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At least nine Maoist rebels were killed in an overnight “gun-battle” with police in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand, officials said on Friday.
Police officials said the gun battle with the rebels erupted at the Betla national park in Latehar district late Thursday when the police combed the thickly-forested area.
Nepal’s Maoists have relinquished control of at least 19,000 former fighters to government control in a move expected to boost the country’s peace process.
Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the Maoist leader popularly known as Prachanda, and Madhav Kumar Nepal, the country’s prime minister, signed a joint declaration on Saturday to place the former fighters under the control of a cross-party committee headed by the prime minister.
Heavy confrontation broke out between Al shabaab fighters and Somalia’s moderate Ahlu Sunna Wal-jamaca (ASWJ) in Galguduud region in central Somalia, reports said on Monday.
Reports said that the confrontation occur in Wardhumalo village in Galguduud region, adding that heavy gun fire and RBG guns which both al-Shabaab extremist fighters and moderate Ahlu Sunna fighters have been exchanging for several hours.
Sheikh Abdirazak Mohammed Ali, the spokesman of Ahlu Sunna Wal-jamaca fighters in central Somalia, told Shabelle radio that Ahlu Sunna fighters launched attacks on al-Shabaab positions in the village Wardhumalo.
Sudanese government armed forces clashed yesterday with rebels from the western region of Darfur, leaving 21 killed from both sides, army spokesman Al-Sawarmi Khaled said today.
The fighting took place when rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement, the biggest armed group in the region, and the Sudan Liberation Movement faction led by Minni Minnawi, ambushed a military convoy on the road between El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, and Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, Khaled said.
“The armed forces successfully quashed the ambush,” Khaled said by phone from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. “The battle lasted for four hours.”
Eight soldiers were killed from the armed forces, while the rebels lost 13 fighters in the battle, he said.
Guyana has become the sixth Latin American country to recognise an independent Palestinian state.
“It is Guyana’s hope that the increasing recognition of the state of Palestine will contribute to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the creation of lasting peace and stability in the region,” the foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Guyana’s decision, the statement said, “is in keeping with Guyana’s long-standing and unwavering solidarity with, and commitment to, the just and legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine for the exercise of their right to self-determination and to achieve a homeland of their own, independent, free, prosperous and at peace.”
Guyana joins Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Ecuador in recognising Palestine as an independent state within the borders that existed before Israel captured the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war.
A 10 member group of armed insurgents joined to government in surrounding areas of Faryab province.
National security Dept. press office said to this news agency (Bakhtar News Agency), a 10 member group of armed insurgents led by Mullah Sayed Amirshai Agha were joined to government.
This group had activity against the government in surrounding areas of Pashtoonkot district of Faryab province. With the efforts of national army personnel, they joined peace process.
Both the UN and international election observers hail last week’s referendum on independence in South Sudan as a success. Meanwhile, the counting of the ballots has already started in Juba.
The UN panel tasked with monitoring the referendum on the future status of South Sudan already yesterday said it was “satisfied” with the polling, which had lasted for a week and ended on Saturday. The UN panel concluded the process had been well organised and enabled the people of the region to express their will freely.
The panel, headed by former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa, again confirmed that the 60 percent voter turnout threshold for the referendum to be valid had been met. The presence of over 22,000 Sudanese and international observers helped make the process transparent, the members of the panel said, adding that staff at referendum centres “coped admirably with the very high turnout.”
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