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Der albanische Ministerpräsident Edi Rama und sein serbischer Kollege Alexander Vucic wollen die Beziehungen zwischen ihren Staaten verbessern – und damit dem Beispiel der Versöhnung zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg folgen.

The World Bank will provide technical assistance to Azerbaijan.

If there is problem with TAP project, then we will export our gas to the Turkish market mainly

The flame of the First European Games has arrived in the city of Kurdamir.

Le Secrétaire général des Nations Unies, Ban Ki-moon, a déploré jeudi la fusillade qui a eu lieu à Bamako, au Mali, le 25 mai dernier, causant un mort et un blessé parmi les Casque bleu de la Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation au Mali (MINUSMA).

Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a adopté jeudi à l'unanimité de ses 15 membres une résolution prorogeant le mandat de la Mission des Nations Unies au Soudan du Sud (MINUSS).

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced concern about the escalation of fighting in Yemen in a telephone conversation with the country&#39s President, the United Nations has confirmed.

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle

May 27, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – The ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) party is sweeping vote count from Sunday's parliamentary election.

National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) Chairman Merga Bekana announces preliminary results to the media in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Wednesday, May 27, 2015. (Photo AP/Mulugeta Ayene)

Partial results announced on Wednesday by the country's National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) showed that prime minister Hailemariam Desalegen led EPRDF party has so far won 442 seats out of the 547-seat parliament.

According Preliminary results, the ruling party and its allied regional political organizations are sweeping votes in all regions across the nation.

At a news conference held Wednesday, NEBE chairperson Merga Bekana confirmed EPRDF has won 80.8% of the total parliamentary seats including 23 parliamentary seats from the capital, Addis Ababa.

Bekana said that the EPRDF, which is ruling the country since 1991, has also won 79.4% (1,508) seats for the regional councils.

Over 90 % of the total registered 36.8 million people have cast their votes on Sunday's national elections; the country's first since Ethiopia's long-time ruler Meles Zenawi, died in office in 2012.

Bekana has commended the people's active participation during the election which he said had witnessed huge turnout compared to previous elections.

He said Ethiopians had “really committed themselves to the development of democracy”

In the last vote in 2010, opposition parties won only a single seat in the 547 seat parliament.

Supporters of the country's two largest opposition parties (Blue Party and Medrek) hope that the parties would secure seats this time however officials of the electoral board haven't yet announce if any.

“Regarding the remaining results, we have to wait. According to our timetable we have time to gather, to collect and then publish it according to our schedule,” Bekana said adding “but I cannot actually tell you actually how many remaining seats will be occupied by opposition or ruling party”.

Final election results will be announced on June 22.

The African Union (AU) observers' mission said Ethiopia's Sunday general elections were “credible” and in line with African Union standards.

“The Ethiopian Parliamentary elections were generally consistent with the AU guidelines on the conduct of elections in Africa” former Namibian president Hifikepunye Pohamba, in an initial report he issued on Tuesday.

Approached by Sudan Tribune, some opposition members however said there were some irregularities.

Opposition members claimed that there were some ballot boxes that went missing.

They also said ballot boxes were not openly shown to be empty before voting begins.

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A senior Russian official has reiterated that Moscow is totally against any mechanism which allows the automatic restoration of sanctions on Iran in case of a violation of any final nuclear deal, saying the 'snap-back' of sanctions on the Islamic Republic can only come through a UN Security Council resolution.

Nyomás alá helyezték a kisiskolák vezetőt. Az MKP közleményben buzdít mindenkit, hogy ne engedjenek az alattomos megfélemlítésnek.

“Azerbaijan’s economy is at least 10 times larger and stronger than Armenia’s”.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has received a delegation led by governor of Southern Sinai province of the Arab Republic of Egypt Khaled Fouda, AzerTag reports.

Mikszáth Kálmán halálának 105. évfordulójára emlékeztek  Szklabonyán. A megemlékezéshez időzítve május 27-én adták át a Mikszáth Kálmán Emlékházban kialakított múzeumpedagógiai foglalkoztató helyiséget.

By Abdirahman Mohamed Dirye

Multiparty politics were introduced in Somaliland a decade and half ago following collective effort to ease power conflict and enhance accountability. Somaliland earned as a result titles like “Beacon of Hope” or Africa's Pearl of Democracy” “Exemplary to the Failed Somalia” among others. But all of a sudden, the democratization process halted when the National Election Commission's( NEC), the only legal body for election affairs from setting time to announcing results, decision of the presidential and lawmaking elections dated 2016 was illegally vetoed by the so called outgoing Council Guurti for financial gains! Their recklessness and gamble triggered massive crisis of each other's throats drawing global threats of cutting aid from Somaliland. The wrong decision sounds a death knell to the democracy.

