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Somalia’s government and al-Shabaab militants have issued sharply conflicting accounts of deadly fighting near the southern city of Leego, with both sides claiming to have inflicted heavy losses during a battle on Monday.
The Somali defence ministry said on Tuesday that federal troops had killed 75 militants and wounded 56 others. The al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group claimed it had killed 321 government soldiers during an attack on Turkish-trained troops and an allied militia.
The Israeli military continued a massive operation in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, placing major restrictions on movement ahead of Israel’s upcoming elections.
The operation, which comes in response to a gun attack that killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded three others in Hebron on Friday, has displaced hundreds of Palestinians over the last two days.
The leader of Ethiopia’s Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) vowed on Friday to continue fighting federal forces despite losing control of major towns, including the regional capital, Mekelle.
“Tigray will remain a graveyard for its enemies,” TPLF chairman Debretsion Gebremichael said in remarks broadcast by Tigrayan television on Friday, Anadolu Agency reported.
Forces loyal to an ousted regional leader captured several key towns in southern Somalia, officials and eyewitnesses said Saturday, dealing a significant blow to the federally backed local government.
Several states in the deeply fragmented country oppose President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud’s control, and in March his government sent troops to oust the head of South West State, Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen.
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), allied with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has claimed advances in Sudan’s southeastern Blue Nile State, while the Sudanese army says it repelled an attack by the coalition near the Ethiopian border.
According to Sudan Tribune, the SPLM-N said on Sunday that allied forces captured Al-Kadalou, a strategic border area in Roseires locality near Ethiopia, after clashes with government forces. The group claimed it seized eight positions, captured 20 military vehicles and took several soldiers prisoner, saying its forces planned to advance toward the state capital, Ed Damazin.