Two villagers were killed during a raid in Niger’s troubled south as troops repulsed an attack by jihadists in another area, security sources said Wednesday. The director of a school and a retired police officer were “killed in cold blood” while sleeping in the village of Fantio Tuesday night in the southwestern region of Tillaberi, […]
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Three killed in bomb targeting police in Pakistan’s Lahore: officials
A bomb killed three people in Pakistan’s eastern megacity Lahore on Wednesday, in an attack officials believe targeted police and security forces. The blast happened outside a house near a checkpoint in an affluent neighbourhood, the province’s police chief Inam Ghani said. “Our assessment is that the most obvious target was the police and security forces,” he said, […]
11 police killed in Burkina Faso ambush: minister
11 policemen have been killed in an ambush by suspected jihadists in northern Burkina Faso, and four more officers are missing, the government said Tuesday. “Around 3 pm on Monday, a relief team belonging to the national police was targeted in an ambush by armed individuals,” Security Minister Ousseni Compaore said in a statement. Following […]
Nigerian school kidnap victims escape sleeping guards
Fifteen Nigerian hostages have escaped from their abductors as they slept, weeks after they were among more than 130 pupils and teachers snatched by gunmen from an Islamic seminary, the school’s headteacher told AFP Tuesday. On May 30 around 200 motorcycle-riding gunmen from one of the gangs known locally as bandits stormed Tegina town in […]
Burkina Faso troops kill 11 jihadists, destroy 3 bases
Burkina Faso soldiers killed 11 jihadists and destroyed three “terrorist” bases last week in security operations after the deadliest massacre in the country’s six-year jihadist insurgency, the army said Monday. The operation between June 14 and 16 targeted areas in the country’s east and “was based on specific intelligence, leading to the dismantling of terrorist […]
Nigerian police inspector shoots five dead in rampage
A Nigerian police inspector has killed five civilians and injured four in a shooting rampage, police said Monday, in the latest violence in the country’s restive southeast. The incident happened on Sunday when the inspector stormed a residential estate in Enugu and opened fire on people there, state police spokesman Daniel Ndukwe said in a […]
Jihadists free 10 hostages in Nigeria: sources
Nigerian jihadists have freed 10 hostages including seven local aid workers, two of them employed by the United Nations, after weeks of mediation, a UN source and a mediation official told AFP Wednesday. The hostages, abducted between last December and April in the northeast by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) were released on […]
Central Nigeria gun attacks kill 12: police
At least 12 people were killed at the weekend in two gun attacks in central Nigeria, an area where tensions have been rising between nomadic herders and local farming communities, police and officials said. In the first attack, gunmen opened fire from a car on a bar in Kuru in Jos in Plateau state, […]
Woman with knife killed by Israel border guards: police
Israeli border guards Saturday shot dead a young woman approaching them with a knife at a West Bank checkpoint after she ignored orders to stop, police said. They said the woman kept walking towards the guards at Qalandiya crossing between Israel and the West Bank, despite repeated warnings to stop. She was aged 28, police […]
Police fire tear gas to break up Nigeria protests
Nigerian police on Saturday fired tear gas to disperse anti-government protests in the commercial city of Lagos and the capital Abuja, injuring some people and arresting others, AFP reporters said. Nigerian activists had called for nationwide protests over what they criticise as bad governance and insecurity, as well as the recent ban of US social […]