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.

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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.

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Anglophone separatists in Cameroon on Monday announced they had launched a virtual currency, the AmbaCoin, to help fund their campaign for independence and provide humanitarian aid.

The bitcoin-like currency, based on the blockchain software principle, is named after the “Republic of Ambazonia,” a self-declared independent state in Cameroon’s Northwest and Southwest Regions.

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At least five people, including four civilians, were killed in an attack by suspected Ugandan rebels in DR Congo, an AFP correspondent and witnesses said on Sunday. The attack by Uganda-based Allied Democratic Forces targeted the locality of Masiani in the Beni region of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo overnight.

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Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants have announced a military offensive against Islamic State-affiliated forces in Somalia.

A statement read Friday by al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage on Radio Andalus said the offensive, code named Disease Eradication, is aimed at getting rid of IS-related militants in Somalia.

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