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Sep
26
2020
By The African Mirror
Knifeman in Paris wounds two at scene of Charlie Hebdo attacks

Knifeman in Paris wounds two at scene of Charlie Hebdo attacks

WORLD
TANGI SALAUN and EMILIE  DELWARD A man armed with a meat cleaver attacked and wounded two people who had stepped out for a cigarette in front of the Paris office building where Islamist militants gunned down employees of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo five years ago. Police soon after detained the man suspected of carrying out the attack, with bloodstains on his clothes, next to the steps of an opera house about 500 metres (yards) away. The suspected attacker was from Pakistan, and had arrived in France three years ago as an unaccompanied minor, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. "We are…
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Sep
24
2020
By The African Mirror
Three Egyptian policemen, four militants killed in prison break attempt

Three Egyptian policemen, four militants killed in prison break attempt

NEWS
THREE Egyptian policemen were killed while preventing four Islamist militants on death row fleeing a Cairo prison, the interior ministry said. All four militants were killed in the failed attempt to escape from Tora prison, it added in a statement. Three of the prisoners named in the statement were convicted in 2018 with establishing and joining a militant group called Ansar al-Sharia and killing at least 10 policemen in a series of attacks between August 2013 and May 2014. The fourth was convicted in 2018 of killing a Christian doctor, local newspapers said. The interior ministry statement did not give…
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Sep
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Insurgency in Mozambique threatens food security

Insurgency in Mozambique threatens food security

NEWS
WORSENING violence by militants with links to Islamic State in northern Mozambique are causing thousands to go hungry as they flee their homes and abandon farms, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. Militant attacks in gas-rich Cabo Delgado province, near the border with Tanzania, began in 2017. The violence has gathered pace in 2020, with insurgents seizing key towns for brief periods and hitting military and other key targets. Operations and pitched battles in the region's remote villages between government forces and insurgents have often led to civilian casualties and destruction of infrastructure, with dozens of schools and…
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Sep
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Cameroonian soldiers jailed for killing women and children

Cameroonian soldiers jailed for killing women and children

NEWS
FOUR Cameroonian soldiers have received 10-year prison sentences for the killing of two women and two children in an incident that sparked an international outcry, their lawyers said. They and three other soldiers were arrested after a video surfaced on social media in July 2018 showing uniformed men levelling rifles and firing at the victims, one of whom had a baby strapped to her back. The video was one of several to emerge in recent years of alleged atrocities by Cameroonian forces during operations against Islamist Boko Haram militants in the north and Anglophone separatists in the west. The trial…
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Sep
11
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamists kill at least 53 in eastern Congo

Suspected Islamists kill at least 53 in eastern Congo

NEWS
SUSPECTED militants killed at least 53 villagers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province this week, according to a local official. The authorities blamed the attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group active in eastern Congo since the 1990s. The militia has killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to U.N. figures, despite repeated military campaigns aimed at destroying it. On Tuesday night into Wednesday, ADF fighters attacked the villages of Tsabi and Tondoli, around 120 km (75 miles) south of the city of Bunia, officials said.…
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Sep
06
2020
By The African Mirror
Three militants killed after fatal attack on policeman in Tunisia

Three militants killed after fatal attack on policeman in Tunisia

NEWS
POLICE in Tunisia chased and shot dead three suspected Islamist militants after they attacked two police officers, killing one of them, in the coastal city of Sousse on Sunday, the authorities said. Five years ago an Islamic State militant shot dead 39 foreigners on a beach in Sousse, triggering an exodus of tourists and severely damaging its economy. Since then Tunisia has grown more effective in preventing and responding to attacks, foreign diplomats say, but sleeper cells still pose a real threat to the country, especially with the return of jihadists from Syria, Iraq and Libya. “Terrorists stabbed two policemen…
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Aug
31
2020
By The African Mirror
Ten militants and five civilians killed in east Congo violence – army, local leader

Ten militants and five civilians killed in east Congo violence – army, local leader

NEWS
TEN Islamist militants were killed after they ambushed an army convoy in eastern Congo, according to the military, while a community leader said five civilians were killed by members of the same rebel group soon after. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group operating in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo for more than three decades, has killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to United Nations figures. The latest violence saw six Congolese soldiers wounded in clashes with the militants following the ambush near the town of Mbau, army spokesman Antony Mwalushayi said…
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Aug
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Suspected Islamist militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages

Suspected Islamist militants kill 13 in eastern Congo villages

NEWS
ERIKAS MWISI KAMBALE  SUSPECTED Islamist militants killed 13 people during raids on two villages in eastern Congo, the army and a village chief said, the latest in a spate of attacks the United Nations says may constitute war crimes. The Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a Ugandan armed group operating in he fokkers cast in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have killed more than 1,000 civilians since the start of 2019, according to U.N. figures. Militiamen tied up the victims in the villages of Kinziki-Matiba and Wikeno, 10 km east of the city of Oicha, before killing them in the attack…
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Jul
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria execute four aid workers

Islamist militants in northeast Nigeria execute four aid workers

NEWS
ISLAMIST militants in northeast Nigeria have executed four aid workers and a private security guard, according to a video seen by Reuters. The International Rescue Committee and Action Against Hunger, both aid groups, confirmed the killing of their colleagues and other humanitarian workers in statements condemning the executions. Last month, the militants released a video in which the hostages identified themselves. The execution underscores the increasing risk for aid workers in northeast Nigeria, where a decade-long conflict with Boko Haram and Islamic State's regional ally has fuelled one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. "You that are working for infidel…
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