Monday, August 30, 2010
At least 10 people died, including four African Union peacekeepers, in fighting in Somalia’s capital between forces loyal to the Western-backed government and al-Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels.
The AU troops died when a mortar hit the presidential palace in southern Mogadishu, Major Barigye Ba-Hoku, a spokesman for the continental body’s peacekeeping mission, said in a phone interview today from the city.
“We have lost four soldiers and eight others have sustained injuries,” Ba-Hoku said.
In the city’s central Bakara market, six people were killed near a jewelry kiosk, said Ali Muse Sheikh, a paramedic at Nationlink and Lifeline Africa.
The News:
http://www.garoweonl … r_Peacekeepers.shtml
Ethiopian troops crossed the border and entered Somalia.
“Around 1,000 soldiers are heading in the direction of Beledehawa and Elwak,” a source in Dolo told Addis Neger online. Beledehawa and Elwak are towns along the Kenya-Somalia border.
According to the source, nearly 6,000 soldiers are also deployed on the border town of Dolo. Dolo is a town that border Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya. The troops have reportedly been stationed in Dolo for the last three weeks.
Addis Neger analyst said that the objective of the move seems to divert the focus of the Islamic militant group, Al-Shabaab, from Mogadishu, capital of Somalia. Al-Shabaab has a plan to control Mogadishu in the coming two days.
The News:
http://addisnegeronl … roops-enter-somalia/
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Russian special forces have killed ten insurgents during two operations in the north Caucasus.
Five died during a siege in Nalchik, the regional capital of Kabardino Balkaria. The city has been on lockdown overnight.
The authorities were looking for the people behind recent attacks on local police.
The area has been largely untouched by the spreading violence in the region, but there has been a recent rise in clashes with police.
At the same time, a second siege was underway in neighbouring Dagestan.
The News:
http://www.euronews. … -the-north-caucasus/
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Heavy fighting between the troops of the transitional government of Somalia backing by the African Union troops AMISOM and allied fighters of Hizbul Islam and al-Shabaab has broken out in parts of Hodan district in the Somali capital Mogadishu for the 6th consecutive day.
Most of the clashes continued between Dabka and Bakara intersections in Hodan district where both Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a clerics and the transitional government forces with AMISOM and al-Shabaab forces that exchanged heavy gunfire which had affected parts of Bakara market in the capital, killing 20, wounding 30 others.
Most of the people died and wounded in parts of Hodan and Hawl-wadag districts in the capital according to the emergency traffic officials adding that there were more mortars using both sides.
The News:
http://www.shabelle. … -others-in-mogadishu
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Qatar Al-Arab daily newspaper publishes a 2600-word report by Giselle Ruzuq on Qatar`s mediation between Eritrea and Djibouti.
Shaykh Hamad Bin-Jasim Bin-Jabr Al Thani, prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, announces the agreement of both Eritrea and Djibouti to mandate Qatar to resolve the border dispute between them.
This took place in accordance with the agreement which the presidents of Djibouti and Eritrea signed in the presence of “mediation witness,” Amir of Qatar Shaykh Hamad Bin-Khalifah Al Thani.
The News:
http://www.biyokulul … t.php?articleid=2964