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May 30, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudan People's Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) Monday announced the release within some days of 20 prisoners of war (POWs) and 20 mine workers on the eve of the Holy Month of Ramadan.

SPLM-N negotiating team spokesperson Mubarak Ardol (Courtesy photo of SPLM-N)

SPLM-N Peace Spokesperson, Mubarak Ardol; said the SPLM-N leadership held consultations on the release of the 40 people through the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Addis Ababa.

"The movement's leadership directed to hand over the prisoners and detainees as soon as possible to the Red Cross so that they can perform Ramadan fasting with their families after long time," Ardol added.

Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, is expected to begin this year on Monday 6 June 2016.

Since more than a year, the SPLM-N which fights the Sudanese army in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan states agreed to release 20 POWs and 20 mine workers following discussions with the Islamist group of Al-Sa'ihoon.

However, in May 2015 the rebel group said the government refused to give the needed authorizations for the ICRC to collect by plane the 20 PoWs and 20 workers who were in different locations in the two states.

Ardol said that the SPLM-N has an impeccable record of respect for human rights that its historical leader John Garang had contributed to consolidate this tradition.

He pointed the ongoing military campaign by the Sudanese government on their positions hinders the release of the 40 people. But the SPLM-N and the ICRC will make every efforts to enable the prisoners and detainees to join their families.

Also, the rebel official disclosed that some POWs were killed during the government attacks without elaboration.

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Foreign investors will remain interested in lending to Serbia as long as economic reforms stay on track.

Bosnia is now the only country in the Balkans without laws limiting the price of medicines - which as a consequence are far higher than in the rest of the region, experts say.

Architect tells the BBC about the challenge of building the world's smallest airport

Le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, a salué le verdict prononcé à l'encontre de l'ancien Président du Tchad, Hissène Habré, pour crimes contre l'humanité, exécutions sommaires, torture et viol, par une cour spéciale au Sénégal.

A l'issue d'une visite de trois jours en Côte d'Ivoire, la Représentante spéciale du Secrétaire général sur la violence sexuelle dans les conflits, Zainab Hawa Bangura, s'est félicitée des progrès accomplis par le gouvernement ivoirien et en particulier par l'armée nationale dans la lutte contre ce fléau.

Le Conseil de sécurité a adopté lundi une résolution reconduisant jusqu'au 31 mai 2017 le gel des avoirs et l'interdiction de voyager visant des individus menaçant la paix et la stabilité du Soudan du Sud.

Environ deux millions de personnes des huit régions de la bande sahélienne au Tchad, soit la moitié de la population de ces régions, se trouvent en état d'insécurité alimentaire, selon une évaluation du gouvernement tchadien avec le Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM) et d'autres partenaires.

The third Sustainable Development Goal &#8211 to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all &#8211 was front and centre at a United Nations conference in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, providing face-to-face opportunities for tackling a range of issues, including the education gap.

The United Nations human rights office today added its voice to the concerns raised over a decision this past week by the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to deny the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) consultative status.

While global citizenship means many things to many people, discussions at the sixty-sixth United Nations/Non-Governmental Organizations Conference maintained that cultivating empathy, a scientific appreciation for the natural world and responsibility towards future generations must be at the core of education for global citizenship.

Les tensions sociales sont vives également en Belgique. Un appel à la grève dans les services publics a été lancé pour ce mardi 31 mai, une semaine à peine après une manifestation nationale qui a réuni quelque 60 000 personnes contre la politique économique et sociale du gouvernement de centre-droit conduit par Charles Michel.  

L’ex-président tchadien a été condamné lundi à la prison à perpétuité, pour crimes contre l’humanité, crimes de guerre, tortures et viols.

May 30, 2016 (JUBA) - The Jieng Council of Elders (JCE) in South Sudan are opposed to any global pressure against last year's presidential decree, which expanded the country's number of states from the constitutionally recognised 10 states to 28.

President Salva Kiir Kiir with members of the Dinka (JIENG) Council of Elders. Its chair Ambrose Riny Thiik apprears to his right (Photo: Larco Lomayat)

The order is said to have contravened the peace deal signed with armed opposition under the leadership of the first vice president Riek Machar based on the 10 states.

“The Jieng Council of Elders (JCE) is alarmed and deeply regrets the recent respect to the status of the 28 States establishment order, (EO 36/2015). The UNMISS (United Nations mission in South Sudan) head said that she does not recognise the 28 states,” party reads the 26 May protest statement, which Sudan Tribune obtained.

It add, “Obviously, there are pockets of political opposition in the country to the creation of 28 states and so for her to take the same position, as the opposition, is an act of partiality and goes counter to the spirit of the agreement and inconsistent with the mandates of the institutions they lead”.

The JCE, comprising largely relatives and political allies of President Salva Kiir, accused the special representative of the secretary general of the UN mission in the country of allegedly siding with the opposition on the issue and must cease doing so.

