DOUALA, Cameroon (AA): The death toll from an armed attack by insurgents in the northern Burkina Faso town of Seytenga rose to 79, as 29 more bodies were found on Tuesday, an official said. The insurgents had stormed the town of Seytenga and attacked civilians on the night of June 11-12, said Wendkouni Joel Lionel […]
Seytenga, Burkina Faso (AA/AFP): At least 50 civilians died in an attack by suspected extremists in northern Burkina Faso, government spokesman Lionel Bilgo said Monday, in one of the bloodiest clashes since a military coup in January. The village of Seytenga was attacked overnight Saturday, Bilgo said, adding that the toll “may rise....
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Over 50 wedding guests were abducted by bandits on a road in Nigeria northwest’s Zamfara State, but later about 20 escaped, said a local official. The victims, most of them phone accessories traders, were returning from a wedding party of one of their colleague when bandits ambushed their buses along the [&helli...
Tehran, Iran – (AFP): Iran has arrested 13 suspected robbers accused of the theft of the contents of more than 160 safe boxes from a bank branch in Tehran. “Thirteen suspects in the robbery of Bank Melli were arrested, and large quantities of stolen property have been discovered,” Tehran’s chief prosecutor Ali Salehi sa...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and more than five others wounded late Friday in two explosions in and around Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, according to an official. The first attack was a landmine explosion that targeted a vehicle carrying security personnel on the outskirts of Mogadishu, according to a polic...
HOUSTON, Texas – A fourth-grader who survived the Texas mass shooting last month testified before a US House of Representatives gun violence panel. “I don’t want it to happen again,” said Miah Cerrillo, 11, who smeared a classmate’s blood on her face and hands and played dead during the Robb Elementary School massacre. The 18-year-old [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – At least three people were killed after a gunman opened fire Thursday at a manufacturing facility in the US state of Maryland, according to the Washington County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responded to the shooting at Columbia Machine Inc. in the town of Smithsburg at approximately 2.30 p.m. Eastern Time (1830GMT)...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Many people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a church in Nigeria’s southwestern Ondo state, officials said. The attack occurred at St. Francis Catholic Church in the town of Owo. Officials at the Federal Medical Center in Owo said at least 50 injured people were rushed to […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Cases of sexual offenses in the Canadian Armed Forces should be heard by civilian courts, not military courts, said the author of a report released Monday For the report, former Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour was asked to look into increasing incidents of sexual offenses in the senior ranks of Canada’s [...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 50 civilians have been killed by unidentified gunmen in the town of Madjoari in eastern Burkina Faso, an official said Thursday. Residents from Madjoari in Kompienga province bordering Benin were heading to Nadiagou in the town of Pama, fleeing violence, when they were targeted Wednesday by unidentified arm...
