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Rebel fighters will enter South Sudanese capital Juba unless peacekeeping forces are sent, the country’s deposed Vice President Riek Machar told Anadolu Agency on Friday.
Machar is the leader of rebels who fought a two-year civil war against government forces under President Salva Kiir. He was rehabilitated into the government in April following a peace deal that broke down three weeks ago, leading to hundreds of deaths.
A multinational task force battling Boko Haram said on Thursday it had recaptured the only town in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state that was still held by the Islamist militant group.
Boko Haram, which formed in Borno, has waged an insurgency since 2009 to carve out a state based on sharia (Islamic law) in the northeast of Africa’s most populous country. More than 15,000 people have been killed and some 2.4 million displaced.
At least 13 people, including guards of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the United Nations (UN), were killed when two massive car bombs went off in Mogadishu, on Tuesday. Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organisation linked to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for both the suicide bomb attacks.
Three civilians were injured in the attack.
Al-Shabaab said that they killed killed “dozens of crusaders & apostates,” reported Al Jazeera.
Puntland and Somaliland governments in northern Somalia have agreed to de-escalate tensions in restive Sanaag region, Garowe Online reports.
The decision was made in a phone call between Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali and Somaliland Vice President Abdirahman Saylici in the aftermath of deadly clashes in the BodaAdde.
Security forces in North Sinai have reportedly killed 15 militants and injured another 12 following severe clashes Saturday.
Citing a security source in North Sinai, privately-owned newspaper Al-Watan reported that a terrorist cell raided a school near Rafah’s border as they were being chased by security forces. The forces then put the school under siege and clashes broke out between the militants and security forces.
Forces aligned with Libya’s U.N.-backed government fought fierce exchanges with Islamic State militants in Sirte on Thursday in which 13 of their fighters were killed and more than 110 wounded, officials said.
The government-backed forces have pinned militants back to a small area in the centre of the coastal city after advancing on the Islamic State stronghold in May.
Heavy fighting ensued late Thursday afternoon in Kidal, northern Mali between armed pro-government forces and former rebels mainly Tuareg living together in the town since February.
The clashes were between members of the High Council for Unity of Azawad (HCUA), a coalition of former Tuareg rebellion in northern Mali and Gatia allies, a coalition supporting armed movements in Bamako, a source explained to AFP.