“The UNMISS leader appears bent on encroaching deliberately into the affairs of a sovereign state,” said JCE.

“It may serve her well to stay out of South Sudanese politics and administrative matters and allow the South Sudanese to chart their course on these matters without prejudice. The council therefore advises the two institutions to adhere strictly to their respective mandates by avoiding unwarranted meddling in the affairs of a sovereign state,” it added.

The JCE reiterated that the establishment was a sovereign decision and should not therefore be reversed; asserting doing so would endanger the unity and social harmony.

South Sudan's sovereignty, JCE said, is vested solely in the people of South Sudan and it is not amenable or subject to debates engendered from within or from without.

“The right of the people of South Sudan to govern themselves within confines of their respective diverse cultures ought to be held sacred and inalienable,” it said, adding the 28 states was in response to popular demand.

The statement had signatures of Ambrose Riny Thiik, chairman of the group and co-chair Joshua Dau Diu. Aldo Deng, another member of the JCE also signed the document.

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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle

May 30, 2016 (ADDIS ABABA) – Eritrea said the huge exodus of tens of thousands of its citizens was the outcome of an international conspiracy supported by human smugglers.

Migrants from Eritrea sit near tents as they live in a make-shift camp under a metro bridge in Paris, France, May 28, 2015. (Photo Reuters/Benoit Tessier)

The remarks was made by Eritrea's Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh, during the recent Ministerial Conference on “Sustainability of Migratory Phenomenon; towards a new Model of Dialogue” held in Rome, Italy.

The Minister denied that right violations were the causes for the increasing number of citizens fleeing the Red Sea nation.

He argued that the migration which he said was not peculiar to Eritrea instead was due search of improved opportunities oversees.

However Eritrean refugees who arrived in Ethiopia this year has told Sudan Tribune that poverty, political repression, different forms of right abuses, imprisonment, joblessness were main causes driving citizens flee their home country.

According to the refuges, military conscription and the indefinite service afterwards is forcing more and more young Eritreans leave their country.

At the conference, Saleh claimed that an international migration conspiracy is being used to tarnish nation's image.

He said "sensationally manipulated statistics and the perceived number of Eritrean migrants frequently quoted by the UNHCR" had also become a tool of political disinformation to tarnish the image of Eritrea.

He alleged illegal migration had become a politically motivated agenda serving as part and parcel of a larger campaign to vilify, isolate and destabilize Eritrea.

“The youth has been the main target of the migratory conspiracy and protracted psychological warfare to lure them away from national defence and development responsibilities by attracting them to a promising heavenly life”

He added false and manipulated asylum cases have been orchestrated and used to project a false image of impending crisis so as to accuse the Eritrean Government.

The minister mentioned a statement by President Barack Obama back in 2012 as corroborating the alleged “conspiracy perpetuated to use Eritrean migration as a political tool”

He also added that “this criminal activity has the involvement of some countries, organizations, surrogate anti- Eritrean groups and pseudo-human right activists”

Eritrea also referred by international right groups as the North Korea of Africa is one among the world's most oppressive nation.

According to the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), every month at least 5,000 citizens flee the Secretive east African nation.

In Ethiopia alone there are an estimated 100,000 Eritrean refugees sheltered in a number of refugee camps located near the common border.

Last year, Eritreans were recorded as the third largest group of people embarking on the perilous Mediterranean in a bid to cross to Europe.

Every month hundreds of Eritreans bound to Italy attempt to cross the Mediterranean from Libya however many of them end up perished.

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Dans le cadre de la Semaine du développement durable, la communauté d'agglo de Concarneau consacrera deux journées à l'éconavigation et aux problématiques du développement durable dans les activités maritimes.

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May 30, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - The Qatari Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed bin Abdalla al-Mahmoud and the Joint Chief Mediator Martin Uhomoibhi Monday started discussions in Doha with two Sudanese armed groups on ways to join the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD).

The leaders of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Gibril Ibrahim and Sudan Liberation Movement-Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM), Minni Minnawi seek to include Qatar in the African Union brokered talks for peace in Sudan in order to review some parts of the DDPD that they didn't sign.

"Talks with the two movements focused on the possibility of joining the peace process on the basis of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) and the views of the two movements in this regard," said a short statement released by the official Qatari News Agency (QNA).

The two sides will continue consultations in order to reach common grounds that could pave the way for the movements to join the peace process in Darfur, further said the agency.

During the peace talks in Addis Ababa with the Sudanese governments the two groups demanded to discuss some matters related to landownership, compensations, and protection of civilians. Khartoum refused this demand and asked them to sign the DDPD first.

It was noticed that al-Tom Hajo, deputy chairman of the Sudanese Revolutionary Forces led by Gibril Ibrahim is taking part in the Doha meeting.

A rebel official told Sudan Tribune under the cover of anonymity that Hajo's participation aims to show their commitment for a comprehensive solution in Sudan.

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