Tag Archives: Islamism
by Adam Nossiter Days later, the survivors’ faces tensed at the memory of the grim evening: soldiers dousing thatched-roof homes with gasoline, setting them on fire and shooting residents when they tried to flee. As the village rose up in … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, Op-ed, West Africa
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Tagged Abuja, Baga, Boko Haram, Borno State, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kashim Shettima, Lake Chad, Nigeria
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Abuja – Nigeria is currently going through “a trying moment”, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Monday while unveiling seven new police helicopters. “This is quite a trying moment for this country in terms of security,” Jonathan said during the unveiling … read more »
Posted in News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Goodluck Jonathan, Gulf of Guinea, IndepthAfrica, International Maritime Bureau, Islamism, Nigeria, Nigerian, piracy, Togo
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ABUJA — The European Union on Tuesday pledged 50 million euros ($65 million) in support for the African force tasked with helping fight Islamist rebels in Mali. The international community in January promised to provide $455 million dollars to support … read more »
Posted in Mali, Nigeria, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged AFISMA, Economic Community of West African States, European Union, French Army, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Nigeria, West Africa
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By Abe Greenwald, commentarymagazine Not all “Arab unrest” is equal. Consider these current headlines out of North Africa and try to spot the odd man out: “Libya’s south teeters toward chaos — and militant extremists,” “Egypt Takes Another Step Toward … read more »
Posted in Angola, Article, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, North Africa, Op-ed, Tunisia
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Tagged Algeria, Arab Spring, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Morocco, Polisario Front, United States, Western Sahara
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By Abe Greenwald, Moroccan American Center for Policy (Washington, DC) column Not all “Arab unrest” is equal. Consider these current headlines out of North Africa and try to spot the odd man out: “Libya’s south teeters toward chaos — and militant … read more »
Posted in Algeria, Article, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, North Africa, Op-ed, Tunisia
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Tagged Algeria, Arab Spring, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Morocco, Polisario Front, United States, Western Sahara
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Islamist militants have launched an attack on Timbuktu in northern Mali, penetrating the city center. French forces have deployed to help the Malian military repel the Islamist fighters. Malian troops evacuated the regional governor and two foreign journalists from Hotel … read more »
Posted in Mali, News, Pan African News, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Ban Ki-moon, French Armed Forces, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Military of Mali, Reuters, Timbuktu
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By Ahmed Elzobier Diplomatic relations between United States and the Sudan were as normal as could be following Sudan’s independence in 1956, the only time they were severed was in 1967 – as result of the war between Egypt and … read more »
Posted in Article, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Bashir, Hassan al-Turabi, Herman Cohen, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Khartoum, Sudan, United States
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At least 28 people have been killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen, who also set ablaze houses in Nigeria’s northern state of Plateau, officials said. The gunmen attacked the villages in Ganawuri district in Plateau under Riyom local government … read more »
Denmark(RBC Radio) A court a Denmark has sentenced two Somali citizens to prison, the two were accused of being members of Al-shabaab group. Guled Mohamed Warsame and Noor Mohamed Warsame who are brothers were both charged on different accounts. Guled … read more »
(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s intelligence agency said on Monday it had detained eight members of Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist militant group who it accused of plotting to kidnap U.N. workers. The arrests were the latest in a crackdown on people accused … read more »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged African Union, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Counterpunch, Ethiopia, Ethiopian National Defense Force, Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, Human Rights Watch, Islamism, Meles Zenawi, Mogadishu, Ogaden, Ogaden National Liberation Front, Somali Region, Somalia
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A bomb blast killed a Kenyan policeman and wounded two others in Mandera, a northeastern town on the border with war-torn Somalia, police said on Tuesday. The explosion is the latest in a string of attacks in Kenya’s restive border … read more »
At least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a bus station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, witnesses say. Several buses were destroyed in the Sabon Gari area of the city, home to a … read more »
Posted in Ghana, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bbc, bokoharam, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kano, kano blast, Kano Emirate, Muslim, Nigeria, nigeria blast, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Sabon Gari
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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A French hostage has spoken in a video filmed three days ago with his family, weeks after extremists kidnapped them from northern Cameroon. The video’s audio airs a voice that identifies himself as Tanguy Moulin-Fournier. He … read more »
A fifth French soldier has been killed in the country’s nine-week-old military campaign against Islamist rebels in Mali, the government said on Sunday. An explosive device went off under a vehicle carrying Corporal Alexandre Van Dooren during a search for … read more »
(Reuters) – Suspected Islamist gunmen on motorbikes stormed a primary school in Nigeria’s main northern city of Kano on Tuesday and opened fire on teachers, wounding four of them, police said. The attackers made teachers at Dan Maliki Primary School … read more »
