Conflict and Ebola Upend Washingtons Business-Boosting Vision in Africa
JOHANNESBURG���American and African leaders in August celebrated a new story for Africa, one centered on an era of expanding commerce and a shift away from a relationship built around conflict, terrorism and pestilence. But months after a summit in .
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#1205. 05/03/2014 NAIROBI, Kenya ��� At least three people were killed in a grenade blast in one of two explosions Saturday along the coast of Kenya, which has been working to crack down on a recent wave of terrorist attacks. http://news360.com/article/237192425.. 05/13/2014 Camille Lepages work has been published in the Guardian, Le Monde, the Sunday Times, the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and used by the BBC. Photograph: Camille Lepage A��.
Uganda Police Thwart Terror Attack in Capital
KAMPALA, Uganda���The Ugandan police Saturday foiled an attempted terror attack in the capital of Kampala, a police spokesman said, in what appeared as an unsuccessful reprisal strike by the Somali militant group al-Shabaab. Security officials arrested .
White House and Top Democrat Clash Over Irans Nuclear Program
���If we continue down this course we will weaken ourselves to a point that Iranians will think theres no credible military threat on the table any more,��� Menendez said at a Wall Street Journal event. ���They will believe the sanctions will never be.
Yemen: reported US covert actions 2001-2011 | The Bureau.
As Yemen came under severe pressure during the Arab Spring and militants seized control of cities and towns in the south, the US significantly stepped up its attacks, most notably with drone strikes. The Data The events.. In late 2011 the Wall Street Journal reported that some current and former US military officials were now claiming that they were fed misleading intelligence which may have been intended to result in Mr. Shabwanis death. But there was also a��.
Al-Shabab Doesnt Want a Truce With Infidel Powers
. and Somali militants is escalating. On Sunday, a day after members of the al-Shabab group executed 28 passengers on a Kenyan bus, Kenyas Vice President William Ruto announced that the countrys military had crossed into Somalia and attacked al.
Boko Haram raids settlements in north east Nigeria
Boko Haram militants have killed hundreds of people in a dozen settlements around the town of Baga.. Two locals said the insurgents began shooting indiscriminately and burning buildings in raids on the civilian population carried out on Wednesday.
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Dangerous Somalia Creates Thriving Housing Market.
According to the United Nations, about 51,000 people have fled their homes in Somalias capital, Mogadishu, since late August as Islamist militants battle in the streets against African Union and government troops. A recent militant attack on government soldiers left at least 15 people dead and 20 wounded, the latest in a drumbeat of attacks and counterattacks that have taken a toll on civilians caught in the cross-fire, the WSJ reports. The result is a surge in demand��.
Somalia Rebel Leader in Convoy Hit by US Airstrike
MOGADISHU, Somalia���The leader of Somalias al-Shabaab militant group was in a convoy of vehicles hit by a U.S. airstrike earlier this week, a spokesman for the movement said Wednesday. The spokesman, Abu Mohamed, didnt indicate the fate of Ahmed .
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The Wall Street Journals Andrey Ostroukh, Gregory L. White, and Julian E. Barnes: European leaders ���reminded one another publicly that they cant trust Mr. Putin or the separatists to stick to their promises after a previous deal in September.
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JSOC forces are reported to have taken advantage of these events to carry out more intensive operations against militants, often using helicopters, airstrikes, AC-130 gunships and boots on the ground.. A major investigation by the US Army Times has revealed that in the first years following the September 11 attacks, there were rumours of potential al Qaeda training camps in Ras Kamboni, a coastal town about two miles from the Kenyan border. We were throwing��.
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The Wall Street Journals Stacy Meichtry, No��mie Bisserbe, and Beno��t Faucon with details on gunman Amedy Coulibaly: ���Interviews with friends and lawyers ��� as well as police interrogation transcripts, phone taps and court documents ��� show Mr.
Somalia Says Al-Shabaabs Intelligence Chief Killed By US Airstrike
A U.S. airstrike on Somalia killed a leading member of the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, the Somali government said Tuesday. The national-security ministry identified the Somali man as Abdishakur Tahlil and said he was intelligence chief for the.
Belarusian Military Cooperation With Developing Nations.
On 26 November, unknown militants believed to be affiliated with Al-Qaeda attacked two Belarusians in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa. One was. In 2000s, the Wall Street Journal Europe claimed that Belarus sold arms to Hamas, as well as to a series of countries labelled as sponsors of terrorism.. Transaviaexport officially claimed that the first machine was chartered by the UN Security Council to bring cargo for the African Unions peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
Illegal ivory may not be funding African terror group
Kenyas president Uhuru Kenyatta linked ivory and the Westgate attack in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. The former head of the Kenya Wildlife Service and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime have highlighted Shabaabs role in elephant poaching, while many .
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The militant group, however, has continued to carry out regular attacks on government forces and African peacekeepers.. A suicide bomber on Thursday rammed a car laden with explosives into the gate of a Mogadishu hotel where Turkish delegates were meeting their Somali counterparts, killing two security guards... @omabha Police Say Suicide Attack in Somalia Targeted Turkish Government Convoy ��� Wall Street Journalhttp://dlvr.it/8CBYc0 #Somalia.
