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South Sudan Wants Rebel Leader Riek Machar Declared a Terrorist

South Sudan Wants Rebel Leader Riek Machar Declared a Terrorist

South Sudan government has urged the regional states to consider rebel leader Riek Machar as a terrorist following the kidnapping of two Indian aid workers in his Upper Nile stronghold. Information minister Michael Makuei told the media in Juba that the captors were Dr Machar loyalists and were demanding $1 million ransom from the government. […]

Fighting Boko Haram in Chad: Beyond Military Measures

Fighting Boko Haram in Chad: Beyond Military Measures

Since 2015, the conflict between Chad’s armed forces and Boko Haram has destabilised the Lake Chad region in the west of the country. Defeating this resilient insurgency requires the state to go beyond a purely military campaign and relaunch trade, improve public services and reintegrate demobilised militants. Executive Summary Since early 2015, attacks in Chad […]

Cameroon Govt Begs for International Help Against Boko Haram Terror

Cameroon Govt Begs for International Help Against Boko Haram Terror

On a Friday night in September 2014, Boko Haram fighters attacked the village of Guza in northeastern Nigeria, killing and kidnapping young boys as they burned homes and looted. Ismael, now 15, survived that night of terror and hid in his house for 40 days, afraid that if he ventured outside for even a moment, […]

Barcelona police ‘shoot at’ driver of speeding truck full of gas cylinders ‘driving at high speed near city centre’

Barcelona police ‘shoot at’ driver of speeding truck full of gas cylinders ‘driving at high speed near city centre’

Spanish police used gunfire to stop the driver of a truck laden with household gas canisters who was driving at high speed in the wrong direction near the city centre on Barcelona’s main ring road. One policeman shot the lorry cab’s rear window and brought the driver to a halt after a high-speed chase during […]

Somalia a Great Example to Rest of Africa

Somalia a Great Example to Rest of Africa

As Somalia’s president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, popularly known as “Farmajo”, prepares to be sworn into office on Wednesday, his ascent to power evokes positive events in Africa in the last two years. Particularly encouraging is the fact that Mohamed managed to beat his incumbent Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud who had served one term only. The latter […]

New President Pledges to Work With AU’s Amisom to Defeat Al-Shabaab in Somalia

New President Pledges to Work With AU’s Amisom to Defeat Al-Shabaab in Somalia

Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo today pledged to work closely with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in fighting the terrorist group Al-Shabaab which poses the biggest threat to peace and security in the country. President Farmajo said there was an urgent need to fight and defeat Al-Shabaab if Somalia is to achieve prosperity, […]

Al Shabaab Releases 173 Prisoners From Its Own Jails

Al Shabaab Releases 173 Prisoners From Its Own Jails

Al Shabaab has announced it released 173 prisoners from secret jails in Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia over the past 48 hours. The released inmates were accused of cutting trees in Leego area in the region for charcoal, according to a statement from Al shabaab that was posted on pro-militants media outlets. Two more […]

The Continuing Threat of Terrorism in Africa

The Continuing Threat of Terrorism in Africa

The fluctuations in successfully addressing this issue were particularly apparent in Libya. The Islamic State (ISIS) seized control of Sirte in May 2015, incorporating the coastal city as a key area of its global caliphate. Nonetheless, a campaign initiated by militias from the nearby city of Misrata in May 2016 – supported by United States […]

Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death for Killing 9 Black Church Members

Dylann Roof Sentenced to Death for Killing 9 Black Church Members

An admitted white supremacist was sentenced to death Tuesday for massacring nine black worshipers who’d invited him to study the Bible with them at a Charleston, S.C., church, ending a two-phase federal trial that exposed the killer’s hate-fueled motives and plumbed the chasms of grief left by the victims’ deaths. The jury, the same that […]

U.S. Supports Ugandan Forces in Somalia

U.S. Supports Ugandan Forces in Somalia

The United States has again given non-lethal military aid to the Ugandan contingent of the African Union Peace-keeping Mission (Amisom) worth billions of shillings. The construction equipment, according to a statement issued on December 31 last year by Maj Robert Kamara, the Uganda contingent public information officer, includes two bulldozers, four motor graders, four compact […]

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