Nigeria relaxes state of emergency

General Sources - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency over three states near Nigeria's northern border. The government is fighting militants from Boko Haram, a militant group trying to establish an Islamist state in Nigeria. The Economic Community of West African States this week described the state of emergency as a necessary and legitimate measure to ensure security, Nigerian newspaper ThisDay ...

Tunisia Young Man Killed in Ettadhamen Clashes Buried

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tunis - Young Mohamed Dahmani, who was killed by a stray bullet during Sunday's clashes in Ettadhamen neighbourhood between supporters of "Ansar al-Sharia" and security forces, was buried on Monday at the cemetery of Douar Hicher. Dozens of family members of the deceased and several residents of the Ettadhamen neighbourhood , including supporters of "Ansar al-Sharia," ...

Morocco AU Calls for Protection of Human Rights Decolonization of Western Sahara

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Addis Ababa - Permanent Representatives Committee of the African Union has called for the protection of human rights and decolonization of Western Sahara, during the discussion of the report of the African Commission of Human and Peoples' Rights convened these days at AU headquarters in Ethiopian capital, according to a media source. Permanent Representatives expressed their ...

Tunisia Texmed Tunisia 2013 Next October 2-4

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tunis - President of the National Textile Federation (FENATEX) Belhassen Gherab threw light, on Monday, on the 14th edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Textile and Clothing Fair "Texmed 2013." The event, initiated by the National Textile Federation (FENATEX), is set for October 2-4 in ...

Western Sahara Festivities Marking 40th Anniversary of Outbreak of Armed Struggle Kicked Off in Tifariti

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tifariti - The festivities commemorating the 40th anniversary of the outbreak of armed struggle in Western Sahara kicked off this morning, Monday, in the liberated town of Tifariti, in the presence of national and foreign delegations. The event is attended by the President of the Republic and Secretary-General of the POLISARIO Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, and members of the National Secretariat ...

Algeria Algerian Press Demand Truth On Bouteflikas Health

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Algerian newspapers on Tuesday denounced a news blackout by the government over the state of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has been in a French hospital for three weeks. The government has accused local and international media of publishing false information as rumours circulate that the president may even be in a coma. Pointing out that Bouteflika's Algerian doctor, Rachid ...

Sudan South Sudan Start Talks Over Former National Oil Company Assets

Neftegaz - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Oil producing Sudan and newly independent South Sudan started talks on Monday aimed at resolving a dispute over the sharing of assets belonging to former national oil company Sudapet, said officials. A South Sudanese delegation from the oil and mining ministry has arrived in Khartoum for talks with their Sudanese counterparts, said Sudanese government spokesman Rabie Abdelaty, as the two ...

Focus on politics problems would help Ivory Coast recovery

Middle East Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Ivory Coast would be supported by focusing on the country's political problems, Human Rights Watch said. Ivory Coast was pushed to the brink of civil war following competing claims of victory in 2010 presidential elections. Defeated ...

Nigeria arrests 120 militants as they plan funeral for slain commander

Middle East Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

About 120 extremist militants were arrested in northern Nigeria as they planned the funeral of a commander killed earlier in the week, military officials say. The arrests came Monday in the Borno state capital of Maiduguri, where military authorities have relaxed a 24-hour curfew after they said the security situation in the state had improved, the Nigerian Tribune reported Tuesday. Brig. Gen. ...

Tunisia Salafist group calls for Friday demo

The Daily Star - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Saif Eddine Errais, center, spokesman of radical Islam Salafist group Ansar al-Sharia speaks during a press conference, Thursday, May 16, 2013 at the "Errahma" mosque in Cite Khadra, near Tunis. (AP Photo/Amine ...

PHOTONEWS Prof. Chinua Achebes Body Arrives In Nigeria

Sahara Reporters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The body of late Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe arrived in Nigeria earlier today in Abuja. Prof. Achebe's body arrived in a Nigerian flag-draped casket which was received at the airport by Nigerian officials led by the Secretary to the federal government. His coffin was then wheeled first to a church service at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International airport before proceeding to the Federal ...

