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Nigerian forces bombard militant camps, many die – Kidnappers kill British worker in Nigeria
MAIDUGURI: Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard Islamist militant camps in the northeast yesterday, in their biggest military offensive since Boko Haram launched an uprising in 2009.…
New Nigeria Islamist video claims attacks
KANO: The purported head of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed two recent deadly attacks in the northeast in a video obtained by AFP yesterday, which also depicts women…
Nigerian militants kill 46 police in ambush
ONITSHA: Nigerian gunmen killed 46 police officers in an ambush in the central state of Nassarawa this week, police said yesterday, but the governor there believed a lesser-known local cult…
Emiratis held over Tanzania bombing
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) said three of its citizens had been arrested in Tanzania in connection with the bombing of a church on Sunday that killed two people…
4 Saudis held over Tanzania bombing
DAR ES SALAAM: Tanzania has arrested four men from Saudi Arabia and four Tanzanians in connection with the bombing of church yesterday that killed two people, an attack that has…
30 wounded in blast at Tanzanian church – Vatican ambassador at church opening
ARUSHA: At least 30 people were injured, three seriously, in a suspected bomb attack yesterday at a packed new Catholic church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha, police said.…
Bomb hits Qatari convoy in Somalia
MOGADISHU: Around 11 people were killed in Somalia’s capital yesterday when a suicide attacker from the Al-Qaeda linked Shabab insurgents rammed a car laden with explosives into a convoy carrying…
Somali famine killed 258,000 – Half of the dead young children
NAIROBI: Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report yesterday which admitted the world body should…
Nigeria pledges justice as pressure over killings grows – Human rights watch urges inquiry into killings
BAGA: Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan promised yesterday to punish any soldier found guilty of misconduct during a deadly raid on a suspected Islamist hideout after a rights group said satellite…
Africans to lose as US axes visa lottery
WASHINGTON: Africans could be the big losers as the United States reforms its immigration laws and eliminates the green card lottery, of which Africans are the main beneficiaries. Half of…
Violence kills 25 in Nigeria’s north – Survivors of Baga bloodbath still in hiding
MAIDUGURI: An attack in restive northern Nigeria where suspected Islamists stormed a police station and stole nearly $60,000 from a bank killed 20 insurgents and five officers, the local police…
Ethiopian Airlines first to resume Dreamliner jets – Regulators approve new battery design
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Airlines yesterday became the world’s first carrier to resume flying Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner passenger jets, landing the first commercial flight since the global fleet was grounded…
