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A government official says that about 20 armed Islamic extremists attacked a prison in northern Somalia in an attempt to free prisoners.
An official in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland said on Saturday that prison guards repelled the attack on Friday night in which two guards were wounded.
Mozambique’s state media says opposition fighters killed four soldiers in two separate attacks amid escalating violence in the central part of the country.
The Mozambique News Agency reported Wednesday that three troops died in an ambush a day earlier by gunmen loyal to Renamo, the former rebel movement that fought a civil war after independence from Portugal in 1975.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebel group declared an end to its 20-month rebellion on Tuesday and said it was ready to disarm and demobilise troops and pursue a political solution to end the crisis in the east of the country.
The M23 declaration was issued hours after government forces drove the rebel fighters out of their last two strongholds at around 3 a.m (0000 GMT) on Tuesday.
President Yoweri Museveni has ordered for the deployment of heavily-armed soldiers and tanks at the Uganda border with Democratic Republic of Congo following fresh fights between the DRC Army and the M23 rebels.
During the heavy fighting on Monday morning, the bomb shells landed into Kisoro district injuring several people. At least four people are confirmed dead from the bombshells, several injured and others in critical conditions at Kisoro Referral Hospital. The Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) Spokesperson Lt Col Paddy Ankunda also confirmed that several people have been injured by the bombshells.
M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have declared a ceasefire in their fight with state forces.
The announcement raised hopes of an advance in peace talks between the two sides – although there was no immediate reaction from the army.
Somali government soldiers, backed by African Union peacekeepers, have clashed with al-Shabaab fighters on the outskirts of Kolbiyo, a town in lower Jubba province near the Kenya-Somalia border.
About 80 government soldiers on pick-up trucks attacked the group’s bases 10km from the town on Saturday, an al-Shabaab spokesman told Al Jazeera.
Government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have captured Bunagana town, the main base of the M23 rebel group, officials say.
The troops entered the town on the Ugandan border in large numbers as the rebels fled, residents told the BBC.
M23 political leader Bertrand Bisimwa was earlier reported to have crossed into Uganda as Congolese troops advanced on his base.