The rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM-AW) led by Abdel-Wahid al-Nur said its fighters have inflected heavy losses on the Sudanese army and repulsed a large-scale attack it carried out in Jebel Marra, Central Darfur state but the latter dismissed the claims.

In a statement released Tuesday evening, SLM-AW spokesperson Shihab al-Din Ahmed said their fighters repelled the government offensive which began last Friday, pointing the latter used war-planes, heavy artillery and mortars in the attack.

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Clashes between Mozambique Government forces and the opposition Mozambican National Resistance, or RENAMO, have forced an increasing number of people to flee Mozambique and seek asylum in Malawi over the last few weeks, the United Nations refugee agency cautioned today.

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Kenyan air force launched an aerial bombardment against al-Shabaab strongholds in Gedo region, hours after heavily armed militants stormed KDF base in El Adde area early on Friday.

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A total of 27 people have died in an Al-Qaeda attack on a luxury hotel in Burkina Faso.

Armed terrorists seized the Splendid Hotel and a nearby cafe in the capital Ouagadougou after letting off bombs last night, with people from around 18 different countries caught up in the assault.

Around 33 people were wounded. Around 150 people were evacuated, the French ambassador tweeted.

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Troops from the self-declared state of Somaliland have attacked an army base belonging to Khatumo state in northern Somalia, a minister said.

Confirming the incident, the deputy minister of the interior minister of Khatumo state Abshir Abdulaziz said in an interview with somali radio shabelle that their troops clashed with Somaliland soldiers at an area near Sahdheer town.

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Heavily armed fighters from the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab attacked a base for African Union peacekeepers in southwestern Somalia on Friday, blasting their way into the compound and exchanging fire with peacekeepers, a Somali military official said.

Dozens of al-Shabaab fighters started a complex attack on the military base which is run by Kenyan troops who are part of the African Union force in the town of El-Ade, not far from the Kenyan border, Ahmed Hassan told The Associated Press by phone from Elwak, a town near the scene of the latest attack.

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A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people and wounded at least one in an attack on a mosque in northern Cameroon on Wednesday, officials in the Far North region said, in the latest attack linked to an insurgency by militant group Boko Haram.

The extremist group whose origins are in northeastern Nigeria has stepped up attacks in neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Niger since last year. Many of the recent Cameroon attacks have been conducted by women.

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