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The first-ever United Nations-sponsored regional forum for Action on Albinism in Africa will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 17 to 19 June to develop specific measures to tackle the attacks and discrimination faced by persons with albinism in several countries in the region.

The first-ever United Nations-sponsored regional forum for Action on Albinism in Africa will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 17 to 19 June to develop specific measures to tackle the attacks and discrimination faced by persons with albinism in several countries in the region.

Toby Porter is Chief Executive Officer of Health Age International

The incident marks the second-ever entry by a Chinese warship into Japan's territorial sea.

Noch kein halbes Jahr im Amt, hat Bundesrat Guy Parmelin alle Hände voll zu tun. Über die Armeebefürworter, die das Referendum gegen die Armeereform anstrengen, ist er enttäuscht.

Alors que les sondages indiquent désormais les partisans d’un Brexit en tête, le camp du maintien du Royaume-Uni dans l’UE fait des efforts désespérés pour reprendre l’initiative et inverser la tendance. George Osborne, le ministre de l’Economie doit s’exprimer sur le référendum ce mercredi 15 juin, mais a déjà fait savoir à la presse qu’il anticipait un trou noir dans les finances publiques en cas de Brexit, qui l’obligerait à recourir à un « budget d’urgence » assorti de coupes brutales.

June 14, 2016 (NYALA) – On Monday night law enforcement forces in the capital of south Darfur state, Nyala, clashed with armed men who stole a vehicle belonging to a leading member of ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and attempted to flee the town in vain.

Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces sit in an armed vehicle in Nyala, south Darfur, displaying weapons they say they captured from the Justice and Equality Movement rebels on May 13, 2015 (AFP Photo/Ashraf Shazly)

A security source in Nyala told Sudan Tribune that a joint force from the police, the army and the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) managed to arrest the three gunmen who stole the vehicle of the NCP Deputy Youth Secretary in the state, which was parked in front of his home in Nyala.

The joint security team forced the carjackers to surrender after heavy clashes, according to the security source.

The heavy clashes that lasted from more than 30 minutes caused panic among the resident of the city. But, the security official asserted that the regular forces are capable to curb the criminal gang activities.

"There are many outlaws who are still undermining the security situation after the significant stability in the state," he said stressing that ''the law enforcement agencies are able to deal with any trouble despite the succession of security incidents since the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan''.

In a separate security incident, five masked gunmen stormed “Al Madina” Pharmacy, which is at 200 meters from the premises of South Darfur government.

A pharmacist working in the pharmacy told Sudan Tribune that five armed men of whom 4 were in military uniform stormed the pharmacy and stole cash money and mobile phones before fleeing.

A number of residents have expressed concern over the return of the lawlessness situation which had prevailed in Nyala before imposing the emergency situation, pointing that the looting of a pharmacy in downtown is a serious indicator that the state could return to the previous situation.

Since July 2014, the governor of South Darfur Adam Mahmoud Jar al-Nabi, declared an indefinite emergency situation in the state, including a curfew from 7pm to 7am (local time) in Nyala.

The decision also banned riding of motorcycles by more than one person, holding weapons while wearing civilian clothes, vehicles driving around without license plates, and wearing a kadamool (a turban which covers the face).

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Óriási gólhelyzettel kezdődött a mérkőzés, de nem portugál, hanem izlandi részről: Sigurdsson betört a tizenhatosba, lövését azonban Rui Patrício hárította. Ahogy múlt az idő, a portugálok átvették a játék irányítását, és sorozatban dolgozták ki a helyzeteket. Először Vieirinha veszélyeztetett mintegy húsz méterről, de lövését Halldórsson üggyel-bajjal hárította, majd Ronaldo beadását A cikk folytatása …

Tovább….: http://www.magyarszo.com/hu/3080/sport_labdarugas/148266/Portug%C3%A1lia-nem-b%C3%ADrt-Izlanddal.htm

      

Kisebb incidens volt kedden az orosz, illetve az angol és a walesi szurkolók között Lille-ben, a franciaországi labdarúgó Európa-bajnokság egyik helyszínén.

A cikk folytatása …

Tovább….: http://www.magyarszo.com/hu/3080/sport_labdarugas/148265/%C3%9Ajabb-szurkol%C3%B3i-%C3%B6sszecsap%C3%A1st-kezdem%C3%A9nyeztek-az-oroszok.htm

      

Barthélémy Kassa, Rachidi Gbadamassi, Augustin Ahouanvoebla et plusieurs députés de l'Assemblée nationale ont interpellé le gouvernement de la rupture à travers une question d'actualité pour demander au ministre des finances plus d'informations sur le programme "Parakou eau 2045" initié par le précédent gouvernement de Boni Yayi. 

