Reuters By Abdi Sheikh and Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s Islamist rebel group bombed African peacekeepers and government vehicles on Monday in twin attacks that left at least 12 civilians dead, marking al Shabaab’s first major attack since promising revenge for the killing of its leader last week. The blasts within an hour of
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BBC Al-Shabab fighters want to overthrow the UN-backed Somali government Somalia’s Islamist group al-Shabab has named Ahmad Umar as successor to former leader Ahmed Abdi Godane, who was killed in a US air strike. The group announced the move in an online statement, vowing to take revenge for Godane’s death. Somalia’s authorities earlier put the
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AFP The death of Al-Qaeda’s top man in Somalia has been viewed as a major victory. Why is his death important? The leader of Somalia’s Shabaab rebels Ahmed Abdi Godane, declared dead by the United States after an air strike earlier this week, was a ruthless kingpin of Al-Qaeda’s main African affiliate. On Monday night, US
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BBC Ahmed Abdi Godane – undated photo The US Rewards for Justice programme issued this photograph of Godane in 2012 The leader of the Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, Ahmed Abdi Godane, was killed following a US attack earlier this week, the Pentagon has said. The US carried out air strikes on Monday night destroying a
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BBC The bus had been travelling from Mombasa to Lamu when it was attacked Gunmen have killed seven people, including four police officers, after attacking a passenger bus in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu. The gunmen opened fire on the bus near the town of Witu, some 50 km (31 miles) from the resort island
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AFP Nairobi (AFP) – Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents are planning further attacks in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, Britain warned Thursday, after suicide bombers last month attacked a crowded restaurant. “There are credible reports that Al-Shebab plan, and have the capability, to attack targets in Djibouti, including Western interests,” the Foreign Office said,
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VOA Photo: UA-ONU/IST Villagers in Modmoday 40 kms east of Baidoa Nearly 40 people are dead after al-Shabab militants attacked a village on the border between Ethiopia and Somalia. The governor of Somalia’s Bakool region, Mohamed Abdi Tall, told VOA that the Islamist militant group raided the village of Aato early Tuesday. He said 27 pro-government
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The scene of a twin explosion at the Gikomba open-air market in Nairobi on Friday.THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS By ALAN COWELL The New York Times LONDON — The authorities in Kenya said that 10 people had died in two explosions in the capital, Nairobi, on Friday, heightening fears of terrorist attacks in one of Africa’s
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The scene of a twin explosion at the Gikomba open-air market in Nairobi on Friday.THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS By ALAN COWELL The New York Times LONDON — The authorities in Kenya said that 10 people had died in two explosions in the capital, Nairobi, on Friday, heightening fears of terrorist attacks in one of Africa’s
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Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) A fleet of Ethiopian peacekeepers under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) withdrew their presence from Baladxawo in Gedo region after intense clashes broke out yesterday. Almost as many as an entire contingent was reported to have fled the town early this morning. Witnesses described to Shabelle that several battlewagons of
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