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Rebel George Athor threatens war as Govt vow to stop him
George Athor revealed last week that he would return to war following a break down of talks with the Government of South Sudan, however the SPLA spokesperson Mr Phillip Aguer has revealed that the threats are baseless and that the renegade is not a threat to the peace in the country.
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Museveni blasts Bashir over South Sudan
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The Ugandan leader warned bashir to abide by the 2005 peace agreement and end his aggression on the south
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Rebel George Athor threatens war as Govt vow to stop him By Deng Micheal
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eorge Athor revealed last week that he would return to war following a break down of talks with the Government of South Sudan, however the SPLA spokesperson Mr Phillip Aguer has revealed that the threats are baseless and that the renegade is not a threat to the peace in the country. “His threats of war as baseless and the SPLA division in Jonglei State is on high alert and is ready to confront any attempts to destabilize the State” he Said The South Sudan rebel leader vowed more violence against the government in the newly independent state after the failure of secrets talks held this week in Nairobi with the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement. Athor rebelled against the government after he was declared the loser in the April 2010 governmental elections in Jonglei state against the incumbent governor, Kuol Manyang Juuk, whom he accused of allegedly rigging the vote. On independence day, South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir declared a public amnesty to all the armed groups who had rebelled against the government after April 2010 elections. Athor who was the SPLA Deputy Chief of General Staff for Political and Moral Orientation, signed a ceasefire agreement with Juba in January 2010, days before the referendum on selfdetermination to facilitate the run of a process he supported. However, Juba has accused him many times of being backed by Khartoum’s government. Speaking to the press in Nairobi after secret negotiations with the government, George Athor
Southern Sudan rebel leader George Athor, speaks during a press conference in Nairobi
posed four conditions for peace with the government stressing that his movement is determined to pay more sacrifices if needed to for peace and democracy. “People must die so we have peace, we have democracy,” Athor said in a press conference held in Nairobi. “Sacrifices have to be made,” he stressed before to point an accusing finger towards Juba, saying the government there refuses to cooperate to achieve peace in the South Sudan. “There is a grave need for peace in South Sudan but unfortunately the other side were not cooperating,” went on the former SPLA general, who was chosen last April to lead a coalition council of six rebel groups in the new state. The renegade general disclosed he met with President Salva Kiir during his recent visit to Nairobi where he reiterated his demand for new general elections in South Sudan. He also urged the formation of a new government in which his group would get “two or three” ministerial posts, until the organisation of the vote. Athor further demanded financial compensations for the victims of the conflict with the government in his area and to develop it. He did not elaborate on the requested money but pointed out the need
for schools and hospitals. The rebel leader said the South Sudanese government negotiating team had rejected his demands. But, he said President Kiir was “positive,” underlining that “that was not the same for the rest of the delegation.” Athor said they had demanded a third party to guarantee the implementation of any political agreement, and the reparations for “the losses people have suffered.” Different sources said that Juba declined a US offer to mediate the conflict with the rebel leaders preferring to hold direct and separate talks with the armed groups. .Athor after positing his conditions and ideas about the peace process told reporters that his rebels are peace lovers who do want a negotiated settlement for the conflict. “We are ready for talks as soon as they are,” he said, adding, “we can reach an agreement because ultimately we don’t think that this can be resolved militarily.” Juba negotiated separate agreements with two rebel leaders. On 4 August Peter Gatdet returned to Juba shortly after the announce of a peace deal in Nairobi. However his group, South Sudan Liberation Army (SSLA) rejected the pact saying they are not part of it. Rebel leader, Abdel Bagi Ayii Akol, also returned to Juba last October where he announced his acceptance of a presidential amnesty and said he was determined to work for peace and stability in the South Sudan.
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Museveni blasts Bashir over South Sudan President Museveni has called on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to end “aggression” against the South. He urged the Khartoum government to back off South Sudan stating that President Bashir must abide by the 2005 peace agreements ending decades of conflict between the North and South. At a joint news conference with South Sudan leader Salva Kiir, the Ugandan leader said Khartoum cannot make the “mistake of managing Sudan as an Arab country and yet it is Afro-Arab.” South Sudan blames the North over recent attacks on the continent’s newest country, that became autonomous following a referendum in July 2011. A statement from President Museveni’s office said South Sudan people had “voted
twice democratically” expressing their right of selfdetermination. Salva Kiir was in Uganda for a two day state visit on an unknown agenda but sources reveal that regional security was high on the agenda. The South Sudan had claimed earlier on Friday that Khartoum military war planes attacked their territory a day after the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) attacked bases in Kuek, Upper Nile and Raja County in Western Bhar el-Ghazal. SPLA spokesman, Col Philip Aguer Panyang said: “This is a terrible violation of the sovereignty of South Sudan.” South Sudan has dismissed Khartoum’s readiness to resume the African Union mediated talks on postindependence arrangements that should have started on Friday in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. Ruling party secretary general Pagan Amum Okiech, told reporters on Friday that Khartoum had rejected an invitation through the AU High Level Implementation Panel, headed by former South African President Thabo Mbeki, to resume the talks. Both sides are yet to resolve issues on the Abyei region, border demarcation and oil shipment fees. President Museveni reiterated that his government would offer unreserved support for South Sudan’s quest for inclusion in the East African Community. “That is part of the reason we have been fighting to create a strong Africa,” he said. “Uganda will support the government of the Republic of South Sudan to join the Community and we will receive her with open hands.”
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Kiir Urges Security Agencies to be Vigilant on RSS territories amid threats from Khartoum
President Kiir addressing the police officers.
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he President of the Republic H.E Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit directed the police and other security agencies to be vigilant and protect the territories of the Republic of South Sudan, especially from any aggression from the Republic of Sudan. “The Republic of South
Sudan will not go back to war with Khartoum; we are for peace and development but those who beat drums of war in Khartoum know that South Sudan is ready to defend its territories from any aggression”, he said. He also directed the police officers to create a good and
strong relationship with the citizens to facilitate collaboration with the police in their duties. He urged them to be united for one goal and discard tribal conflicts which serve the enemies of peace. President Kiir strongly directed the police officers to respect UNMISS activities in South Sudan and cooperate with regulations and laws of the UNMISS helicopters, because UNMISS is supporting the new nation by providing security in many places. The President made these directives when addressing more than 379 police officers from the rank of Maj. Gen. to the rank of Lieutenant, and customs duty officers demobilized by the Khartoum government and recommissioned to the Republic of South Sudan Police Services by the Presidential Decrees No. 8/2011 and No. 54/2011 during their swearing in ceremony organized by the Ministry of Interior at the Police General Headquarters in Buluk, Juba.
He also congratulated the re-commissioned police and customs officers for the new assignment given to them. He urged the officers to be ready to face the challenges of building a strong new nation. President Kiir directed the officers to double their efforts in implementing the law fully on the ground, protect the constitution and territories of the new nation and respect the principles of the human rights when arresting any national or foreign suspects. On his part the minister for Interior Hon. Alison Manani Magaya urged the police to focus more on how to serve the new country in a professional manner. Hon. Magaya said the transformation of the police has many challenges but the ministry is facing them through designed policy of recruitment, training, assignment and two years transfer from place to another. Hon. Magaya added that transparency and accountability will be strongly taken in consideration by the ministry.
Reorganization of OP staff structures expected in due course
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he newly-appointed Chief Administrator in the Office of the President Molana Mayen Wol Jong announced last week that reorganization of the staff structures at the Office of the President to suit the demands of the office will be done in due course. Molana Jong made these remarks when addressing a special ceremony organized by the staff in the Office of the President today on Wednesday 23rd November 2011 for the reception of the new Chief Administrator and bid farewell to the former Deputy Chief of Staff in the Office of the President. He urged the staff in the Office of the President to act responsibly and deliver services to the President’s office in as a team. He also expressed his sincere gratitude to the President of the Republic for showing confidence in him through the new assignment. He said he is ready to welcome complaints and proposals for solutions to problems facing the staff.
