Kenyan forces have killed at least five Ethiopian fighters from the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) in an operation to flush the rebels out of the country’s north, a local official and residents said Saturday.

OLF rebels have made repeated raids inside Kenya to attack individuals they accuse of opposing the Oromo’s quest for secession. Kenya has conducted several missions to force the militants who also often use Kenya as a hideout back across the border.

“So far we have received reports about the killing of five OLF rebels. I am informed those killed could number even more,” Moyale District Commissioner Joshua Nkatha said by telephone.

Three Kenyan paramilitary troops were injured in the clash.

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Chad’s army says it has entered the northwest part of neighbouring Central African Republic and pushed out a group of rebels that had attempted to take a town there.

The army chief said late on Tuesday that soldiers crossed the border to the town of Birao which was occupied by rebels from the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace Movement.

The army says no children or women were killed in the short operation, but did not give details on combatant deaths.

The rebels had entered the town last week.

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Heavy fighting between the troops of the transitional government backing by the African Union troops AMISOM and Al-shabaab forces broke out in the several districts in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing more according to witnesses.

The sound of mortars could be heard in all directions of the Somali capital as the heavy clashes between the two sides continued overnight until Tuesday morning.

8 people were killed while 25 others wounded during the shelling and clashes between the two sides according to health officials and witnesses adding that most of the injuries were rushed to Medina hospital in Mogadishu.

Sources said that the fighting continued in several district in north and south of Mogadishu like: - Hodan, Hawl-wadag, Bondere, Abdalaziz, and Shibis pointing out that al-Shabaab fighters and AMISOM troops with government soldiers exchanged heavy gunfire.

Most of died and wounded people were civilians.

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Southern Sudan’s armed forces have accused the northern military of carrying out an air strike on one of their bases, wounding four soldiers and two civilians.

“A SAF (Sudan Armed Forces) helicopter gunship attacked SPLA (Sudan People’s Liberation Army) positions at Kiirabem, in North Bahr al-Ghazal, wounding four SPLA soldiers and two civilians,” Philip Aguer, a spokesman for the SPLA, said.

“The intention of the SAF in this move is to try to disrupt the referendum process,” he said in a statement.

The leaders of north and south Sudan have accused each other of building up troops in the border region ahead of the January 9 poll in which southerners will be asked if they want independence from the north.

While the south is seen likely to vote for secession, the north would like to keep the country whole.

If confirmed, the attack would be the second time this month the north has bombed targets in the south.

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Officials and witnesses say at least 13 people were killed in heavy clashes between armed groups fighting for control of villages in central Somalia.

The fighting erupted when a government-allied militia attacked Wardhumale village Saturday. The clashes continued Sunday.

Wardhumale resident Abdi Fatah Ali said Sunday he saw ten bodies in the village.

A man in neighboring Elgod village, Abdulkadir, said he saw three bodies.

The residents said the Islamist militia al-Shabaab abandoned Wardhumale village, leaving the government-allied Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama militia in charge.

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The Madagascar government on Friday ordered civilians to evacuate areas in and around a military camp in the Antananarivo suburbs where a group of mutinous troops are holed up.

“We ask families living in the Ivato camp and residents of the surrounding area to temporarily leave the area for a safer place,” the Defence Ministry said in a statement broadcast on national radio and television.

Around 20 officers who declared a coup Wednesday but failed to win support from the rest of the military are believed to be inside the camp around 15 kilometres (nine miles) from the city centre near the international airport.

A curious crowd was seen near the army barracks where the troops were holed up just before the defence ministry issued the statement Friday.

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A group of officers claiming to have taken control of Madagascar’s government seem to have been isolated at their military barracks at the Antananarivo airport. Calm has returned to the Malagasy capital.

The coup was announced earlier today by Colonel Charles Andrianasoavina, who together with General Noël Rakotonandrasana and another 20 army officers made a statement to the press saying a “military council for the welfare of the people” had taken control of Madagascar.

Colonel Andrianasoavina said the transitional government, ruling Madagascar since the March 2009 coup of Anry Rajoelina, was now suspended. The putschists promised to “restore democracy” and seek “national reconciliation.”

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