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In the first significant release since it embarked on a product diversification strategy, SA defence company Milkor will unveil a prototype of a 4X4 armoured vehicle at the Defence Security and Equipment International (DSEI) show in London next week. Denel will be exhibiting is products at what DSEI 2017 in London next week in what is billed as the world’s leading defence and technology exhibition. Russian Helicopters has concluded training of the first batch of Egyptian personnel on the Ka-52 attack helicopter, with a total of 30 pilots and 70 technicians undergoing training in Russia this year. Still no indication of when Denel will take over management of naval dockyard. Kenyan police are not co-operating with investigations by a government-funded watchdog into violent deaths following last month’s election, two sources with direct knowledge of the probes said. KwaZulu-Natal police have put in place a multi-disciplinary task team to investigate political violence related cases in the province. Libyan security forces found the bodies of 16 migrants in the desert near the country’s border with Egypt. A Malta-based humanitarian group working in the Mediterranean for three years said it was suspending operations after months of rising tension with Italian and Libyan authorities. Since 2006, Southern Africa has been facing an increasing poaching crisis. The securitisation of national parks and private reserves has become a multi-million-rand industry. The United Nations is preparing to deploy up to 250 peacekeepers to Libya to guard its base in Tripoli as part of a plan to return its operations to the country, the head of the organisation’s mission there said. US military forces are carrying out Exercise Alligator Dagger off the coast of Djibouti to prepare incoming Amphibious Readiness Group/Marine Expeditionary Unit teams in the region for operations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. A prominent Syrian opposition leader said on Thursday U.N. mediation to end the country’s six-year conflict has failed and the revolution would continue. An aid convoy arrived at Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria on Thursday, bringing supplies to soldiers and civilians days after the Syrian army broke a three-year Islamic State siege, Syrian state media reported.