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Somali insurgents killed at least five people Friday in multiple attacks in the capital Mogadishu, with a suicide bomber ramming an African Union convoy while later a grenade was thrown into a hotel.
Police official Ahmed Muktar said that three people were killed when a car laden with explosives smashed into the armoured AU convoy, the latest in a string of explosions in the dangerous capital.
The islamic fundamentalist sect Boko Haram would have reached a cease-fire agreement with Nigerian government.
The agreement, referred by a nigerian agency, would be signed monday evening, but only today it has been shared, simultaneously maintaining the emergency state in some regions in north-east.
South Sudan on Thursday accused neighbouring Sudan of carrying out grounds and air attacks in its Upper Nile and Unity states, killing unknown numbers of civilians and wounding four government soldiers.
The attack comes just days after South Sudan vice-president, Riek Machar paid a high level visit to Khartoum in a bid to diffuse tension, over oil row, between the two nations.
A series of attacks on security checkpoints and headquarters in the governorate of North Sinai took place in the late hours of Thursday.
The attacks occurred in the cities of Al-Arish, Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. An attack on Al-Joura checkpoint in south Sheik Zuweid left one soldier dead after being shot in head, another officer injured and five other soldiers seriously injured. The checkpoint lies on a road leading to a peacekeeping forces camp and the Central Security Forces camp in Rafah.
Two islamist militants killed, in Algeria, in a gunfire with an army unit, not far from tunisian border.
A third militant has been captured alive.
Health Minister Nurideen Doghman announced five people were killed and nearly 100 people were wounded during clashes between rival militias in Tripoli on Wednesday.
Reports of heavy gunfire and explosions carried on into the night, while heavily armed groups continued to fight for power.
One government soldier has been confirmed dead and 9 others have sustained serious injuries after al-Shabaab attacked a government troops convoy between Qansax Dere and Awdinley towns in Bai region. The troops were attacked as they were heading towards Awdinley when Alshabab fighters launched a sudden attack on the government forces.
AMISOM troops and additional government soldiers arrived at the scene to scare away the al-Shabaab fighters who faced the travelling government convoy. The injured government soldiers have been rushed to Baidoa general hospital.