Somalia saw a third day of protests on Saturday over the arrest of the former No. 2 leader of the al-Shabab extremist group, who has been a leading candidate for a regional presidency. Officials said at least eight people have been killed so far as angry supporters take to the streets and clash with police.

The U.S. military says it has killed eight members of the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike south of Somalia's capital.

Ethiopian military officials on Friday announced they are moving troops away from the border with Eritrea, months after the former rivals made a surprising peace.

A Treasury statement released Friday says the U.S. is targeting people who have "provided soldiers, armored vehicles, and weapons used to fuel the conflict."

They call her the "young miracle." A baby who was admitted to an Ebola treatment center just six days after birth has now recovered from the virus.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says at least two soldiers were killed when rebels crossed into the country from Congo earlier this week.

Africa is a strategic battleground where countering China and Russia’s growing influence will be the top U.S. priority, National Security Adviser John Bolton said Thursday as he unveiled the Trump administration’s new approach on the continent.

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U.S. servicemembers stationed at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, received a visit from members of the Professional Golf Association as part of a joint USO-PGA Birdies for the Brave Tour.

The U.S. military is investigating a deadly accident involving U.S. and French troops in Niger that left one French servicemember dead and an American injured, U.S. Africa Command said Tuesday.

The United States demanded an immediate end to violence in Cameroon on Thursday and a speedy start to talks between the government and Anglophone separatists without preconditions. Hundreds have been killed in Cameroon's English-speaking regions in months of fighting between the military and separatists.

The Army has rescinded the reprimand of Capt. Michael Perozeni, a Green Beret who led troops during the deadly October 2017 ambush in Niger that left four U.S. soldiers dead, the New York Times reported.

Suspected jihadists on motorcycles have killed at least 42 people during a series of attacks on Tuareg nomadic camps in Mali, local leaders said Thursday.

The court said in a statement that Patrice-Edouard Ngaissona was the most senior leader and “National General Coordinator” of the anti-Balaka militia when crimes such as murder and torture took place in the Central African Republic’s west for about a year starting about December 2013.

America’s top commander for Africa made a rare visit to war-torn Somalia, meeting with local leaders to discuss security in a country where U.S. forces quietly serve in a fight against militants.

The former No. 2 leader of Somalia's al-Shabab extremist group, who is now a top candidate in a regional election next week, was arrested on Thursday, prompting violent protests in which four people were killed, officials said.

A U.S. Africa Command statement says an airstrike occurred Saturday near Basra, a community outside the capital, Mogadishu. The statement says no civilians were involved.

Shock and outrage followed when the medical charity Doctors Without Borders announced that 125 women and girls had been raped, whipped and clubbed over 10 days last month.

Islamic State militants have killed six people captured during an attack on a small town in central Libya in October, The U.N. mission to Libya said.

Somali commandos backed by U.S. forces raided two al-Shabab checkpoints, killing several fighters, and two U.S. airstrikes destroyed an explosives-laden minibus that was prepared for an attack, Somali intelligence officials said.

Now in its seventh year, the African Land Forces Summit 2019 will be held in June in Botswana’s capital of Gaborone. The conference is attended by land force chiefs from across Africa.

A British-Libyan tourist says Egyptian authorities released him two weeks after he was arrested over a video he filmed on his cellphone that showed a military helicopter in the background.

The 76 migrants from Libya who drowned in June when their boat capsized in the Mediterranean represent the human trafficking, corruption and political instability in parts of Africa that require international cooperation to overcome, the Navy’s top commander in Europe and Africa said Monday.

The fight against militants in Sinai has gone on for years, but the insurgency gathered steam after the 2013 ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi, an Islamist with the Muslim Brotherhood. Authorities have since shut down almost all underground tunnels that they suspected militants used to smuggle fighters and weapons into Sinai from neighboring Gaza, ruled by the Islamist Hamas group since 2007.

Japan plans to step up training efforts with east African nations, as Tokyo aims to work more closely with the U.S. in a region where China’s influence is on the rise.

The U.S. has about 7,200 troops operating in Africa. The coming reductions, about 700 in all, will happen over the course of the “next several years” the Pentagon said.

The New York Times, citing unnamed military sources, reported that four officers and two enlisted soldiers have so far been reprimanded. Two other senior officers involved in approving the mission have not been punished.

Attacks by Islamic militants in Africa increased slightly in 2017, with violent incidents from groups in western Africa spiking and Islamic State actions waning, according to a new report.

U.S. Africa Command is pursuing a new strategy to empower the enlisted ranks across the continent as it concentrates efforts on developing regional training hubs where local forces, not American mentors, will be in the lead.

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On Friday, the Nigerian army took to Twitter to defend its decision to open fire at Shiite protesters in the capital, Abuja - by citing Trump. "Please Watch and Make your Deductions," read the tweet, which included a video clip in which Trump says: "Anybody throwing stones, rocks ... we will consider that a firearm because there is not much difference."

By early next year, the largest offshore production vessel ever delivered to Nigeria will start pumping crude from a deposit deep beneath the seabed, boosting the West African country's oil output by about 10 percent.

Security concerns ranging from terrorism and refugees to maritime piracy and poaching prevention are part of the talks at a conference of senior air force commanders from across Africa and the United States that opened Monday.

An Egyptian court has convicted 65 suspected militants of setting up a terrorist group and declaring allegiance to the extremist Islamic State group, sentencing 18 of them to life in prison.

The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday lifted sanctions imposed on Eritrea nine years ago, rewarding its improved relations with Ethiopia and other neighboring countries, though concerns about its human rights record remain.

There are plans to organize a conference of donors in January to develop Ethiopian archaeology, preserve existing sites and maybe explore new ones. More investment in the field could shed light on little-known parts of the country's history. Perhaps more important, it may bring clarity to some of the modern debates roiling Ethiopia.

A brutal war has raged for over two years in southern Congo's Kasai province. It is a region that is difficult to access for aid organizations due to its remoteness, hostility from the government, and, of course, the violence itself. Two United Nations investigators, an American and a Swede, were killed there around the beginning of the conflict in 2016.

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.