Police launch manhunt for mastermind in Garissa GSU attack

By Duncan Mutwiri,

Police have launched a manhunt for an Al- Shabaab militant suspected to have been involved in the attack that led to the death of 10 General Service U...

Abdullahi Banati , Al Shabaab , GSU , suspects

President Kenyatta mourns 11 GSU officers killed in IED attack

By Ian Omondi,

President Uhuru Kenyatta has mourned 11 General Service Unit (GSU) officers killed when a vehicle they were travelling in ran over an Improvised Explo...

Garissa County , GSU officers , Improvised Explosive Device , President Uhuru Kenyatta

DCI to probe break-in at Cuban doctor’s house in Homa Bay, police say

By Allan Obiero,

Police in Homa Bay are investigating a burglary incident in Homa Bay involving a Cuban doctor. Thugs are suspected to have gained entry into the co...

Cuban doctors

At least 10 Burkina Faso soldiers killed in militant attack

By VOA,

Unidentified militants killed at least 10 soldiers and wounded many others in an attack on a military unit in northern Burkina Faso on Monday, the arm...

Burkina Faso , jihadist groups. , militant attack

63 killed, hundreds injured at Afghan wedding suicide blast

By Reuters,

A suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 in an attack on a packed wedding reception in the Afghan capital, the interior ministry said on Sund...

Afghan , Taliban , United States

Ex-hostage: Aid worker kidnappings ‘big business’ as criminals wade in

By VOA,

Kidnapping of aid workers has become "big business" as militants often work with crime networks to carry out abductions, a senior United Nations offic...

Aid workers , Kidnappings , Thomson Reuters Foundation , United Nations Commission on Refugees (UNHCR)

Egypt says security forces killed 17 Islamic militants

By VOA,

Security forces killed at least 17 suspected militants in raids in Cairo and in another province, Egypt officials said Thursday, four days after a car...

Egypt , Terror Attack

Jubaland President Madobe confident of win in August elections

By Citizen Reporter,

Somalia State of Jubaland is headed to the polls on August 24. The outcome of this forthcoming election is crucial for peace and stability in the ...

Renationalization unlikely to fly Kenya Airways back to profit

By Reuters,

By taking back full control of Kenya Airways, lawmakers are banking on Kenya’s ability to replicate the profitable example of Ethiopia’s state-own...

Ethiopian Airlines , Kenya Airways

At least 65 people killed by suspected Islamists in Nigeria

By Reuters,

At least 65 people died in an attack by suspected Islamists on a group returning from a funeral in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno region, state televi...

Boko Haram , Mohammed Bulama , Muhammadu Buhari , Nigeria

Attacks on security forces in Pakistan kill 10 soldiers

By Reuters,

At least 10 soldiers have been killed in separate attacks within hours on Pakistan security forces. A military vehicle was ambushed and six soldier...

Afghanistan border , Baluchistan , Pakistan forces , U.S

Three bombs kill 15 in Afghan capital as U.S. general visits

By Reuters,

Three bombs rocked the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, officials said, as the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of St...

Afghan capital , three bombs , U.S

Trump: I could win Afghan war ”in a week, I just don’t want to kill 10 milllion people”

By CNN,

President Donald Trump said the US has made "a lot of progress" toward ending the war in Afghanistan in negotiations with the Taliban in recent weeks ...

Afghanistan , Trump , US War

Two killed in suicide bombing, four beheaded in Egypt

By Reuters,

A suicide bombing killed at least two people in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there, security ...

Egypt , Islamic militants , North Sinai , Suicide bombing

Italian police seized an air-to-air missile and Nazi paraphernalia from three men

By CNN,

Italian police have seized "an arsenal of military weapons," including an air-to-air missile, and a collection of Nazi paraphernalia from three men, o...

Fabio Del Bergiolo , Italian police , senate

Three Kenyans killed in Kismayu hotel attack, death toll rises to 26

By VOA,

The death toll from the Kismayu hotel attack in Somalia has risen to 26, with three Kenyans, one Briton, two Americans and three Tanzanians among thos...

Al Shabaab , Hodan Naleyah , kismayu hotel attack

Cameroon fights Boko Haram with goats and sheep

By VOA,

The government of Cameroon this week began rolling out an unlikely weapon in the fight against Boko Haram militants. Authorities are distributing t...

Boko Haram

Boko Haram kills at least five soldiers in northeast Nigeria: sources

By Reuters,

Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram ambushed Nigerian soldiers in the northeast of the country, killing at least five and injuring more than a dozen, ...

Boko Haram , borno , Nigeria

Mozambique says militants kill 11 in attack near Tanzania border

By Reuters,

Eleven people were killed in an attack last week by an Islamist militant armed group in northern Mozambique near its border with Tanzania, Mozambican ...

islamists , militants , Mozambique , Tanzania

23 dead, 300 missing after attack on Mali village

By Reuters,

At least 23 people are dead and 300 missing after an attack on Sunday on a village of Fulani herders in central Mali where communal violence has surge...

attack , Fulani herders , Issiaka Ganame , MALI