Tag: gunmen
Gunmen free more than 260 inmates in Nigerian jail attack
Gunmen freed more than 260 inmates during an attack on a prison in Nigeria's central city of Jos, officials said, in the country's fourth...
Gunmen kill four at pipeline works in Nigeria’s oil-rich Delta
Gunmen have killed four men who were involved in the maintenance on a pipeline owned by the Nigerian subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni,...
Gunmen kill 11 soldiers in southwest Niger
Unidentified gunmen killed 11 soldiers defending a village in a remote part of southwest Niger where Islamist militants operate, the defence ministry said on...
Gunmen abduct staff and children at university in Nigerian capital
Gunmen abducted four members of staff and their children from the University of Abuja on Tuesday, the university said, in a rare kidnapping at...
Gunmen kill 18 at mosque in northern Nigeria’s Niger state -residents
Armed men on motorbikes killed at least 18 people at a mosque in Niger state in northern Nigeria, two residents told Reuters on Monday.
The...
Gunmen kill at least 43 in northern Nigeria – state governor
Gunmen killed at least 43 people in an attack in northern Nigeria's Sokoto state, the governor's office said on Monday.
The assault began at a...
Gunmen kill at least 20 in attack in northwest Nigeria
At least 20 people were killed in Nigeria's Sokoto state when gunmen attacked a market and torched cars, as armed gangs continue to wreak...
Gunmen kill 22 Nigerian security personnel, says state lawmaker
Gunmen killed at least 22 security personnel at a remote army base in a northwestern Nigerian state plagued by bandits and kidnappers, a lawmaker...
Gunmen kidnap 20 in northwest Nigeria as crisis spreads
Gunmen kidnapped 20 people in remote Sokoto State in northwest Nigeria, police said on Wednesday, in what a local government source described as a...
Gunmen kidnap 18 villagers in latest attack in northern Nigeria
Gunmen invaded a village in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped 18 residents including seven children, a community leader said on Tuesday,...
Gunmen kill at least 16 in latest Niger village attack
At least 16 people have been killed in an attack on a village in southwestern Niger where Islamist militants have repeatedly massacred civilians this...
Gunmen kidnap more than 75 people in northwest Nigeria
Armed gunmen kidnapped at least 75 people from a village in northwest Nigeria, residents said on Saturday, the latest in a slew of abductions...
Gunmen kidnap dozens of villagers in northwestern Nigeria
Gunmen abducted at least 60 people and killed one person in northwestern Nigeria after riding motorbikes into five villages and firing sporadically into the...
Gunmen kill Nigerian army general on highway from capital
Gunmen shot dead a Nigerian army general as he was travelling by car on a major road from the capital, Abuja, the army said...
Gunmen kidnap staff and baby from northwest Nigerian hospital
Gunmen kidnapped up to eight people, including the one-year-old child of a nurse, from a hospital's staff residential quarters in northwest Nigeria, while assailants...
Gun attack on Ugandan ex-army chief kills daughter, driver -military
Gunmen opened fire at a car carrying a Ugandan government minister in an attempted assassination on Tuesday, wounding the former army commander and killing...
Gunmen abduct students from school in north-central Nigeria
An armed gang abducted students from an Islamic school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Sunday, police and state government officials said.
Armed...
Gunmen kill eight in ambush on passing cars in Burundi
Gunmen belonging to a gang of armed robbers shot dead eight people including a senior military officer in an ambush on four cars travelling...
Gunmen kill 15 soldiers in attack in southwest Niger
Unidentified gunmen killed 15 soldiers and wounded four more on Tuesday in an attack on an army post in southwest Niger, the ministry of...
Gunmen free more than 1 800 inmates in attack on Nigerian...
More than 1 800 prisoners are on the run in southeast Nigeria after escaping when heavily armed gunmen attacked their prison using explosives and...
Gunmen kill 30 people in attack in western Ethiopia, witnesses say
Gunmen killed 30 civilians in an attack on a village in the west of the Ethiopian region of Oromiya, witnesses said on Wednesday, the...
Gunmen kill wanted Libyan commander in new sign of instability
Gunmen assassinated an eastern Libyan commander wanted for war crimes on Wednesday, medics said, underscoring the risks of violent escalation on the ground that...
No children missing after gunmen raid Nigerian primary school – security...
Gunmen on motorbikes stormed a primary school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped three teachers but no children, a state official...
Gunmen abduct 30 students in northwest Nigeria as payoffs ‘boomerang’
Gunmen kidnapped around 30 students in an overnight raid on a forestry college in northwest Nigeria, an official said on Friday, the fourth mass...
