A group of gunmen took control of two radio stations in Libya’s western city of Sirte, and aired statements of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, local residents said on Friday.

The armed group, claiming to be IS members, expelled all staff at Free Voice and Radio Mikdashi, and broadcast verses of Koran and IS propaganda, including speeches of IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the group’s spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Xinhua news agency reported citing a resident who declined to disclose his name.

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Somaliland armed forces earlier today managed repulse the ambush by gunmen aligned to renegade Sultan Wabar near the village of Qolujeed which is situated in the border between Somaliland and Ethiopia in Awdal region.

Unnamed Somaliland army officer said, “The Gunmen aligned to renegade Sultan Wabar attacked the SL army unit at 10:00 am this morning in the village of Qolujeed one soldier was injured in the battle in the ensuing battle which lasted one and half hours and one of the attackers was arrested the attackers were repulsed fleeing towards the Ethiopian border.

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Heavy fighting between government and rebel forces broke out in the capital of South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity State, on Tuesday with both sides using heavy artilleries, the South Sudan News Agency (SSNA) has learned.

Fighting has been raging since early Tuesday with both sides accusing each other of attack.

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At least 16 people have been killed and 14 others wounded in clashes between Somali government troops and Sufi fighters, witnesses and local elders said.

The clashes on Tuesday appeared to be part of a local power struggle sparked by politicians meeting in Dhuasamareb, in the north-central Galgadud region, aimed at forging a regional government.

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In bombardments and clashes between egyptian armed forces and jihadists, in northern Sinai have been killed “17 terrorists” in zone between Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah.

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Libyan special forces said on Monday they had retaken the main military base in Benghazi from Islamist fighters that they have been battling since October, part of a wider struggle four years after the ousting of autocrat Muammar Gaddafi.

Special forces commander Wanis Bukhamada told Reuters by telephone that his troops had seized the army camp, on a road to the airport outside Libya’s second biggest city, as well as nearby offices belonging to state cellphone operator al-Madar.

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Boko Haram staged an overnight assault on a border town in Niger, residents said Sunday, the second time the nation has come under attack by the extremists since Friday.

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