Six arrested in Minnesota, California for links to ISIS, traveling with Hamza Ahmed
Six men were arrested in Minnesota and California on suspicions they tried to travel to Syria to fight with ISIS. Authorities released their names and more details today. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office More...
UN: Death toll in Yemen conflict rises over 500
A new report from the United Nations confirms at least 519 people dead in the Yemen crisis, many children and mostly civilians. Houthi rebels continue to overcome President Hadi’s supporters who are now supported More...
Boko Haram mimics ISIS with new beheading video
The Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram is following the example of ISIS, as a Boko Haram member beheaded two men in a recent video. Titled “Harvest of Spies,” the Muslim militants are seen standing over More...
Minnesota man, Hamza Ahmed, charged in connection to ISIS
A Minnesota man pulled off an airplane bound for Turkey last year has been indicted on charges of conspiring to support Islamic State and lying to federal agents investigating recruitment by militant groups, prosecutors More...
UN Report warns of Islamic extremists group al-Shabaab growth
Al-Shabaab is shipping large quantities of charcoal from a port in Somalia controlled by the Kenya Defence Forces, United Nations monitors say in a report released Wednesday. The UN cautioned that the surge of More...
First polio case reported in Horn of Africa since January
The polio outbreak that affected more than 200 people in countries of the Horn of Africa since April 2013 has slowed down dramatically with only one case confirmed in 2014, until now. Horn of AfricaPublic domain More...
WHO committee: Polio spread an ‘extraordinary event’ and a public health risk to other States
World Health Organization Director, Dr. Margaret Chan, upon the advice from an Emergency Committee of independent experts, declared recent international spread of wild poliovirus a “public health emergency of More...
Somalia: Islamic extremists behead female Christian and her cousin
Islamic extremists from the rebel Al Shabaab militia last week publicly beheaded a mother of two girls and her cousin in southeastern Somalia after discovering they were Christians, sources were quoted as saying More...
Nigeria reports first polio case of 2014
The African country of Nigeria, one of the three remaining polio endemic countries left on the globe, reported their first case of wild poliovirus 1 (WPV-1) in Kano State, according to the Global Polio Eradication More...
Syria polio outbreak total now 23 as seven new cases reported
For the first time in over two months, the Syrian Arab Republic has reported new wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in the current outbreak in the war-torn country. According to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative More...
Pakistan reports first four polio cases of 2014
After reporting 91 cases in 2013, the most from the three remaining endemic countries, the first four wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases reported in 2014 have been from Pakistan, according to the Global Polio Eradication More...
Horn of Africa polio outbreak now at 207 as Somalia and Ethiopia report new cases
Things have been quiet in the countries of the Horn of Africa as far as the polio outbreak, with no news reported cases for some time, until now. Horn of AfricaPublic domain image/ Lexicon at the English Wikipedia More...
US military captures al Qaeda leader Abu Anas al Libi in Libya and Al-Shabaab head in Somalia
The US military reportedly captured two high profile targets Saturday. Abu Anas al-Libi Saturday in the Libyan capital of Tripoli, U.S. forces captured Abu Anas al Libi, an al Qaeda leader wanted for his role in More...
Ethiopia records two more polio cases as the Horn of Africa outbreak reaches 191
Ethiopia has reported two additional cases of wild poliovirus 1 (WPV-1), bringing the total number of cases in the country to three as the outbreak on the Horn of Africa still climbs. Ethiopia mapImage/CIA The Global More...
al-Shabaab terrorist attack on mall in Nairobi Kenya leave 68 dead
Islamist militants were holding hostages on Sunday at a shopping mall in Nairobi, where at least 68 people were killed in an attack by the Somali al Shabaab group, which demanded that Kenya pull troops back from More...
Mogadishu bombings kill at least 15
At least 15 people have been killed in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after two explosions ripped through a busy car park, according to multiple news sources. Somalia map – CIA source The blasts More...
Somalia polio outbreak climbs to 160 cases
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is reporting 32 new wild poliovirus 1 (WPV1) cases during the past week, in Somalia, bringing the total case count in this outbreak to 160. CDC/ Dr. Fred Murphy, Sylvia More...
Ethiopia reports first wild poliovirus case since 2008, Horn of Africa outbreak expands
New data from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) shows that the polio outbreak on the Horn of Africa continues to grow as it spreads to another country. During the past week, 11 new wild poliovirus More...
Somalia polio outbreak reaches 100 cases, ‘probably thousands more with the virus’ according to OCHA
According to the latest numbers from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), the number of wild polio virus cases in Somalia has reached the 100 mark, this from a country that hadn’t seen polio since More...
Violence against humanitarian aid workers prompts Doctors Without Borders to leave Somalia after more than two decades
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announced that they will be moving all of it’s programs out of Somalia due to increasing violence More...
