Somali security forces, backed by the Southwestern state army, killed seven al-Shabab fighters and injured five others on Saturday in an operation in Bardale town in the southern region of Bay, an official confirmed on Sunday.
By hilary Matfess Last month, after an attack on members of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s military was claimed by the Islamic State, observers quickly voiced concerns that the militant group was making inroads into Africa. A U.S. Africa Command spokesperson said that there are “meaningful ties” between the Islamic State and the Allied…
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Moki Edwin Kindzeka A delegation from the Kenyan military is sharing experience on how the Cameroon military engineering corps has taken over road construction projects in Boko Haram terrorism prone areas to use the example and develop areas of its territory threatened by Al-Shabab which they say is still a threat. The Kenyan delegation has…
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•Labels Saudi Arabia, Iran, N/Korea countries of concern •Russia placed on special watch list Jude Johnson with Agency report The United States has announced the designation of the Boko Haram terrorist group as an entity “of particular concern”. The US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in a statement revealed the designation of Boko Haram…
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A slightly more moderate leader of Nigeria’s most brutal terrorist group is killed by his fanatical followers. Few nigerians will have mourned the death of Mamman Nur, a senior figure in Boko Haram, one of the world’s most brutal terrorist groups. A capable field commander, Nur is thought to have trained with al-Qaeda cells in the…
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Ibrahim Ahmed FILE – A youth leads a group of hard-line Islamist al-Shabab fighters as they conduct military exercises in northern Mogadishu’s Suqaholaha neighborhood, Somalia, Jan. 1, 2010. Amid a decline in terror incidents worldwide in 2017, Nigeria and other African countries are struggling to prevent the expansion of terror groups in parts of the…
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Mukhtar Robow, one of the founders of the al-Shabab militant group, has donated blood to survivors of the truck bombing in Mogadishu, capital of Somalia.
A 44-year-old man has been stoned to death by the al-Shabab militant group in Rama Addey town in southern Somalia’s Bay region, reports say.
A bombing claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group killed five civilians and injured six more in the Somali capital on Wednesday, a spokesman for the city’s mayor said.
A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, killing at least six soldiers and wounding another eight.
