[00:39.36]A Malian officer I spoke to over the phone told me that he was able to confirm that death of at least 8 Jihad fighters.
[00:47.31]And he told me that one Malian soldier was also killed in the fierce fighting this afternoon, and four others wounded.
[00:54.47]Nigerian troops say they've killed 14 suspected members of the Islamist rebel group Boko Haram in a raid on a building in the northern city of Kano.
[01:02.65]A military spokesman said a soldier was killed in the raid and a potential suicide bomber was arrested.
[01:08.03]From Lagos, here's Tomi Oladipo.
[01:10.47]Residents in some parts of Kano said they heard explosions and gunfire as the soldiers fought Islamist militants on Sunday morning.
[01:18.17]A military spokesman says security forces found several weapons belonging to the extremists including a car loaded with explosives,
[01:25.55]possibly to be used for an Easter Sunday attack.
[01:28.30]There's been no independent confirmation of the details of this clash.
[01:32.08]In the past major Christian holidays in northern Nigeria have been blacked by bomb attacks particularly targeting churches.
[01:39.13]Much of the violence across the region has been blamed on the radical Boko Haram sect.
[01:44.25]Doctors in South Africa reporting a further improvement in the condition of the former president Nelson Mandela.