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Ogaden Online frontline correspondent has reported that in recent weeks, The Ogaden national Liberation Army mounted against the Ethiopian Troops and its associated militia who were conducting punitive campaigns against the civilian population in Ogaden.
On Oct 13, 2012 After ONLA received an intelligent tip that Ethiopian soldiers detained hundreds of civilians in Wacays-Godle, Huraale district, which is part of Degahbour and Qodaxle, near Galaalshe which is part of Nogob province.
Somali government forces backed by African Union (AU) peacekeeping forces are spreading their control over territory run by al-Shabaab rebels in the south of the Horn of Africa country.
The allied forces this week consolidated their control over the Wanla Weyn town, 93 km south of the Somali capital Mogadishu, as well as a former Somali air force base, 15 km away from the Wanla Wein.
Columns of armoured vehicles and military pick-up tracks carrying numerous units of Ethiopian troops are reportedly massed into the Somalia’s border town of Luq located in Gedo province for battle.
Somali national army (SNA) commanders in the area say the Ethiopian troops set up military bases on the suburbs of the town, where they are planning major offensive against the remaining towns and locations controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants of al-Shabaab.
At least one woman was killed and another individual wounded when mortar shells hit Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune.
According to reports received from Kadugli, four shells fell in different parts of the city: one in Kadugli market, the second nearby the headquarters of Popular Defence Forces, the third fell between buildings of the state radio and a school and the fourth landed near the branch of Bank of Sudan.
Nigerian soldiers have killed about 30 suspected members of Boko Haram, including a close associate of the group’s leader, during a gun battle in northeastern Yobe state, an army spokesman says.
“About 30 suspected Boko Haram terrorists were killed in the battle which lasted several hours,” Lieutenant Eli Lazarus, an army spokesman, said in a statement on Sunday.
A fierce fighting between somali forces and al-Shabaab fighters reported flared up again in the south-western volatile region of Gedo, leaving scores of people dead, officials said.
Jamal Hassan Farah, the Somali army chief in Garbaharey town, the provincial capital of Gedo, told Shabelle Media that the combat erupted overnight when al-Shabaab agents armed with rocket-propelled launchers and machine-guns attacked army bases in the city.
Somaliland Army has today repelled an offensive launched by a Buhoodle milita on a site of peace conference which was expected to take place on saturday.
The skirmishes broke out after militiamen aligned to Buhodle launched an assault at Kalshaale the venue of the proposed peace conference which was about to open today between traditional chiefs from Buroa and burco.
The conference was organized under the auspices of Somaliland Minister for presidency and the ex-leader of SSC Saleban halgatosiye.