Action Against Hunger says abducted aid worker killed by jihadists in Nigeria

The relatives of the victims of an ambush by suspected jihadists on a humanitarian convoy in northeast Nigeria's Borno state are "in shock". Six people went missing and one driver was killed during the ambush on July 19, according to aid group Action Against Hunger.

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Thousands of residents have fled their village in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, fearing renewed attacks by Boko Haram after a recent raid by the jihadists.

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Suspected jihadists killed at least 18 people and wounded several during a raid on a restaurant in Burkina Faso's capital overnight but security forces shot dead both attackers and freed people trapped inside the building.

Suspected Boko Haram militants released a video on Saturday (July 29) showing three kidnapped members of an oil exploration team in north eastern Nigeria, one of whom asks the government to reduce the use of force against the jihadists.

Iraqi forces battled jihadists in west Mosul Sunday, aiming to build a floating bridge across the Tigris to establish an important supply route linked to the recaptured east bank.

Well-wishers danced in defiance of the Islamic State group on Thursday at the wedding of a bride and groom among families who fled the jihadists' brutal rule in Iraq's Mosul.

Two female bombers are thwarted as they try to stage a double suicide attack in Cameroon's Far North, with one blowing herself up and the second shot dead by troops, security sources say.

Within weeks, forces loyal to Libya's Government of National Accord (GNA) recaptured large chunks of the coastal city of Sirte that IS jihadists had seized in June 2015 as a staging post for an expansion into North Africa.

At least 14 pro-government fighters were killed on Friday in clashes with the Islamic State group in the jihadists' former Libya bastion of Sirte, a medical source said