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Le samedi dernier, la coordination des mouvements de l’Azawad (Cma) a repris le contrôle d’Anéfis, une localité située à une cinquantaine de kilomètres de Kidal. Ce retour de la Cma à Anéfis intervient quelques jours après le retrait du mouvement Gatia qui, après de fortes pressions de la Minusma et des autorités maliennes, a accepté […]

A second leg match between the futsal national teams of Slovakia and Azerbaijan was held in Slovakian Trnava for the participation in the final round of the European championship.

September 22, 2015 (BENTIU) - The caretaker governor of Unity state, Joseph Nguen Monytuel has, in the wake of the proposed formation of the transitional government of national unity, appointed four new ministers and an equal numbers of state advisors.

The newly appointed caretaker governor of Unity State Joseph Montuil (Photo credit: Larco Lomayat)

Governor Monytuel made these changes through a gubernatorial decree he issued on Monday.

The caretaker governor appointed Chuol Biel as minister of cabinet affairs, Simon Chol becomes minister of parliamentary affairs, Joseph Juoi Gathot to Trade and commerce while Tot Dhieydor Tutroal takes over environment and natural resources ministry.

Monytuel also nominated Mawiech Chilieny and Maluok Matai as security and economic advisors respectively. Others are Apollo Maluit and William Bajuoi Makuet.

A member of South Sudan's ruling Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) told Sudan Tribune, that Monytuel wanted the new group to get a share of the national cake.

“I think the decision by the caretaker governor was to give those who have not held any positions to get something ahead of the formation of upcoming government in the state. We appreciate this step, because most of these comrades have been standing with us for long, and it is time to reward them although it is a short period,” the official, who asked not to be named.

Others, however, say the increase in the numbers of ministers and advisors was to balance positions among counties which beneffitted during 20 months of conflicts.

In 2013, the former governor, Taban Deng Gai reduced ministers to nine after austerity measures were initiated when oil was shut in Unity and Upper Nile states in 2012.

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Russian President signed the decree.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has congratulated King of Saudi Arabia Salman bin Abdel Aziz Al Saud on the national holiday.

Azerbaijani poet, honored worker of culture, member of the Union of Writers of Azerbaijan Mammad Aslan died, APA reports quoting close relatives of poet.

Five people, including a German and a French national, were arrested Monday in Istanbul for encouraging Syrian refugees to head for Turkey’s border with the EU, police said.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev congratulated the Prime Minister of Greece, Alexis Tsipras.

"Sending 400 observers to Azerbaijan isn't logical."

A "new model of great power relations" sounds innocent enough. So why won't American policymakers say it?

Azerbaijan's Defense Minister, colonel-general Zakir Hasanov met ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador of Belarus in our country Gennady Ahramovich on September 22.

FP contributor Elizabeth Dickinson and Yemeni activist Farea al-Muslimi on the reach of Riyadh and how the West could actually help.

KÉZILABDA

18.00, M4: Dunaújváros–Ferencváros (női NB I., 6. forduló).

LABDARÚGÁS

Angol ligakupa, 3. forduló: Tottenham–Arsenal (20.45, Arena Sport 1, Digi Sport 2), Walsall–Chelsea (21.00, Arena Sport 3).

Francia élvonal, 7. forduló: Troyes–Saint-Étienne, Lorient–Caen, Gazélec Ajaccio–Rennes, Nice–Bordeaux, Lyon–Bastia (19.00, Arena Sport 3), Toulouse–Marseille (21.00).

Német élvonal, 6. forduló: Schalke–Eintracht (F), Bayer (L)–Mainz, Borussia (M)–Augsburg, Hannover–Stuttgart, Hoffenheim–Borussia (D) (20.00, Eurosport2).

Olasz élvonal, 5. forduló: Capri–Napoli, Chievo–Napoli, Fiorentina–Bologna, Inter–Hellas Verona (Arena Sport 2), Juventus–Frosinone (Arena Sport 5), Lazio–Genoa, Palermo–Sassuolo, Sampdoria–Roma (20.45, Arena Sport 4, Digi Sport 1).

