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Nov
11
2023
By The African Mirror
Burkina Faso junta’s conscription of critics rattles civil society and unions

Burkina Faso junta’s conscription of critics rattles civil society and unions

NEWS
BURKINA Faso's military junta is abusing an emergency law to conscript perceived dissidents and critics to join a deadly fight against militants linked to Al Qaeda and Islamic State, warned lawyers, journalists and watchdog Human Rights Watch this week. In a series of statements, civil society groups and unions for journalists and lawyers accused the junta of seeking to silence peaceful dissent as it struggled to contain the security crisis as promised when it seized power in a September 2022 coup. "We see that it (the junta) is revealing its true face and that it has not necessarily come to…
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Sep
30
2023
By The African Mirror
Suicide bomber kills at least 7 in Somali tea shop; al Shabaab claims responsibility

Suicide bomber kills at least 7 in Somali tea shop; al Shabaab claims responsibility

NEWS
A suicide bomber set off an explosion at a shop selling tea in Somalia's capital, killing at least seven people, a witness and medical personnel. Police put the number of dead at five. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its Arabic media unit Shahada News Agency, the SITE Intelligence Group reported on Friday. It put the number of dead at 11 and wounded at 18; its numbers on casualties in attacks often differ from government figures. The Friday afternoon blast occurred at a checkpoint on a road leading to the parliament and…
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Feb
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Al Qaeda’s new leader Adel has $10 million bounty on his head

Al Qaeda’s new leader Adel has $10 million bounty on his head

NEWS
MICHAEL GEORGY SEIF al-Adel, a former Egyptian special forces officer who is a high-ranking member of al Qaeda with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, is now the "uncontested" leader of the militant group, according to a new U.N. report on the organisation. Al Qaeda has not formally named a successor for Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was believed to have been killed in a U.S. missile strike in Kabul last year, dealing a blow to the organisation since its founder Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.Advertisement · Scroll to continue Although a U.S. intelligence official said in January that Zawahiri's succession remained…
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Jan
22
2023
By The African Mirror
60 abducted Burkinabe women freed

60 abducted Burkinabe women freed

NEWS
THIAM NDIAGA SIXTY-SIX women and children kidnapped by armed assailants in northern Burkina Faso last week have been freed, national broadcaster Radiodiffusion Télévision du Burkina (RTP) said. The mass kidnapping was unprecedented in Burkina Faso, which is facing a violent Islamist insurgency that spread from neighbouring Mali in 2015. On 12 and 13 January, armed men seized the women and their children while they were scouring the bush for fruit and leaves outside two villages in the district of Arbinda, in the Sahel region's Soum province. Security forces staged a rescue operation and found 27 adult women and 39 babies, children and…
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Jan
17
2023
By The African Mirror
Militants kidnap 50 women in Burkina Faso

Militants kidnap 50 women in Burkina Faso

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THIAM NDIAGA ISLAMIST militants kidnapped around 50 women searching for food in Burkina Faso's northern province of Soum, a hotbed of jihadist activity, on January 12 and 13, the government said. The mass kidnapping is a first in the insurgency that spread to Burkina Faso from neighbouring Mali in 2015 despite costly international military efforts to contain it. While Westerners and locals are occasionally captured, women had not previously been abducted in such numbers. Mass kidnappings have been carried out in Nigeria by the separate Boko Haram insurgency there. Armed men seized the women as they were picking wild fruit…
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Jan
05
2023
By The African Mirror
Car bombs kill 35, burn houses in central Somalia

Car bombs kill 35, burn houses in central Somalia

NEWS
ABDI SHEIKH TWO car bombs detonated by al Shabaab militants in central Somalia killed at least 35 people, including eight members of a single family, and wounded 40 more, a senior police officer said. The attack in the town of Mahas was the latest in a series by al Qaeda affiliate al Shabaab since government forces and allied clan militias last year began pushing the insurgents out of territory they had long held. "Most of the dead are civilians. They are women and children," Hassan-Kafi Mohamed Ibrahim, deputy police commissioner of Hirshabelle State, told Reuters. "Only one child survived from…
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Jul
23
2022
By The African Mirror
Militants attack Mali’s main military base, situation ‘under control’

Militants attack Mali’s main military base, situation ‘under control’

NEWS
FADIMATA KONTAO ISLAMIST militants struck Mali's main military base, just outside the capital Bamako, in a complex attack involving car bombs, but the armed forces said they had repelled the assault and had the situation under control. Militants linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State have repeatedly raided bases across Mali during a decade-long insurgency concentrated in the north and centre but never so close to Bamako in the south. Heavy gunfire rang out for about an hour early on Friday at the Kati camp, about 15 km (10 miles) northwest of Bamako. A convoy carrying the leader of Mali's…
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Jul
20
2022
By The African Mirror
U.S. says it killed two al Shabaab militants in Somalia airstrike

U.S. says it killed two al Shabaab militants in Somalia airstrike

NEWS
THE U.S. military said it had killed two fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an airstrike in a remote part of Somalia's southern Jubaland state on Sunday. The United States has been carrying out air strikes in Somalia to try to defeat al Shabaab, an al Qaeda franchise seeking to implement its interpretation of Islamic law and overthrow the country's Western-backed central government. The strike took place near Libikus in the Lower Juba region, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) said in a statement late on Monday. "The command's initial assessment is that two al Shabaab terrorists were killed in…
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Apr
15
2022
By The African Mirror
“White mercenaries involved in Mali massacre”

“White mercenaries involved in Mali massacre”

NEWS
PAUL LORGERIE IT was market day in the town of Moura in central Mali when Malian troops backed by white mercenaries descended in helicopters and opened fire on bewildered residents, according to witnesses' accounts. Stall-owner Amadou saw the soldiers fan out across town on the morning of March 27, and ran home. They arrested him hours later and took him to a riverbank on the outskirts of town, where thousands of men sat with their hands tied. Over the next four days, the men stayed in the blazing sun with little food or water and watched as soldiers gradually took…
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Apr
06
2022
By The African Mirror
Somalia’s intelligence agency warns of al Shabaab threat against top leaders

Somalia’s intelligence agency warns of al Shabaab threat against top leaders

NEWS
THE al Shabaab group linked to al Qaeda plans to target Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble, the country's intelligence agency warned. Violence by the group, which aims to topple the central government and impose its own severe version of Islamic law, has been an impediment to parliamentary elections taking place since November. "We informed the key government officials of a plot in which al Shabaab mafia wants to target the president and prime minister," the National Intelligence and Security Agency said on Twitter. "Mohamed Mahir, senior al Shabaab member, is conducting the plot." The…
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