Government forces in the semiautonomous Somali region of Puntland have made two military offensives against allies of the Shabaab militant group, trying to drive back insurgent fighters who have been gaining ground in a comparatively stable area of northeastern Somalia.

Officials in Puntland said that at least 18 militants and 3 government soldiers were killed Sunday in fierce fighting in mountain villages along the northern coast, near the port town of Boosaaso.

Hundreds of government troops, along with dozens of armed civilians who volunteered to join the fight, stormed the rebel-controlled villages, Puntland officials said.

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At least 17 people have been killed and 28 injured in attacks by al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam fighters on the African Union (AU) forces and Somali government soldiers in southern Mogadishu.

Meanwhile, the AU troops and pro-government forces attacked Bakara, an open market at the center of Mogadishu, where 7 civilians were killed in the crossfire.

In other clashes which broke out close to the market, 10 people were killed and 28 others wounded.

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Reports reaching the Ogaden Online service desk confirm a major military offensive by the Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA). Reporters in the Ogaden frontlines reported that the ONLA, in what appeared to be well planned and well coordinated attacks, attacked Ethiopian military garrisons and bases in Dhagaxbuur city

These planned military attacks took place last night midnight, Ogaden local time, in the major military garrisons and bases in the Dhagaxbuur city of Jarar province.

Local eyewitnesses and our frontline reporters both confirmed that these major military garrisons came under a multi-pronged attack by OLNA forces.

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A new armed group is threatening to launch a violent campaign for the reunification of Somalia. The group is known as SSC, the initials of the regions they say that they want to liberate - Sool, Sanaag and Cayn. These regions are currently disputed over by both the breakaway Somaliland Republic and the Semi-autonomous region of Puntland in North East Somalia. “Our ultimate goal is to make this area peaceful and prosperous and also seek a united Somalia”.

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Security forces from the Somali breakaway state of Puntland said Monday they had raided an obscure but growing al-Qaeda linked militia whose leader is on a UN Security Council watchlist.

Three Puntland soldiers were killed in the pre-dawn raid on cave-riddled mountains near Galgala in western Puntland, where officials say local warlord Mohamed Said Atom has been building a force of several hundred militants.

“The operation was launched early this morning. So far, we have lost three soldiers. Seven were also wounded,” Colonel Abdurahman Ali, a security official in Puntland’s economic capital of Bosasso, told AFP.

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The Polisario Front expressed Monday condemnation of Moroccan new brutal repression against dozens of unarmed Sahrawi citizens, including activists of human rights, simply because peacefully demanding their right to self-determination and independence.

The Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, president of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has called, in a letter to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general, to “take an urgent action to ensure the protection of human rights in the occupied Western Sahara, including an effective UN mechanism for this purpose.”

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A Military Statement.

Early in this morning, July 13th, 60 land cruiser vehicles of Sudan’s army and militia obstructed JEM tours near Kuma, North Darfur. As expected the Genocidaire’s force lost the battle and fled into Kuma town. Our forces pursued them inside the town and destroyed their military camp and captured 34 well-equipped vehicles.

This defeat comes in the eve of indictment of Al –Bashir for genocides and a day after his Official Military Spokesperson or ‘Official Military Denier’ as nicknamed locally declared total dispersion of JEM forces in Darfur.

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