East Africa

Defence and security news from Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania and the Horn of Africa.

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Kenya and Tanzania Are Building Very Different Militaries

Kenya and Tanzania Are Building Very Different Militaries

Kenya and Tanzania share a border, a coastline and decades of wary cooperation inside the East African Community, but they have built their armed forces...

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Sudan’s Army Fields About 100 Pakistani Mohafiz-V Armoured Vehicles

Sudan’s Army Fields About 100 Pakistani Mohafiz-V Armoured Vehicles

Sudan's army has fielded around 100 Pakistani-made Mohafiz-V armoured vehicles since mid-2026, a delivery that gives the military a dedicated counter to the fast pickup...

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Uganda Rotates in Battle Group 48 to Somalia as AUSSOM Funding Crisis Deepens

Uganda Rotates in Battle Group 48 to Somalia as AUSSOM Funding Crisis Deepens

Uganda's People's Defence Forces handed frontline duties in Somalia's Sector One to a newly arrived Battle Group 48 on October 10, even as the African...

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Türkiye’s Somalia Naval Task Group Flies KALKAN VTOL Drone in First Ocean Trials

Türkiye’s Somalia Naval Task Group Flies KALKAN VTOL Drone in First Ocean Trials

A KALKAN vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drone operating from the Turkish frigate TCG Gelibolu has carried out its first flight trials in ocean conditions...

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Sudan’s Army Claims It Shot Down a Drone Crossing From Ethiopia and Retook Bakouri in Blue Nile

Sudan’s Army Claims It Shot Down a Drone Crossing From Ethiopia and Retook Bakouri in Blue Nile

Sudan's army says its air defences shot down a "hostile strategic drone" near Bakouri in Blue Nile state on the morning of Thursday 22 October...

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Kenya Army Receives Eight Refurbished MD 500 Helicopters Donated by South Korea

Kenya Army Receives Eight Refurbished MD 500 Helicopters Donated by South Korea

The Kenya Army Corps of Aviation took over eight refurbished MD 500 Defender helicopters donated by South Korea at its headquarters in Embakasi, Nairobi, on...

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Russia Gives Uganda a Military Repair Depot at Magamaga: What Museveni Commissioned

Russia Gives Uganda a Military Repair Depot at Magamaga: What Museveni Commissioned

President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned a Russian-donated mechanised major repair facility for the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) at Magamaga Cantonment in Jinja District, according...

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Kenya Air Force Aircraft Inventory (2026): Fighter Jets, Helicopters and Who Built the Fleet

Kenya Air Force Aircraft Inventory (2026): Fighter Jets, Helicopters and Who Built the Fleet

The Kenya Air Force (KAF) still flies the same Northrop F-5 Tiger II fighters it bought in the 1970s, upgraded but approaching the end of...