Nigeria, boasting Africa’s largest population and a rapidly advancing defense sector, sits in the fourth position among the countries on the continent with the strongest military forces.

Troops from Russia and North Korea use the same types of munitions, but they lack a common language for operations, doctrine, ...

America's "Arsenal of Democracy" relied on commercial manufacturers re-tooling to make the firearms necessary for American troops to fight across the world. One of the biggest plants was the Saginaw ...

Outside of these attack helicopters, Ethiopia has 10,028 military vehicles (including 680 tanks, 713 artillery units, and 79 MLRS units). Ethiopia has 162,000 active-duty personnel out of a total ...

Republican US-Africa specialists predict a second Trump administration would take a more “transactional, realistic and ...

The vehicles had Eritrean license plates and ... civil war between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front and the Ethiopian military. They now live in a school serving as a shelter in the city ...

In a statement, Al Shabab – an al-Qaeda-linked group – claimed responsibility for both bomb attacks, saying its bomb units had killed five African Union soldiers from Uganda and wounded five more. The ...

Ethiopia's bold move to ban gas-powered vehicle imports in favor of electric cars has encountered significant hurdles as the country grapples with limited infrastructure to support the shift ...

Egypt recently sent its second military aid shipment to Somalia, including heavy artillery and armored vehicles. This delivery, part of a defense pact signed between Egypt and Somalia in August 2024, ...

Currently, ensuring security in the Baltic is the most important military and political task ... who announced the existing ...

Ethiopia bans imports of gas-powered private vehicles, but the switch to electric is a bumpy ... Niger and Burkina Faso, where the military has taken power and delayed a return to civilian rule.

Times foreign correspondents describe what’s at stake for the world, including China, Israel, Ukraine, global trade and ...