BAMAKO— Three United Nations peacekeepers were wounded in northern Mali when a vehicle in a convoy escorting their commander and the force's police commissioner hit a landmine on Thursday, officials said. The incident is the latest sign of a flare up in northern Mali, where U.N. troops trying to...

In January, the polio programme is contributing to the protection of more than 4 million children against measles. A mass vaccination campaign to protect more than 4 million children (4,766,214) against a measles outbreak in conflict-affected states in north-eastern Nigeria started on 13 January....