by Manal Omar.Director of Iraq, Iran, and North Africa Programs, Center for Conflict Management, U.S. Institute of Peace. Co-authored by Tarkowski Tempelhof. Source: Huffington World With the overthrow of Moammar Gaddafi, Libya has a whole new political spectrum that covers a formal transitional government to remnants of the monarchy. Each […]
Driving from Cairo to Benghazi by car first of all we drive down the highway towards Alexandria. It was not difficult to guess that Gamal Mubarak, son of the now ‘retired’ President of Egypt. When driving along I was looking forward to see El Alamein. I was wondering whether I […]
Plans to create new universities in Mauritius in the coming years highlights the government’s ambition to transform the island into a regional knowledge hub. The country aims to attract about 100,000 foreign students by 2020, and campaigns are now being conducted in India and Tanzania to promote the island as […]
by Samuel Jaberg in Madagascar, swissinfo.ch Each year, 200,000 hectares of forest vanish in Madagascar as trees are cut down to provide wood for heating and charcoal for cooking. One Swiss organisation is trying to turn the tide, backing the production of solar cookers as a more eco-friendly alternative to […]
A contact group comprising 60 countries, aka “Friends of Libya”, is meeting on Thursday in Paris to discuss the future of the country post-Gaddafi. Envoys from Russia and China – the critics of the NATO campaign – will also attend the conference. France and Britain, the hosts of the conference, […]
by Ramzi Baroud – The Tripoli Post At a press conference in Tripoli on August 26, a statement read aloud by top Libyan rebel commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj was reassuring. Just a few months ago, disorganised and leaderless rebel fighters seemed to have little chance at ousting Libyan dictator Muammar […]
A surgical team from the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli, a spokesman has confirmed. The four-strong delegation was able to evacuate 17 people left without care in a hospital in the south of the city. ICRC spokesman Steven Anderson told […]
With the deputy prime minister’s announcement of new guiding constitutional principles, the old argument between Islamists and liberal forces has reemerged, pitting the former against the ruling military council. Read more
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah launched the national fundraising campaign for famine-hit Somalis by donating SR20 million. The telethon collected nearly SR100 million as of early Tuesday. The telethon has been extended to another day. Crown Prince Sultan, deputy […]
Pravda Ru: Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey ………..let us see what the western corporate media is not saying. Let us try to forge a middle way between the myriad of conflicting evidence in the stories. Why then is NATO supporting terrorists? Why is NATO supporting those who have raped little girls? Why is […]
Libyan rebels capture coastal city of Zawiya A Libyan worker chats with two rebels as they patrol an oil refinery controlled by anti-Kadafi forces on the outskirts of Zawiya. (Giulio Petrocco, Associated Press / AUG 19 From the Associated PressAugust 20, 2011, 10:25 a.m. Zawiya, Libya— LibyaGn rebels expelled government forces from […]
MAURITIUS, BALI: Medical tourism in Mauritius increases dramatically, Bali wants to copy. Medical tourism to Mauritius has seen a tenfold increase over the past five years with 11,000 medical tourists in 2010. The Island hopes to attract 100,000 a year by 2020. Medical tourism is gaining momentum in Mauritius with […]
By AMY TEIBEL | AP CAIRO: Egypt said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of at least three Egyptian troops killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants who had launched a deadly attack on Israel from Egyptian soil. The decision sharply […]
By Zhou Siyu (China Daily) BEIJING – China will start shipments of food aid to northeast African countries by the end of this month to ease famine caused by severe drought in the region, an official from the Ministry of Commerce said on Friday. The shipments from Tianjin port will be […]
Source: NY Times August 18, 2011 The Question-Driven Life By DAVID BROOKS Rift Valley, Kenya We are born with what some psychologists call an “explanatory drive.” You give a baby a strange object or something that doesn’t make sense and she will become instantly absorbed; using all her abilities — […]
In an earlier article, Mr. Qasim Rashid has suggested that it was about time that polygamy should be legalized in America, which can be read here at the Muslim Times. On the one hand, I would like to second Mr. Qasim Rashid’s request that it is about time that polygamy is legalized in Western […]
Pravda Ru: The problem of hunger becomes more and more serious for millions of people around the world. A recent report from the World Bank said that food prices had grown by 33 percent since July 2010 and neared the peak level of 2008. The situation with food reserves in […]
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PALESTINE NEWS AGENCY Cairo – PNN – Egypt has deployed tanks and thousands of military troops in co-operation with Israel into the Sinai Peninsula in an attempt to regain control of the area. Control of the Sinai has been in limbo since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s fall from grace […]