- UNICEF decries increased deaths of children from landmines in Somalia
September 11, 2023
The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has expressed concern about increased deaths and serious injuries to children involved in landmine explosions which have claimed at least 30 lives since June in Somalia. Nejmudin Kedir Bilal, acting UNICEF representative in Somalia, said several children have been victims in three separate incidents that involved discharges of unexploded ordnances ...
- Nigeria: NDLEA intercepts Kaduna-bound explosives, drugs, arrests grandma, others
September 10, 2023
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have intercepted 399 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices, (IEDs), from one Asana Oluwagbenga Leke, 39, along Mokwa-Jebba road on Thursday 7th September. The suspect who has been handed over to authorities in Niger state said that the explosives were handed to him at a park in Ibadan ...
- Kenya: Police recover unattended industrial explosives at bus station in Nairobi
September 9, 2023
Police are investigating the discovery of industrial explosives at a bus stop in the Kamukunji area, Nairobi. The cargo was found along Kumasi Road, outside a bus booking office, police said. It is not clear if the cargo had arrived or was to be sent at the time police on patrol found it on Friday, September ...
- Mali: Attack on boat, army base kills at least 49 civilians, 15 soldiers
September 9, 2023
Armed groups have attacked a passenger boat and military camp in Mali, killing at least 49 civilians and 15 soldiers, according to the country’s armed forces. Approximately 50 assailants were also killed in the attack. “On September 7, 2023, at around 11am , armed terrorist groups with fatal designs attacked a boat from COMANAV [a ...
- Somali army successfully avert major Al-Shabaab attack on base
September 7, 2023
Early in the morning members of the Al-Shabaab group launched a complex attack against the Somali military base in the Nur Dugle area of the Middle Shabelel region. The attack started with a car explosion, which the Al-Shabaab used to detonate at the gate in order to allow fighters on foot to enter the base camp, ...
- Somali president escapes a huge suicide car bombing attack
September 5, 2023
An explosives-laden vehicle targeted President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s convoy in the central Somali town of Maxaas on Tuesday, officials have confirmed. Security officials have confirmed that a suicide car bomb exploded as President Mohamud was returning from an address to local clan militia and government forces on the outskirts of Maxaas. Read more… Source: Horn Observer
- Kenya: Probe after two officers killed in terror attack
September 5, 2023
A joint operation has been launched in various parts of Mandera County following an attack on Sunday that left two officers dead and five others injured. National Police Service (NPS) headquarters yesterday said two of the injured officers were in a serious condition. Officials said major operation followed the bomb attack in Ledhi area, Arabia by ...
- Uganda arrests 5 more, recovers explosives in Kampala bomb plot – police
September 5, 2023
Ugandan police have arrested another five people and discovered five more explosives around the capital Kampala in a bombing plot linked to an Islamist rebel group, the force said. Based in the jungles of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) pledges allegiance to the militant movement Islamic State and has for ...
- Kenya: Two place officers killed, six injured in IED attack in Mandera
September 3, 2023
At least two police officers were Sunday killed while six others were injured when a vehicle they were traveling in was hit by a bomb in Arabia area, Mandera county. The officers from Kenya Police Quick Response Unit were on a ,mounted patrol from Arabia to Mandera when their vehicle ran over a Improvised Explosive Device ...
- U.S. Embassy in Uganda: Security Alert
September 3, 2023
U.S. Embassy, Kampala: “We are following press reports and police statements of an improvised explosive device discovered at a Kampala-area church in the Rubaga division September 3 which police located and defused along with unconfirmed reports of potential additional devices. We remind you that the U.S. Department of State’s Travel Advisory for Uganda is at a ...
- Nigeria: We Need Help As Bandits Use Explosive Devices For Operations, COAS Tells UN Rep
August 31, 2023
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja has sought help from the United Nations Office for Counter-Terrorism, to tackle increasing threats in the country as he said bandits have morphed their methodology and now use explosive devices in their operations. Lagbaja made this known on Thursday when he received the Under Secretary General, United ...
- UNSC: Terrorist Groups Remain Significant Threat in Conflict Zones, Neighbouring States
August 25, 2023
Despite the threat level remaining low in non-conflict areas, Da’esh and its affiliates continue to constitute a serious threat in conflict zones and neighbouring countries, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today, underscoring that the use of force alone — with no backing of a clear strategy — can be counter-productive, creating ...
- What’s next for security in Somalia after the AU mission ends?
August 25, 2023
In a dusty military compound in Somalia’s coastal town of Adale, soldiers from the African Union peacekeeping force and the Somali National Army gathered in a makeshift building. The AU commander gave signed documents to his Somali counterpart, marking the handing over of the military base, approximately 150km from Mogadishu, to the Somali Army. Since the ...
- Somalia: Car bomb explosion hits near stadium in Mogadishu
August 22, 2023
An explosion occurred near Mogadishu Stadium on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks in Somalia as the government is now at war with Al-Shabaab. An explosive-laden vehicle was targeted at a main checkpoint near Ifka Halane which is manned by paramilitary police forces who are in charge of the capital’s overall security. Read more… Source: Shabelle ...
- South Africa: Cash In Transit Vehicle Hit With Improvised Explosive Device
August 22, 2023
The small suburb of Lanseria, Gauteng province, Johannesburg was today the arena for a common tactic employed by criminals. A cash-in-transit vehicle (CIT) was hit with an improvised explosive device and while the owners of the vehicle scrambled for safety, locals descended upon the burning truck and looted its contents. CIT robberies are not uncommon in ...
- Kenya: Police arrest alleged Al-Shabaab operative with nail bomb ingredients
August 19, 2023
The Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) has arrested a man in Kiambu suspected of being a terrorist linked to the Somalia-based extremist group Al-Shabaab. The suspect, a 41-year-old man, led detectives to his house in Riruta area of Dagoreti, Kiambu County, where they recovered a Glock pistol loaded with six rounds of ammunition, Sh31,000 in cash ...
- Somalia: Roadside explosion kills at least six in Lower Shabelle province
August 9, 2023
At least six people were killed and 12 others were injured when a roadside explosion hit a minibus in southern Somalia on Wednesday morning, the local governor says. Mohamed Ibrahim Barre, the governor of the Lower Shabelle region, told VOA Somali that the minibus was travelling between Marka and Qoryoley towns. All the victims were civilians, ...
- US military conducts operations in Lamu against al Shabaab
August 6, 2023
The US military staged a high-level military operation at Magogoni Airfield in Lamu County to counter the threat posed by al Shabaab. According to a statement issued on Saturday, the US Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) said the high-stakes operation was carried out jointly by the US Army and Air Force, under the 475th Expeditionary ...
