Burundi army chief targeted in shooting

The former head of Burundi's army has been shot dead outside his home in the capital Bujumbura.

Burundi's opposition is facing a "relentless campaign of intimidation" from the ruling party ahead of elections next year, Amnesty International says.

One Tanzanian army officer killed five injured in Tanga shooting
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DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- A soldier with the Tanzania People's Defence Forces (TPDF) was killed and four others and one police officer injured on Saturday in a 15-minute exchange of fire with hardcore criminals in the east African nation's ...
Tanzanian army officer killed, five injured in fire exchangeGlobal Times
TPDF officer killed, 2 others and 3 cops injured in shoot-outs with `terrorists`IPPmedia
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Mombasa, Monday. A British jihadist fighting for Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Shabaab, is believed to have been killed in a thwarted attack on a Kenyan army base on Sunday, Kenya Defence Forces spokesman Colonel David Obonyo has said.

The former head of Malawi's armed forces is arrested as part of an on going investigation into government corruption known as "cashgate".

>Egypt’s top military commander Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in comments published in Kuwait today that he has decided to run in the presidential election scheduled for April.

Guinea-Bissau's president dismisses the head of the armed forces, Gen Antonio Indjai, who has been indicted in the US on drugs-trafficking charges.

Suspected Boko Haram militants ambushed a convoy carrying the new head of the Nigerian army through Borno state, the military says.

Libya's internationally recognised government in Tobruk names former controversial anti-Islamist Khalifa Haftar as the new head of the national army.