Friday, March 12, 2010
Somali government troops have made its initial advance into the rebel-held areas in the north of Mogadishu in a heavy fighting that left 37 more dead and injured 113, officials, witnesses said.
Witnesses said government troops with the help of the African union have crossed into the insurgency-racked district Karan. Soldiers appear to have encountered lighter than expected resistance from the Alshabaab who were reported to have entrenched in the nearby areas and mined the roadways.
‘’I have seen 18 dead al-Shabaab fighters lying on one street and 5 government soldiers’’ Resident Fadumo Osman told Somalilandpress by phone from Karan.
The News:
http://somalilandpre … positions-37-killed/
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Reports reaching our service desk indicate that Ethiopian militiamen based around the towns of Dig, Jarar Province and Fardhiig, Qorahay province destroyed the most houses of the two towns and the property within it.
This illegal action happened on February 2nd and February 20th 2010 respectively. It has been reported that Ethiopian militia forces encircled the towns and firebombed a gas or petrol station located within one of the most populated sections of the towns.
The News:
http://www.ogaden.co … g-ogaden-towns-.html
Monday, March 8, 2010
About 500 Berom natives in Dogon-Hauwa village, five kilometres south of Jos, were massacred on Sunday morning by Fulani herdsmen who raided the community through a border village in Bauchi State.
Neighbours joined Dogon-Hauwa villagers to wail as the bodies of elderly women and children littered everywhere among the dead.
Plateau State Governor, Jonah Jang, who raced to the village from his private residence in the same Du district, fought back tears on seeing the havoc.
The News:
http://www.independe … Article.aspx?id=9931
http://www.tgcom.med … articolo475881.shtml
Friday, March 5, 2010
Four militants have been killed in a two-day gun battle with security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, the Indian army says.
At least one army officer was also killed and five soldiers injured in the fighting. Unconfirmed reports said three soldiers may have died.
The army said the militants were members of the Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujahideen (HuM) group.
Kashmir is at the centre of decades of hostility between India and Pakistan.
The region has been the cause of two of their three wars since independence from British rule in 1947.
The News:
http://news.bbc.co.u … uth_asia/8550951.stm
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Weeks of fighting in parts of Darfur have raised concern over the plight of civilians, as insecurity has prompted humanitarian agencies to suspend activities in some areas.
The clashes have led to displacements in eastern Jebel Marra in South Darfur and North Darfur states, and in western Jebel Marra and the Jebel Moon region in West Darfur state, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update on 2 March, stressing that accurate information from the ground was very scarce because of lack of access.
The rebel Sudan Liberation Army, Abdul Wahid al Nur faction (SLM-Nur), which refuses to join peace talks with the Sudanese government until a full cessation of hostilities is implemented, has accused government forces of attacking its positions east of Jebel Marra.
The News:
http://www.irinnews. … .aspx?ReportId=88293