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Donkey cart explosion kills Kenyan police officer, injures 4 others
A donkey cart carrying a suspected improvised bomb blew up at a checkpoint on the Kenya-Somalia border Thursday, killing one Kenyan police officer and critically wounding four others, authorities said.
A Kenyan police report seen by The Associated Press said the cart pulled by two donkeys and ridden by one man passed the Somali checkpoint of Bula Hawa and entered Kenyan territory, where it was stopped by officers to check the load.
The rider jumped off and ran back into Somalia moments before the cart exploded, causing a huge fire at the border post in the northern county of Mandera, the report said.
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The report said that the cart’s driver was arrested by Somali police as he tried to flee, and that the Mandera county security team was negotiating with the Bula Hawa police to have him handed over to Kenyan authorities.
A donkey is photographed with blast injuries following an apparent IED explosion in Mandera County, Kenya, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. (AP Photo)
No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but suspicion immediately fell on al-Shabab, a Somalia-based extremist group linked to al-Qaida.
Al-Shabab has vowed retribution on Kenya for sending troops into Somalia in 2011 to fight the militants. The group had staged a string of kidnappings of Westerners inside Kenya that threatened the country’s tourism; a key pillar of its economy.
The Kenyan forces became part of the African Union peacekeeping mission that has bolstered Somalia’s weak government for more than 20 years against an al-Shabab insurgency. The AU mission last year began a drawdown of its troops under a U.N. Security Council resolution to return control to the Somali government.
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In recent years, al-Shabab attacks in Kenya have been limited to roadside bombs mainly targeting the military and police. On Monday, five police officers were wounded when their truck was hit by a roadside bomb in Lafey Mandera county.
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Afghanistan’s only women-led radio station to resume operations after Taliban lifts suspension
An Afghan radio station produced entirely by Afghan women will resume broadcasts after the Taliban lifted a suspension that was imposed over alleged cooperation with a foreign country’s TV channel.
Radio Begum launched on International Women’s Day in March 2021, just five months before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan during the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the region.
The station’s sister satellite channel, Begum TV, operates from France and broadcasts content on Afghanistan’s school curriculum from grades seven through 12.
The Taliban banned education for women and girls in the country after sixth grade.
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This picture taken on November 28, 2021, shows students attending a class on-air at Radio Begum in Kabul. (Getty Images)
On Saturday, the Taliban’s Information and Culture Ministry said in a statement that Radio Begum had repeatedly requested permission to resume broadcasts.
The suspension was lifted after the station made commitments to Taliban officials, the ministry said.
Radio Begum agreed to conduct broadcasts «in accordance with the principles of journalism and the regulations of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and to avoid any violations in the future,» the statement said. The ministry did not offer details on what those principles and regulations may be.
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This picture taken on November 28, 2021, shows station director Saba Chaman, right, and her colleague working in a studio at Radio Begum in Kabul. (Getty Images)
The station confirmed it had been given permission to resume broadcasting, without providing additional details.
Taliban officials imposed the suspension after they raided the Kabul-based station on Feb. 4 and seized computers, hard drives and phones, and took into custody two male employees who do not hold any senior management positions, the outlet said in a statement at the time.
The Taliban have prohibited women from education, many fields of work and public spaces since they seized control of the country in the summer of 2021. Journalists, especially women, have lost their jobs as the Taliban control the media in the region.
This picture taken on November 28, 2021, shows students attending a class on-air at Radio Begum in Kabul. (Getty Images)
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Reporters without Borders ranked Afghanistan 178 out of 180 countries in the 2024 press freedom index, a dip from the year before when it ranked 152.
The ministry did not identify the TV channel it accused Radio Begum of working with, but its statement cited alleged collaboration with «foreign-sanctioned media outlets.»
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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