The Indian Navy (IN) held multiple naval exercises with various international partners during the past month. These included regular exercises such as MALABAR and SIMBEX as well as new exercises… Continue reading "Indian Navy Holds Multiple Exercises with Partners, MALABAR 2022 Concludes"
Welcome to Overt Defense’s Weekend Briefing where we round up the week’s most interesting and important defense news. This week saw Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continue and much of our… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (7-11 March)"
In the war-torn Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique, the now comforting sight of Rwandan soldiers patrolling the countryside and towns of the region may become a more lasting fixture for… Continue reading "Rwandan Troops to stay in Mozambique"
Members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) will send an unconfirmed number of soldiers to Mozambique to “combat terrorism and violent extremism perpetrated by Ansar’ul Sunnan in Cabo Delgado.”… Continue reading "Southern African Countries To Send Peacekeepers To Mozambique To Fight Terrorism"
Claims by the government of Mozambique to have secured the city of Palma in the country’s north following an attack by fighters from the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province were… Continue reading "Mozambique Government Falsely Claims To Have Secured Palma"
Demonstrating that the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) is far from finished, a group claiming affiliation to the Islamic State that has been terrorizing north eastern Mozambique since 2017, has demonstrated… Continue reading "ISIS Affiliate Seizes Towns in Mozambique, Slaughters Villagers and Shoots Down PMC Helicopter"