| 5,975,798 |
16.7667 |
-3.0167 |
Mali |
|
At least two armed Islamists of AQMI were killed in a military operation conducted by French forces in Timbuktu area. One of the Islamists killed was Abou al-Nour al-Andalusi, leader of AQMI's battallion 'Al-Furqan'. |
| 5,975,801 |
20.25812 |
0.9905 |
Mali |
|
An improvised device exploded near a vehicle of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) on the Aguelhoc to Tessalit Road in the north of the country on 29 February. No material destruction was reported. |
| 5,975,805 |
20.25812 |
0.9905 |
Mali |
|
A vehicle of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) set off an improvised device on the Aguelhoc to Tessalit Road in the north of the country on 1 March. According to the French radio, six peacekeepers sustained injuries, two seriously. It would be recalled a similar incident happened in the same area in the afternoon of 29 February without any material destruction. |
| 5,975,810 |
18.1194 |
-16.0406 |
Mauritania |
|
Members of the Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement, IRA-Mauritania have "besieged" anti-riot police mini buses in capital Nouakchott. the activists of IRA - an anti-slavery group - shown in the photo standing in front of a "police" mini-bus were stopping it and "chanting hostile slogans against the regime of President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz", while the mini-buses lined up behind were waiting to be allowed by IRA activists to continue driving. Police arrested a journalist covering the demonstration. |
| 5,975,815 |
24.99528 |
-12.33694 |
Morocco |
|
The Moroccan army killed a Saharawi businessman in the territories controlled by Polisario. The accident occurred Saturday in the area called Djbailat Albid, located in the region of Guelt, in the buffer zone where the use of weapons is forbidden under the cease-fire signed between the two parties of the conflict in Western Sahara, the Polisario Front and Morocco. |
| 5,975,820 |
-22.465 |
17.07694 |
Namibia |
|
Struggle kids damaged a bus and attacked bus driver with rods and stones, along Brakwater road. The driver sustained serious injuries and broken limbs. 7 were later arrested. |
| 5,975,824 |
-22.465 |
17.07694 |
Namibia |
|
Struggle kids smash windows at a construction site in Brakwater. |
| 5,975,827 |
13.52 |
2.12 |
Niger |
|
Air traffic controllers interrupted their strike on Saturday after one week. |
| 5,975,830 |
13.52 |
2.12 |
Niger |
|
Doctors launched a ten-day nationwide strike in Niger on Wednesday. |
| 5,975,838 |
4.91952 |
6.6733 |
Nigeria |
|
Unnamed gunmen attack Ogbele community on 27/02, killing five and kidnapping the chairman of the Community Development Committee. Residents of neighbouring communities fled in fear of mass arrests from descending security forces to the area. |
