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Insecurity: Gunmen Kill 48 In Northwest Nigeria Attacks
At least 48 people have died after heavily armed men attacked three villages in Zamfara State, according to local authorities. The administrative head of the Bakura district where the villages are located, Amin Suleiman, told reporters that the gunmen arrived in the villages on motorcycles, shooting sporadically at villagers trying to flee. “A total of…
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14 Dead In Bloody Attack By Rebels On Refugee Camp In DRC
An official report from the army has shared the gruesome murder of at least 14 people after rebels attacked a displaced people’s camp in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Army spokesman Jules Ngongo Tsikudi said on Tuesday that rebels raided a site outside the town of Fataki in the Djugu region of eastern Ituri…
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Terrorism: Nine Dead In Rebel Attack on Chibok Community in Northeast Nigeria
Since 2009, Nigeria has struggled with terrorist attacks and high-powered kidnapping in its northeast by armed groups like Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). More than 35,000 people have died and millions have been displaced by the violence, according to the UN Development Program. In April 2014, Boko Haram attacked the…
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Over 200 Dead In Fresh Bandit Attacks In Northwest Nigeria
Over 200 people have died in a retaliation attack by bandits following a military raid of their hideouts in Zamfara State last week. The spokesperson to the minister of humanitarian affairs, Sadiya Umar Farouq said more than 200 bodies were buried, while over 10,000 people have been displaced. The military conducted air attacks on Monday…
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Bomb Explosion Near Mogadishu School Kills At Least 8
No less than eight people have been killed and 17 injured, including schoolchildren, in a car bombing in Somalia’s capital, officials and witnesses said. The bombing was claimed by the armed group al-Shabab in the early hours of Thursday, who said it intended to strike a United Nations security convoy passing near a school in…
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Terrorist Group Claim Responsibility For Bombing In Uganda’s Capital
An Islamist extremist group, known as the “Islamic State” (IS) have claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in the heart of Uganda’s capital Kampala on Tuesday that killed several people and injured scores more. At least three civilians were killed and 33 others wounded in twin suicide bombings that took place within three minutes of each other on…
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11 Soldiers Killed In Latest Violent Raid In Mali
Suspected terrorists have killed 11 soldiers defending a village in a remote part of southwest Niger near another village where 69 people were recently killed, according to the state defence ministry. The heavily armed attackers approached in a convoy of cars and motorbikes on Thursday afternoon, clashing with soldiers stationed outside the village of Dagne…
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Rebel Group Seize Villages In DRC Near Uganda, Rwanda Borders
Suspected fighters from M23, a rebel group that claimed large swaths of territory between 2012 and 2013 has seized at least two villages overnight in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) near the border with Uganda and Rwanda, according to local officials. On Monday, Lieutenant-Colonel Muhindo Luanzo, assistant to the administrator of Rutshuru…
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14 Soldiers Killed In Burkina Faso By Suspected Jihadists
The defence ministry has announced the gruesome killing of 14 military personnel in the country’s northern region plagued by Islamist violence. “The military detachment of Yirgou in the Centre-Nord region’s Barsalogho department was ‘the target of a terrorist attack’ around 0500 GMT on Monday”, Junior defence minister General Aime Barthelemy Simpore said. “Fourteen soldiers were…
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At least 30 People Killed In Attacks In Kaduna State
34 people have been killed by suspected jihadists in two separate attacks in Kaduna state since Sunday. “Unidentified men attacked (Sunday) the village of Madamai in Kaura district … 34 residents were killed in the attack. Seven were injured,” Kaduna State security chief Samuel Aruwan said in a statement Monday. “Soldiers were dispatched to the…