Friday

January 2, 2015

Armed conflicts and attacks

Somali Civil War

Somali al-Shabaab militants attack an army base on the outskirts of Baidoa, killing seven soldiers. (Reuters via Daily Times)

Islamist insurgency in Nigeria

Boko Haram militants attack a bus in Waza, Cameroon, killing eleven people and injuring six. (CNN via WLKY)

1998 United States embassy bombings

Abu Anas al-Libi, a one-time associate of Osama bin Laden, dies in New York, United States, while awaiting trial for allegedly plotting the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (NBC News)

Disasters and accidents

The MS Norman Atlantic ferry fire death toll rises to at least eleven with as many as 19 people still unaccounted for. (The Independent)