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South Sudan receives $2.2 grant from Japan
Review presidential term limits, Carter Center tells S. Sudan MPs S
Japanese ambassador explaining a point to Dr Marial.
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he Japanese government has granted the Republic of South Sudan 2.2 million US dollars, H.E Akinori Wada the Japanese ambassador has disclosed. He explained that the grant is meant for food assistance to the Republic of South Sudan. He added that by the 5th of the next month, Japan will sign an agreement with South Sudan to assist in water supply in the capital Juba. In a related development, the President of
Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Atsushi Hanatani has invited the minister for Information and Broadcasting, Hon Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin to represent the Republic of South Sudan in a peace building conference in Tokyo, Japan. Dr Marial appreciated the support offered by the Japanese government noting that this will strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.
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outh Sudan lawmakers should consider reviewing term limits for the presidency, which was excluded from the country’s Transitional Constitution as well as the recently endorsed draft Elections Act 2011, the Carter Center has said. The organisation, which is run and founded by former US President Jimmy Carter, said term limits for all office-holders, particularly the president, should be considered during the review of South Sudan’s permanent - due to begin in January 2012. “Another key issue to review relates to the number of times one can contest for the presidency. The Transitional Constitution eliminated such term limits for the presidency and the electoral law is similarly silent,” it notes. The Carter Center, in its November 16 statement, also urges lawmakers to review the president’s power to dismiss elected governors and state legislative assembly members, in event of the declaration of a state of emergency. Specifically, it advocates that National Legislative Assembly members should consider whether this power can be limited with additional checks to avoid abuse. South Sudan currently has more than 382 members of parliament split between the National Legislative Assembly (332) and the Council of States (50), reportedly making it one of the largest legislatures in the world when compared by population of the country. According to both the Transitional Constitution and the Elections Act, however, members of the Council of States will not be popularly elected, but shall be elected by members of the State Assemblies. Alternative structures, the Center says, could be considered to ensure that members of the Council of
States are directly accountable to the people. Meanwhile, the organisation described South Sudan’s “inclusive and consultative” approach in the recent drafting of the National Elections Act 2011 and the Political Parties Bill 2011 as important steps towards achieving a firm foundation for the country’s legal system. The Center urges the county’s lawmakers to begin the process of reviewing, debating and eventually pass these two laws before its final endorsement by South Sudan president. “With a new transitional constitution in place, it is critical that the spirit of inclusiveness continues as the Republic of South Sudan takes additional steps to form the foundation of its legal system as a sovereign country,” partly reads the November 16 statement. The Center specifically thanked the country’s justice ministry, which reportedly led efforts to conduct a series of consultative forums prior to the drafting of the two laws, and both the president and vicepresident office for having played key roles in the political meetings. This inclusive participation, it argues, is an encouraging sign that the southern government welcomes a wide range of input and views on the key laws in Africa’s newest country. However, for South Sudan to meet the globally accepted standards and practices essential for election conduct and political parties’ activities, the US-based Center strongly advocates that both laws be carefully immediately reviews and considered. The Center cites the appointment procedures for the National Election Commission (NEC) and the Political Parties Affairs Council (PPAC), provisions for dispute resolution, and the right to an effective remedy as some of the keys issues that
require review, before the eventual passing of the two laws. It says, “This will help ensure that the two councils are best positioned to operate independently and that there are clear dispute resolution procedures to ensure that all stakeholders enjoy the right to an effective remedy.” In addition, citizens and civil society actors have been urged to provide input to the Elections and Political Parties Acts. The National Legislative Assembly is also set to hold public hearings to seek input on the draft bills. “The deliberations and hearings held in the National Assembly would benefit from additional public information on the draft bills to publicize ways in which citizens, political parties, and civil society organizations can become involved,” further says the Carter Center. South Sudan officially adopted its Transitional Constitution on July 09 following its independence, when Salva Kiir, the country’s president endorsed the controversially passed law. Once passed, the National Elections Act 2011 will reportedly set the rules that will govern the administration of the next elections in South Sudan, anticipated to be held in 2015 before the terms of current lawmakers expire, as outlined in the country’s Transitional Constitution. The Act, among other things, provides for the formation of NEC; a body reportedly set to comprise of nine members appointed by the president and approved by parliamentary majority.
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JONGLEI LAND AND INVESTMENT COMMISSION HOLDS WORKSHOP ON MANAGING LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES BY JUUK MADING DUT
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he Jonglei land and Investment commission (JLIC), the south Sudan land commission (SSLC) and the Sudan Rural land governance (SRLG) project plan organized three days workshop funded by the United states Agency for International Development (USAID) which started on 15th to Friday 17th of Nov/2011 at south Sudan Hotel main Hall-Bor. The workshop brought together
state Government representatives head by the Governor H. E KuolManyangJuuk, NGOS, prison wards and stakeholders from all Jonglei state counties to discuss customary tenure systems, legal frameworks, land use conflicts and investment in Jonglei state. Its objectives were to contribute towards creating appropriate enabling legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable management of natural
resources, conflicts prevention, production and livelihood strategies of communities in the state of Jonglei through the participatory formulation of strategies for efficient, equitable and sustainable use and management of natural resources. As Jonglei state is still agricultural poor, the workshop marks a series of activities that the communities aims to address including conflicts related to the land and to put the land
to economic and social utilization to initiate Development in the state. The governor of Jonglei state H. E KuolManyangJuuk acknowledge the the American people for their support since during war struggle and after the comprehensive peace agreement (CPA) which was signed in Naivasha Kenya in 2005 that “without you it could have not be posible”. He assure the executives that “we must to run and management the affairs
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Governor of Jonglei state H. E KUOL ManyangJuuk closing the workshop at south Sudan Hotel main Hall
of the country and satisfy the interest of the people as the government which was mandated by the people”. He further added that good goevrnance is not for executvies alone and parliament it is for all the people rather. The good governance need transparency and accountability and we need to resolve all the corrections of our communities. The state is the largest of the ten (10) states of south Sudan covering an estimated area of 124,990 square kilometers and inhabited by an estimate population of 1.3 million people (Sudan fifth population and housing census 2008). It is also among the richest states of south Sudan in term of arable land, livestock, unexploited fishing stocks and other resources like oil regardless of it under Development. Mrs. Hon. LithAluong noted land conflict worsen by illiteracy as one of obstacles hindering agriculture which lead to Development and urbanization in the state following the recent LouNuer and Murle conflict which claimed thousands of lives and hundreds of children abducted with the exception of Ayuak ethnic group land dispute. The state minister for agriculture H. E MayenNgor recommended that the government should come out to be clearly with an investment policy and land policy and
link the policies to the national development to effectively administer land. He recognize south Sudan as the second wealth country in wild life and livestock but lack skills of management accusingtribal refusal to gives land which have hampered state revenue and food production in the area. Jonglei state is lacking companies and investors because of some hostile tribes who took the ownership of their lands, poor roads in the areas and insecurity cause by cattle’s raiders and child abductees. He citted. In flashback, the principle introducedby British colonialadministration in 1898 (Pantuliano, March 2007). However, the land act of 1970, which attempted to be specific, declared that all waste, forests and unregistered lands as government lands Governor Kuol also assure the participants to senzitised the stae people through disseminatint the land act policy and government policy over land ownership in the state and at the all levels accoding to south Sudan previous acts. The commission is expecting the state land workshop to impart to the concerned communities the conflicts resolution and conflicts management skills which they will use to resolve various conflicts in their respective areas to allow initiation of private national and foreign investment in agriculture.
