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Libya UN Says Libya Continues to Face Difficult Transition
Larry Freund June 18, 2013 NEW YORK -- A senior United Nations diplomat says Libya continues to face a difficult transition from the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, whose 42-year rule ended in 2011. Tarek Mitri, the United Nations special representative for Libya, told the U.N. Security Council the risks in Libya should not be underestimated. But he added that the opportunities in that country ...
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Tunisia NCA to Discuss Motion to Impeach President IHAE Elections Next Friday
Bardo - The National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Bureau has decided to hold a meeting next Friday to set the dates for plenary sessions that will discuss the motion to impeach the President, the election of the Independent Higher Authority for Elections (IHAE) and the draft organic law on immunisation of the Revolution, the NCA said in a statement released on Tuesday. During a meeting held ...
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Tunisia PM Inaugurates 47th Sfax International Fair
Tunis - Interim Prime Minister Ali Larayedh inaugurated, on Tuesday, the 47th Sfax International Fair. The event, placed under the motto "Employment and Dignity," is held up to next July 2 with the participation of 250 exhibitors from Tunisia, Libya (1 firm) and Kuwait (20 industrial firms). The Premier was accompanied, during his visit in Sfax, by several Government members, namely ...
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Tunisia President Marzouki Confers With SG of World Forum of Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought
Carthage - Caretaker President of the Republic Moncef Marzouki conferred on Tuesday afternoon with Secretary-General of the World Forum of Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought in Iran Mohsen Araki who expressed the convergence of views as regards "the imperative to boost bilateral relations and diversify its niches to hoist them to the level of the two brotherly peoples' ...
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Tunisia Abassi-Ben Jaafar Talk On Obstacles Which Prevent Completion of Constitution
Bardo - Tunisian General Labour Union (UGTT) Secretary-General Hassine Abassi said he had examined with National Constituent Assembly (NCA) President Mustapha Ben Jaafar the obstacles which hinder the completion of drafting the Constitution. Hosted on Tuesday by Mustapha Ben Jaafar in Bardo, Abassi said after the meeting the existence of "worrying indicators" that could influence the ...
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Tunisia Carthage - Conference On Challenges of Media Landscape in Tunisia During Transition
Carthage - "No democracy without freedom of expression or opinion," President Moncef Marzouki said on Tuesday, when opening a conference on "Challenges of Media Landscape in Tunisia during Transition," adding that freedom is the rule, restriction is the exception. "The violations recorded in the transition stage are a natural fact in a country living through ...
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Nigeria 22 Killed As Boko Haram Launches Reprisal On Youths in Maiduguri
Maiduguri - At least 22 people including students and fishermen have been killed in Maiduguri yesterday, a few hours after Boko Haram insurgents declared war against youths in Borno and Yobe states who have captured many insurgents and handed them over to the Joint Task Force (JTF). Witnesses, survivors and reliable security sources said the first incident which appeared like a revenge mission ...
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Liberia Liberia Senate Concerns Over Absence of President Vice President From Country
Senator Armah Jallah (NPP-Gbapolu County) and others have raised serious concerns over the absence from the country of the President and her deputy who are out of the country on foreign travels. President Sirleaf is in Ireland attending the GA summit while the Vice President Joseph Boakai is in Philadelphia the United States of America to meet with the Liberian community. Speaking to ...
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Liberia Students Debate On Concerns Around Extractive Resources
The girls of St. Teresa Convent High School in Monrovia have won this year's Inter-high School Debate organized by the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency (LEITI). The competition was held under the theme: "Talking about our Resources". Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Convent won the competition in which nine other schools involved in the LEITI ...
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US cable Ethiopia govt terrified by ONLF rebels
The low-level conflict in Ethiopia's Ogaden region is far more dangerous to the government's survival than earlier assumed, a secret US report reveals. Government fears for its ...
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Improved outlook for Gabon economy
GDP growth in Gabon 2003 to 2013 (blue line) is dependent on non-oil sector growth (red) as oil revenues (green) decline. This pessimistic 2009 forecast has now been adjusted ...
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What will the new South Sudan become
As the South Sudan independence referendum has reached its 60 percent turnout threshold and secession becomes likely, key open questions become pressing. The issues include borders, the economy, debts, democracy and human ...
