Reports reaching us from the battlefield in Ogaden, where the unflinching Ogaden National Liberation Front [ONLF] forces are fighting to rid the Ogaden of colonial Ethiopian army, say that at least 9 battles occurred there last few week alone.

Senior ONLF military officers told Ogaden Online reporters that fighting has mostly been taking place at colonial army bases in the Ogaden. They added that the era when battles were fought in villages and rural areas was over.

Ogaden Online reporters operating in the Ogaden have reported that Ethiopian forces have started digging huge trenches around major towns for fear of attacks by ONLF fighters.

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The bandh by Maoists turned violent in two states on Thursday when the rebels attacked the house of a Congress leader in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district killing two of his relatives and blew up a railway station in Jharkand leaving one person dead.

A road bridge was also blown up and a four-wheeler used by the CISF personnel of the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) torched by the Maoists in extremist-hit West Singhbhum district in Jharkand.

A three-feet rail section under Dhanbad Rail Division was also blasted, holding up several trains including a Rajdhani train.

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A secretive armed group engaged in the bloody separatist conflict in southern Thailand has told Al Jazeera that it will not compromise on seeking independence for the largely Muslim area.

Speaking to Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen at a location outside Thailand, a senior member of the National Revolutionary Front Co-ordinate (BRN-C) said the group’s main aim was “to fight for independence through an armed revolution”.

“Our main aim is not war but we are forced into this because without violence Siam [Thailand] will never stop discriminating against the Malay people in the south,” he said on condition of anonymity.

More than 3,500 people have been killed in the conflict since simmering tensions over rule by Buddhist-majority Thailand flared in 2004.

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At least 6 people were killed and more others injured in north and south of Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Tuesday.

Heavy fighting between the Islamist clerics of Ahlu Sunna Walajama’a and Harkat al-Shabaab Mujahideen forces started between Dabka and Bakara intersections in Mogadishu, killing 4 civilians, wounding several others there.

On the other hand 5 people were killed and 16 others including several journalists were wounded in north Mogadishu as fighting and heavy shelling between both rivals continued.

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