Provides the latest RSS feeds for North Africa News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Sudan News.net http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/cat/82d02f9fd73afff4/ en-us Sun, 19 May 2013 22:23:02 -0400 Sun, 19 May 2013 22:23:02 -0400 30 Tunisian authorities say a street battle between radical Islamists and police has killed one Islamist protester on the outskirts of the capital, Tunis. Authorities said the man, in his late 20s, died of injuries sustained in Sunday's fighting in the Etadhamen district. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police to protest a government ban on their annual ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619477/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:15:03 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619477/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 By Valentina Crosato "School attendance alone is not sufficient. High-quality and diversified education is our objective. Just going to school doesn't make children educated." This is the belief of Teach4Morocco, a Moroccan National Non-Governmental Organization created in 2011 and based in Meknes. Its aim is to improve Morocco's educational system, grant construction of ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214621181/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 20:46:24 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214621181/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 >World-renowned chef, author and Emmy winning television personality Anthony Bourdain visits Libya in the next episode of "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown," airing Sunday, May 19, at 9 p.m. ET. Follow the show on Twitter and Facebook.(CNN) -- Following Libya's revolution, oil production has been restored and the country has slipped from the front pages. Once more, Libya has become North ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214620528/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:47:05 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214620528/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 The team representing Nigeria at the 2013 Standard Chartered Road to Anfield Tournament arrived in Liverpool on Saturday via Amsterdam and Manchester and promised to improve on last year's ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214620048/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:18:01 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214620048/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Islamists fought street battles in Tunis on Sunday, with one protester killed and 15 policemen wounded, after the authorities banned the Salafists from staging their annual congress. The confrontations infuriated moderate Islamist Prime Minister Ali Larayedh, who for the first time linked the Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group which is considered close ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214620140/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 19:08:40 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214620140/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's deputy prime minister says an investigation has indicated that a deadly explosion in Benghazi last week was an accident and not an attack. Awd el-Buraasi told reporters in Tripoli Sunday that military officials do not believe that the blast in a busy area of Benghazi was planned. Three people were killed in the incident. Benghazi, where Libya's 2011 revolution ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619577/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 18:08:59 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619577/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Nigeria's military says it killed 14 Boko Haram militants and captured 20 others Sunday, as it presses its offensive against the al-Qaida-linked group in the country's restive ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619091/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:45:29 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619091/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Ansar al-Sharia that fought street battles in the capital with security forces on Sunday of being "involved in terrorism". "Ansar al-Sharia is an illegal organisation... it has ties to and is involved in terrorism," Larayedh told state television. The Islamists clashed earlier with security forces ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619095/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:33:54 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214619095/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Clashes between Tunisian security forces and supporters of the hardline Islamist Ansar al-Sharia group have left at least one person dead and several injured.Sunday's clashes came after hundreds of supporters of the group took to the streets to protest after authorities banned it from holding its annual congress.The victim, an Ansar al-Sharia supporter, died in hospital, the official TAP ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618615/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:54:33 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618615/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 A key city in northeast Nigeria is in lockdown as the military enforces a 24-hour curfew and blocks supply routes in its sweeping campaign against Islamist insurgents.The operation against Boko Haram, the group that wants an Islamic state in northern Nigeria, is aimed at retaking territory seized by the militants and ridding the country of "terrorist activities," the military has ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618599/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 16:51:58 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618599/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Nigeria's military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that is the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign against insurgents in the region. Soldiers arrested some 65 suspected extremists who were "attempting to infiltrate Maiduguri" after military strikes on the camps in a ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618169/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:53:28 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618169/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 extremists and three soldiers. Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade, a military spokesman, said in a statement that one soldier also was missing as "forces have been engaging a large number of heavily armed terrorists" for the last two days. He did not say exactly where the fighting occurred but that about 20 people were arrested. There was no independent confirmation of the military's ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618170/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:51:12 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618170/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 By SaharaReporters, New York Over 2000 Nigerians have fled the Nigerian State of Borno following the clash between Boko Haram and Nigerian troops in Abadam local government area of Borno North Senatorial District. A journalist travelling in the Nigerian-Niger Republic border confirmed to SaharaReporters that between Saturday evening and Sunday over 2000 locals from villages in and around Abadam ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618171/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:50:16 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214618171/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 KAIROUAN, Tunisia (AP) -- Around 11,000 police officers and soldiers blocked an annual conference Sunday at Tunisia's main religious center by a radical Islamist movement that has been implicated in attacks across the country, prompting clashes with angry youths that resulted in one ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214617632/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:52:15 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214617632/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria offered an amnesty on Sunday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the country's ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214617621/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:48:07 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214617621/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 PARIS -- Police in Tunisia fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing Islamists in two cities after the government banned the hardline Ansar al-Shariah group from staging its annual congress Sunday. The events underscore the growing clout of Muslim extremists in the once staunchly secular North African country. The assassination of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid in February sparked ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616038/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:39:04 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616038/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 An advisor to Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan says the government is encouraged by the progress of the ongoing military offensive against the Islamic militant sect, Boko Haram. "The majority of the various camps where the terrorists have converted into their hideouts have been heavily bombarded, both by air and on land. And I’m just receiving a report that about 55 ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616039/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:39:03 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616039/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Algeria censored reports by two daily newspapers that claimed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in a Parisian hospital since last month, would be flown home in a coma after his health deteriorated on Sunday. Hichem Aboud, managing editor for the opposition French-language 'Mon Journal' and the 'Arabic Djaridati', told AFP the reports cited French medical sources claiming that ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616042/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:10:37 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616042/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, believed to have suffered a stroke, has not made a public appearance in three weeks. The country must now prepare for their first leader from a generation too young to have fought for independence from ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616044/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:05:59 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616044/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 JUBA: At least 29 people were killed when cattle raiders from a South Sudanese minority group opened fire on members of another minority in a village in Upper Nile state, a local official said Sunday. The gunmen crept into Tolleri village in Ulang county in the early hours of Saturday morning and sprayed it with bullets, killing 23 people instantly, said Dak Tap Chuol, commissioner for the nearby ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616055/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:04:52 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214616055/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Three witnesses from the State Department told a House panel not enough was done to prevent the deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans in the September 11, 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. "None of us should ever again experience what we went through in Tripoli and Benghazi," Gregory Hicks, the former deputy of mission in Libya, ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214615463/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:35:55 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214615463/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 10/10/2012 19:23 CET Police have clashed with hardline Islamists in Tunisia after the government banned their annual rally. The Salafist Ansar al-Sharia group, who openly support Al Qaeda, were due to hold the gathering in the central city of Kairouan but told their Facebook followers to gather in the Ettadamen district of Tunis instead, where tensions boiled over. As some 500 protesters ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214615390/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 11:23:15 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214615390/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 The guarding of U.S. diplomatic outposts like the consulate Benghazi in Libya should be treated like Baghdad with more military force, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Kentucky Republican said his focus isn't on the Benghazi talking points, but on not guarding the outpost more heavily. That decision was a "tragic error," he ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214615043/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 10:53:02 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214615043/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Radical Islamists in Tunisia have engaged in street battles with police after authorities banned thousands of them from holding an annual conference in the center of the country. The radical activists, also known as Salafists, threw stones at Tunisian police who deployed heavily in the central town of Kairouan to prevent them from gathering on Sunday. Police responded to the stone throwers by ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614623/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 10:07:13 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614623/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 By Prince Charles Dickson The Edos say "Ehemwen wÿÿ iren te gua so ihuan, ren te vbe gua ku, sokpan ukpÿ iye-ÿkhÿkhÿ ÿre ÿ ma gie iren ku iku iren vbe avan". A cockroach knows how to sing and dance, but it is the hen who prevents it from performing its art during the day. (English) When my son was a baby one of his scary moments was seeing a ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614624/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:52:50 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614624/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Kairouan, Tunisia - Supporters of the hardline Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia clashed with Tunisian police on Sunday after the government banned its annual rally, saying it posed a threat to ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614249/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:08:35 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614249/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Manama, May 19. (BNA) -- A high-level delegation from the Human Rights Affairs Ministry, led by Human Rights Affairs Minister Dr. Salah bin Ali Abdulrahman, is set to visit Morocco from May 20 to 23, at the invitation of the Inter-ministerial Delegation on Human Rights there. The delegation, including representatives from the Interior Ministry, the Public Prosecution and the Human Rights ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614250/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 09:04:10 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614250/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been transferred to France for further medical tests after suffering a minor stroke. File photo: Louafi Larbi, ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614251/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:56:41 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614251/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 BAMAKO (Reuters) - After winning adulation across Mali for a five month military offensive that crushed al Qaeda fighters, France is now frustrating some of its allies by pushing for a political settlement with a separate group of Tuareg ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614247/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:55:17 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214614247/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Manama, May 19 (BNA) - The Royal Court's Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa today received Bahraini newly appointed ambassador to Morocco Khalid bin Salman bin Jabr. The Royal Court's Minister welcomed the Bahraini ambassador and wished him success in his new diplomatic mission. MJ m.a BNA 1058 GMT ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214613912/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:13:42 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214613912/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunisia (Reuters) - Tunisian police fired teargas on Sunday at supporters of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia who were throwing stones at officers in the central city of Kairouan, in protest that a rally there by the group was barred by