Sunday, January 31, 2010
Outgoing Croatian president Stjepan Mesic earlier this month threatened to intervene militarily in the event that Bosnia’s Serb entity, Republika Srpska, attempts to secede and establish itself as an Independent State. He was responding to repeated separatist noises on the part of the Republika Srpska’s aggressively nationalistic prime minister, Milorad Dodik, who makes no secret of his hostility to the state of Bosnia-Hercegovina and his designs against its territorial integrity, and whose atrocity denial and friendship for convicted war-criminals indicate a dangerous contempt for the norms of civilised behaviour.
Mesic has warned that if Dodik announces a referendum on secession – as the first step toward the Republika Srpska’s unification with Serbia to form a ‘Great Serbia’ – he would send the Croatian Army south across the River Sava to cut in half the Bosnian Serb entity, which ‘would then have to disappear’.
The News:
http://www.bosnia.or … body.cfm?newsid=2676
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Leader Yemen sciite rebels al-Houthi is ready to accept conditions of Government, but only if this will stop its “aggression”. In an audio message diffused in last hours on rebel internet website on on Youtube, Abdelmalek al-Houthi affirmed: ‘The ball is now in the enemy camp, because I announce to accept the five points (agreement of Doha in 2008), but only after the end of brutal aggression’, ongoing for 6 months.
The News:
http://www.ansa.it/w … html_1679366837.html
The militant group Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND said Saturday declared an all out war on the government and oil firms in the area after it said it had called off the ceasefire pact made in the aftermath of the ground breaking amnesty arranged between the government and the militant groups operating in the oil rich region.
Saturday’s announcement also warned oil producing firms to vacate the region immediately, warning that they should be ready to accept responsibility for whatever happened to their staff who remain at their bases.
The News:
http://www.businessd … atest-news&Itemid=18
Friday, January 29, 2010
Heavy fighting raged early on Friday in the centre of Mogadishu between Islamist insurgents and soldiers of the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia (Amisom).
Artillery exchanges and automatic weapons fire broke out around 02:00 (23:00 GMT on Thursday) and continued through the night. After dying down a little, the violence resumed in full intensity at dawn.
The fighting was concentrated around the strategic K4 junction halfway between the Somali capital’s airport and the port.
The News:
http://www.news24.co … g_rages_in_Mogadishu
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Reports reaching the Ogaden Online News Desk confirm the burning down of the town of Budle, Shabelle province by the Woyane army. Eyewitnesses indicate that the Woyane militias first looted all valuables in the town. Prior to torching the town, the marauding Woyane militias also took two young girls with them. We couldn’t confirm the names of the two young girls.
The News:
http://www.ogaden.co … dle-shabele-province