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Alapos vizsgálatnak vetették alá Omar Mateen mobiltelefonjának híváslistáját, a számítógépén található adatokat, információkat, és az internetes közösségi oldalakon közzétett bejegyzéseit, és arra a megállapításra jutottak, hogy a merénylő valószínűleg maga is meleg volt – közölte kedden az amerikai Szövetségi Nyomozó Hivatal (FBI).

A cikk folytatása …

Tovább….: http://www.magyarszo.com/hu/3080/kulfold_nagyvilag/148260/Az-FBI-szerint-az-orland%C3%B3i-mer%C3%A9nyl%C5%91-val%C3%B3sz%C3%ADn%C5%B1leg-maga-is-meleg-volt.htm

      

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle

June 14, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday traded blame over who triggered Sunday's fresh border fighting that took place in their disputed border area.

Eritrean president, Isias Afewerki (AFP Photo)

The two rival forces fought around Tserona central front, an area about 75 kilometres south of the Eritrean capital, Asmara raising fears of a renewed all-out war.

Following the incident, Eritrea ministry of information immediately accused arch-rival Ethiopia of launching the attack first.

In an updated statement issued today, Asmara denied launching the attack first instead said it has repulsed the attack with Ethiopian troops sustaining heavy causalities.

Ethiopia on its part on Tuesday confirmed its military had taken "proportional measures" against Eritrea in response to an attempted attack in the Tsorona area on Sunday.

“The retaliatory measure against Eritrean forces seriously weakened the attacking capacity of the Eritrean army” said Ethiopia's communications affairs office.

The Ethiopian government further warned Eritrea that it will take further retaliatory actions if Asmara fails to stop its “mundane acts”.

At a press conference held Tuesday, communication minister, Getachew Reda said the decision on whether Ethiopia should take further military action or not depends on the future acts of the regime in Asmara.

The minister said the latest attack was an offensive plan by Eritrea and Ethiopian forces defended themselves and further took counter offensive measures to neutralize the threat.

Recently, the United Nations human rights investigators accused Eritrean leaders of crimes against humanity including torture, rape and murder and called on the Security Council to impose sanctions and refer the case to the International Criminal Court (ICC).

According to the Ethiopian government, the latest UN accusation has put Eritrea under pressure.

“Eritrea's attempted attack was targeted at diverting the attention of Eritrean people and the international community” the statement added.

The Government of Eritrea today further said it will issue detailed statement on the purpose, scope and implications of the latest violence.

“It is nonetheless clear that mounting opposition from popular movements of the Ethiopian people, endemic corruption and associated economic crisis, as well as the desire to stem promising progress in Eritrea are indeed some of the factors prompting Ethiopian regime to indulge in reckless military adventures” it said.

LEVEL OF CASUALITIES

With regard to level of causalities on the Ethiopian side the Ethiopian minister said it was too early to reveal the number at this point.

He said officials are receiving from the ground on level of the general damage.

The official however hinted it could be a serious number.

“The actual offensive was a serious one not just a simple skirmish so I would expect a significant damage mainly on the Eritrean side” Getachew said.

CIVILIAN EVACUATION

Sudan Tribune has learnt that Ethiopian authorities around the battle area have ordered civilians to evacuate ahead of the “counter attack”
Ethiopian officials said they had to evacuate civilians as Eritrean forces were bombarding the area using artilleries.

“We had to take precautionary measures to avoid civilian causalities” Getachew added.

He admitted Ethiopian forces has used a full on mechanized defensive including using Tanks, and RPGs.

In 1993, Eritrea, gained independence from Ethiopia but five years later it engaged in a two-year long war with its larger neighbour over their disputed border.

The war has claimed the lives of at least 70,000.

Although a peace deal signed in 2000 ended the bloody war, terms of the agreement haven't yet been implemented as Addis Ababa demanded further talks on implementation process.

As a result, the two neighbours remain in a no-war no-peace situation and forces of both sides regularly engage in lower-scale skirmishes however the extent of the latest clashes are said to be larger.

Sources told Sudan Tribune that people residing along the common border have been fleeing the area following the fighting which has involved heavy artillery.

Ethiopia and Eritrea routinely exchange accusations of backing rebels trying to destabilize and overthrow the other's government

Eritrea is also under UN sanctions over accusations of arming training and financing al-Qaida allied terrorist group in Somalia, Al-Shabab.

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June 14, 2016 (JUBA) – The United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) has selected a three-member committee to monitor human rights violations in South Sudan and aid the process of transitional justice, healing and reconciliation.

