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Monday 30 November 2020
Swarms formed in eastern Ethiopia and northern Somalia and have moved through the region.
Mayor Omar Mohamud Mohamed said that university students were among those killed.
A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle loaded with explosives into the hotel before armed gunmen forced their way inside.
Charity Concern Worldwide heaped praise on the Irish public after €1.5 million was donated to its east Africa appeal.
Doctors struggled to assist horrifically wounded victims following the blast, many burned beyond recognition.
Government security official Mohamed Aden said that bombing took place in a busy part of the city.
The attack began when a car bomb exploded outside a Pizza House restaurant in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
Three members of the auditor-general’s security team have been arrested.
There is a looming risk of famine in a number of countries.
“It’s deeply troubling that I will have to tell my children that Daddy might not be able to come home.”
The death toll is likely to rise.
The men – from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Cambodia and Taiwan – were captured by Somali pirates in 2012.
The attack was claimed by Shabaab jihadists.
The Pentagon has said that it has hit an al-Sheebab training camp where a “large-scale” attack was being planned.
There are reports that a man was sucked out of the hole in the plane.
The pilot said he thought the blast was caused by a bomb.
Five minutes, five stories, five o’clock…
After a huge explosion, gunmen burst into the restaurant yesterday evening as diners were sitting down for their evening meal.
The move comes out of fear of Islamist attacks.
The group says the US will see ‘the soldiers of the Islamic State do terrible things’.
The masked gunmen stormed the university in the northeastern town of Garissa as students were sleeping.
In marking the 20th Anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, we should also look to conflicts in Central African Republic and South Sudan, writes Joe Costello TD.
Female Genital Mutilation involves partial or total removal of the external female genitalia with the aim of reducing a women’s enjoyment of sex. This abominable practise must be stopped, writes David Dalton.
15 incidents were attributed to Somali pirates last year — down from 237 in 2011.
New security measures take effect – but there are still “suspicious approaches” to ships.
The men were charged with supporting a terrorist group, although none are accused of being the gunmen involved in the attack.
Apparently they really can’t stand her.
The pirate, Mohamed Abdi Hassan, was arrested after going to sign what he thought was a movie contract.
US forces captured a suspect in the 1988 US embassy bombings during a raid in Libya. Another raid, targeting a militant in Somalia, was aborted after a gun battle.
A Libyan militant suspected in the 1998 US embassy bombings was captured by US forces. A leader of the Shabab group was targeted in southern Somalia in a second raid.
More than 130 people drowned in the horrific tragedy as doctors say they have run out of coffins.
After 22 years of work, MSF blames civilians leaders’ tolerance of these abuses.
The Leinster and Ireland star was joined by club captain Leo Cullen on a trip to a teeming refugee camp in Ethiopia.
Over one million people fled across international borders last year with 6.5 million displaced in their own home countries.
“There he was delivering this harrowing story about how he was held hostage and feared for his life, and we were all sitting there dressed as Captain Hook.”
The preliminary death includes all nine attackers.
From famine in North Korea to the genocide in Rwanda, these photographs offer an insight into global crises – and how the world has dealt with them.
Two brothers with links to Somalia’s Islamist Shebab rebels have been formally charged over suspicions of plotting a terror attack.
The hostage, known as Denis Allex, had been captured in 2009.
Kismayu has been a vital lifeline for the Shebab in their five year revolt against African Union and Somali government troops.
THE DEATH OF David Prowse, the actor who played Darth Vader, was announced this morning.
The on-screen character for which he was most famous (voiced by James Earl Jones) is often hailed as the most villainous of all movie bad guys.
But for the day that’s in it, we’re wondering if that’s a fair assessment. Today we’re asking: Who is the greatest movie villain of all time?
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