24/7 Wall St. Insights: Egypt has the largest standing army in Africa with roughly 450,000 active personnel In recent years, the Egyptian military has undergone significant modernization efforts ...

Analysis - During the first world war (1914-1918) thousands of African men enlisted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners in Germany. Their stories and songs were ...

Hundreds of South African servicemen, mostly black, who died during World War One have been honoured with a new memorial in Cape Town after going unrecognised for more than a century. The 1,772 ...

That’s why when Wagner forces started withdrawing from Ukraine last month, many feared the same might happen in Africa. It hasn’t happened yet, but might still.

The US has not seen a withdrawal of Wagner forces from Africa “in any substantial or meaningful numbers,” a senior US defense official said, as the Kremlin continues to weigh what to do with ...

The intensifying conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has provoked fears of a regional war. Several of the DRC’s nine neighbouring countries, as well as South Africa, already ...

U.S. military, African soldiers train amid growing ISIS threat 04:20. Tamale, Ghana — On a dusty airport tarmac in the northern Ghanaian city of Tamale, military special operatives from across ...

Col. Matthew E. Kopp, security cooperation director for U.S. Army Southern European Task Force - Africa, speaks with Brig. Gen. Jethrow Chipili of Zambia during the African Land Forces Summit in ...