Spanyol élvonal, 5. forduló: Celta Vigo–Barcelona (Sportklub 3, Sport1), Levante–Eibar, Rayo Vallecano–Sporting Gijón (20.00), Athletic Bilbao–Real Madrid (21.00, Sportklub 1, Sport2), Las Palmas–Sevilla (Sport1), Málaga–Villarreal (22.00, Sportklub 3).

15.00, Arena Sport 2: Panathinaikosz–Levadiakosz (görög élvonal, 4. forduló).

18.30, Arena Sport 1: Partizan–Rad (szerbiai szuperliga, a 6. fordulóból halasztott mérkőzés).

TENISZ

11.00, Eurosport: ATP Szentpétervár.

14.00, Sportklub 1: ATP Metz.

VÍZILABDA

20.00, M4: Eger–Miskolc (férfi OB I., 1. forduló).

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has congratulated the people of Azerbaijan in occasion of Eid al-Adha.

September 22, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government disclosed on Tuesday that it has been unable to raise its production of oil due to the global slide in crude prices.

FILE- A December 27 , 2012 file photo shows Sudan's President Omer Hassan al-Bashir (C) inaugurating the Hadida oil field located on the border between East Darfur state and South Kordofan, the country's main oil-producing area (AFP/Getty Images)

Sudan has been pushing hard to increase its oil production particularly after the secession of South Sudan in 2011 taking with it about 75% of the country's oil reserves.

The minister of oil Mohammed Zayed said that oil companies are reluctant to fix damaged wells in light of the dramatic decrease in world oil prices and the need for injecting more capital for repairment.

He said that the steep decline in oil prices from $110 a barrel last year to $47 has disrupted the economies of production for these companies.

Zayed declared that the government reached series of understandings with these companies on measures that would help raise oil production such as reducing production costs leading to improved profit margins.

"You can undertake simple processes to boost oil production by 10,000 barrels per day," he said.

Last May Sudan said it hoped to increase the daily oil production from 120,000 barrels per day to 150,000.

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Au Congo-Brazzaville, l'administration électorale a lancé mardi 22 septembre une opération de révision des listes électorales dans la perspective de la présidentielle de 2016. La durée de cette opération qui s'arrête le 26 septembre est jugée « trop courte » par l'opposition qui pense également que la matrice de ces listes, tirée du recensement spécial de 2013, est elle-même « fausse ». Dans le même temps, Denis Sassou-NGuesso a annoncé l’imminence d’un référendum pour modifier la Constitution afin qu’il puisse briguer un nouveau mandat.

September 22, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - European Union (EU) ambassadors in Khartoum called upon the Sudanese government to conduct an independent investigation into the deadly protests of September 2013.

People look on as cars are set alight during protests over fuel subsidy cuts in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on 25 September 2013 (Photo: Reuters)

Demonstrations broke out in several Sudanese states that month following the government's decision to lift fuel subsidies. Rights groups said that at least 200 people were killed but the government put the death toll at 85.

Following a wave of criticism, Sudanese authorities said they formed a commission of inquiry into the protests which were the deadliest of their kind against the regime.

However, the findings of the investigation are yet to be revealed.

Last month, the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir directed the Ministry of Justice to compensate the families of victims of the protests.

EU mission in Khartoum said in a statement Tuesday that envoys of EU countries in Sudan have recently discussed the protests which erupted in September 2013.

“Ambassadors of EU countries have welcomed the government decision to compensate families of the victims and noted that justice couldn't only be achieved by financial reparations”, the statement reads.

The statement added that Sudanese authorities are still far from conducting an effective and independent inquiry into the killings and other human rights violations which took place during the protests.

The EU ambassadors further renewed their call to the Sudanese government to conduct an independent investigation that holds the perpetrators fully accountable for their acts.

