Mozambique security forces were engaged in a heavy battle with Islamist insurgents to regain control of a strategic port Mocimboa da Praia in a gas-rich northern province, Defence Minister Jaime Neto said. Mozambique’s security and defence forces (FDS) are “trying to control” a "tense and fluid” situation in Mocimboa da Praia after “successive waves of…
Category: Terrorism
IS captures Mozambique LNG port
Islamist insurgents have captured a strateguc port for LNG in the far northern Mozambique town of Mocimboa da Praia, close to the site of natural gas projects worth some $60 billion, local media reported. (Image above: illustration). Islamist insurgents have captured a heavily-defended port in the far northern Mozambique town of Mocimboa da Praia, close…
Niger: counter-terrorist operation in Kouré
French President Emmanuel Macron will convene a defense council on Tuesday, August 11 following Sunday’s attack in Niger that left eight people dead, including six French nationals, the Elysee said. Plusieurs de nos compatriotes et des nigériens ont été lâchement assassinés hier au Niger au cours d'une attaque meurtrière. Je partage la douleur de leurs…
Niger attack defined «terrorism»
Six aid workers and their two guides were killed by armed men in a deadly attack in Niger, during excursion to natural park. French charity ACTED confirmed their deaths in random attack on the vehicle on Sunday, August 9. The French government called it a terrorist attack, though no group has yet claimed responsibility. Unidentified…
Burkina Faso: gunmen attacked cattle market
A group of gunmen killed about 20 people in an attack on a cattle market in eastern Burkina Faso on August 7, the government said in a statement. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in the village of Fada N’Gourma, around which the army is conducting a search operation. #BurkinaFaso: Striking testimony from a…
Al Shabaab attack in Mogadishu
A huge blast rocked a military base in Mogadishu, Somalia capital, killing at least eight people and injuring 14, emergency workers said, and the militant group al Shabaab has already claimed responsiblity. Soldiers opened fire after the explosion which sent clouds of smoke into the sky, said a resident of from the area. “We ran…
Cameroon: Islamists attack refugee camp
Islamist group Boko Haram is suspected to be responsible for killing of 15 people and leaving the other six wounded in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon on Sunday,August 2, a local official told. The village is located in the Mozogo district, close to the Nigerian border in the…
Mali: Dogon village attacked
Nine soldiers have been killed in an ambush in the centre of Mali as they advancing on their way to the site of a massacre of villagers, an army official said. Unidentified armed men massacred 31 civilians in simultaneous attacks on several 🇲🇱 #Mali villages this week, then killed nine soldiers responding to the assault…
EU on COVID19 in Nigeria
“Attacks, abductions and killings of civilians by armed groups in northern Nigeria have killed over 160 people including 130 civilians since 28 May. Such heinous acts of terrorism and violence are intolerable. These attacks pose a serious threat to Nigeria’s security and to that of the wider region, including in the increasingly restive Northwest of…
Boko Haram attacks in Borno and Katsina
Nigeria states Borno and Katsina witnessed attacks from Boko Haram terrorist group. Both states recorded scores of deaths from the attacks on June 9. As Borno confirmed 81 deaths, Katsina recorded 40, with many sustaining degrees of injuries. Houses were reportedly set ablaze and dozens of women raped. Ethiopia’s parliament approved an extra year in…
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