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Burundi military reinforced by Rwandan rebels FDLR have reportedly involved in intense gun battle against Red Tabara rebel movement in neighbouring DR Congo.
According to local media reports in Burundi, the fighting has been sighted in Masango in the Uvira area, South Kivu Province.
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday arrested Ne Muanda Nsemi, the leader of a separatist religious sect, killing eight of his followers as they raided his home in Kinshasa, the interior minister said.
The arrest of Nsemi, whose Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) group dreams of restoring the Kongo kingdom that thrived for centuries before the colonial era around the mouth of the Congo River, took place after clashes with police on Wednesday in a neighboring province, in which 14 BDK members died.
An attack by warlord Khalifa Haftar’s forces in Libya on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan killed three civilians, officials said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reports.
The rocket attack on a civilian settlement in the Ain Zara region of Tripoli, the capital, also left three people injured, Amin al-Hashimi, a spokesman for the Government of National Accord (GNA), told Anadolu Agency.
Over 10 al-Shabaab militants including a child soldier have surrendered in recently liberated Janaale town, a top official said, as FGS renews efforts to restore civilian rule in the agricultural-rich region.
After almost a decade of oppressive rule, coupled with endless executions, al-Shabaab ceded the town in March after a fierce gunfight with Somali National Army [SNA] and AU forces, who were buoyed by US military, police had said.
The Libyan Air Force carried out on Saturday night around 20 air raids against gatherings of Haftar’s militias inside Tarhouna, killing and wounding several fighters and destroying a number of armoured vehicles, a military source close to the Volcano of Rage Operation has confirmed.