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.

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.

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.

Two helicopters collided on a moonless night and killed 13 French soldiers fighting Islamic State group-linked militants in Mali, France said Tuesday, mourning its highest military death toll in nearly four decades.

A series of recent airstrikes in Libya against Islamic State targets were delivered to “devastating effect,” eliminating roughly one-third of the group’s already weakened fighting force in the country, a defense official said Thursday.

The U.S. Africa Command said late Friday that the drone was lost a day earlier while assessing the security situation and monitoring extremist activity over the Libyan capital, Tripoli.

Kenya’s interior minister says 29 people have been killed in mudslides, among the 34 people overall who lost their lives Saturday amid flooding in the East Africa nation.

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.

Local media showed images of an overturned and crumpled bus with smashed windows at the foot of a hill.

Nineteen people have died in the latest rebel attack near the city of Beni, where outraged residents this week stormed a United Nations base to demand protection, the U.N. said Wednesday.

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.

An Islamic State group affiliate claimed responsibility Thursday for a helicopter collision that killed 13 French soldiers earlier this week in Mali, while France said it will reassess its military operation in West and Central Africa after its deadliest toll in nearly four decades.

Rebels killed four Ebola response workers in an overnight ambush in eastern Congo, the World Health Organization said Thursday, warning that the attack will give the waning outbreak new momentum in what has been called a war zone.

France’s defense minister Florence Parly arrived in northern Mali on Wednesday after a helicopter collision killed 13 French service members fighting Islamic State group-linked militants.

Ebola responders are on lockdown in the eastern Congo city of Beni after angry residents attacked a United Nations base to protest repeated rebel assaults, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. At least four protesters were killed, a local official said.

The U.S. military said it lost the drone Thursday while it was assessing the security situation and monitoring extremist activity.

A small passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday in Congo’s eastern city of Goma, killing 26 people, including passengers, crew and people on the ground, the government said.

Ahmed al-Mosmari, an LNA spokesman, said late Saturday that all flights over Tripoli and nearby towns are "prohibited without prior coordination."

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.

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A deadly attack on a remote military outpost in Mali has highlighted the resilience of Islamist fighters across huge stretches of Africa

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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.

To understand the runner, you have to understand the journey. The kid went to prison at age 12, after his family's first escape attempt from the east African country of Eritrea went south.

Three men killed in a March airstrike were farmers, not terrorists belonging to the al-Shabab militant group, Amnesty International said in the report released Monday.

The World Health Organization says the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Congo still warrants being classified as a global emergency, even though the number of confirmed cases has slowed in recent weeks.

The United States military launched its third air strike in Libya in a week, killing 17 Islamic State-aligned terrorists in the country’s southwest, U.S. Africa Command said Friday.

One U.S. servicemember was injured when militants attacked a base used by American forces in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command said Tuesday, revising an earlier statement that said there were no U.S. casualties when al-Shabab fighters launched an assault on Baledogle Military Airfield.

Cutting alert times for rescue aircraft and mobile surgical teams could boost survival rates for U.S. military personnel deployed to remote locations in Africa, where low-quality hospitals and long travel times pose a risk for troops, a new study said.

Russia denied it has any troops in Mozambique after reports that a Russian soldier was killed in the gas-rich southeast African country. "There are no Russian soldiers in Mozambique," a Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday in Moscow.

Officials are seeking information leading to the identification or location of Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi, the leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, which claimed responsibility for the October 2017 ambush near the village of Tongo Tongo, Niger.

Citigroup and Zenith Bank got the stiffest penalties of a dozen lenders punished by Nigeria's central bank for failing to meet a target to provide more credit.

U.S. diplomats and military officials met this week with a Libyan militia leader whose offensive on Tripoli earlier this year forced American troops out of the country, but who is now seen as key to ending the country’s eight-year-old civil war.

U.S. Africa Command’s Gen. Stephen Townsend met with American troops in Niger on Thursday during a visit to assess security in the West Africa region, which is grappling to counter several Islamic militant groups.

A deal that still requires Congressional approval calls for the sale of $776 million anti-armor TOW missiles and various supporting elements to bolster Morocco’s ground defenses, as well as $209 million in bombs to arm its F-16s.

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Civil affairs soldiers serve as cultural and governance experts who form a key part of the U.S. mission as it competes with other world powers making inroads in East Africa.

She had wondered for years how her son died. Then the confession came on YouTube. "Chopped into pieces," said a former hit man, who told a makeshift courtroom that he was obeying orders from the ex-president.

Tunisians voted Sunday in their second-ever presidential elections, widely perceived as a vital test for one of the world's youngest democracies, the only one to emerge from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.

His life has been threatened and he's been charged with treason, but a Ugandan pop-star-turned-politician is on a mission to do what no one else has managed for more than 30 years: topple the president.

Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, which has survived invasions, fires and earthquakes since it was founded by Alexander the Great more than 2,000 years ago, now faces a new menace in the form of rising sea levels.