Crime

Gunmen have killed eight people in central Mali, a local official and security ministry staffer said Wednesday, in the latest violence to hit the war-torn Sahel state.

Militants attacked a minibus Tuesday, the officials said, which was travelling between the towns of Bandiagara and Bankass in central Mali’s volatile Mopti region, which is prone to frequent jihadist attacks and ethnic killings.

“Armed men opened fire on the minibus,” a local government official told AFP, adding that eight people died, four escaped and eight were seriously wounded, three of them children.

An official from Mali’s security ministry, who also requested …

Nine women were reportedly abducted by suspected Boko Haram insurgents in the attack on Takulashi village of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday.

Details of the attack on the remote village, which were received yesterday further revealed that eleven persons were feared killed in the attack as against the seven members of the Civilian Joint Task earlier reported to have been killed in the Sunday’s siege.

Some residents of the village had told correspondents that that seven members of the Civilian joint task force  (CJTF) and local hunters who were part of the group that engaged the …