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A car bomb went off on Friday outside a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu, a police officer said. The Islamist militant group al-Shabaab said it had carried out a suicide attack.
“A blast occurred in Hotel Asasey in the heart of Kismayu in Somalia, followed by gunfire. Local elders and lawmakers were having a meeting there. It is too early to know if there are any casualties,” Major Mohamed Abdi, a police officer, told Reuters.
Warlord Khalifa Haftar’s UAE and Egypt-backed air force bombed Tajoura Detention Center in east Tripoli Tuesday night killing at least 44 migrants and wounding more than 130 others.
The air raid came after threats by Haftar to intensify night airstrikes on Tripoli in retaliation for their defeat in the mountain city of Gharyan.
At least 8 militants were killed in fighting between the al-Qaeda-linked extremists and Somali government forces in the south of the country on Sunday, Garowe Online reports.
Local officials said intermittent clashes have been ongoing since Saturday Moro Gabey near Hudur town in Bakool region after the troops attacked militants collecting extortion money from nomadic residents.
The claim is yet to be confirmed by officials from the Tunisian government or security services.
Two separate attacks hit the country’s capital, Tunis, on Thursday morning.
The Libyan Army’s Volcano of Rage Operation said Wednesday afternoon that it had seized control of most parts of Gharyan city, including military camps and operations room of Khalifa Haftar’s forces.
Briefing media about the development, the operation said its forces had seized downtown Gharyan areas, the city’s hospital and other major and vital institutions and areas in line with “a courageous uprising by the residents of Gharyan against the dictatorship.”