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A UN peacekeeping man was killed in northern Mali and one other severely injured after their automobile hit a roadside bomb on Thursday, the UN mission mentioned. The assault got here as officers within the capital Bamako protested in opposition to the federal government’s “selective launch” of overseas hostages in hostages.…

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 individuals, together with 13 troopers in a number of assaults in central Mali, burned down a military base and ambushed troops despatched as reinforcements, the military and native authorities mentioned on Tuesday. The assaults had been lethal because the August 18 army coup that toppled…

A military position in Sokoura, in the circle of Bankass, "was the subject of a terrorist attack" from Monday night to Tuesday, said the army, which reports a preliminary death toll of "nine dead" and wounded in its ranks ". A reinforcement sent to the scene then fell Tuesday morning into an ambush that left "three dead, ten wounded" and missing, according to the statement. as reported from Bamako, The Malian army faced two attacks. First, that of his camp in the center of the country, a few dozen kilometers from the…

Greater than 90 folks have been killed in a fierce assault on protesters in opposition to Guinea President Alpha Condes' try to hunt a controversial third time period within the weekend, a number one opposition group mentioned on Monday. The 82-year-old is looking for re-election on October 18, after pushing by way of a brand…

Switzerland's foreign ministry said on Friday that a Swiss woman held hostage in Mali had been killed by an Islamist group. The ministry said it had been informed by French authorities that the hostages had been "killed by kidnappers from the Islamist terrorist organization Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam Muslimeen about a month…

Another hostage in Mali, a Swiss woman, was killed by her captors. Bern officially announced it on Friday evening, October 9th. We do not currently know if his death has anything to do with the release of Soumaila Cissé and Sophie Pétronin. The Swiss authorities have not announced the name of the hostage who would have been…

The death toll from a jihadist attack on the convoy of the regional governor of northeastern Nigeria has risen to 30, security sources said on Saturday. Two sources told AFP deaths from Friday's attack in the returning Borno state had doubled as more bodies were found and now included 12 police officers, five soldiers, four members of a government-backed militia and nine civilians. "The number has risen to 30 as many corpses were picked in the surrounding areas after the attack," said one of the sources, adding that…