The Mauritania Elite Unit of the National Gendarmerie, supported by the First Commando Battalion, and the Mauritanian Military Aviation, on Saturday 11th March 2023, about 10 a.m, succeeded in neutralizing four Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) prisoners who escaped last Sunday 5th March, 2023 from the Central Prison in the country’s capital, Nouakchott. The Mauritania Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Interior issued a joint statement confirming the incident. During the operation, three prisoners were killed and a fourth arrested in the operation. On the side of the security, a member of the elite battalion in the National Gendarmerie, Al-Mustafa Olad Al-Khadir Obaid, martyred. …more

At about 9 pm on Sunday 05 March 2023, four terrorists who were imprisoned at the Central Prison in the country’s capital, Nouakchott escaped after attacking National Guards on duty. The attack resulted in an exchange of gun fire between the guards and the terrorists. Two members of the National Guards were killed during the exchange, while two others were slightly injured. …more

On 16 November 2021, two-separate but seemingly coordinated attacks were carried out by three suicide bombers in Kampala. One attack took place outside the central police station by the first suicide bomber who was on foot while the other two attackers, riding a motorbike blew themselves up near the parliamentary building. All the three attackers were Ugandan nationals. …more

On Thursday 14th October 2021, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Nigerian Armed Forces, General Lucky Irabor, confirmed earlier speculations that the leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), Abu Musab Al-Barnawi was dead. …more

Transcript of an audio tape obtained by Humangle, a local Nigerian news website with proven strong contacts among insurgents and counter-terrorist agencies and published on Sunday 6th June, 2021, appeared to confirm the killing of the leader of Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, which was first reported by media sources on 19th May, 2021. …more

On Friday 5th June, 2021 unidentified armed men stormed the village of Solhan in Yagha province of the Sahel region in Northern Burkina Faso and killed over 160 civilians including 20 children. The attackers who launched the offensive in an overnight raid also burned down houses and the village market. The number of fatalities makes the incident the deadliest assault in Burkina Faso since the outbreak of terrorist activities in the West African country in 2015. …more

On Tuesday 20th April, 2021, a statement released by the Chadian military informed that President Idriss Deby Itno succumbed to injuries he sustained “on the battlefield” while fighting rebels. The statement read, “Marshal Idriss Deby Itno, as he did each time that the institutions of the republic were gravely threatened, took control of operations during the heroic combat led against the terrorists from Libya. …more