Posts Tagged ‘somalia’
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Al-Shabab Twitter account apparently suspended
A Twitter account used by Somali insurgent group al-Shabab has apparently been suspended, days after the group used the page to boast about killing a French hostage and showed graphic photos of a dead French soldier.
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Christian convert from Islam beheaded in Somalia
Islamic extremists from Somalia’s rebel Al-Shabaab militants on Friday (Nov. 16, 2012) brutally murdered a Christian in Somalia’s coastal city of Barawa, accusing him of being a spy and leaving Islam, Christian and Muslim witne...
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One year later, conditions improve at Dadaab camp in Kenya
In September 2011, Hilal Primary School at the Dadaab refugee camp in northeastern Kenya was a few tents without walls, scattered across open fields. Children crowded under roofs that sheltered them from the scorching sun as th...
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Famine danger continues in parts of Somalia
A year ago, United Nations officials declared famine in two regions of southern Somalia: Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Overwhelming support from the international community, together with favorable rains, helped improve food secur...
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Two Kenyan churches attacked; at least 17 dead
ttackers with guns and hand-grenades killed at least 17 people and wounded scores more during worship services at two churches Sunday in Kenya.
Three of those killed were children. Two were police officers standing guard o...
Islamic Extremists Behead Another Convert in Somalia
Islamic extremists from the rebel al Shabaab militia in Somalia beheaded a Christian on the outskirts of Mogadishu last month, sources said. The militants fighting the transitional government in Mogadishu murdered Zakaria Husse...
Islamic Extremists in Somalia Behead 17-year-old Christian
Militants from the Islamic extremist al Shabaab beheaded a 17-year-old Somali Christian near Mogadishu last month, a journalist in the Somali capital told Compass. The militants, who have vowed to rid Somalia of Christianity, k...
Somali Convert to Christianity Kidnapped, Beheaded
A kidnapped Christian convert from Islam was found decapitated on Sept. 2 on the outskirts of Hudur City in Bakool region, in southwestern Somalia. Juma Nuradin Kamil was forced into a car by three suspected Islamic extremists ...
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Al-Shabab in Somalia slits the throat of a Christian woman in public
A Christian woman in Somalia was brutally slaughtered for apostasy recently by Sunni extremists who held her to the ground, recited the Qu’ran, pulled up her head and slit her throat in a public area while shouting, “Allah Akba...
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Somali militants ban three Christian aid groups
Three Christian aid groups were banned recently by Somali’s militant al-Shabaab under allegations that they were converting people from this largely Muslim country to Christianity. Al-Shabaab, which is viewed to have close ties...
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