The head of the U.S.-Africa military command (AFRICOM), Marine Corps General Michael Langley, has said his government's approach to the region - at a time of growing interest from ... Read more »
The UN Security Council has unanimously extended the arms embargo on parties in the Darfur region of Sudan for another year. This decision comes as the conflict between rival Read more »
The Namibian government has taken a stand against the ongoing war in the Middle East by blocking a vessel carrying weapons destined for Israel. Justice Minister Yvonne Dausab Read more »
The militant group Al-Shabaab rose out of the disintegrating Somali state, emerging in 2006 from an existing radical network that held it over th Read more »
A Ugandan court has convicted former Lord's Resistance Army commander Thomas Kwoyelo on 44 out Read more »
France has taken an important step in honoring the memory of the African soldiers who were tragically killed on the orders of the French army at the Thiaroye camp in Senegal during ... Read more »
Most young people in Africa support military interventions when democratically elected leadersRead more »
Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sentenced to death twenty-five soldiers on charges of "fleeing the enemy" during ongoing fighting between the army and th Read more »
At least nine people were killed and more than 40 injured when a fire set off explosions at a military ammunition depot in N'Djamena. Health Minister Abdelmadjid Ab Read more »
The army's latest campaign in the central region of Hiran comes as African Union troops, which has been helping with peacekeeping operations in the country since 2007, scale down ... Read more »
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