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SADC leaders meet on Mozambique insurgency but action remains elusive

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Amid growing concerns about regional inaction on Mozambique’s jihadist insurgency crisis, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security hosted...

ISS: Insurgents change tactics as Mozambique seeks help

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Cabo Delgado province in Northern Mozambique has seen a dramatic spike in attacks in recent days, including a spectacular ‘hearts and minds’ operation by...

ERA: Mozambique – insurgency continues as AU forced to take notice

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On 29 February 2020, at least two people were killed in a suspected jihadist insurgent attack in Pemba in what is believed to be...

ISS: Can the African Union help Mozambique combat terrorism?

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For the first time the escalating terrorist threat in Mozambique has been discussed by African leaders, at the 33rd African Union (AU) summit in...

Cameroon insurgency drains life from towns

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A unit of Cameroon's special forces edged up the winding main road of a once functioning village, past the rusted shell of...

Somalia Islamist insurgency splits

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Somalia's insurgency suffered a significant split after government officials confirmed they had sent troops to repel Islamist fighters seeking to capture one...

Mali insurgency spreads

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Heavily armed gunmen riding motor bikes and other vehicles raided a village and killed five soldiers in Niger near the border with...

Security is first goal on oil road map –Nigerian oil minister

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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will meet leaders of the restive Niger Delta in Abuja next week in an attempt to end an...

Bullets and buzzwords fly at Land Forces Africa 2013

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As an official media partner, defenceWeb was present at the Land Forces Africa 2013 conference outside Pretoria, where we captured the bullets...

Striking inside Angola with 32 Battalion

A dry but rich account of time spent with the famous 32 Battalion. Marius Scheepers was a national service signals officer (9C)...

Book Review: Zambezi Valley Insurgency

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Zambezi Valley Insurgency is Dr JRT Wood's latest look at the Rhodesian Bush War, this time focussing on the period April 1966...

Shadow Commander

Shadow Commander follows in the wake of author Mike Guardia's first book, American Guerrilla, reviewed elsewhere on defenceWeb. Researching the former unearthed...

Suicide bomber kills three in SE Turkey

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A female suicide bomber in southeast Turkey killed three people and wounded around 20 in Bingol, a town in the mainly Kurdish...

Colombia votes in test for peace under Santos

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Colombia held local elections on Sunday that tested how much the South American nation has overcome its violent past and measured the...

Iraq postpones handover of city security to police

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Iraq is delaying handing over security to police in major cities over concerns that some forces were not ready to take on...

Stratfor: Re-Examining the Arab Spring

On Dec. 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a Tunisian street vendor, set himself on fire in a show of public protest. The self-immolation...

Sarkozy tells Libyan rebels: “We will help you”

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France promised Libyan rebels on Wednesday it would intensify air strikes on Muammar Gaddafi's forces and send military liaison officers to help...

Nigeria militant faction claims attack on oil site

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A splinter militant faction in Nigeria's oil-producing Niger Delta said it had blown up an oil manifold in the southern state of...

Book review: Hani – A life too short

"Hani – A life too short" is a sympathetic biography of African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) "struggle"...

CAR president confirms rebel leader’s death

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Central African Republic's President Francois Bozize has confirmed the death of a rebel leader but dismissed criticism from rights and opposition groups...

Six reported killed in Somali capital fighting

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Islamist insurgents fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in the Somali capital overnight, prompting return fire by troops that killed at...

Nigeria pipeline attack forces Shell to cut output

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Royal Dutch Shell says it has shut down three pumping stations in Nigeria's Niger Delta after a key crude oil pipeline was...

African summit hears world ignoring Somalia crisis

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The worsening crisis in Somalia is as big a threat to global security as Afghanistan but is being ignored by the world....

EU agrees on mission to train Somali forces

The European Union today agreed to set up a military mission in Uganda to train Somali government forces who are fighting an...

State Security looking at Somali threat

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South Africa's intelligence agencies have reportedly stepped up their surveillance of possible terrorist threats to the country and June's World Cup, with...

SAIRR postulates al-Qaeda threat to World Cup

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The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) says this June's soccer World Cup faces a real threat from al-Qaeda. The think...

Score one for Danny Jordaan

Sigh! The continued inability or unwillingness of some to see Africa as a continent of many nations rather than a single country, means...

The Khost attack and the Intelligence War challenge

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As Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi exited the vehicle that brought him onto Forward Operating Base (FOB) Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan, on Dec. 30,...

SA decries “sport terrorism”

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South Africa has launched an offensive to counter mainly European media reports and as well as what it considers unfounded concerns that...

Jihadism in 2010: The threat continues, headed for SA, Stratfor says

For the past several years, STRATFOR has published an annual forecast on al Qaeda and the jihadist movement. Since our first jihadist...

Boeing Laser Avenger destroys IEDs in test

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Boeing and the US Army have successfully completed a test in which a laser system mounted on an Avenger combat vehicle destroyed 50 improvised...

The US challenge in Afghanistan

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The decision over whether to send more US troops into Afghanistan may wait until the contested Afghan election is resolved, US officials say. The announcement...