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Byline: Thierry Vircoulon Senegalese president Bassirou Diomaye Faye (https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20241231-s%C3%A9n%C3%A9gal-le-pr%C3%A9sident-bassirou-faye-annonce-la-fin-de-toutes-pr%C3%A9sences-militaires-%C3%A9trang%C3%A8res-d%C3%A8s-2025) announced on 31 December 2024 that all foreign military bases in his country would close by 2025. On the same day, [...]

Byline: Bola A. Akinterinwa Francophone Africa and French military bases have been two critical foreign policy challenges for Nigeria since 1960. The administration of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa had [...]

Byline: Rfi Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has announced that French forces will hand over control of their military base in Abidjan in January, continuing the former colonial power's military exit [...]

Byline: Paul Myers Chadian authorities were on Friday in full control of the Faya-Largeau base after French military chiefs officially handed over the northern compound - marking another step in [...]

The al-Qaeda-affiliated group Shabaab has claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing targeting Djiboutian and Somali troops at a military base in central Somalia. The blast marks the 14th such [...]

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has raised the possibility of closing French military bases in the West African country in a wide-ranging speech that also touched on the euro-backed CFA [...]

Tunis is hosting the African Lion 2024 joint military exercise between Tunisian and American armed forces on April 29-May 10, in the presence of exercise directors from both sides and [...]

Byline: Billclinton Nuwahereza In a momentous ceremony held at the main military base in Mbuya on Tuesday, the Chief of the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, presided [...]

Byline: Pavan Kulkarni Only months after forcing its former colonizer France to withdraw its troops, Niger, West Africa's largest country, has said the presence of US troops is illegal. This [...]

Ba'adweyn -- The Somali government forces vacated three military bases in the central region of Mudug, a shocking move that may jeopardize years of security gains. Somali military officials in [...]

Dhusamareb -- Suspected US drones bombed an Al-Shabaab-controlled small town in central Somalia as SNA stepped up ground military operation in Galmudug state. The sources in the area said the [...]

Authorities are yet to give details on any casualties from the attack, which put German soldiers nearby on high alert. Just one day prior, two assaults by suspected jihadis killed [...]

Kismayo -- The U.S.-trained Danab bridge special forces engaged in a heavy battle with Al-Shabaab in Jubaland state as part of ongoing military operations in Somalia. The crackdown led to [...]

Byline: Moki Edwin Kindzeka Yaounde, Cameroon -- Authorities in Cameroon say anglophone rebels have attacked military posts near the country's port city of Douala, killing several people. The attack is [...]

Byline: Harun Maruf Somali officials are warning the federal and regional governments of Somalia not to underestimate the strength of militant groups al-Shabab and Islamic State as authorities plan new [...]

Byline: Harun Maruf Officials in Somalia say an al-Shabab attack on a military base in the south of the country has been 'repulsed.' The deputy president of Jubaland state, Mohamud [...]

(https://www.dw.com/en/mali-new-government-filled-with-military-leaders/a-57863030) Mali's military government said it repelled an attack on Friday against the country's main military base outside the capital, Bamako. The Kati military base is also home to the [...]

Byline: Moki Edwin Kindzeka Njitapon, Cameroon -- Cameroon's military on Thursday said it deployed about a hundred troops to the French-speaking village of Njitapon, after 35 anglophone separatists attacked the [...]

Al-Shabaab militants attack the government base in Sabid area of the Afgoye district in the Lower Shabelle region. The attack was followed by a fierce gun battle between the two [...]

Luanda -- The commander of the United States Africa Command General Stephen Townsend Tuesday in Luanda praised the Angolan Government's commitment to the search for solutions to pacification of the [...]

Byline: Sunday Isuwa, Tarkaa David and Hussaini Jirgi Nigerian troops have closed the only relatively safe highway that leads into Biu local government area of Borno State from Damaturu, the [...]

Byline: Macharia Munene The presence of foreign military personnel is rarely a hot topic in Kenya, except in rare cases of transgressions such as recent (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/agnes-wanjiru-kenyan-victims-family-sues-mod-over-failure-to-investigate-murder-tzz37vgn0#:~:text=In%20an%20interview%20with%20The,and%20confessed%20to%20killing%20her.&text=Wanjiru's%20body%20was%20found%20in,ready%20on%20April%205%2C%202013) reports linking a British [...]

Byline: Kingsley Nwezeh The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised the alarm over plans by terrorists to attack military bases in border towns across the country. The agency also [...]

Byline: Moki Edwin Kindzeka Yaounde -- Cameroon's military says separatist fighters have, for the first time, used anti-tank rockets smuggled from Nigeria to attack army convoys. The military reported rebel [...]

