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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somali militants killed eight Kenyan police with a roadside bomb near the border between the two countries on Saturday, officials said, while another eight died in a bombing the same group carried out in the Somali capital. Both attacks were claimed by Somali Islamist insurgents, who also kidnapped three Kenyan police reservists on Friday from the same… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – A roadside bomb hit a vehicle patrolling near Kenya’s border with Somalia on Saturday, killing several of the 11 police officers onboard, the police spokesman said. Charles Owino told Reuters that he was still awaiting exact casualty figures. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but Somali Islamist insurgents carry out frequent attacks on Kenyan security… Read More

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Islamic State’s West African branch claimed responsibility for an attack on a Nigerian army base in northeastern Borno state and said its fighters had killed 20 soldiers. The assault, which raised questions about government claims to have almost defeated the insurgents, took place in the town of Kareto on Wednesday. The barracks were burnt and a… Read More

DAKAR (Reuters) – A company run by private security firm Blackwater’s founder Erik Prince has registered a subsidiary in Democratic Republic of Congo with a mandate to extract minerals and timber and conduct financial operations, corporate filings show. Prince, who renamed Blackwater and sold it in 2010 after several of its employees were indicted on unlawful killing charges in connection… Read More

YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Around 300 suspected Boko Haram militants swarmed onto an island on Lake Chad in Cameroon’s far north on Sunday and killed 24 people, including 16 Cameroonian soldiers stationed at military outposts, officials said on Wednesday. The death toll in the district of Darak, about 1,000 km (600 miles) from the capital Yaounde, is one of the worst… Read More

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen are attacking two ethnic Dogon villages in central Mali, a local official said on Wednesday, less than 50 km away from the site of a similar attack in which dozens were killed at the end of last week. “Unidentified armed men on motorcycles are surrounding the village and firing at people,” mayor of the targeted Bankass… Read More

ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana forces have rescued two Canadian women who were kidnapped last week outside their hostel in Ghana’s second city of Kumasi, the Ghanaian government said in a statement on Wednesday. The women, aged 19 and 20, were volunteers for charity Youth Challenge International. Kidnappings were rare in Ghana until a spate of abductions late last year, most… Read More

TUNIS (Reuters) – A rescue boat carrying around 75 migrants, most of them from Bangladesh, has been stuck off Tunisia for 12 days after authorities refused to let them disembark, the Red Crescent said on Tuesday. The Egyptian boat rescued the migrants in Tunisian waters, but authorities in the governorate of Medinine say its migrant centres are too overcrowded to allow… Read More

DAKAR (Reuters) – A British former Wildlife Conservation Society officer has been named Gabon’s forests minister, after the last one was fired over a scandal in which hundreds of containers of illegally logged kevazingo wood went missing. Lee White, who ran the WCS programme in Gabon for nearly two decades before becoming head of the central African country’s National Parks… Read More

KAMPALA (Reuters) – A plan by South Africa’s Bonang Power and Energy to develop a 360 megawatt (MW) power plant on Uganda’s River Nile has met resistance from critics who say the project will destroy the popular tourist attraction of Murchison Falls. Located on the Nile between the Ugandan lakes Kyoga and Albert, the Murchison Falls also lend their name… Read More