*MEND threatens more violence
The Movement for the Emanc-ipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) threatened to renew its insurgency in a 7 October email. The email also described ...
09-Oct-2009 Ex-hostage angers Niger government
In his first interview since his release in April, Robert Fowler, one of two Canadian UN officials kidnapped by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ...
09-Oct-2009 *FBI suspects US-Somali of suicide attack
A US national of Somali descent is suspected of having participated in the 17 September suicide bombing against African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu. The...
09-Oct-2009 Boko Haram's Afghan connection
Nigeria's Boko Haram militant group has sent recruits to Afghanistan to train, according to a police press conference held in the northern Nigerian state ...
07-Sep-2009 AQIM joins forces with Abu Sayyaf
Algeria's Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in the Philippines are co-operating with each other, according to an ...
07-Sep-2009 *AQIM risks Mali refuge
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has maintained a small presence in northern Mali for years, but this safe haven is now under threat. After...
27-Aug-2009 *Somalia's foreign fighters
The conflict in Somalia has encouraged many foreign volunteers to join the militant Islamist factions attempting to overthrow the internationally backed Transitional Federal Government (TFG)....
04-Jun-2009 AQIM demands cleric release
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has demanded the release of extremist cleric Abu Qatada in exchange for British hostage Edwen Dyer. Abu Qatada...
08-May-2009 *US national appears in Shabab video
The Global Islamic Media Front released a video on behalf of the Shabab, a Somali jihadist group, featuring a United States citizen identified only ...
03-Apr-2009 Sudan militants angered by president's indictment
Sudanese militant groups released a statement threatening to carry out 250 "martyrdom operations" against countries that supported the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of...
03-Apr-2009 *LRA leader Kony arrests his deputy
Okot Odhiambo, deputy commander of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), has been arrested by group leader Joseph Kony, Ugandan newspaper the Daily Monitor reported...
09-Mar-2009 US and UK nationals acted as suicide bombers for Somali Shabab
United States and UK nationals have been identified as two of the suicide bombers who have blown themselves up on behalf of Somali jihadist ...
09-Mar-2009 *Sahara zone kidnappings
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM) has taken to kidnapping Westerners in earnest. Although mainly based in Algeria, the group is known to have at...
03-Mar-2009 *Shabab announces creation of Islamic region in Somalia
The Shabab, a Somali Islamist insurgent group, announced the establishment of the "Islamic province of Shabelle" in a statement dated 17 December 2008. The ...
09-Jan-2009 Islamist prepares for Somalia return
A spokesman for the Alliance for Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) has said that Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys will leave Eritrea and return to Somalia ...
07-Nov-2008 *Unholy high seas alliance
Somalia's Islamist insurgents are increasingly co-operating with the country's pirate groups, according to Somali sources. The sources say that pirate groups are shipping arms to...
31-Oct-2008 Déjà vu in DRC
Following the capture of a key military base by rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the cycle of violence plaguing the resource-rich region...
10-Oct-2008 AQIM's revenge offensive
Algeria's worst terrorist attack in years, on 19 August, was followed by two more vehicle bombings on the following day in what seems to ...
05-Sep-2008 Al-Qaeda commander is killed in Somalia
Al-Qaeda operative Abu Talha al-Sudani is dead, according to a video released by Somalia's Shabab insurgent group on 30 August. Abu Tahla al-Sudani was ...
05-Sep-2008 Morocco busts Al-Qaeda linked extremist group
The Moroccan authorities dismantled an Al-Qaeda linked extremist organisation that was planning bomb attacks, the official MAP news agency reported on 29 August. Electronic...
05-Sep-2008 MDJT joins Chad rebel coalition
The Movement for Justice and Democracy in Chad (Mouvement pour la Democratie et la Justice au Tchad - MDJT) has joined the National Alliance, ...
05-Sep-2008 *Henry Okah on trial
Henry Okah has become a cause célèbre for the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), a group held responsible for cutting Nigeria's...
01-Sep-2008 Somali gunmen free Al-Qaeda suspect in Kenya
A suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist was arrested in Kenya on 31 May, but freed within hours when gunmen raided a police post where he was ...
04-Jul-2008 Threatened MEND attack fails to materialise
NIGERIA'S Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) threatened a series of bombings to mark President Umaru Yar'Adua's first year in power. ...
09-Jun-2008 *Rebel rousing in Chad
Sudan and Chad have accused each other of backing rebel proxies for years. While both regimes have always denied the allegations, experts believe they are...
28-Apr-2008 AQIM bolsters regional renown
The kidnapping of two Austrian tourists in Tunisia has raised fears that Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is successfully transcending its origins as an ...
04-Apr-2008 Somalia's Shabab insurgents split with courts
Barely a day goes by without a report of heavy fighting in Somalia. More than a year after the country's Islamic Courts regime was routed...
07-Feb-2008 *Tuareg rebels resurge in Mali and Niger
Mali and Niger are again facing Tuareg rebellions. Both countries have experienced limited violence since peace agreements ended their parallel 1990 to 1995 Tuareg insurgencies,...
09-Oct-2007 Eritrea risks terrorist designation
The US government looks set to designate Eritrea as a state that sponsors terrorism. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer has said...
28-Sep-2007 Unravelling the Takfir wa al-Hijra mystery
The name Takfir wa al-Hijra has cropped up many times in relation to jihadist terrorism. Most recently, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, a Syrian-born cleric ...
31-May-2007 Insurgency escalates in Mogadishu
Violence has escalated in Mogadishu since the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) was defeated by Somalia's internationally recognised Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and Ethiopian ...
05-Apr-2007 Violence flares around Senegal election
Separatist violence in Senegal’s Casamançe region has escalated in the run up the country’s February elections. Jane’s assesses the current state of the long-running ...
02-Mar-2007 Algerian Salafists adopt Al-Qaeda brand
The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (Groupe Salafiste pour la Prédication et le Combat: GPSC) concluded its drawn-out rebranding initiative when it announced ...
09-Feb-2007 Rise and fall of Somalia's Islamic courts
In December 2006, Ethiopian forces helped Somalia's temporary government regain control of Mogadishu from the Union of Islamic Courts. Jane's examines how resistance to ...
11-Jan-2007 Rise of Somalia's Islamic courts
The past year has been decisive in Somalia's civil conflict. Having begun with a reconciliation agreement, the two factions of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government ...
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