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ACTIVE NATION 28th - 4th DECEMBER 2011
South Sudan on the Blink to join EAC By Markhel Markhoi
Kiir in Entebbe State House during his visit to Uganda
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he President of the Republic of South Sudan H.E Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit last week announced that South Sudan had officially applied for the membership of the East African Community (EAC). The President said the long struggle of the people of
South Sudan for freedom and prosperity had showed globally that Sudan had problems. He further revealed that the long suffering of the people of South Sudan and the atrocities committed against them had become history and South Sudan was now a free state. The President made the
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revelation during his two day visit to Uganda. He expressed sincere gratitude on behalf of the people of South Sudan to the Ugandan government for all the support that the country was providing during the struggle. President Kiir appealed to the Ugandans to take the isolated incidents between Ugandans and South Sudanese as individual matters being instigated by the enemies of a peaceful relation between the two neighboring countries. President Museveni appealed to the parties of the CPA to implement all the provisions of the CPA as it was signed in Naivasha, pointing out that the Abyei protocol, border demarcation between South Sudan and Sudan, oil issues and popular consultations for the two areas of Blue Nile and South Kordufan must be implemented.
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SSAA in health drive to clean Juba town
new health campaign to keep Juba clean swept through was launched in juba. The South Sudan Artists’ Association (SSAA), this year’s Miss Malaika contestants, and UAP Insurance Company came together to sweep up and collect the litter in and around al Shaba Children Hospital in Juba City as a way to promote healthy living through proper hygiene. “We chose Al- Shaba Hospital because children are the most vulnerable to poor sanitationrelated infections and yet they hold the future of this country. They are therefore a priority to us as musicians,” Lam Tungwar, the Chairman of SSAA said. SSAA and UAP also donated 10 metallic rubbish bins worth SSP 6, 000 to the hospital for proper waste disposal management which according to the Executive Director (SSAA) Evans Maendeh is a major problem in the hospital. Maendeh appealed to the
patients, their attendants and the Al-Shaba Hospital administration to keep the hospital clean by picking up all of the rubbish in the area and throwing it into the rubbish bins. Wearing white UAP T-shirts, staff of the insurance company and the 16 Miss Malaika contestants led by Tony Muwangi said the cleaning of the children’s hospital is part of their corporate social responsibility. “A lot of diseases are prevented by proper hygiene, so when we are clean, a lot of diseases can be prevented. The hospital administration should make sure the health facility is clean, there is no point bringing a child here when the place is not clean,” Muwangi said. Attending to his sick child, Samuel Clement expressed his happiness to SSAA and UAP for cleaning the hospital, saying more youth should engage in such charity work. Hospital Nutrition Supervisor, Betty Achan, also applauded the initiative taken by UAP and SSAA.
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Editorial South Sudan women need better access to family planning. At a time when a lady should be eagerly awaiting the birth of her child, you find that they are instead worried about how to prevent their next pregnancy. The lady in question,would preferably like to wait at least two years, but she doesn’t have that say because she doesn’t have access to family planning. Such a case is not Unique; she is one in a million. Correction: She is one in 215 million. That’s how many women around the world today know they need modern contraception. And the numbers who do not know are even higher. In South Sudan, less than 40 per cent of married women use contraceptives regularly. On average, each woman will have five children in her lifetime, and has a 1 in 38 chance of dying during pregnancy or childbirth. It is the fundamental human right of couples and individuals to control their fertility, to choose whether and when to have children, and how many to have. This right, though affecting women most, is often denied them through cultural, legal or religious requirements of various kinds. Such denial, overt or covert, is an injustice to women and leads to much unnecessary suffering and death. Women are quietly crying for family planning and not getting access in many parts of Africa. This results in unplanned and unintended pregnancies. With inadequate or even poor healthcare services and facilities, such pregnancies are more likely to result in maternal injury or death, and poor health for infants and children. Family planning should be integrated into the broader network of health services, including maternal and child health and HIV/Aids care — to strengthen health systems, increase efficiency and access, and reduce costs. This is not just a woman’s issue, but a human one. It is not one region or nation’s issue but a global one. Access to family planning remains a critical human rights, public health, and development issue and now is the time to take action.
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Commentary South Sudan must first understood the policies of EAC before becoming as full member
By: Madingdit De Manyor
The article will be against some people views, but the facts should be told. Since the signing of Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005 Nairobi Kenya, East African Community comprise of Five countries name them, has been hunting for South Sudan to become a full member in their community. Early this year when South Sudan referendum results slide for secession, many South Sudanese have begun speeding up to be part of East Africa Community in order to free movement people and commodities across the region, but South Sudanese did not there are several challenges ahead. South Sudan must first understand the policies of East African Community before becoming as full member. Since, it was declared by the President of South Sudan during his official visit to Uganda. South Sudan had been hunt by East African community long time, until the East African Speaker meet with South Sudan President last month in Juba South Sudan. We all love to be a member there because our country South Sudan is situated “in Middle of Nowhere”. We had apply and our admission had been accepted, our
challenges persisted frequently and none of these countries whom we seeking them for decade would help if there is any problem happening in South Sudan. Some may say that, during NorthSouth Sudan civil war, some countries of the community where behind the movement like Kenya and Uganda. The present economic level of South Sudan is not thriving. The ensuing components are the main factors, which hampered the economic development growths in the South: the country had recently gained its independence, four months ago, from the North. Thus, the entire government departments have recently reestablished because the North and South Sudan had been in war for 55 years, which is the key factor that has complicated the speedy, economic evolutions in the South. South Sudan has abundant natural resources, such as oil, land, and water. However, it is hitherto difficult to manage those resources. Currently, the government of the Republic of South Sudan has not resolved the question of oil operation; meanwhile, the country is a landlocked region with no access to any ports, but is heavily depending on the oil production’s revenue. South Sudan must know that, since it is the only rich country in the community its wish to join, they should be keen enough otherwise, the country will face economic crisis like Greece in Europe. There are many things South Sudan must learn before joining the community, the two leading English countries of Kenya and Uganda. During the signing of East African Common market last
year, employment opportunities and businesses were occupied by Kenyan and Uganda from none English speaking countries of Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi. There was renegotiation held to avoid xenophobia in East Africa. So, Since education background remain poor in the region, it will be hard for the country to development otherwise these fellow countries men and women of those countries will require to work across the region and nowhere the country can develop again. The Sudan has between 5 billion and 6.7 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the fifth largest endowment in Africa. Most of these reserves lie in the Muglad and Melut basins in the south, and production hovers around 480,000 barrels per day. Moreover, mechanized farming, which requires large amounts of land, is consuming traditional pastoral corridors and smaller agricultural endeavors in some areas, and its organized crop rotation, or fallow systems, requires constant expansion to maintain output. Almost two-thirds of the Nile basin lies within Sudan’s borders, and groundwater reserves are considerable; and yet, most of the population suffers from a shortage of clean drinking water and reliable water sources for agricultural livelihoods. During the civil war, most of the battles were fought in the South. With that compact development, the untold destructions had imposed on the region. The central government in Khartoum had fought to control the South Sudan’s oil fields, which brought appalling catastrophes to the people of South Sudan. The Khartoum government had
managed to build the entire oil refinery to the North, while the 75% of Sudanese’s crude oil reserves had produced in the Southern part of the country. The Sudan government has also coped to build thousands of kilometers pipeline from the South Sudan and run upwards to the North. Thus, the government of South Sudan must adopted the vivid strategic plans such as building new pipeline and the refinery, agriculture operation, infrastructure, oil reserves policy and the tourism attractions as to recover the newest nation from its plumping economic developments before join the community first. I personally, don’t agree because the community doesn’t offer free service. To be a member in that community, there is fee chargeable in order to be considered. W hy doesn’t our government use those funds to run some projects for nation building than rushing to membership East African Community? Majority of South Sudanese are complaining day and night that their jobs had been occupied by foreigners either government or Nongovernment positions. The policies of East African Community is that, everyone in the community can work everywhere across so long you are within the community. It will be worse for South Sudanese youth than before when they were not in the community. Join East African Community and be mindful for development of your nation otherwise none of those countries whom you are joining had already developed compare to South Sudan. madingmanyor@myway.com
