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The United States military says it has carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia that killed six al-Shabaab extremists.
The U.S. Africa Command statement on Wednesday says Tuesday’s airstrike targeted an al-Shabaab camp near Yaaq Braawe in the Bay region.
The chief military rebel who led a thwarted coup in Gabon on Monday has been arrested and two of his commandos killed after they stormed into a public radio station, the presidency said.
The “situation is under control”, government spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told FRANCE 24, describing the botched coup as “a flash in the pan”.
Soldiers from Gabon’s Republican Guard have appeared on state television saying they have launched a coup “to restore democracy” in the West African country.
Early Monday a soldier who identified himself as Lt. Obiang Ondo Kelly, commander of the Republican Guard, read out a statement saying the military has seized control of the government.
About 46 people were killed in ethnic clashes in central Burkina Faso this week, the government said on Friday.
After nightfall on Dec. 31, armed men on motorbikes descended on the village of Yirgou, made up largely of people of Mossi ethnicity, and killed seven people, the government said.
At least two Nigerian soldiers were killed in an ambush by Boko Haram jihadists targeting a civilian convoy close to the border with Cameroon, military and militia sources told AFP on Friday.
The jihadists opened fire on a convoy of traders under military escort outside a village near the northeastern town of Banki on Thursday, killing two military escorts and injuring seven traders, according to the sources.
Egypt says police killed 40 militants Saturday following a deadly bomb attack that targeted tourists near the Great Pyramids.
Authorities raided three militant hideouts and said the extremists were planning attacks on tourist spots, Christian churches and government targets.
Boko Haram sacked two military bases in northeast Nigeria overnight as the jihadist fighters battle for control of a strategic town on Lake Chad, military sources said Thursday.
Jihadists from the IS-supported Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) overran a naval base and a multinational joint task force (MNJTF) post in the fishing town of Baga after a fierce battle, the sources told AFP.