Nation-wide protests continues despite crackdowns by the so called Police locally known as Residential (houses) Raiders Uninformed or RRU, controversial institution which still funds by the UK government. The abbreviation born out of raiding several houses terrorized sleeping children and abducted their fathers.

Political battles rage between those parroting the government line on insisting on that extension is legal because the First Family's grandson got sick and the Wadanni party and those champions of democracy who say how earth grandson's illness can make elections delay indefinitely! The world should intervene to prevent major wars that will extend from Yemen to Djibouti to seashores of Kenya. In fact, nobody knows for sure what Guurti based their insane decision other whispering, “our hands were lubricated” thanks in part to Hirsi's generosity, and Salaben's bravery combined! “Fools rush where angels fear to tread”. Relapsed Prone-conflict Somaliland into political turmoil dashing any hope for any international recognition—President deprioritized recognition

International Crisis Group published critical report yesterday revealing the trends Somaliland institution and the twists and turns the self-rectifying mechanisms took and the consequences ahead. UN threatened Special Fund Arrangement if no compromise is reached.

“Somaliland entered new era of losing friends not gaining,” he added. “Acceding to the illegal extension of the president's expiring term next July will be disservice to the nation, a perjury to constitutional oath I took when assumed the parliament as speaker, and deception to the democratic values” he also eulogized for the victims of the demonstration in solidarity with democracy and the rule of law. He concluded in his speech “I'll never relent to restore our democracy to its previous track whatever it takes and the confidence of the world in Somaliland's struggling institutions after the ugly decision undermined; discredited NEC's in the eyes of the world”.

Obama's speech to the Muslim World “there're people that advocate democracy when they're out of power, and oppress people when they're in...” president Silanyo, in retrospective, was a “champion” of democracy but he shown that he's pushover to brutes who realized democracy is detrimental to their regime. Nothing far from the truth about Silanyo's crocodile tears on democracy other than the above quote, it fits him so well. He's man with honeyed words but evil man.

Somaliland democracy faces multiple dangers and may die soon! Firstly, Islamists masquerading as innocent lark, secondly, recklessness from the part of the government.

Mr. Irro the presidential candidate, based on surveys, the most likely winner of 2016 elections, showed a great leadership and trustworthiness in his simultaneous micromanagement of the parliament and his party Wadanni. He's a champion of the return of Somaliland ruling party to democracy; uphold the rule of law and annulment of any extension from the Guurti to exit the stalemate and moving forward.

On this issue, the international community clarified their stance on it: stick to NEC's timeframe of the elections or hell with you. The foreign delegates frequent to Wadanni Headquarters in Hargeisa are moral support to the democracy and solidarity with demonstrators, said Mr. irro.

Surely, without contributions from the West, surely without the support from International Republic Institute's technical-know, Somaliland's democracy had utterly failed.

Therefore, The UN should take tougher line to stop recidivism to illegal extensions and vetoing verdicts from NEC or courts. Institutions are in parallel neutralizing each other's verdict had confused voters and people should remember one wrong can't make another wrong right as pro-extension defenders claim. That's a lame excuse was untenable and utterly rejected by UN and other world bodies. Will our Zine Al Abdine having seen the tides against him reverse illegal extension or buries his head in the sand and eventually wakes up Somaliland in “bloodbath” and regrettably say “oh! In retrospective, have I solved it, we might be safe?” The illegitimate extension is a ticking bomb unless the world addresses immediately.

Dirye is Somaliland Activist, political Commentator, and Senior Editor at Democracy Chronicles, mrdirye@gmail.com

Idén huszonhat előadó 28 produkcióval nevezett be az ITEFESZT-re, azaz az Ifjú Tehetségek Fesztiválja címet viselő járási tehetségkutató versenybe.

By Trayo A. Ali

As I am diving into and trying to fish out the hidden agenda the Sudan government that it wishes to pass them through the armpits of newly speculated Arab military grouping that emerging from the ashes of the Yemen war, I thought it helpful to start with this piece of political folklore that enables us to reveal the inner thinking of Machiavellian nature of the government and preempt the tricks it employs and reveal the motives it harbor when it comes to this kind of “political games”.

(1) Tradition goes, once teacher always teacher

A classical folk story of Sudanese politics has it that, a veteran member of the “oldest profession” went to pilgrimage in “Mecca” and successfully performed her religion duties. When an old client of her came to congratulate for the successful godly journey to the Holy Land, to his utter disbelieve, he found her comfortably engaged in the same usual activities. He then shockingly kept his head down and asked her, whether she had not repented as she is now “Haja”. She replied: how can a carpenter abandon his lifelong profession for the simple reason of visiting “Mecca”? The client replied and said to her: yah, you may be damn right, tradition always goes and “once teacher, always teacher”. She then held her head high and gave a yellow smile and said: “That is also done in politics, ask those in power corridors”.

