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Armed men killed at least 100 civilians in a rural district of northern Burkina Faso close to the border with Niger over the weekend, Reuters agency citing security source. According to the soucrces, the attackers targeted men but appeared to spare women and children in Seytenga district on Saturday night. …

Lawyers defending Malian Islamist suspect Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz for his role as police chief in Timbuktu in 2012 told judges at the International Criminal Court that he was the “wrong man”, the BBC reported. “He should not be convicted because he happened to be in the wrong place at …

More than 10 members of the security forces died in eastern Burkina Faso after an attack by suspected jihadists, military sources said. It followed Sunday’s attack on a military patrol and security team in Natiaboni, a rural town in the east. The region is among those hit by rising insecurity …

At least 21 people have been killed and several others wounded in an attack by suspected Islamist militants in Niger, local media reported. The mayor of the town of Tera near Niger’s border with Burkina Faso said that gunmen on motorbikes had forced a bus to stop. They then ordered …

Cars belonging to the presidency Burkina Faso have been found riddled with bullet holes near the home of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré in the capital Ouagadougou. Mr. Kaboré was detained by mutinous soldiers who also reportedly took control of state television in the capital, Ouagadougou. Some troops in the …

The United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in Mali ( MINUSMA) has suspended its flights amid discussions over sanctions that have shut air and land borders to the West African country. “MINUSMA has to temporarily suspend all flights. We are in discussion with our Malian partners on the new mechanism for approving …

Thirteen civilians have been killed in Burkina Faso in two separate attacks by suspected Islamist militants, the BBC reports. Eleven people were killed in a raid on a village by heavily armed men on motorbikes, and two volunteers working with the army’s anti-jihadist force were killed in the second incident. …

Police in Somalia confirmed that eight civilians were killed and 17 other wounded in a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu, state television has reported. An al-Shabab suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle targeted a convoy of a private security firm, Duguf, which is contracted to protect the UN. The …

Army officials in Burkina Faso said an ambush on a military convoy escorting fuel tankers from a gold mine near the border with Niger has left six officers dead. Seven other people were injured after the attack allegedly claimed by jihadists. Two years ago 39 people were killed when a …

Eleven soldiers in Mali have been killed during an ambush on a convoy in the central Mopti region, the military says. A statement said nine other soldiers were seriously injured when a car bomb was detonated and the convoy was then targeted with heavy gunfire. A Malian officer described the …