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Rebels have been engaged in fierce firefights with government forces about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Tripoli and close to their frontline.
A BBC correspondent who was with the rebels said two of them had died in the battle, according to a volunteer medic.
The rebels said government forces suffered far greater casualties, although that cannot be confirmed.
Meanwhile, Col Muammar Gaddafi has agreed to stay out of talks on ending the conflict, African leaders said.
Mauritania’s army claims to have “completely destroyed” an Al-Qaeda camp in neighbouring Mali.
The two countries launched a joint offensive against Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) on 21 June but Mauritania acted alone in Friday’s operation.
Four Mauritanian soldiers were wounded, two of them seriously, the army said Saturday, but it could give no figures for Aqim losses.
A well attended peace conference began today in the town of Widhwidh between Somaliland Government officials and members from SSC militia that has been disputing with Somaliland Government’s presence in Sool region.
The official peace treaty negotiations that President Ahmed Mohamud Siilaanyo offered to SSC militia have finally begun after months of delicate negotiation by Somaliland officials and elders from the Dhulbahante tribe that inhabits parts of Sool and Eastern Sanaag of Somaliland.
Representing the Government are Dr. Abdi Aw-Dahir (Minister of Livestock), Mohamud Hashi Abdi (Minister of Aviation), the Presidential spokesman Mr. Abdillahi Mohamed Dahir (Cukuse) and members from both House of Elders and Parliament.
Rebels in Sudan’s western Darfur region accused the government of attacking them with military vehicles, warplanes and troops on horses on Sunday.
The Sudanese army confirmed it had clashed with rebels in the mountainous Jabel Marra region but said it had not used aircraft and the fighting had not displaced civilians.
Darfur is just one of several flashpoints as Sudan’s south prepares to secede on July 9 — a move analysts say could embolden rebels elsewhere. The north’s army is also battling armed groups in the Southern Kordofan border state.
At least 25 people killed and 50 others injured, for the last 24 hours heavily fight between Somali most powerful insurgent al-Shabaab and pro-government Ahlu Sunna Wal-jamaca, mostly combatants in central Somali town of Beledweyne in Hiraan region.
The fighting erupted after fighters al-Shabaab attack a bases manned by Ahlu Sunna around the airport, an eyewitness told Garowe online.
Rebels marked their four month of fighting against the Gaddafi regime on Friday and were seen firing rocket propelled grenades, machine guns and rocket launchers to combat artillery fire from forces loyal to the Libyan leader.
Barrages of artillery and missiles were reportedly hitting rebel lines as they continued trying to advance out of the besieged western city of Misurata and push towards the capital Tripoli.
Forty eight hours after giving conditions for ceasefire, Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, yesterday bombed the Louis Edet House, Force Headquarters of the police in Abuja. The attack claimed two lives with about 35 vehicles destroyed in the incident that occurred at 10.58 am. The Police High command confirmed the casualty figure. The victims, according to reports, the suicide bomber and the traffic warden who directed him to use the car park in the vicinity.