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Kenyan military Jets bombed a base run by Islamist al-Shabaab rebels north of Somalia’s Kismayo port on Wednesday, local residents and officials said, but it was not immediately clear whether there were civilian casualties.
Local resident in Birta-Dheer village near Kismayo town confirmed to Shabelle Media by phone the bombardment and said the jets hit the militants’ base near the village early hours on Wednesday. No militant casualty was also reported in the attack.
First round of formal peace talks between the Somaliland government and the rebel Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (Ain) or SSC, are due to begin Today, Somalilandpress has learned.
A 16-member SSC team led by outfit’s chairman Suleiman Isse Ahmed ‘Hagaltosie’ arrived in Burao on
Monday night to open the negotiations. Consisting of traditional elders, business leaders, politicians and civil
society groups, they were met in the village of Yayle by high ranking ministerial team.
More than 10 Egyptian soldiers were killed by “global jihadists” during a complex attack at night on a border crossing between Israel, Egypt, and the Gaza Strip. The terrorists seized two armored personnel carriers, and attacked the border checkpoint. Israeli soldiers and the air force engaged and killed the terrorists who had entered the country. In a separate airstrike in southern Gaza, the Israeli Air Force targeted another global jihadist cell that was plotting to attack Israel from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The complex attack took place at the Kerem Shalom crossing, which borders the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The “global jihadists,” a term the Israeli Defense Forces uses to describe members of Salafist groups linked to al-Qaeda’s network in the region, attacked and overran “an Egyptian military post [near] Rafah, killed over ten Egyptian soldiers and took over two armored personnel carriers,” according to a statement released at the IDF website.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has renewed its pledge to send troops to Mali to help the government recapture the north from Islamist groups.
ECOWAS Commission President Kadré Désiré Ouédraogo said the regional bloc is ready to deploy its standby force to Mali once the country’s interim government makes the request.
The pledge came in a statement welcoming last week’s return of Mali’s interim President Dioncounda Traore, who went abroad for medical treatment after being beaten by anti-government protesters.
Heavy clashes between al-Shabaab islamist integralist militants and government forces have taken places in Gedo region this morning, south of country.
Regional governor, Mohamed Abdikali, has referred to Shabelle local media that at least 26 islamist fighters have been killed.
The spokesman of the Armed Forces, Al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad, announced that the Armed Forces repulsed remnants of the forces of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement at Karkada and Um-Shuwaika areas in East Darfur State.
Col. Al-Sawarmi said that the forces of the Justice and Equality have escaped and as a retaliatory act they attacked Tabon area by different weapons.
Ugandan security forces have deployed heavily on the eastern border with Congo, following heavy fighting between rebels and the Congo government forces.
By press time, business at the border town of Bunagana was at a standstill as traffic was not allowed to proceed beyond the border point. Only displaced civilians were allowed to enter Uganda. Congo’s North Kivu province has been swept by violence since March, after hundreds of rebels defected from the army in support of a rebellious general, Bosco Ntaganda, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for suspected war crimes.