the government. (Writing by Tarek Amara; Editing by Alison ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214613913/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 08:00:49 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214613913/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 ';You don't build your economy based on aid, you want to build your economy based on the way SoleRebels built its business, so that it's sustainable,'; Bethlehem told ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214612503/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 04:53:43 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214612503/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Accra, May 19, GNA - The Reverend Professor Enoch Immanuel A. Agbozo, Head Pastor of Ghana Evangelical Society (GES) said on Saturday that God has chosen Ghana as new model for ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611657/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:10:30 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611657/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Accra, May 18, GNA - Microsoft is poised to invest in the young and promising Information Communication Technology (ICT) experts who are willing to transform Ghana through the power of ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611568/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:10:29 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611568/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunisia, May 19 (BNA) - The conference of the Arab Atomic Energy Agency (AAEA) started here , with representatives from AAEA member countries participating. In a keynote speech, the head of the conference Abdulrahman Al-Arfaj said to achieve development in Arab countries, fresh reliable energy sources should be found. He said the growth of nuclear energy and nuclear technology applications is ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611604/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 03:07:51 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611604/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunis - An agreement on the compensation for the victims of dictatorship was reached, President of the commission of the martyrs and wounded of the revolution and reactivation of general amnesty in the National Constituent Assembly (NCA) Yamina Zoghlami said. This agreement came after a meeting held, on Saturday in Tunis, between the members of the commission and representatives of the ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611690/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:51 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611690/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Gunmen, Thursday night attacked two police stations and four banks in Daura town, carting away millions of naira and a number of weapons. JTF spokesperson, Capt Ikedichi Iweha, confirmed that four of the attackers were killed by soldiers and three soldiers were also killed in the attack. Iweha said soldiers who repelled the assailants had recovered 11 AK-47 rifles, 393 rounds of different ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611583/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:50 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611583/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunis - The Hizb at-Tahrir, Saturday, called on the "Ansar al-Sharia" movement to postpone its congress scheduled Sunday in Kairouan. "After analysing the political reality, it has become virtually certain that the congress of "Ansar al-Sharia" will turn into bloody clashes," the party warned in a ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611692/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:50 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611692/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunis - Spokesman of the Presidency of the Republic Adnen Mansar denied, on Saturday, the information relayed by some media, on the holding of several meetings in Carthage palace to ease tensions and avoid possible problems and disputes concerning the congress of Ansar al-Sharia scheduled on Sunday in Kairouan. "Until yesterday (Friday), the role of the Presidency of the Republic was ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611691/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:50 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611691/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Damazin - The Human Rights Development Organisation (HUDO) has appealed to the international diplomatic and humanitarian community to put pressure on the Sudanese government "to conduct a transparent and fair trial" for 85 detainees who have been held without trial for more than a year in the Blue Nile state. In a statement on Friday, HUDO said that the detainees are part of a group of ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611662/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:49 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611662/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunis - The Interior Ministry banned on Friday Salafist movement Ansar al-Chariaa from holding an annual meeting on Sunday in the city of Kairouan. "Whoever tries to cause any harm to the State and its structures, sow chaos and disorder, destabilise the country or incite to violence and hatred, will assume his full responsibility," the Interior Ministry specifies in a communique. It ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611663/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:49 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611663/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Carthage - Chairmen of Tourism Professional Chambers and the Turkish Travel Agencies Federation pledged on Friday to launch a promotional campaign to better introduce Tunisia's assets, which according to them "is a charming and attractive destination to tourists." During a meeting with President Moncef Marzouki, the Turkish officials expressed will to assist Tunisia in matters of ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611661/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:49 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611661/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunis - Prime Minister Ali Larayedh will pay a two-day visit to Qatar as of Sunday. He will have a series of talks with Qatari leaders to look at means to strengthen co-operation and partnership relations. Mr. Larayedh will attend the 13th session of the Doha International Forum, according to a Prime Ministry communique released on Friday. Several heads of State and government, political ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611629/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:48 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611629/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Tunis - Speeding up the procedures of the recovery of properties and asserts abroad will be the task of an ad hoc commission created to this effect, a Prime Ministry's statement published on Friday reads. After a meeting of the Higher Council of Fight Against Corruption and Recovery of State's Assets and Properties, under the chairmanship of Interim Prime Minister Ali Laaraydh, it was ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611671/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:51:48 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611671/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 According to the International Energy Agency, Algeria's oil is still suffering from the four-day siege on the In Amenas gas plant in January. (Photo: ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611161/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sun, 19 May 2013 02:01:49 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214611161/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Soldiers are seen patrolling a street in Abidjan in December of 2010, following violent clashes after the election outcome. The Ivory Coast army now says it has detained a militia leader responsible for the 2010-11 postelection violence. (Luc ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214609699/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 23:41:14 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214609699/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 "An armed group belonging to the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)/Jibril Ibrahim faction on Saturday abducted three people, including a policeman belonging