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Militant Islamist group al-Shabaab struck a Somali government military base on Wednesday with car bombs and gunfire in a battle that both sides said caused multiple deaths to the other.
Witnesses said some local residents were also killed by stray crossfire during the mid-morning attack on the base in Awdheegle, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of the capital Mogadishu.
Scores of Boko Haram militants were killed following series of airstrikes by the Nigerian military who targeted a major tactical base of the terror group in the country’s northeastern state of Borno, an air force spokesman said on Tuesday.
The air task force of the military, which carried out the raid, also decimated the major tactical base of Boko Haram at Izza, a location on the fringes of the Sambisa forest in Borno, said Ibikunle Daramola, the air force’s spokesman, in a statement reaching Xinhua in Abuja.
The pro Tripoli fighting operations room claimed that the truce agreed with the pro Khalifa Haftar forces was broken on two occasions by the Khalifa Haftar forces on Sunday, the first day of Eid Al-Adha – feast of sacrifice.
The first claim was the indiscriminate shelling of a residential house in Sug Il Juma by Hafter’s forces that led to the injury of three.
Two Al-Shabaab militants surrendered on Saturday to the Somali regional state forces in the country’s southern region of Lower Juba, officials said, Garowe Online reports.
Jubaland security officials say they received in Afmadow town the fighters indentified as Geedi Mohamed Ali and Abdulaziz Mohamed after ditching their life in the group and turned themselves in.
Mozambique’s president and the leader of Renamo, a former rebel movement-turned-opposition party, have signed a peace accord to end armed hostilities.
Thousands of Renamo’s remaining fighters are disarming just weeks before a visit by Pope Francis and a national election scheduled for mid-October that will test the now-political rivals’ new resolve.