International Terrorism

[DW] Burkina Faso has a thriving theater tradition. But terrorism and the coronavirus are curtailing the activities of its only permanent theater. (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard] President Muhammadu Buhari has advocated for the restructuring of ECOWAS, saying that the organization needed to streamline its management to adjust to current realities. (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Friday urged the Mozambican forces fighting against terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado to act in a hard-hitting manner, so as to discourage foreigners from coming to destabilize Mozambique. (AllAfrica)

[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola and Algeria reiterated Thursday in Luanda determination in fighting terrorism, after the countries voiced concern about the hotspots and instability in their sub-regions. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] Abuja -- The Presidency reeled out the achievements of the military as it revealed that Nigerian soldiers in a period of 10 months in 2020 killed 1,805 Boko Haram insurgents/terrorists in the North East as well as 473 armed bandits in the North West. (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- A group of 21 people (15 women and six children), kidnapped by the islamist terrorists operating in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado can now return to their homes on Matemo island, after being rescued by the defence and security forces. (AllAfrica)

[East African] Sudan added two new agreement to its package of deals with the US, following Washington's decision to remove the country from the list of states sponsoring terrorism, and restore its sovereign immunity after nearly three decades of deprivation. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Suspected al-Shabaab militants have bombed a telecommunications mast in Banisa Sub-County, Mandera County three days after they attacked a bus and a private vehicle in the same area. (AllAfrica)

[ISS] The Boko Haram insurgency has had devastating consequences on Lake Chad boat transporters, a socio-economic group that has been the locomotive of local trade for decades. An effective crisis response must address the needs of this often overlooked group. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Passengers on a bus in Mandera yesterday survived an attack as suspected al-Shabaab militants shot at their bus. (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican defence and security forces are in a state of high morale, claimed Defence Minister Jaime Neto on Wednesday, and they are benefiting from technical and material capacity building allowing them to pursue the groups that, over the past three years, have launched terrorist attacks in several districts in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- 2021 will be "the decisive year" for defeating terrorism in the northern Mozambican province of Cabo Delgado, according to Maj-Gen Eugenio Mussa, the commander of the government forces in the province. (AllAfrica)

[Dalsan Radio] The US military has said killed 3 Al-Shabaab members in two airstrikes conducted on the 1 of January this year in Qunya Barow in Lower Shabelle region, Somalia (AllAfrica)

[RFI] French oil and gas multinational Total has evacuated employees from a major gas site in northern Mozambique after a string of jihadist attacks nearby. (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard] by Nwafor (AllAfrica)

[Dalsan Radio] A police officer has been killed and a Turkish engineer seriously wounded after a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the outskirts of Mogadishu on Saturday. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] Abuja and Maiduguri -- Troops yesterday ambushed fighters of the Islamic State for African Province (ISWAP) on two Hilux vans mounted with anti-aircraft guns, leading to a gun battle that lasted 30 minutes in Tunkushe, 20 kilometres from Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. (AllAfrica)

[Shabelle] Officers from the Kenyan Defence Forces (KDF) Special Forces gunned down four suspected Al Shabaab militants in a raid conducted in Boni Forest, Lamu County. (AllAfrica)

[Premium Times] The President described the attack as an 'orchestrated sabotage'. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] Maiduguri -- Boko Haram yesterday ambushed an advance team of the Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum between Monguno and Baga, killing eight policemen, three soldiers, and four members of Civilian-JTF. (AllAfrica)

[African Arguments] Through photos taken over a decade, The Dynamics of Dust provides a rare look into the lives of people in the Sahel and their dreamy desert landscapes. (AllAfrica)

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi on Thursday urged the defence and security forces to remain firm and resolute in the fight against terrorism in the northern province of Cabo Delgado. (AllAfrica)

[DW] The University of Maiduguri has stayed open at the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency. A new book gives voice to the Nigerian academics who faced off with the radical Islamists who reject Western education as sinful. (AllAfrica)

[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok has announced that the amounts required to compensate the families of the victims of the bombing of the destroyer USS Cole* in Yemen in 2000, and the 1998 bombing of the US embassies in Dar El Salaam in Tanzania and Nairobi in Kenya, are ready for payment. (AllAfrica)

[Dalsan Radio] The militant group Al-Shabaab has executed a man in Jilib town, middle Shabelle region. (AllAfrica)

[SNA] Khartoum -- The Council of Ministers, in its regular meeting today chaired by Prime Minister, Dr. Abdullah Hamdouk, heard to an enlightenment about efforts to remove Sudan from the list of countries sponsoring terrorism. (AllAfrica)

[Shabelle] Kenyan soldiers participate in a joint military exercise with US Marines (not in photo) 15 january 2004 at Manda Bay near the coastal town of Lamu. The exercices are aimed at improving the Kenyan force's "crisis response". (Photo by SIMON MAINA / POOL / AFP) (AllAfrica)

[Dalsan Radio] The Somali National Army (SNA) has on Monday took control of five villages in Galgadud region of Galmudug state in which had been under the al-Shabab rule, military official said. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has expressed his condolences to the family of the late Colonel Dahiru Bako, who was killed by Boko Haram in an ambush. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] The President of Ghana and Chairperson of the ECOWAS Authority, Nana Akufo-Addo, has expressed deep concern over the activities of Al-Qaeda and the Boko Haram sect in the Lake Chad Basin. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] At least three youths from Mandera County have crossed into Somalia and joined Al-Shabaab, North Eastern Regional Commissioner Nick Ndalana has revealed during a security meeting. (AllAfrica)