ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – Ethiopia on Saturday said that Al-Shabaab fighters who crossed its borders from neighboring Somalia were routed and 800 of them were killed. In a Twitter post on Friday night, Mustefe M. Omer, president of Ethiopia’s Somali Region state, said that with 800 killed and 100 captured, Al-Shabab’s “misadventure in...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Israel and Morocco have agreed to enhance bilateral security cooperation. Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai met Morocco’s Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance Abdellatif El Hammouchi in the capital Rabat on Friday, and agreed to promote security cooperation to serve mutual intere...
Dakar, Senegal – (AFP): Senegalese President Macky Sall’s coalition has lost its absolute majority in parliament but finished first by a narrow margin in parliamentary polls, provisional results have shown. It is the first time since the West African country’s independence in 1960 that the ruling party’s camp has lost t...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two soldiers were killed and three wounded in a suicide attack on a military base in central Somalia on Friday. The attack took place in Kalabeyr, an area on the outskirts of Beledweyne, capital of the Hiran region. Soldiers managed to stop a truck rigged with explosives from entering […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Burkinabe army acknowledged on Wednesday that several civilians were killed in airstrikes, which it called “unfortunate and unintentional,” and said the collateral damage occurred during military operations against suspected terrorist groups in the country’s east on Monday. The Burkina Faso Ar...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria on Wednesday justified the purchase and donation of $3.5 million in vehicles to neighboring Niger Republic. Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said the president has the right to approve the purchase after assessing the security situation in such a friendly country. “Nigerians have the right to question. Pr...
PARIS (AA) – French student Sebastien Raoult has been sent to jail in Morocco on suspicion of committing cyber crimes against US companies. Raoult, 21, who also goes by the name of Sezyo, is a computer science student from Alsace and faces 116 years behind bars if he is found guilty. He was detained by […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s main opposition coalition has called for “new constitutional arrangements” to resolve the months-long political crisis in the country. “A full democratic civilian authority must be established to run transition under new transitional arrangements,” the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition said in a statem...
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): Somalia has appointed the former deputy leader and spokesman for the Al-Shabaab group as religion minister, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre said Tuesday. The announcement marks a sharp reversal of fortune for Muktar Robow, who has spent the last four years under house arrest after a falling-out with ex-president Moham...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and several more wounded in a roadside explosion in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. The blast in the Tarabunka area of Mogadishu’s Hodan district targeted a security convoy, according to a police official requesting anonymity. He confirmed that the two people killed are civilians, while so...
