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Egyptian army helicopters launched missile strikes at militant strongholds in the Sinai peninsula on Tuesday.
Thirteen missiles were fired at positions in the city of Sheikh Zuweid, with army helicopters also targeting weapon caches. Three houses were struck in the attacks, with armored vehicles blockading a house where militants were believed to be a hiding.
Back to rise, in north of Mali, at border with Algeria, the tension between Arab Movement of the Azawad and National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA), armed groups that would achieve the independence of north regions from Bamako.
Democratic Republic of Congo’s M23 rebels suspended fighting and withdrew from the frontline on Friday to allow an independent investigation into shelling that hit neighboring Rwanda, its leader said.
Rwanda accused Congo on Thursday of shelling its territory and said such “provocation” would not be tolerated, raising fears of an escalation in the conflict in eastern Congo where army troops and U.N. peacekeepers have been battling the rebels.
Members of the militant group Boko Haram have killed at least 24 people in two separate attacks in Nigeria’s Borno state, according to officials.
The two attacks were carried out on Sunday and Monday earlier this week, and are thought to have targeted military-supported vigilantes in the area. It is believed that at least 14 people were killed during Sunday’s attack on a vigilante meeting in the village of Bama, with a further attack on Monday in the village of Damasak, which lies on the border with Niger.
Hundreds of al-Shabaab militiamen have taken control of a strategic town in Somalia’s south-western region of Bakool located near Ethiopian border without any resistance after government soldiers withdrew earlier today.
Residents of Qurac-Jome said ,the rebels after capturing the town launched house-to-house searches, looking for people suspected to be government collaborators .
Meanwhile, Tension are said to be high in the area as Somali government forces along with Ethiopian troops are said to be making preparations to retake the town from al-Shabaab.
Dozens of M23 rebels have been killed and twelve others captured since Wednesday during renewed fighting between the rebels and the Congolese Armed Forces, known as FARDC. According to military sources in the area, the FARDC also recovered three heavy weapons during these clashes.
The fighting intensified Thursday in the area between northern Kibati and southern Kibumba, commonly called “Three antennas.” Local sources indicate that shells probably fired by the M23 rebels fell into the Bugarura village, in the Munigi area located south of Kibati. A child and a woman were killed and five civilians injured by the explosion.
The Nigerian military has said that the leader of militant Islamist sect Boko Haram may have died of gunshot wounds weeks after a clash with soldiers.
Abubakar Shekau had been blamed for a campaign of deadly attacks on security targets and churches across Africa’s biggest oil producer.