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Pro-government forces have regained control of the capital of Tigray, they said on Sunday, dealing a major setback to the opposition alliance that rules the northern Ethiopian region.
The Tigray Peace Forces, a pro-government militia, said in a post on Facebook that its fighters controlled Mekelle.
Seven Ethiopian armed groups have formed an alliance aimed at overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
The groups announced the alliance on Sunday, saying that they would work together to set up an inclusive transitional government.
Congolese government forces and allied Wazalendo fighters have retaken several villages and positions from the AFC/M23 rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after heavy fighting, according to local reports and pro-government forces.
The Wazalendo, a loose coalition of armed groups fighting alongside the FARDC, said they had regained control of Mutara, Kivoka, Tushungute and Kashovu, as well as the M23 headquarters at Nteko Miko, after intense clashes.
Niger’s military authorities said they control the situation in the country’s capital, Niamey, after gunfire and explosions were heard in several parts of the city on the morning of August 29.
According to the government, facilities including the airport and the presidential palace came under attack by mutinous soldiers.
Sudan’s main southern rebel group has regained full control of its stronghold of Kauda, South Kordofan, following two days of fighting aimed at putting down an internal uprising, local sources said on Thursday.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu, launched an offensive on Monday to quell a mutiny by fighters from the local Otoro clan in South Kordofan’s Heiban County.
Fighting has broken out in western Tigray, in one of the most serious breaches yet of the three-year-old peace deal between Ethiopia’s federal government and fighters in the northern region.
Tigray’s regional government said in a statement from Mekelle, the Tigrayan capital, that federal forces opened the assault at dawn on Saturday, advancing from the direction of Shererina, near the Sudanese border.
Armed forces from Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland state have attacked a camp held by federal government troops, in the latest flare-up between regional leaders and the Somali government.
Puntland President Said Abdullahi Deni told a news conference on Wednesday in the regional capital Garowe that the assault was “a planned security operation” to send a “clear message to anyone working against the Puntland government”.