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Human Rights Minister Meets with the Chairman of Morocco’s National Human Rights Council
Rabat, May 24. (BNA) - On the sidelines of the on-going visit of the Bahraini official human rights delegation to Morocco, Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman met here today with the Chairman of the Moroccan National Human Rights Council (NHRC) Idris Al-Yazmi, in the presence of and NHRC's members, as well as former members of the Equity and Reconciliation ...
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Responding To The Challenge Of Sex Work In Ghana
Sex work by definition is any transaction in which sex is exchanged for money or gifts.The consistent and persistent focus by the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) and its partners on high impact HIV interventions for sex workers in Ghana over the years is gradually paying off. In 2006, HIV sero-prevalence among sex workers was 38 per cent and this reduced to 25 per cent in 2008 and in 2011, it has ...
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South Sudan Marrying Off South Sudans Girls for Cows
Juba - "Our daughters are our only source of wealth. Where else do you expect me to get cows from?" asks 60-year-old Jacob Deng from South Sudan's Jonglei state. Deng's attitude is a widespread one here as the practice of child marriage is still supported in many South Sudanese communities, where girls are seen as a source of wealth because of the bride price families are ...
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Sudan Sudan Regrets Juba Statements As Kiir Reaffirms His Top Priority to Kenyan Pipeline
Khartoum/Juba - Sudan's foreign ministry regretted statements issued by South Sudanese officials claiming that oil flow was deliberately blocked for political reasons, while in Juba president Salva Kiir reaffirmed that an alternative pipeline through Kenya remains his top priority. Khartoum and Juba agreed since last March to resume oil production and its exportation though a Sudanese ...
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Liberia China Expresses Interest in Mt. Wologizi
The Government of the People's Republic of China says the controversial Wologizi Mountain in Lofa County remains its vested area of investment in Liberia. Chinese Ambassador to Liberia Zhao Jianhua said even though no formal negotiation has been made yet, but his country has expressed interest in the mountain. "Wologizi remains one of China's interests, but it has to be ...
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Somalia Deadly Battles in Central Somalia Between Al Shabaab and Nomads
Beledweyne - Heavy fighting erupted on Thursday in central Somalia after Al Shabaab militants attacked nomadic communities, Garowe Online reports. Local reports say Al Shabaab militants "killed a number of nomads" in a village approximately 50km west of Beledweyne, capital of Hiran region, after a dispute as Al Shabaab wanted to collect some of the nomad's livestock as ...
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Sudan Sudan Demanded Kiir to Close Business Offices Held By Rebel Groups - Official
Khartoum - Sudan dismissed on Thursday statements by president Salav Kiir saying that Khartoum had asked him to expel all the Sudanese traders working in Juba. On Monday, the South Sudanese president said Khartoum asked him to expel all the Sudanese traders working in Juba. He pointed out that there is no progress in the normalization process with Sudan ,adding that the latter continues to hold ...
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Tunisia Haica Skeptical About Draft Constitution Articles 121 and 119
Tunis - Members of the Independent High Authority of Audiovisual Communication (HAICA) voiced skepticism on Thursday about articles 121 and 119 of the draft Constitution. During a meeting with National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar, they considered that article 119 providing for the method of appointing members of the next media authority does not provide all the ...
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Tunisia Nation Libya Will to Vitalise Bilateral Agreements in Matters of Vocational Training
Tunis - Tunisia and Libya expressed, on Thursday, a joint will to vitalise the bilateral agreements in matters of vocational training. During the talk held in Tunis between Minister of Vocational Training and Employment Nawfel Jammali and his Libyan counterpart Mohamed Fitouri Ahmed Soualem, both sides asserted the need to activate the conventions between Tunisia and Libya since March 2012 in ...
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Tunisia Al-Qaeda Threatens Tunisia Government
Tunis - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) warned Tunisia's interim government not to suppress or threaten Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia. "We're still committed to the directives of our Sheikh and Emir Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri...to co-operate with [post-revolution governments] in applying sharia," Algerian AQIM leader Ahmed Abu Abdul-Elah Al-Jigli said in an audio message ...
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Tunisia Progress in Recovering Stolen Assets in Switzerland - BCT Governor
Tunis - Procedures to recover a good part of the stolen assets and placed in Switzerland which are worth 60 million Swiss franc (10 francs = 16.972 dinars) are in progress, according to Tunisia Central Bank (BCT) Governor Chedly Ayari. Mr. Ayari, who chairs the National Commission of Recovery of Stolen Assets Placed Abroad, said at debate held on Thursday with the National Constituent Assembly, ...
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Tunisia Nation Mobilises 4 Million Dinars for Information Technology Security
Tunis - "Tunisia mobilised some 4 million dinars for information technology security," Information Technology and Communication Minister Mongi Marzoug said. During a workshop of presenting the new national strategy project of information technology security organised, on Thursday in Tunis, the Minister voiced his department's will to increase this amount, specifying that the ...
