Explosives experts are searching for possible booby-traps in the wreckage of Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall after a four-day bloodbath.
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/ 26 September 2009
Osama bin Laden demanded European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan and warned in a new audiotape of ”retaliation” against them.
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/ 15 September 2009
US special forces carried out a revenge raid in Somalia that killed a top al-Qaeda commander high on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list.
Like many terror groups, al-Shabab uses Internet videos to draw disenfranchised young men into its fold.
United States President Barack Obama’s visit can help African democracy if he curbs a misguided US belief in security by military force.
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/ 23 November 2008
Zam Zam Abdi fled after being threatened with death. If she continued working for her women’s rights organisation she would be killed.
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/ 16 November 2008
A radical Islamic group has seized another Somali port town, consolidating its control over a south-western region that borders the Somali capital.
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/ 25 January 2008
Islamist insurgents briefly seized control of Somalia’s biggest military airfield on Friday and looted weapons, witnesses and an Islamist commander said. Muktar Ali Robow, leader of the al-Shabab rebel militia, told a local radio station his forces also captured government troops during the raid on Baledogle, about 100km west of the capital, Mogadishu.
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/ 16 December 2007
The military wing of Somalia’s Islamist movement plans to intensify its offensive against government troops and their Ethiopian allies, a senior commander said on Sunday. Muktar Ali Robow said al-Shabab had killed nearly 500 Ethiopian soldiers and would fight until foreign troops left the Horn of Africa country.