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Al Qaeda extends Somali network warns Christians Ethiopians
Al Shebab and Kamboni mujahideen extremists have joined forces with Al-Qaeda after concluding an alliance. Having already caused the deaths of several thousands of...
Botswana: Radical Jamaican cleric trained Batswana to attack 2010 World Cup?
A radical Jamaican cleric, Abdullah al-Faisal, who was recently deported from several African countries was operating a “suicide bomber camp” in Botswana, a publication...
U.S.: Abdulmutallab trial begins
Nigerian born Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, facing charges in the United states for an attempted Christmas day massacre, refused to make any plea in his...
Nigeria as a terror ground: U.S. African commander “not aware”
Nigeria’s emergence on the US State Sponsored Terrorism list has not gone without official criticisms and ultimatums from Africa’s most populous state. Claims over...
U.S. issued ultimatum to drop Nigeria from terror list
The Nigerian government has given the United States government seven days to remove its name from the terror list of nations. Senate Spokesman, Senator...
Somalia: Al-Shabab forces World Food Program out
An estimated one million Somalis may go without food because Islamic millitant group, al-Shabab, has forced out the World Food Program (WFP) from large...
U.S.: Nigeria unduly punished for U.K. educated and radicalized terror suspect
While Nigerians have condemned the extremism of its 23-year-old citizen, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who attempted to blow up a U.S plane on 25 Dec....
Nigeria: Police clampdown on new extreme Islamic sect
Many have died in Northen Nigeria following a crack down by police of a Muslim sect on Monday. The group known as Kala Kato...
Terrorism and Africa: Blood in the Sand
The attempted bombing of Delta Airlines flight 253 by a Nigerian has led to media speculation on the rise of militant Islam in...
Nigerian syringe terror bomber: More details unfold
More chilling details are beginning to emerge on the plane bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who tried to blow up the Delta/NorthWest Airlines flight to...
Nigerian al-Qaeda terror suspect was a troubled youth
Nigerian terror suspect, twenty-three year old Abdulfarouk Umar Abdulmutallab, was a young Islamc scholar whose extreme beliefs alienated him from his family and drew...
Africa: Drug trade fund terrorist activities
In only five years, Sub-Saharan Africa has become the new hub for drug cartels from Latin America trying to gain entry into Europe. North...
Nigerian U.S. plane terrorist a reminder of al-Qaeda sleeper cells in northern Nigeria
A Nigerian suspected of acting on behalf of al-Qaeda, has been detained in America for attempting to blow up a Northwest Airlines Flight 253...
Al Quaeda in the Islamic Maghreb gaining ground
The Al Qaeda terrorist group in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) Tuesday claimed responsibility for the abduction of a French and three Spanish nationals, respectively kidnapped...
Uganda beefs up security amid al-Shabab terrorist threats
Security in Uganda has been tightened up due to fear of Somali's al-Shabab militia attacks. More guards have been placed at security installations in...
Somalia: Suicide bomb attack kills 19 including gov’t ministers
A bomb attack perpetrated Thursday in Somalia by a student suicide bomber has killed three government ministers. The suicide bomb attack occurred on the...
Somali-Americans, al-Shabab and a growing state of unrest
The United States government has clamped down on Somalis in America who aid, support and fight for al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab Islamist group. Young Somalis...
Uganda dares Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamists
Uganda has warned Islamist rebel group, al-Shabab, that it would regret any action of violence against Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. Al-Shaba threatened...
Somalia: War against western style education
Somali schools will only teach Islamic ideals, and reject western-styled education should al-Shabab Islamists take over the country. "Some UN agencies like Unesco are...
Somalia: Al-Shabab avenge leader’s death
African Union peacekeeping forces (Amison) killed civilians during a retaliatory attack on al-Shabab rebellion base. The Islamist group first launched an attack on the...
Somalia: Islamist Nabhan’s killing could fuel extremism…
Islamist rebellion, al-shabab, has vowed to retaliate the killing of one of its leaders, Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, in the US led operation in...
Somalia: Nabhan, notorius Kenyan born al-Qaeda terrorist killed
The suspect of the 2002 attacks of an Israeli airliner in Kenyan has been killed in a U.S military operation in South Somalia. Saleh...
Nigeria: Islamist group, Boko Haram, trained in Afghanistan
The Nigerian Islamist rebel group known as Boko Haram has been linked to Al-qaeda as a member of the group admits he was trained...
Nigeria: Government clampdown on Islamist extremism continues
The Nigerian government is taking no chance on budding Islamist extremism as the Nigerian police, on Saturday stormed and arrested over six-hundred people in...
Mauritania: Why the United States and France validated Abdel Aziz’s election
According to Paris, the locally criticised election that sought to legitimise Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz’s presidency took place under internationally acceptable conditions. In other...
Morocco: Casablanca and Madrid terror suspects get heavy sentences
Abdelkader Belliraj was Tuesday convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by a Moroccan anti-terrorism court. Accused of murdering six people in the early 90s,...
Mali declares war against Al-Qaeda North Africa
About twenty Islamist fighters were killed in an offensive carried out, Tuesday night, by the Malian army against a base belonging to the North...
Ethiopia: US concerned about al-Qaeda on Somali border
The US Embassy in Addis Ababa has, reportedly, sent an email blast prohibiting its citizens residing in Ethiopia to travel to three Ethiopian cities...
10 Al Qaeda terrorists arrested in raid by security forces
The Mauritanian police force has arrested, during the last 24 hours, ten alleged islamist terrorists, security sources disclosed Sunday.
The suspected terrorists were arrested during...
Morocco dismantles islamist network calls for more collaboration from Algeria
In their continuous efforts to curb the rise of terrorism, Moroccan security services dismantled, Friday, August 29, an Islamist network operating under Al Qaeda...