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Added on the 14/03/2016 05:03:06 - Copyright : Reuters EN
A deadly terrorist attack at several luxury hotels in the Ivory Coast on Sunday sent beachgoers scrambling for their lives.
Newly-released security videos show the moment Islamist militants claiming to be from Al Qaeda's north African wing fired on beachgoers in the Ivorian resort of Grand-Bassam, killing 18 people. Mana Rabiee reports.
The verdict hearing for four of the defendants begins in the trial over one of West Africa's bloodiest jihadist attacks -- a 2016 machine-gun assault on the Ivorian beach resort of Grand-Bassam that killed 19. The verdict is expected on Thursday. 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
Ivory Coast (South Africa), 2 Jul, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Legnan Koula).- The Ivory Coast is holding a ceremony, presided over by Head of State Alassane Ouattara, to pay tribute to the fourteen soldiers killed by a group of armed individuals in a mixed gendarmerie of the Armed Forces in Kafolo, Sikolo Sub-prefecture, in the northeast of Ivory Coast. FOOTAGE OF THE TRIBUTE HELD IN IVORY COAST TO THE 14 SOLDIERS KILLED.