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Jan
02
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 17 villagers hacked to death in eastern Congo

At least 17 villagers hacked to death in eastern Congo

NEWS
AT least 17 people were found hacked to death in a part of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo ravaged by attacks from Islamist militants, according to a local official. Donat Kibwana, the administrator of Beni territory, blamed the deaths near the town of Eringeti on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed Islamist group which has emerged in recent years as the most lethal of the militias in Congo's eastern borderlands. "Yesterday morning, Congolese army soldiers were on patrol when they found 17 bodies," Kibwana told Reuters. "The modus operandi allows us to say that tre responsible." More than…
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Dec
29
2020
By The African Mirror
Burkina Faso President Kabore vows reconciliation during second term

Burkina Faso President Kabore vows reconciliation during second term

NEWS
BURKINA Faso President Roch Marc Kabore has vowed to bring together the West African nation torn by violent Islamist militant attacks as he embarks on his second and final five-year term. Kabore was sworn into office in a ceremony attended by nearly a dozen peers from the region following his victory in a November 22 presidential election which he won with 57.87% of the vote. Once a stable country in the turbulent Sahel region, landlocked Burkina Faso has been sucked into a violent security crisis during much of Kabore's first term. The crisis has also overwhelmed much of West Africa…
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Dec
21
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia militants behead shepherd near Algeria border

Tunisia militants behead shepherd near Algeria border

NEWS
ISLAMIST militants kidnapped and beheaded a young shepherd in mountains in Tunisia near the border with Algeria, security sources and residents said. Troops found the body of Okba Dhouibi after he had been seized by militants, the sources said. Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi said that the act would not go unpunished. Tunisian forces are carrying out operations in the Kasserine and Saloum mountain range to flush out Ajned Kilafha militants allied to Islamic State. Militants linked to Al Qaeda and IS groups have been sheltering for years in the desolate, hilly terrain along a stretch of the border with Algeria…
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Dec
03
2020
By The African Mirror
Pope condemns “terroristic massacre” of Nigerian farmers

Pope condemns “terroristic massacre” of Nigerian farmers

NEWS
POPE Francis has condemned the killing of scores of farmers and villagers in northeast Nigeria by suspected Islamist militants as a "terroristic massacre" that offended the name of God. Francis spoke of Saturday's attack during his weekly general audience, held virtually from his library in the Vatican because of the coronavirus pandemic. "I want to assure my prayers for Nigeria, which unfortunately once again has been bloodied by a terroristic massacre," the Pope said. Around 30 of the men were beheaded in the attack, which began on Saturday morning in the village of Zabarmari, and the U.N. estimated that at…
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Nov
30
2020
By The African Mirror
Nigeria buries 43 farmers killed by militants, dozens missing

Nigeria buries 43 farmers killed by militants, dozens missing

NEWS
LANRE OLA VILLAGERS in northeast Nigeria's Borno state yesterday buried 43 farmers killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants while security forces searched for dozens still missing. Around 30 of the men were beheaded in the attack, which began on Saturday morning in the village of Zabarmari, while residents said 70 people in all are feared dead. While there was no claim of responsibility, such massacres have been carried out in the past by Boko Haram or the Islamic State West Africa Province which are both active in the area, where Islamic militants have killed at least 30,000 people.…
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Nov
18
2020
By The African Mirror
Army patrol discovers 29 bodies in eastern Congo

Army patrol discovers 29 bodies in eastern Congo

NEWS
A military patrol has discovered 29 bodies in a region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where civilians are facing a sharp rise in attacks by Islamist militants, local authorities have revealed. The victims were found in the Beni territory of North Kivu province, local army spokesman Anthony Mualushay said, without giving further details or saying who was believed to be responsible. The province's deputy governor, Lumoo Kahumbo, said initial findings showed the ADF, a Ugandan Islamist militia, were responsible for the massacre. "The provincial government of North Kivu strongly condemns this latest slaughter of civilians," Kahumbo said in a…
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Oct
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Mali and France at odds over talks with Islamist militants

Mali and France at odds over talks with Islamist militants

NEWS
MALI’S interim prime minister is open to talks with Islamist militants whose insurgency has made vast swathes of the country ungovernable, but former colonial power France signalled opposition to the idea. Ousted former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita said earlier this year that 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. Moctar Ouane Malian officials have provided few specifics about what kinds of compromises could emerge, but some proponents of negotiations have said they could include recognition of a greater role for Islam in…
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Oct
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected jihadists kill 12 soldiers in central Mali

Suspected jihadists kill 12 soldiers in central Mali

NEWS
TIEMOKO DIALLO  SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed 12 soldiers in two attacks in central Mali, the army has announced. The militants also burned down an army base and ambushed troops sent as reinforcements. The first attack occurred overnight on a base in Sokoura near the border with Burkina Faso, killing nine soldiers. On Tuesday morning three others were killed in an ambush at a bridge nearby as they headed to the scene of the first attack, the statement said. Nine militants were killed, and two of their vehicles destroyed, the army said. A witness said he saw nine bodies at the…
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Oct
07
2020
By The African Mirror
Kenyan court finds two men guilty for roles in 2013 shopping mall attack

Kenyan court finds two men guilty for roles in 2013 shopping mall attack

NEWS
A Kenyan court today found two men guilty of helping al Qaeda-linked militants launch a 2013 assault on a Nairobi shopping mall in which gunmen killed at least 67 people. A third man who also faced charges under the country's terrorism prevention act was acquitted on all charges. The trial is the only prosecution Kenya has mounted so far over the attack by gunmen from the Somali militant group al Shabaab on Nairobi's Westgate shopping mall, at the time seen as a symbol of the East African country's growing prosperity. It was the worst attack by Islamist militants in Kenya,…
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Sep
27
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill at least 11 in attack on convoy in northeast Nigeria

Suspected Islamists kill at least 11 in attack on convoy in northeast Nigeria

NEWS
SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed at least 11 people in northeastern Nigeria in an attack on a security convoy that was taking people displaced by an insurgency back to their homes, police and security sources said. Islamic State, to whom a breakaway faction of Nigerian militant group Boko Haram pledged allegiance in 2016, said on its Amaq news agency that 30 police officers and soldiers were killed in the attack on Friday on a road leading to the strategic fishing town of Baga in Borno state. In a statement on Saturday, Borno state police said eight police officers and three members…
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