Tag: africa

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – East Libya-based forces said they carried out air strikes on Wednesday on a coastal road west of Sirte, a day after nine of their men were killed in a strike by rivals. The Libyan National Army (LNA) took control of Sirte, a strategically important city in the centre of Libya’s Mediterranean coastline, in a rapid advance… Read More

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – A bomb exploded at a busy junction in Mogadishu on Wednesday, wounding at least 11 people, the head of the rescue service in the Somali capital said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which happened near buildings housing government offices. Abdikadir Abdirahman, head of Aamin ambulance services, told Reuters that three of those… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Four Kenyan civilians were killed in a gunfight on Tuesday between police and al Shabaab militants from Somalia who attacked a telecommunications mast in the third such deadly incident in Kenya this week, police said. Officers killed two attackers and recovered two assault rifles and bomb-making materials, police spokesman Charles Owino said. The United States has sent… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia’s Islamist group al Shabaab on Sunday attacked a military base in Lamu county in Kenya that is used by both U.S. and Kenyan forces, a source and al Shabaab said. “They have attacked Manda airstrip in Lamu, which is just next to the military camp that hosts military personnel from many countries including Kenya and the… Read More

CAIRO (Reuters) – The head of Egypt’s tax authority, Abdul Azim Hussein, has been arrested on charges of receiving bribes, the public prosecutors’ office said on Saturday. “It was proved through recorded phone calls and meetings that he received money and gifts as bribes”, it added in a statement. The statement gave no details but the state news agency MENA… Read More

ANKARA (Reuters) – A South African photojournalist kidnapped in Syria by Islamic State three years ago returned home on Thursday with the help of Turkey’s intelligence agency, a security source in Ankara said. Shiraaz Mohamed was captured in January 2017 after travelling to document the suffering of Syrians under war, according to South African charity Gift of the Givers. The… Read More

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Armed assailants on Thursday killed three people and injured two others in Kenya’s Lamu county, a coastal region near the border with Somalia, police said. The county is part of a large swath of territory where Islamist group al Shabaab carries out gun and bomb attacks to pressure Kenya into withdrawing its forces from Somalia. A Kenyan… Read More