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The Islamic State (IS) militants launched attacks on Sidra oil-port in Libya, killing one army soldier and injuring two, a military source said.
“The army guarding the gate engaged with the militants and killed four, among them some African nationals, before the militants attempted to detonate a truck bomb,” Xinhua quoted Ali al-Hasi, spokesman for the oil facilities guards, as saying on Friday.
Rebels and government have accused each other of instigating new violence in Unity State in violation of the ceasefire after fighting broke out in Koch County today.
Col. William Gatjiath Deng, the rebels’ military spokesman at their Pagak headquarters, issued a statement saying that government troops launched attacks on their positions this morning at 6:00 a.m. at Ngapngap, Dhorkuini and Maar payams in Koch County.
Heavy gunfire erupted overnight in Central African Republic’s capital as members of a Christian militia attacked police headquarters in a wave of violence that has left at least 36 people dead in recent days, witnesses said.
The unrest is the worst to hit the volatile country in nearly a year and comes as transitional President Catherine Samba-Panza is in New York at the U.N. General Assembly.
Heavy clashes are under way in Benghazi: witnesses in Libyan town referred it to ANSA.
Clashes are particularly intense near the market.
At least eight people were killed late Thursday in an attack on an army camp in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that local sources blamed on Rwandan Hutu rebels targeted by a Congolese army operation.
Gunmen raided the camp in the village of Rumangabo, about 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of North Kivu’s provincial capital of Goma, about 11 p.m., said Jean Claude Mbabanze, president of the Civil Society of Rutshuru.
Burkina Faso’s elite presidential guards, who recently staged a coup in the country, have signed an agreement with the army, pledging to withdraw from their positions.
The deal came about following negotiations in the city of Abuja the capital city of Nigeria late on Tuesday.
Burkina Faso soldiers marched into the capital Ouagadougou without resistance late on Monday as army leaders began surrender talks with the elite presidential guard that staged a coup against the government last week.
Burkina Faso had been preparing to head to polls on Oct. 11 for a vote aimed at restoring democracy after last year’s overthrow of longtime leader Blaise Compaore when the 1,200-member unit took the interim president and several cabinet ministers hostage on Wednesday.