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At least 25 people were killed in an attack on New Year’s Eve by rebels in Congo’s eastern Beni territory, local officials said Friday.
Farmers had gone to the fields in the village of Tingwe when they were attacked by Allied Democratic Forces rebels, according to the representative of the governor in the region, Sabiti Njiamoja.
The Sudanese army said on Tuesday that it was fighting a border war with Ethiopia, specifying it was against federal forces and not Ethiopian militia.
Large agricultural areas have been recaptured at the border with Ethiopia, the army said, claiming that border signs were uprooted.
Boko Haram jihadists killed at least 11 people, burnt a church and seized a priest on Christmas Eve in Nigeria’s restive northeast, local sources told AFP Friday.
Security agencies had in recent days warned of an increased risk of attack during the holiday season.
The Sudanese army came under a new attack from Ethiopian army and Amhara militias near the border strip, military sources told the Sudan Tribune on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the joint political committee between the two countries wrapped up meetings in Khartoum without tangible results on the border issue.
Police in Puntland, the northern Federal State of Somalia, foiled an attempted terrorists attack in the commercial city of Bosaso, which targeted innocent civilians and security officers, in the latest attempt by the militants to create mayhem and havoc in the country.
The would-be attack, police said, targeted some important buildings within the coastal city, which has been lately facing terror attacks both from the al-Qaeda linked group, the al-Shabaab and a group linked to the ISIS, and which has also bases in Bari mountains.
