NIGERIA: Nigeria’s military says at least 15 gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamic extremists have been shot dead during a battle with soldiers.
Spokesman Kinsley Samuel says in a statement that the fighting occurred Thursday morning when the extremists attacked a base in the Sambisa forest in northern Nigeria. The forest had been a Boko Haram stronghold until the government declared the group “crushed” late last year.
Boko Haram’s fighters continue to carry out suicide bombings and other attacks in northern Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, including against troop locations.
The military spokesman says the extremists attacked Thursday with a large cache of weapons that soldiers seized.
Samuel says a number of the extremists were wounded in the fighting.
Nigeria says 15 suspected Boko Haram fighters shot dead
Nigeria says 15 suspected Boko Haram fighters shot dead
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland ‘threat’ to regional stability: Somali president
- Somalia’s government and the African Union reacted angrily Friday after Israel’s announcement
MOGADISHU: Israel’s recognition of the breakaway region of Somaliland “is (a) threat to the security and stability of the world and the region,” Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told an emergency parliamentary session Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Friday announcement, making his country the first to recognize Somaliland, “is tantamount to a blunt aggression against the sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity, and the unity of the people of the Somali Republic,” Mohamud said.
Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and has for decades pushed for international recognition.
A self-proclaimed republic, it enjoys a strategic position on the Gulf of Aden and has its own money, passports and army.
But it has been diplomatically isolated since its unilateral declaration of independence.
Somalia’s government and the African Union reacted angrily Friday after Israel’s announcement.
Mogadishu denounced a “deliberate attack” on its sovereignty, while Egypt, Turkiye, the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council and the Saudi-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation all condemned the decision.
