Tag: Islamic State
Mozambique police say northern village, site of reported beheadings, retaken from...
Over 1 000 Mozambique troops on Thursday recaptured the northern village of Muidumbe from Islamist insurgents, police general commander Bernardino Rafael said, killing 16...
In Burkina Faso, voters left voiceless amid escalating violence
Djeneba Sawadogo was making a cake when she heard a noise she did not recognise - a series of sharp cracks that rang across...
UN urges Mozambique to investigate reported massacres, beheadings
The United Nations called on Mozambique to investigate reports that militants had massacred villagers and beheaded women and children in a restive northern region.
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Twenty killed in northern Burkina Faso attacks, says government
Armed groups have killed about 20 people in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso, the government said in a statement on Thursday.
The...
ISS: East African terror groups are exploiting the seas
Violent extremist groups operating in East Africa such as al-Shabaab, Ansar al-Sunna and the Islamic State in East Africa Somalia (IS-Somalia) are increasingly making...
Kidnapped politician, French aid worker to be freed in Mali prisoner...
Mali will release scores of suspected Islamist insurgents in a prisoner exchange for opposition leader Soumaila Cisse and French aid worker Sophie Petronin, two...
Eastern Libyan forces say they killed Islamic State leader
Eastern Libyan forces said on Wednesday they killed the leader of the Islamic State group in North Africa during a raid in the southern...
Islamic State claims killing of French aid workers in Niger
Islamic State has credited its West Africa affiliate for killing six French aid workers and their Nigerien guide and driver at a giraffe reserve...
Ten militants and five civilians killed in east Congo violence –...
Ten Islamist militants were killed after they ambushed an army convoy in eastern Congo on Friday, according to the military, while a community leader...
US says takes down militant groups’ cryptocurrency fundraising effort
The US Justice Department on Thursday said it took down efforts by the military wing of Hamas, al Qaeda and Islamic State to raise...
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Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille’s R37 million Beit Bridge fence upgrade as part of government efforts to prevent the spread of...
