A militant attack on an army base in central Mali on Friday killed at least 27 soldiers and wounded 33 more, the government said. Seven soldiers are still missing following the attack in the rural commune of Mondoro, which involved car bombs, according to a government statement. Seventy militants were killed in the military’s response, the statement said, without specifying

About 20 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo were killed in a fresh attack by the suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebel group, monitors said Monday. “At least 20 civilians were killed in #Kikura village (#Beni territory, North #Kivu) on Sunday night. The #ADF are suspected,” the U.S.-based Kivu Security Tracker (KST) said on Twitter. Ricardo Rupande, head of

A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others Monday, the national broadcaster and witnesses reported.   The provisional toll was provided by regional authorities following the blast in the village of Gbomblora, RTB reported. The explosion was believed to have been caused by chemicals used to treat

A South African entrepreneur has turned a sweet dream into a reality. He used the government’s COVID-19 relief grant to launch an ice cream business that’s now creating jobs for others at a time when the country faces record high unemployment. Making gourmet ice cream was never a business that photographer and fashion designer Thando Makhubu planned to pursue, but

The U.N World Food Program says Africa’s Sahel region is facing unprecedented food insecurity, caused by soaring prices, terrorist activity, high regional demand and COVID-19. The WFP’s representative in Burkina Faso warns the situation is critical, with millions more people facing hunger in the coming months. In large areas of Burkina Faso, terrorist groups linked to Islamic State and al-Qaida

At least five people were killed when al-Shabab militants attacked several police stations and security checkpoints early Wednesday in and around Somalia’s capital city, Mogadishu, officials and the militants said. Somali police spokesman Col. Abdifatah Aden Hassan said the attacks, which began just before 1 a.m. (2200 GMT) local time, targeted police stations and checkpoints in two quiet neighborhoods, Kahda

Two Malian soldiers were killed early Sunday in northern Mali in an attack on their post blamed on jihadists, the army announced on social networks. An “armed terrorist group” attacked the Niafunke post in the early hours, the army said, using a term commonly used to refer to jihadists. “The toll is two dead on the FAMa (Malian Armed Forces)

French troops in an anti-jihadist mission have killed 40 militants in Burkina Faso linked to deadly attacks this week in neighboring Benin whose victims included a Frenchman, the army said Saturday. The French-led Barkhane force in the Sahel region “engaged its air intelligence capacities to locate the armed group” responsible for the attacks, carrying out air strikes that killed 40

The COVID-19 infection rate for Africa may be as much as seven times higher than reported, while death counts could be two to three times higher, according to the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa. “We’re very much aware that our surveillance systems problems that we had on the continent, with access to testing supplies, for example,” Dr. Matshidiso

A cyclone killed at least 10 people in southeastern Madagascar, the second to hit the Indian Ocean island in just two weeks, triggering floods, bringing down buildings and cutting power, officials said on Sunday. One of the worst-hit towns was Nosy Varika on the east coast where almost 95% of buildings were destroyed “as if we had just been bombed”