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Massacre aftermath: Ugandan army rescues three students

Massacre aftermath: Ugandan army rescues three students

THE Ugandan military has rescued three of the six students who were kidnapped by Islamist fighters when they stormed a school in the west of the country last week and massacred 42 people, mostly young students, the army said. "There were six students kidnapped and three have so far been rescued," said military spokesman Felix Kulayigye. A woman with two children who had been kidnapped outside the school was also rescued, together with her children, while two militants were killed and two guns captured, Kulayigye said. On Friday night a group of fighters from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a…
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Five hurt in blast in Mogadishu mayor’s office

Five hurt in blast in Mogadishu mayor’s office

ABDI SHEIKH ISLAMIST fighters set off a bomb and then stormed a government building in Somalia's capital, killing at least five civilians, the ministry of information said. Attackers from the al Shabaab group charged into the block that houses the office of Mogadishu's mayor around noon and got caught in a firefight with security forces, the ministry and witnesses said. Security killed six of the militants and cleared the area by about 6 p.m., the ministry said on its Facebook page. Al Shabaab has stepped up attacks in a show of resilience since President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud's government launched an…
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KENYA: Islamist fighters kill four road workers

KENYA: Islamist fighters kill four road workers

FOUR workers from Kenya's highways agency were killed in an ambush by suspected Islamist militants near the country's eastern border with Somalia, police said. The workers were leading a three-car convoy from the town of Garissa to Bura when they hit an explosive device planted in the road by suspected members of the Somali insurgent group al Shabaab, according to a police report. "A vehicle with four employees of the Kenya National Highway Authority was attacked with an IED, all the four died on the spot," said John Otieno, a local government administrator. Spokespersons for al Shabaab could not immediately…
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Mozambicans return to uncertain future after Islamists pushed back

Mozambicans return to uncertain future after Islamists pushed back

BAZ RATNER and SHAFIEK TASSIEM RWANDAN forces patrolled burnt-out streets once besieged by Islamist fighters in northern Mozambique, saying it was now safe for civilians to return to the gas-rich region, despite U.N. warnings of a continuing militant threat. Soldiers laid out rifles and rocket launchers seized from the militants. The Rwandan military's spokesman said they had already brought 25,000 people back home. "It is very safe for them to go back," Ronald Rwivanga told Reuters. In July, allied Rwandan-Mozambican troops moved in to recapture parts of northern Cabo Delgado - an area hosting $60 billion worth of gas projects…
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