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L'Envoyé spécial du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies pour la région des Grands Lacs, Saïd Djinnit, et quatre autres envoyés internationaux ont appelé mercredi à la reprise du dialogue au Burundi qui connaît depuis plusieurs mois une grave crise politique marquée par des violences.

Sur fond de nouvelles allégations d'abus commis par des soldats de la paix en République centrafricaine, le chef de la Mission des Nations Unies dans ce pays (MINUSCA), Babacar Gaye, a présenté sa démission qui a été acceptée par le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, Ban Ki-moon.

Le Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, Ban Ki-moon, a annoncé mercredi la nomination de Farid Zarif, de l'Afghanistan, comme son Représentant spécial pour le Libéria et chef de la Mission des Nations Unies au Libéria (MINUL).

Un an a passé depuis le signalement du dernier cas de polio sauvage sur le continent africain, s'est félicité cette semaine l'Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS).

Les pourparlers libyens qui se sont déroulés pendant deux jours au bureau des Nations Unies à Genève se sont achevés mercredi dans une atmosphère positive, a déclaré le Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général pour la Libye, Bernardino Leon.

Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a exprimé mercredi son inquiétude concernant les tensions entre le Président et le Premier ministre en Guinée-Bissau et a appelé tous les dirigeants politiques à une reprise du dialogue.

President Duda officially sworn in on August 6th (Shutterstock)

President Duda officially sworn in on August 6th (Shutterstock)

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August 11, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese presidential assistant Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid brushed aside the fierce skepticism surrounding the government's recently signed contract with a Russian mining company but acknowledged that the figures announced on gold reserves could well be exaggerated.

Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid

The contract was signed in late July with a company named as ‘Siberian' for mining concessions in the Red Sea and River Nile states. President Omer Hassan al-Bashir reportedly attended the signing ceremony which was not made public.

Sudan's minerals minister Ahmed Sadiq al-Karuri announced at the time that the company discovered 46,000 tonnes of gold reserves in these two sites with a combined market value of $1.70 trillion.

On top of the mammoth figure, skepticism grew deeper after a Sudanese consultant working for the ministry out of Moscow named Mohamed Ahmed Saboon tendered his resignation because of the contract with the company which he described as “unknown”.

Saboon also described the $1.70 trillion figure as “science fiction”.

Hamid, who is also the ruling party vice chairman, asserted in a television interview on Tuesday night that the Russian company is reputable and well known adding that its officials were part of a ministerial delegation that flew from Moscow to Khartoum recently.

However he admitted that the gold reserves figures may have been inflated.

"The figures put forward by the company about gold reserves may be 100% or 50% accurate," Hamid said.

The Sudanese official recalled that there were also skeptics when Sudan announced the discovery of oil in the late 90's.

The chairman of Siberian mining company Vladimir Jakov said in an interview with al-Sudani newspaper on Monday that he personally has a 99% stake in the company along with a Sudanese partner whom he declined to name.

Jakov pointed out that he suffered “irreparable” damage from the skeptical talk about the company in terms of his bank dealings and reputation in Russia and abroad.

He said that there is confusion and mix-up between the parent company which he named as Golden Stone Vasilievsky Rudnik Mine Siberian For Mining Company LTD that is based in Russia.

He said that Siberian is the Sudanese subsidiary of the parent company and officially registered in Sudan adding that they spent about $10 million in geological research.

The pro-government Sudan Vision newspaper said that the group was owned by the Russian government till it was sold to the private sector in 1993 after it tumbled due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It further said that it was bought by the current investors and Jakov who led the company to become strong again and he was awarded the order of achievement by president Putin in 2004 himself for his role in lifting the company again.

(ST)

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August 11, 2015 (BOR) - Authorities in Twic East county of South Sudan's Jonglei state have passed a local order directing the two clans of Dacuek and Ayuel, which have been in conflict since 2010, to compensate the 29 lives lost to end conflict in Nyuak payam.

Chief gathered at Wanglei in Twic East county 1, August, 2015 (ST).

The county leadership, supported by the state government, has urged the chiefs from the two sub-clans to speed up the process.

No attack or counter offensives have occurred between the two communities since they signed an agreement in August last year. The accord was to end conflict by compensating lives lost in fighting.

“After the signing of the deal in August 2014, the communities started to again live together, go to the same churches and had shown progress in different aspect of life,” said the Twic East county commissioner, Dau Akoi, adding, “Life seemed back to normalcy”.

However, not all the chiefs in the county seem to respect provisions of the agreement. For instance, Ayuel, one of the largest clans in Twic East has 19 chiefs representing all its sub-clans, yet only 13 of them are reportedly committed to peace. The 13 chiefs of Dacuek pledged commitments to the accord, calling for its implementation.

COMPENSATION FUNDS COLLECTED

Last year, it was agreed that Dacuek contributes SSP 800,000 to compensate 16 lives lost to Ayuel. In return, Ayuel was to contribute a total of SSP650, 000 to compensate for the 13 lives lost in Dacuek.

Ayuel chiefs who are loyal to the agreement have contributed SSP151,200 while Dacuek contributed SSP724,900, totaling to 876,100.

