The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have been making efforts to halt fighting between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, with little progress. The conflict has displaced more than a million and triggered ethnically driven massacres in Sudan’s Darfur region.
A Navy proposal to put more than a dozen support ships out of service to ease a crippling shortage of qualified civilian mariners could damage U.S. efforts to counter its competitors in Africa and the Middle East, naval analysts say.
Egypt delivered arms to Somalia and will help train the country’s troops, a Somali official said, potentially intensifying tensions in the Horn of Africa nation that’s scrambling to impose control over a breakaway region.
Elections scheduled for 2015 were postponed due to the 2013 conflict, which destabilized the country, leading to widespread displacement. South Sudan has not held elections since its 2011 secession from Sudan, which is currently undergoing a civil war.
Mediators were left frustrated by the army’s demands to be recognized as Sudan’s official government. The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group, which has been fighting the military since April last year, did send representatives to the talks.
The World Food Programme said the amount of aid being blocked by floods is enough for at least 500,000 people.
A new mpox variant was first reported in DRC less than a year ago. Renewed fighting in the country has increased the number of displaced people living in crowded camps.
Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton took over as the commander of U.S. Space Forces in Europe-Space Forces Africa during a ceremony Tuesday at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
South Sudan, Mauritius, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe have together spent at least $400 million since July to defend their currencies, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Ethiopia, an outlier, on Wednesday sold dollars to close the gap between the official and parallel market rate, days after it allowed its currency to float freely.
Here are some of the key moments in the U.S. involvement in Niger.