Terrorism
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 09:58
A Somali lawmaker was killed when a bomb planted by Islamist militants ripped through his car in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, officials said.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 09:57
Boko Haram has released a video message in which it claims responsibility for a bombing in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, that killed at least 75 people.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 09:56
Boko Haram's elusive leader claimed responsibility for a bombing in Nigeria's capital of Abuja that left dozens dead, but said nothing about the group's reported mass abduction of schoolgirls that occurred the same day as the explosion.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 12:21
Nigeria is not winning in the battle against Boko Haram, but neither are the Islamist militants. The Abuja bombing is more a sign of the group's decline than ascendency.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:40
Islamists have claimed responsibility for the explosion that killed at least 75 in Nigeria this week. The group Boko Haram believes the legacy of colonialism has corrupted Africans and only Islamic law can save Nigeria.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:26
Another round of confrontations erupted last night near Wanlaweyn between the Somali National Army & African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on one side, against the Al-Shabaab Islamist militants.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 10:20
As Boko Haram’s actions in Nigeria over the past four months have grown more lethal, it has also crossed over to northern Cameroon to carry out kidnappings to finance its operations.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 09:00
It’s tempting to dismiss Boko Haram and its brutal, public atrocities as an aberration, a temporary road-block on Nigeria’s slow but inexorable upward trajectory. This is, after all, Africa’s largest economy and a thriving, if dysfunctional, democracy. But the violence keeps coming, and Nigeria’s leaders – despite their bullish, near-farcical declarations to the contrary – are powerless to stop it.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 08:58
A Boko Haram warlord Abubakar Shekau, in his latest video reiterated his war on western education, as well as calling for antigovernment operations throughout Nigeria, with specific reference to Abuja, Lagos, and oil producing areas.
Monday, April 21, 2014 - 08:57
Able-bodied men from the Nigerian town of Chibok have taken to the dangerous Sambisa Forest to search for more than 100 abducted girls and young women whom the military claimed to have freed from their Islamic extremist kidnappers, an education official said Thursday.