EU diplomat in Ivory Coast killed
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A French security adviser working for the European Union in Ivory Coast is shot dead by unidentified gunmen.
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Ivory Coast says 63 people have been killed in a week of clashes with French troops as it hands over military powers to a former head of its northern command, whose appointment is considered a provocation by both the rebels and France.
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Ivory Coast asked Estonia on Tuesday to   detain a Panamanian-registered tanker at a Baltic port after an   eighth person died from exposure to toxic waste discharged by   the vessel in the West African country last month.
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A Belgian unmanned surveillance  aircraft being used by an EU force crashed on Tuesday in the  Congolese capital, Kinshasa, killing one woman and injuring two  other people, the spokesman for the European force said.
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A suicide attack in the Afghan capital Kabul killed a French soldier with NATO&#39;s International Security Assistance Force, a top police officer told AFP.
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A French technician for a defense contractor was shot dead here on Sunday, in an attack security officials said might have been carried out by Islamic militants.
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Eight French soldiers were killed when  Ivory Coast government warplanes bombed French positions in the  rebel-held town of Bouake on Saturday, a United Nations  official said.
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French troops killed about 20 people in Ivory Coast during unrest earlier this month, the Defense Ministry in Paris said on Tuesday, as controversy grew over the French military's handling of the crisis.
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MOLO, Kenya  - The European Union's chief election monitor in Kenya on Friday condemned clashes that have killed hundreds and displaced thousands in the run-up to a December 27 presidential and parliamentary election.
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ABIDJAN : Three people died and at least 40 were wounded in Ivory Coast, as government forces carried out repeated air raids on positions held by former rebels in the divided west African country, sources said.
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PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria -- One of seven foreign oil workers taken hostage yesterday was killed and another was wounded during a rescue attempt that also left two kidnappers and a soldier dead, officials said.
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Sudanese officials said Tuesday they were investigating a shooting attack on a vehicle carrying at least one diplomat in the capital
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A Dutch aid worker with the Clinton Foundation was shot to death at the house of Lesotho's trade and industry minister, police said Saturday.
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France acknowledges that its troops in Ivory Coast killed about 20 people during anti-French protests.
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Ivory Coast&#39;s government said on Thursday that soldiers from former colonial power France had shot dead 63 people and injured more than 1,300 during several days of unrest in the world&#39;s top cocoa grower.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Officials said a US diplomat originally from Ohio was killed Sunday morning when a rebel&#39;s rocket or mortar shell crashed into the trailer where he slept.
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A gunman on Tuesday killed an American diplomat and his Sudanese driver in Khartoum, U.S. and Sudanese officials said.