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Rival Libyan militias battled for Tripoli International Airport overnight and into Sunday, with the sounds of gunfire and blasts echoing across the area.
Brigades from Zintan have controlled the airport since 2011.
Armed vehicles amassed in the area overnight before fighting broke out around dawn, witnesses said.
Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants pushed into Somalia’s presidential palace and gunfire broke out on Tuesday, an al Shabaab spokesman and a palace official said.
Gunmen are reported to have shot “indiscriminately” as they attacked a trading centre in Hindi, Lamu county, and the Gamba area in Tana River county.
“There were two attacks in Lamu and Tana River last night,” Kenyan interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said.
“In Lamu we have nine people dead and in Tana River we have 20. The number could rise.”
Over 60 people have been killed in what security agencies referred to as tribal clashes in Western Uganda.
Nearly half of the deceased were killed by police and Uganda Peoples Defence Forces as they battled an allegedly armed Bakonzo that attacked their facilities.
Troops in the ongoing offensive against the Boko Haram sect in the North East, on Friday night, killed 53 insurgents, losing six soldiers while repelling an attack on troops’ location in Damboa, Borno State.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, in Abuja, yesterday, through its Director of Defence Information, DDI, Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade, adding that a suicide bomber also drove into a checkpoint killing self, a policeman and three vigilante youths in Borno State.
Tension is brewing along the Sudan-Ethiopia border after ten Sudanese soldiers were killed in a skirmish with a militia group there on Saturday, the army and witnesses said. Sudanese farmers in Gedaref State told the {African Press Agency } on Sunday that another 13 soldiers were injured in the attack believed to have been carried out by an Ethiopian militia.
Other reports spoke of Sudan’s Paramilitary Popular Defense (PDF) amassing troops near the border with Ethiopia in the wake of the incident, the second in one month.
Suspected members of the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram, have attacked three communities in Chibok Local Government Area in Borno State, killing no fewer than 10 persons.
According to the president, Kibaku Youth Association of Nigeria, Mr. Moses Zakwa, three communities were attacked by the insurgents.