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Libya Tawergha Refugees Dream of Home
Benghazi - Libya's Ministry of Martyrs and Missing Persons is conducting DNA and other forensic tests on the corpses of men, women and children found last week in Tawergha. Eleven bodies were exhumed May 14th and 15th from the al-Subkha mass grave. The head of the ministry's search team said there could be as many as 25 corpses buried in the area. According to Imed Attia al-Tawerghi, ...
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Tunisia Working Session in Carthage Focuses On Development Projects in Siliana
Carthage - The monitoring of development projects in the Governorate of Siliana and ways to speed up their implementation were at the centre of a working session that Caretaker President Moncef Marzouki had on Thursday with Governor of Siliana Montassar Jarraya. Several directors of regional commissions and some representatives of the civil society in the region also took part in the session. ...
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Tunisia Debts of Former Election Body Amount to 7 Million Dinars - Court of Auditors
Tunis - Debts of the former Independent Higher Authority for Elections (IHAE), which had overseen the October 23, 2011 elections, have reached over 7 million dinars. Expenses totalled 42.2 million dinars against 37 million dinars of resources. The Court of Auditors' report on "control of financial operations of the IHAE" presented on Thursday at a press briefing points to some ...
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Tunisia National League 1 - Playoff Day 4 Results
Tunis - Results of Tunisia's National Football League 1 Championship playoff day-4 games played on Thursday afternoon: Sousse: ES Sahel 1 Michailou Drame (11) C. Africain 0 Rades: Esperance ST 1 Ahmed Akaichi (36) CS Sfaxien 2 Houssam Louati (59 and 64 ...
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Somalia Beyond the Famine
The improvement has been attributed to good ongoing 'gu', the March-to-June rains, and the 2012 October-November 'deyr' rains. Successive droughts and poor rains had culminated in a famine in Somalia in ...
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Libya I Cannot Explain How Terrible the Situation Was
Abubaker Ali Osman, a Somali engineer until recently living in Libya, never imagined he would become a refugee. But when violence broke out in the North African country in early 2011, he was forced to flee. He rented a car with his wife and six children and drove to Tunisia, where they lived in a refugee camp for a year. The Osman family now live in Germany, from where Abubaker spoke to Amnesty ...
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South Sudan Kenya South Sudan Move to Fast-Track Lapsset Project
Juba - President Uhuru Kenyatta and his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir have agreed to fast-track the implementation of the Lamu Port and Lamu Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET) project. President Kenyatta and Kiir also said Kenya and South Sudan will jointly source funding for the upgrading of the road linking the two countries for the mutual benefit of their people. The ...
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Tunisia Making Progress on Return of Frozen Assets
Tunis,May 24 (BNA) - Governor of Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT) and head of national commission to recover funds, Chedly Ayari has announced the progress made to recover of SFr60 million ($67 million) of Tunisian funds frozen in Switzerland. Ayari said the recovery of the stolen assets located in Switzerland will help in financing the social projects in the deprived internal areas as well as ...
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Group linked to Algeria gas plant attack claims Niger raids
ABIDJAN (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday's attacks in ...
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Tunisia Radical Islamist Websites Feed Extremism
Tunis - Religious extremists in Tunisia are increasingly turning to the internet to spread their radical message and recruit young people. Social networking websites such as Facebook have become a favourite means for jihadist groups to promote violent ideology among young people. The Islamists have turned the sites into a forum for inciting and sowing hatred in order to recruit the biggest ...
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Nigeria That TIN Report Kanos Budget Discipline
Transparency in Nigeria recently measured the performances of the 36 states of the federation, using a certain yardstick. The outcome was a product of serious and academic scrutiny carried out by some reputable and independent bodies, the organisation noted. Just to tell you that it was not an arranged matter to favour a particular political entity. And the areas that were addressed included ...
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Liberia Urgent Need for Medical Doctors
The Liberian Government has got more problems now perhaps than during the years of violence. The problems are multiple and hugely insurmountable in many respects, and it is glaring that the government does not have answers to all of them. The Unity Party-led government came to power in 2006, three years after the war ended in 2003. Most Liberians had thought that with the election of Madam ...
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Liberia Govt Signs Agreement for Construction of New Caldwell Bridge
The Government of Liberia (GoL) through the Ministry Public Works and the China Henan International Cooperation Group Co. Limited (CHICO)have signed the agreement for the construction of the new Caldwell Bridge. Construction for the new Caldwell Bridge costs the GoL US$8,288,872.91, and the construction period will last for 18 months. Program marking the signing of the contract agreement ...
Sudan Spotlight
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Sudan and the South
In January of 2011 the future of Sudan as a unified country will be decided. A referendum is due to be held in South Sudan that will decide whether the regional government of the area, which accounts for around a third of Sudan, should break away from the rest of the country and become a fully-independent nation.
South Sudan has a long history of being at odds with the rest of the country and this conflict of interests has been attributed in Western media to the fact that northern Sudan is primarily Muslim and Arab dominated, whereas South Sudan is made up of indigenous African cultures and ethnicities, this view has been reinforced by the ongoing violence in Darfur, a region of Sudan where a genocide is occurring and has led to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan being charged with war crimes by the International Court at The Hague, a charge that the government in Khartoum categorically denies. Read more
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