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Somalia: At least 20 people killed in hotel attack in Mogadishu

At least 20 people have been killed in an attack by the jihadist group Al-Shabaab on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, Somali police spokesman Abdifatah Duudushe told reporters Saturday. The attack began on Friday night and lasted about 15 hours after members of the Somali jihadist group forced their way into the Hayat […]

Morocco: Moroccan Army scales up capacity with three American Chinook aircrafts

The Royal Moroccan Air Force got delivery on Saturday of three new refurbished CH-47D Chinook transport helicopters. The Chinook aircrafts arrived at the port of Tanger-Med, Tangier, aboard the US registered cargo vessel MV Liberty Pride. The delivery of the three CH-47 helicopters is part of a foreign military sales case facilitated by the Security […]

Kenya’s police officers ready to deploy in violence-stricken Haiti in ‘few days, few weeks’

Hundreds of Kenyan police officers have been training since late last year as the East African country is preparing to dispatch them as the first wave of a UN-backed multinational force aimed at stabilizing the chaos-ridden Caribbean nation of Haiti. Kenyan police will deploy to Haiti, a country of 11.6 million people, “in the next […]