Nigeria’s minister for foreign affairs has angrily responded to a question asked by his counterparts from Uganda and Ethiopia at the AU summit regarding the deployment of troops in Somalia previously pledged by his country and when that was likely to happen.

The minister said there is no peace to keep in Somalia and that any claims by some countries that they are going to restore peace and security in Somalia are insincere. The Nigerian minister of foreign affairs said they were not going to deploy their troops in Somalia.

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United States and Afghanistan army are preparing a big offensive in Helmand province, fortress of talibans in south Afghanistan. Financial Times reports today. The top USA military believe that at least 1700 rebels hiding in Marjah.

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Violent battle with heavy artillery in Mogadishu: the previous budget is of 5 or 6 dead and at least 14 wounded. Victims are almost all civilians and between them also a woman and a child.

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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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.

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