While getting the players to the table is an achievement, recent stepped-up outside support may have emboldened both sides not to compromise.

Spc. Henry Mayfield Jr., 23, from the Chicago suburb of Hazel Crest, was killed in the Sunday morning attack, his family told Chicago’s NBC affiliate.

The AFRICOM contingent that Townsend sent to Kenya includes Maj. Gen. Michael Turello, who leads the Djibouti-based Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa, and AFRICOM’s head of logistics Brig. Gen. Leonard Kosinski.

An Arizona man contracted to fly aircraft for the U.S. military one of three Americans killed by Somali militants.

Dustin Harrison had planned to quit military contracting after his time in Africa to spend more time with his wife and 2-year-old daughter.

One U.S. servicemember and two Defense Department contractors were killed Sunday in Kenya after their military base came under attack y al-Qaida-aligned militants, U.S. Africa Command said.

Just as soon as the U.S. military closed out a year in which it struck al-Shabab militants more times than ever, the Somali militant group carried out its most brazen and successful attack on U.S. forces in its history.

A group of bipartisan lawmakers has cautioned the Pentagon against large troop reductions in Africa, arguing that Russia and China would fill the vacuum that would be created by a smaller U.S. presence on the continent.

The Pentagon is considering plans to reduce the number of troops it has in Africa so they can be redeployed to other missions, including a larger role in the Pacific, the military’s top officer said.

Greece will block any European peace deal on Libya unless an agreement between the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli and Turkey on maritime borders is scrapped, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Thursday.

"Vergangenheitsbewältigung" is the term German government officials use to describe German diplomat Ruprecht Polenz's mission. It means "to overcome the past." At issue is what happened between 1904 and 1908, when German colonial troops killed an estimated 80,000 people in southwest Africa, in what is now Namibia.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed assurances Thursday from Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter that he would stick to a cease-fire as world powers prepare to gather in Berlin for a summit on the North African nation's future.

Libya’s rival leaders were in Moscow on Monday for talks as part of a joint Russian and Turkish mediation to bring an end to the country’s long-running civil war.

The delivery comes as the U.S. vies with China for influence in Djibouti, a former French colony on the Horn of Africa that hosts China’s first overseas military base.

France announced Monday that it will send hundreds more soldiers to West Africa, and five presidents of countries in the region said they welcome the support in the fight against a surge of Islamist violence.

Zimbabwe's foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo described the visit by Wang Yi, one of China's most powerful political figures, as evidence of "the strategic comprehensive partnership" between Zimbabwe and the Asian giant.

U.S. Army Africa has for years sent small groups of active duty and reserve military doctors, nurses and medics on short-term medical-readiness exercises. Now it's planning to nearly double the number of those exercises.

Sudan said it reopened its airspace Wednesday after an armed revolt from within its security forces shut down the capital's airport for hours and left at least two people dead.

Russia sought Tuesday to downplay the collapse of talks that sought to secure a ceasefire in Libya after the country's rival leaders left Moscow without reaching an agreement, an outcome that cast a shadow on an upcoming Libya summit hosted by Germany.

The prime minister of Sudan’s transitional government sought to reassure his jittery country on Tuesday after quelling a brief armed mutiny from within the state’s security apparatus.

The fighting has threatened to plunge Libya into violent chaos rivaling the 2011 conflict that ousted and killed longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

A South African air force plane crash-landed and caught fire Thursday at the Goma airport in eastern Congo but there were no casualties, authorities said.

Sudan’s prime minister, accompanied by United Nations officials, embarked on a peace mission Thursday to a rebel stronghold, in a major step toward government efforts to end the country’s long-running civil conflicts.

Members of the Islamic State's West African Province ambushed a convoy of travelers being escorted by soldiers near a military checkpoint at the entrance to Monguno, according to an employee of a non-governmental organization

The majority of U.S. military strikes in Somalia have been directed at the al-Shabab terrorist group, which is aligned with al-Qaida and seeks to overthrow the country’s U.S.-backed central government.

Islamic militants carried out another large assault on Niger's military Thursday, leaving at least 25 soldiers dead along with dozens of jihadists only a month after the worst attack of its kind in years, the military said.

The European Union called Tuesday on Turkey to stop its “interference” in conflict-ravaged Libya and appealed to forces fighting in the northern African country to call a ceasefire around the capital, Tripoli.

Isabel dos Santos, Africa's richest woman and the daughter of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, said her businesses in Angola are set to fail after a court froze her assets and bank accounts in the oil-producing country.

