Thursday, October 10, 2013
The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) secretary- general warned they , together with the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), would intensify attack on the regime if it continues its crackdown on peaceful protesters.
Yasir Arman issued on Wednesday a statement at the end of a three-day meeting of the SPLM leadership council where the group discussed issued related to its organisation and humanitarian situation in the areas under its control besides the political unrest in the country.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a Sinai-based jihadi group, has claimed responsibility for an attack that rocked South Sinai’s security department on Monday.
The group said that the blast, which killed one and injured 22 others, came in response to “the crime of killing protesters in Rabaa al-Adaweya, al-Nahda [Square] and Ramses,” referring to a series of crackdowns by security forces against supporters of Mohamed Morsy and the Muslim Brotherhood.
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The death toll of victims killed during renewed clashes between Muslim rebels of the Seleka coalition and Christian vigilante groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) has risen to at least 40, witnesses said on Tuesday.
The attacks took place overnight Monday into Tuesday in the villages of Gaga in Ouham district and Yaloke in neighbouring Ombella M’Poko district, roughly 200km north-west of the capital, Bangui.
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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Syrian government warplanes bombed rebel positions near a strategic northern city on Tuesday, activists said, as international inspectors toured production and storage sites of the country’s chemical weapons arsenal.
The rebels captured Maaret al-Numan a year ago, after systematically seizing the army’s outposts in the city, along astride a major supply route linking the capital, Damascus with the contested Idlib region and Syria’s largest city, Aleppo.
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Monday, October 7, 2013
At least 20 people were killed when Islamist group Boko Haram attacked a town in northeast Nigeria, triggering clashes with troops stationed there, the military said on Sunday.
A spokesman for Nigerian forces in northeastern Borno state, which lies at the heart of a four-year-old Islamist insurgency, said the Islamists crept into the town of Damboa in the early hours of Saturday.
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