(1) Machiavellian ways of evading deadly blows
Sudan, although tops the list, when it comes to the issue of international terrorism and states sponsoring, yet surprisingly and under “circumstances need to be further explained”, has miraculously avoided much expected hard punches and deadly blows. But most importantly, those costly “narrow escapes” were made possible on the expenses of many invaluable values including country's “self-reputation”, “citizen welfare”, “unity of the country” among other rationalities.
Sudan's records tell that, when, after the terrorist attacks on America in 2001, and as the issue of international terrorism topped Global security agenda, the regime managed to survive by, among other means, sacrificing with the better half of it (regime's ideological clergy man, Sheikh Hassan Al-Turabi).
In 2005, when the so-termed Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed and the process of openness was due to be effected in the country (to the disadvantage of terrorist policies), the Islamist totalitarian authorities (for reasons better known to them) preferred to keep it “terrorist”. They did it successfully by offering one third of the country to go separate way. That sound like, for Islamic Fundamentalist, “terrorism” pays and is a lucrative business. No wonder they are today partly surviving on South Sudan's problems. All that tricks constitutes part of terrorist survival tactics (TST).
Even on issues related to international crimes and justice whether involves genocide, rape and or crimes against humanity, they are telling that they are “holding-it-off” by mere way of refusal to cooperate! Their line of thinking always remains “no matter how we sound or smell devil we still can evade and yet shake hands with Angels”.
And now when the so-called “Arab Spring” had sprang with all the associated mushrooming of Islamist radicalism (with the noticeable punctuation and hiccups such as the “evaporation” of the Egyptian Brotherhood experience, the government is desperately attempting to turn the war in Yemen to an ideal opportunity to survive on it. Ge. Al-Basheer described it as “unexpected God given golden chance”.
This now is the regime's dream for the would-be “gate way” to the would-be “Eldorado”, of the would-be “Arab Military Alliance”. We can only wait and see, how imaginable, can Al-Basher's blood-sucking and genocider “military cum militia” be in one camp with Americans to brutalize the Sudanese citizen even if under Arab military body.

(2) “Domesticated Kings” now turned heroes!
What Gen-Albasheer has forgotten or tries to (as his habit) forget are those hard and unforgotten facts.
It were those insurmountable amount of verbal abuse and insult poured at by his Islamist regime against the Saudi kings, the Gulf Sheikhs and the Egyptians in those few past years. Till mid ninetieth Sudan government official media was dedicated to insult, humiliate and offend officials of these countries for no reason or occasion.
Everybody at least vividly recall how in those days a demagogic middle level military officer (of morale guide), nicknamed “Younis the Morning Cockerel” use to vomit all kind of intolerable and unforgettable filth against Saudi, Gulf and Egyptian authorities through his daily “one hour” program in national radio, Radio Omdurman.
The “Morning Cockerel” use to remind his listeners to repeatedly describe the late King Fahad of Saudi Arabia as a domesticated one, the Gulf Sheikhs as of having “debauched life style”, slaves, puppets and tutelages of the West and the former Egyptian president Husni Munark as a “tyrant and Despot Pharaoh”. The word “Pharaoh” in Islamic sense is considered a terrible derogative and intolerably offense.
Interestingly the regime today is literally running after the same people who they once described the “cannibals and monsters” and begging to salvage them. They all of a sudden turned their “saviors” and friends and the kings became the “true servants of the two Holly Mosques”, as they were “desecrators”. How contradictive to turn your enemy into a hero overnight. Surely that is their way to the fold.

(3) The real ulterior motives
The regime is devising many tactics to employ to make maximum political profit out of that. The grand strategy is to position itself within the fold of the embroiling Arab politico-military group (fighting terrorism), trap Americans, take them by surprise and force them to conveniently “shake hand with the devil” himself.
In reference to this Yemen war experience, where the US backing up “Operation Decisive Storm”, Sudan, being nominal partner, insisting that, by definition, it is in “military coalition” of a level with the USA. Sudan is now vehemently arguing and interpreting that the fight against at military operation level which puts her together with the US into one boat should soon be upgraded and brought to a degree of “military alliance”.
Further motives are to use “Arab's abundance resources”, including their money, political leverage and military logistic to combat the marginalized African armed movements fighting the regime's imposed racial based wars in the country.
For Sudan this schematic strategy, requires some necessary tactical adjustments including a kind of photoshop facelift political arrangements. This may warrants temporarily sacrifice with the old “bed fellows”: the Iranians, Syrians, Hamas, Egyptian Brotherhoods, Hezbollahs, Somali Al-Shabab, Nigerian Boko-Haram, Libyan Ansar-Al-sharia, and the Huteeth.
They should pay some price that preserves the ability of the “Centre” to stand, that would also prevents the falling apart of “things”.
Like Sheikh Hassan Al-Turabi was sacrificed temporarily before his coming back to the fold, they too will always remain strategic allies.