Gunmen kidnap 300 schoolgirls in increasingly lawless northwest Nigeria
An operation to rescue more than 300 girls kidnapped in Nigeria had failed to pinpoint their location by late on Friday, almost 24 hours...
Gunmen kill 36 in attacks on two northern Nigerian states
Gunmen killed 36 people in two attacks in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, a day after insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades amid worsening security facing Africa’s...
Gunmen kill student, kidnap 42 in attack on Nigerian school
Unidentified gunmen killed a student in an overnight attack on a boarding school in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger on Wednesday and kidnapped...
Gunmen storm Nigerian school, kidnap students
Unidentified gunmen attacked a secondary school in Nigeria’s Niger state overnight and abducted many students, the state governor’s spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
The attackers stormed...
Gunmen kill six Malian soldiers in coordinated attacks
Gunmen in Mali killed at least six soldiers and wounded 18 others in two coordinated attacks in the centre of the African nation on...
Gunmen kill 32, burn houses in attack in Ethiopia: administrator
Gunmen have killed 32 people and torched more than 20 houses in a raid on an area of western Ethiopia, a regional administrator said...
Gunmen kill about 20 in attack in eastern Burkina Faso
Unidentified gunmen killed about 20 people in an attack on a cattle market in eastern Burkina Faso on Friday, the government said in a...
South Sudan war apparently spilling into Uganda
Men wearing South Sudanese military uniforms launched two raids on a hamlet over the border in Uganda in recent weeks, residents said,...
Suspected al Shabaab gunmen kill Kenyan official
Gunmen suspected of being fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab militant group burst into a government official's house in north-east Kenya and shot...
South Sudan gunmen kill, kidnap Ethiopians
Gunmen from South Sudan killed 28 people and kidnapped 43 children in neighbouring Ethiopia, a government official said on Wednesday, another demonstration...
Al Shabaab gunmen kill intelligence officer in Mogadishu
Gunmen from Somalia's al Shabaab militant group shot dead a senior intelligence officer as he walked to a mosque in Mogadishu on...
Gunmen kill eight in east DR Congo town
Attackers with automatic weapons killed at least eight people in a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the army...
Al Qaeda gunmen drank in bar before unleashing Ivory Coast attack
Gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch drank beer at a beachside bar before launching a shooting rampage at an Ivory Coast...
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill many in Nigeria attack
Suspected Boko Haram insurgents rounded up and shot dead dozens of people in a raid in a town in north-east Nigeria on...
Ugandan says kills 60 gunmen, troops deployed near oil area
Uganda's army said on Monday it had killed more than 60 gunmen who attacked police and army posts in the west on...
Suspected Islamists kill 22 in northeast Nigeria
Gunmen killed at least 22 people at a village market in remote northeast Nigeria, a security official said on Monday, in what...
Gunmen kill prominent Libyan journalist in Benghazi
Gunmen shot dead well a prominent Libyan journalist and critic of Islamists in the eastern city of Benghazi on Monday, security officials...
Gunmen kill three policemen at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University
Gunmen killed three policemen on Monday night at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, security sources said, a week before a presidential election former army...
Gunmen storm Libyan parliament, raid offices of lawmakers
Gunmen stormed the Libyan parliament on Sunday and raided lawmakers' offices, a deputy said.
Lawmaker Omar Bushah told Reuters gunmen had entered the...
Gunmen cross from Liberia, seize Ivorian village, kill eight
Ivory Coast's army launched a counter-attack on Friday against a group of gunmen accused of entering the country from Liberia and killing...
Gunmen kill six army officers near Cairo
Gunmen shot dead six army officers near Cairo on Saturday, the second attack on Egyptian security forces in three days that the...
Egyptian soldiers killed in Sinai as protest toll rises to 49
Gunmen killed three Egyptian soldiers in an attack on a bus in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, the military said, prompting a...
Gunmen attack liquor stores in Baghdad, killing nine
Gunmen attacked 12 liquor stores in Baghdad on Saturday, killing nine people, police said, the latest in a series of assaults on...
Gunmen kill 12 in Nigerian Islamist stronghold
Gunmen killed 12 people in a raid on a northeastern Nigerian village on Saturday, the police said, in a region where troops...
Two policemen killed in Libya’s Benghazi after army vows to restore...
Gunmen killed two policemen in Benghazi in eastern Libya on Saturday, a security source said, a day after the army had vowed...
Central Bank falls victim to Libya’s rampant crime, anarchy
Gunmen rob millions from Libya's central bank. Boatloads of protesters storm an oil terminal like pirates. Tribesmen block a port - and...
