A subsoil endowed with riches; a metropolis with controlled development; a distinctive identity maintained by its political elite; and a secessionist heritage …The most opulent province of the country cultivates its difference without complex.

Welcome to Kamalondo, the popular residential area of Lubumbashi, Katanga`s provincial headquarters. Here, life goes on quietly, peacefully, like maize that sway in the breeze on plots of land, orderly like shacks aligned in laterite streets. Sitting in garland in the talus, young women place their odds and ends on the floor.

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The self-proclaimed state of Somaliland closed its borders Saturday as voters chose their president amid fears Islamists from neighbouring Somalia could try to disrupt the polls.

The northern territory has been more stable than Somalia since it broke away in 1991 but a message warning voters to stay home by the leader of the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab movement drew draconian security measures.

“All our country’s forces are locking the borders. Movements and transport inside Somaliland are also forbidden except for those authorised by the national election commission (NEC),” police chief Mohamed Saqadi Dubad said.

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Somalia’s Al Qaeda-inspired al-Shabaab warned voters in the northern self-proclaimed state of Somaliland not to vote in the presidential elections, in an audio message obtained by AFP Friday.

“Those who take part in those so-called elections will face the consequences,” Ahmed Abdi Godane, the overall leader of the al-Shabaab group, said in the message released ahead of Somaliland’s Saturday polls.

Godane, also known as “Abu Zubayr” and a native of the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, said the elections were organised by the anti-Islamic forces in Somalia.

Somaliland’s presidential polls, which were delayed three times since 2008, are due to go ahead on Saturday, 50 years to the day after the territory obtained its independence from Britain.

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A senior Indian army officer has been killed in a gun battle with separatist militants in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Colonel Neeraj Sood was “leading his troops” when he was gunned down by militants in Lolab area, the army said.

He is the highest ranking officer to be killed by militants in Kashmir in 2010.

Despite a decline in violence in Kashmir in recent years, there are fears that militants are trying to regroup in the region.

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Gun fights between Somali government troops and Islamist rebels in the capital Mogadishu has killed 20 people, including more than a dozen civilians, officials said on Saturday.

The clashes took place after heavily-armed, al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgents attacked a government military base in Dharkenley district, south of the capital on Friday. The fighting was over by the end of the day.

“We pushed them back and killed 13 of al Shabaab’s fighters. We are still at our bases,” Abdiazis Ali, a senior Somali military officer, told Reuters.

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One hundred and thirty kurds killed since march to today: it’s the balance of operations of turkey armed forces in territories where Pkk has own bases, in Turkey and north Iraq: has announced it an official military turkish. Army has had also losses: 43 soldiers has lost life during fights.

Friday last episode: three “rebels” of separatist Kurdistan Workers Party have been killed by army in turkish province of Erzincan.

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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)

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