Tag Archive | East Africa

Exclusive from Foreign Policy: U.S. Operates Drones From Secret Bases in Somalia

Posted on July 2, 2015. Tags: , , , , , , ,

Two decades after “Black Hawk Down,” U.S. special operations forces are back in East Africa’s most troubled nation. FP provides a rare window into their shadowy operations. BY TY MCCORMICK KISMAYO, Somalia — Some say the Americans are everywhere. Some say they are nowhere. Still others say they are everywhere and nowhere at once. But the […]

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Posted in Congress Watch, Countries, Defense News, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Politics and Security, Regional Issues, Tanzania, Uganda0 Comments

Why are young women drawn to extremism?

Posted on June 26, 2015. Tags: , , , , ,

From The Institute for Security Studies by Irene Ndungu In East Africa and across the globe, the Internet is increasingly being used to recruit and radicalise young women into extremist groups. In March, three young women – two Kenyans and one from Tanzania – were arrested en route to Somalia, where they were allegedly headed to join […]

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