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Added on the 01/02/2023 14:15:22 - Copyright : AFP EN
People gather in the hills of central Myanmar to mark the annual Tazaungdaing light festival that marks the end of the rainy season in a fiery display of exploding hot air balloons. The festival in the former British hill station of Pyin Oo Lwin has not been held for two years because of the Covid pandemic and unrest following the military's coup last year.
Myanmar's military regime stages a major show of force for its annual Armed Forces Day parade, as security forces violently suppress pro-democracy protests in cities across the country.
The Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) is one of around a dozen ethnic rebel groups along the Myanmar-China border that have fought the military for decades over autonomy and control of lucrative resources. Since the coup in Myanmar two years ago, ethnic rebel groups have taken centre stage in the nationwide battle for democracy, clashing with junta troops and training anti-coup "People's Defence Force" groups from the Bamar majority.
Displaced Myanmar villagers prepare makeshift bunkers of earth and sandbags as fighting between junta troops and anti-coup rebels rages and military shelling becomes an almost daily occurence.
Almost two years after seizing power, Myanmar military has been unable to crush "People's Defence Force" militias that have sprung up to fight the coup, but many are forced into risky trial-and-error operations to churn out their own rockets, mines and mortars.
Algeria celebrated 60 years of independence from France on Tuesday with nationwide ceremonies, a pardon of 14,000 prisoners and its first military parade in decades.
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