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South Sudan: Govt Acquires More Weapons Amid Rebel Protests

South Sudan: Govt Acquires More Weapons Amid Rebel Protests

Addis Ababa — South Sudanese rebels have protested against the recent acquisition of more weapons from China by the South Sudanese governme...

Somalia: A Deadly Ramadan in Somalia

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Mogadishu/Nairobi — Militant group Al-Shabab has lived up to its promise to step up attacks in Somalia, mainly against government installations and personnel, during the holy month of Ramadan, which began on 29 June. Over 30 people have been killed in Mogadishu alone.</div>
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On 8 July, the presidential compound was attacked during the iftar evening meal. Assailants entered the gate using a car bomb, and then engaged in a two-hour gun battle with palace guards, killing 14 soldiers.</div>
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On 5 July, at least four people, including two children, were killed when a suicide car bomb was detonated outside of the parliament building. Just two days earlier a long-time member of parliament (MP), Mohamed Mohamud, was killed with his bodyguard when armed assailants opened fire on his car.</div>
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In response, the Somali government fired the police commissioner and head of the intelligence agency. Abdihakim Dahir Said, the police commissioner, was replaced by Mohamed Sheikh Ismail, while Bashir Mohamed Jama, the head of national intelligence, was replaced by Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan, on 8 July. Since then however, attacks have continued daily. Local media reported that the Ministry of Defence was attacked last night.</div>
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The presidential palace had previously been attacked in February, and the parliament in May. Following the May attacks on parliament, National Security Minister Abdikarim Hussein Guled resigned. On 8 July he was replaced by Ahmed Khalif Ereg.</div>
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Government inability to contain the violence has left many residents, especially in Mogadishu, in a state of constant fear.</div>
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"If you go looking for bread for your children, you don't know whether or not you will come back safely," a Mogadishu resident, who gave only his first name, Abdinasir, told IRIN. "I don't have any hopes of it getting any better in the foreseeable future."</div>
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"To reduce risk, I am staying indoors at night," Laila Abdi, another Mogadishu resident, told IRIN.</div>
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<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Government accused of being weak, corrupt</strong></div>
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The upsurge in terror attacks comes amid growing frustration with the state of politics in Somalia. Critics accuse the government of being weak, corrupt and inefficient.</div>
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In early May, over 100 MPs called on the president to resign. They cited 14 points of discontent, which included accusations of incompetence, failure to improve the security situation, failure to implement the constitution, and failure to revive the economy.</div>
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"The president is a spectacular failure. He did not keep a word of what he had promised prior to his election," said Abdirahman Hosh Jibril, an MP and former minister of constitutional affairs, who was one of the people who signed the petition calling for President Hassan Sheikh's Mohamud's resignation.</div>
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"The preparation of the constitutional development process is way behind schedule, the boundaries commission has not been formed. On the security front, the president had his own six-pillar policy, but look now, the parliamentarians have been endangered and the presidential palace was attacked," he told IRIN back in June, during the first set of attacks on major government posts.</div>
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Since March, when African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops and the Somali National Army launched a renewed offensive to capture towns in south-central Somalia controlled by Al-Shabab, the militant organization has fought back, targeting government and international organizations.</div>
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They have successfully attacked all three branches of government, the judiciary, executive and the legislative, and have launched regular attacks in Mogadishu. The armed forces, weakened by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.irinnews.org/report/100141/shortages-clan-rivalries-weaken-somalia-s-new-army" style="background: transparent; color: #10579f; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">clan rivalries</a>, equipment shortages, corruption and indiscipline, appear powerless to keep people safe.</div>

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Oscar Pistorius family denounce 'outrageous' claims about nightclub fight

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Athlete’s uncle Leo says claims by Jared Mortimer that his nephew insulted President Zuma and boasted of his family’s influence were “designed for maximum attention and maximum damage"</div>
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The family of murder-accused Paralympic athlete<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/oscar-pistorius/" style="color: #234b7b; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong>Oscar Pistorius</strong></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have denounced as “outrageous” claims that he insulted President Jacob Zuma and boasted about his relatives’ influence over government in the run-up to a scuffle that saw him ejected from a Johannesburg nightclub at the weekend.</div>
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Leo Pistorius, the 27-year-old’s uncle, said the claims made by Jared Mortimer, a racing car driver and clothes label owner who was at Sandton’s VIP Room on Saturday, were “designed for maximum attention and maximum damage”.</div>
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Mr Pistorius said that while the decision by his nephew to go to the nightclub was “unwise and ill-considered”, it was because he had an “escalating sense of loneliness and alienation” which they believe is causing “self-harming behaviour”.</div>
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He said that his own investigations, corroborated with people who were present at the exclusive nightspot, confirmed that “Mortimer was the aggressor”.</div>
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Percy Mermigas, the club’s manager, backed up Mr Pistorius’s version, saying that “everything is being blown out of proportion’’.</div>
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“I was sitting with him [Pistorius] and his cousin at their table. They were there for an hour and there was definitely no ‘altercation’ as this person is making out,” he told South Africa’s Times newspaper.</div>
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“He was chilling with his cousin, nothing more and nothing less. If there was something, like what is being described, we would definitely have got involved. What I can say is that Oscar was at the club and left, like any other normal patrons, after an hour.”</div>
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Mr Mortimer told a South African celebrity news website that Pistorius had boasted to him of his family’s influence and bad-mouthed his friends while poking him in the chest and pulling at his neck. He said the athlete was drunk and fell over backwards into a chair when he pushed him away.</div>
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“He was going on about how influential his family is and how connected they are,” he told The Juice website. “He even pulled out his phone to show me pictures of armoured cars. He said ‘My family owns SANDF. Zuma works for us. I’ll piss on Zuma’.”</div>
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He has since refused to comment further.</div>
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Pistorius said on Monday through a spokesman that Mr Mortimer “aggressively interrogated him” on matters relating to his murder trial. He is charged with murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentine’s Day last year. He shot her through a locked lavatory door at his Pretoria home. He alleges he mistook her for an intruder.</div>
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In a statement released late last night, Leo Pistorius added further details to the denial. “Mr Mortimer, who has been unknown to Oscar and our family until he approached the press with his story of the so-called ‘altercation’ in which he has cast himself as the victim, is a man peddling untruths designed for maximum attention and maximum damage,” he said.</div>
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“We wish to categorically state that there is absolutely no truth to this man’s assertions that Oscar, for instance, insulted the president of South Africa or boasted about our family’s so-called influence,” he said.</div>
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“Oscar was at school with one of President Zuma’s sons and liked him a lot. Oscar also has great appreciation of President’s Zuma’s extraordinary support of the Paralympians.”</div>
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He said Pistorius was “grappling with an extreme level of emotional pain that is manifesting itself in some of his recent unwise actions and choices”.</div>
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“Whilst Oscar venturing out into a public space with his cousin in the current climate and whilst his court case is still under way was unwise, those of us closest to him have been witness to his escalating sense of loneliness and alienation,” he said. “This, we believe, is underlying some of his self-harming behaviour. As a family we are counselling Oscar to find ways of dealing with his feelings of isolation.”</div>
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Last week, Pistorius’s defence team closed its case in his murder trial at Pretoria’s High Court. Closing arguments in the case will be heard on August 7 and 8, before the judge’s verdict on a date yet to be announced.</div>
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