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France said on Tuesday it would increase its force in Central African Republic (CAR) to at least 1,000 soldiers once a U.N. resolution is passed next week to try to prevent sectarian violence from destabilising the entire region.
The landlocked nation of 4.6 million people at the heart of Africa has descended into chaos since the Séléka coalition of rebels, many of them from neighbouring Chad and Sudan, ousted President François Bozizé in March.
Clashes between Libyan troops and militants in the eastern city of Benghazi on Monday killed at least nine people and wounded a dozen in another test of the country’s fledgling armed forces.
Still in training, Libya’s new military is struggling to curb Islamist militants and militias who fought in the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi but refuse to disarm and control parts of the country.
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists killed at least 12 people and burned down several homes in northeast Nigeria, officials said.
The Saturday attacks in the village of Sandiya, Borno, reportedly targeted those who do not openly support the militant Islamic group, the Nigerian Tribune said.
The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) on Wednesday retook Kaling area in South Kordofan state from the rebel Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), a military spokesperson in Khartoum said.
“The armed forces today morning managed to drive the remnants of the so-called the Revolutionary Front from Kaling area in South Kordofan state,” Al-Sawarmy Khalid Saad, said.
Sudanese rebels have fired mortar bombs into the capital of South Kordofan state where they rose up against the government two years ago, the insurgents said on Wednesday.
The shelling of Kadugli on Tuesday was in retaliation for an air raid two days earlier that killed two children, said Arnu Ngutulu Lodi, spokesman for the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N).
A car bomb explosion in North Sinai on Wednesday morning left 11 soldiers dead and 37 injured.
Army spokesperson Ahmed Ali’s official page said in a statement that the car bomb targeted a bus carrying members of the Armed Forces on leave.
Dozen of people including police officers were killed after al-Shabaab attacked a police station in the central Somalia town of Baladweyn, officials said on Tuesday.
Somali Current sources said that the militant group bombed the entrance of the police station before its fighters launched assault on officers in the compound.