Security forces from Somalia’s regional administration of Jubba have recaptured Barwaqo village, about 12 km from Dhobley town in Southern Somalia near the Kenyan border.

Col. Haybe Ahmed Abdullahi, one of the commanders of Jubba Administration in Dhobley town, told journalists on Saturday that they rooted out the militants from Barwaqo neighborhood in lower Jubba region on Friday.

The control of this area fell into Pro-Islamic States militants on Tuesday this week, according to the officials and residents in the region earlier.

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Violence from coordinated attacks on three Burundian army installations killed 87 people, an army spokesman said Saturday, showing the escalating turmoil over the disputed third term of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

More than 150 armed men raided the army facilities Friday and 79 of them were killed, army spokesman Col. Gaspard Baratuza said Saturday. Eight security agents, four from the army and four from police, also died in the fighting and 21 security officers were wounded, he said. Baratuza said forces arrested 45 members of the unidentified group that attacked the military installations.

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Libya’s rival parliaments will next week sign a UN-sponsored agreement on forming a national unity government, they announced on Friday (Dec 11), as world leaders press them to end chaos in the country.

Salah el-Makhzoum, a vice president of the Tripoli-based parliament, called this a “happy day” in announcing that “the political accord will be signed on December 16”.

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Gunmen attacked military sites in Burundi’s capital on Friday and many of the assailants were killed or arrested after heavy fighting, officials and soldiers said.

Soldiers said at least five of their number were killed in the latest flare-up in a nation Western powers fear may be sliding back into ethnic conflict.

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Nigerian refugees have said that Cameroonian troops crossed the border into Nigeria, killed about 150 villagers, burned their huts and forced them to flee.

The refugees said on Tuesday, December 8 that they had to walk for days before reaching a refugee center.

Mariamu Abubakar, a farmer, said Cameroonian soldiers on Monday, November 30, killed about 150 people in his village near Nigeria’s Banki border post.

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Lawlessness in the Central African Republic is helping Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army continue its almost 30-year regional campaign of killings and abductions, according to a United Nations report.

The Ugandan warlord’s forces remain the main threat to peace in the diamond-rich country’s east and southeast, states a report by a UN panel of experts due to be published by the end of the year. The militia emerged in northern Uganda in the late 1980s, spread to neighboring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has caused the deaths of about 100,000 people while forcing 2.5 million others to flee their homes.

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Galmudug and Puntland states began Sunday withdrawing rival their combat forces from the frontline in the southern of Galkayo town of Mudug region following a ceasefire accord.

Somali prime minister Omar Abdirashid, and leaders Galmudug and Puntland administrations Abdikarin Hussein Guled and Abdiwali Gaas arrived the battle zones to observe the withdrawal of the armed forces.

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