The conversation has been edited for brevity and clarity. VOA: What role does the United States Africa Command, or AFRICOM, play in the continent? In what capacity do AFRICOM's teams serve in ...

The United States government has insisted that there are no plans for the establishment of a US military base in Nigeria following the withdrawal of American troops from Niger Republic. Major ...

He explained that AFRICOM and the Department of Defence had been supporting the three main objectives of democracy, government, and human rights in Africa. Maj.-Gen. Kenneth Ekman, U.S. Africa ...

The four-day African Military Law Forum will be co-hosted by the Zambian Defense Force, the U.S.-Africa Command (AFRICOM), U.S. Army Europe and Africa, and the North Carolina National Guard.

"It allows [us] to prosecute targets in a more rapid fashion," said General Thomas Walhauser of US Africa Command (Africom). The move has seen increased attacks by aircraft, as well as the first ...

In their first meeting, in April 2021, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari proposed to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the headquarters of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) be moved from ...

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The US is still engaged with Niger and Chad, despite withdrawing troops from the countries, the head of the US Africa Command has told the BBC. On Wednesday, dozens of US troops left Chad after ...

KOULKIMÉ, Chad — Alhadji Yaro was a teenager when Boko Haram militants stormed onto his island in the vast, blue-green waters of Lake Chad and made villagers an offer at gunpoint. “‘We will ...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — Brig. Gen. Jacob Middleton gets asked “all of the time: Why space?” It’s an apt question for his first day as the commander of U.S. Space Forces in Europe ...

From Afghanistan, Gates will fly to Stuttgart, Germany, to visit the U.S. Africa Command and will continue to Brussels, Belgium, to attend a meeting of NATO defense ministers. CNN's Rick Martin ...

Washington — The United States on Wednesday completed one of the last major troop departures from Niger ahead of the military junta-imposed September 15 deadline. About 1,000 troops were ...