The number of young people reaching military age in African countries reflects population trends and demographic shifts.

Helicopters fleets enhance a nations defensive capabilities, supporting border security, counterinsurgency, and ...

Hamas has now promised to release Israeli captives. Here, we put faces to the names of the living and the lost and tell their ...

The governments of Ethiopia and Kenya have launched a coordinated military offensive they say is targeting hideouts of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) along their shared border. The operation was ...

Malawi Defence Force (MDF) and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services have been disregarding a High Court ...

Scores of journalists in Ethiopia in recent years have been wrongfully imprisoned in efforts to stifle their reporting.

In petitions to the East African Community (EAC) Assembly of Heads of State and the East African Court of Justice, ...

A group of regional lawyers has launched a legal and diplomatic campaign against Uganda's Chief of Defence Forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, accusing him of making inflammatory statements that ...

Congo calls an emergency UN Human Rights Council meeting, demanding an urgent investigation of violations it says have been committed by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.

Ethiopia has experienced brutal internal conflicts in recent years, as well as rivalries with neighbouring Somalia over ...

MPs have taken the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to task for involvement in civilian projects while pushing its core mandate to the back burner.The lawmakers cautioned that distracting engagements could ...

In an interview, Murhaf Abu Qasra, a onetime leader in Syria’s insurgency, discussed moves by authorities in Damascus to ...