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On this day in 2013, two Tunisian soldiers were killed and two wounded in a terrorist attack carried out by Al Qaeda affiliate AQIM near Tunisia’s border with Algeria.
On this day in 2018, the ISIS Central African Province claimed an attack in a Mozambican village in which 10 people were beheaded, including children.
An AQAP suicide bomber dressed as a soldier killed more than 120, mostly soldiers, and wounded more than 350 at a Unity Day parade in Sana’a in 2012.
Lord’s Resistance Army massacred hundreds of civilians in northern Uganda in April 1995 and took women and girls as slaves.
On this day in 2014, a mob of civilians posing as protesters stormed a UN compound in South Sudan and shot dead 48 people, some with RPGs.
Al Qaeda followed up 9/11 with a terrorist attack on the Djerba Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia where a suicide bomber detonated a truck killing 19 people.
The Sinai branch of ISIS carried out two suicide attacks on Christian worshipers on Palm Sunday killing 37 people and wounding 136
On this day in 2015, Al Shabaab terrorists besieged Garissa University in northeastern Kenya. Four gunmen stormed the campus and began firing indiscriminately.
On this day in 2018, the Somalia-based terrorist group Al Shabaab claimed it attacked an African Union (AMISOM) base with two car bombs, killing 59 Ugandan soldiers.