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Local Red Cross officials in the capital of Central African Republic say at least 17 people are dead after fighting between rebels and residents.
The violence comes three weeks after fighters from the rebel alliance known as Seleka invaded the capital and overthrew President Francois Bozize.
Bozize, who had ruled for a decade, had himself come to power through a rebellion.
Rebels in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region freed a group of 14 Sudanese soldiers on Saturday, the Red Cross said.
It did not say how long they had been held but the Sudan Liberation Army faction led by Minni Minnawi said on April 6 that it had captured 16 troops.
The rebels said they took the prisoners and killed other soldiers during a rebel occupation of Muhagiriya and Labado, two communities about 100 kilometers east of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
Five Indian Army personnel, including a lieutenant colonel, serving on a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan were killed Tuesday when armed rebels launched an audacious attack on a convoy they were escorting.
Seven civilians working for the UN mission in the country were also killed in the attack that lasted for about an hour. Five Indian Army personnel, including a captain, suffered serious injuries.
A French force of 1,000 soldiers has begun a sweep of a river valley thought to be a logistics base for armed Islamists near the Malian city of Gao, an AFP journalist accompanying the mission said.
Operation Gustav, one of France’s largest actions since its intervention against insurgents in January, will involve dozens of tanks, helicopters, drones and aircraft, said General Bernard Barrera, commander of the French land forces in Mali.
The Joint Task Force (JTF) has killed 14 Boko Haram suspects in a shootout at Unguwa Uku, Kano State. A wife to one of the suspects was also arrested.
The shootout was a result of a raid by officers of the Joint Task Force, JTF, on a suspected insurgent hide-out, security sources have said.
Clashes in northern Mali between a Tuareg separatist group and jihadist fighters have left nine dead, Tuareg officials said Saturday.
The fighting pitted Al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups against the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) — a secular separatist Tuareg group that currently supports the government.
Six suspected members of the Mombasa Republican Council were gunned down by police in a Thursday dawn attack following a raid at a Casino in Malindi town.
A police officer deployed to guard the Casino died during the shootout while several other officers were injured.
Malindi deputy divisional police boss Samson Ogero was also seriously injured in the midnight attack when over 100 militia men attacked him.