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At least 5 people have been killed and more than 25 other have been wounded in after heavy clashes between the transitional government troops and Islamist forces in more different areas in Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Wednesday.
Reports say that the fighting broke out at Taleh neighborhood in Hodan district first and spread further to the war zones in the capital as both government forces backing by AMISOM and the Islamist fighters killing 5, injuring 25 others.
Sudanese forces say they have seized control of a key rebel held area in the western Darfur region after killing more than 150 members of the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem).
“We have liberated Jebel Moon from the Justice and Equality Movement,” Al-Sawarmi Khaled, an army spokesman, said on Saturday.
“We have detained 61 rebels and confiscated 16 cars and three large trucks.”
The army gave no details of army casualties in the clashes.
A renegade south Sudan army commander said on Tuesday he had clashed with the oil-producing region’s military for a second time and threatened to attack an important town if the assault continued.
George Athor, who stood as an independent candidate in April elections for governor of Jonglei State and lost to the ruling party, has been on the run since late April, when the southern army (SPLA) accused him of ordering an attack on a barracks that killed eight soldiers.
One of the main rebel groups in Sudan’s Darfur region has threatened “all-out war” if its leader is arrested.
Sudanese officials have asked Interpol to arrest Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) leader Khalil Ibrahim for planning an attack in Omdurman in 2008.
Jem signed a ceasefire with the government in February but left peace talks earlier this month, claiming the government had launched new raids.
Sudanese army denied rumors of imminent attack on the capital of North Darfur by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) saying no any city is besieged in Darfur.
Despite the signing of a framework agreement and a truce in Doha on 23 February the Sudanese army and JEM rebels accused each other of attacks. Last week, the rebel group suspended its participation in the peace process to protest continual air and ground attacks on its positions.
Big maneuvers against al-Qaeda in Algeria. Houndreds of soldiers partecipating to military exercises in the desert of Sahara for the launch operations combing in the areas where terrorists of al-Qaeda are hiding and where are traffics of smuggling.
Operations are also interested in the armies of Mauritania, Mali, Niger that have decided to increment number of their soldiers, in base of road map decided in Algeri.
Somali insurgent group Hizbul Islam seized the pirate haven of Haradhere on Sunday without a fight and pledged to take control of more towns in the region, the rebel group said. Here are some key facts about the group:
The group was founded on Feb. 4, 2009. Hizbul Islam is an umbrella organisation of four groups led by cleric Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who has been an influential figure among Islamists.
The four groups` leaders had previously participated in the Union of Islamic Courts administration of Somalia in 2006. The Islamists ruled the capital Mogadishu and much of Somalia in 2006, until they were defeated in Dec. 2006 by Ethiopian troops and Somali government forces. The Islamists have since regained control of much of the territory from which they were expelled.