Four persons were killed and food trucks hijacked when Boko Haram guerrillas attacked a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) aid convoy in Ngala, Borno state in Nigeria. “WFP can confirm that a convoy escorted by the Nigerian military including WFP-hired trucks was the subject of an attack by armed groups 35 km southwest of […]

A United Nations panel that monitors sanctions in Sudan has accused a Canadian company of deliberately skirting the long-standing arms embargo against that country with the 2012 sale of more than two dozen armoured vehicles, CBC News has learned. A UN panel has accused Canadian company Streit Group of “knowingly” skirting an embargo against Sudan with a […]

A Chinese UN peacekeeper and three members of a UN de-mining unit have been killed in northern Mali. China’s foreign ministry confirmed one of its nationals was killed in a mortar attack on a UN camp in Gao that seriously wounded three others. The UN said that “two security guards and an international expert” with […]