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Outlawed Kurdish militants on Saturday declared a ceasefire with Turkey following a landmark call by jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan asking the group to disband and end more than four decades of armed struggle.
It was the first reaction from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) after Ocalan this week called for the dissolution of the group and asked it to lay down arms.
Senegal’s new government and pro-independence Casamance rebels in the country’s south have signed an “important agreement” aimed at bringing definitive peace to a region that has endured four decades of conflict, broadcaster RTS said Monday.
The agreement was signed by Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko during a visit to Bissau on Sunday where he met members of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) at talks mediated by Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.
The Sudanese army captured a new town in southern Sudan on Sunday, in the latest military gains against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group.
The Nidaa Al-Wasat Platform, a local volunteer group, said in a brief statement that the RSF has no military presence in Alkotainh town in the White Nile State.
Pakistani troops fought separatist insurgents who set up roadblocks in the restive northwestern region of Balochistan, leaving 18 paramilitary security forces and 23 rebels dead in some of the heaviest clashes in recent years, officials said Saturday.
The military said troops suffered casualties when they engaged the insurgents who erected barricades on a key highway in Kalat, bordering Afghanistan.
The town fell to M23 forces overnight from Thursday to Friday, marking a significant gain for the rebel group in their push toward South Kivu’s capital, Bukavu.
“The M23 rebels are advancing toward Bukavu, that’s their end goal,” said a local leader who preferred anonymity to speak freely to ChimpReports.
