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A SPLA-N rebel soldier, in South Kordofan (AFP)
The rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) launched rocket attack on Dilling town in South Kordofan state in conjunction with the start of voting in the general elections.
In March, SPLM-N general chief of staff, Abdel Aziz Adam el-Hilu, announced a campaign to sabotage elections in South Kordofan state. Last week, the SPLM-N said it has seized a vehicle loaded with ballot boxes in the state.
Two separate bomb attacks targeting security forces in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens on Sunday, the latest in a wave of violence in a region hit by an Islamist insurgency.
Egypt’s military said a roadside bomb detonated by militants killed six soldiers and wounded two others in an attack on an armored military vehicle in the town of Sheikh Zuweid. Two of those killed were officers, it said.
At least ten soldiers of the Libyan army were killed and more than 40 others wounded in fierce clashes in Libya’s second largest city of Benghazi, medical and military sources told Xinhua on Saturday.
“Benghazi medical center on Friday received ten bodies of army soldiers, while the center received about 44 wounded soldiers of varying degrees of severity,” a source in the Benghazi medical center told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Rival Central African Republic (CAR) groups have signed a ceasefire deal in an effort to provide the country with a political solution, according to a statement by Kenya’s State House where the agreement was signed.
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted the signing of the accord on Wednesday between Anti-Balaka leader Joachim Kokate and former president and ex-Seleka leader Michel Djotodia, which included a deal “to stop hostilities” and another to “open a new chapter of political stability in their country” by adhering to the transitional roadmap, the statement said.
Four Tunisian soldiers were killed Tuesday and six others wounded in an ambush in the Kasserine region, an area of activity of jihadists in west-central Tunisia, announced the national television, citing the Ministry of Defense.
“Four soldiers were martyred and six others wounded in an ambush against a military patrol in Sbeïtla, according to the spokesman of the Ministry of Defense”, announced the state channels Wataniya 1 and 2 on a banner that displayed on the screen.
Two Congolese soldiers were killed on Monday in an ambush laid by the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda in North Kivu province, east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), security sources said on Tuesday.
Residents of Kitshanga locality where the incident happened told Xinhua they heard gunshots throughout Monday night, probably fired by soldiers who had been angered by the killing of their colleagues.
Kenyan fighter jets bombed on Sunday positions of the militant Islamist group al-Shabaab in Somalia in response to the recent terrorist attack carried against Garissa University College.
The military planes targeted two camps in the Gedo region, which are used by al-Shabaab to cross into Kenya, the BBC reports.