Aviation Week

Flight and weapon tests for new light attack helicopter option in Africa

Light helicopters could become a new platform for military forces in North Africa if tests being carried out by Europcopter and a South African systems integrator are successful. Eurocopter, and ...
The Conversation

Africa’s militaries have always relied on imported weapons: why a shift to homegrown defence is now under way

Africa’s militaries are built on imported power. Foreign countries such as China, Russia, the United States, Turkey and France dominate Africa’s weapons market. Between them they supply everything ...
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Weapons are budgeted for, vaccines begged for

In Africa today, weapons are budgeted for, but vaccines are begged for. Defence contracts arrive overnight; epidemic preparedness waits for donors. This fiscal pattern is not just a budgetary anomaly ...
The Nation Newspaper

UN: 1b Illicit weapons fuelling conflicts in Africa, globally

The United Nations (UN) has warned that the widespread proliferation of approximately one billion small arms and light weapons (SALW) in circulation globally is fuelling conflicts in Africa and around ...
Crux

Cardinal Nzapalainga says Central African Republic will not be built with weapons

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra speaks to the media in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Jan. 5, 2026. (Credit: Jean-Fernand Koena/AP.) Listen YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon – ...