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People are relocated after Jihadists aligned with the Islamic State militant group captured a military base in northeast Nigeria's Borno state after overnight clashes with troops. IMAGES
Villagers flee their homes with their belongings a day after gunmen killed 16 people in their village of Tiortyui, some 30 kilometres away from Makurdi, in Nigeria's central Benue state. Eight people were killed in another attack in a village nearby, bringing the toll to 24, as violence caused by heavily armed criminal gangs intensifies across the region. IMAGES
A mortar attack on a United Nations peacekeeping base in northern Mali on Saturday killed three people and injured 20, the U.N. said.
Islamist group al-Mourabitoun on Saturday claimed responsibility for an attack on a nightclub in Mali’s capital which killed five people, including two Westerners, earlier that morning.