Counterterrorism
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:15
The explosion went off at 2:40 on a Sunday afternoon, on a tree-lined side street in Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa. The area was a quiet one – home to foreign diplomats, domestic civil servants and several embassies – and the blast was strong enough to kill two men, startle the neighbours, and demolish a small home.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:14
Ansar al-Sharia was behind yesterday’s attack on National Guard officers in Beja, Minister of the Interior Lotfi Ben Jeddou told radio station Mosaique FM.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:14
As patrols are stepped up against the jihadists who killed a Malian soldier in the northern city of Gao, fear stalks the streets for residents living under the watch of extremists.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 08:03
Tunisian security forces have killed at least nine suspected Islamist militants who are blamed for a deadly attack on a police patrol, officials say.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 07:42
Ministers and Permanent Secretaries of the EAC member states made the commitment at the end of their 12th meeting of the Sectoral Council of Ministers for Lake Victoria Basin which was here.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 07:37
"Eight months ago no one had heard of Al-Shabab," said Henri Ladyi, a Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) expert and director of the Conflict Resolution Centre (CRC) in Beni, a town and territory in North Kivu Province in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Ladyi is concerned that rumours about the influence of Somalia-based Islamists in Beni, whether true or not, are unravelling gains made by the CRC in recent years.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 07:35
Footage appears to show men in fatigues taking bags from inside shopping centre where al-Shabab staged deadly siege.
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 07:25
Police issue highest alert as US and local intelligence agencies assess reports of Westgate-style threat in Kampala.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 11:36
The source told Saba that the army and police troops positioned at those checkpoints repelled those terrorist elements and inflicted big loses on them and foiled their criminal plans.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 11:31
Testimony by Dr. Mima S. Nedelcovych, Partner, Schaffer Global Group, before the House Subcommittee on Africa.