UN peacekeeper killed in CAR ambush

Gunmen launch an attack on a UN camp in northern Mali, killing a UN peacekeeper and injuring at least one other, residents and eyewitnesses say.

Nine UN peacekeepers in Mali are killed in an ambush while on patrol in the north-east, the deadliest attack on the force so far, the UN says.

At least seven police officers have been killed in an ambush by local tribesmen during a security operation in northern Kenya, reports say.

Two Tanzanian peacekeepers with the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been killed in an ambush near the city of Beni, the UN says.

Three Syrian doctors and their Somali colleague are shot dead in an ambush near Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, eyewitnesses tell the BBC.

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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.

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

A car bomb kills an MP and injures another in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, as the government hosts a security conference.