talwar-class guided-missile frigate, which docked in Mombasa from 29 Septemb...

U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa (SETAF-AF) and the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces (Forces Armées Royales, or FAR) opened planning for African Lion 2027 in Agadir, Morocco, with a five-day event that ran from 21 to 25 September 2026.

African Lion is the largest multinational military exercise on the African continent. Morocco and the United States have ru...

Uganda hosted the first African Chiefs of Defence Forces Conference on Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW) from October 5 to 8, 2026, bringing defence chiefs from 18 African countries to Speke Resort Munyonyo in Kampala.

The four-day meeting was organised by Uganda’s Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs and the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF). Its th...

The South African Army is putting its training to the test in the arid Northern Cape, where Exercise Vuk’uhlome V is under way at the Combat Training Centre (CTC) at Lohathla. The exercise began on 19 September and is scheduled to run until 5 December, according to the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) Directorate Corporate Communication (DCC), as reported by DefenceWeb