Reporting reaching the Ogaden Online service desk from Qabridahar confirm Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) commando attacks at the main Ethiopian Military base in Qabridahar town.
Saturday, 1 December, 2012
Ogaden: Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) commando attacked military base in Qabridahar town
Democratic Republic of Congo: M23 rebels begin Goma pullout
Rebels started to retreat from Congo’s eastern provincial capital on Saturday after an attempt to garner ammunition at the airport failed and their original pullout was postponed, a U.N. official said.
Trucks full of M23 rebels drove along the road that leads out of Goma toward Kibumba, where the rebels are supposed to settle following an agreement reached in Kampala last week with nations bordering Congo. M23 soldiers were cheering as they did a final tour in the city center.
Thursday, 29 November, 2012
Mali: Ansar Dine islamist group captured Lere town near Mauritania border
Ansar Dine, an Islamist group linked to al-Qaeda has moved into a town near Mali’s border with Mauritania after separatist Tuareg rebels withdrew without a fight, an Islamist spokesman said on Thursday.
Islamist fighters from several groups have taken over an initial uprising by Tuareg MNLA rebels since an uneasy alliance of armed groups seized control of the north in March after a military coup paralyzed the central government.
Tuesday, 27 November, 2012
Democratic Republic of Congo: M23 rebels pledge to leave Goma by friday
The political chief of Congolese rebel group M23 says his forces will leave the captured city of Goma by Friday as a sign of good will, even if the government has not addressed their grievances.
The rebels seized the eastern city last week and have since taken the town of Sake to the west.
Jean-Marie Runiga of M23 told VOA News Tuesday that if regional leaders think the departure will help bring peace, than they will do so by the end of the week. Runiga said even if M23 withdraws it does not mean the group will back down on its demands for foreign groups and the Congolese army to leave the region
Monday, 26 November, 2012
Mali: Algerian jihadists join north Mali islamists ranks
Dozen of Algerian jihadists have arrived in the Malian city of Timbuktu to support armed Islamist groups who are imposing an increasingly brutal version of sharia law in the vast northern areas under their control, security sources said Sunday.
The latest influx of foreigners joining the Al-Qaeda linked Islamists was revealed as interim authorities in Bamako postponed a key conference to plan the country’s transition back to democracy and tackle the crisis in the occupied north.
Saturday, 24 November, 2012
Somalia: Clashes between armed militias and kenyan forces in port city of Kismayo
Armed clashes reportedly broke out Saturday in Somalia’s southern port city of Kimayo, a town formerly held by Islamists about 500 Km (310 Miles) south of Mogadishu.
Witnesses said heavily armed unknown militias have stormed bases manned by Kenyan forces in the heart of the city late on Friday night, causing unconfirmed human losses.
Local residents reported that the attack raged on for several hours and the Kenyan army managed to fend off the assault from their positions.
Friday, 23 November, 2012
Democratic Republic of Congo: M23 rebels push on after repelling counter-attack by government forces
Rebels advanced in eastern Congo on Friday after repelling a counter-attack by government forces, trying to strengthen their grip before a summit on defusing the crisis in a region long plagued by ethnic and political conflict.
Fighters from the M23 group, who are widely thought to be backed by neighbouring Rwanda, pushed south along Lake Kivu near the new rebel stronghold of Goma on the Rwandan border.
In Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, protesters accused the rebels of abuses including the rape of pregnant women while the United Nations reported killings of civilians and kidnappings.