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Saif al-Islam Gaddafi captured in Libyan Desert as he tries to flee country
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the last remaining member of the Gaddafi family still at large in Libya, has been arrested in the southern desert and taken to the town of Zintan. He was caught while apparently attempting to flee the country. Video footage, shown on Libyan television and distributed by the country’s transitional authority, pictured him wrapped in a brown blanket and lying on a mattress. He was holding up three heavily bandaged fingers from injuries sustained in a Nato bombing raid a month ago as he fled the town of Bani Walid the day before his father’s death. The late Muammar Gaddafi’s heir-apparent was looking thinner and had allowed the hair to grow on his usually shaven head; he had also grown a beard. News of his capture was greeted by celebratory gunfire in Tripoli. “This is the final chapter of the Libyan drama,” information minister Mahmoud Shammam said. “We will put him on trial in Libya and he will be judged by Libyan law for his crimes.” Saif will be put on trial in Libya for serious crimes that carry the death penalty, Libya’s interim justice minister said on Saturday. “He has instigated others to kill, has misused public funds, threatened and instigated and even took part in recruiting and bringing in mercenaries,” Mohammed al-Alagi said. He added that the charges against Saif carried the death penalty. The foreign secretary, William Hague, said: “I welcome the arrest of Saif al-Islam. This represents another significant step forward in the transition to a new, democratic Libya. He must now be held to account
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Archbishop Tutu condemns South Africa secrecy bill
Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has strongly condemned a new media law, which South African MPs are set to vote on . He called it “insulting” and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi warned it could be used to outlaw “whistle-blowing and sitting in a plane in investigative journalism”. South African journalists Zintan, concealing wearing black staged a protest against the so-called “secrecy his right hand which bill” outside the headquarters of the governing ANC. was injured in a Nato The ANC says the law is needed to safeguard state bombing. secrets. The African National Congress has a two-thirds majority in parliament and so the bill is expected to pass, unless the party leadership has a lastminute change of mind. for his actions, and face planned to “eradicate” its The Protection of State trial on the charges brought enemies.” Information Bill proposes against him, including by the He was wanted on an tough sentences on anyone International Criminal Court.” international warrant from possessing classified Ahmed Ammar, one of Saif’s the ICC for crimes against government documents. captors, said that his unit of 15 humanity, including his BBC’s Nomsa Maseko in men in three vehicles, acting indirect involvement in the Johannesburg said the bill had on a tip-off, had intercepted deaths of opponents of his come under closer scrutiny two cars carrying Saif and four father’s regime, charges after President Jacob Zuma’s others near the small oil town he rejected through an spokesman Mac Maharaj filed of Obari at about 1.30am on intermediary who contacted a lawsuit against South Africa’s Friday. the court last month. Mail and Guardian newspaper After the fighters fired into Following the death of his - preventing it from publishing the air and ground in order to father and brother Mutassim information linking him to a halt the cars, they asked the last month, Saif, aged 39, controversial arms 1999 deal. identity of the travellers. The and former intelligence chief, The South African media man in charge replied that he Abdullah Senussi were the last broke the story using secret was “Abdelsalam” – meaning two senior figures to be sought documents, but under the new law, journalists and “servant of peace”. But the by the new government. their editors would face stiff fighters quickly recognised him A spokesman for the Zintan jail sentences for similar as Saif and seized him without brigades, Bashir al-Tlayeb, disclosures, she says. a fight. who first announced the On the eve of the vote, “At the beginning he was capture in Tripoli, said the Archbishop Tutu appealed to very scared. He thought we National Transitional Council would kill him,” Ammar said. would decide where Saif would lawmakers not to approve the Bashir Thaelba, a Zintan be tried. He also said that there bill. He said it was “insulting to all commander, told reporters was still no information about South Africans to be asked to in the capital that Saif would Senussi’s whereabouts. stomach legislation that could be held in Zintan until there An ICC spokesman stressed be used to outlaw whistlewas a government – due to be that Libya had a legal blowing and investigative formed within days – to whom obligation to co-operate journalism... and that makes he could be handed over. with the international arrest the state answerable only to Marek Marczynski of Amnesty warrant. “First we have to International urged the verify if it really is him and Libyans to transfer Saif to the that he’s actually been arrested ICC base in the Netherlands as this time,” Fadi El Abdallah, soon as possible. “The ICC has said. “If they decide they want an arrest warrant out for him to try the suspect in Libya and that is the correct thing to instead of at the ICC, there’s a do. He must be brought before necessary process.” a judge as soon as possible,” He said the Libyans could he said. formally request that the Saif, who studied at the case be transferred, then ICC London School of Economics, judges would make a decision. was once regarded as the “The main criteria is that he reform-minded and progenerally be prosecuted for the western face of the regime. same crimes,” the spokesman He gained notoriety early in said. “For us there’s an the war when he delivered obligation, a legal obligation a bloodthirsty 40-minute under international law, for television statement to Libyans the national government to cowarning that the regime operate with the ICC.”
the state.” South African Nobel prizewinning author Nadine Gordimer has also condemned the bill, which she said was taking South Africa back to the years of white minority rule, the Johannesburg-based Times Live news site reports. The bill was was “totally against” freedom, she said. It has called for protests outside in parliament in Cape Town, as well as Johannesburg. NPC chairman Yusuf Abramjee said the media would no longer be able to publish classified information, even when it was in the public interest. However, the ANC has rejected such criticism, saying the bill meets international standards and secrecy is sometimes needed to save lives. South Africa’s highly restrictive apartheid-era media laws were overturned when it became a democracy in 1994. Archbishop Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to white minority rule but has recently become a vocal critic of the ANC government. What is in the ‘secrecy bill’? • The bill would give the state the power to classify documents as secret in the “national interest” • “National interest” defined very broadly, critics say, and could include reports about government corruption and human rights abuses • Jail terms of up to 25 years for anyone in possession of classified documents or harbouring state secrets • No public interest clause • Citizens and journalists treated as foreign spies if found in possession of information deemed a state secret
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Tunisia coalition agrees top government posts across the Middle East that has reshaped the politics of the region. The moderately Islamist Ennahda took 89 seats in the 217-member assembly, while the Congress for the Republic won 29 seats, and centre-right party Ettakatol gained 21. The assembly has been charged with drafting a new constitution. It is to meet on Tuesday for the first time to confirm the posts, says AFP news agency.
All three men have a history of opposition to ousted President Ben Ali Tunisia’s three main parties have decided on who will hold the top posts in a powersharing government. Hamadi Jebali, from the Islamist Ennahda party, is to be prime minister. Moncef Marzouki from Congress for the Republic is to be president while Ettakol’s
Mustafa Ben Jaafar is to be the new assembly’s speaker. Ennahda won last month’s elections, Tunisia’s first free polls since Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in January after 23 years in power. Mr Ben Ali’s ousting as president followed the first in a wave of popular uprisings
who will hold the top posts in a power-sharing government? “We have an agreement to organise elections within a period of not more than a year,” said Nourdine Bhiri, spokesman for Ennahda. The nominations will require the approval of the constitutional assembly itself. All three men have a history of opposition to Mr Ben Ali.
In a statement on the university’s website, Mr Cheseto thanked the university and volunteers who searched for him. “While I am still recovering - both physically and emotionally - I will do my very best to give back to the community that has helped me so much and to my home country, Kenya. I sincerely apologise for any problems that I may have caused.” Mr Cheseto has reportedly been suffering from depression since fellow UAA student runner William Ritekwiang, from his hometown of Kapenguria, took his own life in February. After his 48 hours out in
freezing temperatures, Mr Cheseto stumbled into a hotel near the UAA campus in the early hours of Wednesday 9 November. The hotel’s night manager told the Anchorage Daily News that the paramedic team could not remove his sports shoes as they were frozen to his feet. “He seems very upbeat and anxious to get on with a rehabilitation programme,” Steve Cobb, UAA’s director of athletics, is quoted by Reuters news agency as saying. During his time at the university, Mr Cheseto set the record for the Anchorage Mayor’s Half Marathon in 2010 and has won several All-American student athletic titles.
Kenya runner Marko Cheseto has feet amputated in Alaska
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Kenyan long-distance runner who spent more than two days lost in snow storms in the US state of Alaska has had his feet amputated just above the ankles. When Marko Cheseto, who competed on the track for the University of Alaska Anchorage, disappeared he was not wearing protective winter clothing. After he was found on 9 November he was suffering from hypothermia and severe frostbite on his feet and hands.
