In this week’s edition, on the continent, Tunisia emerges as a big customer for Turkish military hardware, the Nigerian Army is operating Isotrex armoured personnel carriers as it orders another 52 Ezugwu armoured vehicles, Ethiopia is operating Chinese mobile bridges, the British Army trains its 500th Somali soldier in infantry skills as the US military’s Africom commander visits Somalia and the Kenya Police Air Wing is dissolved and merged into a new department.
In SANDF news, COVID-19 puts paid to Armed Forces Day 2021, a Presidential letter authorising soldier beach patrols is received by the Joint Standing Committee on Defence, the SAAF assists in the rescue of six flood victims and misses its flying hour targets.