obstacle
s.
The President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has said Sudan could
take up
arms against the newly independent Republic of South Sudan over the disputed region of Abyei. President Bashir insisted Abyei was part of the North and that any attempt to undermine a previously agreed protocol on the region could lead to renewed conflict.
The Nigerian military say they've killed 11 suspected militants in the troubled northeastern city of Maiduguri. They refused to
comment on
allegations of civilian deaths. Here's our correspondent Jonah Fisher.
The statement from the military task force says that at 7:30 on Saturday night, a patrol was targeted by an explosion and gunshots from a stationary bus. The attack was successfully
repel
led, and it's claimed that 11 members of the militant group Boko Haram were killed, and two soldiers injured. Twice in the short statement mention was made of local residents allowing their homes and shops to be used by the Islamists, and a warning made of the implications of collaboration.
The government of Congo says seven people have been killed in a stampede at a music festival in the capital Brazzaville. Thirty others were injured. The Congolese culture minister said security forces had failed to control the stampede.
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France and the United States have protested to Syria about demonstrations outside their embassies on Saturday. The French government