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The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N Agar) led by Malik Agar said its fighters in the Blue Nile have been attacked by forces belonging to the SPLM-N al-Hilu faction.
The Sudanese army has been fighting the SPLM-N rebels in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan, also known as the Two Areas since 2011.
At least 18 persons were killed and 22 others injured as three suicide bombers staged attacked a Borno community Friday night, police said.
The suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers attacked Kasuwan Kifi village in Konduga local government area of the state.
Somali forces backed by African Union forces destroyed Al-Shabaab bases in the Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia, the military said.
Lower Shabelle region military commander Ibrahim Aden Najah told journalists on Thursday that the forces raided the bases in Kurtunwarey and destroyed the bases used by the militants to attack Somali and Amisom forces.
Heavy fighting broke out between the Rwandan and Congolese military in troubled eastern DR Congo after an incursion by Rwandan troops, according to a Congolese army spokesman.
Investigations are underway to see if the clashes occurred because of a problem with border demarcation.
Egypt has launched a major security offensive against armed militant groups operating in the Sinai peninsula and other parts of the country.
A televised statement by Colonel Tamer al-Rifai, the military spokesman, said the operation involved both military and police forces and that it “targeted terrorist elements and organisations in northern and central parts of the Sinai and in other locations in the Delta and the desert hinterland west of the Nile”.
The Escalating tension in Tukaraq town in northern Sool region has heightened fears that armed conflict between Puntland and Somaliland is fast approaching, Garowe Online reports.
The territorial dispute between the two neighboring states renewed following the capture of Tukaraq, about 90Km north of Garowe, the administrative capital of Puntland by Somaliland forces on January 8.
The lucrative village had been fully controlled Puntland troops and served as a customs center and main entrance to the contested region before it fell to the regional army early this month, sparking tension.
South Sudanese warring parties have renewed clashes in the oil-rich town of Tharjath, south of state capital Bentiu several eyewitnesses and area residents have told Sudan Tribune on Friday.
The clashes erupted in the western part of Tharjath, an oil facility located 60 kilometres away south of Bentiu town.