to the central reserve forces at Al-Kuma town in North Darfur state," Suleiman Rabih, commissioner of Al-Kuma locality, told ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214608842/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:06 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214608842/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Saturday that his visit to Algeria aims at deepening the bilateral relations both on the political and economic levels between Algiers and ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214608810/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:05 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214608810/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Soldiers in Ivory Coast have arrested a militia leader who was allegedly involved in a 2011 massacre of political opponents. Military officials say Amade Oueremigave himself up Saturday as soldiers began to converge near his hideout. Oueremi and his fighters backed President Alassane Ouattara in the violence that broke out after the 2010 election when former president Laurent Gbagbo refused ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607747/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:24:05 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607747/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 US officials meet the Libya Contact Group at historic time Libya-USA, Politics, 8/26/2011 US Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns led the U.S. delegation to the August 25 Libya Contact Group meeting in Istanbul, where representatives from 28 countries, the UN, EU, NATO, AU, OIC, Arab League and GCC came together to demonstrate the international community's firm commitment to ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607750/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:48:31 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607750/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Unidentified gunman attacked three military posts in Benghazi on Saturday, highlighting the Libyan government's struggle to establish ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607069/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:19:44 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607069/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 curfew on Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern city that's the spiritual home of an Islamic extremist network as soldiers continued the government's emergency campaign in the region, with authorities saying they killed 10 suspected insurgents. A statement Saturday on behalf of Lt. Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607071/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:49 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214607071/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Accra, May 18, GNA - Ghana is expected to adopt the technological mechanism of Intelligent Addressing (IA) of the United Kingdom as the cardinal structure in the street naming and property addressing ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606533/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:26:09 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606533/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Dr Yaw Ofori Yeboah, Gomoa West District Director of the Ghana Health Service announced this when he briefed members of the Assembly on the project at Apam in the Central ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606503/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:26:07 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606503/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Accra, May 17, GNA -The Swiss Ambassador on Friday said more Ghanaian exports are rejected at the European Union and United States borders because of non-compliance with international ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606550/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:26:06 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606550/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Accra, May 17, GNA -E-health initiative, an electronic health delivery system, was launched on Friday to enable doctors reach their patients online and bring health care to the door steps of the ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606505/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:26:06 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606505/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Accra, May 17, GNA - A trade delegation, from the London Chamber of Commerce and the United Kingdom (UK) Trade and Investment North West, has met with representatives of Ghanaian companies at a reception in ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606535/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:26:04 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606535/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged by fire. The explosion damaged only a car parked outside. The official says two other explosions targeted parked security vehicles ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606006/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:14:19 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214606006/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Somalia 's clan elders have created a new mini-state and elected a Kenyan ally as its leader, a move likely to anger Mogadishu and sour ties between the two neighbouring ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214605418/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:41:33 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214605418/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Members of the military police and security gather at the scene of an explosion in front of the Greek embassy, right, in Tripoli on May 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny) OTTAWA - Greek foreign affairs officials report no injuries following a small explosion Saturday outside the Embassy of Greece in Libya's capital Tripoli. Officials say a "low power explosive device" was placed ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214605318/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:26:49 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214605318/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Mali Contact Group of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation set to convene on Monday ANKARA - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is set to host a ministerial meeting of its Mali Contact Group in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on Monday. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will represent Turkey at the meeting. In a written statement released on Sunday, the Turkish Foreign Ministry ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214605445/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:14:02 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214605445/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 R2Bees Vodafone has promised Ghanaians that this year's Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) would be a memorable one for patrons and music lovers across the country. This year's awards ceremony, according to the organizers, Charter House, would take place at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) tonight in Accra, Saturday, May 18. In line with the theme, 'The Next ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214604806/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:36:17 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214604806/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 BAMAKO--France's first lady Valerie Trierweiler said at the end of a 48-hour tour of war-torn Mali on Friday that the experience had brought up "huge" feelings in ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214604906/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:35:16 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214604906/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Although the politicians in Ghana’s parliament have done their bit and have allowed Monsanto lobbyists and scientists influenced by this corporate giant to pass the Bio-Safety Bill in Ghana, that does not stop conscientious objectors from continuing to point out the gross error these politicians in parliament have ... http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214604907/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:08:39 -0400 http://www.sudannews.net/index.php/sid/214604907/scat/82d02f9fd73afff4