- UN Experts: Africa Became Hardest Hit by Terrorism This Year
July 24, 2021
Africa became the region hardest hit by terrorism in the first half of 2021 as the Islamic State and al-Qaida extremist groups and their affiliates spread their influence, boasting gains in supporters and territory and inflicting the greatest casualties, U.N. experts said in a new report. The panel of experts said in a report to the ...
- Burkina Faso : 3 soldiers killed, 5 hurt in Sanmatenga Province
July 21, 2021
Three soldiers and a militiaman were killed as two blasts hit a military convoy in northern Burkina Faso last week, the army confirmed late on Tuesday. The incident happened last Friday near the town of Dablo when a joint force of army, police, and gendarmerie personnel was returning from an operation, the military said in a ...
- ISIS risk in Europe ‘significantly’ reduced, says EU counter-terrorism coordinator
July 17, 2021
Islamic State “no longer has the capacity to send terrorists onto European soil” thanks to “action taken by the international coalition,” the EU’s counter-terrorism coordinator Gilles de Kerchove, told Le Monde in an interview published Saturday. However, he warned “the threat remains complex” including through “isolated actors, with no direct link to the organization.” De Kerchove ...
- Zimbabwe says it lacks funding to clear anti-personnel mines
July 14, 2021
The Zimbabwean government on Tuesday bemoaned the lack of adequate funding from donors and international partners to support its demining efforts. Zimbabwe is one of the most densely mined countries in the world. While the country’s land mine clearance started in earnest in 1982, only two years after independence, the country is still grappling with the challenge ...
- EU approves military training mission to Mozambique
July 13, 2021
Foreign Ministers from the European Union on Monday agreed to set up a military training mission in Mozambique (EUTM Mozambique). According to a press release from the Council of the European Union, the aim of the mission is to “train and support the Mozambican armed forces in protecting the civilian population and restoring safety and security ...
- Sudan: At least four killed in explosion at sports venue in Port Sudan
July 11, 2021
An explosion killed at least four people at a sports venue in a key Sudanese Red Sea port city, medics said Sunday. The blast took place late Saturday at a busy sporting club in Port Sudan. It was not immediately clear who was behind the incident, which also involved an armed attack. “An explosive device went off ...
- Mali: Explosive device injures seven UN peacekeepers in Mopti Region
July 9, 2021
Seven UN peacekeepers were injured on Friday when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in central Mali, the United Nations peacekeeping mission announced. The device exploded beneath the vehicle which was travelling near Diallo, in the central Mopti region, MINUSMA, the UN peacekeeping mission, tweeted. The nationality of those injured wasn’t given. https://twitter.com/UN_MINUSMA/status/1413522796840427523 Read more… Source: Punch Newspapers/MINUSMA – ...
- Ugandan Rebels ADF Resort To Beheading, Home-made Bombs
July 5, 2021
Life of Congolese in Beni, North Kivu Province is completely becoming complex as rebels now resort to new methods of terrorising residents. According to a report by the Council of Ministers, these terrorists take advantage of security gaps within the region and inflitrate the population to behead their targets and also plant home-made bombs. There are concerns ...
- Nigeria: Police Foil Attack On Military Checkpoint, Arrest Four ESN/IPOB Members In Imo
July 5, 2021
Men of the Imo State Police Command have foiled what would have been an attack on the military checkpoint along Owerri/ Orlu Road and arrested four members of the proscribed ESN/IPOB organisation. The futile bid of the hoodlums, who came in their numbers was to launch an improvised explosive as they were engaged in a gun ...
- Nigeria: IED Explosion Kills 1, Injures 2 In Kaduna
July 4, 2021
Kaduna State police command has confirmed that on Saturday there was an explosion at Shagari Close in Badarawa Kaduna as result of a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) concealed in three bottles of popular children’s iuice (Viju Milk) which exploded and killed one of the children and injured two others. A statement issued by the police ...
- Somalia: 10 killed in Al-Shabaab suicide bomb attack on tea shop in Mogadishu
July 3, 2021
A suicide bombing attack by the Al-Shabaab jihadist group on a crowded tea shop in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the government said Saturday. The death toll from the attack, which targeted a tea shop near heavily guarded government institutions on Friday evening, was significantly higher than the four previously reported. “On the ...
- Boko Haram: 350,000 dead in Nigeria — UN
June 28, 2021
Insurgency-related conflicts claimed the lives of almost 350,000 lives in the North-eastern part of Nigeria up till the end 2020, a new report of the United Nations Develop Programme (UNDP) has said. The report said insurgency directly resulted to the death of 35,000 people in three states in the region, while an estimated 314,000 people died ...
- DR Congo imposes curfew in Beni after weekend bombings
June 28, 2021
People in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s city of Beni have woken up to a curfew on Monday after three bombs rocked the east of the country, with authorities warning they had reports more attacks were being planned. On Sunday morning, a makeshift bomb went off in a Catholic church in the city, injuring two ...
- NATO strengthens its partnership with Mauritania
June 25, 2021
NATO and Mauritania are further developing their long-standing partnership, by widening the scope of their political dialogue and practical cooperation. NATO civil and military officials have just completed a trip to Mauritania, where they discussed opportunities for potential additional advice, training and capacity building activities in support to Mauritanian national defence and security structures and ...
- Southern African bloc to send troops to insurgency-hit Mozambique
June 24, 2021
Southern African countries agreed to deploy forces to help quell a jihadist insurgency, as military and security sources said late Wednesday there had been fresh clashes with Islamist militants in northern Mozambique. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) approved the deployment of the “SADC Standby Force in support of Mozambique to combat… terrorism and acts of ...
- UN opens office for counter-terrorism and training in Africa
June 24, 2021
Morocco and the United Nations on Thursday inaugurated a U.N. office for counter-terrorism and training in Africa, that’s seeing increasing extremist violence. Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita warned of terrorist threats sweeping across parts of the continent. “(Africa) is not only the new ground of returning foreign terrorist fighters, but it has also become a homeland for ...
- AMISOM trains Jubaland Police to counter violent extremism
June 24, 2021
The Police component of the African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, has concluded training for Jubaland State Police personnel on prevention and countering violent extremism and radicalization. Fifty police officers drawn from various police stations across Jubaland attended the one-day training that also aimed to enable them to identify and combat extremism, especially ahead of the ...
- Two Burkina Faso soldiers killed in IED blast
June 23, 2021
Two Burkina Faso soldiers have been killed died while looking for four policemen missing after a deadly jihadist ambush, the government said Wednesday. “After the death of 11 policemen” on Monday in the Centre-Nord region, the two soldiers had died when “they hit an improvised explosive device”, government spokesman Ousseni Tamboura said after a cabinet meeting ...
