The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali says a peacekeeper has shot dead two colleagues in what has been called a “settling of scores.” A statement from the mission on Friday says the suspect was immediately detained after the shooting at the UN base in Kidal in northern Mali. An investigation …

Eight people, including two rangers, a soldier and five militiamen were killed in a militia attack near Lake Edward in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga national park, park authorities said on Friday. A soldier who was helping the park rangers was killed and three others were wounded, one seriously, …

A militant leader who joined the Islamic State jihadist group was killed in an army operation west of the Algerian capital, a security source said on Monday. Mouloud Baal, also known as Abou El Moundhir, was a former member of the extremist Armed Islamic Front (GIA) which battled the Algiers …