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The SPLA forces killed 7 soldiers loyal to renegade General George Athor early this week after attacking the SPLA at Kir-Anyang Village of Jonglei State, the SPLA spokesman Col. Philip Auer Payang told Gurtong in a telephone interview.
“The fighting has also resulted into the killing of 5 SPLA forces even though SPLA managed to defeat the rebels and Kir-Anyang village is now under control with the surrounding areas,” Aguer said.
Rival militias in an area south-west of the Libyan capital have exchanged heavy gunfire after a dispute flared up between them, killing at least four people, say local residents.
They said the latest flare-up began when El-Mashasha fighters killed a militia commander from Zintan on Sunday as his convoy tried to pass through a nearby town.
Journalists for the Reuters news agency in Wamis, about 190km from Tripoli, said on Monday the fighting was between members of the El-Mashasha tribe, based around the town, and fighters from the larger town of Zintan in the mountains to the north.
According to news reports coming from Taleeh fighting erupted between two ethnic groups, one pro-Somaliland and the other supporting the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.
The two groups clashed at the outskirts of Taleeh village which lies east of Sool province and 180km away from Las Anod, Sool’s provincial capital.Fighting left casualties including loss of life and injuries sustained by the two sides that engaged in armed war.
The pro-Somaliland group ambushed officials from Puntland president who were en route to Taleeh while they were escorted with battle wagons.
Heavy battle between Somalia’s interim federal government backing by African Union peace keeping troops and Al-shabaab militants flared up parts of capital Mogadishu, residents and reports said on Thursday.
The fighting erupted early hours on Thursday in Mogadishu’s Karan and Hilwa districts and neighboring outskirts between Islamist insurgents and pro-government forces aiding by AMISOM soldiers and al-Shabaab in the area, causing unidentified damages and casualties, since the combat is still going on.
The Sudanese army claimed a strategic victory on Saturday in its war against the rebels in South Kordofan, saying it captured camps on a key supply route in the southern border region after deadly clashes.
“Today the Sudanese army took control of SPLA camps in the Lake Jau area. The fighting took place at around 4:30 pm (1330 GMT). There were a number of casualties and injured soldiers on both sides,” army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad told AFP.
“This is a strategic area because it is a gateway to the south. The SPLA receive their weapons and ammunition and supplies through it,” he added.
The security agencies of Somali Transitional Federal government of Somalia said on Wednesday that a number of al-Shabaab defectors surrendered to government.
Ahmed Mo’alin Fiqi,the director of the TFG security agency told reporters in Mogadishu that eleven young al-Shabaab fighters who defected from the group in the past 24-hours have surrendered them selves to the government.
Fiqi said that two of the defectors were sent to make suicide attacks in Mogadishu, but they repented from those bad actions and joined the government of Somalia.
Senegal’s army says 10 people have been killed by separatist rebels in the country’s restive south.
Army spokesman Col. Aboubakrine Kebe said Tuesday that the civilians were working in the jungles of the Casamance region when they were attacked by the fighters Monday.
The Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance has waged a low-level insurgency against Senegal’s government since the early 1980s, though attacks have declined in recent years.
Casamance has been plagued by sporadic violence as the rebels have fought for independence and against each other.