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“All movements using vehicles, bicycles and animals like horses, camels, and donkeys in Maiduguri will be restricted as from Wednesday 5:00pm (1700hrs) 23 September 2015”, the message also stated. People consider the curfew as a kind of postponement of the celebration.

Medics rush to the site where pilgrims were crushed and trampled to…

Suspected Boko Haram extremists killed at least 54 people when they detonated explosive devices in crowded places in Maiduguri, the capital of the north-eastern state of Borno, Nigerian police said.

Earlier, medics said at least 20 people were killed when coalition warplanes bombed two buildings in the capital Sanaa, which the rebels overran a year ago.

The victims were crushed to death and more than 850 other injured when two groups of pilgrims arrived at crossroads on Street 204 at the tent city of Mina.

A Saudi-led coalition air strike on rebels in a residential area of the Yemeni capital on Tuesday killed at least 21 people including civilians, witnesses and medics said.

Suspected Boko Haram extremists killed at least 54 people when they detonated explosive devices in crowded places in Maiduguri, the capital of the north-eastern state of Borno, Nigerian police said.

The Saudi health minister Khalid Aal-Falih, said in a statement that the stampede may have been caused by “some pilgrims who did not follow the guidelines and instructions issued by the responsible authorities”.

But he said in a tweet that a group of militants attacked a mosque within the camp compound and killed 16 people offering dawn prayers.

The disastrous shooting up by Egyptian security forces of a tourist convoy in the Western Desert is yet another sign of growing instability in the Arab world’s most populous country.

“Similarly, all vehicular movements into and out of Maiduguri town will also be restricted within the period till further notice”. People consider the curfew as a kind of postponement of the celebration. “What the government should have done was to maximise the...

With six wounded, that would at least leave five unaccounted for.

Some photographs show Ms al-Hashlamun talking to a man with a light-coloured shirt, who appears to be trying to calm the situation.

The bombings by the Islamic State, a Sunni extremist group, have often been seen as efforts to incite a broader sectarian conflict with followers of the Houthis, the Shi’ite-led rebel movement that has controlled Sana for more than a year. It has been reported that this the...

It said that attackers, wearing explosives-laden jackets and carrying AK-47 rifles, hand-propelled grenades and mortars, entered the PAF base camp in Peshawar’s Badaber area after storming a guard post.