Abuja: Seven foreigners abducted by a radical Islamist sect in northern Nigeria are feared dead following the group’s claim of killing them. Ansaru, a splinter group from Boko Haram, posted on its website that the hostages — a Briton, a … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Ansaru, Boko Haram, boko haram latest news, boko haram official website, boko haram video, boko haram website, Borno State, British Armed Forces, Cameroon, Goodluck Jonathan, history of boko haram, Islamism, Nigeria, nigerian newspapers
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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 »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, boko haram latest news, boko haram official website, boko haram video, boko haram website, Goodluck Jonathan, history of boko haram, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamic State, Islamism, Jonathan, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, nigerian newspapers
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MAIDUGURI – Nigerian security forces killed 20 militants from the Islamist group Boko Haram in a firefight in the northeast on Sunday, a spokesman said. Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, spokesman for joint military and police forces in the northeastern state … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, bokoharam, Borno State, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, MAIDUGURI, militant, Monguno, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Police
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The hopes of peaceful transition to democracy in Tunisia have been dented by the murder of a leading secularist figure. The event poses urgent questions of the country’s new political elite, says Valentina Bartolucci. Tunisia for many years had an … read more »
Posted in Article, North Africa, Tunisia
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Tagged al-Nahda, Chokri Belaid, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Rashid Al-Ghannushi, Tunis, Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
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EGYPTIANS have reason to fear the domestic news these days. If it is not about events such as a freak ballooning accident that killed 18 tourists, or the death of nine villagers who fell, one after another, into an open … read more »
(AFP) KANO, Nigeria — Three people, including a soldier, were injured Thursday in multiple blasts in three areas of Nigeria’s restive city of Maiduguri, with one targeting a military patrol vehicle, the army said. “There was an explosion targeting a … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged bokoharam, Borno State, improvised explosive device, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Kano, MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, nigerian newspapers, Task force
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(Reuters) – France will not negotiate with gunmen claiming to be from Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram who have taken a French family of seven hostage, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Tuesday. The three adults and four children … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Cameroon, France, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Jean-Yves Le Drian, local Nigerian newspaper, Mali, Nigeria, Reuters
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A video apparently showing seven French hostages kidnapped from northern Cameroon has been posted online, with a man claiming that a radical Islamic group from Nigeria holds them. The video, posted Monday to YouTube, shows two men, a woman and … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Associated Press, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Islamism, Mali, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, West Africa, Youtube
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Photo: Aminu Abubakar/IRIN The Haye clinic in Kano where seven polio vaccinators were killed on 8 February 2013 (file photo) DAKAR, 22 February 2013 (IRIN) – Human rights organizations estimate some 3,000 Nigerians have been killed in violence related to … read more »
At least five people have been kille Friday by a car bomb in the remote north-Malian town of Khalil. The blast was meant to target Tuareg MNLA separatists, who are allied with the French forces stationed in the country. According … read more »
Nigeria (Reuters) – Seven French hostages abducted by suspected Nigerian Islamist militants have probably been separated into two groups and efforts are continuing to locate them, French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday. French, Nigerian and Cameroonian officials earlier denied … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Cameroon, Dikwa, France, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Nigeria, Nigerian, nigerian newspapers, Northern Nigeria, Thursday
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(Reuters) – Seven French hostages kidnapped in Cameroon have been found alive in a house in northern Nigeria and are safe with Nigerian authorities, French television reported on Thursday. The hostages, four children and three adults, were captured by Islamist … read more »
Posted in Cameroon, Central Africa, Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, West Africa
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Tagged Boko Haram, Cameroon, France, french hostages freed, french hostages in niger, french hostages news, Islamism, niger kidnapping, Nigeria, Reuters, Television in France, Waza National Park
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By Steven Bucci French President Francois Hollande told reporters yesterday that Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist group based in Nigeria, abducted a French family of seven, including four children, in northern Cameroon. Hollande noted the continuing role of France in … read more »
Posted in Article, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Cameroon, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Islamism, Mali, Nigeria, Nigerian, Nigerian news, Nigerian newspaper, United States
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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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Recently, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi of Egypt, a supposed “moderate” Islamist, met with Iran’s anti-Semitic, genocidal, President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Reportedly, they had a friendly discussion. Perhaps, in addition to the official topics, they also conversed about their mutual anti-Semitic attitudes. … read more »
Posted in Article, Egypt, North Africa
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Tagged Barack Obama, Egypt, IndepthAfrica, Iran, Islamism, Jews, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Morsi, President of Egypt
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