Two soldiers were killed and three were injured, two of them seriously, in a blast in northern Burkina Faso, the theatre of a terrorist insurgency, security sources said Tuesday. Their vehicle triggered an improvised explosive device (IED) late Monday on a road near Nassoumbou, near the Malian border, they said. ...
Seventy-nine school students were kidnapped on Monday in an English-speaking region of Cameroon where separatists are fighting an armed campaign for independence, a government source said. The students were abducted along with their principal, a teacher and a driver, the official said, as a source at the school confirmed the ...
