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Hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers have been spotted crossing the border town of Dolow into Somalia carrying heavy artillery.
Residents of the town in the Gedo region told VOA Somali that at least 30 vehicles carrying about a thousand heavily armed soldiers crossed the border on Tuesday.
At least 15 people were killed, including women and children, in airstrikes on the eastern Libyan city of Derna late on Monday night, said a medical source.
The National Libyan Army has been besieging the city for months and has carried out intermittent airstrikes against it.
Another new rebel group has been formed to fight against the regime of South Sudan President Salva Kiir.
The formation of the National Resistance Front/Army (NRF/A) was reportedly agreed upon communiqué after a meeting held by all South Sudan opposition groups from September to October 2017.
Extremists attacked a Mogadishu hotel Saturday with a car bomb, a suicide vest, grenades and firearms, killing at least 23 people, including a baby, wounding more than 30 and trapping dozens of people on the building’s upper floors.
The attack on the Nasa-Hablod hotel, near the presidential palace, appeared to have devolved into an ongoing battle between militants and government security forces Saturday night.
Authorities in Niger say unknown assailants have killed 13 soldiers in the West African country.
Saturday’s attack occurred in the town of Ayorou near the border with Mali, according to a government communique. It says five others were wounded.
At least 14 policemen were killed Friday in clashes with “outlawed” gunmen in Egypt’s Giza province, a government newspaper said.
Government daily Akhbar El-Yom quoted a security source saying: “14 policemen were martyred in [armed] confrontations with outlawed individuals at the 135-kilometer mark on the Oases Road,” southwest of Cairo.
Jihadists claiming to be ‘Islamic State in Central Africa’ have called for militants to join them in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after the extremist group’s self-styled ‘capital’, Raqqa, was reclaimed by US-backed Syrian forces.
A video circulating on pro-ISIS sites purports to be a message from dedicated jihadis, although ISIS has not expanded its official media output to the central African country.