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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 ...
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Liberia Rep. Breaks Ground for New Bridge in Bong
Bong County Representative Prince Kermue Moye has emphasized the need for Liberians to buttress government's efforts to rebuild the country. Representative Moye of Electoral District #2 noted that if the improvement of the livelihood of Liberians is only left with the government, the development of the country is still a dream. "There are various ways we can assist government to speed ...
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Ethiopia Economy to Expand By 11.3 Percent
Ethiopia's economy is estimated to expand by 11.3 per cent in the 2012/13 budget year. This is according to a 9 month performance reported to the Budget and Finance Affairs Permanent Committee of the Parliament by Sofian Ahmed, Minister of Finance and Economic Development. He explained to the committee that the performance of the economy this year in agriculture, industry, and service ...
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Liberia ICT Will Transform Our Country - Min. Norkeh
Minister Frederick B. Norkeh, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has said that the use of the ICT will transform the country. Minister Norkeh made the remarks on the Occasion Marking the Graduation of 15 IT professionals, who have acquired additional knowledge in System Administration and Network management from 7 different Government institutions. "Not disillusioned by the hurdles ...
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Liberia The Aftermath - Buchanan Without BRE - Residents Moving On After Investment Snafu
It's less than a year since the famous energy renewable company, Buchanan Renewable Energy (BRE) shut down its operations in the country and many of its former workers are now expressing their frustration over the company's closure. Based in Buchanan city with most of its operations in Grand Bassa and Margibi Counties; BRE was credited for providing jobs for over 2,000 people before ...
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Tunisia Femen activist to face pepper spray charge
TUNIS: A young Tunisian women's rights activist, who was arrested at the weekend while protesting against hardline Islamists, has been charged with possessing pepper spray, her lawyer said on Thursday.The 18-year-old, known by the pseudonym Amina Tyler, who sparked controversy in March by posting topless pictures of herself online, has been summoned to appear in court next Thursday, ...
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‘Ghana Meets Naija’ Concert Returns
Bola Ray (middle) in a pose with Edem (left) and WizKid On June 29, Ghanaian music fans would witness the much awaited historic musical concert dubbed 'Ghana Meets Naija', at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) in Accra at 8:00p.m. The music concert, organised by the nation's entertainment powerhouse, Empire Entertainment, would witness an unprecedented list of some ...
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Bishops Nigeria �totters on the brink
Nigeria, the world's seventh most populous nation, "now almost totters on the brink" of disaster, the nation's bishops warned in a statement entitled "To Rescue Nigeria from Collapse." "What started as a mere clash between law enforcement agencies and members of the Islamic sect commonly labeled Boko Haram, has since spiraled into what can, be best described ...
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Tunisia No New Cases of Coronavirus Reported - Minister
Tunis - "No new cases of Coronavirus (nCOV) have been detected in Tunisia except for the case of the patient who had died last May 10, Minister of Health Abdellatif Mekki said on Thursday. The Minister recalled that the man, who had returned from the Gulf, died of acute respiratory failure and that his son and daughter who were also infected by the same virus received necessary treatment ...
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Tunisia Tunisia Begins to Have More Political and Economic Visibility - Minister
Gammarth - Minister of Industry Mehdi Jomaa called on German companies based in Tunisia to show patience to manage the social and security tension, saying the "country is turning the page and starts having more political and economic visibility." "The situation in Tunisia is reassuring," he indicated, saying, however, that "he was not denying a reality but rather ...
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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