Topic: East Africa

Canada fast-tracks terror prosecution

Canada announced Wednesday it would move quickly to prosecute a Toronto man accused of planning to fly to Africa to join an Al-Qaeda affiliate battling for control of Somalia.The Public Prosecution Service of Canada said it had filed a direct indictment against ...

US defence chief visits Djibouti for terror talks

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta held talks Tuesday with Djibouti President Ismael Omar Guelleh on tackling terrorism during a visit to the Red Sea state, home to the only US army base in Africa."Djibouti is a central location for continuing the efforts ...
Documents found in the Pakistan home where Osama bin Laden was killed in May show the Al-Qaeda leader no longer had any role in operations, a US expert who reviewed the evidence said.The expert, who asked not to be named, said the ...

Somali group fights tribalism in diaspora

LONDON (Reuters) - Menaced by a gang of fellow Somalis on a London bus, Adam Mataan took a stand against the tribalism he fled in his homeland, and emerged stronger for confronting what he and like-minded Somalis see as deadly clan divisions.The ...

Suicide bomber hits Somali capital, dozens killed in south

MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south.The car bomb exploded ...

Suicide bomber hits Somali capital, dozens killed in

MOGADISHU/NAIROBI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber struck the Somali capital on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in Mogadishu, and dozens of Islamist rebels and Somali government troops have been killed in fighting in the south.The car bomb exploded ...

Suicide bomber strikes near Turk embassy in Mogadishu

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded yards from the Turkish embassy in the Somali capital Tuesday, the latest in a wave of deadly attacks in the coastal city, and a health official said three people were killed.The suicide attack piles yet ...

Suicide blast in heart of Somali capital

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded in the heart of the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, witnesses said, the latest in a string of deadly attacks in the coastal city.The suicide attack piles yet more pressure on a government that relies ...

Four killed by suicide blast in Somali capital

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked a government compound in Mogadishu on Wednesday, killing four government soldiers and narrowly missing the army chief."I am alive. It was a suicide bomber. You can see his body parts," General Abdikarim Yusuf Dhagabadan told ...

Analysis: Ethiopia dragged reluctantly back into Somalia

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia is being sucked back into Somalia to open another front against Islamist rebels battling Kenyan forces but even a military victory is unlikely to end two decades of anarchy unless the country's feuding politicians and clans want peace.An ...
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