Tag Archives: SHEBAB
Somalia car bomb blast kills at least three
At least three people including a child were killed Saturday in a car bomb blast outside a restaurant in the capital Mogadishu, officials and witnesses said. “There was an explosion against a restaurant in the Beyhani district. Three civilians were
Somalia housing boom as Mogadishu emerges from ashes of war
Somalia’s elegant colonial villas were left in ruins by two decades of street fighting among warlords, and the seaside capital Mogadishu was dubbed the most dangerous city in the world. But now new housing estates are being built amid an
Kenya jails British terror suspect for forgery
A Kenyan court on Thursday jailed alleged British terrorist Jermaine Grant for nine years for forging documents, after an appeal court overturned his acquittal. Grant is still on trial for terrorism offences following his arrest in 2011 but on Wednesday
British jihadist Thomas Evans believed killed in Kenya
A British militant fighting for Somalia’s Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Shebab, is believed to have been killed in a thwarted attack on a Kenyan army base on Sunday, a Kenyan defence spokesman said. “All the available data, including photographs, points to
Seven Somali women killed in ‘barbaric’ attacks
At least seven women have been killed in “barbaric” attacks in Somalia after Shebab insurgents beheaded a soldier’s wife, prompting revenge executions of women close to the Islamists, elders said Thursday. The Al-Qaeda-affiliated Shebab earlier this week snatched two women
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