Traditionally, paying 50 heads of cattle would compensate each life lost. But in this particular agreement, the two communities agreed to settle the matter monetarily, earmarking SSP50,000 for each life lost.

Some of the chiefs have, however, expressed concerns over the refusal by their six counterparts to adhere to agreement framework. They argued that compensation not be effected and money returned to their owners, if the chiefs continue to dishonour the deal.

According to Akoi, the conflict in Twic East has affected lives and disrupted studies of youth in South Sudan and neighbouring countries.

“If all is implemented, then we will wait to see who will break it again. We have amnesty to those who killed. The killings were to be handled by the communities, not as individuals, that is why we did not arrest anybody. After this one, if you kill anybody, you will be held accountable for killing as individual”, he told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday.

Deng Ajak, an intellectual from the Ayuel community, said peace was essential for youngsters to enjoy in schools as well as institutions.

“I have my son who is learning outside South Sudan. He is one of the young men who lived in fear because of this war. Why should we create problems to our own sons when we are not targeting ourselves as elders? Stop this and let the youth enjoy peace”, he said.

(ST)

August 11, 2015 (WAU) - 14 suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of a payam administrator in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state, an official said.

The commissioner of Wau county, Elia Kamilio Dimo said security personnel made arrests following last week's murder of Natale John and Yona Francis, a policeman.

Also wounded in the attack was Wau county paramount chief, William Kamillio Gwage.

“We have arrested 14 [suspects] and they are being detained pending investigations. We are still tracking anyone we suspect to be behind this killing,” Dimo said on Tuesday.

He further disclosed that all the 14 suspects were arrested from within Bagari county.

(ST)

August 11, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan announced that inflation rate dropped to 14.1% in July from 18.3% a month earlier making it likely that the east African nation would meet or even beat projections of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

FILE - Men wait to buy meat at the market in Khartoum, Sudan (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

The 2015 budget has a target inflation rate of 25% while the IMF projected 12.4% by year end. The inflation rate stood at 19.8% in May.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBoS) said that prices of commodities and services rose at varying rates in July with clothing and footwear recording the biggest increase by 3.4% followed by recreation at 3.3% then transport at 1.7% , education at 1.3% and lastly restaurants and hotels at 1.1%

The food and beverages index moved upwards to 519.6 points compared to 515.6 in June.

CBoS said that food and beverages contributed to the rise in the general price level by 2.1 points out of 5.6.

Sudan has been struggling with double-digit inflation since secession of the oil-rich south in 2011 but it has succeeded in bringing it down from a high of 46.8% in July 2014 to 25.6% in November of the same year.

(ST)

August 11, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan's ministry of justice has instructed district attorneys to represent the prosecution in all cases pertaining to national security, human trafficking, illegal drugs and state funds.

The state minister of justice, Ahmed Abu Zaid, said the district attorneys should also follow up on the sentences handed down particularly in cases of narcotics, warning against criminalizing people simply on the basis of suspicions.

He emphasized the government intentions to reform the laws and qualify the legal staff in order to impose the rule of law, calling for utilizing the latest technology to help carrying out judicial work.

The minister, who inspected the district attorney's offices in southern Um Bada in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, saying his visit aims to address the shortcomings as well as activating the role of the public attorneys in achieving justices and implementing the government reform program.

Abu Zaid was briefed on the workflow in the attorney's offices and problems they are facing.

He promised to overcome the obstacles facing those offices, instructing the district attorneys to pass down their expertise to their colleagues.

Meanwhile, the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has issued a decree promoting 294 judges in accordance with the recommendation made by the Chief Justice, Haydar Ahmed Dafa'Allah.

According to the decree, 29 judges from the Court of Appeals have been promoted to the Supreme Court, 6 first grade judges were promoted to the general court, 13 second grade judges have been promoted to first grade judges and 189 third grade judges have become second grade judges.

In the same context, the Chief Justices announced opening of two offices for the national Supreme Court in the River Nile and North Darfur states in order to facilitate the litigation procedures.

(ST)

Plusieurs dizaines de milliers de migrants sont arrivées ces derniers mois en mer Egée. Face à cet afflux massif, les autorités grecques se disent complètement dépassées par les événements. Preuve que les tensions s'aggravent, mardi, des violences ont éclaté entre migrants sur l'île de Kos. A coup de matraque et à l'aide d'extincteurs, les forces de l’ordre ont tenté de reprendre le contrôle de la situation.

Die Lage in Nigeria bleibt angespannt. Die islamistische Bewegung Boko Haram terrorisiert weiterhin die Bevölkerung.

Der Ton zwischen Moskau und Tiflis hat sich entschärft. Einer grundsätzlichen Verbesserung der georgisch-russischen Beziehungen sind jedoch Grenzen gesetzt.

Disintegrating states and societies, decades of misrule, deepening sectarian polarization, dissolving borders, proliferating non-state actors, expanding civil wars, and a set of near-catastrophic humanitarian crises: The dynamics tearing up the Middle East and North Africa are terrifying enough.