An attempted suicide bombing and mortar fire killed one UN peacekeeper and left about a dozen wounded in northern Mali on Saturday, the United Nations said. A foreign security source told AFP that assault was unprecedented in Timbuktu. In a tweet, the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali announced, One blue helmet ...

Guinea-Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz has nominated another new prime minister, the West African bloc said on Saturday, after talks aimed at ending years of political crisis. The Economic Community of West African States said Vaz had nominated Aristide Gomes as prime minister of consensus after consultations with political actors and civil ...

Parents of the missing Chibok schoolgirls on Saturday marked the fourth anniversary of their daughters' kidnapping by Boko Haram, renewing calls for their release and thousands of others seized in the bloody conflict in northeast Nigeria. Mothers and fathers were among several thousand people who marched to the Government Girls Secondary School, ...