DRC place violence hit provinces under military rule
DRC president Felix Tshisekedi place violence hit Ituri and North Kivu under military administration.
The Democratic Republic of Congo provinces of Ituri and North Kivu to come under military administration after being declared areas under siege due to rising insecurity.
Dozens of people were killed and several others injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Burkina Faso鈥檚 eastern farming village of Kodyel.
Parents of dozens of Nigerian students abducted from a college in Kaduna last month have been protesting at the country鈥檚 parliament accusing the authorities of not doing enough to rescue them.
(Picture: Congolese Army Soldiers and UN forces rest after inspecting an ambush site where ADF fundamentalist rebels attacked two vehicles on the road between Beni and the Ugandan border town of Kasindi, on April 9, 2021 in Kilya, Rwenzori Sector, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Credit: Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)
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