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Ethiopian and Somali troops who were in control of Hudur’s security for over a year left early Wednesday and shortly after, al-Shabaab insurgents moved in capturing the town.
Residents of Hudur had been complaining of the exorbitant prices paid for staple foods due to a siege by al-Shabaab insurgents in the surrounding area. Reports last month stated that the situation was very dire and that residents fled to other districts in the region due to the blockade.
Four Central African soldiers were killed in a key southern town in an attack blamed on Seleka rebels, a military source said on Tuesday.
The troops died during an early morning raid on Bangassou, on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, on Monday, just hours after a pre-dawn assault on the town of Gambo, which also lies in the south.
The South Sudanese army (SPLA) repulsed two separate attacks allegedly carried out by Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in its Upper Nile and Northern Bahr el Ghazal states, an army official said Friday.
“The SPLA forces have repulsed two attacks by the Sudanese armed forces. They carried out one in Northern Bahr el Ghazal and another in Upper Nile [states]. They were defeated,” Phillip Aguer, the SPLA spokesperson said.
AN Islamist group, which declared itself independent from Boko Haram, Ansaru, has said on Saturday that it had killed seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7 from a construction company in Jama’are town of Bauchi State, SITE Monitoring Service said.
According to the online news source, Reuters, the group issued a statement in Arabic and English on an affiliate of the Sinam al-Islam network accompanied by screen shots of a video purporting to show the dead hostages, SITE said. One screen shot showed a man with a gun standing above several prone figures lying on the ground.
A fierce firefight took place in the district of Hudun in Sool region between Somaliland defense forces and militiamen aligned to the Khaatumo separatist movement earlier today.
The fighting erupted in the early hours of Thursday morning in the small but strategic town of Hudun in Sool region, Khaatumo Militiamen attacked government forces positions in around the town of Hudun in the attack by the militiamen hence resulting to what residents termed one of the deadliest engagements in recent times.
Chadian soldiers in Mali have killed Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al-Qaeda commander who masterminded a bloody hostage-taking at an Algerian gas plant in January, Chad’s military said on Saturday.
The death of one of the world’s most wanted jihadists would be a major blow to al-Qaeda in the region and to Islamist rebels already forced to flee towns they had seized in northern Mali by an offensive by French and African troops.
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) emir Abdelhamid Abou Zeid was killed in Mali by a French airstrike, Ennahar TV reported Thursday (February 28th).
The commander of AQIM’s Tariq Ibn Ziyad Brigade was reportedly killed along with 40 other terrorists when French warplanes bombed a convoy in the area of Tigharghar in northern Mali, not far from the Algerian border.