Two Maoist rebels were killed in an encounter with police on Saturday in Orchha’s Abujhmad area.
A large quantity of Maoist literature has been recovered from the spot.
Saturday, 19 June, 2021
Burma-Myanmar: Tatmadaw targets civilians following military defeat in Kachin State, KWAT says
Following a series of embarrassing military defeat during the conflict with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), the Burma Army increased attacks on civilians, a Kachin Women’s Association of Thailand (KWAT) report has found.
According to KWAT’s June 16 report, the Tatmadaw committed human rights abuses against civilians in Kachin State in response to KIA seizing several strategic military camps in Kachin State.
Friday, 18 June, 2021
Cameroon: Cameroon deploys troops to fight Ambazonia Defense Forces (ADF) separatists
Cameroon this week deployed an additional 300 troops to Bui, a northwestern administrative unit that the military says has become a stronghold for separatists. The troops are conducting house-to-house searches for weapons and destroying improvised explosive devices and rebel camps. But Civilians accuse both sides of abuses and rights violations.
Cameroon’s military says Bui, an administrative unit in the English speaking North West Region, is becoming an epicenter of separatist atrocities. About 35 improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, were destroyed by the military within the past two weeks.
Thursday, 17 June, 2021
Somalia: Attack kills 10 people at Mogadishu army training camp
A suicide bomber has killed at least 10 people at an army training camp in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.
Many of the injured have been taken to hospital, a witness told the BBC.
Saturday, 12 June, 2021
France: French army kills Mali jihadist linked to 2 journalist murders
French soldiers have killed a Malian jihadist suspected of being responsible for the kidnapping and deaths of two French journalists in 2013, Defence Minister Florence Parly said Friday.
Parly said French forces in the Sahel region killed “four terrorists” during an operation in northern Mali on June 5, including Bayes Ag Bakabo, the prime suspect in the deaths of RFI radio reporters Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon.