Strategic Thinking on East Africa

August 2, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese authorities on Saturday have re-arrested the Salafist Jihadist preacher and supporter of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Masa’ad al-Sidairah along with several of his disciples. ISIS fighter Abu al-Fida al-Sudani reported killed in Syria in June 2015 (Photo from a YouTube vedio released by ISIS) […]

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Kenya detains alleged Islamic State recruiters from Uganda 4:55 AM Friday Jul 3, 2015 NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ” Kenyan authorities are holding two Ugandan men who are accused of recruiting for the Islamic State group in East Africa. The Kenya Anti-Terrorism Police Unit on Thursday sought a magistrate’s permission to continue holding the Ugandans it […]

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Addis Ababa, 6 June 2015 (WIC) - Militants from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) are believed to have kidnapped 86 Eritrean refugees from a smugglers’ caravan in western Libya. The militants struck at dawn on Wednesday morning, stopping the vehicle before separating Christian refugees from their Muslim counterparts, according to Meron Estafanos, the […]

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Sudan, ISIS and radical Islam: examining a contradictory approach – Muhammed Osman Posted on May 18, 2015 by AfricanArgumentsEditor                         When Sudan’s Vice-President Hassabo Abdul Rahman declared on 22nd March 2015 the “non-existence of any signs of extremism or [related] terrorism” in his country, the irony could […]

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7 May 2015 When Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser deployed tens of thousands of troops in Yemen in the mid 1960s for several years to support a nationalist coup modelled on his own, ‘It was a bloody and fruitless experience that historians call “Egypt’s Vietnam,”’ as The New York Times recently wrote. Will the current Saudi-led military intervention […]

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  CAIRO, May 7 (Xinhua) — A group of Ethiopians freed from Islamic militant kidnappers in Libya arrived in Cairo Thursday, state-run Nile TV reported. TV footage showed Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi receiving and greeting the Ethiopians, who waived Egyptian flags, at Cairo International Airport. “We were concerned about our Ethiopian brothers, after news reported […]

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Addis Ababa, 28 April 2015 (WIC) - Egypt reportedly massing huge force along the Libyan border to launch military offensive against the self pro-claimed Islamic State terrorists. The Egyptian government is massing a massive ground, air, naval, and marine forces along it’s borders with Libya. The Egyptian forces are assembling at the eastern Libyan Desert bordering […]

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Addis Ababa, 27 April 2015 (WIC) - Radio Iran has claimed that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has died. Earlier, a Guardian report quoting sources with inside knowledge of the group reported that al-Baghdadi was severely injured in a US-led coalition air strike in March. According to that report, al-Baghdadi was injured at al-Baaj district of […]

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Addis Ababa, 24 April 2015 (WIC) - The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has condemned the brutal killing of Ethiopian migrants in the hands of the self-declared Islamic State (IS) in Libya. “We strongly condemn the killings in the strongest possible terms. Our region also equally condemns this senseless activity,” Executive Secretary of IGAD, Ambassador Engineer […]

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PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 22 April, 2015, 6:04pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 22 April, 2015, 6:04pm Agence France-Presse in Addis Ababa Protesters in Addis Ababa demand action against terrorism after about 30 Ethiopian Christians were killed by Islamic State militants in Libya. Photo: AFP Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marched through the capital Wednesday in a […]

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