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Military coup d’etat in Niger. After a day of fights, the president Mamadou Tandja, together with all his memebers of Government, has finished in hands of soldiers and has been imprisoned in a barracks.
Army has declared suspended the Constitution and dissolved all state institutions.
Radio has interrupted programs and started to spread only military marches, at the end of a day with dead of four soldiers.
The president of the West African nation of Niger has been taken hostage after armed soldiers stormed the presidential palace in the capital, Niamey, witnesses said.
The attack on Thursday came after witnesses reported hearing machine gunfire near the palace where Mamadou Tandja, the country’s president, was believed to be holding a meeting.
A journalist in the capital, who asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said the president is currently being held by soldiers at a garrison in the city.
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At least 6 people have been killed and more others wounded after heavy fighting between the Islamist fighters of Harakat al-Shabaab Mujihideen and other rival forces flared up at Dobley town near the Somali border, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
Locals said that the fighting broke out on Thursday morning as two well armored unites had attacked and entered two streets in the west of the town which reportedly continued for a while adding that it caused casualties of deaths and injuries.
Residents said that the sound of gunfire could be heard all directions in the town.
The European Union (EU) will start the training of 2,000 Somali troops in Uganda in May, a senior French army official said here on Friday.
Brigadier General Thierry Caspar-Fille-Lambie, the commanding officer of the French Forces based in Djibouti said the Somali troops will be trained with the necessary military skills to help pacify and stabilize the volatile country.
The Somali troops will be trained for six months in Bihanga in western Uganda.
It’s the final showdown, the start of last battle. The last, to controlling Mogadishu. Somalia lives now hours of standby of strong tension. Driven by African Union that sustain the Federal Transitional Government, 3500 Burundi and Uganda soldiers of Amisom are preparing to attack in a big style to get by islamic radicals of al-Shabaab the neighborhoods of capital conquered in last months. Group officially tied to al Qaeda has gathered the challenge and by days thousands of mujahideen coming from every region of the country are concentrating in Mogadishu, together with heavy weapons, tanks, guns, rpg and mortars.
The flux of fighters, according fews inhabitants in town forced to live in house in a major of time, is unrestrainable. They are arrived by trucks, jeep, old bus and vans. To control the terrain they already have launched a rain of mortars and of gun along the perimeter along the headquarters of United Nations forces. The blue helmets, armed with new rules of engagement authorizing them to return fire, they responded to gunfire.
Hundreds of Somali insurgents loyal to islamist group al-Shabaab have reached Mogadishu, witnesses say, amid expectations of a major battle.
Eyewitnesses reported that fighters, about 20 vehicles and artillery had arrived in Somalia’s capital overnight.
Residents have been fleeing for days amid a widespread belief that the rebels and government forces are on the cusp of a serious showdown.
Al-Shabaab and other rebel groups control much of southern Somalia.
Nigeria’s minister for foreign affairs has angrily responded to a question asked by his counterparts from Uganda and Ethiopia at the AU summit regarding the deployment of troops in Somalia previously pledged by his country and when that was likely to happen.
The minister said there is no peace to keep in Somalia and that any claims by some countries that they are going to restore peace and security in Somalia are insincere. The Nigerian minister of foreign affairs said they were not going to deploy their troops in Somalia.