Just last week that a man was trying to kill the Mali president during Sallah with a knife, the man accused of trying to kill Mali’s military strongman Assimi Goita, the figure behind two coups in less than a year, has died in custody, the government said on Sunday.The suspect, whose identity has not been revealed, had been taken into custody following the assassination attempt after prayers for Eid al-Adha at Bamako’s Grand Mosque on Tuesday.Once in custody, “his h...

As the Ecuador presidential election is fast approaching, one of the leading presidential aspirants has been killed by some yet-to-be-apprehended gunmen during a political rally.The murdered presidential candidate in Ecuador was assassinated on Wednesday evening at a political rally in the capital, just days before an election that was expected to be dominated by concerns over drug-related violence.The candidate, Fernando Villavicencio, a former journalist, was gunn...

No fewer than 0 people were killed and nine were wounded when an apparent team of gunmen ambushed a car rally in Baja, Mexico, about 73 miles from the U.S. border, authorities said.The horrific attack unfolded just after 2 p.m. on Saturday in San Vicente, near Ensenada, on the Pacific coast of the Baja Peninsula, the Reuters news agency reported.The violence erupted during the last day of a two-day all-terrain car rally, local officials said. Video purportedly of th...