The New Justice and Equality Movement (NJEM), a breakaway faction from the mother rebel group Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) that fights the Sudanese Government in Darfur, has declared it was joining the ongoing national dialogue after Khartoum had consented to a number of preconditions it set earlier.

NJEM leader Mansour Arbab Younis said the Sudanese government “accepted most of the conditions the movement had put forward , foremost the extension of the ceasefire and the extension of the national dialogue duration, to allow others to join the dialogue initiative”.

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The Islamic State (IS) group has captured the Libyan town of Ben Jawad, close to the country’s vital oil ports, the militants said Monday.

The ultra-hardline group, which has taken advantage of years of chaos to grab territory in Libya, made the claim in an online statement. There was no one from Libya’s authorities immediately available to comment on the town’s capture.

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The Egyptian air force began intensive airstrikes on Thursday morning against a local branch of the Islamic State group in Egyptian Rafah, near the border with the Gaza Strip, local media reported.

Palestinian sources were quoted by the Walla news site as saying that Egyptian fighter jets were entering Gaza’s airspace in their attacks on the Wilayat Sinaa group (formerly known as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis), which has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks on Egyptian soldiers and civilians over the last two years.

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Heavy clashes in Derna, in eastern Libya, between Isis jihadists and Council’s militants of the city.

Referred it local media.

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A few days after the federal government announced that the Boko Haram had been defeated, the insurgent group attempted an invasion of Maiduguri. The attack commenced at about 6:00 p.m. local time.

The insurgents were repelled by soldiers as they tried to enter Maiduguri via Aladuwari village, which is about 2 km from the Borno capital, witnesses and a security source said.

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Islamist fighters killed 10 Tuareg rebels in two attacks near northern Mali’s border with Algeria this week in a growing wave of violence, Tuareg officials said on Saturday.

Six fighters from the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad, northern Mali’s largest Tuareg rebel group, were killed on Thursday when Islamist militants attacked their checkpoint in the town of Talahandak, the group said.

It added that Islamist fighters were also killed in the clashes, though it did not give further details.

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South Sudan’s armed opposition faction (SPLA-IO) has accused government forces of launching fresh attacks on its positions in west bank despite the arrival in Juba of the opposition advance team.

In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Friday, the official spokesperson of SPLA/IO Col. William Gatjiath Deng said their bases have been under attack by government forces during the past two days.

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