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Yemen foils Qaeda plot, seizes 40 explosive belts

Yemen has foiled a plot by an al Qaeda-linked cell to carry out attacks inside the capital Sanaa and seized 40 belts ...

Suicide bomber kills self, wounds 9 in Kenya - police

A suspected suicide bomber killed himself and wounded nine people when he detonated a grenade near a military air base ...

China rescues fishermen held by Somali pirates for 18 months

China has rescued a group of 26 fishermen, mainly Chinese and Vietnamese, who were taken from a Taiwanese trawler ...

New food crisis looms in Somalia - aid agency

A deadly combination of conflict, poor rainfall and a predicted late harvest threatens to push hundreds of thousands ...

UN supports plan to stop child soldier recruitment in Somalia

Augustine Mahiga, UN Secretary- General`s Special Representative for Somalia has welcomed an agreement that will cease ...

Yemen fm admits US drones used against Qaeda

Yemen has asked for US drones to be used "in some cases" to target Al-Qaeda leaders in the country, its foreign ...

Mombasa blast deaths rise to 3, suspect arrested

The death toll from Sunday`s explosion in a Mombasa night club rose to three and Kenyan police said on Monday they had ...

Somali piracy death toll rises as violence worsens

Somali pirates seizing Indian Ocean ships were responsible for at least 35 hostage deaths in 2011, a report showed on ...

Qaeda says it killed commander of Yemen offensive: site

Al-Qaeda said on Thursday that it carried out a suicide bombing that killed the Yemeni commander of an all-out ...

Africa wants to improve image in Indonesia, envoy

African countries want to improve their image in the eyes of Indonesians, Dean of African Ambassadors` Union in ...

Al Qaeda group says Obama, Clinton worth only chickens, camels

A Somali Islamist militant group is offering rewards of chickens and camels for information on the whereabouts of ...

African Union troops enter southern Somali Islamist base

African Union forces entered the southern Somali town of Afmadow, one of the few remaining bases held by Al-Qaeda ...

Somali Islamists attack president as pressure grows

Somalia`s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents shrugged off recent strategic losses and growing military pressure Tuesday ...

Nairobi blast was a bomb attack - Kenya police

An explosion that wounded more than 30 people when it tore through a trading centre in the heart of the Kenyan capital ...

Somali islamists vow revenge after fall of rebel bastion

Al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants vowed Saturday to intensify the war against government and African Union troops, ...