Away from the Ukraine-Russia diplomatic wrangling, fighting still rages in the east, with both sides blaming each other for the violence.
The conflict in Ukraine has been in the headlines for its links to the US president’s impeachment inquiry.
Friday, 22 November, 2019
Papua New Guinea: Bougainville residents to vote on becoming world’s newest nation
The Pacific people of Bougainville will on Saturday begin voting in a referendum to decide if they want to become the world’s newest nation by gaining independence from Papua New Guinea.
The referendum will run over two weeks and is a key part of a 2001 peace agreement that ended a civil war in which at least 15,000 people died in the cluster of islands to the east of the Papua New Guinea mainland.
Somaliland: Al-Shabaab fighters captured town of Gacan Maroodi
Al-Qaeda’s branch in East Africa, al-Shabaab, stated yesterday that it’s men have captured a town in the disputed Sanaag region of northern Somalia.
While the federal government of Somalia claims Sanaag, the region is effectively under the control of the Somaliland administration.
Thursday, 21 November, 2019
Israel: Israel carries out wide-scale strikes on Iranian forces in Syria
Israel says it has hit dozens of targets in Syria belonging to the government and allied Iranian forces.
The Israeli military says the “wide-scale strikes” responded to rockets fired by an Iranian unit into Israel.
Tuesday, 19 November, 2019
Libya: East Libyan forces target a munitions depot in Misrata with air strikes
East Libya-based forces said they had carried out air strikes on the port city of Misrata in the early hours of Tuesday, targeting armored vehicles delivered from Turkey and a munitions depot.
The strikes came hours after a deadly air strike on a biscuit factory in the capital Tripoli, 190 kms (118 miles) to the west, that the United Nations envoy to Libya said could constitute a war crime.
Mali: Army loses 24 soldiers in Niger border attack, 17 milintats killed
Twenty-four soldiers have been killed in an attack by militants in eastern Mali, the country’s army has said.
Another 29 were also injured during a joint operation between troops from Mali and Niger in the Gao border region.
Monday, 18 November, 2019
Burkina Faso: Army says 32 terrorists killed after deadly convoy attack
The Burkina Faso army said on Sunday it had killed 32 “terrorists” in two operations in the north of the country, days after dozens of people were killed in an ambush on a convoy transporting employees of a Canadian mining company.
The army said 24 people were killed in the first operation on Friday and a further eight in a second on Saturday.