diff --git a/backends/libyahoo2/httpfetch.h b/backends/libyahoo2/httpfetch.h
index 1d9a3899..83a93b93 100644
--- a/backends/libyahoo2/httpfetch.h
+++ b/backends/libyahoo2/httpfetch.h
@@ -9,12 +9,6 @@
 #include "Swiften/Swiften.h"
 #include "Swiften/TLS/OpenSSL/OpenSSLContextFactory.h"
 
-// for signal handler
-#include "unistd.h"
-#include "signal.h"
-#include "sys/wait.h"
-#include "sys/signal.h"
-
 // Boost
 #include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>