University officials say his hands are expected to fully recover. His disappearance, a day after the university’s cross-country team’s return from a triumphant championship in Washington State, sparked an intensive search for the athlete. The University Alaska Anchorage (UAA) said Mr Cheseto, who is studying nursing and nutrition, will remain in hospital for some time to come.
Marko Cheseto set the speed record for the Anchorage Mayor’s Half Marathon in 2010
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How to read the signs of a lying partner Are you being lied to? First thing’s first . . .listen to your instincts!
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nowing whether you are being lied to or not, does not require mind reading or psychic power. Understanding the difference between the truth and a lie can all be determined by a person’s behavior, and if you pay attention to these behaviors, you will be able to have a better idea of whether you are being lied to or not. The most important thing you should always remember to do however is to trust your instincts. If you feel you are not getting the entire truth from your partner for some reason, then listen to your instincts. Most people are in good touch with their instincts, but rather not listen to that inner voice because they refuse to believe that their partner would deceive them in any way. Staying in touch with your instincts will help guide you in the right direction. Though instincts are a great help, they can be tricky. Majority of the times, your instincts will not lie to you, but there are times when your instincts can be influenced by your fears and insecurities. For example, you may already have fears of being cheated on, therefore you may feel that your partner is lying to you and cheating on you, when in fact he or she may be telling you the truth and completely faithful to you. This is why it is essential to understand the behavior of a liar, so that you can define the difference between really catching on to a liar, or just being paranoid that your partner is lying to.
thing and can define the difference between the truth and a lie. When a person is telling the truth for example, his/her hands (and whatever body movement he/she does) will move at the same time when telling you something. When he/she is lying however, the body language will be off and will usually come shortly after he/she has told you the lie. This is because they have to think about acting natural, and this thinking causes them to be off key. Last but not Least: Clearing of the throat, touching him or herself often and saying “Umm”
even your best friend can do it behind your back
Watch the Body Language One important thing to remember is that the body never lies. If there are changes in the way your partner moves (or does not movie) his/her arms, hands, head and the way his/her eyes shift, then you are most likely being lied to. The reason the body language changes when a person is lying is because the person now has to think of a way to seem convincing that he/ she is telling the truth. Since he/she knows that whatever they are telling you is a lie, the behavior automatically changes because they are now trying to act truthful, instead of actually being truthful. One big sign to look out for is in the eyes. If your partner avoids eye contact with you, then he/she is lying to you. There is a fear that you will see through him or her if there is eye contact, so eye contact will be avoided.
dont wait untill you find the signs that he/she cheats Whether you realize it or not, your body also communicates when you talk. When you are enthusiastic about telling your partner something and are telling the truth, you will move your hands around and will look into his/her eyes to make a connection. If your partner is lying however, he or she will tense up, will most likely tone down on the hand movement and eye connection and will seem different than other times. If your partner is the type to still move his/ her hands around even when he/she is lying, then pay attention to the timing of the movements. Timing is every-
Understanding the difference between the truth and a lie can all be determined by a person’s behavior, and if you pay attention to these behaviors, you will be able to have a better idea of whether you are being lied to or not.
Another sign of a lying partner is if he/she touch his/her nose or face a lot while talking to you. They will feel nervous about telling you lies and will want to occupy their hands somehow as a way to cover up their lie, such as touching the nose, rubbing their eyes and so on. Your partner may even clear his or her throat more than usual when talking to you, look away a lot and/or say “umm” a lot when lying to you. They are using these as time killers so they can think of how to tell you the lie in the most convincing way possible. These are just some of the signs of a lying partner and are the most common signs. Remember, it is always important to trust your instincts first. If you feel that your partner is lying to you, start paying closer attention to his/her behavior and if there are any changes, then you will be able to catch on to the lies better and can further investigate from that point. Receive Love Advice and Professional Help.
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Model Ajak Deng attends the premiere of “The Bully Project� during the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival at AMC Loews Village in New York City. Biography Ajak Deng , Australian- Sudanese model was born December 7, 1989 in Sudan and fled to a Kenyan refugee camp with her parents and four brothers and three sisters in 2003 after civil unrest erupted. During that time her mother passed away from malaria and she became the mother to her six month old sister. By 2005 her family was given the opportunity to move to Australia, Ajak has not looked back. She quickly began to model and made her debut at the 2008 Melbourne Spring Fashion Week, since than she has been in high demand in Australia and abroad. She is currently represented by Chic Management. In March 2010 walked for Lanvin, Givenchy, Chloe, Marc by Marc Jacobs and Jean Paul Gaultier. Ajak Deng, 19, was one of the breakout stars of the SS10 Paris shows, booking Chloe, Givenchy, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Lanvin. An array of editorials has followed -- most notably, Interview with Mikael Jansson and V with Amy Troost. Look out for Ajak in the upcoming Fall 2010 Topshop campaign shot by Josh Olins. Born in the Sudan, Ajak now calls Melbourne, Australia home.
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Central Bank warns not to use foreign currency over SSP
By Alupo Sarah
Men-from-South-Sudan-display-new-currency-notes South Sudan’s central bank has warned against the use of foreign currency and called for the promotion of the local South Sudanese Pounds (SSP), amid growing concerns of rising inflation in world’s newest country. In a strongly-worded circular addressed to the government, all financial institutions, non-governmental organisations and the general public, the bank says drafting of official or private contracts and normal rent payments should all
be in SSP. “This practice of dealing in foreign currency rather in our legal currency is not acceptable and should be discouraged,” partly reads the circular, while citing section 46 of the Bank of South Sudan Act, which says SSP is legal tender and cannot be rejected in a financial transaction. The new currency, which came into effect shortly before the country’s 9 July independence replaced the old Sudanese Pounds, formerly used by both the North and South Sudan. According to the bank, any government institution intending to sign contracts of an international nature can only do so by involving the finance and economic planning ministry on its behalf. South Sudan’s national bureau of statistics recently said inflation reached 57 percent in the
month of August, largely attributing this to the abnormal increase in prices of goods in the country. In this regard, the country’s Central Bank now says all payment of direct or indirect taxes have to be in the local currency. This includes, custom duties, excises, levies, fees, charges and all forms of penalties related to transportation of goods into the country. “All public budgets, financial records and accounts, required by any law or established or maintained in South Sudan, shall be or be assessed in South Sudanese Pounds,” further reads the circular, signed by Kornelio Koriom Mayik, the Central Bank governor.
Khartoum Demands $15 Billion in compensation for lost oil in SS By Deng Micheal
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udan is demanding $15 billion in compensation for lost oil revenues after South Sudan’s independence and doesn’t want the African Union to mediate negotiations with the south, said Pagan Amum, South Sudan’s chief negotiator. “They want the south to shoulder the responsibility to compensate them for all the consequences of secession,” Amum, secretarygeneral of the south’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Front, told reporters today in Juba, the capital. While Sudan says it needs $15 billion over seven years to make up for the lost revenue, the International Monetary Fund, the African Union and South Sudan have agreed on a figure of $5.4 billion, he said. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, AlObaid Murawih, said by phone in Khartoum that
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he couldn’t immediately comment on Amum’s statement. When it gained independence on July 9, South Sudan assumed control of about 75 percent of Sudan’s previous daily oil output of 490,000 barrels, pumped mainly by China National Petroleum Corp., Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd. and India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corp.b President Umar al-Bashir’s government no longer wants the African Union to mediate negotiations with the south and says that the talks should be bilateral, Amum said. The latest round of talks on oil fees South Sudan should pay the north for the use of its export facilities and the disputed region of Abyei were postponed from their scheduled start yesterday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The African Union-
appointed mediator for the talks, former South African President Thabo Mbeki, left Juba today after meeting with South Sudanese officials. Al-Bashir’s government has informed the parties that it will contact South Sudan about the start of bilateral negotiations, Amum said.
