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Burkina Faso prime minister visits wounded in convoy attack

Burkina Faso’s Prime Minister, Albert Ouédraogo, has visited survivors of Monday attack on a military-led supply convoy. 37 people were wounded in the attack. Among them, a dozen children who have been hospitalized at the Charles-de-Gaulle Pediatric Hospital in Ouagadougou.…

Mali: Militants seize village near Gao

In Mali, reports indicate that Talataye village, located about 150 km from Gao town, has been taken over by militants from the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (EIGS). According to a local elected official while no casualties have been…

Mali denies UN allegations of rights violations

Mali's foreign ministry is denying accusations of human rights violations made by the United Nations. An 11-page statement posted on the official social media accounts of Mali’s foreign ministry denies all allegations leveled in a U.N. note that implicated Malian…

Nigeria: Two killed in latest Lagos building collapse

A 7-storey building under construction in the Lekki area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, collapsed on Sunday morning with two people confirmed dead and several others trapped. Permanent Secretary of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, and…

Niger flood kills three, injures seven

Heavy rains in Niger  accompanied by a violent wind on Saturday night to Sunday morning in Toudoun Aggoua, a village in the rural community of Tirmini in Niger Republic, haslled two girls and one boy while seven other people were…