Topic: East Africa
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...