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Mali hotel attack: Hunt for three suspects
It is not clear if the suspects now being sought took part in the attack or were accomplices.
The exact number of gunmen is also not known. Eyewitnesses said up to 13 entered the hotel shooting, however the company that runs the hotel, Rezidor Group, said on Friday that only two attackers were involved.
The victims
Two Belgians, including Geoffrey Dieudonne, an official at the parliament in Belgium's Wallonia region.
Three Chinese, Zhou Tianxiang...
Terror attacks: Belgium 'looking for several suspects'
Belgium's police forces are looking for several terror suspects, as the capital, Brussels, endures a second day of a security lockdown.
Interior Minister Jan Jambon said the current threat was greater than that posed by Salah Abdeslam, wanted for the Paris attacks.
Brussels is on its highest level of alert amid fears an attack.
The city was a base for the Paris attackers - Islamic State militants - who killed 130 people.
The security situation...
Letter from Africa: When will Nigeria's leader visit Chibok?
(News from cnn.com) In our series of letters from African journalists, Sola Odunfa in Lagos argues that Nigeria's president has failed to show leadership over the Chibok abductions.
The date 14 April 2014 will not go away in a hurry from the memory of Nigerians. That was the day the militant Islamist group Boko Haram staged perhaps the most horrendous attack on the Nigerian nation since it launched its insurgency in 2009.
Early on that...
Nigeria abductions: Michelle Obama 'outraged'
US First Lady Michelle Obama said her family was "outraged and heartbroken"
US First Lady Michelle Obama has said the mass kidnap of Nigerian schoolgirls is part of a wider pattern of threats and intimidation facing girls around the world who pursue an education.
She said she and her husband Barack Obama were "outraged and heartbroken" over the abduction on 14 April of more than 200 girls from their school.
She...
Nigerians demand government do more to bring home kidnapped girls
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Lagos, Nigeria (AFRICTALK) -- Nigerians took to the streets Thursday to demand the government do more to rescue scores of girls abducted by militants more than two weeks ago.
Militants seized about 230 girls in the dead of the night at a high school in the nation's far northeast, a hotbed for Islamist group Boko Haram.
Armed men herded the girls out of bed and forced them...
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