75 percent of Sudan’s previous daily oil output of 490,000 barrels
Visa adopts a prepaid products
to secure financial services By Emmanuel Elebeke
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lobal payments technology company, Visa Incorporation last week announced a significant step to bringing access to secure financial services and electronic payments to consumers in developing countries by introducing a new product serving the needs of unbanked and under-banked consumers. The new product, a Visa prepaid account that can be accessed through a mobile phone, offers consumers in developing countries a secure, reliable, globally interoperable electronic payment account Meanwhile MTN Group, has said that it would offer the new Visa product to MTN Mobile Money customers across its markets. It said the new product will be available to customers in Nigeria and Uganda. Visa’s new product will enhance the security, scale and interoperability of the mobile money programs, while extending their payment functionality by enabling account holders to send funds to each other, send and re-
ceive international remittances, make purchases at merchants or online where Visa is accepted or withdraw funds at a Visa ATM. Head of product for Visa Inc, Mr Jim McCarthy, said that “reaching consumers who have previously lacked access to formal financial services with secure and reliable electronic payments is finally a reality,” adding that “Mobile technology has become the single most important driver of financial inclusion that is enabling financial institutions, mobile network operators and Visa to connect unbanked consumers to each other and the global economy.” How it works The mobile phone is changing how consumers around the world pay and get paid, and offers financial service providers in developing countries a new, efficient channel to serve the unbanked and underbanked. In the last ten years, 100 million[2] people have been newly ‘banked’ through mobile services that offer consumers basic financial services that are limited in geographic reach.
South Sudan Assures Uganda on trade ties By Muhumuza Brian
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Pagan Amum, South Sudan chief negotiator.
ganda and South Sudan have agreed to work together in strengthening trade between the two countries. This followed discussions held between president Museveni and his south Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir who was in the country last week on a two day visit. In a joint communiqué read by the international relations minister, Okello Oryem, the heads of states agreed to en-
sure they eliminate all trade barriers between the two countries. A number of Ugandans are transacting business in south Sudan and have often complained of harassment by South Sudanese counterparts. The two presidents have also revealed plans to establish a joint ministerial committee by January next year to handle the border disputes between nationals of the two states.
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Bachmann: Obama ‘has never wanted to take personal responsibility’ Barack Obama
“Why did he leave the United States on a nine-day trip when the most important decision needed to be made?” Bachmann asked,
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n attacks that seemed at once personal and political, Michele Bachmann sized up President Obama’s character during a series of press conferences Monday, telling reporters that the president “never has wanted to take personal responsibility.” The attacks occurred as the deadline loomed – and then passed – on negotiations inside the congressional super committee on cuts to the federal budget, a process on which Bachmann said Obama had been “AWOL.” “Why did he leave the United States on a nine-day trip when the most important decision needed to be made?” Bachmann asked, referring to a tour of Asian countries that concluded in last week’s Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation summit, which the U.S. hosted in Honolulu. President Obama returned to Washington on Sunday – one day before the super committee’s deadline. “The president never has wanted to take personal responsibility,” Bachmann added. “He’s the president of the United States. He has to stop blaming everyone else. Especially when he’s been AWOL on the issue.” Bachmann’s remarks reflect a sharp mood that seemed to affect people on both sides of the failed negotiations. In an address Monday evening, Obama cast blame on congressional Republicans for refusing to accept tax increases as part of a deficit package. “There are still too many Republicans
in Congress who have refused to listen to voices of reason and compromise coming from outside Washington,” Obama said. Bachmann, a congresswoman from Minnesota, prides herself on being from “outside” Washington and other coastal cities. She was in New York Monday to mark the release of her memoir, “Core of Conviction,” embarking on appearances on NBC’s TODAY show, Glenn Beck’s television and radio programs, and NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. But one major appointment was unrelated to her book tour – a meeting with Donald Trump, her fourth to date. Bachmann told reporters outside Trump’s offices in midtown Manhattan
that she and Trump “had a marvelous time together,” adding that their conversation had focused on the threat to the American economy posed by an ascendant China. It’s unclear whether conversation turned to a subject that Trump reportedly discussed with at least one other candidate – his skepticism about Obama’s birth certificate, which Gov. Rick Perry of Texas said came up during his own meeting with Trump. Asked by NBC whether Obama’s birth certificate came up, Bachmann demurred. “We talked primarily about the economy,” she said, adding, “and, we talked about the super committee.”
US agency says Apple did School murder scandal shocks France not violate HTC patents T
Most HTC phones are based on Google’s Android operating system A US agency has ruled that Apple did not violate graphic patents owned by S3 Graphics, a unit of Taiwan’s HTC. S3, which makes image compression technology, filed a complaint with trade
agency, ITC, in May 2010. The company accused Apple of infringing four patents, which it said were used widely in a range of Apple products. Apple is embroiled in numerous patent disputes in many countries, most famously with Samsung. The US International Trade Commission (ITC) said its investigation into the matter between Apple and S3 had been terminated. Shares in HTC, which purchased S3 in July, fell 4.9% on the news. In July, an ITC judge had ruled that Apple infringed some of the patents. The latest ruling reverses the earlier decision. The ITC is an agency that has the power to block the import of products into the United States that it believes violate patents.
he French government has condemned the judiciary’s handling of a teenager accused of rape who went on to murder a girl from his boarding school. The boy, identified as Mathieu M., 17, had spent four months in jail for raping a minor in southern France. He had been under judicial supervision. The school said it had not been fully aware of his past. Last Friday, the body of Agnes, 13, was found in a forest close to the school. She had been raped and burned. Agnes’s mother, Paola Marin, said she would not have died “but for a little less negligence” from the school. The victim’s father, Frederic Marin, alleged that the school, Cevenol International in Chambon-sur-
Lignon, had been aware of the boy’s history and that he had problems involving “acts of sexual aggression”. Head teacher Philippe Bauwens, told French radio station RTL that the school was aware the boy had had problems with the judiciary but did not know their nature. “We had no contact with the judicial authorities,” he said. After an emergency meeting with fellow ministers on Monday, French Interior Minister Claude Gueant told TF1 television that “there had been a dysfunction” in the case and that reform of the justice system for minors would be a priority after elections next spring. Prime Minister Francois Fillon said that in the most serious cases where a minor was a suspect, they should be “placed in a secure educational centre”.
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French president’s widow Danielle Mitterrand dead Freed French aid workers return home
Danielle Mitterrand was married to Francois Mitterrand for more than 50 years
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anielle Mitterrand, the widow of former French President Francois Mitterrand, has died at the age of 87. Mrs Mitterrand had been admitted to Georges-Pompidou hospital in Paris after suffering from respiratory problems on Friday. She was put in an artificial coma on Sunday and died in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Francois Mitterrand led the Socialist
party and served two terms as president of France, from 1981 to 1995. A member of the French Resistance and a humanitarian campaigner, Danielle Mitterrand was often an outspoken first lady. A friend of Cuban leader Fidel Castro, she also campaigned on behalf of the Kurds and Tibetans. She embraced numerous causes, including an equitable share-out of water resources.
Born Danielle Gouze in the eastern town of Verdun, she joined the Resistance as a nurse aged only 17, when German troops occupied most of France in 1940. On 27 October, 1944, she married Francois Mitterrand, a fellow Resistance member, whom she met when he was on the run from the Gestapo. The couple had three sons - Gilbert, Jean-Christophe and Pascal who died very young. After President Mitterrand’s election in 1981, she devoted herself to human rights work. Francois Mitterrand died of cancer
in 1996, but his widow continued her work. The organisation she founded in 1986, France-Libertes, celebrated its 25th anniversary in October this year. President Nicolas Sarkozy said “she never abandoned her values and pursued to the end of her might the battles she considered fair”. Jack Lang, a minister in Francois Mitterrand’s government in the 1980s, described her as “a friend, a militant, a conscience, an icon”. Danielle Mitterrand’s nephew, Frederic - the current culture minister - said she had contributed enormously towards “humanising the very idea of the presidency, while maintaining her freedom of thought and speech”.
