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Would be at least 2.000 death in riots broken up from June 10 in south Kyrgyzstan. Premier Rosa Otunbaieva affirmed it in an interview at russian newspaper ‘Kommersant’. Officially bill is 191 victims, but “I’d increase at least 10 times the number of death”, Otunbaieva said. (RCD)
Worsen the balance of violence linked to drug trafficking who has bloodied Mexico. After slaughter by narcos of almost 80 death of last week, during last 24 hours, have been killed more than 43 people.
Fifteen policemen have been gunned down in an ambush in Zitacuaro, in Michoacoan state.
Twenty eight prisoners instead are death during a shootout happened in Maztlan prison, in mexican state of Sinaloa.
After three days of ethnic rioting that spread across the south of this strategically important Central Asian nation, many streets in Osh city lay in smoldering ruins on Sunday night.
The official death toll rose to more than 100, and thousands of refugees poured across the border into Uzbekistan as the authorities were unable to contain the murderous mobs.
Whole sections of Osh, where longstanding tensions between the Kyrgyz majority and the Uzbek minority exploded into violence Thursday night, were all but deserted on Sunday, and heavy black smoke still billowed from uzbek enclaves set afire by kyrgyz gangs.
Ali Taziyev, once of leaders of islamic separatist movement of North Caucasus Emirate, has been captured by russian secrets Services (Fsb). The man has been taken near Ingushetia and brought in Moscow.
The pro-government militia group of Ahlu Sunnah Waljama (ASW) in Somalia on Friday claimed they killed at least 91 Islamist fighters and wounded 170 others in Thursday’s fierce clashes with rebel forces in Mogadishu.
The group which is allied to the Somali government said it also captured two vehicles loaded with weapons and ammunition supplies from the radical Islamist group of Al Shabaab opposed to the Somali government.
The fierce battles on Thursday left at least 20 civilians dead and almost 60 others injured after allied Somali government forces and the pro-government militias backed by African Union peacekeeping forces launched an early morning offensive on rebel positions in Mogadishu.
Qatari mediators brokered an agreement between the Djiboutian and the Eritrean governments after months of shuttle diplomacy. Qatar has deployed its forces on the border between the two countries starting late Tuesday night; and by Wednesday morning, the forces had been deployed on the entire disputed areas between the two countries. The number of the Qatari forces is estimated to be several hundred soldiers
Reached by telephone in Djibouti, Mr. Mohammed Taha Tewekel, the director of Gulf News Center confirmed the news. Though Djibouti hosts American and French forces, it is not known whether they had any role in the deployment.
Djibouti’s rebel Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD) said Monday that it had fought off two attacks by the army and killed three soldiers, in a statement sent to Nairobi.
Last Friday and Saturday, “the army undertook two attacks against fighters of the FRUD in the north of Djibouti, near Bouya (close to the Ethiopian border) and at Eshatou Asmadera (35 kilometres, 22 miles from Obock), the statement said.
“These attacks were pushed back on the two fronts by FRUD fighters,” the rebel movement said, adding that two government soldiers were killed at Bouya and one died at Eshatou.
“Tensions are very high in the regions of Mabla, Moussa Ali and Bouya”, according to the rebels, who “impute the entire responsibility for this escalation to the obstinacy of the regime in locking itself into the logic of war.”