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Eighteen fighters loyal to Libya’s UN-backed unity government were killed and 120 others wounded in clashes today with the so-called Islamic State group in Sirte, a medical source said.
A field hospital for the forces backing the Government of National Accord (GNA) listed the names of the 18 fighters killed in the coastal city, as loyalist forces pushed into the last areas held by IS in Sirte.
A third faction of separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Reformed Indigenous People of Biafra; RE-IPOB, has emerged.
Recall that the crises rocking IPOB took a new twist yesterday, following an announcement by a splinter group, the Rebranded Indigenous People of Biafra, TRIPOB, renouncing the Biafra group.
Nine people including two Shabaab jihadists have been killed in an attack on a beach front restaurant in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.
Al-Qaeda linked Shabaab jihadists attacked the Banadir Beach Restaurant, setting off a car bomb before exchanging fire with security forces. The assailants also threw grenades at security services who had cordoned off the area.
Abubakar Shekau and other senior officials were hit by Nigerian ‘air force raid’.
The Nigerian army says that it “fatally wounded” the leader of Boko Haram during an air strike targeting a meeting of the Islamist group’s commanders, local media reported.
Somalia’s al-Shabaab militant group has claimed responsibility for twin suicide bombs in the country’s Puntland region.
More than 20 people were killed on Sunday when the bombers detonated the explosions at a market and government building in the semi-autonomous territory.
At least 1100 soldiers who reportedly defected from South Sudan People Patriotic Front (SSPPF), a rebel groups based in South Sudan’s Western Equatoria state, have allegedly joined Gabriel Changson Chang’s South Sudan Army Forces/ Federal Democratic Party (SSAF/FDP).
Brigadier Gen. Dahab Dobuol Gew told Sudan Tribune from an undisclosed location in South Sudan that they have switched sides from Charles Kasanga after accusing him for signing an agreement with the government.
Dozens of people have been killed in a violent clash between a pro-government militia group and a separatist umbrella organization in northern Mali, a local source told Anadolu Agency Friday.
The clashes started on Tuesday in Kidal between fighters of the pro-government group, GATIA, and armed members of the separatist Coordination of Movements of Azawad (CMA), Fahad Ag Almahmoud, GATIA secretary-general, told Anadolu Agency.