At least 47 people have been killed and 100 injured in fighting in the central Somali town of Dhuusa Marreeb, a human rights official has told the BBC.

Ali Yasin Gedi, of Somali human rights group Elman, said many people had fled the town where allies of the government fought to drive out Islamist rebels.

The pro-government Ahlu Sunna group is said to have recaptured the strategic town from al-Shabaab militants.

The militants were reportedly in control of the town for a few hours.

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A senior commander of a Ugandan rebel group has been killed in Central African Republic, a Ugandan military spokesman has said.

Brigadier Bok Abudema of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) was killed in the town of Djema on Friday amid an ongoing operation by Ugandan forces across several countries in the region against the group.

“This was a New Year’s gift to Uganda,” Lieutenant Colonel Felix Kulayige, Uganda’s defence and army spokesman, said on Saturday.

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Somalia’s Al-Shabab militants have seized a key-town from pro-government Ahlu Sunna Walajam’a fighters on Saturday, witnesses said.

Al-Shabaab overpowered the predominantly Sufi group in the town of Dusa-Mareb in the strategic central region of Galgadud.

Witnesses said al-Shabaab entered the town from two routes early in the morning and faced little resistance from Ahlu Sunna militants.

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Italian soldiers in Afghanistan are veterans by 72 hours of fights. During a joint operation for controlling of some of the strategic outposts near Bala Morghab, in west of the Country, “soldiers of afghan security and of Isaf, between which the Italian soldiers - command in Herat explains - have been subject to repeated attacks by more than 60 insurgents“. No wounded between the Italians.

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The special forces of intervention and american intelligence, of common agreement with the yemeniti soldiers, are trying to identify of the objectives in order to put in existence an action of reprisal against who has organized the failed attack in Detroit. Cnn says, that cites sources of the Pentagon, emphasizing that every effort is being made in order to hit individuals closely legacies to the nigerian that has acquired in Yemen the informations and the explosive for the tried massacre on Delta flight the day of Christmas.

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Statement of the Riyad-us-Saliheen Martyrs’ Battalion regarding the Martyrdom Operation in Province Ghalghaycho on 17 December 2009. Kavkaz Center provides this statement in summary form.

The Riyad-us-Saliheen Battalion has claimed responsibility for the martyrdom-seeking operation carried out at the Ekazhevo Circle in Nazran, which was also the target of the ‘Operation Badr’ martyrdom operation several months ago that led to the elimination of many infidel soldiers.

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Hundreds of families in Somalia’s state of Puntland have fled inter-clan fighting in the town of Galkayo in Mudug region, witnesses said.

The fighting, the second as many months broke out early Wednesday morning when heavily armed militants from Puntland attacked opposing Galmudug positions in the south of the town after a police man from Puntland was shot dead.

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