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A homemade bomb thrown through the roof of a university lecture hall wounded 11 students on Wednesday, the vice chancellor said, in an English-speaking region of Cameroon in the grip of a bloody separatist conflict. University of Buea vice-chancellor Horace Read More …
The joint Anti-Terrorism taskforce and the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence on Sunday arrested Yusuf Muwonge, a prime suspect in an explosion that rocked Swift bus in Lungala, Mpigi District last month killing one suspected suicide bomber on the spot. Muwonge, Read More …
The Anambra police command says locally-made improvised explosive devices (IED) have been recovered from suspected members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN). According to NAN, Aderemi Adeoye, deputy commissioner of police in charge of operations, said the explosives, which included Read More …
A blast has killed at least two children in a Ugandan village as the country grapples with the third bomb attack in a week. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Friday’s incident. According to a senior police official, Read More …
Following bandits attack on the Abuja/Kaduna rail track, soldiers have taken over patrol of the ever busy Abuja/Kaduna highways. The patrol, is to forestall kidnap of travelers and other motorists plying the route. Daily Sun, gathered that the patrol consisting Read More …
Counter-Terrorism Police and the Bomb squad personnel on Wednesday rushed to Nakasagazi village, Kasongi parish in Kawanda sub-county, to retrieve a bomb that was discovered in a forest. It is reported that children who had gone to collect firewood saw Read More …
The leadership of the Boko Haram sect loyal to the Bakoura Buduma camps have relocated their bomb fabricators to a forest in Southern Kaduna State, PRNigeria has learnt. The bomb makers, known as Amaliyyahs by the Sect authorities, were recently Read More …
Ugandan police are investigating an explosion on a long-distance bus that killed one person Monday, the second fatal blast in less than 48 hours in the East African country. The bus was traveling from the capital, Kampala, to the western Read More …
On 2 October 2021, a United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) peacekeeper died and four others were seriously injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in Tessalit, Kidal region. Strongly condemning the incident, Mr El-Ghassim Wane, Read More …
An explosion in Uganda’s capital Kampala, that killed one and injured five, was “a terrorist act”, according to President Yoweri Museveni, who promised to hunt down those responsible. Police said the “serious blast” occurred at about 9pm (18:00 GMT) at Read More …
The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Sector 5 forces in Jowhar, have been commended for their exemplary role in helping secure elections and for their support in improving infrastructure in HirShabelle State of Somalia. On Sunday, HirShabelle State Vice Read More …
The Nigerian Army has said that troops of Joint Task Force North East Operation HADIN KAI deployed alongside Cameroonian Defence Force have foiled an infiltration by terrorists on its camp at the Forward Operating Base, Wulgo, Borno on October 18, Read More …
The blast ripped through a three-wheeled vegetable Tuk-Tuk, which was traveling from Balad to Garasweyne village, killing five civilians. An explosion has killed at least five Somali civilians in the south of the country on Monday, the latest in series Read More …
A bomb explosion went off Saturday afternoon at a police station in Ferfer Town located in the Somalia border with Ethiopia killing at least three people. Sources in the town said a bomb suspected to have been planted in a Read More …
At least three people were killed and several wounded Tuesday evening when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a busy restaurant in Somalian capital Mogadishu’s Yaqshid district, according to a police official. Meanwhile, an intelligence officer and two bodyguards Read More …
A Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) soldier was seriously injured when the vehicle he was traveling in ran over an improvised explosive device (IED) suspected to have been planted on the road by Al-Shabaab terrorists between Milimani and Baure in Lamu Read More …
The African Union Mission and Somali National Army (SNA) military officers wrapped up a five-day training course aimed at enhancing joint capabilities in mitigating the threat posed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Gerbi Kebede Regassa, AMISOM deputy force commander in Read More …
At least nine soldiers have been killed and 11 more wounded in an attack in central Mali, the army said, but local officials said the death toll was even higher. The attack on Wednesday occurred near the village of Bodio Read More …
The war on terrorism has received a major boost after the Federal Republic of Germany commissioned the expansion of the new counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) wing at the Humanitarian Peace Support School (HPSS) in Embakasi. The Kshs. 300 million project Read More …
A live bomb has been detonated and six others collected by officers from the bomb disposal unit at Naibor Keju area in Samburu central sub-county. Samburu Central Sub County Deputy Police Commander Abdikadir Malicha said bombs were discovered Saturday in Read More …