Portal:Current events/2010 August 24

August 24, 2010 (Tuesday)

80,000 people flee the southern Yemeni city of Lawdar after clashes between Al-Qaeda linked forces and government troops killed several people. (Al Jazeera)
Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped in Mauritania by Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb return home. (Al Jazeera) (Reuters)
Battle of Mogadishu (2010)
- Al-Shabaab storm The Mina hotel close to the Presidential palace in Mogadishu and kill several MPs. (BBC) (AFP)
Foreign human rights groups accuse Rwandan and Congolese rebels of 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. (Al Jazeera) (CNN) (AP) (Reuters)

A small plane carrying fourteen people crashes in Nepal's Makwanpur District with no survivors expected. (Kantipur) (CNN)