South Africa’s first line of border protection in the form of 15 companies of mostly infantry soldiers deployed along just on 4 500km of land border had a quieter February than January as far as ...

In late January, in fighting in the city of Goma and surrounding districts, in North Kivu province, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 14 South African soldiers were killed. The ...

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Border Patrol aircraft have been targeted by lasers at least six times since October, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday. The agency said its Air and Marine Operations helicopter ...

“The only thing that the SANDF could do to full effect on the present budget is border patrol, airspace surveillance and some maritime surveillance and very limited patrol,” affirms Heitman.