Military officials have flown out scores of personnel from Djibouti’s Camp Lemonnier as a precaution and are urging contractors to immediately move into temporary berthing on base, due to mounting numbers of coronavirus cases in the country.

Rwanda on Tuesday said it has asked two Belgian diplomats to leave the country, accusing them of organizing a commemoration of the East African nation's 1994 genocide a day before official mourning started and without informing local authorities.

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The U.S. and other Western powers that have largely ignored the conflict now fear a new phase opening in the Middle East’s biggest proxy war, with Russia encroaching on Europe’s southern flank.

Russia has flown warplanes to Libya in a move aimed at propping up a warlord and possibly gaining a permanent foothold in the war-torn country, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

Somalia's government says eight "very young" aid workers have been abducted and killed by an armed group outside the capital, Mogadishu.

U.S. military officials in Djibouti were preparing Tuesday to lock down Camp Lemonnier indefinitely after a second contractor tested positive for the coronavirus and was evacuated from the East African country.

U.S. Africa Command hasn’t launched an airstrike in Somalia in five weeks, the longest halt in more than a year, as torrential rains complicate the battlefield environment.

The only place in the world where fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are cooperating is in West Africa's sprawling Sahel region, giving the extremists greater depth as they push into new areas, according to the commander of the U.S. military's special forces in Africa.

The victims of Friday's attack in Loroum province were being escorted by a local defense group that was likely the target, according to a security report prepared for humanitarian organizations working in Burkina Faso.

Pfc. Walter Lewark, 26, of Mountainair, N.M., died Thursday at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, the Defense Department announced in a statement Friday. He was assigned to Company A, 1st Battalion, 200th Infantry Regiment, 93rd Troop Command out of Rio Rancho, N.M.

Sudan on Tuesday swore in a new defense minister more that two months after the death of the former defense chief and amid tensions with neighboring Ethiopia.

The United Nations said its top envoy in Libya held talks Wednesday with a delegation from Khalifa Hifter’s eastern-based forces to follow up on the agreement by the country’s warring parties to resume cease-fire negotiations, calling it “a positive step.”

Zimbabwe has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Harare to a meeting over comments by a White House official suggesting Zimbabwe is among “foreign adversaries” that could face retaliation for trying to foment unrest in the U.S. over the death of George Floyd, a black man who pleaded for air as a police officer pressed a knee into his neck.

A new report by the rights group Amnesty International accuses Ethiopia's security forces of extrajudicial killings and mass detentions even as the country's reformist prime minister was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Rebels have killed at least 40 people in several attacks in Congo's eastern Irumu territory, a local civil rights group says.

The U.S. military has bolstered a critical hospital in Djibouti as it guards against a potential coronavirus outbreak among troops in East Africa.

Rebels have killed at least 40 people in several attacks in Congo's eastern Irumu territory, a local civil rights group says.

Sudan’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday said it summoned Ethiopia’s diplomat to the country over a cross-border attack allegedly conducted by a militia backed by Ethiopia's military.

U.S. field hospitals recently sent to parts of Africa are being used by some countries to treat their growing numbers of coronavirus patients, U.S. Africa Command said Tuesday.

A Congolese militia leader accused of involvement in the murder of an American citizen and a Swedish national working with the United Nations has been arrested more than three years after their brutal slayings, a prosecutor said Saturday.

The death toll may rise because many of the surviving passengers were seriously wounded.

The family of a slain Libyan human trafficker attacked a group of migrants in a town that recently changed hands amid the fighting over the country's capital, killing 26 Bangladeshi and four African migrants.

A series of swift military reversals in Libya has diminished a warlord's hopes of ruling the North African oil producer and allowed Turkey and Russia to deepen their imprint on one of the world's most strategic regions.

A Rwandan court on Thursday sentenced to life in prison one of the most wanted men in the country's 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed.

Groundbreaking work to keep alive the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies — population, two — by in-vitro fertilization has been stalled by travel restrictions. And time is running out.

A senior Russian lawmaker on Wednesday strongly rejected the U.S. military's claim that Russia has deployed fighter jets to Libya to support east-based forces in their offensive on the capital, Tripoli.

The North African nation has thwarted 10 smuggling attempts to send migrants across the Mediterranean in the last two days.

The military commander of eastern Libya-based forces Saturday said they will continue fighting forces loosely allied with the U.N.-supported government in Tripoli, even though his campaign has suffered setbacks in recent weeks.

The United Arab Emirates has been involved in operating a covert air-bridge to supply weapons to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar in contravention of a United Nations arms embargo on the North African country, according to a confidential U.N. report.

Rev. Paul Machira has taken his "Balcony to Balcony" service on the road since Kenya's first case was found in mid-March.

Libya's U.N.-supported government said its forces took back several districts on Friday in Tripoli's southern reaches that had been captured by their rivals in a year-long offensive on the country's capital.

U.S. military forces killed 132 civilians and injured 91 others during operations last year in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia, the Pentagon said.

As the coronavirus spreads around the world, countries that have received medical equipment donated by the U.S. for peacekeeping and counterterrorism missions are converting it to civilian use during the pandemic.

A senior Al-Shabab leader who played a key role in plotting deadly attacks throughout East Africa has been killed in an airstrike in Somalia, U.S. Africa Command said Tuesday.

African Lion, which was set to start March 23 in Morocco, will now only include activities that do not require lodging troops in close quarters, AFRICOM said.

A public health emergency has been declared by the commander of U.S. forces in Djibouti, amid a sharp increase of coronavirus cases in the small east African country.

The U.S. launched five airstrikes over two days against Al-Shabab militants in Somalia who were preparing to battle American-backed troops in a city south of Mogadishu, U.S. Africa Command said.

A full-throttled military intervention by Turkey could have turned the tide in Libya's civil war, in a striking development that's gone largely unnoticed by a world marshaling resources to fight the coronavirus.

AFRICOM said it’s likely that two civilians were unintentionally killed and three were injured as a result of an airstrike on Feb. 23, 2019.

Documents shed light on Russia's apparent efforts to build influence in the oil-rich North African state at a time of U.S. disengagement.

Eastern Libyan forces laying siege to the country's capital of Tripoli said Wednesday they have agreed on a humanitarian pause in fighting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Troops who were part of the hunt in central Africa for rebel warlord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army are eligible for medals awarded to those who served in the global war on terrorism, the Defense Department said.

Nigerian authorities on Friday confirmed the first case of the new coronavirus in sub-Saharan Africa as the outbreak spread to a region with some of the world's weakest health systems.

As long ago as late January, a Taiwanese American passenger on the MS Asara, a Nile River cruise ship, was carrying the coronavirus, health officials said. But the vessel would make at least four more cruises, and at least 12 crew members would turn out to be infected.

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.