The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations for moving Palestinians uprooted from the Gaza Strip under President Donald Trump’s proposed postwar plan, American and Israeli officials say.

Troops from the three countries were sent to the mineral-rich eastern Congo in 2023 under the banner of a regional development bloc, but public opposition surged after 17 peacekeepers were killed by the M23 rebels in January. The decision came a day after peace talks between the Congolese government and the rebels were announced.

China’s growing network of ports in Africa could serve as a precursor to the creation of more military bases, according to a new report by a Pentagon-affiliated think tank.

A statement from Angolan President João Lourenço’s office said they would begin “direct peace negotiations” in the Angolan capital, Luanda.

The US has delegated its representation at a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg next week to a locally based official after Secretary of State Marco Rubio snubbed the event.

The Pentagon chief, on his first international trip in his new job, met with rank-and-file troops and two combatant commanders for high-level briefings on threats ranging from militants in Africa to Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The dead Islamic State fighter was sprawled out on the ridge, bloodstains darkening in the sun, as a line of heavily armed Somali soldiers snaked down the mountainside to a fortified cave — their camouflage uniforms marking a new front line in the fight against the global terrorist group.

A Utah National Guard officer deployed to Djibouti recently received a six-month jail sentence after pleading guilty to sexual harassment during a court-martial at Caserma Ederle in Vicenza.

In the past two weeks alone, more than 3,000 people were killed as Rwanda-backed rebels wrested control of Goma city from the Congolese army and peacekeepers deployed by the UN and the Southern African Development Community.

The U.S. government said eight months ago that around 150,000 people have died in the Sudan conflict. Washington has accused both sides of committing war crimes, and the RSF rebels of committing ethnic cleansing and genocide.