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The United Nations said on Wednesday two Tanzanian army officers serving as UN peacekeepers were killed and 13 others were injured after they were attacked by rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
The UN said in a statement issued in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam that four other peacekeepers were reported missing.
Fighter jets have attacked Sudan, reports the Arab media, which has suggested that Israel was involved in the strike. Israel declined to comment on the reports.
A Sudanese military source told the news site “Al arabi Al jaded” that its air defenses had operated against fighter jets that entered the Wadi Sidna neighborhood in Omdurman near Khartoum. Senior figures in the Sudanese military visited the site after the attack.
“More than 5,000 people have already reached N’Guigmi,” a town in southeastern Niger located near the lake and the Chadian border, a UN official told AFP.
Another 11,500 people are expected to arrive in the town, the official added.
The rebel Sudan Liberation Movement - Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) said they inflected heavy losses on the Sudanese government militiamen following fresh clashes in North Darfur on Saturday 2 May.
SLM-MM military spokesperson Ahmed Ardob in a statement released on Sunday claimed they killed some 60 fighters of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) including the commander of the militia unit Omer Issa and his deputy Issa Fatous.
Ten militants and nine soldiers have died in clashes between the Malian army and a Tuareg rebel alliance, the defence ministry said on Thursday, raising fears for the country’s fragile peace process.
The announcement came a day after fighters from the Tuareg-led Coordination for the Movements of Azawad (CMA) ambushed military positions in the central town of Lere, near the Mauritanian border.
President Omar Al Bashir has threatened to invade South Sudan to disarm the Sudanese rebel movements allegedly based there.
The Sudanese president visited the area of Goz Dango in Tullus locality, South Darfur, where fighting broke out on Sunday between troops of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and rebels of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), supported by combatants of the Sudanese Liberation Movement led by Minni Minawi (SLM-MM).
Nigeria’s military on Tuesday claimed the rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from a notorious Boko Haram stronghold, but said there was no confirmation the hostages were those kidnapped from Chibok a year ago.
“Troops have this afternoon captured & destroyed three camps of terrorists inside the Sambisa forest & rescued 200 girls & 93 women,” defence spokesman Chris Olukolade said in a text message, referring to the area in northeast Borno state where the Islamists have bases.