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US: IS celebrates San Bernardino shooting, Muslim community speaks out

The Islamic State group’s adherents Wednesday celebrated the death of 14 people in a shooting in San Bernardino, California, by three gunmen calling the suspects “three lions.” American vocativ media published Thursday posts of IS supporters celebrating the killing of 14 people by three gunmen including a woman. Messages from the adherents flooded the web […]

Uganda is battling Ebola outbreak again, with death toll climbing to 19

The new Ebola outbreak in Uganda has killed 19 people while five medical staff members that contracted the virus have recovered and been discharged from an isolation unit, the Ministry of Health in Kampala said Tuesday (11 October). According to the country’s health minister Jane Ruth Aceng, five affected districts have seen “54 cumulative confirmed […]

Sahara: UN Slams Polisario Attempts to Undermine Buffer Strip Status Quo

Following the growing provocative incursions of the Polisario armed militiamen in the Guerguerat buffer zone, UN Security Council has denounced these hostile acts made by the Algeria-backed separatists, in a bid to undermine peace and stability in the region, making it clear that “there should be no change in the status of the buffer zone”. […]