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The Israeli military has begun striking Hamas targets throughout Gaza according to local residents and the Israeli military.
About four hours after the Israeli bombardment began, at least 10 rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel.
More than 100 people were killed by armed men in an attack on a Fulani village in central Mali on Saturday, local officials said, as top UN officials visited the country.
Local authorities blamed the violence on Dogon hunters who are part of the Bambara, Mali’s largest ethnic group.
Somalia’s al-Shabaab stormed a government building on Saturday, detonating a suicide car bomb in the heart of the capital Mogadishu with at least 15 people, including an assistant minister, killed during the ensuing gun battle.
In the latest bombing claimed by al-Shabaab, an Islamist group which is fighting to establish its own rule in Somalia, based on a strict interpretation of sharia law, a huge explosion shook central Mogadishu and a large plume of smoke rose above a building housing Somalia’s ministries of labor and works.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS).
The SDF “declare total elimination of so-called caliphate and 100% territorial defeat of ISIS,” Mustafa Bali, head of the force’s press office, announced on Twitter Saturday morning.
Twenty-three soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack in southwestern Chad on Friday, March 22, a military official told AFP.
“Boko Haram elements attacked the Chadian army position at around 1 a.m., killing 23 troops,” the official said.