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At least 50 people have died in clashes between South Sudan’s army and Darfuri Arab tribes along the country’s north-south divide, reports say.
It is the most serious violence reported since Sudan held elections held between 11-15 April.
They were the first multi-party polls in 24 years but were marred by irregularities and alleged fraud, and results have been delayed by days.
Fights in Afghanistan between talibans and security forces in province north-eastern of Kunduz. At least 29 talibans have been killed, three victims also between provincial military services. (RCD)
Exactly one year ago, April 16, 2009, the counterterrorist operation (KTO) in Chechnya was concluded. President Ramzan Kadyrov declared that day a national holiday for all Chechens – the day the war ended. Yet a year later, peace has not come to Chechnya.
Between April 2009 and March 2010, 85 law enforcement officers were killed in the republic and 168 wounded. Acts of terrorism continue.
The first post-KTO suicide bombings occurred less than a month after the declaration, in May 2009. Of the 57 terrorist acts registered in Chechnya between April 2009 and March 2010, nine were suicide attacks and a tenth suicide attack was averted.
Four Sahara desert countries are set to open a joint command headquarters in the south of Algeria to counter a growing al-Qaeda threat, the Algerian defence ministry says.
The command headquarters for Algeria, Mali, Mauritania and Niger will be based in Tamanrasset, about 2,000km south of Algiers, the Algerian capital, it said.
The announcement on Wednesday followed a meeting last month of senior officials from regional governments that the US hailed as a step towards confronting al-Qaeda.
Seven rockets have been fired against a military base that hosts also italian soldiers in Bala Murghab, in west of Afghanistan: nobody was wounded.
Alpini have answered at fire with six mortars rounds and have «neutralized the threat».
The news has been confimed by general Claudio Berto, commander of Brigata Taurinense of italian contingent in Afghanistan.