The Pentagon has restricted United States (U.S.) service members’ travel to five West African countries, citing recent militant attacks in the region.
A spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Anthony Falvo, said the order limits unofficial travel by U.S. military personnel to Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Ghana.
“It is just increased vigilance given the recent events that have happened in that area of the world,’’ Falvo said.
The warning followed gunmen’s killing of 19 people at a beach-side resort in Ivory Coast on Sunday.
The attack was claimed by al Qaeda’s North African branch, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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