Gaza, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau

Today's three stories you should know

Gaza

Israel has killed 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including children and three journalists, in the latest violation of a ceasefire it agreed with Hamas more than three months ago. Since then, the Israeli army has killed more than 400 people in almost daily attacks on the Palestinian enclave, rendering the ceasefire effectively meaningless. Health officials said the three journalists - Mohammad Qeshta, Abdul Ra'ouf Shaath and Anas Ghunaim - were killed in an airstrike on a car they were travelling in on their way to film a new camp for displaced people in central Gaza. In other incidents, three people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed by tank fire. Two more people, one a 13-year-old, were killed by Israeli soldiers in separate shootings. And three died in other Israeli attacks across the Strip.

More from Reuters here.

Nigeria

At least eight soldiers have been killed in an attack by the Boko Haram armed group in northern Nigeria, officials said. The military unit that was attacked by men on motorcycles and in armored vehicles had been attempting to flush insurgents from the Timbuktu Triangle - long a stronghold for self-declared Islamist groups. Separately, the army said it rescued 62 hostages who had been held for ransom in a forest by a criminal gang. Nigerian authorities are struggling to tackle several overlapping security crises, particularly in the northwest of the country, where ISIS- and al-Qaeda-linked groups are active and criminal gangs, known locally as bandits, regularly kidnap large groups of people for ransom.

More from Africa News here.

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau’s military junta has announced it will hold elections on December 6 to fulfil a promise it made to rule for a one-year transition period when it seized power in a coup last November. In a presidential decree, head of the military government Gen. Horta Inta-a said the vote would be free, fair and transparent. Guinea-Bissau, a country of 2.2 million people, has been dogged by coups and attempted coups since becoming independent of Portugal 50 years ago. It is one of a slew of West African countries that have been taken over by military juntas since 2020, with the majority of the coup leaders saying their takeovers were necessary to fight rebel groups across the Sahel region and beyond.

More from AP here.