While no group has taken responsibility for the attack, Benin has for years faced spillover violence in its north from Burkina Faso and Niger in their battle against Islamic extremist groups. The attack also raised further concerns about joint security efforts in West Africa.

Congo on Thursday banned Al Jazeera satellite news network over its interview with the leader of a violent rebel group that has seized territory in the country’s east in recent days.

The Biden administration said Tuesday it has determined that Sudan’s Rapid Support Force rebel group and proxies are committing genocide in the country’s civil war and has imposed sanctions on the group’s leaders.

U.S. forces helped evacuate Somali troops from harm’s way during a recent operation against insurgents that resulted in the deaths of 10 militants from al-Shabab, U.S. Africa Command said Tuesday.

New York Army National Guard soldiers are preparing for a 10-month deployment to Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti. They will train at Fort Bliss, Texas for four weeks before deploying to Africa.

One of President-elect Donald Trump’s last actions during his first term was pulling all US forces out of Somalia, a move that could be back on the table in a second term.

A leaked internal performance report from Sudan’s Islamic Movement reveals its deep infiltration of the Popular Resistance Forces (PRF), civilian militias fighting alongside the Sudanese army against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a copy obtained by Sudan Tribune.

Navy officials in charge of the military’s main operating base in Africa put troops at higher risk of exposure to toxic air by not heeding environmental safety requirements, a Defense Department probe found.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for the first time recognized the killing of West African soldiers by the French Army in 1944 as a massacre in a letter addressed to the Senegalese authorities.

Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but its status remains unrecognized by every country except Ethiopia. U.S. recognition would increase pressure on the U.K. and other nations to follow suit.