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At least 12 people were killed on Friday when fighting broke out among tribes over the distribution of irrigated water in the troubled western region that borders Pakistan, according to Dawn News.
The fighting between the Shalozan and Shalozan Tangi tribes in the upper Kurram region started about a week ago and has resulted in the deaths of 27 people and wounded 40 others, according to the report, citing officials and residents.
The tribes used heavy arms in the fighting, said Dawn.
At least eight people have been killed in bomb blasts at the main airport in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, witnesses have said.
The victims in Thursday’s blasts included African Union (AU) peacekeeping troops.
Witnesses said a suicide bomber rammed a car into an AU peacekeepers post outside the airport and that they heard a second explosion inside the compound shortly afterwards.
A spokesman with the African Union confirmed the car bomb attack.
Mohamed Abdi, a shopkeeper, told Reuters news agency: “I have seen four bleeding AU soldiers being carried at the gate. At least eight dead bodies, most of them Amisom soldiers were lying on the ground.”
Two women begging in the street were also killed and one policeman was wounded, said Abdul Rahman Yussef, a Somali army official.
Seventeen people have been killed and up to 90 injured as a powerful car bomb attack hit the central market in the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of the republic of North Ossetia-Alania.
The youngest victim was only 18 months old. The boy died in hospital.
Eight children were among those taken to a local hospital.
There may be more victims as “in the first minutes after the blast, injured were being carried away by their friends and relatives who transported them to hospitals in taxis,” the republic’s deputy emergency minister Kazbek Bekmurzov told Itar-Tass new agency.
According to media reports, fierce battles between Mujahideen and the puppet army of Tajikistan, backed by units of the FSB gangs, who have been sent from Russia, are taking place in Romitsky Valley in eastern Tajikistan.
Paratroopers, whom local residents identified as Russian servicemen, landed in Garma district. Russians, however, refute this information, claiming their troops are not engaged in the combats.
Earlier, the FSB chieftain Bortnikov said in Moscow that Medvedev ordered him to send his terrorist troops to Tajikistan, supposedly to “capture escaped prisoners”, which is no Russian problem. Why Russians chase foreign political prisoners in a foreign country, the criminal Bortnikov didn’t say.
The Ugandan rebels Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has killed eight people in raids over the weekend in South Sudan’s state of Western Equatoria, a local official has said.
The LRA, which is a sectarian religious and military group from northern Uganda, has a history of committing atrocities in the region.
It began as an Acholi tribe rebel movement seeking to overthrow the Ugandan Government. What it stands for now is a matter of debate but in 2005 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its first five arrest warrants for LRA leader, Joseph Kony, his deputy and three of his commanders.
More than 230 civilians have been killed and at least 400 wounded in Mogadishu in last two weeks in fightings between somali government troops and islamic rebels al-Shabaab.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Unhcr) launched the alarm. “Fightings in these last two weeks between transitional’s government and al-Shabaab caused the death of more than 230 civilians and caused at least 400 wounded and 23 thousands displaced”, Unhcr has explained, that has talked about a continuous “deterioration” of situation in the capital.
According estimates of Onu agency, more than 200 thousand people fled their own house this year.
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Al-Shabaab fighters have Sunday displayed hundreds of their fighters in the Somali capital Mogadishu, just days after heavy fighting between the transitional government soldiers and al-Shabaab in north and south of Mogadishu.
Sources said that the fighters were displayed at the military camp of Maslah in out of Mogadishu and reportedly trained in the military camps of al-Shabaab in Somalia.
The displayed fighters had made military maneuver as they were at Maslah camp today saying that they would redouble the fighting against the forces of the transitional government of Somalia and the African Union troops AMISOM.