South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says he will deploy the army to high crime areas to help police in this country that ...

South Africa plans to deploy army as soldiers set to hit the streets - Neighborhoods on the outskirts of Cape Town, known as ...

How will strained ties between ECOWAS and neighbours Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso affect the fight against armed groups?

Russia has banned the recruitment of foreign mercenaries from dozens of countries after African nations expressed outrage ...

South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as part of a regional mission have faced an embarrassing homecoming. It came as the nation ...

Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists killed 15 soldiers in an attack on an army base in northern Benin, the west African country's ...

The bodies of South African soldiers who died last month as the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group took Goma in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were recovered this week and are being ...

A lesser-known amphibious landing along France's Mediterranean played a big role in liberating the country from the Nazis. Those troops were under French command, but hailed mostly from Africa. This ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A group of critically injured South African peacekeepers who were hurt in fighting in eastern Congo a month ago have been evacuated by the United Nations, the South African ...