Africa
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Jun- 2018 -4 June
US airstrike on al-Shabaab in Somalia kills 27 militants, Africom says
U.S. forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia, killing 27 militants associated with al-Shabaab, the Somali-led affiliate of al-Qaeda, U.S. Africa Command said
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3 June
Mozambique police kill 9 ‘insurgents’ in Cabo Delgado province
Police in Mozambique said that they killed nine "insurgents" in the country's far north after ten people were decapitated by suspected jihadists in the region a week earlier
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1 June
US airstrike on al-Shabaab in Somalia kills 12 militants, Africom says
U.S. forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia, killing 12 militants associated with al-Shabaab, the Somali-led affiliate of al-Qaeda, U.S. Africa Command said
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1 June
Decades after the end of empire, Portugal’s military returns to Africa in a new role
Decades after Portugal ended its more than 500-year-old empire in Africa, the Portuguese military has returned in force, from Mali to Somalia, and now Central African Republic
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May- 2018 -31 May
China participates in West Africa ‘Eku Kugbe’ naval exercise for the first time
China sent its guided-missile frigate Yancheng to Lagos for a multinational naval exercise in the Gulf of Guinea, the first time it has participated in the Nigerian-led maritime conference
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30 May
UN Secretary-General Guterres vows to pursue support for G5 Sahel anti-terror force
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres vowed to pursue support for the G5 Sahel anti-terror force during a visit to the mission headquarters in Mali
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29 May
Mozambique Islamists suspected in ‘hideous’ beheading of 10 people, including children
Ten people were beheaded in a village in northern Mozambique, police said on Tuesday, as local sources blamed the attack on Islamists.
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29 May
32 dead after Menka motel firefight in Anglophone Cameroon, government says
The death toll after a military and police operation in an English-speaking region of Cameroon shaken by an armed separatist campaign stands at 32, including five "hostages"
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24 May
US airstrike on al-Shabaab in Somalia kills 10 militants, Africom says
U.S. forces conducted an airstrike in Somalia, killing 10 militants associated with al-Shabaab, the Somali-led affiliate of al-Qaeda, U.S. Africa Command said
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22 May
Central African Republic: UN will “use all the means at its disposal to restore security” in Bambari
The U.N.'s military chief in Central African Republic said that peacekeepers will use any means necessary to restore security to Bambari, where clashes between armed groups last week left dozens of casualties
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