Somali Militants Attack Two Hotels in Capital
NAIROBI, Kenya���Militants assaulted two hotels popular with government officials in Somalias capital Friday, blasting their way into the compounds with car bombs and killing at least 10 people, including top politicians. Somalias al-Shabaab militants .
Mount Sinjar: Islamic State siege broken, say Kurds
On the ground, about 8,000 Kurdish peshmerga fighters launched a two-pronged attack which they said had succeeded in opening a wide corridor to allow members of the Yazidi minority and others to leave. Masrur Barzani, Chancellor of the. By the Kurds.
Was this 16-year-old, killed by a US drone, really a terrorist.
He walked quietly between his two friends as he entered the conference hall in one of the best hotels in an exclusive enclave of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. The carpeted room. It was the frequent attacks by these planes, or drones, operated by America, supposedly an ally, that were the focus of the gathering. The drones had.. There are even four credible reports by news sources including the Wall Street Journal and the BBC that under 18s had been killed.
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June 2, 2014 (NIGERIA): Boko Haram militants wearing military uniforms reportedly killed at least 200 civilians in three villages in the Gwoza local government district in Borno State in northeastern Nigeria.. June 25, 2014 (NIGERIA): A car bomb killed at least 21 people outside an upscale shopping mall in Abuja, the Nigerian capital. ��� Wall Street Journal, June 25. June 26, 2014 (PAKISTAN): The U.S. State Department listed the charity Jama`at-ud-Da`wa as a��.
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A7 http://online.wsj.com/articles/uganda-forces-discover-suicide-vests-ieds-at-suspected-terrorist-cell-1410783132 Security forces said Monday that they discovered suicide vests and improvised explosive devices after foiling, with. broke up a suspected terrorist cell in the Somali-dominated suburb of Kisenyi, outside the capital Kampala, according to police, and marked the latest example of the U.S. and the East African nation working together to disrupt attacks.
Police Say Suicide Attack in Somalia Targeted Turkish Government Convoy
A suicide car bomber killed at least six people in Somalias capital on Thursday, police said, in an attack apparently aimed at a Turkish government convoy in town ahead of a presidential visit.. The attack occurred at the front gate of a new hotel.
Senior al Qaeda leader killed in Somalia | The Long War.
Witnesses said foreign troops swept into the town on helicopters, fired missiles from an attack helicopter, killed Nabhan and another terrorist, and captured two others after wounding them, Mareeg reported. Nabhans. Nabhan is a senior leader in Al Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia that controls vast swaths of territory in the South and in the capital of Mogadishu. He has been. Wall Street Journal: Elite U.S. Forces Kill Top Al Qaeda Fighter �� Reply.
Shabaab suicide teams target civilians in assault on Kenyan.
At least two, and possibly three, assault teams attacked the mall from different entrances in what the United Nations described as a ���complex��� assault, according to The New York Times. The UN said that two assault teams hit the Westgate. The Shabaab assault teams, said to be made up of Somalis, ���Arabs,��� and one woman, are dressed in black and armed with assault rifles, hand grenades, and possibly suicide vests. The Shabaab fighters were warning Muslims to��.
Uganda Forces Discover Suicide Vests, Explosives at Suspected Terrorist Cell
The raid on Saturday broke up a suspected terrorist cell in the Somali-dominated suburb of Kisenyi, outside the capital Kampala, according to police, and marked the latest example of the U.S. and the East African nation working together to disrupt.
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Wall Street Journal. Airborne U.S. Special Operations forces attacked a car in southern Somalia on Monday and killed one of east Africas most wanted al Qaeda militants, a U.S. official said. The commandos, among the most elite and. had spent days tracking Kenyan-born Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, who is suspected of building the truck bomb that killed 15 people at a Kenyan hotel in 2002, as well as involvement in a simultaneous, botched missile launch at an Israeli��.
Kenya shocked by al-Shabab terror
They showed rows of bodies on the rocky ground, sparsely covered with cloth. The 36 quarry workers were murdered right next to the red ridge tents where they had been sleeping. Somali militants from the al-Shabab group attacked the men in the early.
Media Review for December 31 2013 | Africa Center for.
Challenges abound in voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees from Kenya. And as France advanced on the battlefield, many jihadist fighters fled to southwest Libya, where they evaded pursuit by ���blending with local militant groups,��� according to the Wall Street Journal. Politico. Rebel forces attacked the South Sudanese city of Bor on Tuesday, engaging in fierce fighting with government forces over the strategic position seen as a gateway to Juba, the capital.
Kenya attack: Women ordered to watch as men killed | Naija.
Nairobi - Dozens of Somali extremists wielding automatic weapons attacked a small Kenyan coastal town for hours, assaulting the police station, setting two hotels on fire, and spraying bullets into the street. At least 48 people. Mpeketoni is about 600km from the capital, Nairobi. Kenya has. Mombasa ��� At least 34 people have been confirmed killed in an attack by suspected Shabaab militants from Somalia on a Kenyan coastal town, official sources said on Monday.
Somali Militants Targeted Non-Muslims
MPEKETONI, Kenya���The gunmen who raided a town along Kenyas popular Indian Ocean coast, killing at least 48 people, shouted God is great! and in some cases asked men to recite Quranic verses before shooting those who couldnt, residents said on .