This was the largest U.S. airstrike since one on Nov. 21, 2017, killed about 100 al-Shabab fighters. The U.S. military has carried out more than two dozen airstrikes, including drone strikes, this year against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab, the deadliest Islamic extremist group in sub-Saharan Africa.

Islamic State-linked extremists in Nigeria have killed another abducted health worker despite an urgent plea from the International Committee of the Red Cross to spare her life, the global aid organization confirmed on Tuesday.

Liberia's government on Tuesday announced is investigating a charity founded by a young American woman after allegations that a local staffer raped several girls in its care.

Banned charcoal exports from Somalia are thriving, generating millions of dollars a year for al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremists — and often passing through Iran to have their origins obscured, according to U.N. sanctions monitors.

Italy's premier says two Italian fishing vessels seized by Libyan forces earlier this week are returning home.

Roving militias killing civilians. Prisoners stripped naked and rolled in hot ashes. "Mafia"-style murders and violence that forced more than a million people from their homes. That's the legacy the new president of Ethiopia's gas-rich Somali region in the east, will have to overcome after 11 years of the previous administration.

The attack early Wednesday by suspected al-Shabab extremists exacerbates a teacher shortage in counties along the Somali border. Al-Shabab fighters have singled out and attacked non-Muslim teachers in the past.

Melania Trump says she has, at times, told the president to put his phone down. And she says she doesn't always agree with what he tweets. The U.S. first lady spoke briefly with reporters Saturday as she was wrapping up a four-country tour of Africa with a visit to the pyramids and the Great Sphinx in Egypt.

The Oct. 14, 2017 attack was so devastating that al-Shabab never claimed responsibility amid local outrage.

The statement Sunday also urges Nigerian authorities and others who might have influence to help as well, saying the women face the fate of a colleague who was killed by the extremists last month.

A runaway hearse carrying an Ebola victim has become the latest example of sometimes violent community resistance complicating efforts to contain a Congo outbreak — and causing a worrying new rise in cases.

Congo is reporting five new confirmed Ebola deaths in its latest outbreak, while a worker with the United Nations peacekeeping mission is among several new cases under treatment.

Libyan authorities have found a mass grave believed to contain the bodies of 75 Islamic State fighters near the coastal city of Sirte, formerly the main North African stronghold of the extremist group, an official said Thursday.

Ethiopian soldiers protesting over pay met with the prime minister on Wednesday after their appearance in the capital caused security concerns, with internet services cut off for hours.

Activists and refugees are pressuring Kenya's government to act against South Sudanese officials who have been sanctioned by the United Nations and are thought to be living freely in Kenya.

Egypt's president says he wants a prominent militant captured in Libya this week extradited so that he can be "held accountable."

Melania Trump briefly lost her footing when a baby elephant startled her with a sudden move, but the first lady was anything but out of step when children at an orphanage welcomed her to their home with African song and dance.

A 16-year-old boy was shot in the shoulder by a Moroccan Royal Navy unit that opened fire on a boat carrying at least 50 would-be migrants toward Europe, a military official said Wednesday.

In a statement posted on its Facebook page on Monday, the Libyan National Army said Mahmoud Eshmawi was captured in an "operation" in the eastern town of Derna.

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Cameroon President Paul Biya's bid to extend his 36-year rule in Sunday's election is being overshadowed by growing frustration over his handling of a bloody separatist insurgency in the country's two Anglophone regions.

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Congolese surgeon brings rare global attention to a region surging for decades with rebel conflict that now threatens efforts to contain a deadly Ebola outbreak.

An Iraqi woman who became a global advocate for victims after being raped and tortured by Islamic State militants and a Congolese surgeon who has treated countless rape victims in his war-torn nation won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

The United Nations is asking Mauritania to investigate allegations that Mauritanians serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Central African Republic sexually abused at least three children under 18.

Zimbabwe's leader says he is willing to offer land to President Donald Trump to build a golf course in a national park teeming with wildlife.

An Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo has moved into its most worrying stage yet, with the World Health Organization's head of emergency response warning of a "perfect storm" of factors preventing its containment.

Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said his country's six-year fight against Islamist militants should be a global concern as the West African nation faces the fallout from the offensives against insurgents in Iraq and Libya.

After more than two decades of improving mine safety since the end of apartheid, South Africa's progress has stalled with an increase in gold-mining deaths. More than 50 people have died in the country's mines in 2018.

While President Paul Biya appears to be a shoo-in to extend his 36-year rule in elections next month, he's had no success in stifling a rebellion in Anglophone regions that's threatening to split the mainly French-speaking central African nation.

Kofi Annan, the soft-spoken diplomat who served as the first United Nations secretary-general from sub-Saharan Africa, was laid to rest Thursday in Ghana.

U.S. forces in Somalia came under attack earlier this week, prompting a defensive air strike against a militant group aligned with al-Qaida, U.S. Africa Command said Thursday.

This is the second such attack on a district headquarters in the capital this month.

The U.N. human rights commissioner says it will be an "irreversible miscarriage of justice" if the death sentences issued by an Egyptian court against 75 people, including top Muslim Brotherhood leaders, are carried out.

Four years ago, thousands of Tunisian jihadists began flowing to the battlefields of Iraq, Libya and Syria to join the Islamic State and al-Qaida – more than from any other nationality. Ever since, Tunisian and Western authorities have feared their return and the possible chaos that could follow.

The Red Sea states of Eritrea and Djibouti agreed to normalize relations, a further sign of what Eritrea's president called a "season of peace" in the strategically important Horn of Africa region that has been riven by rivalries.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said the military will modify how special operations forces are prepared for missions in Africa because of a deadly ambush by extremists last year in Niger that revealed a lack of training for troops heading into hot spots.

French warplanes and commandos struck a terrorist camp in Mali, killing the leader of a group that claimed responsibility for the deadly 2017 ambush on U.S. troops in Niger.

The Democratic Republic of Congo disqualified one of the country's most popular opposition politicians from running for president, casting doubt on the credibility of the upcoming election. The country hasn't had a peaceful transfer of power since it gained its independence in 1960.