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South Sudan historic vote or new conflict
With Sudan moving towards a referendum to determine whether the south remains part of the country or secedes, the international community has launched a major diplomatic push to keep the troubled process on ...
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Tunisia may delay Islamic bond issue to next year -sources
By Tarek Amara Tunis, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 7:42am EDT Tunis, June 19 (Reuters) - Tunisia's first issue of a sukuk (Islamic bond) is likely to be postponed to next year, adding to pressure on government finances, because of disruptions to legislative business. Finance Minister Elyess Fakhfakh told Reuters in April that Tunisia planned to issue a sovereign sukuk this July to ...
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NigeriaDrug Barons Devise Strategy To Evade Jail 110 Accused Persons Jump Bail
By SaharaReporters, New York An investigation by SaharaReporters has revealed what one insider called an increasing boom in Nigeria’s hard drug business, with serious lapses in the prosecution of suspects. "It is well known that a cartel operates within the courts, the prisons and at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to assist drug convicts to evade jail terms," said a ...
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Boko Haram Islamist militants kill nine school children in northern Nigeria as punishment for youth gangs working with the army
Members of the Boko Haram Islamist militant group have killed at least nine children at a school in northern Nigeria - the second attack on students in the area this ...
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Armed gang kills 48 in raid in Nigeria
Map locating Zamfara state in northern Nigeria. An armed gang has raided a village in the state and killed 48 people in an apparent reprisal attack targeting a local vigilante group, a local official ...
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Mali gears up for reunification
A United Mali under one government is under construction, as Tuareg rebels who control the northern part of the country, have agreed to ceasefire and submit to a legal government.? ?Northern Mali, under Tuareg rebels and Southern Mali under the Malian government, have been holding talks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital, for the past week. The Ouagadougou talks, under the mediation of ...
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Tunisia SNJT Makes Presidency of Republic Liable for Things Outside Its Competence - Spokesperson
Carthage - The statement of the National Union of Tunisian Journalists (SNJT) "makes the Presidency of the Republic liable for things which do not even fall under its competence," spokesperson Adnane Mansar argued on Tuesday. The statement is "strongly imbued with political content" and "refers to trials that the Presidency has nothing to do with," Mansar told ...
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Libya Libyas Road to Democracy Faces Political Security Challenges Arising
From Decades of Authoritarian, Dysfunctional Rule, Council Told The Libyan people would, for the foreseeable future, continue to endure the heavy legacy bequeathed to them over decades of brutal rule, the Security Council was told today as it heard from the top United Nations official in that country. "The political and security challenges that now face the country may well be the legacy ...
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Tunisia Transfer of Sfax Railway Station to Facilitate Access to Taparura - Ali Larayedh
Sfax - Caretaker Prime Minister Ali Larayedh announced on Tuesday the transfer of the Sfax city railway station, which prevents access to the Taparura project zone. During a working session with executives of the Sfax governorate, on the fringes of the 47th International Fair, he said that several measures will be taken to speed up achievement of the Taparura project, whose first phase was ...
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UN Secretary-General Hails Signing of Mali Peace Agreement
WAM NEW YORK, June 19th, 2013 (WAM) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the signing of an agreement between the Government of Mali and Tuareg rebels. "The agreement provides for an immediate ceasefire, paves the way for the holding of presidential elections nationwide and commits the parties to discussing sustainable peace in Mali through an inclusive dialogue that will take ...
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Abraaj says to acquire 100 pct of Ghanas Fan Milk
JOHANNESBURG, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:51am EDT JOHANNESBURG, June 19 (Reuters) - Dubai private equity group Abraaj said on Wednesday it will acquire 100 percent of Ghana dairy firm Fan Milk. Abraaj, which has invested $2.2 billion in African companies, did not give a value for the transaction. (Reporting by Tosin Sulaiman; editing by David ...
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Look to Libya For a Guide to Post “Liberation” Syria
Lew Rockwell Blog June 19, 2013 Asked about the state of Libya after the US-led intervention to liberate the country and bring prosperity and human rights, Professor Yehoudit Ronen, a Libya expert at Bar-Ilan University in Tel ...
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Majority of asylum seekers in Malta hail from Somalia - NSO
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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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