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WORLD NEWSMonday 12 October 2015
Nepal elects Communist party leader new PM Boko Haram stages
suicide bombings
B. GURUBACHARYA rival United Communist Madhesis and other groups since late last month, after in Cameroon, Chad
Associated Press Party of Nepal Maoist. in the south protesting the constitution was ap-
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) Oli and Koirala are lead- against the new constitu- proved Sept. 20. CARLEY PETESCH
— Nepal’s parliament ers of the top two political tion in riots that have left 45 The constitution divides Ne- Associated Press
elected Communist party parties and were coalition people dead. India, which pal into seven new states, DAKAR, Senegal (AP) —
leader Khadga Prasad Nigeria’s Islamic extremist
Oli the new prime minister Nepal’s newly-appointed prime minister Khadga Prasad Oli, left, waves to the media as he stands insurgents Boko Haram are
Sunday, thrusting him into with other leaders of Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist–Leninist), also known as CPN-UML, blamed for using teens and
the center of daunting inside the Constituent Assembly in Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2015. women to carry out suicide
challenges, from ethnic bombings in neighbor-
protests over the new con- (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) ing Chad and Cameroon
stitution that has also upset this weekend, killing more
vital neighbor India to re- partners in the last gov- has close ties to the Mad- with some borders slic- than 45 people in what
building from April’s devas- ernment. Koirala became hesis, is also unhappy with ing through the Madhe- Cameroon’s government
tating earthquake. prime minister in 2014, but the constitution. sis’ ancestral homeland in spokesman said is a move
Oli received 338 votes from the constitution that was The country is facing a se- the southern plains along to spread terror as a multi-
the 597-member chamber, adopted last month re- vere fuel shortage, thanks the border with India. The national force prepares to
Parliament speaker Subash quired him to step down. to an unofficial block- Madhesis, along with sev- deploy against them.
Nemwang announced. Oli It was still undecided which ade by India and Mad- eral other small ethnic Two girls between the ages
defeated his predeces- other parties would join in hesis blocking a key bor- groups, want the states to of 13 and 17 carried out
sor Sushil Koirala, who re- Oli’s new government. der checkpoint. Fuel and be larger and to be given suicide bombings in the
ceived 249 votes. He comes to power at cargo trucks have been more autonomy over local northern Cameroon village
Oli, 63, is generally popular delicate time, with ethnic stopped at the border matters.q of Kangeleri near Mora
in Nepal and has a repu- town on Sunday, killing at
tation for being an out- least 9 and wounding 29
spoken leader who is not others, said Cameroon’s
afraid to criticize. Some de- Minister of Communica-
scribe him with the phrase, tions Issa Tchiroma Bakary.
“Oli ko goli,” which means, The Cameroon explosions
“When Oli speaks he fires” come after five coordi-
(a bullet). nated suicide bombings in
He had previously served neighboring Chad on Sat-
as deputy prime minister urday killed at least 36 peo-
and as a minister in previ- ple and wounded some
ous governments. He suf- 50 others in a village near
fers from a kidney illness Lake Chad that is home
and has had to make trips to thousands of Nigerians
abroad for treatment to In- who have fled the extrem-
dia and Thailand. ists’ violence. The gov-
The leader of the Commu- ernment said a man, two
nist Party of Nepal Unified women and two children
Marxist Leninist received carried out the attacks.
the support of many small- The use of girls and women
er parties, including their in recent suicide bombings
in Nigeria, Chad, Camer-
3 Palestinians killed, 4 Israelis wounded in new violence oon and Niger raises fears
that Boko Haram is using
DANIEL ESTRIN ings, but a Palestinian wom- quickly spreading to other public for self-defense, and kidnap victims to target
Associated Press an seriously injured herself parts of the city, across Is- store owners say sales of countries that are helping
JERUSALEM (AP) — A wave when she detonated a gas rael and into the West Bank guns and pepper spray are combat the rebels.
of Israeli-Palestinian vio- canister on Sunday. The at- and Gaza Strip. At least 24 soaring. “They have shifted their
lence showed no signs of tack, which lightly wound- Palestinians, including eight “I think everyone should tactics. They have noticed
abating Sunday, as three ed a police officer, was the attackers, have been killed come and get a gun li- it is impossible to face our
Palestinians, including a first in the current round of by Israeli forces, while five cense,” said Idan Albilia, forces, so they are now
2-year-old and a 13-year- violence to involve such an Israelis have been killed in a Jerusalem resident who using young girls or young
old, were killed by Israeli explosive device. attacks. was at a gun shop pur- boys with explosives, who
forces, and four Israelis The unrest erupted last With random stabbings chasing his first weapon. go more undetected, in
were wounded in an eve- month around the Jew- happening each day, the “We need to defend our- areas they are told to go,”
ning stabbing attack. ish New Year, with clashes violence has Israelis on selves. I think this is the only said Bakary. He added it
The attacks have been pri- beginning at a contested edge. Officials have called thing that will help us in this is difficult to know if the
marily stabbings and shoot- holy site in Jerusalem and on citizens to carry guns in situation.”q young girls know that they
will die.q
