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Ten soldiers murdered In central Mali attack

At least 10 Malian soldiers have been killed in an overnight ambush in a central area close to the Mauritania border the place armed terrorists are rampant, safety and neighborhood sources stated on Friday. 10 soldiers had been killed, along with a senior officer, in the attack in Guire and 4 automobiles had been torched, […]

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NEWS: President of Mali resigns following military mutiny

Mali’s president announced his resignation and the dissolving of parliament early Wednesday after he was arrested by means of mutinying soldiers. “I desire no blood to be spilled to maintain me in power,” Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said in a quick address broadcast on state television. Keita additionally expressed be apologetic about for the loss of […]

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Breaking: Mali ‘s president and PM arrested by mutinous soldiers

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cissé were detained by mutinying troopers on Tuesday, according to safety sources. It comes after troopers fired pictures at an military base in Kati, 15 km backyard of the capital Bamako. In 2012, a mutiny unfolded at the same base, main to a coup that toppled […]

Terrorist attack in northern Ivory Coast kills 10 soldiers – govt

Gunmen have attacked a security post in northern Ivory Coast near the border with Burkina Faso, killing at least 10 soldiers and injuring six others, Ivory Coast’s army chief said Thursday. It was the first major jihadist attack in the West African nation since 2016, when al-Qaeda’s North African branch killed at least 19 people […]

Madagascar sends soldiers, doctors to virus-hit city

The government of Madagascar has announced the deployment of soldiers and doctors to the city of Toamasina (east), after a sharp increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country’s second largest city. The government on Sunday in the capital Antananarivo held a special council of ministers meeting devoted to the situation in Toamasina. […]

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Mozambique soldiers killed another 50 jihadists this week -government

Mozambique’s army said it has killed 50 suspected jihadists in the northern Cabo Delgado province after another spate of insurgent attacks in the gas-rich region this week. A shadowy Islamist group has terrorised remote communities in the Mozambique’s Muslim-majority north since 2017, killing more than 1 100 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location & […]

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How terrorists killed 70 Nigerian soldiers in restive northeast

At least 70 Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush on their convoy by terrorists in the restive northeast, military and security sources said on Tuesday. Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at a lorry carrying troops as it travelled near Gorgi village in Borno state on Monday, two military officers told AFP without giving their names. […]

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Chad deploys soldiers after deadliest Boko Haram raid on military

Chad has deployed troops to boost security after Boko Haram militants killed 92 soldiers and wounded 47 more in the deadliest attack ever on the country’s military. The soldiers were attacked on Monday on the island village of Boma in the swampy Lake Chad zone in the west of the country, where the armies of […]