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Reports from Kismayu, the capital of the lower Juba region confirm that a heavy engagement between the Raskamboni militia and members of al-Shabaab occurred at via Afmadow suburbs in Kismayu.
The fighting that took hours of heavy engagement started when al-Shabaab fighters launched attacks on a base owned by the militia group.
Detectives are investigating if the gunmen were linked to the country’s al-Qaeda offshoot.
A detachment of 60 policemen were on their way to arrest the leader of the Ombatse militia when the group’s fighters launched their attack.
At least 23 officers were killed and many were still missing, said Abayomi Akeremale, the police commissioner of Nasarawa State, which lies on the nominal border between Nigeria’s Christian south and its Muslim north.
Soldiers from the SSA-S display their military skills at Shan resistance day at their headquarters in Loi Taileng in February 2011
An outpost belonging to the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) in northeastern Burma was burnt down on Sunday by government soldiers, who claimed to be searching for four Burmese “civilians” who went missing at the end of last month, rebels say.
Burmese soldiers raided an SSA-S outpost in Tenghkam village in Namhkam township in northern Shan state on Sunday under the premise of looking for the four individuals – who are believed to be military intelligence personnel – and set it on fire when they could not be found, according to the rebels.
Nigeria’s Boko Haram gunmen Tuesday launched coordinated attacks on military barracks, a prison and police stations in the northeastern town of Bama, killing 55 people and setting free 105 inmates, the army said.
“In these attacks, 55 people including two soldiers, some prison warders, policemen and civilians were killed,” said Musa Sagir, the military spokesman in Maiduguri, 67 kilometres from Bama.
Kurdish rebels reaffirmed on Tuesday that they will start withdrawing guerrilla fighters from Turkey to bases in northern Iraq this week.
The Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, declared a cease-fire in March and promised to gradually pull fighters out of Turkey as part of peace talks aimed at ending a nearly three-decade-old conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people. The group has been fighting Turkey for autonomy for Kurds in southeastern Turkey.