Terrorism
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 09:06
President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday received the final report of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North with a declaration that the federal government would not pay compensation to victims of Boko Haram insurgency.
Instead of paying compensation to them, he added that government would fashion out ways of assisting victims of the dreaded Islamic terrorist group.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 08:39
The U.N. Human Rights Office has condemned an attack that killed more than 30 wedding guests in northern Nigeria Saturday. The attack was blamed on the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The U.N. agency warns that members of the group, which is blamed for thousands of deaths, could be liable for crimes against humanity.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 08:19
More than two weeks after al-Shabaab imposed a blockade of goods and food supplies from entering and leaving parts of Somalia's Bay region, local residents and officials are expressing concern about the worsening humanitarian situation.
Wednesday, November 6, 2013 - 08:10
Declaring that government will not pay compensation to victims of attacks by the terror group, Boko Haram, President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration would "find ways to assist those who have been affected one way or the other by the violence that began in 2009".
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 12:23
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Monday voiced support for the formation of a government in Lebanon in the absence of intimidation by Hezbollah.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 12:14
The memorials for dead fighters are but one manifestation of an explosion in the use of social media by Islamists since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 11:57
While governorate officials claim to know little about the three brothers why they were targeted, Marib locals and family members deny they had been engaged in any forms of militancy.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 10:07
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed 70 people in three attacks in northeastern Nigeria in recent days, officials said on Monday, a sign that a military crackdown is failing to subdue the Islamist insurgency.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 09:53
The shocked and terrified faces of the survivors standing in a smoke-filled mall in Nairobi’s upscale shopping complex dramatized the high emotion in a shaken nation. Women clutched small children as gunshots had broken out. Some were crying. The perplexed expression of a boy, perhaps ten years old, resting in the arms of his stunned father, shocked by the mayhem, defined the reaction of Kenya and the world to the murderous September 2013 attack. The sixty-seven victims included President Uhuru Kenyatta’s nephew and Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, shot dead in his car while preparing to leave.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013 - 07:34
Men face court without legal representation, accused of aiding attackers at Nairobi's Westgate shopping centre.