Chad police killed in militant raid

Five security officials and six militants are killed in an explosion during a raid on a weapons cache in the capital N'Djamena, officials say.

BBC

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Jul

Family’s grief after officer killed in police station raid

>When Gaudin Kakoko left his house for work, the officer at Stakishari Police Station was looking forward to travelling to his Karagwe home in Kagera Region the next day. Little did he know that he would not live long enough to see another day, let alone home.

 

10 years ago

BBC

'Militant traders' raid Nigeria town

Residents and soldiers are fleeing a Nigerian town raided by militant Islamists disguised as traders, officials say, as the country's top Muslim leader criticises the military.

 

5 years ago

BBC

25 Mar

Boko Haram kills troops in 'deadliest' Chad raid

The militants launched a devastating attack on an island in Lake Chad, killing 92 soldiers.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Sinai militant group leader killed

Shadi al-Menei, the purported head of Sinai Islamist militant group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has been killed, Egyptian security officials say.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Nov

4 killed in revenge attacks after Mombasa mosques raid

 Four people were stabbed to death in Kenya’s volatile port city of Mombasa following security raids on mosques in which a man was killed and over 200 people arrested, police said Tuesday.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Feb

Soldier killed in raid against Al-Shabaab linked gang

A soldier was killed and police officers were seriously injured as security forces mounted a raid to flush out heavily-armed gangsters believed to be hiding in the Amboni caves in Karash bush.

 

10 years ago

New York Times

13 Jul

Police: 7 Killed in Gun Attack on Tanzania Police Post

Police: 7 Killed in Gun Attack on Tanzania Police Post
New York Times
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Tanzania's police chief says gunmen attacked a police station in the city of Dar es Salaam, killing seven people and injuring four others. Ernest Mangu told reporters Monday that four of the victims were police officers.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Tanzania police raid FGM ceremony

Police in northern Tanzania raid a ceremony where girls were subjected to female genital mutilation in defiance of the law, an official tells the BBC.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Jan

Activists condemn raid on police post

>Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THDC) has condemned the killings of two police officers in yet another attack on a police station in Rufiji District, Coast Region in wee hours on Wednesday.

 

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