Soldiers killed in Mogadishu blast

A bomb explodes in Somalia at ahotel in Mogadishu used by diplomats and government officials, killing at least four, witnesses say.

A Somali MP is shot dead in the capital Mogadishu in an attack by suspected Islamists, one of a number of violent incidents in the war-torn country.

Two French soldiers have been killed in overnight fighting in the Central African Republic, the French presidency says.

Two Tanzanian soldiers serving as UN peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were killed when their convoy was attacked by suspected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) rebels in North Kivu on Monday.

Egyptian security sources say at least seven soldiers have been killed after gunmen attacked military checkpoints in the Sinai peninsula.

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6 soldiers killed in DR Congo ambush
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At least 14 Tunisian soldiers are killed in a militant attack near the Algerian border, the defence ministry says.

Several people are killed by a car bomb on a busy street in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, reports say.

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Two soldiers killed in Tanzanian military plane crash
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Two soldiers of the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF) died after a military plane crashed in the Indian Ocean on Thursday. TPDF confirmed the incident saying the plane which was used for training crashed around 9.30 a.m. local time and had two ...
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