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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.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).