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Suspected Islamic militants have shot dozens of Christian villagers and fatally attacked others with knives in an area of northeastern Nigerian where the military has been bombing extremists out of forest hideouts.
Local government chairman Maina Ularamu says he has reports of more than 50 people killed in Saturday’s attack on Izghe village in Borno state.
A Malian intelligence official confirmed that 30 people were killed near the Mali-Niger border after a clash pitting armed villagers against members of an al-Qaida-linked rebel group.
The official, who could not be named because he was not authorized to speak on the matter, said the fighting erupted overnight between Monday and Tuesday.
Boko Haram gunmen have killed 43 people and razed scores of homes when they stormed two villages in northeast Nigeria, firing indiscriminately on fleeing civilians.
Heavily armed Islamist extremists in 4WD trucks attacked a mosque, markets and government buildings in a massive assault on Konduga village in the troubled state of Borno on Tuesday.
A newly-formed militant group has claimed it was responsible for a bomb attack targeting a police checkpoint in Cairo’s twin city of Giza that injured six.
“Soldiers reached the heart of the criminal apparatus … to send a message to them that they are not safe from retribution,” said a statement purporting to be from Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers) posted late Friday on an al-Qaeda-affiliated website.
Fighting broke this morning in Gal-gala mountains, an area not so far from Puntland’s port city of Bossasso, between Puntland armed forces and al-Shabaab militants in Gal-gala.
It was early morning when as reported to Raxanreeb online al-Shabaab fighters in Gal-gala mountains attacked Puntland security forces in Gal-gala from three sides following an exchange of heavy gunfire and other heavy weapons.
Fighters from the Central African Republic’s Seleka rebel group violently seized a town north of the capital Bangui on Thursday, sending terrorised civilians fleeing, according to military and diplomatic sources.
A paramilitary police source told AFP a convoy of about 50 vehicles loaded with Seleka fighters surrounded Sibut on Wednesday night, committing atrocities against the population of the town about 180km north of Bangui.
South Sudanese rebels from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army In Opposition (SPLM/A In Opposition) have accused Ugandan troops deployed in the country of committing continuous violations of the cessation of hostilities signed a week ago in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
The truce, reached by the two factions in talks mediated by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), called for the withdrawal of allied foreign troops from South Sudan, including the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF).
