Aid Workers Kidnapped from Kenya’s Dadaab IDP Camp

In what may have been an attempt to kidnap the General Secretary of the Norwegian Refugee Council, an aid convoy was attacked at the Dadaab IDP camp along the Kenya-Somalia border on 29 June, … [Read more...]

Embassy Emergency Message: Abuja, Nigeria

On 23 June 2012 the U.S. Embassy in Abuja issued the following Emergency Message: “In light of recent security warnings, continued states of emergency and curfews in the North, and the overnight (June … [Read more...]

State Department Emergency Message re: Mombasa, Kenya

On June 22, 2012 the US Embassy in Kenya issued the following Emergency Message: "This is to alert all U.S. citizens in Kenya, or planning to travel to Kenya in the near future, that the U.S. … [Read more...]

URGENT ALERT: Threatened Attacks in Jos June 23-24 and June 30-July 1

CCI has received the following information. We received the information in a manner that precludes timely verification, confirmation or analysis. The reported source of the information is reliable, … [Read more...]

al Qaeda to support northern Mali rebels

Reuters reported on May 25, 2012 that "the leader of al Qaeda's North African wing has put his group's fighters in Mali's north at the disposal of Ansar Dine rebels seeking to impose Islamic law … [Read more...]