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African parliaments have been urged to be at the forefront of combating terrorism and violent extremism, by ratifying and implementing anti terrorism laws. Terrorism was a top item on the agenda at the Pan African Parliament session in Midrand, South Africa on Wednesday, with Uganda’s Prof. Ogenga-Latigo saying that every country hould domesticate …

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on Thursday urged Londoners to remain “calm and vigilant” after a woman was killed and five people injured in a city centre knife attack. Police meanwhile probed possible terrorist links following the arrest of a 19-year-old man at the scene of the incident which took …

A truck ploughed into a crowd in the French resort of Nice, killing at least 84 in what President Francois Hollande on Friday called a “terrorist” attack on revellers watching a Bastille Day fireworks display. The driver was shot dead after barrelling the truck two kilometres (1.3 miles) through the …

Recent arrests show the Islamic State’s growing presence in East Africa, where they are recruiting young Kenyans for jihad abroad and raising fears some of them will return to threaten the country. Kenyan intelligence agencies estimate that around 100 men and women may have gone to join the IS in …

Brussels bomb alert after man arrested in city shopping centre, security agency says https://t.co/g12RNlVCHr — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 21, 2016 An anti-terror operation was underway at a shopping centre in central Brussels on Tuesday, Belgian prosecutors told the Belga News agency, adding that one suspect had been arrested. …

Brussels, Belgium | AFP   Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini confessed Saturday to being “the man in the hat” caught on video with suicide bombers at Brussels airport last month, images that had sparked a massive manhunt. Abrini made the admission on the day he was charged with terrorist murders …

By Rajab Kakyama Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism Refer to “America’s slippery slope” (The Independent July 05). Before George Orwell published his novel in 1948, Albert Einstein in 1917 wrote to a friend that “our much – praised technological progress …

By Aloysious Kasoma Over 184 Tourism Police Officers completed a one month course in tourism security at Police Training School, Kabalye, Masindi on Friday. The Officers were passed out by the Inspector General of Police, Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura who advised them to be on alert for terrorist activities in …

By Haggai Matsiko After the July 11, 2010 synchronised bomb attacks that ripped through two Kampala spots – Lugogo Rugby Club and Ethiopian Village – killing over 80 people in crowds watching the televised football World Cup final,  security checkpoints, sniffer dogs, car and body scans became part of daily …