Portal:Military history of Africa/news
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- 20 August - Angola: Portuguese Military Ship Moors in Lobito Port
- Portuguese Navy ship arrives to Lobito Port, Angola for joint military training with Angolan Navy. (AllAfrica.com)
- 20 August - Somalia: Rwanda Trains Forces
- Rwanda offers military training help to the Somalian Army. (AllAfrica.com)
- 20 August - Taylor trial delayed until 2008
- The trial of former Liberian Charles Taylor, accused of war crimes during the First Liberian Civil War, is postponed until January 7, 2008. Taylor faces trial from Sierra Leone's Special Court. (BBC News)
- 20 August - Uganda considers war crimes court
- Uganda seeks views of legal experts on setting up war crime courts perpetrated by the rebel guerrilla Lord's Resistance Army between 1994 and 2002. (BBC News)
- 20 August - Southern Africa: SADC Peacekeeping Brigade Launched
- Southern African Development Community (SADC) launches a peacekeeping brigade in a ceremony in Lusaka with the presence of all 14 member States. (AllAfrica.com)
- 17 August - Sudan: High Hopes for New Darfur Mission
- Plans announced for the deployment of up to 26,000 troops and police in Darfur in a new operation called the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID). (AllAfrica.com)
- 10 August - Morocco and Polisario negotiating Western Sahara conflict
- The Manhasset negotiations (round II) take place at Manhasset, New York between the Moroccan government and the Polisario front rebel movement to resolve the Western Sahara conflict. (International Herald Tribune)
