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Hamza the gunman unmasked

Hamza Mohammed. By The Citizen Dar es Salaam. The man who was behind the deadly shootings in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday was born and raised as a good boy in the city’s Upanga suburb, his neighbours said yesterday. On Wednesday at the junction of Kenyatta Drive and Kinondoni Road, Hamza Mohammed abruptly ended the

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Garissa Governor Ali Korane: Forty-five witnesses are lined up to testify the graft case

Garissa County Governor Ali Bunow Korane before the anti-corruption court in Nairobi on Thursday, August 26, 2021. Forty-five witnesses are lined up to testify in the Sh233 million graft case against Garissa Governor Ali Korane. According to Daily Nation reported. A state prosecutor told trial Magistrate Elizabeth Juma that one witness had begun to testify

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African Union names Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo High Representative for Horn of Africa

Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo named African Union High Representative for the Horn of Africa. The African Union (AU) has appointed Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo as its high representative for the Horn of Africa’s region. According to The East African reported. “This decision is part of the African Union’s drive to promote peace, security,

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Dozens of civilians, 12 U.S. troops killed in bloodbath at Kabul airport

Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen have targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport, in the waning days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon) By

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Senior UAE official meets Qatar’s emir in rare visit

Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani meets with National Security Adviser Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed al-Nayhan, in Doha, Qatar, August 26, 2021. Qatar News Agency/Handout via REUTERS By Reuters A senior United Arab Emirates official held talks with Qatar’s emir in Doha on Thursday in the first such visit in four years following this

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Dar es Salaam gunman: A case of a good boy gone bad

By The Citizen Dar es Salaam. As Dar es Salaam residents are still trying to come to terms with Wednesday’s shooting along the Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road the identity of the lone gunman involve has finally been revealed. Immediately after the incident images of a certain young man who was only identified as Hamza a

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Europe gives dire warning as Kabul evacuation deadline looms

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, a C-17 Globemaster lll lands on the runway as evacuees from Afghanistan debark a C-17 Globemaster lll on Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. (Airman 1st Class Kylie Barrow/U.S. Air Force via AP) The Associated Press By SYLVIE CORBET, JILL LAWLESS and

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AU signs deal with Somalia for Amisom to remain beyond 2021

Somalia Defence Defence minister Hassan Said Samantar and acting AU director of Conflict Management Directorate Fiona Lortan sign an agreement during the closing of a two-day meeting in Mogadishu, Somalia, on August 19. By The Star, Kenya The African Union and the government of Somalia on August 19, 2021, signed a deal on the proposed

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What we know so far Dar es Salaam attack

Credit: Photo The Citizen Dar es Salaam. Five people including three police officers, one civilian and the assailant have been killed in the mid-day shoot out on Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road near the French Embassy, police have confirmed. According to The Citizen reported. Police also say that six others were injured in the incident that

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Afghan refugees arrive in Uganda

Entebbe International Airport in Uganda. By Daily Nation A total of 51 Afghan refugees arrived in Uganda on Wednesday morning, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Uganda has agreed to temporarily host 2,000 refugees from Afghanistan following recent political unrest in the country. Uganda’s State minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees, Ms Esther

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