Terrorism Africa News In a statement to the Mauritian news agency, ANI, and posted on Internet forums, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said it was holding a German national, Edgar Fritz Raupach, hostage. There was indication in the statement were Raupach was being held.  According to a Nigerian security source ... Read More

At least 800 Tuareg tribesmen who were hired, trained and armed by Muammar Gaddafi to fight his own people in Libya, have returned to the Sahel states of Niger and Mali in recent months.  Al Jazeera's correspondent May Welch says that they number into the "thousands and thousands."  They have ... Read More

  Terrorism Africa News Hamada Ould Mohamed Kheirou, presumed leader of the black African armed jihadist group that recent broke with AQIM threatened France through a video shown to a AFP journalist Tuesday. "We again declare war on France, which is hostile to the interests of Islam," Kheirou said in Arabic, wearing dark ... Read More

Terrorism Africa News New Terrorist Group According to an AFP report today, 22 Dec 2011, a terrorist calling themselves the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, or MOJWA, claimed responsibility for the abduction of three European, two of them women, from Tindouf refuge camp in Algeria on October, 23rd.  Until ... Read More

Terrorism Africa News The United States Africa Command sponsored website Magharebia reports that the Spanish government has been negotiating for some time with  Mauritania, Algeria, and Mali to gain permission for Spanish ground forces to enter Mauritanian soil to fight against the al-Qaeda linked terrorist group, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ... Read More

      Terrorism Africa News AU The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Jean Ping, today appointed Mr. Francisco Caetano Jose Madeira, from Mozambique, as his Special Representative in charge of Counter‐Terrorism Cooperation and, concurrently, as the Director of the Algiers‐based African Centre for the Study and Research on Terrorism ... Read More

Terrorist activity is definitely on the rise in Africa over the past three months.  Here are the major events. In July, al-Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb detonated suicide bombs in outside government offices in to Algerian towns killing officials and civilians. In early September, Nigeria's, terrorist, thorn in the flesh, Boko Haram, ... Read More

  Terrorism Africa News The Sahel region of North Africa continues to be engaged in a battle with the terrorist group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Fresh bombings and skirmishes in the desert have occurred over the past fortnight. Early, Saturday, July 16, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in his car in ... Read More

  Terrorism Africa News Sudan's President Bashir is reported to have made the offer to southern leader Salva Kiir at African Union talks in Ethiopia.  The offer includes the northern troops pulling out of the the town of Abyei - a hotspot as South Sudan readies for independence in July. More than a ... Read More

Terrorism Africa News According to Voice of America reports, Tunisian security forces have arrested two, suspected Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb members near the Libyan border.  The men had explosive belts, bombs. The suspects led authorities to led to a weapons stash in mountains of southern Tunisia.   The weapons included Kalashikov rifles, ... Read More