The jihadists who killed Wabwa Ampougovni's son and two grandchildren wanted them to suffer: They cut the backs of their necks before slitting their throats, leaving them to a slow and agonizing death.

Killings, rapes and other violence by an armed ethnic group targeting rivals in Congo's northeast may amount to crimes against humanity, the United Nations said Friday.

A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint in Somalia's capital Wednesday morning, killing three people and wounding six others, a local official said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group quickly claimed responsibility.

Libya's United Nations-supported government has welcomed Russian and Turkish calls for a ceasefire in the country's ongoing civil war, though its rivals appeared cool to the intervention and refrained from endorsing the idea Thursday.

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on South Sudan's First Vice President Taban Deng Gai, citing his involvement in serious human rights abuses.

Turkey and Russia called for a Jan. 12 cease-fire in war-torn Libya on Wednesday while European Union officials intensified diplomatic efforts to cool tensions in the North African nation by holding talks with its prime minister.

For years, South Sudan's warring leaders have delayed putting an end to their country's brutal conflict, scuttling peace talks and blowing past deadlines as the death toll mounted and a refugee crisis caused upheaval across the region.

2nd Lt. Gur apparently saw a spark in the dark eyes of Garang Buk Buk Piol. He foresaw an end to the long war for independence, and told the boy soldier frequently that the new country would need men who learned and understood subjects other than violence.

The U.S. wants back a drone that was shot down over Libya last month by a Russian air defense system believed to have been operated by mercenaries or militiamen, U.S. Africa Command said Monday.

A court in Sudan convicted the country's former authoritarian ruler Omar al-Bashir of money laundering and corruption on Saturday, delivering a verdict that few Sudanese expected a year ago when a massive populist revolt erupted.

The International Criminal Court announced Wednesday that two alleged leaders of a predominantly Christian militia involved in a bitter conflict with Muslim forces in the Central African Republic must stand trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For the past year, Gen. Stephen J. Townsend has been the commander in charge of Army training. If confirmed, he will replace Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, who has commanded AFRICOM since 2016.

The exercises come one week after President Vladimir Putin held a summit for African leaders in Sochi focused on enhancing Russia’s role across the continent, ranging from trade and weapons sales to military partnerships.

A suicide car bomber and other armed militants attacked a base used by U.S. troops in Somalia Monday, Somali and U.S. officials said, amid conflicting reports that the militants were pushed back before breaching the compound.

Today, the militias that targeted ISIS are themselves targets of airstrikes by the forces of eastern warlord Khalifa Hifter, who is seeking to oust the United Nations-installed government.

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In the Sahel region, the arid band on the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert that stretches through some of Africa's poorest and least-governed countries, Islamic State followers are launching attacks against government forces. U.S. officials point to the Sahel as one of the biggest concerns in their counterterrorism campaign.

Located in the remote Saharan desert town of Agadez, Nigerien Air Base 201 is intended to give AFRICOM a deeper reach into spots where militants operate, including Libya.

Kenya's ethnic Somali residents say they feel punished for militants’ attacks in the country.

High-ranking enlisted troops in Africa aren’t always proud of their rank, one senior noncommissioned officer confessed to a roomful of his peers from nearly 30 African countries and the U.S.

He was once known as the "Terminator." Now he's the first man the International Criminal Court has convicted and sent to jail for the crime of sexual slavery.

The Navy’s 5th and 6th fleets are conducting exercises in tandem to help East African and Indian Ocean nations combat seagoing crimes and other threats in the region.

The Air Force has begun limited flying operations at a remote outpost in the southern Sahara Desert in Niger, where U.S. airmen recently built a 6,200-foot runway to support intelligence gathering in West Africa.

Federal investigators are re-upping a $5 million reward related to the capture of a 37-year-old man on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists List whom it called “the highest-ranking U.S. citizen fighting overseas with a terrorist organization.”

Dozens of African men sat on the cement floor of the packed migrant detention center, the air thick with body odor. Three days earlier, they were among a group that had climbed into a smuggler's boat destined for Italy. But they were picked up by a European Union-funded Libyan coast guard boat and taken back.

Research has revealed extensive post-traumatic stress among Ebola survivors, their caregivers and witnesses to the widespread death in West Africa. During his brief stay in Sierra Leone, Preston Gorman was all three.

French forces have killed 33 Islamic extremists in central Mali, French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday. He made the announcement on the second day of his three-day trip to West Africa that has been dominated by the growing threat posed by jihadist groups.

Amnesty International on Thursday urged Sudan's new transitional government to deliver on popular demands for sweeping change as the country marked the first anniversary of mass protests that led to the ouster of former president and longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.