Kuchukuliwa kwa mji wa Walikale wenye wakazi takriban 60,000 mwishoni mwa siku ya Jumatano kunashiria kwamba kundi hili la wapiganaji limefika sehemu ya mbali kabisa magharibi kutoka eneo lao la awali tangu lilipojitokeza mwaka 2012.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned late Tuesday that the strikes were “only the beginning” and that future negotiations with Hamas “will take place only under fire”.
Israel vowed on Tuesday to continue fighting in Gaza until all hostages are returned as it unleashed its most intense…
Kikundi cha M23 kilichopatiwa msaada na Rwanda kimesema hakiwezi kushiriki katika mazungumzo ya amani na serikali ya Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo (DRC) yaliyopangwa kufanyika leo Jumanne mjini Luanda, mji mkuu wa Angola, kufuatia vikwazo vya Umoja wa Ulaya dhidi ya baadhi ya viongozi wake wakuu.
Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said the meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency was “part of our ongoing engagement with the agency”.
The virtual meeting of the 16-nation SADC bloc will be updated on the security and humanitarian situation and review the mandate of the SADC mission in the DRC (SAMIDRC), SADC executive secretary Elias Magoso said in opening remarks.
Death tolls have varied, with the military saying in an official statement that “21 innocent hostages” were killed by the militants as well as four soldiers in the rescue operation.
The grenade attack was in response to a conflict between “two local organized criminal groups” that are fighting over turf, Bogota police commander Giovanni Cristancho told reporters near the scene.
The crown jewel in the M23’s territorial expansion is the DRC’s largest coltan mine from which the group generates around $800,000 in revenue each month, according to UN experts.
Jian Zhao, an active-duty army supply sergeant stationed at a military base in Washington state, was accused of gathering classified hard drives and a computer taken from the US government to sell to unspecified individuals in China.
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