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Mali’s U.N. peacekeeping mission deployed troops around a northern separatist stronghold on Tuesday, seeking to prevent an escalation of clashes between rebels and pro-government militias that threaten to torpedo a peace deal.
The separatists, led by Tuareg tribesmen, and the pro-government Platform militias signed the U.N. sponsored peace accord in June. Its aim was to pacify the north and allow the Malian army to focus on tackling Islamist militants in the west African country.
Rival armed groups in northern Mali said on Saturday they briefly exchanged fire in an apparent breach of a peace accord they signed with the government in June.
An exchange of gunfire took place south of Kidal, the stronghold of secular Tuareg rebels leading a coalition known as the Coordination of Azawad Movements, or CMA.
Three days of combat in the city of Sirte left a death toll of 106, including Islamic State (ISIL) militants and tribe members, news channel Al Arabiya reported today.
Most of the casualties are member of the Feryan community who refused to pledge allegiance to the extremists.
At least 17 people were killed in heavy clashes between ISIS fighters and a rival Islamist group in the ISIS-held city of Sirte in central Libya Thursday, residents said.
Earlier this week, a Salafist Muslim group and armed residents attacked ISIS fighters in Sirte, located about 500 km east of the capital Tripoli, accusing them of killing a prominent preacher in Sirte.
A Cameroonian soldier and 20 Boko Haram militants were killed in clashes between Cameroonian forces and the Nigerian militant group in the Far North region near the Nigerian border, Colonel Issa Bouba told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday.
“Late Monday night, Boko Haram militants attacked the village of Archighacha,” Bouba said. “Cameroonian forces fought back and the enemy withdrew”.
A Sudanese military official on Saturday said the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has recaptured a strategic town from the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) in the Blue Nile state.
The commander of the fourth infantry division in the Blue Nile capital of Damazin, Osman Sid Ahmed, told Ashorooq TV website that his forces on Saturday have entered Taroda area on the edges of the Ingasana Mountains.
The Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) organization on Tuesday has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army base one day earlier in which 11 Malian soldiers were killed, according to a website that covers news from the North African country.
According to the French-language Maliactu.net, AQIM claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack, which occurred in Mali’s Gouma-Rharous commune, located some 160 kilometers east of Timbuktu.