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Libya’s rival parliaments will next week sign a UN-sponsored agreement on forming a national unity government, they announced on Friday (Dec 11), as world leaders press them to end chaos in the country.
Salah el-Makhzoum, a vice president of the Tripoli-based parliament, called this a “happy day” in announcing that “the political accord will be signed on December 16”.
Gunmen attacked military sites in Burundi’s capital on Friday and many of the assailants were killed or arrested after heavy fighting, officials and soldiers said.
Soldiers said at least five of their number were killed in the latest flare-up in a nation Western powers fear may be sliding back into ethnic conflict.
Nigerian refugees have said that Cameroonian troops crossed the border into Nigeria, killed about 150 villagers, burned their huts and forced them to flee.
The refugees said on Tuesday, December 8 that they had to walk for days before reaching a refugee center.
Mariamu Abubakar, a farmer, said Cameroonian soldiers on Monday, November 30, killed about 150 people in his village near Nigeria’s Banki border post.
Lawlessness in the Central African Republic is helping Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army continue its almost 30-year regional campaign of killings and abductions, according to a United Nations report.
The Ugandan warlord’s forces remain the main threat to peace in the diamond-rich country’s east and southeast, states a report by a UN panel of experts due to be published by the end of the year. The militia emerged in northern Uganda in the late 1980s, spread to neighboring South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has caused the deaths of about 100,000 people while forcing 2.5 million others to flee their homes.
Galmudug and Puntland states began Sunday withdrawing rival their combat forces from the frontline in the southern of Galkayo town of Mudug region following a ceasefire accord.
Somali prime minister Omar Abdirashid, and leaders Galmudug and Puntland administrations Abdikarin Hussein Guled and Abdiwali Gaas arrived the battle zones to observe the withdrawal of the armed forces.
At least 15,000 people arrived in Payinjiar county as fighting intensified in Leer, Koch and Mayiandit areas between government forces and the armed opposition faction (SPLM-IO) in recent weeks, opposition officials told Sudan Tribune
John Tap Puot, an area commissioner for SPLM-IO, said many civilians have assembled in Nyal payam, seeking shelter due to fighting in neighbouring counties.
At least 16 people have been killed and more than 20 others injured in renewed fighting since Thursday in northern Somali town of Galkayo between forces loyal to the rival states of Galmudug and Puntland.
Some 15 people were killed when fighting broke out on Thursday between security officers of the two rival regional states while a businessman was killed on Friday in the battle that also left a member of Galmudug State Parliament injured after gunmen opened fire on him.