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Kenyan journalist nabbed over Uganda islamist attack
Kenyan security agencies on Saturday arrested a journalist working for an Islamic media house in the coastal city of Mombasa suspected to have been...
Al Qaeda in Yemen
On Wednesday the Washington Post reported that CIA sources now believe that Yemen-based group, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), now represents a...
More charged with Uganda bombings
A court in Uganda has today remanded 32 people suspected to have been
involved in the July 11 twin bomb blasts in Kampala, perpetrated by...
Somali terrorists training in Uganda
The Uganda inspector general of police, Kale Kayihura, has revealed that terrorists are using the eastern and northern districts of Uganda as training grounds.
While...
Uganda President seeks tax reduction on security related items
Uganda business community has called upon the government of Uganda to tighten screening exercises involving foreigners who enter the country under the guise of...
Al-Shebab extends Uganda-Burundi threats abroad
Al-Shehab, the notorious Somali Islamist rebel group, will strike Ugandan and Burundian targets around the world. The announcement which was made Friday seeks to...
Nigeria: Islamist group roasted Policemen like animals
Recent reports released by the Nigerian Police Force claims that 32 of its men were assassinated by members of Boko Haram- an Islamic sect...
African Union summit ends with anti el-Shabab plan
As the 15th AU summit closed today in Kampala, African Union chairman, also president of Malawi Bingu wa Mutharika said that the big turn...
Somalia: Africa unites against al-Shabab extremism
The African Union has embarked on an all out offensive against al-Shabab militia in Somalia in order to bring an elusive civility and stability...
Ugandan Muslims “living in fear”
Ever since the twin bomb blasts in Uganda's capital Kampala that left at least 76 people dead some Muslims in the eastern African country...
Graveside “cassava bomb” scatters mourners
Mourners in Uganda today abandoned a dead body they were about to bury
after a bomb scare.
The incident occured in Lumundi village, Luwero about...
Uganda: Churches take radical steps against terrorist attacks
Shortly after Uganda's deputy speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga revealed that Parliament and churches were the main targets of the terrorists attack local...
7/7 Bombings showed we do not know our enemy
For most Britons 7th July 2005 will be remembered as the day that al Qaeda terrorists attacked London. But five years on, no link...
Obama: Al-Qaeda and al-Shabaab attacks in Africa “tragic and ironic”
President Obama said the United States will redouble its cooperation with Uganda and other African Union members against the Somali terror group al-Shabaab to...
The day Somaliland voters braved al Qaeda threats to engage in “the Devil’s practice”
On Saturday 26 June, across the length and breadth of the breakaway state of Somaliland the rising sun reveals long lines of people snaking...
Kampala killings and al-Qaeda in Africa
Just as World Cup organisers were breathing a sign of relief that the finals had not been targeted by terrorists, news came in of...
Deadly Uganda blasts condemned
Amnesty International has condemned the bomb blasts that last night hit the Ugandan capital Kampala, leaving at least 64 people dead.
The bombs exploded in...
Uganda: Suicide bomb fails to go off in a disco
An unexploded bomb was yesterday discovered by Uganda police in a disco hall shortly after two bomb blasts killed over seventy people in the...
Uganda bombings linked to Somali suicide bombers
Police and other security agencies in Uganda are making investigations
to establish whether Somali suicide bombers were responsible for bomb blasts that tore through...
Algerian terrorist attack kills several
11 police border guards (GGF) were killed in the fatal attack in the town of Tinzaouatine in the Tamanrasset wilaya, near the Mali-Algerian border,...
Details of al-Qaeda terrorist plan on World Cup emerge
Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg, which is set to host the opening and final World Cup games was on the terrorist target list, details...
Al-Qaida terrorist threats and South African World Cup readiness
Terrorism threats have led to a tightening of security measures ahead of the the World Cup scheduled to take place in less than a...
SA police prevents extremist attacks ahead of World Cup
South African police on Thursday foiled a plot by right-wing extremists to bomb black townships countrywide ahead of the Soccer World Cup as several...
Nigeria: Acting president warns of global blacklisting
Nigerian legislators have been urged to pass an anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing laws by June 30, in order to avoid the "grave economic...
Nigeria: Abuja hosts U.S and other nations on air security
Nigeria is hosting a three-day meeting of African ministers on aviation security in reaction to the December 25, 2009 failed terror attack on Northwest...
United States: Country-based scrutiny for air travelers eliminated
After consultations with governments and airline representatives, as well as U.S. intelligence and law enforcement personnel, the Obama administration has announced new security measures...
Terrorism in Africa: Best way forward is economic development
Representatives from seven African countries met, Tuesday, March 16, in Algiers to assess the security situation in the Sahel-Saharan region. Participants at the conference...
Somalia: Al-Shabaab Detains Media Director Overnight
Ahmed Omar Salihi, a Director of Markabley Radio in Bardhere town and head of NUSOJ Southwest Branch was arrested by Al Shabaab group on...
Somalia: Islamist group ban World Food Program
Somali militant group, Al-Shabab has accused the World Food Program (WFP) of distributing expired food and causing a public health hazard to Somalis. The...
Algeria and Mali in diplomatic row after terrorist release
Pierre Camatte, a Frenchman who was abducted last November in Mali, was released on Tuesday. But at what cost? Algiers has accused Bamako for...