On Wednesday, the U.N. Security Council endorsed a 55-point road map for ending the war in Libya and condemned the recent increase in violence in the oil-rich North African country.

The U.N.-supported government in Libya said Tuesday it has suspended its participation in talks in Geneva aimed at salvaging a fragile cease-fire in the North African country following an attack on Tripoli’s strategic port.

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.

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.

Both Christians and Muslims were killed before the church was set on fire, said a government security official in Dori.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrives in Africa this weekend as the first U.S. cabinet official to visit in more than 18 months, and he is certain to face questions about the U.S. military's future on the continent and new U.S. visa restrictions against millions of Africans.

Gen. Stephen Townsend said Thursday that he has launched a security review of all bases housing U.S. troops in Africa in the wake of an attack on a Kenyan military post that left three Americans dead.

Speaking at the end of his visit to Senegal, Mike Pompeo said he discussed the issue of the U.S. military presence in West Africa with President Macky Sall amid reports that the Trump administration intends to reduce troops in Africa.

U.S. and Kenyan military officials touted the delivery of the MD-530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters as a step that will enhance a force faced with a persistent terrorist threat coming out of neighboring Somalia.

Of the 456 civilian deaths documented by Human Rights Watch, 116 were directly blamed on the Islamic extremists

One policeman was killed and another wounded in the attack in the village of Mekrou-Djimdjim at dawn on Sunday and the gunmen then set fire to the building.

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

The unit will be deployed to conduct missions to train, advise and assist “in spotlight African countries,” said Alyssa Farah, the chief Pentagon spokeswoman, in a prepared statement. No countries were listed in the statement nor how many people from the brigade will deploy.

A container ship that is owned and operated by a German shipping group has been attacked by pirates off the coast of Guinea.

European Union officials are seeking support from member states to have naval ships enforce the U.N. arms embargo against Libya, according to a confidential memo obtained Friday.

Gunmen killed at least 21 people early Friday in central Mali in a village that suffered a massive attack last year, the government said.

The U.S. military has switched from trying to degrade Islamic extremist groups in West Africa's sprawling Sahel region to merely trying to contain them as their deadly threat increases, a new U.S. government report says.

Thirty years ago, Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years of imprisonment by South Africa’s apartheid regime and instantly galvanized the country, and the world, to dismantle the brutal system of racial oppression.

Sudan’s transitional authorities have agreed to hand over ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial on charges of war crimes and genocide, a top Sudanese official said Tuesday, in a deal with rebels to surrender all those wanted in connection with the Darfur conflict.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lobbed a rare direct rebuke at the rulers of Abu Dhabi over their backing of Khalifa Hifter and the Russian mercenaries fighting on his behalf in Libya.

After Trump's announcement, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari launched a committee to "study & address" the changes, his office tweeted Saturday.

Analysis

Turkey is in the ascendancy and Libya a divided, war-ravaged shell. Yet ties are being rekindled, inflaming a region that's still nursing the wound from the defining events of almost a half century ago.

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.

Experts warn that if left unchecked, the number of locusts could grow by 500 times by June, when drier weather will help bring the outbreak under control.

“We had a very small U.S. force following the initial attack absolutely repel the al-Shabab attackers away from the airfield. And they did that under fire,” said Gen. William Gayler, AFRICOM’s director of operations.

The only functioning airport in Libya's capital reopened Wednesday after coming under attack, despite a tenuous truce that world powers have pushed warring parties to respect.

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.

Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Richard D. Thresher has been tapped to serve as the next senior enlisted leader of U.S. Africa Command, the military announced Thursday.

At an impoverished, forlorn zoo in Sudan's capital, the park's few remaining lions are starving in rusted cages — their ribs protruding, eyes glassy and skin flaccid, desperate for food and water.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper has undertaken a review of each geographic combatant command, its missions and assignments and will assess whether allies and partner nations can take on more responsibilities, said Jonathan Hoffman, the chief Pentagon spokesman.

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.

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.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “expressed outrage” to Egypt’s president on Sunday at the death of an American citizen who insisted he had been held wrongfully in an Egyptian prison, according to a State Department spokeswoman.

West African leaders are urging the United States to stay in the fight against extremist groups that are rooting deeper into the region as the Pentagon weighs a significant troop pullout from the continent.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.