Africa
UK NATIONAL, ABDUL QADIR MUMIN, LEADS ISIS IN SOMALIA
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Somali born Abdul Qadir Mumin, age unknown but probably now in his late 50s’, arrived to UK in 2005/6 and became a visiting speaker at a Mosque in London occasionally attended Mohammed Emwazi, known as… Continue reading
NIGERIAN JIHADIST KHALID AL-BARNAWI CAPTURED
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* Khalid al-Barnawi, the head of ‘Ansaru’ splinter group of Boko Haram, known for kidnapping and murdering Westerners. was captured in Lokoja, capital of the central state of Kogi on Friday 04/01/2016, military spokesman Brigadier General Rabe… Continue reading
ISLAMIC TERROR ON THE RISE IN THE SAHARA
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AQIM – Maghreb Al-Qaeda’s branch has claimed responsibility for Friday 03/18/2016 rocket-propelled grenade attack on an Algerian gas plant operated by Norway’s Statoil and BP as part of its “war on the Crusader interests everywhere”.
Algeria’s oil and gas… Continue reading
2 FEMALE BOMBERS KILLED 22 IN NORTHERN NIGERIAN MOSQUE
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Two female suicide bombers have attacked, on Wednesday 03/16/2016, a mosque in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing 22 worshippers, the army says.
The first bomber struck inside the mosque, while the second blew herself… Continue reading
16 KILLED IN IVORY COAST’ TERROR ATTACK
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Unidentified gunmen have killed, on Sunday 03/13/2016, about 16 people, including 4 Westerner tourists, at a beach resort in southern Ivory Coast, a model of stability in West Africa, officials say. The assailants fired on beach-goers in… Continue reading
A SUICIDE BOMBER FAILED TO DOWN MOGADISHU FLIGHT
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An explosion and fire blew a gaping hole in Flight D3159, travelling from Somalia to Djibouti with 74 passengers , on Tuesday 02/02/2016, at about 14,000 feet, forcing it to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu’s international airport,… Continue reading
– NEXT ON LINE – BURKINA FASO HOTEL ATTACK
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Burkina Faso’s government said, on Saturday 01/16/2016, 26 people were killed and a further 56 injured after Islamist militants attacked a hotel in the capital, Ouagadougou, popular with foreigners.
MAGHREB al-Qaeda ( AQIM ), led by Mukhtar Bilmukhtar… Continue reading
– OVER 10 KILLED IN CAMEROON MOSQUE BOMBING
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Two female suicide bombers, on Wednesday 01/13/2016, have attacked a mosque in a town near Cameroon’s border with Nigeria, killing at least 10 people and wounding about a dozen others, the governor of the region said.
The attack during… Continue reading
– ABOUT 150 KILLED IN BOKO-HARAM’S RAMADAN OFFENSIV
Despite the Nigerian Army success in Sambisa Forest two months ago suspected Boko Haram militants in a northeastern Nigerian villages Monguno and Kukawa, in Borno State killed at least 150 people, witnesses told AFP Thursday 07/02/2015.
A local… Continue reading
– NIGERIAN LED FORCE TO FIGHT BOKO HARAM TO BE SET UP
The US said, on 06/16/2015, it will give $5m (£3.2m) towards a multi-national task force being set up to fight Nigeria’s militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Boko Haram “was not just a Nigerian problem”, US official Linda Thomas-Greenfield… Continue reading