Iran faces fresh Western sanctions over nuclear plans T
he US, UK and Canada have announced new sanctions against Iran amid growing concern over its nuclear programme. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke of a “significant ratcheting-up of pressure” on Iran. The UK said earlier it was cutting all ties with Iranian banks, while Canada said it was banning exports for the petrochemical, oil and gas industries. A UN report has given the strongest evidence yet that Iran is seeking nuclear weapons, but Iran denies this. Tehran insists its nuclear programme is solely for civilian purposes. The report, by the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA), said Iran had carried out tests “relevant to the development of a nuclear device”. But despite the report, Iran was not referred to the UN Security Council because Russia and China were opposed to the move. Russia has described the new sanctions as “unacceptable and against international law”. “This practice seriously complicates moves for constructive dialogue with Tehran,” said a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry. “We believe that the constant stepping
up of sanctions has long since transcended the boundaries of solving non proliferation tasks in the context of the Iranian nuclear programme,” the statement said. Mrs Clinton said that Iran’s petrochemical industry, oil and gas industry and financial sector would be targeted by the sanctions.
Mrs Clinton said that “If Iran’s intransigence continues, it will face increasing pressure and isolation. Today “The message is clear,” she said. “If Iran’s intransigence continues, it will face increasing pressure and isolation. Today, the United States is taking a series of steps to sharpen this choice.” Speaking at a news conference at the
State Department in Washington, she said the US expected “additional sanctions” by other countries in the days ahead. The US also named Iran a “primary money laundering concern”. The US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, who appeared with Mrs Clinton at the news conference, warned that international banks should be wary of doing any business with Iran that might aid its nuclear programme. “Financial institutions around the world should think hard about the risks of doing business with Iran,” Mr Geithner said. US firms were also warned against dealing with Iranian banks. President Barack Obama said in a written statement that the United States had identified “the entire Iranian banking sector - including the Central Bank of Iran - as a threat to governments or financial institutions that do business with Iranian banks”. “As long as Iran continues down this dangerous path, the United States will continue to find ways, both in concert with our partners and through our own actions, to isolate and increase the pressure upon the Iranian regime,” he said.
The British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, had earlier said that all UK credit and financial institutions had to cease trading with Iran’s banks from Monday afternoon. “We believe that the Iranian regime’s actions pose a significant threat to the UK’s national security and the international community,” he said. “Today’s announcement is a further step to preventing the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons.” It is the first time the UK has cut off a country’s banking sector in this way. The UN Security Council has already passed four rounds of sanctions against Iran for refusing to halt uranium enrichment. Highly enriched uranium can be processed into nuclear weapons. The US has already slapped sanctions on dozens of Iranian government agencies, officials and businesses over the nuclear programme. Iran’s deputy oil minister Abdolhossein Bayat said the new sanctions would not stop Iran exporting petrochemicals to the European Union, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency. The agency said Iran had an 11% share of the European market.
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HEALTH Angelina Sabuco, at left, is held by her mother Ginady Sabuco and twin sister Angelica, is held by aunt Marita Sabuco, at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Monday, Nov. 14, 2011 in Stanford, Calif. The twin sisters, who were born joined in the chest an abdomen, are preparing to go home after an intricate surgery by a group of Lucile Packard doctors to separate them.
How Much Salt Is Best for the Heart? For people with heart disease or diabetes, too little salt may harbor almost as much danger as too much salt, researchers report. Reducing salt is still very important in people consuming more than 6,000 or 7,000 milligrams of sodium per day, said Dr. Martin O’Donnell, lead author of a study in the Nov. 23/30 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. But people who already consume moderate or average amounts of salt may not need to reduce their intake further, added O’Donnell, an associate clinical professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada. “We’re seeing more and more that there may be an optimal moderate amount of salt that people should be eating,” said Dr. John Bisognano, professor of medicine and director of outpatient cardiology at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in New York. “This is reassuring for people
who eat a diet that is moderate in salt.” Bisognano was not involved with the study, which was funded by pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. After years of seemingly happy agreement that people should lower their salt intake, experts recently have begun debating whether or not lower salt intake is actually good for everyone. One recent study found that although cutting back on salt does lower blood pressure, it may also increase levels of cholesterol, triglycerides and other risk factors for heart disease. Another study found that lower sodium excretion (sodium excretion is a way to measure how much salt is consumed) was associated with an increased risk of heart-related deaths, while higher sodium excretion was not linked with increased risks for blood pressure or complications from heart
disease in healthy people. However, in the latest study, results were somewhat different. These authors looked at how much sodium and potassium were excreted in urine in a group of about 30,000 men and women with heart disease or at high risk for heart disease. Participants were followed for an average of more than four years. In this study, sodium excretion levels that were either higher or lower than the moderate range were each associated with increased risk. For example, people who excreted higher levels of sodium than those with midrange values had a greater risk of dying from heart disease, heart attack, stroke and hospitalization for heart failure, the report found. On the other hand, people who excreted lower levels than mid-range were at a raised risk of dying from heart disease or being hospitalized for heart failure.
When the researchers assessed potassium levels, they found that a higher level of excretion of the nutrient was associated with a lower risk of stroke. “The importance of potassium intake needs to be emphasized, a finding that may be lost in the discussion on sodium,” said O’Donnell, who is also an associate professor of translational medicine, at the National University of Ireland in Galway. “Diets rich in fruit and vegetables are also rich in potassium intake.” It’s not clear if these findings -which came from a population already at high risk for heart trouble -- may also apply to lower-risk populations. “They’re really looking at the sickest of the sick. How does that apply to all of us?” said Dr. Daniel Anderson, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. “I think the difficulty is it probably doesn’t. I worry that we’re going to misinterpret this as meaning that too little sodium is a bad
thing.” Bisognano agreed. “We don’t want to give people the message that they should salt their pizza from this point forward,” said Bisognano. But consuming the right amount of sodium is only one aspect of heart health, said Karen Congro, director of the Wellness for Life Program at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City. “It’s not the be all and end all. You have to do other lifestyle interventions,” she said. New U.S. dietary guidelines now recommend that people aged 2 years and older limit daily sodium intake to less than 2,300 milligrams (mg). People aged 51 and older, blacks and anyone with high blood pressure, diabetes or chronic kidney disease should consider going down to 1,500 mg per day, many experts say. It’s estimated that the average American consumes 3,400 milligrams of sodium a day.
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Refugee in NY reunites with son after 34 years
They were separated after a 1977 pirate attack in the South China Sea
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Love with no age limit: Couple marries at 88 and 87
Ann Thayer reacts as Paul Walker pulls her close shortly after getting married at Marshwood Center in Lewiston on Tuesday.
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Maine couple has proven that true love knows no age limits. Eighty-eight-year-old Paul Walker married his longtime sweetheart, 87-year-old Ann Thayer, in a Lewiston rehabilitation center Tuesday in front of a small group of family and friends. Seated during the ceremony, the two leaned
toward each other to kiss not just once but three times after being pronounced husband and wife at the Marshwood Center, where Walker is undergoing rehabilitation. “I don’t think I’ve seen a bride and groom kiss three times,” rehab center administrator Sheri Nadell told the Sun Journal newspaper after the ceremony.
