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Barely hours after the Tuareg-led armed rebel groups said they would approve a preliminary peace deal with the government to end violence in northern Mali, fresh clashes in the region led to the deaths of at least four people on Wednesday. The renewed violence erupted between members of the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) — a coalition of five rebel groups — and pro-government militias near the village of Ikadewan, according to media reports.
A Burundian military officer announced the overthrow of this central African country’s government on Wednesday, saying that President Pierre Nkurunziza had been dismissed for seeking a third term.
The announcement by Maj. Gen. Godefroid Niyombare came after weeks of protests over the president’s decision to run again in elections scheduled for June. After the coup statement was read on the radio, the capital exploded in celebration.
The government of Central African Republic and 10 armed groups signed a peace deal Sunday aimed at ending two years of fighting that has killed thousands.
U.N. Special Representative Babacar Gaye said, “I want to believe that the commitment is sincere and that we will engage in the construction of progressive peace.”
Fighting has escalated in war-torn South Sudan forcing up to 100,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations has said.
Toby Lanzer, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan said up to 100,000 people had been displaced from their homes in Unity State, as clashes intensifed between rebels and government troops.
The United Nations said on Wednesday two Tanzanian army officers serving as UN peacekeepers were killed and 13 others were injured after they were attacked by rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo).
The UN said in a statement issued in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam that four other peacekeepers were reported missing.
Fighter jets have attacked Sudan, reports the Arab media, which has suggested that Israel was involved in the strike. Israel declined to comment on the reports.
A Sudanese military source told the news site “Al arabi Al jaded” that its air defenses had operated against fighter jets that entered the Wadi Sidna neighborhood in Omdurman near Khartoum. Senior figures in the Sudanese military visited the site after the attack.
“More than 5,000 people have already reached N’Guigmi,” a town in southeastern Niger located near the lake and the Chadian border, a UN official told AFP.
Another 11,500 people are expected to arrive in the town, the official added.