Minister of Defense and Military Production Mohamed Zaki has witnessed the final phase of Bright Star 2021 military exercise at Mohamed Naguib Military Base in Marsa Matrouh. Delivering a speech [...]

Joint military exercise 'Bright Star 2021' kicked off at Mohamed Naguib Military Base in Marsa Matrouh, with the participation of 21 countries. The military training runs from Sept 2 to [...]

Joint military exercise 'Bright Star 2021' kicked off at Mohamed Naguib Military Base in Marsa Matrouh, with the participation of 21 countries. The military training runs from Sept 2 to [...]

Byline: Adibe Emenyonu The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki has appeal to the Nigeria Army to consider setting up an operating base between Edo North and South, saying that [...]

Byline: Yusuf Akinpelu Interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were detained at a military base in Kati outside the Mali capital, Bamako, on Monday. Mali's ousted interim [...]

Byline: Abdulkareem Haruna The Chief of Army Staff says the loss of equipment is normal in war situations. Nigeria's chief of army staff, Ibrahim Attahiru, says recent attacks on military [...]

Byline: Associated Press Berlin -- U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday ordered an Army review of an investigation into a January 2020 militant assault on the Manda Bay military [...]

Mogadishu/Somalia -- Al Shabaab militants attacked two military bases belonging to the Somali National Army early on Saturday morning, witnesses and the militants said. There was no immediate official comment [...]

The Islamist group detonated car bombs before launching nighttime raids at two locations in southern Somalia. The Somali military repelled twin attacks by al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab early on Saturday, inflicting [...]

Port Sudan -- The US Warship USS Winston Churchill docked in Port Sudan on Monday, where it was received by the Commander of Port Sudan Marine Base, Marine Col Ibrahim [...]

An attack by Cameroonian soldiers on March 1, 2020 has come to light in which soldiers raped at least 20 women, including four with disabilities, arrested 35 men, and killed [...]

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ), on Thursday denied media reports that terrorists had overrun a military base in Marte Local Government Area (LGA), of Borno between Jan. 15 and Jan. 16. [...]

The Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble has toured Balidoogle military base in Lower Shabelle region, southern Somalia. Roble, accompanied by ministers and military officials, will be monitoring the operations of [...]

Byline: James Karuhanga A brawny officer was busy briefing a dozen armed-to-the-teeth troops carrying backpacks when The New Times on Saturday, January 2, visited a Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) special [...]

Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Tuesday once again urged the dissident 'Renamo Military Junta' to join the demobilisation of the Renamo militia. Under a general peace agreement signed [...]

Bir Lehlou -- The Sahrawi People's Liberation Army continued Thursday its attacks on the Moroccan military bases behind the wall of shame, said the Sahrawi Defence Ministry in its military [...]

Nairobi -- The Ethiopian government and Tigray regional authorities should protect people and property at risk from the fighting, Human Rights Watch said today. Amid credible reports of increasing casualties, [...]

Byline: Kimberly Mutandiro Lawyers say army has no right to conduct 'military exercises' in and around the informal settlement Residents of Happiness Village informal settlement at Marievale military base say [...]

Byline: Moki Edwin Kindzeka Cameroonians are fleeing the northwestern village of Ngarr-buh after the military began building a base this week near where troops in February massacred at least 13 [...]

The Al-Qaeda Islamist militants in Somalia continue to demonstrate their ability to launch deadly attacks despite Federal Government forces weak offensive. This week so far, Al-Shabaab militant group has claimed [...]

Al-Shabaab has on Wednesday carried out attacks on two Somali military bases, using a suicide vehicle bombing and dozens of heavily armed militants, a military official said. African Union troops [...]

Somali military has said it foiled al-Shabaab attack on SNA base in Lower Shabelle region. In a statement, the military said Shabaab attacked Wednesday El-salini military base some 30 kilometres [...]

Byline: Stig Jarle Hansen Two significant attacks have been carried out by al-Shabaab in recent weeks. On 6 January 2020, the Somali-based terrorist group attacked a Kenyan military base close [...]

Fighters belonging to Somali Islamist militant group al Shabaab stormed an army base near the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, looted it for weapons and then withdrew, a military source, residents [...]

A pre-dawn raid by the terrorist group al-Shabaab on a military base in southern Somalia has left at least 18 people dead, officials told dpa on Sunday. 'We have lost [...]

Al-Shabab fighters have attacked an AU military base in central Somalia amid ongoing army operations against the Al-Qaeda-linked Militant group in the country. The militants targeted an outpost belonging to [...]