The state-controlled media in Tehran are advising the “authorities” in Beirut and Baghdad to crush the popular uprisings “by all means necessary”. One of Tehran’s Iraqi propagandists even advised Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi “to kill leaders of sedition (fitna)” who had gathered in a restaurant in Baghdad.
Amid a frenzied mix of anger, disbelief and exultation, shouts of “Don’t kill him! Don’t kill him!” echoed through the crowd of rebel fighters as Libyan leader colonel Moamar Gaddafi was pulled from his hiding place inside a stormwater drain.
Calls were made at a two-day Libyan energy forum held in Tunis on 20-21 October for a return of an oil ministry and for the national electricity company GECOL to be split into three separate companies covering transportation, generation and distribution. There were also calls for the authorities to open the door to greater private sector involvement in both the oil and electricity industries.
In Sweden, crucial societal issues, such as who is behind the current crime epidemic, are a public taboo.
A German NGO said one of its vessels was threatened Saturday by a boat carrying Libyan militants who fired warning shots as it rescued 90 migrants in the Mediterranean.
Le nouveau président Kaïs Saïed a prêté serment, mercredi 23 octobre, devant l’Assemblée. Son discours d’investiture a été certes rassurant, mais n’a pas permis d’en savoir plus sur ses orientations, ni de dissiper les inquiétudes engendrées par les thèmes développés au cours de sa campagne.
Following several years of inactivity, the al Qaeda-linked Jamaat al Ansar al Muslimeen fi Bilad al Sudan, better known as Ansaru, has reappeared online.
The headscarf is, of course, just a symptom of a deeper problem: many perceive it as the symbol of an invasion by an outside culture into the public sphere.
Ouverture réussie pour le premier sommet Russie-Afrique organisé par Vladimir Poutine et co-présidé par le président en exercice de l’Union africaine (UA), Abdel Fattah al-Sissi. Les dirigeants africains ont répondu à l’appel de Sotchi et, en ce premier jour surtout consacré à la coopération économique, promesses, serments d’amitié et contrats se sont multipliés.
Les chefs militaires des pays de l’Union économique et monétaire ouest-africaine (UEMOA) vont se réunir en novembre afin de projeter fin 2019 ou début 2020 des troupes au Mali, Burkina Faso et Niger pour lutter contre les groupes jihadistes, a annoncé mercredi le ministre ivoirien de la Défense, Hamed Bakayoko.