Mali force pullout ‘recipe for disaster’ as ISIL doubled territory it controls, US/UN warn
The armed group ISIL (ISIS) has almost doubled its territory in Mali in less than a year, UN experts have said in a new report, […]
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Romania Grateful to Morocco Following Release of Citizen Kidnapped in Burkina Faso
Romania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Luminita Odobescu expressed her profound gratitude as she announced the successful release of a Romanian citizen who had been kidnapped […]
Kenyan police kills 20 al-Shebab suspects
Twenty people, suspected of being radical Islamist al-Shebab, were killed after ambushing police in Mandera County in northeastern Kenya, near the border with Somalia, Kenyan […]
Five civilians killed, some beheaded, in al-Shebab attack in eastern Kenya
Five civilians were killed, and some beheaded, in an attack on Saturday evening in two villages in eastern Kenya claimed by the radical Islamist Shebab, […]
Somalia: Attack on a military base at the start of the withdrawal of AU forces
Radical Islamist al-Shebab attacked a military base 450 kilometers west of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, as the African Union […]
Suicide bombing in Somalia: 5 dead, one Governor injured
At least five people were killed and 11 others wounded, including a governor, in a suicide attack in southwestern Somalia on Tuesday, a police commander […]
Kenya: $10 million for the “mastermind” of an attack in 2019
The United States announced Thursday it is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the capture of a man touted as the “terrorist […]
Somalia: Eight dead in the siege of a hotel attacked by the Shebab
At least eight people were killed during the siege of a hotel in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, occupied since Sunday night by jihadist fighters […]
At least nine dead in new suicide attacks by Shebab jihadists in Somalia
At least nine people were killed, including local officials, and 10 others wounded in two suicide attacks claimed by radical Islamist Shebab in central Somalia, […]
New US ambassador arrived at Khartoum after 25 years
The first US ambassador to Sudan in 25 years took up his post on Wednesday in the northeast African country, a new sign of relax […]