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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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September 22, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - President Omer Hassan al-Bashir Tuesday has pardoned rebel leaders who participate in the national dialogue conference, and declared a two-month ceasefire in war areas.

Sudanese President Omer Hassan al-Bashir (Photo AFP/Ashraf Shazly)

According to the official news agency (SUNA) Tuesday, Bashir issued a republican decree granting general amnesty for the leaders and members of the armed movements taking part in the national dialogue conference. Also, he issued another decree declaring a two-month cease fire in the battlefronts.

The national dialogue conference is scheduled for 20 October 2015.

Several rebel members and leaders including the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/North (SPLM-N) chairman Malik Agar and secretary-general Yasser Arman have been sentenced to death by Sudanese courts.

The two decrees come after a pledge al-Bashir during the opening session of the national dialogue's general assembly last August in which he expressed readiness to declare a two-month cease fire in order to hold the dialogue in a healthy atmosphere and high patriotism.

The Sudanese army has been fighting SPLM-N rebels in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states since 2011 and the armed movements in Darfur since 2003.

Bashir launched the national dialogue initiative in January 2014 but the process suffered major setbacks after the withdrawal of the opposition National Umma Party (NUP) and the non-participation of the rebels as well as leftist forces.

The SPLM-N, Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minnawi (SLM-MM) recently expressed willingness to sign a cessation of hostilities with the government for six months if the government commits itself to the pre-dialogue meeting as provided in an African Union's roadmap to facilitate the internal process.

Besides the end of war, the African roadmap includes the implementation of other confidence building measures such as ensuring political freedoms, humanitarian access and release of political detainees and prisoners.

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September 22, 2015 (WAU) - The health ministry in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state has distributed protein foods to more than 300 malnourished children.

The new women's maternity ward at the Wau teaching hospital in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state was officially opened by president Salva Kiir on 15 July 2014 (ST)

Thomas Gabriel, the outpatient's program manager at Wau teaching hospital, said five distribution centres were established in Lokoloko, Hai Dinka, Jeb Kheer and Bazia Jadid.

The centres have been earmarked to cater for over 300 children lacking food nutrition.

“We at the hospital here are controlling malnourishment, which occurred to children under 6-59 months with an initiative of giving plumy and milk to the children,” he said.

Wau hospital alone, Gabriel further disclosed, currently hosts 154 malnourished children.

He also said that the health ministry was currently introducing health education to the mothers handling children to ensure they handle the distributed items responsibly.

“Plumy nut is an unmixed food, but mainly a multi treatment [administered] to children facing malnourish. We want to tell our people that we are not giving out food but we are giving out treatment to such children. This is because many people are coming in look for plumy nut as food and this is not a case,” Gabriel told Sudan Tribune.

He advised mothers not to sell the plumy nut in markets and instead feed their children.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) funded the program in collaboration with the state government.

(ST)

Pope Francis may be the people’s pontiff. But he’s also here on a mission to evangelize.

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