Walker, of Lewiston, and Thayer, of Auburn, met at an Auburn church and had dated 17 years. Thayer said the idea of a wedding was broached with some gentle teasing at Central Maine Medical Center last week. “All those nurses said, ‘You’ve been together how long? Why didn’t you ever get married?’ Paul looked at me, ‘You want to do it?’ I said, ‘OK, well, when?’ ‘Right now,’” she said. “We’ve had some beautiful years together.” Thayer visits every
day. Both have been married before. “I think it’s sweet,” said Yvonne Wilkinson, Walker’s daughter-in-law. “I just don’t know why they waited so long.” Nadell tells the Sun Journal it was the facility’s first wedding. Thayer said the two have been talking about the possibility of a honeymoon in Bermuda once Walker feels better.
ao Truong, left, embraces his son, Samart Khumkhaw, 34, during his emotion-filled arrival at the Greater Rochester International Airport in Chili, N.Y, A Vietnamese war refugee who survived a 1977 pirate attack that separated him from his wife and infant child reunited with his grown son in upstate New York on Monday after nearly 34 years apart. Hao Truong was tossed into the South China Sea after pirates attacked a boat taking refugee families to Thailand in December 1977. He said he managed to stay afloat for 16 hours before being rescued by a fishing boat. In a Thai refugee camp, Truong learned weeks later that his wife had died — her body washed up on shore along with another female victim. But he said he’d long assumed that their 7-monthold baby, Kham, had survived and was raised by someone else. Truong resettled in the United States in 1978, sponsored by an uncle living in Louisiana. On a trip to Thailand in June after hearing Kham might be alive, a social worker helped him locate his son, now a 34-year-old father of two named Samart Khumkhaw who lives in Surat Thani province. “At this minute, I feel so excited and happy,” Truong said as he stood next to his son at Rochester’s airport surrounded by two dozen relatives and friends waving tiny U.S. flags and “Welcome Home” balloons. “We’re going to have a big Thanksgiving holiday! “When I found him in Thailand, I stayed with him for almost three weeks. Then we know each other well, without asking anything, just like we know (each other) a long time ago.” U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer helped Truong obtain a visitor’s visa for his son, a carpenter, to travel alone to Rochester to meet his father’s family. During
a four-month stay, Khumkhaw also plans to visit his 86-year-old grandfather in Texas. “We don’t want to keep him too long away from his own family,” his father said, adding that “he knows my wish is to bring him to USA” someday. In late 1978, Truong traveled to Rochester to meet his late wife’s siblings and stayed. He remarried, raised four children and was a metalworker for 30 years before being laid off in 2009. At age 54, he’s studying for a community college degree and retraining as a machinist. During four days of captivity before being pushed overboard, Truong said the pirate boat crew seemed enthralled at how cute his child was. “That’s why he never think for a moment that anybody would kill this little baby,” said his sister, Hong Truong. While the circumstances of the child’s passage to safety remain murky, he was given to a bereft young couple in Thailand whose daughter had died two days after birth. “A lady — we don’t know the relationship — told the couple she had a little baby boy and asked if they would raise him,” Truong’s sister said. “The foster mom saw the baby and wanted to adopt him, but she can’t ask where the baby come from.” More than 3 million people fled Communist-controlled Vietnam and neighboring Laos and Cambodia after the Vietnam War ended in 1975. Many sailed long distances in overcrowded small boats, at risk of shipwreck and pirate attacks. The plight of the so-called “boat people” turned into a humanitarian crisis as they came under sometimes deadly assault. More than 125,000 refugees from Vietnam were resettled in the U.S. between 1975 and 1980, according to the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.
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eal Madrid attacker Cristiano which a number of fans shouted Ronaldo has guaranteed that the name ‘Messi’, referring to chants in support of Barcelona Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, with star Lionel Messi do not put him whom the Madrid player has a off his game. well-documented rivalry. The 26-year-old was jeered in Prior to the first leg of the Portugal’s 4-0 Euro Euro 2012 playoffs against Bosnia 2012 and Herzegovina, Ronaldo was greeted at the airport by chants in praise of the Barca man, before responding to laser-pointing fans with an obscene gesture. “It is the qualifying win same over Cyprus in thing if they sing that kind of September, in chant or if they stay quiet,” he told TF1. “Those chants do not provoke me, nor do they make me change my way of playing. “I do not care about them.”
Ronaldo then played down his nomination for the 2011 FIFA Ballon d’Or award, stressing his sole focus is club matters. “I do not know if I will win the award or not,” he added. “Madrid are doing well, I am doing well, too, and my national team will go the European Championship. So I am happy. “The Ballon d’Or is not my priority, nor does it concern me now.” The Portugal international also said there is no truth to reports linking him with a move to cashrich Paris Saint-Germain, saying: “I know they are a great club, but I am not leaving Madrid. I am sure about that.”
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B Besiktas denies racism allegations over Galatasaray’s Emmanuel Eboue
The Turkish giants have insisted that the treatment of the African midfielder
outh Sudan’s basketball South Sudan S club, the Bilpham Warriors, have qualified for the second Basketball round of the Peace and Unity championship. Bilpham Warriors topped Team Qualifies group A on Saturday, after Ndejje University for Round two Uganda’s basketball club failed to turn
esiktas has issued a statement to deny that racial motives were behind Galatasaray’s Emmanuel Eboue being hit with several objects in Sunday’s goalless draw between the clubs. The Ivory Coast international was pelted with water bottles and cigarette lighters during the match, and it was suggested that the former Arsenal man had been a target of racial abuse from Besiktas’ fans. The Inonu Stadium outfit, however, stated that the fans’ anger towards Eboue was caused by the Ivorian playacting to mislead the referee. “The treatment Emmanuel Eboue was given by Besiktas fans on Sunday has nothing to
up for the match in Kampala. Radio Miraya’s sports reporter in Kampala says it’s not clear why Ndejje basketball club did not turn up for the match at the YMCA basketball
do with racism,” said Besiktas spokesman Mete Duren. “Similar treatment was given to a Turkish player during the game as well, the sole motivation for the act was Eboue’s theatrics aimed at deceiving the referee. “These are baseless allegations and should not be taken seriously, Besiktas fans have always had extra sympathy for African players because of the club’s black-and-white colors. It’s true that Turkish football has many issues to resolve, but racism is simply not one of them. Besiktas is sixth in the Turkish League, with 18 points from 11 matches, while Galatasaray is third, with one point more.
court in Kampala. On Monday, Bilpham basketball club will travel to Nairobi for the second round of Peace and Unity basketball championship.
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Beckham helps LA galaxy to title as his contract ends
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os Angeles Galaxy midfielder David Beckham has remained noncommittal regarding his future following his side’s MLS Cup success against the Houston Dynamo, but admits there are plenty of options available. The 36-year-old former England captain won his first title in the United States on Sunday. However, his future remains far from certain, with his five-year contract at the Home Depot Center due to expire next month. There has been talk about a move back to Europe, in particular to Ligue 1 with Paris Saint-Germain, but Beckham remains a Galaxy player for the time being. “I might talk in past tense [about the Galaxy] but it doesn’t mean I won’t be back,” Beckham told reporters. “In my first year at Real Madrid, I was linked to a move to Chelsea every week.” He also maintained that despite the options available to him, he was still a Galaxy player at the moment and reflected on his five years in Southern California. The Galaxy could still play a few more games with Beckham, having scheduled a tour of Australia and Southeast Asia from Nov. 30 to Dec. 6. “There are a lot of options, but at the moment I am a Galaxy player. I’ve been a Galaxy player for the past five years,” he added. “Whether I stay or not, I’ve had an amazing five years.” Goal.com UK reports that despite Beckham having plenty of options, Paris Saint-Germain was the frontrunner to sign the 36-year-old after Tottenham had distanced itself from a deal with the player. “Beckham trained brilliantly during the New Year but it’s just not a deal that makes
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The veteran midfielder lifted the MLS Cup on Sunday evening but his deal with the American side expires at the end of the month, with interest high in the Englishman
sense,” a Spurs source told Goal.com UK. “Harry and Daniel Levy would both like to do a deal but the fact is we have Aaron Lennon, Rafa Van der Vaart, Steven Pienaar and Niko Kranjcar who can all play that position.” Beckham played a key contribution in the 1-0 win for the Galaxy, combining with Robbie Keane to set up former Everton loanee Landon Donovan to score the only goal of the game, earning the club its first title since 2005. It had been mentioned that without a win, Beckham’s time in Los Angeles would be viewed as far from successful, but that’s not an opinion that the player shared. “This has just topped it off tonight. It’s always nice to have doubters along the way and always nice to prove them wrong,” he continued. “A lot of people said if we didn’t win tonight it would have been an unsuccessful five years. It’s nice to keep a few people quiet.”
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