LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A helicopter used by an African Union peacekeeping mission has crashed at the international airport in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, killing five passengers, a Ugandan military spokesperson said. Another three of the helicopter’s eight occupants survived the incident on Wednesday but with severe injuries and burns, said the spokesperson, Felix Kulayigye. The…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Somali Islamist militant group, al-Shabab has said in a statement that it had killed more than 170 Burundian soldiers who were in Somalia as part of an African Union (AU) force. It has also said that it has taken complete control of the AU base where they were stationed, which is…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 17 people including five attackers were killed when Islamist terrorists stormed a popular beach hotel in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, government and police officials said on Sunday. The siege ended after a three-hour, fierce gun battle between fighters of Islamist terrorist group al-Shabaab and security forces which began with a suicide car bombing, government…