Despite the deployment of more police officers to Yobe, the scene of the latest deadly bombing in Nigeria, and Abuja, where Boko Haram are allegedly planning to strike next, senior ... Read more »
The Kampala police chief, Andrew Kaweesi, has warned that terrorists might strike Uganda during the festive season Read more »
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has pleaded guilty of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas Day in 2009. Read more »
Borno State Governor Kashim Shettima has confirmed that a top commander of Boko Haram was arrested with five other members. With the arrests, a relieved Governor Shettima believes ... Read more »
Nigeria is witnessing the biggest military deployment in peacetime as soldiers are called upon to take over the role of maintaining internal security from the police. Read more »
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on all people to stand against terrorism in a special message to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist ... Read more »
Two men described as "notorious leaders of the Boko Haram extremist sect" are being held in connection with the bombing of the United Nations offices in Abuja. Read more »
One of the greatest challenges President Goodluck Jonathan's administration faces is the growing insecurity across the country. Nigerians are said to now be living in perpetual ... Read more »
Fatuma Noor, reporter for the Nairobi Star, was awarded the top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards for an investigative three-part series on Somalia's ... Read more »
The killing of Mohammed Abdullah Fazul, a key al Shabaab figure nearly a month after the death of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has dealt a major blow to the militia group which ... Read more »
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