Overview
- Local officials say more than 300 people, including women and children, were abducted in Ngoshe, though other reports put the figure at over 100 and authorities are still updating totals.
- Attackers overran an 82nd Division task force battalion base and struck an IDP camp, seizing weapons, burning vehicles, and killing the town’s chief imam, according to local and security sources.
- Security sources reported at least 14 soldiers killed in separate assaults earlier in the week, and the military later acknowledged additional fatalities, including a senior officer, during repelled attacks.
- Operation Hadin Kai said troops, backed by air components, counter‑attacked to regain control of positions in Konduga, Marte, Jakana, and Mainok, claiming numerous militant casualties and ongoing recovery operations.
- Thousands of residents fled to Pulka, where displaced families report shortages of food, water, and shelter, as local leaders, including Senator Ali Ndume, call for intensified operations in nearby insurgent strongholds.