Kenyan ‘al-Shabab recruiter’ killed near Mombasa

01 April 2014 BBC Abubakar Shariff Ahmed was known by his nickname Makaburi meaning “Graveyard” in Swahili A radical Muslim cleric in Kenya, Abubakar Shariff Ahmed, has been shot dead outside the coastal city of Mombasa, police and witnesses say.

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Al Shabab leader hits popular chord in call to oust Kenyans and Ethiopians

The Christian Science Monitor By Alex Dick-Godfrey April 1, 2014 A version of this post appeared on Africa in Transition. The views expressed are the author’s own.  In a recent article on the Daily Maverick, Simon Allison identifies the “surprisingly perceptive” core message of Al

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6 soldiers killed: Somali militants attack army hotel

March 18, 2014 Amisom and Somali government forces march around Bulo-burde after its capture last week Somali Islamist fighters have attacked a hotel in a strategic central town the militants lost control of last week. A car bomb exploded by

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