Wednesday, September 8, 2010
The Ugandan rebels Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has killed eight people in raids over the weekend in South Sudan’s state of Western Equatoria, a local official has said.
The LRA, which is a sectarian religious and military group from northern Uganda, has a history of committing atrocities in the region.
It began as an Acholi tribe rebel movement seeking to overthrow the Ugandan Government. What it stands for now is a matter of debate but in 2005 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first five arrest warrants for LRA leader, Joseph Kony, his deputy and three of his commanders.
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http://www.sudantrib … pip.php?article36198
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
More than 230 civilians have been killed and at least 400 wounded in Mogadishu in last two weeks in fightings between somali government troops and islamic rebels al-Shabaab.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) launched the alarm. “Fightings in these last two weeks between transitional’s government and al-Shabaab caused the death of more than 230 civilians and caused at least 400 wounded and 23 thousands displaced”, Unhcr has explained, that has talked about a continuous “deterioration” of situation in the capital.
According estimates of Onu agency, more than 200 thousand people fled their own house this year.
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http://www.apcom.it/ … 2_1a6b572_96660.html
Monday, September 6, 2010
Al-Shabaab fighters have Sunday displayed hundreds of their fighters in the Somali capital Mogadishu, just days after heavy fighting between the transitional government soldiers and al-Shabaab in north and south of Mogadishu.
Sources said that the fighters were displayed at the military camp of Maslah in out of Mogadishu and reportedly trained in the military camps of al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The displayed fighters had made military maneuver as they were at Maslah camp today saying that they would redouble the fighting against the forces of the transitional government of Somalia and the African Union troops AMISOM.
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http://www.shabelle. … -in-out-of-mogadishu
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip, medics and security sources say. Another person has been critically injured.
The Israeli army launched three raids in the south of Gaza on Saturday after Palestinian fighters fired a rocket over the border.
The flare-up of violence on the Israel-Gaza border came just two days after the relaunch of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in the US.
Israeli aircraft reportedly struck targets including smuggling tunnels running under the border with Egypt at Rafah.
The two Palestinians were killed when one of the tunnels collapsed. Three others were wounded.
A raid also struck a former base of the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades (EQB), the armed wing of Hamas.
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http://english.aljaz … 109584024185978.html
Armed Basque separatist group Eta says it will not “carry out armed actions” in its campaign for independence.
In a video obtained exclusively by the BBC, the group said it took the decision several months ago “to put in motion a democratic process”.
The Spanish government has not responded. In the past it has said it will only negotiate with Eta if it renounces violence and disarms.
Eta’s violent campaign has led to more than 820 deaths over the past 40 years.
It has called two ceasefires in the past, but abandoned them both.
Under pressure
It is unclear whether Eta is declaring a permanent or temporary ceasefire.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk … orld-europe-11191395