16 May 2017: Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, elected in February, has declared a state of war against the Al-Qaeda affiliate. The president offered a 60-day amnesty to disaffected members of the group in April and has pledged to eradicate ...
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9 May 2017: an Egyptian court sentenced the Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide Mohamed Badie to life in prison for “planning violent attacks” in a retrial, judicial officials and a lawyer said. Badie was part of a group of 37 people ...
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9 May 2017: Egypt’s highest court for the first time has upheld the death penalty against a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, prompting fears that it won’t be the last time. The Court of Cassation ruling April 24 prompted objections ...
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6 May 2017: Al-Shabaab militants ordered residents of tiny Quar’a Madobe village, who were going about their business, to assemble. Dozens gathered to see the militants holding two men in civilian clothes at gunpoint. “They brought the men in front ...
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4 May 2017: a Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced two people to death and 16 others to jail terms for acts of “terrorism” in 2014 during which a security guard was killed. Judiciary spokesman Sofiene Sliti told AFP that nine ...
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3 May 2017 : a Cairo criminal court has exonerated a man who had been previously sentenced to death on charges of involvement in deadly clashes in Giza’s Omraniya district following the ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. ...
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1 May 2017: Somali Islamist militants said they publicly stoned one man to death and shot dead another after both were accused of raping a girl in central Somalia. A senior militant spokesman said the group had picked up both ...
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30 April 2017: the Cairo Criminal Court upheld the death sentence for radical preacher Wagdy Ghoneim in absentia. The sentence was affirmed after the ratification of the Grand Mufti.Ghoneim, a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, was charged with forming an illegal ...
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26 April 2017 : Fear of prosecution under UK and US counter-terror laws hinders those trying to provide humanitarian assistance in areas held by Islamic militants. Strict British and US counter-terrorism laws are discouraging humanitarian organisations from delivering vital emergency assistance ...
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25 April 2017: a military court of Somalia has executed a soldier serving with Southwest army in Baidoa city after being convicted of killing a civilian in Burhakabo district in 2016. The soldier who was identified as Ali Gurow Mohamed ...
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