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At least 10 soldiers from the Cameroonian army’s elite Rapid Intervention Battalion were reportedly killed in an ambush on Thursday in Bamessing, in the troubled North-West region. A video posted on social media showed naked bodies of soldiers on the ground and two armoured vehicles that had been set on …

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 …