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Apr
13
2024
By AHMED KINGIMI and ANGELA UKOMADU
A decade on, tragedy of Nigeria’s Chibok Girls endures outside the spotlight

A decade on, tragedy of Nigeria’s Chibok Girls endures outside the spotlight

NEWS
TEN years ago, Solomon Maina's daughter, Debora, was one of 276 schoolgirls kidnapped from their dormitory in the middle of the night by Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamist militants. Global outrage was swift. A ubiquitous "Bring Back Our Girls" campaign, drawing support from the likes of Michelle Obama and Sylvester Stallone, shined a spotlight on the abductions. Then, in 2016 and 2017, negotiations led to the highly publicised liberation of around 100 of the captives. Debora was not one of them. A decade after that fateful night in April 2014, the world has largely forgotten the plight of the so-called Chibok…
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Nov
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Islamist militants tie up, kill Congo villagers

Islamist militants tie up, kill Congo villagers

NEWS
ISLAMIST militants tied up at least 19 villagers and killed them with machetes and other weapons in a raid in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a civil society leader said. Other villagers fled but may have drowned as they tried to cross the Lamia River into Uganda, Maurice Mabele Musaidi told Reuters. "There are still people missing," he said. Musaidi and a spokesperson for Congo's army said the attack in Beni territory's Watalinga chiefdom was carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an armed group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State. The ADF…
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Oct
25
2023
By ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE
Suspected Islamist militants kill 26 in east Congo attack

Suspected Islamist militants kill 26 in east Congo attack

NEWS
SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed 26 people with machetes in an overnight attack in the town of Oicha in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its mayor and the army said on Tuesday. They attributed the killings to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a group originally from Uganda, now based in eastern Congo, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group and mounts frequent attacks. Local army spokesperson Antony Mwalushayi said the attack against civilians in Oicha was believed to be retaliation for recent army strikes against the ADF. The attackers carried out the slaughter with knives instead of guns,…
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Oct
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Israel and Palestinian war: What you need to know right now

Israel and Palestinian war: What you need to know right now

WORLD
THE Israeli military said it struck hundreds of Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip overnight and had sent four combat divisions south where it continued to battle the Islamist militants. The death toll from the fighting stands at 1,100. ISRAEL TARGETS GAZA * Fighting between Israeli forces and Islamist group Hamas was ongoing at seven or eight locations near Gaza two days after Hamas gunmen killed 700 Israelis and abducted dozens more in the deadliest raid into Israeli territory since Egypt and Syria's attacks in the Yom Kippur War 50 years ago. Hamas fighters also continued to…
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Sep
22
2023
By YASSIN KOMBI and GRADEL MUIYSA
Congo army seeks insight into Islamist militants from women held captive

Congo army seeks insight into Islamist militants from women held captive

NEWS
At a military intelligence centre in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 22-year-old Mariam recounted how she lived alongside Islamist insurgents for two years after she was taken by the militants and force-marched to their camp in the rainforest. The group originated as an uprising in Uganda and some members fled across the border into the vast jungles of eastern Congo in the 1990s. Since then they have pledged allegiance to Islamic State and maintained their insurgency, attacking civilian and military targets in both Congo and Uganda. Both countries launched a joint military operation in December 2021, and Uganda deployed over 1,500 troops…
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Mar
22
2023
By The African Mirror
French, US hostages released after years of captivity in West Africa

French, US hostages released after years of captivity in West Africa

NEWS
BOUREIMA BALIMA and HUMEYRA PAMUK FRENCH journalist Olivier Dubois was hugged by emotional reporters at a briefing in Niger announcing the release of him and U.S. aid worker Jeffery Woodke who had been held hostage in West Africa for years by Islamist militants. Dubois was kidnapped in Mali in 2021, while Woodke was kidnapped in neighbouring Niger in 2016. Dubois had appeared in a video last August urging authorities to do everything they could to free him from his captors. Some journalists embraced him upon arrival at the briefing at the airport in the capital Niamey, moved by the sight…
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Mar
21
2023
By The African Mirror
French journalist Dubois freed in Mali – Liberation

French journalist Dubois freed in Mali – Liberation

NEWS
FRENCH journalist Olivier Dubois, who has been held hostage in Mali for nearly two years, has been freed, the newspaper Liberation director told Reuters. Dubois, who disappeared in Mali's northern city of Gao in April 2021, appeared in a video in early May 2022, appealing to authorities to do everything they could to free him from Islamist militants holding him. "We are deeply relieved and happy about this outcome," Liberation director Dov Alfon said. Dubois worked for Liberation and Le Point magazine. France's foreign ministry did not immediately confirm the news of his release. French civilians have long been favoured…
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Mar
12
2023
By The African Mirror
We killed 35 in the DRC – Islamic State

We killed 35 in the DRC – Islamic State

NEWS
ISLAMIC State claimed responsibility for an attack that targeted the village of Mukondi, around 30 km (20 miles) south of the city of Beni in North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the group's Amaq agency reported on Friday. Islamist militants killed at least 35 people in an overnight attack on the village in retaliation for a military crackdown on rebel activity, an army spokesperson said on Thursday. Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Mar
10
2023
By The African Mirror
Islamist militants kill at least 35 in east Congo village, army says

Islamist militants kill at least 35 in east Congo village, army says

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI ISLAMIST militants killed at least 35 people in an overnight attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in retaliation for a military crackdown on rebel activity, an army spokesperson said. The assailants were members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), Anthony Mualushayi said, referring to a Ugandan armed group based in eastern Congo that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and conducts frequent raids on villages. The attack targeted the village of Mukondi, around 30 km (20 miles) south of the city of Beni in North Kivu province, an area plagued with rebel activity…
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Jan
31
2023
By The African Mirror
Suicide bomber breaches high security in Pakistan mosque, kills 59

Suicide bomber breaches high security in Pakistan mosque, kills 59

WORLD
JIBRAN AHMAD and ASIF SHAHZAD A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in Pakistan, killing 59 people, including 27 police officials, the latest attack by resurgent Islamist militants targeting police. The attacker appeared to have passed through several barricades manned by security forces to get into the "Red Zone" compound that houses police and counter-terrorism offices in the volatile northwestern city of Peshawar, police said. "It was a suicide bombing," Peshawar Police Chief Ijaz Khan told Reuters. Many of the 170 wounded people were in critical condition, he said. The death…
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