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Mali’s Tuareg rebels said they had killed and injured dozens of Junta soldiers and Wagner mercenaries in two days of fighting near the Algerian border in the North of the country.
Footage was released on Telegram depicting dozens of dead pale-skinned soldiers in full tactical gear, surrounded by a desert landscape.
Sudan’s army reported on Friday that it killed Ali Yagoub Gibril, a senior commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who was sanctioned by the United States.
The incident occurred during a battle in the besieged city of Al-Fashir in north Darfur.
Troops went on the offensive on Wednesday against M23 rebel positions in DR Congo’s east, the army announced, as residents reported fighting on several fronts in North Kivu province.
Backed by “wazalendo” or patriotic militia, the army “launched the offensives early this morning May 22,” said FARDC spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Guillaume Ndjike on X, formerly Twitter.
Several Al-Shabaab terrorist forces were killed in an operation carried out by the Somali army on Saturday.
This military operation has been carried out with the coordination of popular groups near the city of Harardhere in the African country’s Galmudug province.
A combined force of the Sudanese army and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), under the leadership of Abdelaziz al-Hilu, thwarted an offensive launched by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the city of Dilling in South Kordofan.
According to a military source in the second town of South Kordofan, “The army and SPLA-N forces repelled the third attack in four days on Dilling carried out by the RSF and their allied militias.”