Browsing Tag

rebel

Liberian former rebel leader bags 30-year imprisonment


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
A French court has handed former Liberian rebel commander Kunti Kamara a 30-year prison sentence for violence against civilians and complicity in crimes against humanity. The crimes were found to have happened between 1993 and 1994 during…

Malian military seize control of Kidal rebel


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
Malian military has seized control of the northern town of Kidal, marking the first time the army has held the Tuareg rebel stronghold in nearly a decade, state broadcaster ORTM reported. "This is a message from the president of the…

Mozambique Army kills two senior rebel leaders in Cabo Delgado


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
Mozambique's army has killed two senior rebel leaders in the northern province of Cabo Delgado, which is in the grip of an armed terrorists, it announced. "Terrorist Abu Kital, who held the position of deputy operations commander for the…

Chadian FACT rebel group ends ceasefire


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
Chadian rebel group the Front for Change and Concord in Chad (FACT) has announced an end to a ceasefire declared in 2021, accusing the interim authorities of bombing one of its bases in what it called an act of war. Friday's move…

Mali: Rebel extends predation in Sahel


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
At the cost of bloody fighting, massacres, and displacement of civilians, the militants group in the Greater Sahara (EIGS) is now in a position of strength in northeaster Mali, which serves as a base for its expansionist aims in Niger and…

Chadian rebel soldiers to face trial over president dead


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
Chad to begin trial of 150 rebels accused of causing the death of President Idriss Déby. The trial will take place in Kléssoum, in a high security prison, a local news website reported citing judicial sources. The suspects belong to…

Former Liberian rebel seeks to overturn Swiss war crimes decision


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
A Liberian man Alieu Kosiah, convicted of 22 counts of war crimes including rape, murder and an act of cannibalism is seeking to overturn the judgment at an appeal trial that opened in Switzerland on Wednesday where he also faces new…

Congolese rebel M23 kidnaps suspected fighters


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
Fighting between the rebel M23 group and the army in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, continued on Monday, according to residents contacted by telephone by AFP from Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu. According to the United…

Malian ex-rebel groups merge to counter militants groups


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
The National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), one of the main armed groups operating in northern Mali, has reaffirmed its commitment to a merger of the armed groups of ex-rebels who signed a peace agreement with Bamako in 2015.…

DRC opposes Ugandan withdraw forces from rebel region


Deprecated: preg_split(): Passing null to parameter #3 ($limit) of type int is deprecated in /home/vongov/public_html/wp-content/themes/publisher/includes/libs/bs-theme-core/theme-helpers/template-helpers.php on line 767
The Kinshasa government says that it was "premature" to withdraw Ugandan troops present in the DRC to fight the ADF rebel group, stressing that such a decision, mentioned by Ugandan military officers during the day, was up to the heads of…