Seventeen soldiers were killed and 35 wounded in central Mali on Tuesday in an assault on their base that authorities called a “coordinated terrorist attack”. “The toll has increased: we have lost 17 men and 35 are wounded,” Mali’s defence minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly said. Authorities had earlier announced that …

A Ugandan-led rebel group operating in Central Africa abducted 498 civilians and killed 17 others in the first half of this year, a watchdog organisation said on Wednesday, suggesting a resurgence of the group whose leader is the target of an international manhunt. The attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army …

A statement from the Turkish foreign ministry late Tuesday greeted Libya’s UN-backed unity government as it moved into its new headquarters in the country’s capital. “We welcome Libya’s unity government’s move into the government building in Tripoli,” the statement said. Turkey will continue to “strongly” support Libya’s territorial integrity and …