5,970,902 |
18.44 |
1.41 |
Mali |
|
Six UN peacekeepers were killed and some 30 wounded on Friday when suspected Islamists attacked their base in northern Mali. The six Guinean peacekeepers were killed in an early morning assault on a camp in the northeastern town of Kidal belonging to the United Nations' MINUSMA. Malian Islamist group Ansar Dine, responsible for several previous assaults, claimed the attack. |
5,970,906 |
16.7667 |
-3.0167 |
Mali |
|
In a separate attack, three Malian soldiers were killed and two others were wounded near the fabled city of Timbuktu. |
5,970,910 |
28.60986 |
-9.42986 |
Morocco |
|
Sahrawi human rights activist Alisalem Tamek started Saturday an open-ended sit-in in the Principal Square in Assa, South of Morocco, to protest against being systematically banned from the right to continue his higher studies since 2007 in the Moroccan universities. |
5,970,913 |
30.42013 |
-9.59802 |
Morocco |
|
A door-to-door salesman set himself on fire Thursday in a public prosecutor's office in southern Morocco in protest at the judiciary's inaction on a complaint he filed. Suffering second degree burns, the unnamed man was taken to hospital under police escort. |
5,970,918 |
34.01325 |
-6.83255 |
Morocco |
|
A nationwide strike was launched by the FDT on Thursday. |
5,971,044 |
7.80236 |
6.74301 |
Nigeria |
|
Organised labour, including the NLC and its civil society allies protested a electricity tax in several cities. The protests were peaceable. |
5,970,922 |
-16.11528 |
33.72944 |
Mozambique |
|
Two soldiers of the Mozambqiue armed forces allegedly attacked a civilian vehicle in Nkondezi, Moatize district on 3 February, injuring three of its occupants. They were later arrested and detained by police. |
5,970,926 |
-19.2692 |
34.2128 |
Mozambique |
|
Six alleged RENAMO gunmen reportedly shot a community leader and his son at their home in Nhamatanda district on 8 February. |
5,970,930 |
-20.57694 |
33.83583 |
Mozambique |
|
Alleged RENAMO gunmen attacked four civilian vehicles travelling along the main north-south highway, at Zove in Sofala province, leading to several injuries. |
5,970,934 |
11.79209 |
13.12717 |
Nigeria |
|
At least 10 persons were confirmed dead with scores injured when a group of Boko Haram invaded Mairi Mmumbe village, near Dalori of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State. |