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Authorities say a brutal armed group in southern Congo blamed for murdering a UN team has killed at least eight people over the weekend.
The fighters loyal to traditional leader Kamwina Nsapu launched their attack on Luebo late Friday. Among the victims was the area administrator’s wife.
Three suspected Boko haram persons,took their own lives when they got killed from their own explosions in the early hours of Sunday when they attempted to invade Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, with explosive vests strapped around their bodies, an official
Two of the suicide bombers tried to make entry into the city through one of the known entry points near Muna Garage, a popular bus station along Maidugurui-Gamboru road.
Fighters from the Kamwina Nsapu group attacked a police convoy where six policemen who spoke the local Tshiluba were freed, but the rest were killed.
“They ambushed the policemen as they traveled from Tshikapa to Kananga”, Ambrose Muwasa, a senior security officer, told the Anadolu Agency.
An organization that monitors extremist groups says al-Shabaab has claimed to kill 17 soldiers and wound 22 in an attack in southwestern Somalia.
The SITE Intelligence Group says in a statement Thursday that the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab’s news agency posted a claim on Facebook about attacking the coastal city of Barawe.
Ten members of Egypt’s security forces were killed by two improvised roadside bombs during clashes with jihadist militants in central Sinai, the Egyptian army said on Thursday.
Fifteen of the Islamist fighters were also killed, while seven others were arrested in the raid on what the Egyptian army describes as “an extremely dangerous” hideout for Islamist fighters.
A heavy gunfight between al-Shabaab fighters and Somali National Army has erupted in Monday in the outskirts of Baidoa town, the interim capital of Southwest state, Garowe Online reports.
Residents say the fighting broke out when the Islamic militants armed with machine guns and rocked propelled grenades attacked Somali military bases outside Daynunay area, about 20 km away from Baidoa.
The leader of the National Salvation Front (NAS), a new rebel group, wants South Sudan’s peace process to be re-started.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Cirillo Swaka, in a letter addressed to the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation claimed the peace process initiated after August 2015 “has clearly failed, resulting in the current tragedy”.