Lagos – Nigerian troops have rescued 338 people, mostly women and children, held by Boko Haram Islamist group’s stronghold around Sambisa forest in the restive northeast, the military said Wednesday. “The [military] unit … rescued 338 people who were held hostage by the terrorists,” the military said Tuesday an operation, …

At least twelve people were killed on Sunday in an attack on a large hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu by Islamist Shebab who used a vehicle packed with explosives to clear a path inside the institution, police said. Shebab insurgents affiliated with al Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the attack …

Eleven civilians were wounded Sunday morning by a suicide attack with explosives elements of Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram in the region of Lake Chad, the Chadian government announced in a statement. “Two elements of Boko Haram have been neutralized, a third blew himself up, wounding 11 civilians,” announced the …