Sunday, November 6, 2011
No fewer than 136 people have been confirmed dead in the wake of the simultaneous bomb attacks and shootings in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, at the weekend.
Sources with the National Emergency Management Agency, who visited the state hospital in Damaturu, confirmed that of the 136 who died, 135 were male and one was female. In addition, 17 people were injured, comprising 13 male and four female.
The wave of bomb attacks in Yobe and Borno States prompted President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel his scheduled trip to Bayelsa State to attend the wedding of his brother, in order to focus on the security situation in north-east Nigeria.
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Saturday, November 5, 2011
Colombian army forces have killed “Alfonso Cano,” the supreme leader of the FARC, the country’s Defense Minister confirmed Friday.
The country’s defense minister said the country’s most wanted man was killed earlier that day following a bombing raid in the south west of the country.
According to Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, Cano was killed while being persecuted by armed forces in the southwestern Cauca department, hours after a number of his closest men were killed in a bombing raid in Suarez, a rural municipality in the southwestern Cauca department.
Cano’s death was confirmed by authorities after his body was examined by forensic scientists.
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Sudanese armed forces seized the rebel stronghold of Kurmuk in Blue Nile state, both sides said on Thursday, after two months of heavy fighting in the state on the border with newly independent South Sudan.
“Our troops entered the town of Kurmuk, expelled the insurgents and killed and wounded many (of them) and they are now cleansing the town,” Sudan’s defence ministry website said.
Violence in Sudanese border states has soured talks between Khartoum and former civil war foe South Sudan who have yet to resolve issues such as how to share oil revenues or other assets after South Sudan seceded as part of a 2005 peace deal.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Three Colombian soldiers were killed and at least another four wounded in southwest Colombia Wednesday during two separate confrontations with the leftist guerrilla group FARC.
The first attack occurred in the rural area of Florencia, Caqueta when alleged members of the Teofilo Forero Mobile Column of the FARC ambushed a patrol from the mountains and killed two soldiers.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Hundreds of rebels have been killed in Sudan’s South Kordofan state following clashes with the army, officials have said - claims denied by the rebels.
Governor Ahmed Haroun said the SPLM-North rebels were killed when the army repelled an assault on Talodi city.
But a rebel spokesman said fighting was continuing and “many” government troops had been killed.
Talodi lies near the border with South Sudan, which became independent from Sudan in July.
The BBC’s James Copnall in Khartoum says capturing the strategic city of Talodi would be a major success for the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North rebels.
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