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Coordinated multiple bomb blasts, separately detonated by three suspected female Boko Haram suicide bombers, Saturday, rocked the Maiduguri Monday Market (MMM), Borno Express Terminus motor park and Baga road fish market, killing 55 people and injuring 86 others within an hour.
This came as the Nigerian Army through a signed statement announced the recovery of two more local governments from the insurgents.
Boko Haram militants, have pledged allegiance to Islamic State, according to a message on the group’s Twitter account.
The message, which could not immediately be verified, appeared to be by the group’s leader, Abu Bakr bin Mohammed Shekau, who addressed himself as the Imam of Jamaátu Ahlus Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad (Boko Haram) and was addressed to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Husseini al-Qurashi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Fresh fighting erupted in the crisis-stricken South Sudan on Saturday, a day after warring factions missed a deadline set by regional mediators to strike a final pact to end the 14-month conflict.
Government troops battled rebel fighters loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar in the border state of Western Bahr el Ghazal, and on two fronts in the oil-producing Upper Nile state, military spokesman Col. Philip Aguer told The Wall Street Journal.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead and slit the throats of 68 people — including children — in an attack on a village in Nigeria’s Borno state, according to survivors and vigilante sources.
The attackers then burned down the entire village of Njaba, the sources said.
Seven Rwandan rebels have been killed and at least 20 captured in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a government offensive that has widened to include swathes of the country’s southeast, authorities said Sunday.
“Since the start of the operation four FDLR (Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) have been killed in North Kivu and three in South Kivu,” said government spokesman Lambert Mende.
Forces from Libya’s internationally recognised government carried out air strikes on Maitiga airport in Tripoli and on an airport in Misrata town on Tuesday to retaliate against rival forces controlling the capital, a security official said.
Even egyptian newspapers Al Youm al Saba and Al Watan confirm news about abandoing of Derna city, in Libya, by Isis men. Moreover On Tv egyptian television confirmed it quoting local sources in Derna.
The town was controlled not only by Isis men, but also by Ansar al Sharia forces, which just yesterday libyan aviation has announced to have destroyed some sites.