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Benin’s President Thomas Boni Yayi announced he will send 800 troops to join a new multinational force tasked with fighting Boko Haram militants after meeting with his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday.
Buhari, who was sworn in on 29 May, is facing a particularly deadly surge of Islamist violence at home, with more than 800 people killed in north-eastern Nigeria in the last two months.
Somalia troops, along with African Union (AMISOM) forces from Ethiopia have clashed with al-Qaeda linked al-Shabaab militants in north of Baladweyne town, capital of Hiran region, officials and residents said.
The combat started after al-Shabaab agents attacked on based manned by government troops and AMISOM forces in the town of central Somalia’s Hiran region.
At least 26 people died on Tuesday as armed groups clashed over control of a town in the northwest of the Central African Republic.
Militia members clashed in Markounda, about 530 kilometers (330 miles) north of the capital, Bangui, for about two hours, Herve Bilal, head of the sub-prefecture, said by phone. The violence was between so-called Seleka rebels who overthrew former President Francois Bozize in 2013 and supporters of a movement called Revolution-Justice, he said.
Head of Hohadaa el Zawya brigade, colonel Gamal el Zahawi, said that heavy clashes are under way in western zone in Benghazi, between army and Ansar al Sharia militiamen.
“Clashes - said - started near Benghazi University and are under way in these hours”.
At least 25 people have been killed in new suspected Boko Haram attacks in northeastern Nigeria, with many villagers also forced to flee their homes, residents say.
‘The terrorists stormed Maikadiri around 9am (on Friday) and opened fire on hapless citizens,’ resident Simon Templer said on Saturday.
Egypt’s army said it has killed 12 terrorists in the early hours of Friday in the North Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid in their latest efforts in the fight against an Islamist militant insurgency that has spiked in the past two years.
The army has also destroyed two warehouses storing explosive materials, an army statement read.
The Congolese army launched an offensive against the Alliance of Democratic Forces and announced that they had captured a strategic rebel position in the region, where the ADF runs a lucrative illicit trade in timber (AFP Photo/Alain Wandimoyi)
Ugandan rebels have killed three women during an overnight raid in the northeast of Democratic Republic of Congo, a research group and the provincial governor said Friday.
“ADF jihadists,” Muslim fighters in the Alliance of Democratic Forces from neighbouring Uganda, attacked Mayi-Moya in strife-prone North Kivu province on Thursday evening, the Study Centre for the Promotion of Peace, Democracy and Human Rights (Cepadho) said in a statement.