The government could be ordered by the High Court to pay more than Sh2 billion in damages to a Kenyan terror suspect detained at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for the past two years.
Five people suspected of having links with al-Qaeda were on Wednesday acquitted for lack of evidence.
Mr Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, the Tanzanian national standing trial for terror charges in the US, wants all charges against him dismissed because his constitutional rights were violated.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission yesterday differed with the Corruption Perception Index recently released by Transparency International which still rates graft high in Nigeria.
The government of Mali declared in early June that it would mount a "merciless struggle" against terrorist forces operating in the country's far northern desert. President Amadou Toumani Touré vowed that the killers of a British hostage, murdered just a few days earlier, would not escape unpunished. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a predominantly Algerian dissident group that had ...
The three-week ATA 6483 Maritime Interdiction of Terrorism Course, held at the Nigerian Maritime Resource Development Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos has came to an end.
Pirates suspected to come from Nigeria have attacked an oil tanker off the coast of west Africa, killing a Ukrainian seaman, the commander of Benin's naval forces says.
Last October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence.
Parliament yesterday gave a nod to the ratification of the African Union protocol on prevention and combating of terrorism which was adopted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July 2004.
The state counsel prosecuting the sixteen men on terrorism related matters, Mr. S.H. Bakum, on Monday 16 November, told trial judge Justice Moses Richards of the special criminal court, at the Banjul High Court that the state has amended the charges against the accused persons.
The following was delivered by the U.S. Assistant Secretary on Africa Johnnie Carson before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on Africa. His remarks address U.S. Counterterrorism efforts in the Sahel Region.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has asked politicians to stop panicking and await International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's next course of action in the trial of post-election violence suspects.
Rwanda is investigating whether four Somalis arrested last week trying to illegally cross into the country from Uganda have suspected links with Somali insurgents, Al Shabaab.
The threat posed by terrorist groups such as Al-Qaida and the Taliban is evolving and the United Nations' efforts to combat the scourge must keep up to date through effective counter -measures such as sanctions and reinforced regional cooperation to prevent the smuggling of materials for weapons of mass destruction, the Security Council has been told.
Just as President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua asks the National Assembly to enact legislation against terrorism, the Nigerian Police has begun moves to equip its self and key security agencies with safety measures.
The United States Government in-conjunction with the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, is organising a three week training programme on maritime security at the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) Resource Centre situated at Kirikiri in Lagos.
Tucked away in the corners of the news media sits a report that the US government will provide US$5 million in trucks and military equipment to Mali. The aim of this donation is to help the Malian military fight the group known as al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Last December, AQIM kidnapped two Canadian diplomats, who were released after four months. This is what they do these days: ...
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