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Sunday, 31 January, 2010

Yemen: Army kills 24 al-Houthi rebels, Government meanwhile says is ready for the truce with rebels

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24 sciite rebels have been killed in northern Yemen. Yemen Defence Minister announced it.
Yemen authorities are ready for a truce in northern of country if sciite rebels will accept six conditions for returnig peace. Council of yemenita national defense has announced it in an official announcement.
“Government is ready to stop military operations if rebels will be engaged to respect six points announced by Government, including what not to attack in Saudi Arabia and to free in short times saudi and yemeni detainees” the statement said.

The News:
http://www.corriere. … /1-A_000079197.shtml
http://www.corriere. … /1-A_000079250.shtml

Bosnia-Herzegovina: Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesic threatened to intervene militarily if Republika Srpska will attempt to secede and establish itself as an Independent State

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Outgoing Croatian president Stjepan Mesic earlier this month threatened to intervene militarily in the event that Bosnia’s Serb entity, Republika Srpska, attempts to secede and establish itself as an Independent State. He was responding to repeated separatist noises on the part of the Republika Srpska’s aggressively nationalistic prime minister, Milorad Dodik, who makes no secret of his hostility to the state of Bosnia-Hercegovina and his designs against its territorial integrity, and whose atrocity denial and friendship for convicted war-criminals indicate a dangerous contempt for the norms of civilised behaviour.

Mesic has warned that if Dodik announces a referendum on secession – as the first step toward the Republika Srpska’s unification with Serbia to form a ‘Great Serbia’ – he would send the Croatian Army south across the River Sava to cut in half the Bosnian Serb entity, which ‘would then have to disappear’.

The News:
http://www.bosnia.or … body.cfm?newsid=2676

Saturday, 30 January, 2010

Yemen: leader of al-Houthi rebels accepts 5 conditions of Government

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Leader Yemen sciite rebels al-Houthi is ready to accept conditions of Government, but only if this will stop its “aggression”. In an audio message diffused in last hours on rebel internet website on on Youtube, Abdelmalek al-Houthi affirmed: ‘The ball is now in the enemy camp, because I announce to accept the five points (agreement of Doha in 2008), but only after the end of brutal aggression’, ongoing for 6 months.

The News:
http://www.ansa.it/w … html_1679366837.html

Nigeria: Mend (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) revokes ceasefire threating attacks

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The militant group Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND said Saturday declared an all out war on the government and oil firms in the area after it said it had called off the ceasefire pact made in the aftermath of the ground breaking amnesty arranged between the government and the militant groups operating in the oil rich region.

Saturday’s announcement also warned oil producing firms to vacate the region immediately, warning that they should be ready to accept responsibility for whatever happened to their staff who remain at their bases.

The News:
http://www.businessd … atest-news&Itemid=18

Friday, 29 January, 2010

Somalia: Fighting rages in Mogadishu between al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam islamist fighters on one side and the Amisom troops and pro-government forces on the other

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Heavy fighting raged early on Friday in the centre of Mogadishu between Islamist insurgents and soldiers of the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia (Amisom).

Artillery exchanges and automatic weapons fire broke out around 02:00 (23:00 GMT on Thursday) and continued through the night. After dying down a little, the violence resumed in full intensity at dawn.

The fighting was concentrated around the strategic K4 junction halfway between the Somali capital’s airport and the port.

The News:
http://www.news24.co … g_rages_in_Mogadishu

Tuesday, 26 January, 2010

Ethiopia: Ethiopian forces (Woyane army or Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front) burned the town of Budle and fought against Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA)

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Reports reaching the Ogaden Online News Desk confirm the burning down of the town of Budle, Shabelle province by the Woyane army. Eyewitnesses indicate that the Woyane militias first looted all valuables in the town. Prior to torching the town, the marauding Woyane militias also took two young girls with them. We couldn’t confirm the names of the two young girls.

The News:
http://www.ogaden.co … dle-shabele-province

Monday, 25 January, 2010

South Ossetia can provide proved evidences that Georgia is being actively prepared for a new war

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A meeting between the delegation of the Geneva talks Co-Chairs of the EU, OSCE and UN and the discussions’ South Ossetian participants – Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev, Foreign Minister Murat Djioev and others, was held in Tskhinval. The Co-Chairs’ Delegation was headed by the EU Envoy Pierre Morel. It is worth mentioning that after Kazakhstan has assumed the OSCE Chairmanship, the Organization is represented at the Discussions in Geneva by Ambassador Bolat Nurgaliev. Boris Chochiev had expressed his assuredness that the participation of new representatives in the Geneva Discussions would give new impetus to the talks.
According to Chochiev, the situation was difficult and the 9th round of talks would not be easy either.

“The more we work, the more we are interested in concrete results”. “Our southern neighbors continue to organize provocations, abduct our citizens and groundlessly blame us in many faults.This is the result of the fact that the aggressor did not receive any corresponding international assessment to its criminal actions. The Georgian authorities did not calm down event after the publication of the report of Tagliavini’s Commission, where thing were clearly explained”, said Chochiev. He emphasized that the South Ossetian side can provide proved evidences of Georgia’s being prepared for a new war.

The News:
http://cominf.org/en/node/1166482241