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Four Congolese soldiers and 12 rebels have been killed in three days of clashes in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the military said on Tuesday.
The violence, which began on Sunday, pitted the army against the Congo-based Rwandan FDLR militia and two groups of Mai-Mai rebels, army spokesman Captain Guillaume Djike told AFP.
The Sudanese army Monday recaptured key positions in the areas held by the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - North (SPLM-N) in South Kordofan state, a militarily official said on Sunday.
SPLM-N spokesperson, Arno Lodi Sunday said that the government troops and allied militias launched last Sunday a simultaneous attack on six of its positions in Um Dorain, Buram, Heiban, and Dalami countries.
Tense of fighting is mounting in the north-eastern region of Bari after fighters from al-Shabaab reportedly spotted in the remote coastal village of Bandarbeyla, reports said.
Heavily armed forces from Puntland state of Somalia moved to the area, to prevent Al shabaab from expanding their presence into the region, according to sources spoke to Radio Shabelle.
A spokesman for the Egyptian army says it has killed 60 Islamic militants in northern Sinai, where armed forces have been battling fighters affiliated with the Islamic State group for two years.
Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement posted on the army’s official Facebook page on Friday that anti-terrorism forces backed by fighter jets targeted “terrorists’ hideouts,” killing 60 militants and injuring 40 others. He says that 27 4×4 trucks and 32 weapons depots were destroyed.
At least 829 Boko Haram captives have been freed in the northeastern Borno state as Nigerian troops intensified “clearance operations” across the region once occupied by militants.
Army spokesman Sani Usman said late Thursday that 22 militants were killed Tuesday night in an operation in the Kala Balge area of Borno while 309 persons held captives by the militants were freed.
At least seven people were killed in clashes on Wednesday west of Tripoli between tribesmen and forces loyal to Libya’s unrecognised government, an army officer said.
The violence in the village of Touebiya, 30km from the capital, stemmed from a failed burglary.
Gunmen on Monday attacked a hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission’s personnel.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which began at around 6:30 p.m. local time (1830 GMT), but Mali and neighbouring West African countries have increasingly been the target of Islamist militants, some of them affiliated with al-Qaeda.