A general view of participants during the 29th Regular Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on 3 July 2015 - (UN Photo)

The President of the Human Rights Council, ambassador Choi Kyonglim (Republic of Korea), announced Tuesday the appointment of Yasmin Sooka (South Africa), Kenneth R. Scott (USA) and Godfrey M. Musila (Kenya), to serve as the three members of the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan.

Sooka will serve as Chair of the three-person commission. She is a human right lawyer who served on South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1994 to 2001.

The Council decided to establish, for a period of a year, the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan at its 31st session on 23 March 2016, to monitor and report on the situation of human rights in South Sudan and make recommendations for improvement.

Through Human Rights Council resolution 31/20 on the situation of human rights in South Sudan, which was adopted by consensus, the 47-member body mandated the three-person Commission to assess the human rights situation in the country since December 2013, in order to establish facts in support of transitional justice, accountability, reconciliation and healing.

The Commissioners, who will serve in their personal capacities, will provide guidance to the Government of South Sudan on transitional justice, accountability and reconciliation issues and will engage with international and regional mechanisms to promote accountability for human rights violations and abuses.

The commission is scheduled to present a comprehensive written report to the Human Rights Council at its 34th regular session, in March 2017.

According to chapter five of the August 2015 peace agreement, a Hybrid Court will be formed to try suspects for the crimes committed during the 21 months of conflict between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar.

There will be a separate body for truth, healing and reconciliation to mend ties for the ethnically divided country.

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June 14, 2016 (JUBA) - A unit of the faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), a co-national army of South Sudan under the command of President Salva Kiir, has ransacked a market in Kajokeji county of the proposed Yei River (Central Equatoria) state, sparking armed confrontation in which more than 20 lives were lost.

Women sell food at Konyo Konyo market in South Sudan (Reuters)

The actual motive behind the looting of the civilians market remains unclear. Neither the office of the spokesperson of the SPLA nor the governor of the proposed Yei River state has issued a statement providing explanations or circumstances under which armed confrontation ensued in one of the supposedly relatively peaceful and calm places in the country since the conflict broke out in mid- December 2013.

Local accounts from eyewitnesses attributed the cause to the deployment of a unit of the SPLA force to Nyepo payam, located north of Kajokeji, without the knowledge and approval of the local authorities.

“The report I received from the area is that the humanitarian situation is dire after this incident. The civilians have fled their homes. They are sleeping out in the open and in churches with limited capacity to accommodate them,” a legislator representing Kajokeji at the national legislative assembly in Juba said Monday in an exclusive interview.

“Also these are places which were not meant to residences. They were meant for something else,” he added.

The lawmaker who requested anonymity for fear of reprisals claimed the armed confrontation was sparked by the behaviours of some elements of government's forces who entered the market to loot.

“My daughter and my brother were in the market when this incident occurred. What they told me and has been confirmed by several people is that some elements of the SPLA forces that were deployed to Kajokeji recently on dubious grounds decided to go to the market and started taking food items by force from owners,” he said.

The national army forces, he said, argued that the government had not paid them salary for long and that they had no money to pay for the food.

“When they were asked to pay, they refused and said that they have not been paid by the government. Now who did not pay them, government or the civilians, asked the legislator? “This was caused the fight because youth felt agitated and so decided to stop intimidation,” he explained

Other sources claimed that the clashes erupted when armed men loyal to the first vice president, Riek Machar, decided to intervene upon seeing the intimidation of the natives by the SPLA forces.

Upon the clash in the market, according to another source, the local command of the army unit in the area decided to send reinforcements from the main barrack in Mundari area in central Kajokeji but their movement was intercepted and fell into ambush laid on the way and lives were lost.

Another reinforcement sent from Juba fell in an ambush and additional lives were lost.

It is unclear how many lives have been lost from both sides. Many sources put figures of the government killed in two ambushes at more than 20 soldiers but local residents put the figures higher.

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June 14, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's Defence Minister Awad Ibn Ouf said Tuesday that the Border Guard Forces (BGF) would participate among the rest of the regular forces in the collection of illegal arms in Darfur.

Sudan's defence minister Awad Ibn Ouf (SUNA Photo)

In April, President Omer al-Bashir announced the formation of a national body under the title of Darfur Disarmament Higher Committee to collect illegal weapons from the hand of civilians.

He said there will be a first phase were people will be asked to voluntarily handover their arms, adding that the second step will be heavy disarmament operations and legal action will be taken against those who didn't deliver their weapons.

The BGF is comprised mostly of the Arab militia mobilized by Khartoum to help quell the revolt of Darfur rebels who took up arms against the government in February 2003.

On Monday, Ibn Ouf inspected the BGF troops at the Wadi Sayidna military area north of Khartoum upon their return from the combat operations in the Blue Nile state.

