Monday, July 7, 2014
Syrian troops advanced inside and near northern Aleppo on Monday in what appears to be an attempt to lay siege to rebel-held parts of the country’s largest city, activist said Monday.
If successful, it would be the biggest blow to the opposition since they entered the northern city two years ago. Aleppo, once Syria’s commercial center, has been carved up into rebel- and government-controlled areas since opposition fighters launched an offensive in the country’s north in mid-2012.
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Sunday, July 6, 2014
Gunmen are reported to have shot “indiscriminately” as they attacked a trading centre in Hindi, Lamu county, and the Gamba area in Tana River county.
“There were two attacks in Lamu and Tana River last night,” Kenyan interior ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka said.
“In Lamu we have nine people dead and in Tana River we have 20. The number could rise.”
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Over 60 people have been killed in what security agencies referred to as tribal clashes in Western Uganda.
Nearly half of the deceased were killed by police and Uganda Peoples Defence Forces as they battled an allegedly armed Bakonzo that attacked their facilities.
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Troops in the ongoing offensive against the Boko Haram sect in the North East, on Friday night, killed 53 insurgents, losing six soldiers while repelling an attack on troops’ location in Damboa, Borno State.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Defence Headquarters, DHQ, in Abuja, yesterday, through its Director of Defence Information, DDI, Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade, adding that a suicide bomber also drove into a checkpoint killing self, a policeman and three vigilante youths in Borno State.
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Saturday, July 5, 2014
A woman cries near her burning house after shelling in the city of Slovyansk, Donetsk Region, eastern Ukraine, last month. The city of 100,000 has now been retaken from pro-Russian separatists. (AP)
Ukrainian troops have retaken the key stronghold of Slovyansk from pro-Russian forces in a sign that Kiev may be regaining control over the country’s east, months after insurgents swept through the region establishing a self-proclaimed independent republic.
The country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, and a spokesman for the rebels confirmed that the city of 100,000 was back in government hands after a night of fighting. Poroshenko ordered his troops to hoist the Ukrainian flag over Slovyansk’s city council building.
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