Charlotte Alfred
Monday, January 11, 2016 - 07:03
U.S. officials finally confirmed this week that an American drone base in Ethiopia was closed in September, after being used for four years to help gather intelligence on Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabaab.
The revelation comes after news in December that the U.S. military had deactivated a drone squad in neighboring Djibouti.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - 06:58
Experts say the government's version of events is riddled with conflicting testimonies, tainted evidence and coerced confessions.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014 - 06:20
In a matter of days, violence had engulfed the whole country. In the 12 months since, soldiers and militia loyal to Machar and Kiir have been accused of mass killings, disappearances, torture and rape.
Monday, September 8, 2014 - 06:13
As many headlines around the country focus on President Obama's moves in Iraq to contain the violence wreaked by Islamist militants, the news of U.S. airstrikes in Somalia this week targeting the leader of the extremist group al-Shabab may have seemed out of the blue. Yet the U.S. has quietly been building up a large counterterrorism operation in Africa in recent years.