Tag: bomb
Suicide bomb kills 15 in Nigeria
A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people at a mosque in the Nigerian town Mubi, a local government official said.
Ahmed Musa,...
Ten dead in Maiduguri bomb attack
A suicide bomb attack killed 10 people and injured 30 others in the north-east Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an emergency agency official...
Somali roadside bomb claims seven lives
A roadside bomb killed at least seven people - mostly women farmers - in an area outside the Somali capital dominated by...
Somalis praise Turkey for speedy response to bombs
Turkey's swift response to Somalia's deadliest truck bombing drew praise from survivors and officials who called Ankara their "only genuine" international partner,...
Somalis take to the streets in protest against bombings
Thousands of Somalis demonstrated against those behind bombings that killed more than 300 people, defying police who opened fire to keep them...
Chaotic response to Somali bomb cost lives
Medics helping victims of a huge bomb explosion in Mogadishu that killed more than 300 people say Somalia's threadbare emergency services have...
Death toll in Mogadishu bomb blasts top 300
More than 300 people died after twin bomb explosions in Mogadishu, an official said, as locals packed hospitals in search of friends...
Cameroon police wounded by bomb
An improvised bomb wounded three policemen in the main city of Cameroon's minority English-speaking region on Thursday, the regional governor said, in...
Mogadishu car bomb claims a life
At least one person was killed and three others injured when a car bomb went off in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Monday,...
Puntland bomb kills 12
An al Shabaab bomb attack killed 12 people, including five soldiers, in Somalia's Puntland region, the Puntland military said.
The explosions hit...
Burkina Faso bomb kills three
A roadside bomb in northern Burkina Faso killed three soldiers and wounded two, the military said.
They did not say who was...
Kismayo car bomb
A car bomb explosion in the southern Somali port Kismayo wounded at least 10 people, police and residents said.
The blast occurred...
Sinai car bomb kills seven
Seven civilians, including two children, were killed by a car bomb that exploded at a security checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt's...
Roadside bomb kills two outside Mogadishu
A roadside bomb struck a minibus north of Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, killing two people and injuring six others, police said.
The...
Suicide bombers kill two in Niger attack
Bombers killed two people and wounded 11 others at a UN-managed camp in Niger housing people who have fled Boko Haram violence...
Bomb planted on road kills 4 in northeast Kenya
Four people were killed and 11 injured when their landcruiser detonated a bomb planted on a road in northeast Kenya on Friday,...
Homemade bomb kills three
Three people were killed in eastern Kenya when their vehicle ran over a homemade bomb, police said.
The incident, the latest in a...
Al Shabaab claims bomb attack on Somali police station
A bomb planted in a police station killed at least one policeman in Somalia's southern port city of Kismayu with militant Islamist...
Five killed by roadside bomb in Kenya
Four police officers and a civilian were killed and two policemen are missing after their truck hit a landmine on a road...
Five dead in Mogadishu blast
A blast in the Somali capital killed five civilians and injured six more, a city spokesman said, underscoring the ability of Islamist...