Government security forces killed at least 60 civilians in an attack in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region last month, a state-run human rights body said.

Worldwide military spending surged by 9% year over year in 2023 to hit a record $2.2 trillion as multiple conflicts ratcheted up global insecurity.

The number of killings by Islamic militants in Africa hit a record in 2023, surging 20% from the previous year as violence soared in Somalia and elsewhere, a DOD-sponsored study said.

South Africa will deploy 2,900 troops to help fight armed groups in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a Southern African Development Community initiative.

The World Bank estimates that Africa was home to 40 percent of natural gas discoveries between 2010 and 2020.

Piracy off Somalia’s coast has increased since maritime security was disrupted by Houthi militants’ attacks on ships in the Red Sea in response to the Israel-Hamas war.

U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa and 6th Fleet are separating after 19 years as a single command, a move that comes as the service adapts to growing demands that include missile defense in the Baltics and carrier operations in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

U.S. airstrikes killed three Islamic militants in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command said Tuesday, marking the first such attacks in 2024.

South Africa will probably fail to achieve its net-zero emissions goal by 2050 as outlined in the latest Integrated Resource Plan, Business Day newspaper reports citing an energy specialist in the department of mineral resources and energy.

The dangerous ship-boarding mission was ordered after U.S. officials suspected a vessel transiting the Gulf of Aden was transporting Iranian arms.

Two Navy SEALs still are missing in the Gulf of Aden more than two days after conducting nighttime operations off the coast of Somalia.

Search and rescue operations are underway for two US sailors discovered missing during operations off the coast of Somalia. According to media reports the two missing sailors are Navy SEALs.

The crew of a crashed United Nations helicopter in Somalia waited to be rescued for an hour before being kidnapped, two security officials in Mogadishu said Thursday, raising the question whether a faster response could have prevented their seizure.

The US has reached preliminary agreement with African nations to extend their preferential trade access by another decade, pending approval by Congress, South Africa’s trade minister said.

The al-Qaida-linked Islamist insurgent group al-Shabab seized the crew of a U.N. helicopter that made an emergency landing Wednesday in Somalia.

You don’t interrupt your quiet life in a Seattle suburb and book a plane ticket to war-torn Sudan unless you have a really good reason. Not right now, in the middle of a brutal conflict between rival forces that’s killed more than 12,000 people and displaced 7 million.

The African Union and the U.S. called on Ethiopia and Somalia to de-escalate tensions in a region that’s situated on the approach to a global shipping choke-point.

These are some of the 344 instances of water-related conflicts worldwide during 2022 and the first half of 2023, according to data compiled by researchers at the Pacific Institute, a global water think tank.

Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas Dural, 20, of Lafayette, La., died Dec. 19 while assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Brazzaville, his mother confirmed to Stars and Stripes.