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National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno said recent warnings by several Western countries of possible terror attacks in the capital Abuja and elsewhere in the country are “irresponsible” and “unnecessary”. He made the comment following a meeting of Nigeria’s intelligence and military chiefs on Monday chaired by President Buhari. “Any exaggerated …

At least 17 people died over the weekend in an attack attributed to a terrorist group close to Al-Qaeda targeting transport buses in the Hiran region of central Somalia. According to the official Somali news agency Suna, it was the al-Shabab militia that carried out this operation. “Seventeen civilians were …

Deadly attacks by armed groups are increasingly frequent in the Sahel, where terrorist threat extends from the northern regions of coastal countries. Should coastal countries prepare and anticipate their security and political responses? Now that France left Mali at the insistence of the Bamako junta while the situation is worse …

Two security forces in Togo died on the night of July 18 to 19, 2022, after their patrol fell into an ambush by unknown persons assimilated to terrorists in the north of the country. The tragedy occurred in the village of Tiwoli which was the scene of this umpteenth attack …

Somali government spokesperson Mohamed Ibrahim Moalimuu was injured on Sunday in an explosion at a road junction in the capital Mogadishu, police and the national news agency reported. The explosion was set off by a suicide bomber, reports said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, in comments on its …

Hundreds of Burkinabé were in the streets of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, demanding the resignation of President Roch Kaboré, on Tuesday. “We are simply asking President Kaboré to leave,” said protest organizer Mohamed Komsongo. Protesters accuse the president of failing to subdue Islamists in the north and east …

More than forty civilians were killed Sunday in northern Mali in attacks blamed on jihadists against three neighboring localities and close to the border with Niger, said a military official and local elected officials. “More than forty civilians were killed on Sunday by terrorists in the villages of Karou, Ouatagouna, …

Fifteen soldiers have been killed in what Niger’s defence ministry described as a “terrorist attack” in the south-west of the country, near the border with Burkina Faso. According to the defence ministry, soldiers in the Torodi area of the Tillaberi region were ambushed and then hit by an improvised explosive …