At least 30 people have been killed in twin bomb attacks claimed by Shebab Islamists in the Somali city of Baidoa, the regional governor said on Monday. “The official number of the dead has reached 30 people — all of them civilians — and 61 others have been wounded, 15 of them seriously,” said Abdurashid […]
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A blast on a passenger airplane punched a hole in the side of the fuselage soon after take off from the airport at Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, police said Wednesday. The airplane, operated by Daalo Airlines and flying from Mogadishu to Djibouti with around 60 passengers, landed safely. Two passengers were slightly injured, police said. “The
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The government of Somalia has issued a ban on Christmas and New Year’s celebrations in the Muslim country, saying the festivities “have nothing to do with Islam.” “We warn against celebration of Christmas, which is only for Christians,” Sheikh Mohamed Kheyrow, director of Somalia’s ministry of religion, said on state radio. “This is a matter
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Two people were killed on Tuesday during an attack by Somali Shebab fighters on a bus travelling to Mandera in northeast Kenya from the capital Nairobi. the interior ministry said. Another six people were wounded in the attack at Elwak, some 150 kilometres (95 miles) south of Mandera and on the Somali border. The assailants
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Few in India will have heard the name, Bilal el-Berjawi. A British citizen of Lebanese origin, he was radicalised in the post-9/11 wave of extremism – like hundreds of other young British Muslims lured by al-Qaeda’s growing appeal at the time. And then one day he was killed. Not in London but thousands of miles
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