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A new South Sudanese rebel faction in Western Equatoria state has unveiled its strategic objectives and for forming an alliance with other rebel groups operating in the area and in the country to remove from power the government of president Salva Kiir.
The group calling itself South Sudan People’s Patriotic Front (SSPPF) issued a statement on Monday declaring its formation and selection of political and military leadership.
The Sudanese army has pledged to raise the state of preparedness in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile saying it would actively seek to recapture the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) stronghold of Kauda.
Sudan’s defence minister Awad Ibn Ouf said the army would continue to deploy troops across the country to promote border protection, pointing they mainly aim to protect the eastern, southern and northern borders in order to preserve people’s lives and property.
Ibn Ouf, who laid out his ministry’s 2016 plan before the parliament Tuesday, added those objectives would be carried out in close and continued coordination with the ministries of interior and foreign affairs and the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS).
At least 12 people were killed on Tuesday after an explosion tore through a bus full of Tunisian presidential guards in an attack one source said was probably carried out by a bomber detonating his explosives in the vehicle.
Ambulances rushed wounded from the scene and security forces closed off streets around Mohamed V Avenue, one of the major streets in the capital Tunis and where the charred wreckage of the bus lay not far from the interior ministry.
Islamic State’s Egyptian branch claimed responsibility for a bombing that killed at least seven people in a hotel in North Sinai on Tuesday where judges overseeing a parliamentary election were staying.
A militant tried to drive a car bomb into the hotel in the provincial capital al-Arish before security forces opened fire, causing the car to explode, the military and a witness said.
Somali Govt troops and their allied African Union troops have repelled an al-Shabaab attack after heavily armed militants attacked their convoy near Wajid town, south of Bakol region.
The confrontation broke out Saturday morning when the militants with al-Shabaab waylaid the allied troops while conducting a security patrol in the villages nearby Wajid town, reports said.
At least 10 people were killed and dozens more injured in a suicide bomb attack by suspected members of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, security sources have said.
The attack happened in the far north region of Cameroon, and is the latest deadly attack in the region as Boko Haram militants target the country along with Chad, Niger and Nigeria.
At least 18 dead bodies were found inside the Radisson Blu hotel in the Malian capital of Bamako on Friday after an attack that was claimed by an armed group affiliated with Al-Qaeda.
While over 150 hostages were believed to have been held at one point during the siege, Mali’s Security Minister Salif Traore said no more hostages were being held at the hotel, which was attacked by gunmen also armed with grenades and subsequently stormed by Malian special forces. Two gunmen were killed in the subsequent government raid, according to the Malian military.