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The assault in Baidoa began Friday evening when a suicide bomber detonated explosives outside the popular National Bar and Restaurant, a locale frequented by locals and journalists. BBC Somalia reported the dead included two journalists with London-based Somali TV organizations.
Approximately 10 minutes after the attack, a car bomb exploded nearby.
A Libyan national army warplane Tuesday bombed an ammunition depot in an Islamist militants-controlled area, according to a military source.
The source told Xinhua that a MiG-21 fighter carried out an airstrike against an ammunition storage site in the town of Zuwarah, some 120 km west of capital Tripoli. There were no casualties.
Al-Shabaab militants from Somalia killed 36 quarry workers in northern Kenya on Tuesday, prompting Kenya’s president to announce a security shakeup, firing his interior minister and accepting the resignation of the national police chief.
President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed an opposition politician and retired army general, Joseph Nkaissery, as the new interior minister in charge of security.
Suspected Boko Haram militants, who arrived on motorcycles throwing bombs, raided a mostly Christian town in Nigeria’s northeast after nightfall on Saturday, residents and a military source said.
Residents said scores of people had been killed in the town of Shani, but a police source said they had been unable to verify the death toll as communications to the town had been largely cut off.
Heavy fighting between government and rebel forces broke out in Fangak County, Jonglei State, late Friday with both sides using heavy artilleries, the South Sudan News Agency has learned.
The latest fighting casts doubts on the success of the ongoing peace talks in Ethiopia.
At least 120 people were killed and 270 others wounded on Friday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up and gunmen opened fire during weekly prayers at the mosque of one of Nigeria’s top Islamic leaders.
The attack at the Grand Mosque in Kano, the biggest city in the mainly Muslim north of the country, came just as Friday prayers had started.
More than 100 people have been killed over several days of fighting between rival groups of an Arab tribe in Sudan’s West Kordofan state.
A tribal leader said the Awlad Omran and al-Ziyoud of the Messiriya tribe began with a land dispute.