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Somalia: al-Shabab terror group names new leader

(Abdi Guled) Somalia's Islamic extremist rebels, al-Shabab, named a new leader Saturday after confirming the killing of their previous leader…

Monday, September 8, 2014 @ 9:16 pm

Over the last few weeks, Somali officials and AMISOM officers have repeatedly warned that the Somali National Army and AMISOM…

Saturday, September 6, 2014 @ 6:53 pm

(David Smith, Abdalle Ahmed and Tom McCarthy) The Pentagon has confirmed that Ahmed Abdi Godane, the leader of the Islamist…

Saturday, September 6, 2014 @ 6:45 pm

(Paul Wafula) Terrorists attacked Kenya 14 times on March 3 and 4, the day the country held elections, but security…

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 @ 11:52 pm

The proposed deployment of armed contingents to protect oil installations in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland risks further destabilizing a…

Friday, August 8, 2014 @ 1:21 am

Ethiopia, Africa’s fastest-growing economy, is looking to its capital to help sustain an expansion that averaged more than 10 percent…

Tuesday, August 5, 2014 @ 1:17 am

(By William Davison) Six Ethiopian bloggers and three journalists were charged with planning attacks in the East African country in…

Saturday, July 19, 2014 @ 9:46 pm

The recent arrest of Andargachew Tsege, secretary general of Ginbot 7, an Ethiopian terrorist group, by Yemen and his extradition…

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 @ 7:11 pm

(René Lefort) * It may be that, in Ethiopia, history is so powerful that the past permeates the present, and…

Sunday, July 6, 2014 @ 6:00 pm

(Astewaye Beyene) How is the continent of Africa rated on peace? Is it the most peaceful, somewhere in between or…

Thursday, July 3, 2014 @ 1:21 am