A suicide car bomb exploded on Thursday at a checkpoint near Somalia’s national theater in the capital Mogadishu, killing the bomber, police said. At least six people, mostly soldiers, were killed when a bomb exploded at an army checkpoint in Mogadishu, the second blast Thursday in the troubled Somali capital, ...
Only last week two suicide bombers killed 30 people in northeastern Nigeria, but the governor of Borno state, the country’s terrorist heartland, told AFP in an interview that Boko Haram has been defeated. Kashim Shettima said the war against the terrorist militants was “over” and predicted that hundreds of thousands ...