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Cameroon separatists set off bomb in AFCON host city

Yaoundé, Cameroon | Xinhua | Separatist fighters in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking region of Southwest have set off an improvised explosive device (IED) in the town of Limbe which will host matches of the Africa Cup Nations (AFCON), according to local police. No one was injured in the explosion which went off …

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Police responded to four false bomb scares last week

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Apart from the two bombing attacks at Komamboga pork joint and inside a Swift bus along Masaka road, police responded to four other suspicious bombing scares within Kampala metropolitan areas, but found no explosives. The first Improvised Explosive Device-IED went off at a popular pork …

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COMMENT: Beware of home made bombs

COMMENT | Samson Tinka | For close to three years, Uganda has gone through several cycles of terrorism attacks, both rural and urban. The rural ones were protracted and took a long time to deal with by government security while the rural terrorism was largely handled and the whole country seemed …

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