Category: Africa

“This strike was ordered after a phase of identification permitting the characterization of the presence of an armed terrorist group.”

Witnesses described “bodies on the streets” and “residents fleeing” after the ISIS fighters fired indiscriminately at people and buildings.

Africa is poised to become a major theater in the great power struggle between the U.S., Russia, and China General Dagvin Anderson explained.

“U.S. SOF… will support Mozambique’s efforts to prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism,” the US embassy said.

The security situation in Mali is still precarious with Islamic jihadist violence increasing in the beleagered Sahel country.

The United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), transferred power on Tuesday to Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dbeibah.

“We lost 15 soldiers and four civilian JTF (militia) in the terrorists’ ambush in the forest near Gudumbali,” a military officer said.

The CIA is expanding its small drone base in Niger despite the fact that the Biden administration has temporarily limited airstrikes.

The United States carried out 122 drone strikes on al-Shabaab terror groups from 2019 to 2021. Now, POTUS has stopped them completely.

Obiang Nguema added that stubble-burning” by farmers that got out of control reached buildings that the military improperly stored explosives.

Killed in the recent raids were Moalim Bukhari, the al-Shabaab’s intelligence chief, and Sheikh Hasan Ganeey, the regional commander.

Weapons smuggling off the Somali coast is common, but last week the U.S. Navy seized thousands of Russian-made AK-47s, RPGs and machine guns.