(Reuters) – Islamist militants from neighboring Nigeria abducted a French family of seven, including four children, in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, French President Francois Hollande
Malian troops are carrying out house-to-house searches following running battles with Islamist militants in the northern town of Gao on Sunday. There are fears some
Malian troops and suspected Islamist militants are exchanging heavy gunfire on the streets of Gao in northern Mali. A BBC correspondent in the town says
The images of scattered and torched storage boxes at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu raised fears that thousands of the city’s famous manuscripts had