Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a decades long military presence. It is the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonial ...

Authorities in the Somali autonomous region of Puntland said eight foreign militants were killed following an attack by Islamic fighters on security forces early Tuesday.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa -- who has not signed death warrants for those facing capital sentences since he came to power in 2017 -- signed the death penalty abolition bill into law Dec.