Nigeria: Air Force Says Top Boko Haram Fighters Killed
24/08/2016By Lesley Wroughton Nigeria’s air force said it had killed a number of senior Boko Haram fighters and possibly their overall leader, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pledged.
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Kerry Announces New Aid for S. Sudan and Kenya
23/08/2016By Mark Caldwell U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry has recently announced new aid packages for Kenya and South Sudan, while on an official visit to Nairobi. Additional aid will.
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Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in East Africa
22/08/2016By: Wanjala Danson Members of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are retooling its counter-terrorism measures against a backdrop of grave threats from Somalia-based militant group, ‘al-Shabaab’. This was.
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Al-Shabab Is Now a “Transnational” Organization- IGAD
17/08/2016The militant group al-Shabab, once a threat primarily in Somalia, has grown and expanded its aspirations, operations and aims, and is preparing to wage a long war in East Africa,.
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South Sudan’s President Says Will Consider U.N. Troops
16/08/2016By Denis Dumo South Sudan will consider a United Nations plan to send in troops and stop the country’s episode of violence, President Salva Kiir said on Monday, confirming a.
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S.Sudan: UN Authorises Deployment of 4,000 More Troops to Juba
15/08/2016The United Nations Security Council on Friday authorized the deployment of a 4,000-strong protection force in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, as part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission and threatened an.
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Why Obama Supports Libya’s Fight with Islamic State
03/08/2016President Barack Obama said it is in the U.S. national security interest to support Libya’s emerging government’s fight against Islamic State, a day after his administration said it launched air.
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Somalia: Forces Foil Suicide Attacks in Mogadishu – President
28/07/2016The president of the federal republic of Somalia HE Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said the country’s security forces have successfully thwarted suicide attacks in Mogadishu by Al Shabaab.
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Vatican Envoy Urges Peace in South Sudan
21/07/2016A top Vatican envoy is urging South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar to peacefully end the wave of recent violence that gripped the capital,.
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Ethiopia and its Quest towards Global Peace and Development in Africa
08/07/2016By Solomon Dibaba Ethiopia is a pioneering nation in recognizing and supporting the establishment of a global organization that is expected to chart out strategies for global peace and.
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