Tag Archives: Islamic State
Nigeria’s army said Saturday it had launched an operation in the northern city of Maiduguri, the bastion of Islamist group Boko Haram, that led to the deaths of 20 suspected militants and two soldiers. The soldiers Friday stormed a location … read more »
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AFP- MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — A blast targeting a military patrol vehicle in the Nigerian city where a radical Islamist group is based killed two civilians on Wednesday, the military said. “An improvised explosive device targeting (a military) patrol team exploded … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Cameroon, improvised explosive device, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamic State, Islamism, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers
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Boko Haram Republic of Arewa, Boko Haram Republic of Borno-Yobe, Boko Haram Republic of Northern Nigeria is not a bad idea. I have reiterated in an earlier write up ‘Boko Haram Republic: Why Not?’ that a referendum is necessary in … read more »
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Tagged bokoharam, BornoState, IndepthAfrica, Islam, Islamic State, news about boko haram, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian news, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Zamfara State
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Defense lawyers have told the Ethiopian High Federal Court that terrorism charges against 29 Muslims are unconstitutional. Federal prosecutors are accusing the 29, which includes prominent clerics, journalists and activists, with terrorism and attempts to create … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Anti-terrorism legislation, Christian country music, Ethiopia, ethiopian muslim, ethiopian news, IndepthAfrica, Islamic State, Muslim, Politics of Ethiopia, terrorism
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Gunmen opened fire in a student housing area near a polytechnic school in northeastern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people in an attack whose motives remained unclear, officials said. Details were still emerging of the attack in the … read more »
Posted in Ethiopia, Nigeria
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Tagged bokoharam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica world news, Islamic State, Islamism, Mubi, Nigeria, Youtube, Yushau Shuaib
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Nigerian forces shot dead 16 suspected militants in a fire fight with Islamist sect Boko Haram on Tuesday, the military said. A Reuters reporter heard gunfire and explosions echoing through the remote city of Maiduguri, in Nigeria’s dry, dusty northeast. … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Al-Qaeda, bokoharam, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamic State, Islamism, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Reuters
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Mali’s Tuareg rebel National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) and Ansar Dine Islamist militants have agreed to merge and create an independent Islamic state in the north of the country, a rebel spokesman said on Saturday. The deal … read more »
Posted in Mali, News, Spotlight, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Bamako, Gao, IndepthAfrica, Islamic State, Mali, Sharia, Timbuktu, Tuareg people
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants stormed a prison in their northeastern heartland on Friday, killing two guards and freeing the inmates, police said, in the latest in a surge of attacks blamed on the Islamist group. A police spokesman for Borno … read more »
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Tagged Boko Haram, Christian, Indepth Africa Magazine, Islamic State, Islamism, Muslim, Nigeria, Yobe State
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Lagos – A respected cleric mediating in peace talks between the Nigerian government and the Boko Haram Islamist sect announced on Saturday he was quitting the talks, accusing the government of insincerity. Ibrahim Datti Ahmad who heads the Supreme Council … read more »
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Tagged africa african news, Ahmad, Boko Haram, indepthafrica africa news, Islamic State, Islamism, Mohammed Yusuf, Nigeria, Politics of Nigeria, Sharia
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Abuja – Nigeria is open to eventual dialogue with resurgent Islamist group Boko Haram, which has been blamed on numerous violent attacks, the information minister said on Wednesday. Labaran Maku said the government was appalled by Boko Haram’s methods, which … read more »
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, Boko Haram, Goodluck Jonathan, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, Islamic State, Islamism, Muslim, Nigeria
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Iran has stopped selling crude to British and French companies, the oil ministry has said, in a retaliatory measure against fresh EU sanctions on the Islamic state’s lifeblood, oil. “Exporting crude to British and French companies has been stopped … … read more »
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Tagged Brent Crude, European Commission, European Union, Hellenic Petroleum, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Islamic State, Royal Dutch Shell, Tehran
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Three soldiers were injured Wednesday when a bomb hit a military checkpoint in the troubled northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri where attacks by suspected Islamist radicals have killed dozens, the army said. The blast occurred near a food market in … read more »
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, Boko Haram, breaking news, East Africa, Goodluck Jonathan, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Islamic State, Islamism, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Warfare and Conflict, West Africa
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Cairo – An Egyptian Islamist group that took up arms against the state in the 1980s and 1990s wants to form a political party and contest the country’s first free elections in decades, one of its senior members said on … read more »
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Anwar El Sadat, Arab League, breaking news, East Africa, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Muslim Brotherhood, North Africa, Pan African News, President of Egypt, Southern Africa, West Africa
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The governor-elect of a Nigerian state said Wednesday he would push for an amnesty deal with an Islamist sect blamed for scores of attacks in a bid to end unrest in the country’s northeast. The sect known as Boko Haram, … read more »
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Tagged Abu Darda, Africa news, African news, All Nigeria Peoples Party, Boko Haram, Borno State, breaking news, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorldIndepthNigeria, Islamic State, Islamism, map of africa, News local news, newspapers, Niger Delta, Nigeria, World news
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February 8, 2011 by benim
In Somalia radical Islamists are claiming a very unusual victory against their enemies – they now operate their own television channel. Twenty years have passed since the last Somali government collapsed and the country was sucked into a bloody civil … read more »
Posted in Analysis, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, News, Somali
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, breaking news, East Africa, Embassies and Consulates, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, Islamic State, Islamism, Mogadishu, Sharia, Somalia
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