Missing oil revenue stirs discontent among Chads poor

The Guardian - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Flicit sees nothing unreasonable about her demands. Seated in one of the few shady spots in her yard, she details what she would like to obtain for her family: a decent wage, enough to eat, a health service and cheap building materials so everyone can have a home. "And school really free of charge for all children," adds this resident of Demb, a poor neighbourhood of N'Djamena, ...

How to deal with Tunisias Salafists | Sherelle Jacobs

The Guardian - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Ansar al-Shariah supporters clash with Tunisian police in Kairouan on Sunday 19 May, after Tunisia's interior ministry banned their annual conference. Photograph: ...

Nigeria seeks Nigers military support against Boko Haram

Reuters - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Nigeria has asked neighboring Niger for support in a week-old offensive against Islamist insurgent bases in its semi-desert frontier region, underlining moves towards West African cooperation against jihadis seen as a cross-border ...

Coronavirus claims another life in Saudi Arabia Tunisia announces 3 cases

Dubai Chronicle - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Saudi Arabia , but one of the patients in the Eastern Region died yesterday, bringing the total number of coronavirus deaths in the Kingdom to 16. And Tunisia's Health Ministry announced today three cases of the deadly virus, including one ...

Tunisia EU Agrees to Further Develop Higher Education Through Erasmus for All

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tunis - The European Union (EU) has agreed to further develop higher education institutions in Tunisia through the education programme "Erasmus for All". The programme, which covers the period between 2014 and 2020, is designed to upgrade higher education institutions and boost international co-operation in higher education in Tunisia, a statement of the EU ...

Tunisia Fifth Mine Explodes in Mount Chaambi No Victims

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tunis - "A fifth landmine exploded, on Monday, in mount Chaambi in the governorate of Kasserine, without making victims," Colonel-Major Mokhtar Ben Nasr, National Defence Ministry's spokesman asserted. "The landmine exploded under a bulldozer on its way to open a path to the summit of the mountain," he added in a statement to TAP news agency, underlining that the ...

Tunisia Politicisation of Certain Affairs - Hinder to Consecration of Independent Justice - Minister

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tunis - "The consecration of an independent justice in Tunisia can not succeed in the face of political manipulation and media pressure which concern some judiciary affairs," Justice Minister Nadhir Ben Ammou said on Monday. During his meeting with Dimiter Chalev Head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Ben Ammou stressed the efforts exerted ...

Tunisia Ban On Ansar Al-Chariaa Congress Still in Force - Interior Ministry

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Tunis - "The ban on holding the "Ansar al-chariaa" congress is still in force across the country" Interior Ministry's spokesman asserted, on Monday, during a meeting with the press. The rally this formation had attempted to organise on Sunday in Ettadhamen district, was illegal, Mohamed Ali Laroui specified. He added that "the security forces had enforced the ...

Nigeria Nine Minor Informants to Kidnappers Assassins Nabbed

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Sapele - Nine minors, all males, suspected to be members of four different dreaded cult groups that have been disguising and acting as informants to kidnappers and assassins in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were Tuesday arrested and paraded in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, by men of the Nigeria Army, Koko Barrack, in conjunction with the Joint ...

Nigeria Shell Community Disagree Over Cause of Bayelsa Oil Spill

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The Ikarama Community in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State has disagreed with Shell Petroleum Development Company over the cause of the reported oil spills from nearby oil wells. The spill has contaminated the Taylor Creek in Yenagoa; and residents of Biseni/JK4 Road told the News Agency of Nigeria that they disagreed that the spills were caused by oil theft. Officials of ...

Ethiopia Construction of Ethio-Kenyan Electric Highway to Commence

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Miherete Debebe CEO of EEPCo, Guang Z Chen, WB Country Director for Ethiopia, Alemayehu Tegenu, minister of Water and Energy and Lamin Barrow, resident representative of the African Development Bank after the signing ceremony at the Hilton Hotel. The construction of the Ethiopia - Kenya interconnector high-voltage electric highway line will start in September 2013. The project has secured ...