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*80,000 people flee the southern [[Yemen]]i city of [[Lawdar]] after [[Battle of Lawdar|clashes between]] [[Al-Qaeda]] linked forces and government troops killed several people. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/08/201082484232504956.html (Al Jazeera)]
*Two [[Catalonia|Catalonian]] aid workers kidnapped in [[Mauritania]] by [[Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb]] return home. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/08/2010823133654511834.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE67M1V2 (Reuters)]
*[[Battle of Mogadishu (2010)]]
**[[Al-Shabaab]] [[Muna hotel attack|stormed the Muna hotel]] close to the [[President of Somalia|Presidential]] palace in Mogadishu and killed fifteen [[Transitional Federal Parliament|MPs]]. [http://www.euronews.net/2010/08/24/somali-gunmen-storm-hotel-kill-15-lawmakers/ (euronews)] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11068805 (BBC)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iF9DIZfmNU_YnMcgCBz4opuO5B6A (AFP)]
* Foreign human rights groups accuse [[Rwanda]]n and [[Kongo people|Congolese]] rebels of [[Types of rape#Gang rape|gang-raping]] nearly 200 women and some baby boys over four days within miles of a U.N. peacekeepers' base in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2010/08/201082402724259229.html (Al Jazeera)] [http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/08/24/drc.rebels.rape/#fbid=Ft3h0qQS09d&wom=false (CNN)] [http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jPEADE6LA6PT95DxLVS1noE80bwQD9HPEAS02 (AP)] [http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE67M0G920100823 (Reuters)]
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