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Mar
29
2021
By The African Mirror
Indonesian church bombed by suspected Islamist militants

Indonesian church bombed by suspected Islamist militants

WORLD
AGUSTINUS BEO DA COSTA ND STANLEY WIDIANTO TWO suicide bombers believed to be members of an Islamist militant group attacked a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, wounding 19 people, police said. The mass was finishing when the attackers detonated at least one device outside the church. The two suspects were the only fatalities. Police chief Listyo Sigit Prabowo said the bombers were both believed to belong to the Islamic State-inspired Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which is suspected of suicide attacks on churches and a police post…
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Mar
27
2021
By The African Mirror
‘French strike killed civilians’

‘French strike killed civilians’

NEWS
PAUL LORGERIE and TIEMOKO DIALLO LOCAL officials in northern Mali have accused France's army of killing six civilians in an airstrike, but French forces said they had hit Islamist militants. The incident, which occurred on Thursday in the remote Gao region, is the second time this year that France's Operation Barkhane has been accused of killing civilians. The operation comprises more than 5,000 troops fighting militants in Mali and neighbouring countries. Barkhane said the strike had "neutralised" a group of militants 60 kilometres (37 miles) north of In Deliman. "This strike was ordered after a phase of surveillance and identification…
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Mar
15
2021
By The African Mirror
30 soldiers killed in four days in Nigeria

30 soldiers killed in four days in Nigeria

NEWS
ISLAMIST militants have killed about 30 government soldiers in a series of clashes in northeast Nigeria since Wednesday, military and civilian militia sources have revealed. Security across Nigeria has been deteriorating in recent months, including in the northeast. Four attacks claimed the lives of at least 27 soldiers and 10 members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF), including a unit head, the sources told Reuters. CJTF are local groups of armed men who protect the areas where they live, mainly against Islamist insurgents. They are not members of the military but often fight alongside soldiers. Neither Army nor defence…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
A decade after Syria’s war began, memories haunt a family it tore apart

A decade after Syria’s war began, memories haunt a family it tore apart

WORLD
SEHAMU Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war. Now, aged 74 and confined to a wheelchair because of a heart condition, she looks after her son's four surviving children, a widowed daughter and a second daughter along with her husband and their children. Their plight is not unusual in a country where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed during a decade of violence and millions more…
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Mar
02
2021
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill 9 civilians in Mali

Suspected Islamists kill 9 civilians in Mali

NEWS
SUSPECTED Islamist militants riding 4x4 vehicles and armed with machine guns killed nine civilians in attacks on three villages in central Mali, local officials said. Two different sets of assailants struck the ethnic Dogon villages of Gorey, Simikanda and Djamnati in Mali's Mopti region, which has been ravaged in recent years by Islamist and inter-ethnic violence, the officials said. Moulaye Guindo, the mayor of Bankass, which is near Gorey and Simikanda, blamed the attacks on the same militants who killed eight people in attacks on a Malian military post and a gendarme base last Thursday. Islamist groups linked to al…
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Feb
21
2021
By The African Mirror
Mali plans talks with Islamist militants

Mali plans talks with Islamist militants

NEWS
MALI’S government has created a body to open talks with Islamist militants whose insurgency has made vast portions of the country ungovernable, the interim prime minister has said, in the face of objections by France. A year ago ousted former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said his government was prepared to negotiate with al Qaeda-linked militants. National talks in the aftermath of the August coup that overthrew Keita endorsed that policy. "Dialogue is not an exclusive solution, but rather an additional means of bringing back into the bosom of the Republic those who left it, often for existential reasons far removed…
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Feb
17
2021
By The African Mirror
More soldiers sent into the Sahel

More soldiers sent into the Sahel

NEWS
MADJIARA NAKO and MICHEL ROSE FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron ruled out an immediate reduction of French troops battling Islamist militants in the Sahel region of West Africa on Tuesday, saying a rushed exit would be a mistake. Macron said he was pushing back a decision on a troop reduction after a virtual summit of the five Sahel countries and their allies, during which Chad announced the deployment of 1,200 troops to complement 5,100 French soldiers in the area. "Significant changes will undoubtedly be made to our military system in the Sahel in due course, but they will not take place…
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Feb
06
2021
By The African Mirror
Burkina Faso government says it is open to talks with jihadists

Burkina Faso government says it is open to talks with jihadists

NEWS
BURKINA Faso's government said for the first time yesterday that it was open to talks with Islamist militants to try to end a growing insurgency, echoing a position taken by authorities in neighbouring Mali. Nearly a decade after militants linked to al Qaeda briefly seized control of northern Mali, governments across West Africa's Sahel region again find themselves struggling to contain the jihadists, leading some to reconsider prior opposition to talks. "If we want to end the security crisis, we will need to find paths and ways to talk with those responsible for terrorist attacks so that we are in…
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Feb
02
2021
By The African Mirror
‘I was crying’: Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirl phones home after seven years

‘I was crying’: Kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirl phones home after seven years

NEWS
ADAOBI TRICIA NWAUBANI  NEARLY seven years since Islamist militants kidnapped two of his daughters from their school in northeastern Nigeria, a hurried phone call let Ali Maiyanga know that his family's ordeal might soon be over. The call on Thursday evening was from Maiyanga's daughter Halima, who - along with her sister Maryam - was among more than 200 schoolgirls snatched by Boko Haram insurgents in Chibok in April 2014, sparking a global #BringBackOurGirls campaign. "I was crying, she was crying," said Maiyanga, who was preparing to get married to his fourth wife when he heard Halima's voice down the…
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Jan
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Niger village attacks killed 100, says prime minister

Niger village attacks killed 100, says prime minister

NEWS
ONE hundred people were killed in attacks on two villages in western Niger, Prime Minister Brigi Rafini said following one of deadliest days in recent memory for a country ravaged by Islamist violence. Rafini announced the death toll in remarks broadcast on national television on Sunday from a visit to the zone, near the border with Mali. He did not say who was responsible for the attacks. Security sources said on Saturday that at least 70 civilians had been killed in simultaneous attacks by suspected Islamist militants on the villages of Tchombangou and Zaroumdareye. Niger has suffered repeated attacks by…
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