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 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 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 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