Israel carries out more air strikes on Gaza on Saturday morning as conflict intensifies
A protester holds aloft the flag of Palestine during a confrontation with Israeli forces in the Shuafat camp for Palestinian refugees, neighbouring the Israeli settlement of Ramat Shlomo, in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. AFP
Palestinian protesters light a Molotov cocktail petrol bomb during confrontations with Israeli forces in the Shuafat camp for Palestinian refugees, in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem. AFP
A member of Israeli security rushes past burning barricades at the Shuafat camp for Palestinian refugees, in East Jerusalem. AFP
Israeli security forces fire tear gas at protesters the Shuafat camp for Palestinian refugees, in East Jerusalem. AFP
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Eritrea has admitted its troops are involved in the war in Ethiopia s northern Tigray region but vowed to pull them out amid mounting international pressure.
The country s first acknowledgement of its role in the fighting came in a letter from its UN ambassador to the Security Council, which was posted online by the Eritrea s information minister on Friday night.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into Tigray in November to disarm and detain leaders of the region s once dominant political party, the Tigray People s Liberation Front (TPLF).
The Ethiopian and Eritrean governments initially denied Eritrean troops were involved, contradicting testimony from residents, rights groups, aid workers, diplomats and even some Ethiopian civilian and military officials.
about 100 kilometres south-west of the capital Mogadishu, were struck by two explosions, witnesses said.
A third explosion targeted a convoy of troops rushing to the bases from the capital after the attack, they said.
Hussein Nur, a military officer, said the army lost several soldiers in the attack on Bariire and Awdhigle bases.
The army sent in reinforcements from other stations, who killed an unspecified number of attackers in the ensuing fight, he told Reuters.
It was now in control of both bases and the surrounding areas, he said. We are pursuing the militants in the surrounding jungle, Mr Nur said.
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The UN warns the Arab world’s poorest nation is speeding “towards a massive famine.”
Edith M. Lederer
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The United Nations warned Tuesday that an offensive by Houthi rebels in Yemen has escalated the nearly six-year conflict in the Arab world’s poorest nation as it “speeds towards a massive famine.”
U.N. special envoy Martin Griffiths and U.N. humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock painted a grim picture of the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Yemen, which is exacerbated by a government blockade of fuel ships entering the country’s main port of Hodeida controlled by the Houthis.