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More than 30 people were killed and many more wounded when an armed group attacked villages in northwestern Central African Republic on Tuesday, the UN’s peacekeeping mission (MINUSCA) said. The massacres took place in several villages near the town of Paoua, not far from the Chad border, Major General Pascal Champion, head of MINUSCA’s police component, said at a press…
Residents carry a coffin containing a body of a member of the Libyan pro-internationally recognised government forces who was killed during clashes, during funeral in Tripoli, Libya April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY Violence in Libya killed 20 civilians and injured…
A former Somali foreign minister was among five killed on Wednesday when a car bomb exploded in the capital Mogadishu, according to the country’s information minister. Information Minister Mohamed Abdi Hayr told a press conference that former foreign minister Hussein Elabe Faahiye, who served under former premier Ali…
At least 20 people were killed when an armed gang attacked the village of Yar Gamji, near Nigeria’s border with Niger, police and residents said on Wednesday. The attack which happened in the northwest Nigerian state of Katsina, is the latest in a series of attacks as unrest spreads across the…
The UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) is mending relations with Somalia’s federal government after the latter expelled the head of the UN mission, said the deputy head of the mission on Wednesday. “We are making good progress on resetting UNSOM’s relations with the federal government,” Raisedon Zenenga told the…
