Intense combat operations by Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) forces have continued in the Ogaden. ONLF forces targeted Ethiopian military bases, especially key enemy centres, inflicting heavy defeat on woyane [Ethiopian government] troops from which they can never recover.

Senior ONLF military officers told Ogaden Online reporters that fighting has mostly been taking place at army bases in the Ogaden. They added that the era when battles were fought in villages and rural areas was over.

The following is a report sent by Radio Freedom and Ogaden Online front-line correspondent on some of the battles that took place between August 16-29, 2010.

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A prison break by an armed group known as Boko Haram has raised fears of renewed violence in northern Nigeria just months before elections.

The group staged a raid on the prison on Tuesday night in the town of Bauchi, freeing more than 100 followers.

The attack left the prison in ruins and showed the group, which is seeking to institute sharia (Islamic law) in the country, had access to the sophisticated weapons it needed to overpower prison guards.

Nigeria’s interior minister said on Wednesday the rebels had “overwhelming firepower” and guards were unable to stop them.

“Due to the overwhelming firepower which the attackers deployed on their mission, they were easily able to overcome the stiff resistance which was put up by the gallant prison officers who attempted to block the progress of the assault on the prison,” Emmanuel Ihenacho, the minister, said.

The attackers, wielding AK-47 assault rifles, fired on the prison guards as they were breaking their daily Ramadan fast on Tuesday evening, Al Jazeera’s Yvonne Ndege reported from Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.

Between 800 and 900 of the prisoners broke out of the jail, including 200 inmates believed to be Boko Haram members, Ndege said. Four people were wounded in the clash.

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Left-wing guerrillas have increased their attacks against police installations in cocaine-producing areas of southern Colombia, killing eight officers on Friday and bringing this month’s death toll to 55.

President Juan Manuel Santos took office last month, promising to keep up pressure on the drug-running insurgents.

But his government has gotten off to a difficult start in the provinces of Narino and Putumayo, where the Revolutionary
Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) has gone on the offensive.

The provinces bordering Ecuador are key to the cocaine smuggling operations that fund Colombia’s decades-old
insurgency.

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The Republic of Honduras has formally recognized Kosovo on Friday as an independent and sovereign state. The decision on recognition was passed on to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, Mr. Skender Hyseni by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Honduras, Mr. Mario Canahuati.

During a long and warm talk between Ministers Hyseni and Canahuati, they also agreed to commence without delay proceedings on establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Minister Hyseni expressed the gratitude on behalf of the people and the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo and underlined the commitment of Kosovo to building cooperation and close relations with Honduras.

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At least 12 people were killed on Friday when fighting broke out among tribes over the distribution of irrigated water in the troubled western region that borders Pakistan, according to Dawn News.

The fighting between the Shalozan and Shalozan Tangi tribes in the upper Kurram region started about a week ago and has resulted in the deaths of 27 people and wounded 40 others, according to the report, citing officials and residents.

The tribes used heavy arms in the fighting, said Dawn.

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At least eight people have been killed in bomb blasts at the main airport in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, witnesses have said.

The victims in Thursday’s blasts included African Union (AU) peacekeeping troops.

Witnesses said a suicide bomber rammed a car into an AU peacekeepers post outside the airport and that they heard a second explosion inside the compound shortly afterwards.

A spokesman with the African Union confirmed the car bomb attack.

Mohamed Abdi, a shopkeeper, told Reuters news agency: “I have seen four bleeding AU soldiers being carried at the gate. At least eight dead bodies, most of them Amisom soldiers were lying on the ground.”

Two women begging in the street were also killed and one policeman was wounded, said Abdul Rahman Yussef, a Somali army official.

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Seventeen people have been killed and up to 90 injured as a powerful car bomb attack hit the central market in the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of the republic of North Ossetia-Alania.

The youngest victim was only 18 months old. The boy died in hospital.

Eight children were among those taken to a local hospital.

There may be more victims as “in the first minutes after the blast, injured were being carried away by their friends and relatives who transported them to hospitals in taxis,” the republic’s deputy emergency minister Kazbek Bekmurzov told Itar-Tass new agency.

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