Gunmen shot and killed a policeman deployed on security detail for polio vaccinators in north-western Pakistan on Tuesday, in yet another attack on health workers. The country struggled to contain the spread of the crippling disease. Another policeman was wounded…
Up to 200 people killed in attack in central Burkina Faso
An armed group linked to al-Qaeda, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), has claimed responsibility for what it says was an attack that killed up to 200 people and injured at least 140 in central Burkina Faso. The attack took place…
Burkina Faso police kill 40 Islamic fighters after ambush – Army
The Police in Burkina Faso have killed 40 Islamist fighters, the army said on Sunday. The terrorists ambushed a police reconnaissance mission in Koulpelogo province in the north-east of the country on Saturday, the military said. Five police officers were…
Malian president’s chief of staff, 3 others killed in ambush
The chief of staff for Mali’s interim president, Oumar Traore, and three others have been killed in an ambush, the government said on Thursday. The ambush took place in the rural area of Nara in Mali’s southwestern Koulikoro region, the…
Suspected extremists attack police in northern Kenya; 3 dead
Three people, including two police officers, were killed Wednesday morning in an attack by al-Shabab extremists in northern Kenya, Kenyan police have announced. The victims were in a police vehicle when they were attacked between the Hayley Lapsset Camp and…
Armed al-Shabab militants storm hotel in Somali capital
Somali security forces were attempting to flush out armed assailants from a hotel in the Somali capital, a police spokesman said Sunday, after the extremist group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack. There has been no immediate word of any…
Burkina Faso ambush kills 13 soldiers: security sources
Suspected jihadists have ambushed and killed 13 soldiers in Burkina Faso’s eastern province, security sources told AFP on Sunday, in the latest violence to shake the insurgency-torn west African nation. Four members of the defense forces were also wounded in…
Somalia’s president says at least 100 killed in car bombings
Somalia’s president says at least 100 people were killed in Saturday’s two car bombings at a busy junction in the capital and the toll could rise in the country’s deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five…
Guantanamo Bay: US releases oldest detainee Saif Ullah Paracha
Guantanamo Bay’s oldest prisoner has been released to his home country, Pakistan, after almost two decades. Saif Ullah Paracha, 75, was arrested two years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US and accused of being an al-Qaeda sympathiser.…
Insecurity in Nigeria: Is Anyone Safe? — Gbubemi Atimomo
Contemplations about Nigeria’s escalating security issues On September 11, 2001, the United States faced what is probably its worst terrorist attack on domestic soil. Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, while another one crashed into…