Congo's health minister says Ebola has spread to a city, the capital of Equateur province, a worrying shift in the new outbreak in the northwest of the country. 

A U.S. military official said Tuesday night that the team of U.S. and Nigerian forces ambushed earlier this month had been asked to look into the physical site of where a high-value target had been, although they were not asked to be a part of a mission to capture the individual.

The U.S. special forces unit ambushed by Islamic militants in Niger didn’t call for help until an hour into their first contact with the enemy, the top U.S. general said Monday, as he tried to clear up some of the murky details of the assault that killed four American troops and has triggered a nasty political brawl. 

West Africa is one of the poorest regions in the world. But a young man from there is making an impact in Oklahoma. 

Gunmen attacked a popular hotel in Mali's capital on Friday with guns and grenades, authorities and a witness said, taking scores of hostages.