KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) – Several Kenyan police officers were killed in an attack Monday night by suspected Somali militants in the northeastern Garissa county, where 148 students were massacred last month, police said Tuesday. A police spokesman, George Kimoti, confirmed there was an attack in the Garissa region, and two security officials said many police
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By JEFFREY GETTLEMA NAIROBI, Kenya — They have lost their leader, their ports, their checkpoints and their territory. They have lost thousands of men and much of their money. They have no fleet of armored personnel carriers like Boko Haram’s. Or poppy fields like the Taliban’s. Or oil fields like the Islamic State’s. In the
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WASHINGTON — The United States said it had information of “possible terrorist threats” to locations frequented by Westerners in Uganda’s capital, Kampala, and warned that an attack could take place soon. The U.S. Embassy in Kampala issued the warning in a statement posted on its website Wednesday. “The U.S Embassy has received information of possible
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Somalia militant group al-Shabaab has executed a young man accused of spying for the Ethiopian troops in the country. The man, named Ali Salad Majin, 20, was shot dead in an open public view in firing in a Southern Somalia town, while residents of the district were invited to watch the event as it unfolds.
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By TOM ODULA, Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — A U.S. drone strike in Somalia on Thursday is believed to have killed a senior member of the al-Shabab extremist group who allegedly helped plan the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, officials said. Adan Garar and two others are suspected to have been killed after their
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VOA- Somali militant group al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for an attack in the town of Baidoa Thursday that left at least 12 people dead. The attack targeted the official residence and headquarters of Sharif Hassan Sheikh Aden, a former speaker of Somalia’s parliament and the current head of Somalia’s South Western region. Witnesses said militants
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