demonstration of young people demanding weapons and military training to fight ADF and M23/RDF terrorists. Kinshasa reacted, General Evan, northern front sector commander, accompanied by a strong delegation including deputies from Beni went to the site.
“We must now secure ourselves against terrorists, more than 10 years of massacres is already too much” declared a demonstrator.
The measure emanates from its order temporarily suspending the importation of beers and soft drinks, signed on June 26 and made public this Thursday, July 18, 2024. The Minister of Foreign Trade warns that products imported in violation of the provisions of this order will be returned or destroyed at the offender's expense.
However, it promises exemptions to economic operators in the event of a supply need in areas where consumers have difficult access to local products.
Another decree published that same Thursday also prohibits the importation, for a period of 12 months, of gray cements and clinkers, this time in the West and South-East part of the DRC. However, the two orders do not affect any imports carried out in accordance with trade agreements.
The Secretary General of Trade, the General Directorate of Customs and Excise (DGDA), the Congolese Control Office (OCC), the General Directorate of Migration (DGM) and the Directorate of the National Border Hygiene Program (PNHF) are responsible for ensuring the application of these orders.
Julien Paluku motivates his decision by the desire to reduce the import bill, protect local industry and increase its performance as well as fight against import fraud which still persists at border posts in the DRC.
After dropping a bomb which caused the death of 4 people and injured others, this morning, intense fighting between the M23 rebels supported by the Rwanda and the FARDC with the Wazalendo are reported in Ndumba, Kabase, Mushirwa.
Yet another bomb has just fallen at Bweremana killing 1 soldier FARDC on the spot and injuring 8 other people including 4 soldiers, 3 civilian mothers and a child.
The population, which had resisted for several months, is beginning to worry about the deterioration of the security situation in the area.
According to our information on site, the rebels of M23 are less than 5km from Bweremana.
The news was confirmed to the media on Monday by the interim administrator of the Manono territory, Germain Mwamba. He claims that the escape took place around 8 p.m. local time.
"According to the information we have received, there is a case of 85 escapees. It was around 8:05 p.m. that this escape took place. In the course of their manoeuvres, these prisoners dug a hole in a cell. And that hole was driven in to destroy the foundation of the prison as well as the foundation of the fence until all the prisoners had escaped," he explained.
On Wednesday, June 26, at least 20 inmates, including 16 civilians and a soldier, escaped from the same prison.
The Somali government has claimed that over 50 al-Shabaab militants were killed in a joint operation in Dhabaqle area - between the towns of Masagaway and Awsweyne, Galgudud region. The operation was carried out by federal and local forces with support from international partners.
Meanwhile, the al-Shabaab militant group claimed killing 27 government soldiers in Wanniile area, near El-Dheer town, Galgudud region, Monday.
Unclear if the two incidents are related.
Casualty figures given by the two sides have not been independently verified as of now.
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It was last Saturday that somali security forces foiled an attempted jailbreak Saturday in Mogadishu’s main central prison after militant inmates, using pistols and hand grenades, attacked prison guards.
The militant inmates fired on the guards and threw hand grenades before an exchange of heavy gunfire. It is believed the weapons were smuggled into the prison.
A spokesperson for the Somali Custodial Corps, Abdiqani Mohamed Khalaf, told news reporters in Mogadishu that three prison guards were killed and three others were injured in the attack.
Khalaf also confirmed that five militants were killed and 18 were injured in the attack. A post on social media platform X by the state news agency earlier reported the killing of the five militant inmates.
All five inmates who were fatally shot had been convicted of involvement in militant bombings and smuggling of explosives in Mogadishu. Four of them were on death row, and the fifth inmate was serving a life sentence.
One of the inmates on death row was convicted for his role in multiple attacks, including the raid on the Mogadishu mayor’s office last year and a suicide bombing at a military academy in July last year, according to a security source.
A second inmate who also was on death row was convicted for involvement in the militant attack on the Hayat hotel in August 2022, which claimed the lives of 21 people.
In August 2020, al-Shabab inmates obtained weapons and tried to force a jailbreak at the same facility. Four prison guards and 15 inmates — almost all of them al-Shabab convicts — were killed in the attack. One militant inmate escaped.
In the 2020 attack, the weapons were smuggled into the prison by friends and family who hid them inside food and other items during visits.
The Somali government has appointed an eight-member committee to investigate the incident. Gen. Mohamed Hussein Ahmed is the acting prison chief and will lead the investigation.
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