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Malian transitional government on Wednesday announced a three-day national mourning after confirming the death on Sunday of 42 Malian soldiers in the east. The attack is attributed to jihadists in the northeast of the country, near the borders of Burkina Faso and Niger. The security forces for their part neutralized …

Militants killed 17 Malian soldiers and four civilians in an attack near the town of Tessit on Sunday, Reuters reported, citing army source. Nine soldiers were also reported missing and vehicles and equipment were destroyed, it said in a statement released late on Monday, adding that it suspected an Islamic …

A dozen civilians were killed on Monday and four others are reported missing in northern Burkina Faso in attacks attributed to jihadists near the border with Niger. The unidentified armed men attacked the group of civilians as they were going to a weekly market in the town of Markoye, about …

Several newspapers in Mozambique report that five members of a family have been hacked to death by suspected jihadists while making a sugar cane-based brew in a village in the north. The five lived in a camp for people displaced by the insurgency in Cabo Delgado province, and were surprised …

Hundreds of Islamist fighters have attacked a military post in the southern region of Diffa, the defence ministry in Niger says in a statement. The attack left sixteen soldiers dead and nine other wounded, it said. During the fight, Nigerien army succeeded in killing 50 members of the Boko Haram …

An attack on Nigeria’s top military academy left at least two people dead and another abducted, said the Nigerian army in a statement. An army spokesman said unknown gunmen broke into the campus in the northern city of Kaduna in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The Nigerian Defence Academy …

The army in Mali says it has killed 100 jihadists in a joint offensive with French forces. In a statement, Mali’s military said another 20 Islamists were captured in the operation, which ran throughout January. Militants control large parts of the Sahel desert region. Since an Islamist insurgency erupted in …

Four soldiers were killed on Monday in Niger and eight others seriously injured after an explosion at an artisanal mine in the South-Eastern part of the country near the border with Nigeria. According to the Ministry of Defense, the soldiers were pursuing jihadists who had attacked Chetima Wangou military post …