The small West African nation of Gambia, has had a military coup aborted.
The coup bid was foiled early Tuesday, while President Yahya Jammeh was in France, military and diplomatic sources said.
Monday, 29 December, 2014
Cameroon: Cameroon launches air strikes against Boko Haram islamic extremists
Cameroon’s government launched its first ever air strikes against Nigerian Islamic extremists to dislodge about 1,000 fighters who had seized a Cameroonian military base, a statement said Monday.
Fighters from Nigeria’s home-grown Boko Haram extremist group attacked five villages in Cameroon, near its northern border with Nigeria, over three days before they over-ran the military base in the same area Sunday, the government said.
Sunday, 28 December, 2014
Libya: Air Force loyal to recognized Libyan Government carries out air strikes in port city of Misrata
Forces loyal to Libya’s officially recognised government has carried out air strikes on targets in Misrata today in the first such attacks on the city.
Officials and residents said that the airstrikes were targeted on allies of an armed group that seized the capital Tripoli in the summer.
Somalia: A wanted top leader extremist group al-Shabaab surrenders in Somalia
A leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab, who had a $3 million bounty on his head, surrendered in Somalia, a Somali intelligence official said Saturday.
Zakariya Ismail Ahmed Hersi surrendered to Somali police in the Gedo region, said the intelligence officer, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press.
Syria: Islamic State (ISIS) continues to lose ground against Kurds in Kobane
Kurdish YPG fighters on the frontline against ISIS in Ras al-Ain, northern Syira. (Reuters)
ISIS has lost more ground to Kurdish fighters in the embattled city of Kobane in northern Syria, according to local reports.
“Kurdish forces now control more than 60 percent of the city,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.