A total of 85 inmates escaped from the Manono central prison, located in the province of Tanganyika, on Sunday, July 14, 2024.

The news was confirmed to  the media on Monday by the interim administrator of the Manono territory, Germain Mwamba. He claims that the escape took place around 8 p.m. local time.

"According to the information we have received, there is a case of 85 escapees. It was around 8:05 p.m. that this escape took place. In the course of their manoeuvres, these prisoners dug a hole in a cell. And that hole was driven in to destroy the foundation of the prison as well as the foundation of the fence until all the prisoners had escaped," he explained.

On Wednesday, June 26, at least 20 inmates, including 16 civilians and a soldier, escaped from the same prison.

The Somali government has claimed that over 50 al-Shabaab militants were killed in a joint operation in Dhabaqle area - between the towns of Masagaway and Awsweyne

 

The Somali government has claimed that over 50 al-Shabaab militants were killed in a joint operation in Dhabaqle area - between the towns of Masagaway and Awsweyne, Galgudud region. The operation was carried out by federal and local forces with support from international partners.

Meanwhile, the al-Shabaab militant group claimed killing 27 government soldiers in Wanniile area, near El-Dheer town, Galgudud region, Monday.

Unclear if the two incidents are related.

Casualty figures given by the two sides have not been independently verified as of now.

FARDC and WAZALENDO claim to have captured a large ADF base

 

The Congolese army, supported by young Wazalendo resistance fighters claim to have captured  a large military base belonging to the ADF.

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Brigadier General Dahir Abdulle Rageh has been suspended

Somalia central prison chief Brigadier General Dahir Abdulle Rageh has been suspended, pending an investigation following the jailbreak attempt by militant inmates.

It was last Saturday that somali security forces foiled an attempted jailbreak Saturday in Mogadishu’s main central prison after militant inmates, using pistols and hand grenades, attacked prison guards.

The militant inmates fired on the guards and threw hand grenades before an exchange of heavy gunfire. It is believed the weapons were smuggled into the prison.

A spokesperson for the Somali Custodial Corps, Abdiqani Mohamed Khalaf, told news reporters in Mogadishu that three prison guards were killed and three others were injured in the attack.

Khalaf also confirmed that five militants were killed and 18 were injured in the attack. A post on social media platform X by the state news agency earlier reported the killing of the five militant inmates.

All five inmates who were fatally shot had been convicted of involvement in militant bombings and smuggling of explosives in Mogadishu. Four of them were on death row, and the fifth inmate was serving a life sentence.

One of the inmates on death row was convicted for his role in multiple attacks, including the raid on the Mogadishu mayor’s office last year and a suicide bombing at a military academy in July last year, according to a security source.

A second inmate who also was on death row was convicted for involvement in the militant attack on the Hayat hotel in August 2022, which claimed the lives of 21 people.

In August 2020, al-Shabab inmates obtained weapons and tried to force a jailbreak at the same facility. Four prison guards and 15 inmates — almost all of them al-Shabab convicts — were killed in the attack. One militant inmate escaped.

In the 2020 attack, the weapons were smuggled into the prison by friends and family who hid them inside food and other items during visits.

The Somali government has appointed an eight-member committee to investigate the incident. Gen. Mohamed Hussein Ahmed is the acting prison chief and will lead the investigation.

Youth in Butembo woke up in demonstration against the advance of the M23 in Lubero.

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As we had earlier reported(click on the link to read more) READ on saturday,This Monday 15-07-2024, several young people from BUTEMBO demonstrate against the advance of M23 towards the far north.

This demonstration was banned by the VPM of the Interior jacque Shabani who is staying in this part of the country, but this was not respected.

Frontline OSINT and HUMINT report: Fighting erupts between young people Wazalendo and M23 reported in Bweremana in Masisi territory this monday.

 Fights between young people Wazalendo and M23 reported in Bweremana in Masisi territory. Our intelligence sources on site affirm that the M23 attacked several Wazalendo positions since 4 a.m. "They attacked hills overlooking Bweremana, Ndumba towards the Kashingamutwe part. We retaliated and the clashes continue because the enemy wants to overflow, because its mission is to take advantage of this lull", declared a Wazalendo commander who is in The area.

According to reports from civilians ,Clashes also concetrarted in Kamonyi, Butumbalonge and Bifura in the Bashali Mukoto group in Masisi territory. Heavy and light weapons have been heard since 4 a.m. On Sunday, other clashes between the M23 and a group from Wazalendo were reported in Kirumba, in violation of the humanitarian truce.

In the morning of today, a bomb that fell in Bweremana (North Kivu) killed at least 3 civilians, report several local sources. This projectile was launched from the combat zone between the M23 rebellion and the Congolese army and its allies from local armed groups.

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These fights are taking place on several fronts in Masisi territory, regret several sources on the ground, condemning these attacks which violate the two-week humanitarian truce, which is this Monday at its 10th day.

The clashes are taking place in particular in the Bashali chiefdom and in the vicinity of Bweremana, the Bahunde chiefdom. It was between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. that the M23 rebels launched these simultaneous attacks on the positions of the Congolese army and those of local armed groups in Masisi territory, according to concordant sources. In the Bahunde chiefdom, detonations of heavy weapons were heard between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. local time around the Ndumba-Kiluku-Kihindo-Kashingamutwe hills, overlooking the Bweremana-Shasha axis. At around 8 a.m., a bomb dropped from this area of fighting fell on civilian houses in Bweremana, killing 3 people, all children from the same family. Another was injured. Other fighting is also reported on the Kahira, Kirumbu-Lwama and Kalonge axes, in the Bashali Mokoto and Bashali Kaembe groups. In these areas, Radio Okapi's sources indicate that the rebels would have burned down the houses of some targeted people in the morning, particularly in the village of Butumbalonge. Hundreds of residents are currently on the run. They left this area in the direction of the Bafuna group towards Masisi center, local sources attest.