Red Cross aid worker killed in Mali

Mali's Red Cross suspends the movement of its staff in the northern desert region after some of its workers go missing, amid reports they have been kidnapped.

Kundi la wafanyikazi wa shirika la msalaba mwekundu ambao walitoweka Kaskazini mwa Mali limetekwa nyara na wapiganaji wa kiislamu.

Gunmen killed two Kenyan policemen and wounded two others on Sunday, the Red Cross said, the latest in a string of killings in the troubled far northeast of the country.

An aid worker at a Catholic mission in Central African Republic tells the BBC he fears an imminent attack, while food supplies are running low for 3,000 refugees.

Two people, including a 67-year-old French woman working for a Catholic charity, are kidnapped by militiamen in the Central African Republic.

Silvia Romano, 25, was freed on Saturday in Somalia, in an operation by Italy's secret services.

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