(4) Yet Sudan likes an “Open-marriage” of witches and wizards?
To prove his regime's “credibility” and upgrade its “eligibility” credentials for the membership of his perceived upcoming “Arab military alliance” Gen. Albasheer, after obediently servicing for a good twenty five years in and for, he, in an abrupt manner, categorically denied his belongingness and membership to his political biological mother, “International Islamist Brotherhood”. He painted the “Movement” black, accused it as a threat to international peace and security and implicitly promised to join the “Crusade” against it.
Yet, while claiming to make a U-turn in its political allegiance, Sudan prefers the grouping as a club of “witches and wizards” where the contract is based on the rules of an “open marriage”. One way Sudan likes to understand and interpret rules of the contract is that “I can breed, groom, nurse, train and arm the Islamists” and “sell them out on demand but on retail bases whenever the need be or dispose them when they are expired and you can bomb them as much as that would not harm my position in power”.

(5) So far No dollars and no Yemen
Even before it's formally baptized into the membership of the much heralded Arab Military Alliance (which yet to be born and fully identified whether will be “bird or bat”, Sudan already failed the test on major “examination subjects”. It failed to send any “ground troops” that singularly committed to. The word in town is that Gen. Al-Basheer himself summoned his militia leader “Himity” and passionately appealed to him that “since the government has no troops with any moral fighting spirit willing to go to Yemen, he decided to send some of the Rapid Support Militia (commanded by Himity) to Yemen. The president also promised a monthly salary of ten thousand US Dollars per each militia man”. The report was that the militia General Himity happily agreed and circulated the “words” among the “money-driven militia”. General Himity went and mobilized two thousand of his militia, and when the time came, they were lifted by military planes, but ended up in Al-Fashir (Darfur) and in Kadogoli (Nuba Mountauns). They all drained up there fighting Sudan's rebels and not Yemeni Houthis. That part of the episode ended up with no Dollar and no Yemen. The militia are so upset and no trust anymore.

(6) Pro-President Mursi solidarity demonstrations
Another development that pissed off Egyptians is the last week government sponsored demonstrations organized in Khartoum. It was led by some proxy government officials like Mr. Zaubair Ahmed Al-Hassan, the NCP former finance minister and now chairman of the government ideological mother organization “Islamic Movement”. The demonstrations condemned in no uncertain the “death sentence” passed against Mr. Mursi, former Islamist Egypt's president. Placards featured holding signs such as “death to Sisi and not to Mursi.
Yet after all, president-elect Gen. Al-Basheer is waiting kings, Sheikhs and Pharaohs (who mow turned his saviors and heroes) to grace his inaugural ceremony, Americans to remove him from “terror support list” and to become member of would be Arab Military Alliance (or pact) that be backed by the US and the entire international democratic system.
It is so superb kind of thinking but can also be wishful one.

(7) Food for thought
Since the advent of the National Islamic Front (NIF), now turned National Congress Party (NCP) to power in 1989, the Sudanese never stopped asking this question:
“Why on earth, only we, the Sudanese, are the targets of this Islamist “cloak and dagger” oppression?
A satirist Arab writer, who paid attention to this repeated complain of Sudanese, which he considered it a kind of “naiveté”, sarcastically wrote in response:
“As you need to keep it clean a house of yours, as big as Islamic World, there is a need to have a back-yard to dump your refuse, rubbish and trash. In politics it's called a political toxic waste. No doubt, that kind of environment automatically affects the way people think in negative way, especially of the leaders. In that case political ideas can terribly be intoxicated and contagious. A pretty good caricature is the one prevailing in the Sudan, where a sensible thinking may not necessary be the order of political behavior and people kept wondering without them putting the reality in right historical context. Sudan's membership in either the Arab League or the Organization of Islamic Conference is more of nominal than substantial issue, and a quantitative than that of qualitative presence. In either way it meant to serve the government of the day and not the people of Sudan like in most other cases.
It Until an advanced technological device for political recycling is designed (which might take a little while), there is very little can be done to sanitize such situations. That may sound a bit discourteous, but it also looks like a God inflicted curse.”
The underlining point related to the issue under discussion in this journalist revelation is the fact that “the membership serves the government of the day and not the people of Sudan”. This is where our cautious comes

Trayo A. Ali is Secretary for foreign relations of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Mini Minawi and Secretary for Humanitarian affairs of SRF. He is reachable at Email: tmotoy60@gmail.com

Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey Elmar Mammadyarov, Rashid Meredov and Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu held a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 42nd Foreign Ministerial Council of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Foreign Ministry told APA on May 27.

Golden State participera à sa première finale NBA depuis 1975, date de son seul titre, face aux Cleveland Cavaliers de LeBron James.

"The 40th paragraph of the report on political issues is titled “Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan”