Several dozen people have been killed in a spasm of intercommunal violence in a disputed area of #SouthSudan, the UN’s emergency response agency #OCHA says.https://t.co/28jALsFspX
Several dozen people have been killed in a spasm of intercommunal violence in a disputed area of South Sudan, the UN’s emergency response agency OCHA and a local official said Wednesday.
OCHA said the fighting in the oil-rich Abyei area on the border with Sudan had left 36 people killed as of March 6, with an unknown number injured and reportedly 50,000 displaced.
“Intercommunal tensions increased in recent weeks in the Abyei Administrative Area (AAA), allegedly driven by longstanding territorial disputes, inter-tribal tensions and revenge seeking,” the agency said in a statement.
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Sadly, inter- and intra-communal violence is what they do in that part of the world, which is why Muslim Sudan dominates them so effectively. As far as I can tell, South Sudan is worse than Nigeria for this kind of thing
#Mali has announced a murder inquiry after an outcry in neighboring #Mauritania over the death of Mauritanian civilians in a border area, but contested allegations its troops were to blame.https://t.co/iUCsdKOY3Z
Mali has announced a murder inquiry after an outcry in neighboring Mauritania over the death of Mauritanian civilians in a border area, but contested allegations its troops were to blame.
On Tuesday, Mauritania accused Mali’s army of “recurring criminal acts” after a number of its citizens went missing near the border. Read the rest at the link
On Wednesday, the bodies of around 50 migrants washed ashore in the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha, according to the NGO, Alarm Phone.
In a statement, it said that 50 people attempted to depart Libya, when their boat sank off the city of Sabratha, on 27 February. No survivors were found, and more than a dozen bodies had washed up on the coast.
In the days following the shipwreck, members of the Libyan Red Crescent recovered seven corpses, on the beach. According to a source close to the Libyan Coast Guard, the dead were taken to the Sabratha police station.
The UN refugee agency’s (UNHCR), Caroline Gluck confirmed that bodies had been found. Neither she, nor the International Organization for Migration (IOM) were able to give any further information about the shipwreck.
Meanwhile, a large container ship owned by the French company CMA CGM heading to Dunkirk, northern France, is carrying 26 migrants who had fled from Libya.
The migrants reportedly left the city of Benghazi on 3 March in a rubber boat. Two days later they contacted Alarm Phone, explaining that they were adrift in international waters. Both the Italian and Maltese Coast Guards refused Alarm Phone’s requests to rescue the migrants, instead telling the NGO to contact the Libyan authorities.
On 6 March, Alarm Phone learned that the migrants had been rescued by the ship CMA CGM Rivoli.
Alarm Phone announced last week that during 2021, it had assisted 407 boats in distress in the central Mediterranean. Of these, 45 migrant boats were rescued by vessels run by civil society groups including Sea Watch, SOS Mediterranee, and Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
The official number of migrant deaths in the last year stands at about 1,550 – the number of missing is believed to be far higher. Thousands of others were intercepted by the Coast Guard and returned to Libya, or Tunisia, according to the IOM.
The Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, has released some photos claiming to show its sharia policemen (Hisbah) destroying batches of drugs suspected to be cannabis (marijuana) in an undisclosed location in Nigeria.
The photos show 3 members of the terror group wearing uniforms with the words "Islamic State" and "Hisbah" on them.
Though the location wasn’t disclosed, security analysts claimed the incident occurred around Lake Chad in Borno State.
In the photos, the men piled a number of black bags which presumably contained the drugs and then set them on fire.
Sahara Reporters had in several reports in 2021 reported how the insurgents had been policing and taxing residents of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states.
Sources said the failure of the residents to comply with some of the directives attracts the death penalty.
The terror group in 2021 also distributed Ramadan welfare packages to the residents.
Sahara Reporters gathered that the package distributed by the insurgents included rice, beans, millet, maize, sugar, spaghetti and cash gifts.
A security source had said the gesture was to induce the villagers to join the group’s ranks as militants.
Since the death of JAS leader, Abubakar Shekau, ISWAP has been consolidating its grip in locations around Lake Chad.
The sect’s membership has swollen with the defection of hundreds of Boko Haram fighters who were under Shekau.
The terror group has caused over 100,000 deaths and displaced millions of individuals mainly in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states.
The Nigerian Army has confirmed the death of 18 soldiers during a gun battle with terrorists, locally dubbed as bandits, in Kebbi State. In a military signal obtained by SaharaReporters on Thursday, the army authorities stated that the soldiers from Light Tank Battalion engaged in a fierce gun battle with the gunmen which also led to their death.
It added that eight soldiers were wounded while two others are missing in action.
[OneIndia] Unidentified button men have rubbed out a "businessman" in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... who Indian intelligence officials said was Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, involved in the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines plane IC-814 and fatal stabbing of passenger Rupin Katyal.
According to digital news agency 'Chippa', run by 'momentiquemedia' which has an address and telephone numbers of Karachi, "one person died in firing near a shop at Akthar Colony Sector A, Gali (lane) number four.
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Red corner notice. "It is issued for persons, against whom a national or international court has issued a warrant of arrest."
That is new to me. " businessman was fired four to five times." Shoot, shot, rubbed out, fired, so many ways to receive a bullet. Just say it was the gun. Like they say for mini vans striking people. Anyway I would have put it warrant of interest.
Shafaq News / Al-Salam Brigades revealed today repelling an ISIS attack north of Samarra.
A military source in the Brigades told Shafaq News agency that today at dawn, al-Salam Brigades, affiliated with the Sadrist movement, thwarted an ISIS attack and killed a terrorist near al-Qadiriyah village.
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Shafaq News / Four ISIS terrorists were killed north of Saladin, a security source reported.
The source told Shafaq News agency that ISIS terrorists attacked a security point of the Iraqi army in Baiji district.
Four terrorists were killed, according to the source, while two Iraqi soldiers were wounded.
This area constantly witnesses terrorist attacks, as al-Jazeera area, located on the outskirts of al-Anbar, Nineveh, and Saladin, still contains ISIS hideouts.
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Shafaq News / The Security Media Cell announced that the head of the Saladin Operations Command had survived an assassination attempt.
The statement said that during a searching campaign that SOC forces conducted today south of the governorate, an explosive device planted on the side of the road blew up damaging the vehicle that was carrying the head of the Saladin Operations Command.
No casualties were recorded.
Earlier today, Shafaq News agency reported earlier today that the head of the Saladin Operations Command, Maj. Gen Abdulmohsen Hatem, survived an assassination attempt.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) March 10, 2022
DARAA, Syria’s North Press) – On Thursday, unidentified gunmen deadly shot a former member of the opposition factions in the western countryside of Daraa.
“Ahmed al-Ammarin was killed by unknown gunmen in the city of Nawa in the western countryside of Daraa,” a local source told North Press.
“Al-Ammarin was a former member of the opposition factions, and had reconciled with government forces in 2018,” the sources added.
According to the source, Al-Ammarin had lost his legs earlier in explosive remnants of war.
Daraa governorate is witnessing an unprecedented state of insecurity and daily killings despite the deployment of dozens of military checkpoints of the government forces in the governorate.
Reporting by Mo’ayed al-Ashqar
Significant increase in killings in #Syria’ #Daraa governorate, despite the government forces' complete control over it.https://t.co/Kiu6Zs6J5i
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Several areas in #Syria witnessed mutual bombardment between government forces and the opposition factions, without causing casualties. #HTShttps://t.co/1Qm3rTtGh2
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IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – The de-escalation zones in northwest Syria witnessed on Thursday military escalation and exchange of shelling between the Syrian government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions.
The opposition factions’ sites in the towns of al-Fatira, Kafr Aweid, Sufuhn, and Kansafra, south of Idlib, were hit with heavy artillery by the Syrian government forces, opposition military sources told North Press.
“The sites of the opposition factions in areas in the western countryside of Aleppo and areas near Jabal-al-Turkman and Jabal al-Akrad, north Lattakia, were also bombed, but no casualties were reported,” the sources added.
“Al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room bombed the government forces’ sites in the town of Malajah and Dar al-Kabira, south of Idlib. It also bombed the government forces’ sites in the 46th Regiment in west of Aleppo,” according to the sources.
The de-escalation zone in northwest Syria witnesses daily bombardment between the government forces and Turkish-backed opposition factions, without any change in the territorial control.
Reporting by Bara’ Shami
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
