The US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putting discussed Thursday, via phone, the global efforts to defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the developments in Ukraine.

The United Nations said on Wednesday that around a quarter of Congolese militia group the Patriotic Revolutionary Forces of Ituri (FRPI) had been “neutralised” after a three-week military operation.

Niger’s army has killed 15 Boko Haram Islamic extremists, captured 20 others and destroyed ammunition cars and motorcycles from the militants, a military spokesperson said. The attack in Niger by its military came the night after Boko Haram members had attacked the village of Yebbi in the Diffa region on …