According to a DAILY TRUST report, the Nigerian military has intensified the battle against Boko Haram terrorists.
Over 600 militants has been killed in the past month, PR-Nigeria, media consultants to the security sector said yesterday.
Sunday, 5 July, 2015
Libya: 10 civilians killed in 3 car bombs in Darna
A Libyan official says at least ten civilians were killed when three separate car bombs exploded simultaneously in the eastern coastal city of Darna.
Hamid Albandag, the city’s representative to the internationally-recognized government, says the bombings, which went off Friday evening, set off clashes between militants belonging to the Islamic State’s local affiliate and al-Qaeda-linked militias that continued into Saturday afternoon.
Saturday, 4 July, 2015
Egypt: 36 Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) militants killed in air raids in Sinai
At least 36 militants were killed and tens of others injured in overnight military air raids that lasted until Saturday morning in Egypt’s North Sinai province, a security source said.
“The military airstrikes targeted hideouts of militants south of Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah cities of North Sinai,” Xinhua cited the source as saying. He added that the militants belong to Sinai-based, al-Qaeda-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) group.
Mali: 6 UN peacekeepers killed in attack claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
Militants killed at least six United Nations soldiers yesterday in northern Mali, in one the deadliest-ever attacks on the world’s most dangerous peacekeeping mission, claimed by al-Qaeda’s north African arm.
MINUSMA, the UN’s force in the volatile west African nation, said its patrol was ambushed around 9:00 am, 45 kilometres (28 miles) south-west of the city of Timbuktu on the road to Goundam.
Friday, 3 July, 2015
Nigeria: Boko Haram attacks kill 145 people in Borno
At least 145 people were killed after Boko Haram militants raided three villages in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno, witnesses said Thursday.
The Islamist militant group’s attack late Wednesday in the Kukawa fishing village killed 97 people, resident Kawu Aisaye told CNN.
Wednesday, 1 July, 2015
Egypt: 64 soldiers killed by Province of Sinai militants in a wave of attacks in Sinai
More than 60 Egyptian soldiers were killed Wednesday morning in a wave of militant attacks - which included at least one suicide bombing - in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) attacked at least 10 security checkpoints and a police station in Egypt’s North Sinai province, a security source told Al-Shorouk newspaper.
Tuesday, 30 June, 2015
South Sudan: Army and rebels contest control of Farajalla in Western Bahr el Ghazal state
South Sudanese government on Monday said they repulsed attack by rebels on Farajalla town, about 36km from the state capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal, Wau, but opposition forces said they were in full control of the area after flushing out government troops.
The commissioner of Wau county, Elia Kamilio Dimo, said South Sudanese army, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), had on Monday morning repulsed an attack attempted on their position in Wau county of Farajalla Payam by rebel forces allied to former vice president, Riek Machar.