🇨🇩 M23 rebels pull out of key Congolese army base

M23 rebels on Friday handed over the Rumangabo army base to east African regional forces, after nearly two months in charge.

At a brief ceremony held at the facility, a rebel representative said the gesture symbolizes the group's commitment to peace.

A summit held in the Angolan capital last November ordered the rebels to vacate all Congolese territory under their occupation.

#DRC

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#Ethiopia 🇪🇹/#Oromia: #Oromo Liberation Army (#OLA) attacked an #ENDF camp in West Guji Zone.

As a result OLA fighters captured a rare Colt 603/M16A1 assault rifle, Type 3 AK-47 rifles with GAFAT furnitures, Chinese Type 56/RPD machine guns and Type 56(-2) assault rifles.

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Failed ISIS attack on Nigerian special forces FOB - at least a dozen ISIS reported dead.

Reports of an explosion and heavy gunfire in Mogadishu. No further information given by local authorities

13 dead and 27 homes destroyed in a raid by local ethic militias on a village in the Abyei region of South Sudan. UN presence in the region has increased.

🇧🇫🇺🇳UN calls for investigation into massacre in northern Burkina Faso

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk on Saturday called for an investigation into the killings of 28 men found in the town of Nouna in northwestern Burkina Faso.

Previous week, Nouna Public Prosecutor informed that victims were shot dead, but did not provide details on possible perpetrators or motives behind the attack. The bodies were discovered on December 30 and 31.

Victims belonged to a traditional hunting tribe called the Dozo, who were targeted "on the basis of appearance and stigmatization." The massacre occurred after a reported terrorist attack against the local headquarters of the Volunteers for the Defense of the Fatherland (VDP) — a civilian auxiliary force that fights against Islamist militants alongside government soldiers. After the attack people claiming to be VDP members shot dead the 28 Dozo tribesman.

#BurkinaFaso #UN

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FARDC has returned a group of cows to farmers in Sake after they were stolen by armed bandits. Firefight against bandits reported by locals

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🇧🇫 Clashes in Gayeri

Burkina Faso's popular mobilization force, the VDP, clashed with jihadists in the northeastern town of Gayeri on January 9th.

Pro-Burkina sources report 10 VDP personnel, and at least 30 jihadists dead.

🇳🇬 Insurgents kill 12 Nigerian security operatives in Kaduna

12 officers from a variety of Nigerian security agencies were killed by insurgents in an ambush on January 9th. The attack took place in the Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna state, north-central Nigeria.

🇪🇹 Oromo Liberation Army responded the government's call for peace

Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) spokesman, Odaa Tarbia, said the attempts at dialogue, mentioned by the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, were not genuine attempts to communicate with the OLA leadership.

Tarbia noted the OLA's commitment to dialogue, but made it clear that an international mediator was needed to ensure the success of any peace agreement.

#Ethiopia

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🇪🇹 Senior TPLF, former federal government officials, opposition leader Dori Asgedom released after charges terminated

Following the decision by the Ministry of Justice to terminate criminal charges against former top civilian and military leaders who were members of the TPLF, three senior TPLF officials who held senior positions in the federal government have been released from jail nearly two years after their arrests.

Among the notable civilian officials released is Dori Asgedom, Chairman of the Assimba Democratic Party, who had been behind bars in Addis Abeba since January 2021.

#Ethiopia

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🇿🇦🇵🇱 South Africa bans arms sales to Poland

Following the visit to Russia, South Africa government announced ban on arms sales to Poland.

South African government has barred arms sales to Poland because it fears that the munitions would be passed on to Ukraine.

#SouthAfrica #Poland

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🇷🇼 Kagame re-elected as head of the ruling party in Rwanda

Rwanda President Paul Kagame has been re-elected the chairman of the ruling party, Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF-Inkotanyi) at the party’s 16th congress which convened on Sunday.

The Rwandan leader got 2, 999 votes, accounting for 99.8% of the total votes while his closest contender Abdulkarim Harelimana got 3 votes or 0.2% according to a Rwandan national daily.

Kagame, Rwanda's president for 22 years will now serve another five years as head of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, the political party he has led since 1998.

#Rwanda

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🇨🇩 At least 19 killed in DR Congo landslide

Local officials in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo say a landslide killed at least 19 people on Sunday morning.

An official in the village of Bulwa in North Kivu province said the death toll was likely to rise.

He said some members of a group of women and children who had been washing laundry in a mountain stream were buried after the ground collapsed beneath them.

The search for more victims will resume on Monday.

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🇳🇬 Armed gangs kill 74 in Nigeria's Benue state

At least 74 people were killed in Nigeria's Benue state in two separate attacks by gunmen this week, local officials and police said.

Benue state police spokesperson Catherine Anene said 28 bodies were recovered at a camp for internally displaced people in Mgban local government area between Friday evening and Saturday morning.

It was not immediately clear what triggered the attack but witnesses said gunmen arrived and started shooting, killing several people.

#Nigeria

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🇺🇳🇨🇩 UN says more than 30 killed in new ADF attacks in DR Congo

The United Nations said that more than 30 people had been killed in new killings attributed to the ADF, a rebel group affiliated with the Islamic State group, in Ituri in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

In a statement the UN mission in the DRCsaid it had received reports of killings attributed to the ADF "at the border between the territory of Mambasa and Irumu".

The head of mission calls for "an immediate end to violence by all armed groups against civilians" and "reiterates the Secretary-General's call on foreign armed groups to lay down their arms unconditionally and return to their countries of origin.

#UN #DRC

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🇳🇬 Dozens of villagers gunned down in central Nigeria

Reports say at least 51 corpses of l villagers have been recovered from a rural community in Benue state in central Nigeria. The deaths were a result of an armed gang attacking the village of Umogidi. A number of villagers are still reported to be missing.

Community youth leader told that residents, including youth groups, were still combing the surrounding bushes for more bodies.

Reports say armed men invaded the community in large numbers on Wednesday. They started from the village market, shooting at anyone on sight.

Residents say many of those who ran into the bush were cut down by bullets and their bodies decapitated.

Although the security forces have been deployed to the area, their presence has not stopped the deadly attacks.

#Nigeria

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