Emirati passports discovered in Sudan suggest UAE boots on the ground

According to the Guardian, a document sent to the UN Security Council and seen by the newspaper contains images allegedly found in Sudan and linked to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group that has been fighting the Sudanese Read More …

Tunisia: One injured in landmine explosion in Kasserine Governorate

A civilian was injured on Tuesday in the explosion of a landmine in the military buffer zone of Jabal Salloum in Tunisia’s western province of Kasserine, the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) reported. Wounded in his leg and right hand, the Read More …

Kenya: Health crisis looms in Kiambu as residents store looted toxic sodium cyanide

A road accident in Kiambu County has rapidly escalated into a potential public health disaster with far-reaching consequences. On Saturday, a truck ferrying 22 tonnes of sodium cyanide en route to Uganda overturned, spilling its lethal cargo in Kambembe, Rironi. Read More …

Mali: Over 20 killed in attack in Mopti region

Gunmen killed 26 people in an attack on a village in central Mali’s insurgent-hit Mopti region on Sunday, a local official said on Monday. The attack targeted a village in the Circle of Bankass, one of several areas in Mali’s Read More …

Nigeria: Police Detonate Explosive Device Planted In Borno Metropolis

The IED was discovered by residents around Mala Kachalla General Hospital at the federal low-cost along Baga Road around midnight. According to an eyewitness, the IED did not explode as it was discovered on time. The police anti-bomb squad was Read More …

Nigeria: Army seeks collaboration with north-east stakeholders against IEDs

NAN reports that Abubakar Haruna, acting general officer commanding (GOC) 7 Division, made the call during a counter-IEDs awareness seminar in Maiduguri on Friday. Haruna, who also serves as the commander of sector 1, joint task force Operation Hadin Kai Read More …

North Dakota National Guard Conducts Counter IED Engagement with Benin

Counter Improvised Explosive Device Awareness is a broad program that aims to teach Soldiers how to counter or neutralize the enemy’s use of IEDs, according to U.S. Army Master Sgt. Ryan Lindberg, 164th Regional Training Institute, North Dakota National Guard, Read More …

Somalia: At least nine dead in car bomb explosion outside busy cafe in Mogadishu

A car bomb has exploded outside a cafe in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, killing at least nine and injuring several others as patrons were watching the final of the Euro 2024 football tournament on TV, the government said. The al-Qaeda-linked armed Read More …

Kenya: Four police officers killed, five missing in suspected Al-Shabaab attack in Mandera

Four police officers under the Special Operations Group (SOG) have been killed in a suspected Al-Shabaab attack at the border of Banisa and Mandera West sub-counties in Mandera County. According to a police report seen by The Standard, six other Read More …

Somalia: IED attack on ATMIS-SNAF convoy

A joint ATMIS – UPDF and SNAF logistics convoy was hit by a Command Wire Improvised Explosive Device (CWIED) yesterday along the Mogadishu-Buffow-Barawe route. The attack claimed two lives and injured personnel from both ATMIS and SNAF. All casualties have Read More …

Nigerian troops, hunters foil Boko Haram attempt to vandalise power towers

Troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force, North-East Operation Hadin Kai, have foiled an attempt by Boko Haram insurgents to vandalise power towers in Kasesa near Damaturu. “On receipt of credible intelligence of BHT activities, troops swiftly laid a successful Read More …

German army to vacate Niger air base in August

The German army will end operations at its air base in Niger by August 31 following the breakdown of talks with the Sahel country’s ruling junta, Germany’s defense ministry said Saturday. All Bundeswehr soldiers stationed at the base will be Read More …

Nigeria: Multiple suicide bombings kill at least 18 people in northeast of the country

At least 18 people were killed and 19 seriously wounded in suicide attacks targeting a wedding, a hospital and a funeral in northeastern Nigeria on Saturday, authorities said. In one of three blasts on Saturday in the town of Gwoza, Read More …

Nigeria: IED explosion, Rivers Government confirms detention of suspect

The Rivers Government has confirmed the detention of an unidentified man, suspected of detonating an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near Hotel Presidential in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, is currently under custody. Earlier, the Commissioner of Police in Rivers, Mr Olatunji Read More …

Kenya: Thirteen killed and parliament set ablaze in protests

At least 13 protesters were killed during protests in Kenya, doctors say, and a section of parliament went up in flames as demonstrations against new tax proposals escalated on Tuesday. An angry crowd broke through police lines to storm parliament Read More …

Mozambique: Three die following explosion in Ndunda, Beira

Three people lost their lives on Sunday, in Ndunda neighbourhood, in the Beira central Mozambican city of Beira, following the explosion of a device which may have been a land mine. According to Monday’s issue of the independent daily “O Read More …

Egypt: Construction worker killed in IED explosion in North Senai

He was working on a construction site, where land was being prepared for the state’s Sinai development plan. The young man was killed in Wefaq village, in the south of Egyptian Rafah, on Sunday by an improvised explosive device (IED). Read More …