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A powerful explosion struck the Skeerat area near Misrata’s industrial zone, about 200 kilometres east of Tripoli, on Sunday, August 31, local media reported. The cause of the blast has not yet been confirmed, but witnesses said burning shells and shrapnel fell over nearby residential areas, forcing evacuations. Security forces quickly sealed off access roads […]
A 15-year old teenager has been wounded in the explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Kasserine, a restive governorate used as a hideout by terrorists, in Tunisia. Abdelghani Chaabani, regional director of health in the governorate, confirmed Sunday December 17 the incident to Mosaïque Fm, in a statement to the media. The […]
Seychelles’ President Wavel Ramkalawan announced Thursday afternoon that the African country was no longer under state of emergency after the northern region of Mahe was earlier in the day the scene of an explosion in a storage area for explosives and damages caused by heavy rains and flooding. Ramkalawan declared a state of emergency in […]
A grenade explosion killed Tuesday two Russian instructors, two Malian soldiers as well as a civilian in the city of Segou, central Mali, reports say. “There was an accident at the Tam-Tam bar in Segou. A Russian instructor mishandled a grenade and there was an explosion. Two Russians were killed. The incident also killed a […]
An explosion killed at least eleven people and injured 53 on a bus in central Mali on Thursday (13 October), a region regularly rocked by jihadist violence, according to police and local sources. The blast occurred when the bus hit an explosive device and all the victims of the explosion were civilians, as per reports. […]
Congolese authorities in the Kongo-Central province indicated Thursday several people dead, in the explosion of a fuel tanker Wednesday night. Guy Bandu, governor of the province, Africa News reports, the tragedy occurred on national road 1, near the village of Mbuba, in the territory of Madimba, 120 km west of Kinshasa. The vehicle according to […]
A landmine explosion hurt Monday in Tunisia’s restive Kasserine province, a teenage girl aged 13, several days after four soldiers were slain in a similar incident. The girl, Webdo Tunis reports, was hurt at legs and in the face while. The incident occurred in a sealed military zone on Samema mountain. The victim has been […]
Reports of a pipeline explosion in Libya sent oil prices soaring to $60 a barrel, that is a two-and-a-half year highs. The blast reportedly sidelined 90,000 barrels a day of supply in a country that produced 973,000 barrels a day in Novem-ber. A Libyan military source said earlier that armed men had planted explosives at […]
Algeria is a tinderbox waiting to implode in light of the existence of a dangerous mix of economic instability, radical Islamism and growing youth unrest, which make the north African country on the brink of a new revolt, US magazine, the National Review, wrote on its website. In an article entitled, “Will the Next Arab […]
A bomb blast rocked Tuesday morning the Turkish largest city of Istanbul killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 at the city’s historic square of Sultanahmet, early reports say. The blast was confirmed by the Istanbul government official website. According to reports, the blast occurred at around 10:15 local time near Obelisk of Theodosius […]