Somalia

Kenya to send home a Swedish terror suspect

A Swedish citizen, Magd Najjar, has been detained by Kenyan police on alleged links to Al-Shabaab. Kenyan media reported, citing…

Kenya on hunt for a German terror suspect

Kenyan police launched a major manhunt on Saturday for German citizen believed to use alias names Andreas Martin Muller and…

Report: UK citizens make up a quarter of Al-Shabaab’s foreign fighters

‘Britons are thought to make up about 25 per cent of the 200 or so foreign fighters that the Al-Shabaab…

Sudanese, Somalian on trial for ‘joining Al-Shabaab’ in UAE

A United Arab Emirates news outlet, The National, reported yesterday that three Sudanese and one Somalian citizens are on trial…

Somalia: Elders confer on draft Constitution, for legislative elections

The conference of Somali elders in Mogadishu which opened last Saturday has continued all this week. It is supposed to…

Al-Qaeda commends Al-Shabaab, advises against negotiations

Al Qaeda leader Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri has called on Somalia’s Al Shabaab group militia to disregard international peace efforts and…

Ethiopia: Amb. Shinn doubts gov’t promotion of Al-Ahbash ideology

Former US Ambassador to Ethiopia, David Shinn, said, ‘I doubt that [the government] would push a particular Muslim ideology such…

Ethiopia: Norway signed a new MoU and to ‘double support’

Ethiopia and Norway signed a new Memorandum of Understanding yesterday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The two sides were…

Al Shabaab and Al Qaeda in Kenya to unify the ‘Horn of Africa jihad’

The militant group Al Shabaab said it has allied with Al Qaeda in a drive to establish an Islamic state…

Al-Shabaab split threatens to open new conflict between Somalia’s Islamists

Despite recent celebrations of its merger with al-Qaeda, Somalia’s Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen movement has been suffering from a power struggle…

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