Wars in the World

The people of Southern Sudan regard January’s referendum as their first genuine opportunity to exert their right to self-determination, as enshrined in the 1945 UN Charter and underlined in the 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war between North and South.

Below are some key milestones on the road to this referendum:

Pre-1946: The British and Egyptian governments administer South and North Sudan as separate and distinct regions.

1946: The South and North are merged into one administrative region by the British government. The Southerners are not consulted about the decision and have concerns about being subsumed by the larger and more powerful North.

1954: Southern Sudanese politicians formally call for a greater role in their own governance, failing which they reserve the right to self-determination.

August 1955: Months before independence, there is a mutiny in the Southern town of Torit. By the early 1960s this develops into a full-scale rebellion and what became known as Sudan’s first civil war, Anyanya I.

1 January 1956: Sudan gains its independence from Egypt and Britain.

1962: Civil war intensifies in the mainly Christian region of the South.

27 February 1972: An agreement is signed in Addis Ababa to end the war and grant self-governance to the South.

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Ivory Coast’s army has closed the borders of the country after the victory of Ouattara in the presidential elections. The choice that looks like a coup, is certainly pleasing to the outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo, but risks plunging the country into a civil war.

This was the announcement by which the Electoral Commission had indicated the former prime minister the winner of the presidential ballot. “Air space as well as land and sea borders of the country are closed to the movement of people and goods for an indefinite period”, said military spokesman Babri Gohourou.

The Supreme Court had annulled the Commission’s decision.

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Moldova ’s Political Representative at the Transnistria negotiations, Deputy Prime Minister for Reintegration Affairs Victor Osipov stated at the 2010 OSCE Astana Summit today that Moldova has been suffering for so many years due to the problematic, separatist territory that cannot be controlled by the Chisinau constitutional authorities.

In his words, the military peacekeeping mechanism used currently has long ago reached its goal, so it needs to be replaced with an up-to-date multilateral mission of civilian observers to work in Transnistria under an international mandate.

“Protracted conflicts remain to be unresolved, complex-like problems in the OSCE area. Tragic events in the Republic of Georgia, a bloody tragedy in Kirgizia have demonstrated once again how dangerous the problem is”, said the Moldovan Deputy Premier.
Victor Osipov reaffirmed the Moldovan government’s adherence to an internationally recognized position - that Russian troops and Russia’s military equipment must be evacuated from the Republic of Moldova territory in conformity with the decisions of the previous OSCE Summit, held in Istanbul in 1999, and with Russia’s own commitments.

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Chad’s army says it has entered the northwest part of neighbouring Central African Republic and pushed out a group of rebels that had attempted to take a town there.

The army chief said late on Tuesday that soldiers crossed the border to the town of Birao which was occupied by rebels from the Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace Movement.

The army says no children or women were killed in the short operation, but did not give details on combatant deaths.

The rebels had entered the town last week.

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Heavy fighting between the troops of the transitional government backing by the African Union troops AMISOM and Al-shabaab forces broke out in the several districts in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, killing more according to witnesses.

The sound of mortars could be heard in all directions of the Somali capital as the heavy clashes between the two sides continued overnight until Tuesday morning.

8 people were killed while 25 others wounded during the shelling and clashes between the two sides according to health officials and witnesses adding that most of the injuries were rushed to Medina hospital in Mogadishu.

Sources said that the fighting continued in several district in north and south of Mogadishu like: - Hodan, Hawl-wadag, Bondere, Abdalaziz, and Shibis pointing out that al-Shabaab fighters and AMISOM troops with government soldiers exchanged heavy gunfire.

Most of died and wounded people were civilians.

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