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Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, April 10

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At least 13 militants were killed in an ongoing fighting with Afghan security forces in the country's northern province of Jawzjan, police said on Monday.

"Several Taliban fighters and militants affiliated with Islamic State (IS) stormed Mughul and Helkhani villages in Darzab district Sunday night. The security forces were responding to the attackers and the clashes were still continuing there as of Monday afternoon," provincial police chief Gen. Rahmatullah Turkestani told Xinhua. (Afghanistan-Clashes)

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MOGADISHU -- At least five Somalia soldiers were killed and 15 others seriously injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military academy west of Somalia's restive capital, Mogadishu on Monday.

A military officer said the suicide bomber who was clad in Somalia military uniform sneaked inside the military training camp and detonated explosives from his vest, killing the soldiers who were near him in Mogadishu's Wadajir district. (Somalia-Attack)

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ABUJA -- Two female suicide bombers were killed by explosives wired round their bodies early Monday when security operatives in Maiduguri city, the capital of Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno, prevented them from gaining entry into their target area.

A spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency told Xinhua the security operatives, who accosted the female suicide attackers, foiled the attacks near the University of Maiduguri in the northern city. (Nigeria-Attack)

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JUBA -- Fresh gun fire erupted Monday morning in South Sudan's north-western town of Wau between a government backed-militia and local youths.

Daniel Dickinson, spokesman for the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said the Mission has dispatched a peacekeeping team to patrol Wau town following clashes which erupted this morning. (S.Sudan-Clashes) Endi