It is not immediately clear what countries the migrants who drowned were from, but many people seek to make that voyage from Ethiopia and Somalia.

A Marine Corps Osprey tiltrotor squadron has arrived at Moron Air Base in Spain for a rotation in support of U.S. Africa Command’s North and West Africa Response Force, which conducts contingency and crisis operations throughout the two regions.

Zahi Hawass said that archaeologists found brick houses, artifacts and tools from pharaonic times at the site of the 3,000-year-old lost city.

Five southern African leaders expressed their concern at the militant violence in northern Mozambique and said they will consider “a proportionate regional response” at another summit in three weeks.

The consolidation of U.S. Army Europe and Africa headquarters is a “very big advance” that will enable troops to move more rapidly between continents in times of crisis, the general in charge of Army missions on the two continents said Tuesday.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Wednesday welcomed a new French report documenting France's role in the 1994 genocide.

The lost city, known as Aten, is believed to have been founded by King Amenhotep III, the ninth king of ancient Egypt's 18th dynasty who ruled the country from 1391 to 1352 B.C.

Only 10 Tigrayans remained of the roughly 400 who worked at the hospital where Seid Mussa Omar had been employed. The rest were killed or were fleeing. “This is genocide … Their aim is to erase Tigray.”

Moroccan authorities decided Wednesday to enforce a night-time curfew during the holy month of Ramadan because of a recent rise in COVID-19 cases, as a new, local variant of the virus scientists was discovered.

The European Union on Sunday called for the departure of all foreign forces and mercenaries from Libya, describing it as a "precondition" for a return to stability in the war-torn country.

Egypt's president warned Ethiopia on Wednesday that his government will not tolerate any moves by Addis Ababa that would reduce Egypt's share of water from the Nile River.

The death toll from tribal violence that erupted over the weekend in Sudan's Darfur region climbed to 87 on Wednesday as a local medical group also reported attacks on healthcare workers in the area.

key factors include the slump in Congo's economy and the socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The restrictions were applied while the White House examines former President Donald Trump’s policy, which delegated decision-making on strikes to combatant commanders, unnamed U.S. officials said.

For Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi and his government, the freeing of the Ever Given from the Suez Canal was a chance to claim a rare victory and to burnish the credentials of a leader often accused of cronyism and misrule.

Tribal clashes that erupted over the weekend between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s western Darfur region have killed at least 40 people and wounded around 60 others, the U.N. said Monday.

The violence between the Arab Rizeigat tribe and the Masalit in Genena, the provincial capital of West Darfur province, reportedly followed the death of two people from the Masalit.

The ships drilled with a Moroccan frigate, maneuvering close to one another while firing live rounds, as they practiced operations against submarines and other surface ships.

During a 1996 clinical trial of a new drug that enrolled 200 stricken young neningitis patients, 11 died of the brain infection. Now the memory looms over the coronavirus vaccine rollout in Nigeria's second-largest city, sowing doubts around foreign-made shots that officials are rushing to distribute.

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The move marked the single largest deployment since 2009 for the Connecticut troops, which often conduct missions with up to 150 troops.

Members of the Navy, Army and Coast Guard aboard the destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill seized weapons in international waters.

AFRICOM said it bombed and destroyed an al-Shabab compound in southern Somalia on Monday, which came after attempts by the militants to target Somalia’s military leaders.

While the world is understandably focused on countering the coronavirus pandemic, a secondary global public health crisis has been brewing: a drop-off in vaccination rates against a range of other dangerous infectious diseases.

“Stronger Together” is the new command slogan, replacing the nearly 7-year-old guiding mantra of “Strong Europe,” the Army said.

The violence is the worst unrest to hit Senegal in nearly a decade, as demonstrators have sought to undermine president's business ties with former colonizer France.

Hundreds of thousands of people are left without basic food or health care and the main roads between Central African Republic and Cameroon closed for almost two months.

The most deadly incident for American forces overseas last year was a helicopter crash in the Sinai Peninsula in November, in which five American troops died and one was injured.

First came the fake medical-grade masks and coronavirus tests. Now, a new threat has emerged, global police organization Interpol warns: fake doses of the coronavirus vaccine.

Libyans ousted a dictator, but an ensuing civil war has drawn in Russia, Turkey and others with a thirst for control.