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CBC.ca
March 21, 2018
2012, when rebel groups in the north waged an insurgency against the Malian government. French troops helped the government regain control in 2013, and UN peacekeepers arrived in April of that year. Over five years of violence have made it one of the UN's deadliest missions, with 162 fatalities to date.
The Herald
March 21, 2018
... terrorist activities through sharing information, as well as finding links between established terrorists like Al-Shabaab and rebel groups operating from the region. The meeting brought together intelligence bosses from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Somalia, Mauritius, South Sudan, Sudan, Djibouti,Ãâà...
The New Times
March 20, 2018
During the twenty or so minute meeting, they asked for $10.7milion to finance the paramilitary training of 500 Cuban rebels who would do the job. President Eisenhower said yes but on one condition “that…we have a good chance of being successful in “freeing the Cubans from this incubus.” Later that dayÃâà...
The Week UK
March 6, 2018
They say that writing is a solitary pursuit, and no doubt Lance Richardson had anticipated a more sequestered existence while researching the life of Tommy Nutter for his new book, House Of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor Of Savile Row. But what began as a straightforward biography about the audaciousÃâà...
Bangkok Post
March 6, 2018
The stop-go evacuation of rebel fighters and civilians from Aleppo had begun again as I write, but the reason for the last interruption was instructive. ... In Rwanda, an estimated 800,000 people, most of them from the Tutsi minority, were murdered by the militia of the Hutu regime in 1994 in a period of threeÃâà...
Times LIVE
February 28, 2018
The Nande and Hunde consider Congolese Hutu to be foreigners and in league with Rwandan Hutu rebels, gathered in a notoriously violent militia called the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The FDLR, set up in 2000, includes several leaders who took part in the 1994 RwandaÃâà...
The American Interest
February 20, 2018
Kagame was Museveni's chief of intelligence when the latter was a rebel commander in the 1980s. Several years after Museveni usurped the Ugandan presidency, Kagame invaded Rwanda with his Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) rebels, sparking a civil war with the Hutu extremist government in Kigali.
The New York Review of Books
February 19, 2018
The Ugandan and Rwandan armies officially pulled out of Congo in 2003, and their proxy forces were nominally integrated into Congo's national army. However, some of these ex-rebels continued to torment local Congolese, especially around the smuggling routes bordering Uganda and Rwanda. In 2012Ãâà...
New Zimbabwe.com
February 18, 2018
GOMA: Six soldiers died in fighting to repel an incursion by Rwandan troops in eastern Democratic of Republic of Congo this week, the army announced on Friday. In the latest flareup between the two neighbours, Rwanda rebutted the accusation and instead charged Congolese troops with attackingÃâà...
eNCA
February 16, 2018
GOMA - Six soldiers died in fighting to repel an incursion by Rwandan troops in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) this week, the army announced on Friday. In the latest flare-up between the two neighbours, Rwanda rebutted the accusation and instead charged Congolese troops withÃâà...
The Economist
February 15, 2018
The president before that, Mobutu Sese Seko, was overthrown by Rwandan-backed rebels who marched 1,600km through the rainforest in a mere six months, wearing gumboots. ... The forces of Paul Kagame, Rwanda's Tutsi strongman, had chased them into the rainforests of what was then called Zaire.
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Biya also survives because of his usefulness to the international community: Cameroon is fighting Nigeria's Islamist Boko Haram rebels in its Far North. In addition, the country hosts 350,000 refugees fleeing the violence in the Central African Republic and Nigeria. Biya is supported by France which hasÃâà...
New Zealand Herald
December 31, 1999
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says a military operation against the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus would continue while civilians would be allowed to leave the rebel-held area. "There is no contradiction between a truce and combat operations," he said. "The progress achieved yesterday and the day before inÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
FDLR rebels have operated in eastern DRC for 23 years, with majority of the senior members accused of taking part in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis. ... Meanwhile, reports indicate that Rwanda has beefed up security at its border following clashes between the Rwandan army and DRC forces, thatÃâà...
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