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Mauritania: Al-Qaeda militant escapes from death row

January 4, 2016 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Mauritanian authorities this weekend said they are hunting for an Islamist militant who from Nouakchott central prison where he was awaiting execution for his part […]

Mali: Government declares 10-day nationwide state of emergency

December 22, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

Mali’s government declared a 10-day nationwide state of emergency Monday evening after what security sources say follows a series of threats from unnamed jihadist groups. […]

Mali: Gunmen fire rockets at northern city of Gao

December 14, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

Attackers fired rockets early today at Mali’s northern city of Gao, which serves as a base for UN peacekeepers and a French regional security force. […]

Mali arrests 2 suspects in last week hotel siege

November 27, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

Malian authorities on Thursday arrested two people suspected of links to the attack on a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako last week. Spokesman for […]

Somalia: Islamic extremist rebels kill president’s nephew

October 8, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Islamic extremist rebels ambushed and killed two men including the president’s nephew in a drive-by shooting in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, police and the rebels said […]

Somalia: Al Shabab militants attack A.U. peacekeepers’ base

September 1, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab group rammed a suicide car bomb into an African Union army base in southern Somalia, AMISOM, early Tuesday and stormed inside, an […]

Mali arrests 20 radical Islamist militant suspects

July 16, 2015 Geraldine Boechat 0

The Malian police arrested 20 people suspected of being radical Islamist militants, including at least two French citizens and the mastermind of a restaurant attack […]

US-Libya: Top al-Qaeda terrorist killed in US strike Libyan government

June 15, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

The Libyan government on Monday announced the death of the Algerian notorious al-Qaeda leader in the Maghreb Mokhtar Belmokhtar in a US drone strike in […]

GB/Morocco: Sex Abuse Allegations of Youness Tssouli, Serious Charges or Hot Air?

May 25, 2015 Steven Addamah 0

Moroccan Younes Tssouli, who was expelled lately from UK after serving jail term for terrorism charges, said he was sexually abused and mistreated during his […]