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The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army’s (DKBA) Brigade 5 reached a ceasefire agreement with a Burmese government delegation on Thursday, said the DKBA Brigade 5 leader, Brig-Gen Saw Lah Pwe.
Saw Lah Pwe told The Irrawaddy on Friday that he signed a ceasefire agreement with a Burmese delegation on Thursday. He said that fighting had stopped and some government troops that previously were deployed on the frontlines had begun to withdraw from areas controlled by DKBA Brigade 5.
According to reports received from Erigavo fighting broke out between Somaliland army and militia group that tried to create inter clan fighting in the city this afternoon.
Khalid Ahmed resident of Erigavo city confirm to Somalilandpress that Somaliland army clashed with militia group that managed to come inside the city last three days without being noticed in order to distable the peace in the city.
Today on November, 3, 2011, the gallant forces of South Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SSLM/A) captured Nhialdiew (35 km from Bentiu town) after battling 5,000 SPLA forces for the last three days.
The town is completely liberated and 125 SPLA soldiers, with one Colonel and five Captains, voluntarily joined the SSLA. Around 50 SPLA soldiers have been killed and thirty wounded. The wounded SPLA soldiers are under the custody of the SSLA and are being accorded the protection of international laws of war which obligate the SSLA to treat war prisoners humanely.
No fewer than 136 people have been confirmed dead in the wake of the simultaneous bomb attacks and shootings in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, at the weekend.
Sources with the National Emergency Management Agency, who visited the state hospital in Damaturu, confirmed that of the 136 who died, 135 were male and one was female. In addition, 17 people were injured, comprising 13 male and four female.
The wave of bomb attacks in Yobe and Borno States prompted President Goodluck Jonathan to cancel his scheduled trip to Bayelsa State to attend the wedding of his brother, in order to focus on the security situation in north-east Nigeria.
Colombian army forces have killed “Alfonso Cano,” the supreme leader of the FARC, the country’s Defense Minister confirmed Friday.
The country’s defense minister said the country’s most wanted man was killed earlier that day following a bombing raid in the south west of the country.
According to Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon, Cano was killed while being persecuted by armed forces in the southwestern Cauca department, hours after a number of his closest men were killed in a bombing raid in Suarez, a rural municipality in the southwestern Cauca department.
Cano’s death was confirmed by authorities after his body was examined by forensic scientists.
Sudanese armed forces seized the rebel stronghold of Kurmuk in Blue Nile state, both sides said on Thursday, after two months of heavy fighting in the state on the border with newly independent South Sudan.
“Our troops entered the town of Kurmuk, expelled the insurgents and killed and wounded many (of them) and they are now cleansing the town,” Sudan’s defence ministry website said.
Violence in Sudanese border states has soured talks between Khartoum and former civil war foe South Sudan who have yet to resolve issues such as how to share oil revenues or other assets after South Sudan seceded as part of a 2005 peace deal.
Three Colombian soldiers were killed and at least another four wounded in southwest Colombia Wednesday during two separate confrontations with the leftist guerrilla group FARC.
The first attack occurred in the rural area of Florencia, Caqueta when alleged members of the Teofilo Forero Mobile Column of the FARC ambushed a patrol from the mountains and killed two soldiers.