Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin  American diplomats will start returning to Ukraine this week, first to the western city of Lviv and then eventually to the capital, Kyiv. The United States is also providing further foreign military financing to Ukraine to help ... Read More

Alpha Conde  Guinea’s deposed president Alpha Conde has been released from house arrest and can receive visitors, including family members, the ruling military government announced. A statement by the military released late on Friday said that coup leader and interim president Colonel Mamady Doumbouya ... Read More

Russian and Malian flags are waved by protesters in Bamako during a demonstration against French influence in the country Russia has deployed the Wagner Group in military operations across at least half a dozen African nations. When abuses were reported in ... Read More

France election: Macron pledges to unite France Emmanuel Macron has won five more years as France's president after a convincing victory over rival Marine Le Pen, who nevertheless secured the far right's highest share of the vote yet. He won by 58.55% ... Read More

Nigeria's air force is investigating the crash this week of a training aircraft that killed two officers in northern Kaduna state. It was the fourth fatal air crash in the past year for Nigeria's military, which has been struggling to ... Read More

South Africa has recorded a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections, the highest rate in three months, raising concerns about a possible larger surge in the disease. South Africa's National Health Department reported 4,406 new COVID-19 cases in a 24-hour period ending ... Read More

President Joe Biden U.S. President Joe Biden authorized another $800 million in U.S. military assistance to Ukraine on Thursday, declaring it was necessary to help Kyiv's forces repel Russian fighters in the critical battles unfolding in the eastern region of ... Read More

The British government is facing strong backlash from opposition parties and human rights groups after announcing plans earlier this month to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda for processing, in a bid to deter migrants from crossing the English Channel in small ... Read More

Somalia's President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed  The Somali government and a U.S. company are locked in a dispute over the validity of an oil exploration agreement reached in February in Istanbul. Abdirashid Mohamed Ahmed, Somalia's minister of petroleum and mineral resources, and Richard ... Read More

A search and rescue team works with sniffer dogs to recover bodies from the Mzinyathi River near Durban, South Africa, April 19, 2022 South African President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a state of disaster late Monday following deadly floods in the country's ... Read More