He said the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), the BGF and the other regular forces would participate in the collection of the illegal arms in Darfur in order to enhance peace and stability, pointed that the BGF has responded to the call of duty in all battlefields.

The Defence Minister further hailed efforts of the BGF in maintaining security and stability and supporting programs of voluntary return of the IDP's to their original villages, pointing to the significant victories in the Blue Nile and the entire military operations zones.

The Sudanese government has been fighting the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in South Kordofan and Blue Nile areas since 2011.

Earlier this month, the Blue Nile Governor Hussein Yassin Abu Sorwal said that SAF managed to retake control of the strategic area of Jebel Kilgu, 30 km south of the Blue Nile state capital Ed-Damazin.

The Sudanese government had dispatched hundreds of the Rapid Support Force (RSF) militiamen to participate in the recent battles in the Blue Nile.

The SRF militiamen are accused to taking part in the counterinsurgency campaign led by the Sudanese army against Darfur rebel groups. UN agencies estimate that some 300 thousands civilians were killed.

For his part, SAF Chief of Staff Emad al-Din Mustafa Adawy stressed that SAF would meet the needs of the BGF and provide training for its soldiers to carry out their duties fully.

He also pointed to the recent victories in Jebel Kilgu, Torda and Angassana Hills in the Blue Nile, pledging to provide resources for the BGF in order to protect the borders efficiently.

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June 14, 2016 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, has issued a provisional order appointing all the state governors as interim leaders of the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in their respective states.

South Sudanese president Salva Kiir (Photo: Reuters)

The order appointed 28 governors of the newly created controversial 28 states, ending tensions and uncertainty over who controls party branch offices after the division of the states since 2 October last year.

According to Bol Makueng, secretary of information at the secretariat of the faction of the SPLM loyal to President Kiir, said the appointments came in accordance with the mandate given to the President by the party's political bureau.

Makueng further explained that the 28 governors will lead the party in the new states until state congresses are conducted.

“These are interim arrangements until congresses are conducted. And it is within the powers of the chairman after the meeting of the political bureau had resolved and authorized him to issue a provisional order in his capacity as the chairman of the SPLM,” Makueng said.

“So the state governors are the interim leaders now,” he said.

The main duties of the interim leaders, according to Makueng, are to help in planning, coordination and organization and receive directives and guidance from head office on how they could be running the affairs of the party in the state through the existing secretariat.

He also added that they may upgrade the county offices in places where a county has been upgraded to become a state of its own as a result of the creation of more administrative units.

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June 15, 2015 (KJARTOUM) - The Justice and Equality Movement and the Sudan Liberation Movement - Minni Minnawi on Wednesday called on the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to take part in the ongoing efforts to bring peace in Sudan.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni gestures during his inauguration in Kampala on 12 May 2016 (Photo AFP)

The two groups, which hold arms against the government of President Omer al-Bashir in Darfur region since 2003, call to open the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) for talks and refuse to sign the Roadmap Agreement brokered by the African Union asking to create a conducive environment for the constitutional conference .

''The Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Justice and Equality Movement Sudan (JEM) strongly believe that the Republic of Uganda with its visionary leadership is best placed to play a constructive role in the search for peace in the Republic of Sudan," said a joint statement extended to Sudan Tribune in the first hours of Wednesday.

The two rebel movements pointed to the " instrumental role" played by President Museveni in the resolution of the South Sudanese crisis, the recent rapprochement between Khartoum and Kampala and the Ugandan role in the conclusion of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005 ending the civil war between Sudanese government and the SPLM.

'' Therefore, SLM and JEM wholeheartedly request and welcome H. E. President Yoweri Museveni to exploit his exceptionally rich experience in the affairs of the region and his outstanding statesmanship in working for peace in the Republic of Sudan which will consequently contribute positively to the sustenance of peace in the Republic of South Sudan,'' the two group said.

Kampala and Khartoum traded accusations for longtime of supporting rebel groups, but their relations have improved over the past months and the ICC-wanted President Omer al-Bashir attended the inauguration of President Museveni last May.

Also, Museveni made negative remarks in his inaugural address about the International Criminal Court when he described it as 'a bunch of useless people'.

last month the two rebel groups asked Qatar to join the African Union-led mediation in order to discuss some outstanding issues already outlined in the DDPD.

But seemingly, Khartoum refused the request as it keeps saying the holdout groups have to ink the DDPD and then the government can discuss to their requests.

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(B2) Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a approuvé, ce mardi (14 juin), la résolution permettant un contrôle renforcé de l'embargo sur les armes au large de la Libye. Un vote obtenu à l'unanimité, autorisant l'usage de la force sur la base du chapitre VII de la Charte des Nations Unies et fondée sur « la […]

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