Earlier this month, the Chairman of the Security and Defense subcommittee in the Sudanese parliament and head of the investigation committee Ahmed Imam al-Tuhami, said that losses resulting from vandalism during the protests are estimated at 30 billion pounds (SDG).

He added that several cases have been filed by families of victims against policemen accusing them of opening fire on the protestors.

Al-Tuhami pointed out that the protests were carried out by students and ordinary citizens against lifting fuel subsidies, saying those protestors didn't involve in the looting and vandalism.

“However, some saboteurs [protestors] took advantage of the protests to carry out acts of looting and theft”, he said.

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Des militaires aidés par des membres d'un comité de défense ont déjoué mardi un attentat-suicide dans la ville de Mora. Une ville encore sous le choc du double attentat dont elle avait été la cible dimanche dernier, et qui avait fait 5 morts. Mardi 22 septembre toujours, et dans la même zone, des militaires camerounais ont repoussé une incursion d'éléments de Boko Haram dans la localité d'Amchide. Les combats ont fait une quinzaine de morts dans les rangs des islamistes.

September 22, 2015 (JUBA) – The death toll from last week's oil tanker fire at Maridi in South Sudan's Western Equatoria state has reached 203, the health minister disclosed.

Riek Gai Kok said more than 90 other people were nursing wounds in hospitals.

“We are providing the best medical assistance that we can and some of the wounded are being transferred to Juba,” said Kok.

The oil tanker veered off road while traveling from Juba to Yambio, some 250 km west of the capital, last week. The leaking fuel attracted huge crowds of villagers to siphon oil.

South Sudan observed three days of national mourning to remember the victims while the national assembly set up a committee to investigate the cause of the explosion.

Kok, who met president Salva Kiir this week, described the inferno as a “national tragedy.”

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September 22, 2015 (JUBA) - South Sudanese army (SPLA) has announced on Tuesday that the Ugandan People's Defense Forces (UPDF), which have been fighting alongside forces loyal to president Salva Kiir against opposition faction led by former vice president, Riek Machar, will start to withdraw from the country next week.

A contingent of soldiers from the Ugandan People's Defence Force (Photo courtesy of New Vision)

“It has been agreed that up to the 10th of October, the UPDF forces will be out of the country. The timeline of their withdrawal is stated between 27th, up to 10th of October,” Lieutenant General Malek Ruben, deputy chief of general staff for logistics,” announced on Tuesday.

According to the recently signed peace agreement to end the 21-month long civil war, all foreign forces allied to both the government and the opposition sides are supposed to leave the country within 45 days after the signing of the peace agreement.

Besides UPDF, Sudanese rebel forces inside South Sudan will be demobilized and repatriated back to Sudan in accordance with the peace deal.

UPDF came to the country in December 2013 when political differences over reforms within the leadership of the governing Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) turned violent.

The initial objective on deployment of the Ugandan troops was to evacuate Ugandan nationals in South Sudan from the country and provide protection to key installations and institutions, including the airports in Juba and other hot spot areas of the country. However, UPDF later on directly interfered in military combat against the rebels.

The foreign troops' withdrawal from the country was always one of the contentious matters at the start of negotiations, but General Ruben told reporters on Tuesday that the issue was resolved during the discussions at the ceasefire workshop attended by the commanders from the warring sides last week in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. This is also in accordance with implementation of the security arrangements as provided for in the peace agreement.

Ugandan forces for the past 21 months of the war have been providing partial defence of the national capital, Juba, and the neighbouring Jonglei state's capital, Bor, and have used superiority of their military hardware including air force in which it has been accused of dropping cluster bombs on rebel forces.

The military officer, however, pointed out that Ugandan troops deployed in Western Equatoria state will not be removed, because they are under a separate arrangement.

“The ones of Western Equatoria are not affected within this agreement; it's a quadruple arrangement connecting Central Africa Republic, South Sudan, Uganda and Congo plus the American forces,” he said.

“These are in pursuit of the Regional Alliance Strategic Agreement to pursue the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army],” he added.

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