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A military base in Somalia came under attack by al-Shabaab extremists on Wednesday, police and witnesses said, just as the African Union announced it was beginning a drawdown of troops in the violence-wracked nation. Almost simultaneous suicide bomb blasts targeted Read More …
Three Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers were killed, and more than 10 others injured when their vehicle ran over an improvised explosive device Sunday in coastal Lamu County. The incident comes a few days after eight KDF soldiers were killed Read More …
Scores of fighters of the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP) have been reportedly killed in military airstrikes. According to a publication focused on the Lake Chad region, a factory used in making vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED) in Read More …
At least eight police officers were killed Tuesday in Bodhei at the border of Lamu and Garissa counties when the vehicle they were travelling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device. The officers drawn from the special forces unit were Read More …
A second U.N. peacekeeper has died from injuries sustained during an attack in Mali’s northern Timbuktu region, an area where extremists continue to operate, the United Nations announced Monday. The attack Friday on a security patrol that was hit first Read More …
A mortar shell explosion in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region has killed more than 20 mostly children and young people and injured more than 50, according to media reports. Most of the victims who were killed on Friday were aged between Read More …
In this feature, part of a series exploring the fight against trafficking in the Sahel, UN News focuses on the illegal arms trade that is fuelling conflict and terrorism. In the Sahel, home to 300 million people, it’s a buyer’s Read More …
Ethiopia says it foiled a suicide attack by the armed group al-Shabab at a border town with Somalia. The Ethiopian army “stopped the attackers in their tracks before they could wreak havoc” in the Ethiopia-Somalia border town of Somali Region Read More …
At least seven police officers sustained injuries when the vehicle they were traveling in ran over an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mandera South on Wednesday. The victims were injured to varying degrees, with some suffering injuries to the head, Read More …
An explosion occurred last night within a house in the Shirkole neighborhood of the Hodan district in Mogadishu amid tight security measures. The explosion from an IED was aimed to assassinate the former commander of the Hodan District Police Station, Abdifitah Read More …
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has announced the deaths of 54 Ugandan soldiers in an al-Shabab attack on a base housing African Union peacekeepers in Somalia. Museveni’s statement on Saturday comes a week after al-Shabab fighters stormed the base in Lower Read More …
Lieutenant Fabrice Mboutou, a dedicated officer of the Cameroonian army’s Rapid Intervention Battalion, died as a result of fatal injuries sustained in the detonation of a homemade bomb. This incident adds to the horrific death toll of military troops in Read More …
At least two soldiers were reportedly killed and many others injured when the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP) terrorists attacked reinforced troops with a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED) at firm base Arege in Malam Fatori in Read More …
Somali and the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) troops have stepped up joint patrols to clear improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and open main supply routes to facilitate delivery of humanitarian aid to the populations. The African Union (AU) Read More …
At least 55 terrorists including several top Commanders from the Islamic State of the West African province (ISWAP) were killed by the troops of the Multi-National Joint Task (MNJTF), Force in the Fringes of Arege in Malam Fatori, in Abadam Read More …
For the first time since fleeing South Sudan’s civil war eight years ago, Jacob Wani returned home excited to rebuild his life. But when the 45-year-old farmer tried to access his land in Eastern Equatoria state’s Magwi County, he was Read More …
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has intercepted a consignment of 32 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), on its way to bandits’ camp in Niger. The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a Read More …
Three Bangladeshi peacekeepers were injured when a motorcade of a patrol team under Bangladesh Formed Police Unit (BANFPU-2) came under attack by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Mali on Sunday morning. The Armoured personnel Carrier (APC), which was carrying Read More …
The detonation of an improvised explosive device (IED) in Mali injured four UN peacekeepers from Sri Lanka, a UN spokesman said. The injuries are not serious, and the peacekeepers from the UN mission in Mali, known as MINUSMA, are receiving Read More …
Police Officers have recovered warfare equipment in Garissa. In the operation conducted on Monday, members of the National Police Service recovered the equipment including two RPGs with seven warheads, six AK47 alongside two hand grenades, Improvised Explosive Device (IED) materials, Read More …