Category: Insurgency
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They went to school but ended up as hostages. 287 children are missing in Nigeria’s forests
ABUJA, Nigeria (PA) — Security forces swept through large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region on Friday in search of nearly 300 children abducted from their school by motorcycle-riding gunmen in the latest mass kidnapping, which analysts and activists blamed on the failure of intelligence and a slow security response. The abduction of the 287 children in…
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M23 rebels seize town in eastern Congo, killing at least 15
BENI, Democratic Republic of Congo, March 6 – The M23 rebel group has taken over the town of Nyanzale in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 15 people in bomb attacks, a local official said on Wednesday. Nyanzale is about 130 km (80 miles) north by road from the provincial capital Goma, and…
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Junta-led Sahel states to form joint force to fight insurgents
NIAMEY, March 6 – Junta-led Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mali have agreed to set up a joint force to tackle security threats across their territories, Niger’s armed forces chief Moussa Salaou Barmou said on Wednesday after a meeting with his counterparts.The decision is the latest sign of closer alignment to emerge since the three neighbours…
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Suspected insurgents kidnap 50 people in northeast Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, March 6 – Suspected Islamist insurgents kidnapped 50 people, mostly women, in northeastern Nigeria this week, local officials and a resident said on Wednesday, the latest mass abduction by fighters who have waged an insurgency for more than a decade. Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters have mainly operated…
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Douglas McAuthur McCain, 33, of San Diego, was killed while fighting for ISIS
American ISIS militant Douglas McCain isn’t the only product of Robbinsdale Cooper High School’s Class of 1999 to die alongside Islamist radicals in far-off lands. His onetime best friend and classmate Troy Kastigar was killed fighting for the Al-Shabaab terror group in Somalia in 2009. When the news broke that McCain had been fatally wounded during…
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