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Monday, March 9, 2015
There was no lull in the violence across Africa over the weekend with bomb blasts or rocket fire killing over 60 people in three different countries. In Nigeria the country’s militant Islamist group, the Boko Haram, were widely thought responsible for bomb blasts in the northern city of Maiduguri. While the group has not as yet claimed responsibility, the bombings were textbook examples of Boko Haram’s tactics.
The militants’ bombs killed at least 50 people and left at least another 35 injured in what some say is the worst attack to take place in Maiduguri since the group tried to take the city earlier this year. The first bomb was detonated when a tricycle rider was prevented from entering the fish market on Baga road, the denial of entrance probably saved countless lives.
A second blast hit an area known as the Monday Market when shortly afterwards a car bomb exploded by a bus station near a Department of State Security (DSS) office.
In Mali unknown attackers fired dozens of rockets towards a UN base on the outskirts of Kidal in the north of the country. The rocket attack killed at least three people. One peacekeeper was killed and eight others were injured. A shell also fell on a nearby camp of Tuareg and Arab nomads, killing two and injuring several children according to reports.
The incident was not the only attack to take place over the weekend in Mali, in the capital of city of Bamako it was reported that Islamist group Al-Mourabitoun claimed responsibility for an attack that killed five people.
In Egypt bombings killed one and wounded nine others in Alexandria on March 8. One person was killed and five were wounded in the first blast, outside of a supermarket in the Seyoufdistrict of eastern Alexandria and a bomb outside of Harambe police station in central Alexandria wounded four, while another near the police station was disarmed by security forces.
A fourth bomb went off near the Bab Sharq police station without injuring or killing anyone.
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