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As Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud commenced his first official visit to Egypt, ISIS-affiliated militants launched an attack in the North Sinai region killing seven people and wounding 15.
According to MENA, the attacks, which Ansar Bait Al-Maqdis (Wilayat Sinai) claimed responsibility for on social media, killed six Egyptian military personnel and one female civilian.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) Monday said the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) warplanes continue to carry out air attacks on the rebel controlled areas, adding the bombing killed one child and wounded several civilians.
“SAF “Air Force continues to target unarmed civilians, their properties And service facilities in remote areas far from its ground operations sites in South Kordofan / Nuba Mountains,” said SPLM-N spokesperson Arnu Ngutulu Lodi in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Monday evening.
Heavy gunfire has been heard in the streets of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo, where security forces have been deployed.
A police station and a government building were attacked on Monday morning in the Makelekele district.
Reuters news agency reports that young opposition supporters were chanting “Sassou, leave!” in the same area.
The leader of Nigeria’s Ansaru jihadist group, a Boko Haram splinter group ideologically aligned to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has been arrested, an army spokesman said on Sunday.
Khalid al-Barnawi is one of three Nigerians listed by Washington in 2012 as “specially designated global terrorists”.
At least six people were killed in a suicide bombing in Somalia’s northeastern Puntland state on Thursday.
A bomber blew himself up in a hotel in the town of Galkayo, some 650 kilometers (404 miles) northeast of the capital Mogadishu, Mahmud Ahmed, an eyewitness, told Anadolu Agency.
Six Nigerien soldiers were killed and three others wounded on Wednesday in southeastern Niger in an attack attributed to the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram.
According to the statement by the Interior Ministry read on state radio, the soldiers were killed in “an ambush” at 6:00 local” (5:00 GMT) by “terrorists of Boko Haram” 20 km from the city of Diffa, the regional capital of southeast Niger, which is close to Nigeria.
Several loud explosions followed by heavy gunfire were heard over Tripoli in the early hours of Wednesday, a Reuters reporter said.
The cause of the firing was not immediately clear, but the Libyan capital has been on edge amid speculation that a U.N.-backed unity government was about to travel to Tripoli from Tunisia.