Tag: killed

Chad president, Idriss Deby, who ruled for more than 30 years and was a major Western ally in the fight against Islamist militants in...

Separatist gunmen killed the mayor of a town in Cameroon’s restive Anglophone South West Region, the country’s state broadcaster and a senior military official...

Mozambique security forces killed at least 129 insurgents in northern Cabo Delgado, an area besieged by violence for the last three years, the interior...

President Tayyip Erdogan said two Turkish soldiers were killed in Libya where they back the internationally recognised government in the north African state’s conflict,...

Gunmen killed a TV and radio journalist in Somalia’s Afgooye district, police said. Abdiwali Ali Hassan (25) was shot several times and died...

Suspected Islamist militants killed 25 soldiers and wounded six in an attack on an army post in west Niger near the Mali border, government...

A senior official in an opposition political party in Rwanda was stabbed to death, in what the party’s leader said was an attempt to...

Gunmen killed 24 soldiers in an attack on an army unit in Burkina Faso, the deadliest yet in the West African nation’s fight against...

A British soldier was killed during counter poaching operations in Malawi, Britain’s defence ministry said. Guardsman Mathew Talbot, serving with the 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards,...

Egyptian security forces killed seven suspected militants in two operations in Giza, across the Nile from central Cairo, the interior ministry said. Three militants were...

Burkina Faso’s army killed 150 militants in response to an attack on civilians this week, but an international rights group said some were executed...

An Egyptian police officer was killed while attempting to defuse a bomb found near a church in an eastern Cairo suburb, state television reported,...

Nine Somali soldiers including two generals were killed by a blast just outside Mogadishu, militants and an army official said. Islamist group...

Mali's army confirmed the death of Amadou Koufa, one of the most prominent jihadist leaders in the country, in a raid by...

A Christian missionary from Indiana died in Cameroon when he was shot while traveling in a region where the military and separatists...

Troops shot and killed two "criminals" in clashes on Comoros' Anjouan island, a government official said, amid a wave of unrest against...

A medical aid worker held hostage in Nigeria since March was killed by Islamist militants after their deadline expired, government said. Three aid...

Two Kenyan teachers were killed when suspected al Shabaab militants threw an explosive device at a teacher's house in Mandera county near...

Egyptian security forces killed 11 suspected militants in an exchange of fire in the North Sinai town al-Arish, the official MENA state...

Egypt killed 20 suspected militants in an air strike in its western desert and shootouts in the Sinai Peninsula, the military said...

Egyptian security forces killed six suspected militants in a raid on a house on the outskirts of Cairo, an interior ministry statement...

Egyptian security forces killed 12 suspected militants in raids on hideouts in north Sinai, state news agency MENA reported, the latest in...

Security forces in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region shot dead four people protesting against looting of shops and homes in weekend unrest, a...

Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky would try to find those responsible for the murder of three journalists working for his online news organisation...

Gunmen shot dead 11 taxi drivers returning to Johannesburg from the funeral of a colleague in Kwa-Zulu Natal, a police spokesman said. The...

The war on poaching has claimed another life with a Kruger National Park ranger killed this week during an encounter with suspected...

Wildlife troopers shot dead three armed men in Kenya's Mount Elgon National Park while two other suspected poachers were injured but escaped,...

Burkina Faso security forces killed three suspected Islamist militants and arrested another one in an operation in Ouagadougou, its gendarme force said....

Unidentified gunmen attacked and killed the Ethiopia country manager of Nigeria's Dangote Industries in the restive Oromiya region when he was returning...

Kenyan police on the trail of one of the country's most wanted criminals shot dead a 17-year-old boy after mistaking him for...

Four Egyptian workers were killed and two injured, when a land mine exploded east of Cairo in an area where government is...

A Nigerian diplomat was found dead in his home in the Sudanese capital, two security sources said, in an apparent murder police...

Three rhino were found dead with their horns missing in Kenya's Rhino Sanctuary in Meru National Park in what the country's Ministry...

Militiamen killed five park rangers and their driver in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, one of the world's last...

Mali's army killed 14 jihadist suspects trying to escape detention in its central region, the latest in a string of killings by...

Egyptian police killed six militants belonging to a group authorities accuse of a bombing in Alexandria that targeted a security chief two...

Three aid workers were killed in the north-eastern Nigerian town Rann during an attack by militants on a military facility, a United...

A UNICEF employee and five education workers were killed in an attack in the Central African Republic, the United Nations children's fund...

A Malian militant group with links to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for an attack that killed two French soldiers last week. The soldiers...

Two French soldiers were killed after their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosive device in Mali, the French president's office said. France...

Tanzania's police are investigating the death of an opposition campaigner in the country's commercial capital, while dissidents say the killing showed politically...

Libyan forces killed three suspected Islamic State fighters near an oilfield in the southeast of the country, a local official said. Two...

Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said his people would not be frightened by "barbaric attacks" after unidentified gunmen killed at least 14...

Algeria's army killed eight armed men in Khenchela province, 700 km east of Algiers, the Defence Ministry said. The gunmen, described as...

At least a dozen soldiers were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile eastern borderlands where the army is battling Ugandan Islamist...

A Saudi Arabian Islamic preacher was killed in eastern Guinea after proselytizing to hunting communities in a remote region near the Mali...

Suspected militia fighters killed four Congolese soldiers in a hit and run attack on a military post in Kasai-Central province capital, Kananga,...

A Somali television journalist was killed in a car bombing in Mogadishu an editor for the TV station and local authorities said....

A South Sudan regional parliament legislator was killed in neighbouring Uganda, a senior regional official said, blaming rebels for the killing. Alfred...

A German tourist was killed and his Ethiopian tour guide injured in an attack by gunmen in northern Ethiopia's remote Afar region,...