France sent additional soldiers into the 350-Central African Republic

Paris (Reuters)-France is sending 350 extra soldiers to the Central African Republic, whose capital, Bangui, have fallen into the hands of the rebels, said a senior official Sunday.

Delivery of the additional troops was meant to ensure the safety of citizens of France and other foreign people in the African country, reports AFP.

The first group of 200 soldiers arrived in Bangui on Saturday and another 150 people were sent Sunday from Libreville, capital of Gabon, the source said.

France now has nearly 600 soldiers in the Central African Republic, the country's former colonial power which is being hit by the war.

President Francois Hollande has stated that the France would not interfere in the internal affairs of the country.

France's military officers to act as advisers to the Central African Republic military, and Paris in the past help support or overthrow the Governments in those countries.

However, France, which has a Defense Pact with the Central African Republic since 1960, the more reluctant was directly involved in the conflicts in the former countries colonize it.

Sunday, the rebels controlled Bangui Francois Bozize and President reportedly fled the capital of the Central African Republic.

Central African Republic rebels started fighting again after the deadline given to the Government to meet their demands in accordance with the peace agreement comes to an end.

Seleka said rebels would not withdraw the troops unless the Government frees political prisoners and prisoners-South Africa forces leave the country.

Seleka, which means "the Alliance", signed a peace pact on 11 January with the Government of President Francois Bozize in the Gabonese capital, Libreville.

The agreement, brokered by regional leaders that set a new Government of national unity, which has been formed and is now led by an opposition member, Nicolas Tiangaye, and includes members of the Seleka.

The agreement puts an end to a month-long offensive Seleka quickly mastered the northern territories and stop among others thanks to the military intervention in Chad before the rebels overran the capital, Bangui, Central African Republic.

Seleka, an Alliance of the three armed groups, started their armed action on December 10, and has mastered a number of important cities in Central African Republic. They accuse President Francois Bozize was not respecting an agreement that stipulates that the 2007 members who lay down their arms will be paid. (M014)

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Secretary General of the UNITED NATIONS peacekeeping soldiers arrest a curse in the Golan

United Nations, New York (Reuters)-U.N. Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, on Wednesday (6/3), condemned the detention of UN peacekeeping soldiers by the evils of armed in the Golan Heights.

"The Secretary General condemns the detention of 21 soldiers of the peacekeeping forces of the UN Observers Separation (UNDOF) by the evils around Al-armed in the area restrictions and Jamla calling for their release as soon as possible," the contents of the statement issued by ban's spokesman, Xinhua reported.

The Security Council establishes UNDOF in May 1974, after fighting between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights. UNDOF mandate to keep holding the ceasefire between the parties, and to monitor the implementation of separation of Forces Agreement--which was signed by both parties and called for the establishment of a single area of the separator and the limited forces and weapons between the two sides.

According to some reports, a group of more than 20 soldiers detained by the UNDOF peacekeeping the evils which have ties with armed opposition to Syria on Wednesday morning in the area of limitation in the Golan Heights in Syria.

In a statement, the UN Chief's reminds all principals in Syria that UNDOF was given the mandate to monitor the separation of Forces Agreement between Israel and Syria.

"Freedom of movement and the safety and security of UNDOF should be respected by all parties," said the statement, as quoted by Xinhua.

According to Vitaly Churkin, Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations--to assume the rotating Presidency of the Security Council's President for March and read out a press statement regarding the events on Wednesday morning, "there are demands" put forward by the catcher.

Churkin also said the talks have been held between officials of the UNITED NATIONS peacekeeping forces and the U.N. soldiers who arrested them. (C003)

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Armed groups captured 20 soldiers of the UN in the Golan

... today around 30 armed guerrillas captured about 20 peacekeeping soldiers in the region are limited. "

United Nations (Reuters)-a group of about 20 armed soldiers Wednesday captured the UN peacekeeping in the Golan Heights between Syria and Israel, said a spokesman for the world body.

According to some activists, Syria peace-keeping soldiers were coming from the Philippines, but the UN has yet to reveal their nationality, the AFP report.

The abduction of the soldiers it was the final incident that befell the UN peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights UNDOF are tense.

Deputy U.N. spokesman Eduardo del Buey told reporters, the UN forces "reported today that about 30 armed guerrillas captured about 20 peacekeeping soldiers in the area are limited".

"The UN Observer Mission in the regular supply and was intercepted near observation post 54, which had been damaged and emptied in a week after heavy fighting in the adjacent area, in Al Jamlah," she continued.

"The mission is sending a team to assess the situation and seek solutions," added the spokesman.

The UNITED NATIONS reported some increase in incidents in the zone of the Golan, where the world body putting peacekeepers since 1974 to supervise the armistice agreements between Syria and Israel. (M014)

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Mali soldiers clashed with militants in Gao

Gao, Mali (Reuters)-clashes between soldiers and militants erupted Sunday in Mali in the streets in Gao, the biggest town in northern Mali who attacks rocked by suicide bombings in the last two days.

The two sides engaged in a shootout in the afternoon in the center of the city near the police station, said an AFP correspondent.

France-led forces recaptured Gao on 26 January from Al Qaida linked militants who ruled the region of northern Mali for 10 months after a military coup.

Clashes in the path it takes place after Saturday's suicide bomb attacks late at night at a military checkpoint at the entrance of the city, after a similar attack in the same location the day before.

The two suicide bombings were the first such attacks were in Mali.

Oneness and Jihad movement in West Africa (MUJAO), one of the groups that dominate northern Mali before being driven off by the intervention of France that was launched on 11 January, claimed responsibility for the first attack and on Saturday threatened to launch further attacks.

"We are determined to launch further attacks against the forces of France and its allies. We asked local residents away from the military zone and avoid an explosion, "said spokesman MUJAO Abou Walid Sahraoui.

Attack-suicide bomb attacks that killed only the two perpetrators.

One soldier lightly injured in the bombing Friday. No longer are injured in Saturday's attack, said a soldier at the checkpoint.

France, which is working with the military of Mali, on January 11, launched operation when militants threaten advanced to the capital of Mali, Bamako, after months of doubt about the African intervention forces to help drive out hard-line groups from the northern region.

Mali, who had become one of stable democracies in Africa, experienced the uncertainty after the coup d ' état in March 2012 overthrow the Government of President Amadou Toumani Toure.

The international community is worried that country will become the new hotbed of terrorists and they support the efforts of Africa to intervene militarily.

The United Nations has approved the placement of the African intervention force consisting of about 3300 soldiers under the auspices of the ECOWAS grouping of West African States. With the involvement of Chad, which has pledged 2,000 soldiers, means the number of intervention forces that would be much greater.

Hard-line groups, which said the experts acting under the umbrella of Al Qaida in Islamic Morocco (AQIM), dominate the North, Mali to the extent greater than that of France, since April last year.

Tribal rebels in mid-January 2012 launched more war decades for the independence of the Tuareg in the northern region they claim as their land, reinforced by heavily armed guerrillas who recently returned from Libya. However, their struggle was then hijacked by hard-line muslim groups.

Disgruntled army coup in March meant to give the military more authority in order to quell a revolt in the North, but it in fact backfire and the rebels took control of three major cities in the North of Mali within three days. (M014)

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