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South Sudan president, Salva Kiir has finally signed the internationally-backed regional brokered peace deal, raising hopes of possible end months of conflict in the young nation amid threats for sanctions and an arms embargo.
Kiir inked the deal at 4.54 pm (local time) at a ceremony attended by his Uganda counterpart, Yoweri Museveni, Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta, Ethiopian prime minister, Hailemarian Desalegn and Sudan’s vice president, Bakari Hassan.
Terror reigns in Sirte. Military fighter aircraft bombed ISIS positions Tuesday morning with an imprecise number of victims.
At the same time, while about a hundred immigrants were being rescued from the Straight of Sicily, the jihadists killed four people and publicly displayed the crucified body of the one of the victims. The brutality put into place by the cutthroats loyal to the Caliph was documented in a video, released online this time as well.
A Tunisian border guard was killed in a firefight with a group of Islamists. The battle occurred on the Algerian border, and left an additional three guards wounded.
At least 14 Somali soldiers were killed and more than 20 others wounded Saturday in suicide attack by al-Shabaab rebels in southern Somalia, officials and witnesses said.
The attack occurred inside a former university building on the outskirts of Kismayo, where African Union peacekeepers from Kenya and Somali soldiers are stationed, officials said.
A Libyan special forces soldier has been killed in Benghazi today in clashes with Ansal al Sharia affiliate to forces of Shura Council Revolutionaries of the city.
During clashes other three soldiers have been injured.
ISIS claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack that wounded at least 29 people in Cairo early Thursday, saying it was retribution for the execution of six men in May.
The car detonated near the National Security Building in the northern suburb of Shubra al-Kheemag, Egypt’s Health Ministry said. The driver had parked it then was picked up by a motorcycle and fled before the explosives went off.
Gunmen from Boko Haram shot villagers while others drowned trying to escape the notorious terrorists as they assaulted their homes in northeastern Nigeria. The attack left 150 Kukuwa-Gari villagers in Yobe state dead in the attack.
The scores of militants who arrived on motorcycles or by car “opened fire instantly, which forced residents to flee. They shot a number of people”, Modu Balumi, a resident of Kukuwa-Gari, told AFP.