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Feb

2023

19 athletes wounded after blasts at race in Cameroon

AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG NINETEEN athletes were being treated for blast injuries after multiple small explosions during a running race in part of western Cameroon where English-speaking separatists are fighting government forces, a local doctor said. There was no immediate comment from authorities in the town of Buea in the South-West Region, where 529 athletes were running up the highest mountain in West and Central Africa as they competed in the Mount Cameroon Race of Hope. The armed wing of Ambazonia Governing Council, one of the separatist militia groups, claimed responsibility for the blasts. "Our primary target was the Cameroon elite…

Feb

2023

By The African Mirror

Guinea protests leave at least two killed, many wounded, opposition says

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SAMB SALIOU AT least two people were shot dead and scores wounded or detained at an anti-government protest in Guinea's capital Conakry that started late on Wednesday and continued into Thursday, an opposition coalition said. This time demonstrators erected roadblocks in several locations in Conakry and threw stones at security vehicles, Chief of Police Abdoulaye Sampil said in a statement that made no mention of civilian casualties. He said seven members of the security forces were wounded. A senior police official later said one protester was wounded. But the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), a coalition…

Jun

2021

By The African Mirror

15 U.N. peacekeepers wounded in Mali

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FIFTEEN U.N. peacekeepers, including several from Germany, were wounded in northern Mali yesterday in an attack on their camp involving a vehicle-borne explosive, the U.N. mission in Mali and the German military said. The attack targeted a temporary base set up by the peacekeepers near the village of Ichagara in northern Gao region, where Islamist insurgents linked to Al Qaeda and Islamic State are active. The wounded were being evacuated, the U.N. mission said in a post on Twitter without giving further details. Several German soldiers were among the wounded, a spokesman for the German military said. The U.N. mission…