US, Western Governments funding advocates of UN-sanctioned terrorists
Kenyan officials have recently accused the United States, UK, Norway, Germany, and Finland of funding two groups with links to...
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Al-Shabaab Takes Kenyan Village as Ugandan President Declares They Are Weak
Over 30 foreigners, reported to be members of al-Shabaab, have taken over a village in Mandera County, Kenya on June...
Al-Shabaab Attacks Police In Garissa
Suspected Islamist gunmen attacked Kenyan federal police in Garissa province, the same province where Al-Shabaab terrorists massacred students and faculty...
Islamic State Calls for Al-Shabaab to Pledge Allegiance
The Islamic State released yet another video, this time calling on al-Shabaab to join their campaign for global jihad. The...
Burundi, Amisom, and al Shabaab
There is an interesting piece at BBC by Rachael Akidi that looks at the participation by East African leaders in...
Al-Shabaab Concerns in Burundi are Legitimate
Following a week of violence and unrest as a coup attempted to oust current Burundi president, Pierre Nkurunziza finally made...
Al-Qaeda Linked Group Massacres Hundreds in Congo
A series of massacres in the DRC has left 300 dead since October 2014. Seven bodies, all killed with machetes...
Kenyan Staffer Arrested for al-Shabaab Plot Calls to Mind Convicted U.S. Brotherhood Operative
Kenyan police are holding longtime parliamentary staffer Ali Abdulmajid on suspicion of helping al-Shabaab, an Islamist terror group based in...
Terrorist Groups Take Advantage of South African Violence
In South Africa, which is sometimes affectionately refereed to as a “rainbow nation," gangs of black South African residents have...
Boko Haram Re-Brands as Islamic State in West Africa
There is a lot of relatively good news on the progress of the Nigerian army in it's efforts to defeat...
7 Killed in U.N. Somali Bus Bomb as al Shabaab Targets AMISOM Contributors
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda’s affiliate group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus carrying numerous UNICEF members in Northern Somalia....
Instability in Burundi Tells of Larger Trend in Africa
Ten years after emerging from a civil war, there are noteworthy signs of instability in the east-African state of Burundi...
New Kenyan Defense Minister Appointed after Garissa
Security personal turnover in the Kenyan government follow the failures of the Garissa attack. As the mix-up of senior level...
Islamists Commit Another Massacre In Eastern Congo
Unidentified Islamist rebels have struck the village of Mbau of the Democratic Republic of Congo, 30 kilometers from the town...
Suspected Al-Shabaab Jihadists Arrested in Tanzania with Explosives
Tanzanian authorities said on Wednesday that its police arrested at least nine suspected members of al-Shabaab, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamist terror...
What al Shabaab Hopes for Your Town
After the recent large scale attack in Garissa Kenya that was preceded by an assassination in Uganda, two massacres in...