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LONDON (Reuters) – A British soldier has been killed while taking part in counter poaching operations in Malawi, Britain’s defence ministry said on Tuesday. Guardsman Mathew Talbot, who served with The 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards, was killed on May 5 while on his first operational deployment, the ministry said. No further details about the incident were given. “He was hugely… Read More

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Three suspects in the killing of two U.N. investigators in Democratic Republic of Congo escaped from prison overnight, a defence lawyer in the case said on Tuesday. Evariste Ilunga, Kanowa Tshiaba and Mbayi Amoxi Tshikangu are on trial accused of participating in the killing of American Michael Sharp and Zaida Catalan, a Swede,… Read More

JUBA (Reuters) – A bush fire fanned by gusty winds has gutted four villages in South Sudan’s Western Bahr el Ghazal region, killing 33 people, the president’s spokesman said, adding the toll was likely to rise. The spokesman said in a statement late on Monday that 60 other people were in a critical condition after the fire on Sunday. “The… Read More

NIAMEY (Reuters) – At least 55 people were killed in Niger when an overturned fuel tanker from which they were siphoning gasoline exploded, the government said on Monday. The incident took place late Sunday night on the highway linking Niger’s Diori Hamani international airport to the capital Niamey. Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum said 55 charred bodies had been recovered from… Read More

NIAMEY (Reuters) – At least 55 people were killed by the explosion of a fuel tanker in Niger from which they were siphoning gasoline after it overturned, the government said on Monday. The incident took place late Sunday night on the highway linking Niger’s Diori Hamani international airport to the capital Niamey. Interior Minister Mohamed Bazoum said 55 charred bodies… Read More

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigerian police are investigating allegations that officers sexually assaulted women arrested in nightclub raids during a crackdown on prostitution. There has been widespread public outrage over last month’s raids in the capital Abuja. Various women among the dozens arrested said they were not prostitutes but were detained randomly. “They did all manner of things to us,” said… Read More

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – A local guide for two French tourists who went missing on safari in Benin last week has been found shot dead and their car burned out, a local official and a regional security source said. The fate of the tourists, who failed to return to camp on Wednesday in the Pendjari National Park in northern Benin, is… Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – Islamic State (IS) killed 10 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on the northeastern town of Magumeri, the group claimed through its news agency AMAQ on Saturday. The jihadist organization said the attack on the soldiers took place in the town in northeastern Borno state on Friday. It published pictures of burned barracks and dead bodies it claimed… Read More

BENGHAZI/TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Nine soldiers were killed on Saturday in an attack claimed by Islamic State on a training camp belonging to the eastern Libyan forces of Khalifa Haftar, hospital authorities said. The attack took place in the city of Sebha, located in part of the oil-producing south that is targeted by armed groups looking to exploit a security void.… Read More

BAMAKO (Reuters) – At least 18 civilians were killed in two related attacks this week in central Mali, the United Nations MINUSMA peacekeeping mission said on Saturday, as the death toll from fighting between local hunters and herders continues to climb. MINUSMA did not identify the assailants in the attacks on a Dogon ethnic community in the Mopti region. The… Read More