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Red Cross picks up freed Darfur aid workers
Khartoum :: Sudan | about 1 month ago
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Sharon Commins and her colleague Ugandan Hilda Kawuki were taken from a compound run by the Goal aid agency in North Darfur town of Kutum by six armed men on July 3. After more than three months of negotiations with the abductors the kidnappers contacted...
Tags: Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, UN-African Union, North Darfur, rebel leader, The Hague, Hague Court, International Criminal Court, union peacekeepers, darfur case
Ethiopia denounces attack on African peacekeepers in Somalia
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 2 months ago
Credibility The government of Ethiopia strongly condemned suicide bombers coordinated assault against an African Union peacekeepers base in Mogadishu...Al-Qaeda’s East Africa partner, Al-Shabaab, which took responsibility for the attack said that the attack was launched...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu...Al-Qaeda, African Union, cars bombs, peacekeepers base, union peacekeepers, Ugandans, Mogadishu
Somali insurgents holding Frenchman issue demands
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 2 months ago
Credibility Other demands include the withdrawal of all French warships patrolling Somali waters.
Tags: Somalia, African Union Commission, Mogadishu, suicide bombs, special force, suicide attack, French, American, union peacekeepers, bombs attack
Dozens die in Mogadishu shelling
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 months ago
Credibility Up to 40 people were killed and nearly a hundred more were wounded as an exchange of heavy shelling which began overnight continued in residential areas in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, a health official and witnesses said Friday. The Somali government...
Tags: Somalia, Mogadishu, African Union, government forces, union peacekeepers
Somalia fighters retake two towns
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 3 months ago
Credibility Heavy fighting in Somalia has left at least 15 people dead as government soldiers and al-Shabab fighters battle for control of strategic towns. Fighting started in Bula Burte, a town north of Mogadishu, the capital, on Thursday when government soldiers...
Tags: Somalia Fighting Kills, African Union Mission, Somali Capital Kills, Mogadishu, Ethiopian, central somalia, union peacekeepers, fight kills, government forces, government soldiers
Battles continue in parts of Somalia
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 4 months ago
Credibility Massive exchange of shelling continued as pro-government forces and the AU peacekeepers, Amisom, in Mogadishu responded to attacks and fire from Islamist groups. The shelling mostly affected parts of Hodon District in South Mogadishu and Wardhigley District...
Tags: South Mogadishu, northern Mogadishu, Somalia, union peacekeepers, Somalis, African Union, government force, Somali Army, government soldiers
AU forces drawn into Somalia war
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 5 months ago
Credibility African Union (AU) peacekeepers in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, have directly reinforced government troops for the first time, a spokesman for the peacekeepers has said. Bahoku Barigye said that the troops were drawn into Sunday's fighting by a direct...
Tags: Somalia, north Mogadishu, union peacekeepers, African Union, government troops, government force, au force
Darfur rebels say Sudan army base seized
Khartoum :: Sudan | 6 months ago
Credibility Darfur's rebel Justice and Equality Movement said on Sunday it had seized a Sudanese government military base close to the border with Chad, stoking tensions after a series of clashes in the area. Joint U.N.-African Union peacekeepers in Darfur confirmed...
Tags: North Darfur, Sudan, darfur rebels, war crimes, International Criminal Court, U.N.-African Union, Chad, Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, union peacekeepers, face war
Mortars miss Somali parliament, hits houses
Mogadishu :: Somalia | 7 months ago
Credibility The Mogadishu police chief says a mortar attack on the Somali parliament has missed the building and hit a residential neighborhood. Police Chief Abdi Hassan Awale says the mortars were aimed at the parliament, where diplomats were meeting Saturday.
Tags: Somalia, Hassan Dahir Aweys, opposition leader, mortar fired, Mogadishu, mortar attack, union peacekeepers, police officer, African Union, hardline opposition
Kenya court begins Somali piracy cases
Brussels :: Belgium | 7 months ago
Credibility In one courtroom 11 shabbily dressed men made their first court appearance on Thursday after being captured and handed over by French commandos. Judge Catherine Mwangi adjourned the case until May 27 and ordered court officials to dress the suspects properly...
Tags: Stabilize Somalia, Eighteen Somali, security force, African Union, union peacekeepers, European Commission, Kenya, general ban, pirate attacks
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