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The EU official said Brussels had “drawn the lessons from our past experience in Mali in particular and that is why we don’t want to have a large-scale EU training mission for Niger”. The official said the mission would involve Read More …
The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) and the Somali National Army (SNA) ended a three-day meeting in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Friday in an effort to devise ways of countering the threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Read More …
There was a scare at the official Nairobi residence of a senior British High Commission official when security stumbled on an “abandoned bomb”. This was after the security at the residence of the First Secretary at the High Commission raised Read More …
Somalia’s largest telecommunications company, Hormuud Telecom, says one of its centers and a telecommunications tower have been destroyed in an explosion in Qaayib, a village in the Galmudug state of Somalia. The company said a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) Read More …
Six U.N. peacekeepers were wounded in central Mali when two armored vehicles in a convoy were hit by separate improvised explosive devices, the United Nations said Monday. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali reported that the incidents took place in Read More …
An IED blast claimed the lives of a senior officer and three members of a Bedouin pro-government militia on Sunday, in the latest attack on security forces in the restive North Sinai. Militants belonging to the Islamic State group remain Read More …
Police in Somalia say at least two people have been killed and five others wounded by a roadside explosion that hit a vehicle carrying students in the Dayniile district of Mogadishu. “Those wounded include people traveling with the students, and Read More …
The Somali army chief has confirmed that at least 5 people died and 11 were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Gen Dhagabadan Army Training Camp in southern Mogadishu on Sunday evening. Speaking to the state Read More …
Two children died Sunday morning after an explosive went off while they were herding goats at Iresuki village in Mandera County. Confirming the incident, Mandera CIO Benedict Kigen said the warhead, suspected to have been launched from a rocket-propelled grenade Read More …
Twin car bombings rocked Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Saturday causing “scores of casualties”. A vehicle loaded with explosives was driven into the education ministry compound and was followed by gunfire, police officer Ibrahim Mohamed said. “In a few minutes another Read More …
In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike against al-Shabaab terrorists who were attacking Somali National Army forces near Buulobarde, Somalia, about 218 km north-northwest of Mogadishu, on Oct. 23. The command’s initial assessment Read More …
Residents in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, were on high alert and avoided some places on Monday, a day after the U.S. and U.K. issued terror alerts about possible attacks in the city. The Department of State Services, which is Nigeria’s Read More …
An attack on a hotel in the centre of the port city of Kismayo in southern Somalia killed nine civilians on Sunday before security forces killed the gunmen. Security officers killed three of the attackers and a fourth died in Read More …
The Federal Government has disclosed that 755 civilians have been killed and 1,321 injured by the remnants of Explosive Ordnance (EO) in the Northeast in the last six years. The Federal Government also said the figure indicates that at least Read More …
El-Ghassim Wane, head of the UN mission in Mali, MINUSMA, presented the latest UN Secretary-General’s report on the peacekeeping operation. He briefed ambassadors on progress in the transition and peace process, while also addressing ongoing insecurity and rising humanitarian needs. Read More …
A fourth United Nations soldier has died from injuries from a highway bomb in northern Mali, a day after the blast claimed the lives of three of his comrades, a spokesman for the UN peacekeeping mission said Tuesday. Their vehicle Read More …
At least 8 people were killed and over 5 wounded in an explosion that rocked Mogadishu, the Somali capital on Monday evening, witnesses and police said. The IED blast occurred on a busy street in El-Qalow area located in the Read More …
Two MINUSMA peacekeepers were killed today, 17 October, when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device during a search and detection patrol of mines in Tessalit, Kidal region. This incident also resulted in 4 serious injuries among peacekeepers. Read More …
wo people were killed in southeastern Niger on Sunday by a road bomb which exploded as they were passing with donkeys, local sources told AFP. “Two women were killed and a child was seriously wounded when an improvised explosive device Read More …
Fleeing beheadings, shootings, rapes and kidnappings, nearly 1 million people are displaced by the Islamic extremist insurgency in northern Mozambique. The 5-year wave of jihadi violence in Cabo Delgado province has killed more than 4,000 people and scuppered international investments Read More …