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Suspected members of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militias have for the second time this month raided Kenya’s border town of Liboi.
The heavily armed gunmen barricaded and attacked several positions within the remote settlement, some 18km from Somalia’s porous-ragged border, witnesses told Saturday Nation.
Georgian military personnel trespassed the state borderline of South Ossetia, reports the Defense Ministry press-service.
“At around 17:00, two armored vehicles COBRA and one military pick-up enter the territory of South Ossetia as far as 150 meters near the village of Okona bordering with Georgian village of Knolevi. After warning shooting, the Georgian armed forces representatives returned back to Georgia”, says the report.
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As reported by Russian occupation media outlets, Mujahideen of the Caucasus Emirate killed at least 4 Russian invading terrorists in two IEA blasts that struck in Achkhoi-Martan district of Chechnya Thursday night, April 15, 2010.
A rebel group in Ethiopia’s southeastern Somali region has agreed to lay down arms after decades of guerrilla war, Communications Minister Bereket Simon announced Friday.
Leaders of the United Western Somali Liberation Front (UWSLF) had, after talks with the government, “accepted totally to abide by the constitution of Ethiopia and operate legally and abandon the armed struggle,” Bereket told a press conference.
“We expect these leaders to appear here soon to explain how they will operate in the Ethiopian legal atmosphere,” Bereket said, hailing a step that “will help the stability and peace” in the region also known as Ogaden.
The death toll from yesterday’s fighting between government forces backed by AU peacekeepers and Islamist militants in Mogadishu has risen to 30, reports independent Shabelle website.
More than 100 people are said to have been injured in the fighting, most of them civilians, after mortar shells landed in civilian neighbourhoods in Mogadishu’s Holwadaag, Hodan, Yaaqshiid, Wardhiigley, Hiliwaa and Bakaaraha Market.
An emergency ambulance service group official, Ali Muse Shaykh told Shabeelle that the fighting has caused huge losses and that they transported about 80 injured people to Mogadishu’s Madina Hospital.
At least 15 people have been killed and more than 650 others wounded in violent clashes in the Thai capital between security forces and anti-government protesters.
The dead included four soldiers and 11 civilians, including a Reuters cameraman, officials said.
Thailand’s army launched an offensive on Saturday to clear the so-called red shirt protesters from areas in Bangkok by nightfall.
Thailand Government has proclaimed the state of emergency in Bangkok and in others five provinces. The decision has been announced by Prime Ministre Abhisit Vejjajiva, after that the red shirts, militants loyal to ousted premier Thaskin Shinawatra, have entered in the Parliament forcing ministers to flee by helicopter. This is most dramatic day by the start of protests, on March 12.
With the state of emergency are prohibited gatherings of more than 5 people and the army has more powers to disperse the crowds, even though Abhisit has confirmed that the Government won’t use force.