Terrorism
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 09:57
Testimony by Acting Assistant Secretary Donald Yamamoto, Bureau of African Affairs, U.S. State Department before the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations, and Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade and Middle East and North Africa.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 08:53
Two charred bodies recovered from Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall are highly likely to be two of the gunmen who killed dozens of people last month in one of the worst militant strikes on Kenyan soil, a lawmaker probing the attack said on Friday.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 08:49
The rebel groups that were driven out of northern Mali by French-led troops in January are once again on the rise.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 08:06
The US embassy in Uganda has warned of a possible terror attack in Kampala akin to the recent hostage crisis on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 07:51
The United Nations recently uncovered a "credible" plot by the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab to mount a major terrorist attack against the U.N. compound in Mogadishu, according to senior U.N. officials briefed on the plan. It's another sign that the militant outfit, once thought to be all but expired, has once again become a major force for terror in East Africa.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 07:44
Police in Uganda are on high alert, after the U.S. Embassy warned of a possible terrorist strike like the one that killed dozens at a Kenyan mall last month.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 07:29
Authorities investigating last month's deadly attack at a Kenyan mall have identified a Norwegian-Somali man as a suspect.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 07:13
Attackers' behaviour captured by security-camera footage of September raid on Kenyan capital's Westgate shopping centre.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 06:19
Security message for U.S. citizens in Uganda on the possibility of a possible terrorist attack.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 13:20
In a recent article in African Arguments, Jonathan Hill, a senior lecturer at King’s College London and author of Nigeria Since Independence: Forever Fragile?, provides a thoughtful, if grim, analysis of the latest round of Boko Haram killings in northern Nigeria. He makes the important point that the recent murder of students while they slept at the agricultural college in Yobe state was only one in a series of assaults. He cites the raids on the secondary school in Mamudo in July, Dumba village in August, and Benisheik in September. He notes that these attacks took place during the state of emergency with a greatly augmented security presence that failed to prevent them.