At least seven people were killed Thursday in a clash between al-Shabab fighters and Somali security forces in a town north of the capital Mogadishu, a police officer and residents said. According to police and residents in Balad, a town located at the north of Mogadishu, the al Qaeda-linked group’s …
Read More »Mozambique: at least 600 women and girls abducted by jihadists
At least 600 women and girls have been abducted and enslaved in the last three years by militants in the Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Accord to the report by the rights group, the IS-linked militant group, known as Al Sunnah wa …
Read More »Somalia: several killed in suicide attack on a security convoy
Police in Somalia confirmed that eight civilians were killed and 17 other wounded in a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu, state television has reported. An al-Shabab suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle targeted a convoy of a private security firm, Duguf, which is contracted to protect the UN. The …
Read More »Somalia: a journalist killed in suicide attack
A prominent Somali journalist, Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, critic of the Islamist group al-Shabab was killed in a suicide bombing in the capital, Mogadishu. Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, also known as Abdiaziz Afrika, was targeted as he left a restaurant in town shortly after noon, the BBC reports. Two other people nearby …
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