29th April 2016

Egypt arrested nearly 400 people leading up to April 25th protests.
In defiance of the UN-backed Tripoli government, Libya’s eastern rebel government shipped its first cargo of crude oil.
Rights groups in Mali say the government is torturing and killing civilians.
The Islamic State celebrated its first training camp and first attack in Somalia.
Assassinations and defections are weakening Burundi’s security forces.
The International Criminal Court announced a preliminary examination of human rights abuses in Burundi.
The death toll in Burundi this month is 31.
Do Rwanda’s museums commemorate the past or bolster Kagame’s power?
South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar finally returned to Juba to be sworn in as vice president and continue to move the peace process forward.
The US promised $90 million in extra aid to South Sudan, but warned of sanctions if there’s a lack of commitment to the peace process.
February clashes inside a UN protection of civilians site in South Sudan raise questions about the sustainability of such sites, which house 180,000 people across the country.
Fear of Boko Haram is keeping displaced people in Chad from returning home.
Profile: How Abubekar Shekau transformed Boko Haram
Sierra Leone’s Independence Day turned violent with police firing guns and tear gas at the opposition party’s headquarters.
The UN Security Council has lifted remaining sanctions on the Ivory Coast and will end the peacekeeping mission there.
Yemeni and Saudi-led coalition forces retook the port city of Mukalla, a longtime Al Qaeda stronghold.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula would like to debate the Islamic State.
The White House will expand Special Forces presence in Syria by 250 troops (there are already 50 there).
The US admitted to killing 20 civilians in strikes intended for Islamic State targets between September and February.
Airstrikes destroyed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, also destroying the eight-week-old ceasefire in the process. One of Aleppo’s last pediatricians is among the dead.
“In the last 48 hours, we have had an average of one Syrian killed every 25 minutes, one Syrian wounded every 13 minutes.”
US-Russia cooperation over Syria is unraveling.
Long read: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on leaving Syria behind and life on the refugee trail, with beautiful drawings.
The Iraqi army made advances south of Mosul.
Fallujajh’s residents suffer under the siege.
The Islamic State is turning to fishing, selling cars and running factoriesto supplement its income as oil revenues dwindle.
The number of foreign fighters entering Iraq and Syria decreased by 90 percent, says the Pentagon.
The Pentagon will declassify the results of its internal investigation into the airstrikes on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz. 16 US forces weredisciplined as a result of the review.
An Australian aid worker was kidnapped in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan.
The Bangladeshi branch of Al Qaeda claimed the brutal killing of LGBTQ activist and editor of the country’s only gay rights magazine, Xulhaz Mannan, along with theater actor Tanay Majumder.
Here are some of the writings of Bangladeshi writers and bloggers murdered by extremists.
A third North Korean missile test failed.
Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam has been extradited to France.
In an interview, Abdeslam’s former Belgian attorney called him a “little jerk” and described him as having “the intelligence of an empty ashtray.”
Former Islamic State hostages identified Brussels suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui as one of their Syrian captors.
9,333 killed since the Ukraine conflict began.
Ukraine says a stronger ceasefire is needed.
President Putin used executive orders to form a new internal security service, the National Guard, likely to be tasked with “suppression of unauthorized mass actions.”
Video: A young Colombian girl kidnapped at 9 by FARC was one of thousands of children forced to fight.
Capt. Kristen Griest, one of two women to be the first to earn a Ranger tab, will now be the Army’s first female infantry officer.

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