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Members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect have, again, seized Chibok, the home of over 200 schoolgirls abducted by the insurgents in April.
The insurgents attacked and seized the town on Thursday evening, residents said.
The attackers have repeatedly targeted villages around Chibok over recent months.
The Libyan air force is carrying out air raids targeting Ansar al Sharia bases in Derna, a city in eastern Libya that has sworn allegiance to the Islamic State, Libyan military sources said Wednesday, adding that the bombardments caused injuries and destroyed ammunition depots.
At least 50 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded after Al-Shabab fighters took over Kudha town in the Southern Somalia from the Raskamboni militia, officials confirmed Sunday.
The coastal town of Kudha, which is close to the Somalia-Kenya border, is an important makeshift port for Al-Shabab. The Raskamboni militia loyal to Jubba administration had captured it from the al-Shabaab two weeks ago, Xinhua reported.
A suicide bomber– dressed in a school uniform and apparently carrying explosives in a student rucksack– killed at least 48 people at a boys high school in northeastern Nigeria Monday.
South Sudanese government has been accused by the country’s rebel group of launching fresh attacks just a day after rival leaders recommitted themselves to the cessation of hostilities agreement at the Addis Ababa summit by the regional heads of state and government.
Chief negotiator for the rebel faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-in-Opposition), General Taban Deng Gai, said their areas came under heavy attacks by troops loyal to president Salva Kiir and their foreign allies in Unity state on Saturday morning.
No fewer than 41 suspected members of Boko Haram sect were killed and beheaded by men of the Civilian Joint Task Force, a.k.a Civilian JTF, at Biu, Borno State following a failed attempt by the insurgents to overrun the Sabon Gari village, in Damboa Local Government Area of the state, Thursday.
Libya’s army has asked residents to evacuate a central district of Beghanzi, where the country’s seaport is located, as it prepares a military operation against Islamists, Reuters news agency reported citing Ahmed al-Mesmari, spokesman for the army’s chief of staff.
At least 230 people have been killed since the army, which is backed by forces loyal to a former general, waged an offensive against Islamist groups in Libya’s second-largest city. It is part of the ongoing strife that has taken over the oil-producing North African country three years after the ousting for its former dictator president Muammar Gaddafi.