Driving Africa’s blue economy: threats and opportunities
Kathy Gibson reports from the Maritime and Coastal Security conference in Cape Town – The blue economy is the new frontline of Africa’s renaissance, says Samuel Kame-Domguia, co-ordinator: 2050 Africa’s Integrated Maritime Strategy Force, African Union Ethiopia....Co-operation needed for maritime security
Kathy Gibson reports from the Maritime and Coastal Security conference in Cape Town – The navies of Africa need to move past their own selfish interests and work together to secure the oceans that are the lifeblood of the continent’s economies. Threat to...Conference to boost navy collaboration
Some 600 maritime and naval experts are to meet in Cape Town from 25-27 November to discuss the price of piracy in Africa and the institutional and technical solutions available during the annual Maritime & Coastal Security Africa conference and exhibition. It is...Why a joint air defence capability is the answer for SADC
By Cobus Valentine, senior domain specialist at Saab Grintek Defence Should small nations be able to defend themselves from air threats -or should they rather seek to jointly establish co-operative solutions? For many Southern African Development (SADC) countries...Why the Congolese Government should be flexible
M23’s defeat following concerted FARDC and FIB attacks was a breath of fresh strategic air. The willingness by M23, or at least its political wing, to negotiate terms of disarmament and demobilisation is an equally promising start. However, Kabila’s team at Kampala is refusing to concede a semantic problem of what to call the settlement agreement. This stubbornness can cost them dearly if they are not flexible on what to call M23’s return from the bush.
(Failed) State of the Nation: A CAR Update
Since the overthrow of the government by the Seleka rebel movement in March, the Central African Republic has once more fallen off the media radar. African Defence Review finds out at what has become of the security situation since.
The Last Days of M23
Excerpts from the battles that defeated M23.
Rooivalk attack helicopters perform well in first combat action against M23
Two Rooivalks from the Force Intervention Brigade attacked M23 positions in Chanzu, scoring a number of direct hits and marking the type’s first combat action.
How M23 was rolled back
A detailed analysis of how M23 was defeated by the combined forces of the DRC national army, FARDC, and the UN’s Force Intervention Brigade.