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.

The last U.S. troops have left a drone base in Niger, all but capping the American military presence in the west African country once considered the centerpiece of Washington’s security strategy in the Sahel region.

The effects of the war in Sudan can be measured in superlatives: the world’s biggest internal displacement crisis, largest education crisis and biggest hunger crisis.

For two years, the residents of Ganthier, a rural community in Haiti, supported local police against bandits who raided and pillaged businesses, kidnapped U.S. missionaries and launched repeated attacks in the area. On Thursday, Ganthier found itself on the verge of a full-blown gang take-over.

Ghana’s Supreme Court upheld a 64-year-old law that criminalizes sodomy, saying the statute is constitutional, while it continues to ponder the fate of even-harsher anti-LGBTQ legislation.

Federal authorities on Thursday announced sanctions and criminal charges against an alleged Tijuana-based international criminal group suspected of smuggling thousands of undocumented migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East into the United States.

Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille has asked the Haitian police, with the support of the country’s small armed forces and the Kenya-led multinational security force, to begin launching operations gradually in areas controlled by armed gangs.

The U.S. Army’s Southern European Task Force, Africa has a new leader after a change of command ceremony Thursday at Caserma Ederle.