Thursday, May 5, 2011

Revolts in the Arab world: the day Wednesday, country by country

Every day, find the World. en the synthesis of the day's events in the Arab world. Gaddafi forces continued the siege of Misrata rockets hit Wednesday a refugee camp near the Libyan port city besieged Misrata, killing five members of a Nigerian family, including children. In early afternoon, about twenty rockets fell on the camp located near the port, according to witnesses and the NGO Mercy Corps.

The Libyan regime had earlier proposed an extension of the ultimatum to the rebels of Misrata to go. A ship chartered by the International Organization for Migration could dock in the morning in the port of Misrata to unload humanitarian aid. Hundreds of refugees, particularly of African origin, boarded the boat, who must evacuate to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

An official of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Maness Ghanem, has announced that over 41,600 people have fled the fighting in Libya, via the border post Dehiba, south of Tunisia in last four weeks. In Benghazi, the explosion that occurred Tuesday night near the headquarters of the political arm of the rebellion was an accident, have set Wednesday Libyan rebels.

It was slightly wounded two people and devastated an area 200 meters from the city court. In Tripoli, two loud explosions were felt early Wednesday, while the Libyan capital was overflown by aircraft, just days after NATO raid that killed a son of Muammar Gaddafi. The objective of the international military intervention in Libya "is not to kill Gaddafi," but to "target military targets" in Tripoli and stop as soon as the NATO raids, reaffirmed the Chief French Foreign Minister, Alain Juppe, while recognizing a "collateral damage" with the death of the son of Libyan president.

"I hope it will not last beyond a few weeks at most a few months, but it is premature to talk of quagmire," he added. He urged the National Transitional Council to establish a "roadmap". Italy and the United States could establish a fund for the Libyan rebels said on Wednesday the Italian business daily Il Sole 24 Ore.

Italy has already developed a plan for a fund that would be "under U.S. supervision and control, but whose governance would be entrusted to officials belonging to the Italian banking system," the newspaper said without specifying its sources. For his part, Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was ready to finance the rebellion Jamahiriya subject that should be discussed Thursday in Rome by the Contact Group on Libya.

Finally, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Luis Moreno Ocampo announced before the Security Council of the United Nations that require three arrest warrants for crimes against humanity committed in Libya, without specifying the name persons concerned. Diplomats said the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, would probably be on the list.

"The evidence collected is sufficient to believe that widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population have been and continue to be committed in Libya, including murder and persecution are crimes against humanity," he said . The Syrian regime is sending reinforcements armed in several cities President Bashar Al-Assad said that the mission of the Army in Dera would end "very soon", reported Wednesday the newspaper Al-Watan minimizing the uprising in the city and response of the army that Washington has described as "barbaric." At the same time, some thirty tanks of the Syrian Republican Guard and 60 to 70 trucks carrying troops have left Damascus, according to a witness.

"The convoy was heading either north towards Homs, or southward toward Deraa," said the former member of the Syrian army. Other armored vehicles took up positions in the northern suburbs of Rastan, one of the hotspots of the challenge, near Homs in central Syria, relate to other witnesses.

This deployment follows the failure on the night, discussions between representatives of the local population and members of the ruling Baath Party, who demanded the surrender of several hundred men. Syrian forces were deployed Tuesday in Banias, taking control of the coastal city. At least six people were arrested.

A thousand demonstrators marched through but the Sunni neighborhood of the city, carrying bread in solidarity with the inhabitants of Dera, said an activist of human rights. Furthermore, small student demonstrations took place in the universities of Aleppo and Damascus, and several thousand people demonstrated in Kamichli, eastern, Kurdish-majority of the country.

The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alain Juppe, recommended Wednesday that French, whose presence in Syria is not essential to temporarily leave the country by means of commercial transportation. Hundreds of Syrians arrested in recent days have been charged with "damage the prestige of the state," a crime punishable by three years in prison, reports the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights.

"Mass arrests continued throughout the country in violation of human rights and international conventions," said the director of the independent, Rami Abdelrahman. Other NGOs report that many young men were severely beaten as part of the raids which also affect women, teens and seniors.

Qatari channel Al-Jazeera on Wednesday called on Syrian authorities to release the journalist Dorothy Parvez, ensuring it was held since his arrival six days ago in Damascus. The Syrian authorities, meanwhile, announced measures to try to stem the flight of foreign currency because of the dispute, allowing for the first time the savings in dollars and euros.

The country's economic prospects have weakened significantly, the IMF revised its growth forecasts downward, the Syrian currency has fallen about 10% in the black market and the Damascus Stock Exchange, which are primarily listed banks lost 20% in six weeks. Yemen suspended negotiations for a "sign" of President Saleh "The Secretary General of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Abdellatif Al-Zayani, was expected Monday in Sana'a, but unfortunately it is not ripe," he said a spokesman for the Yemeni opposition, adding that Mr.

Zayani had indicated that "he was waiting for a sign of the Yemeni president, who do not come yet". Met on Sunday in Riyadh, the foreign ministers of the GCC called for restarting negotiations following the refusal of Mr. Saleh signed the text of their plan to end the crisis, agreed in principle by the presidential party and the Common Front, a coalition of the parliamentary opposition.

"President Saleh will present his resignation once the Joint Forum has honored its commitments under the plan (...) GCC by stopping the sources of political tension and security," said Chief of Political Department General People's Congress (GPC), the ruling party, Abdullah Ghanem. Quoted by the weekly Al-Mithaq, organ of the GIC, he said that the Forum was required to "end the sit-in (protest), the defections in the ranks of the army, the Fellowship (in the secessionist South) and rebellion Houthi (Shiite) "in the North.

Four policemen, one soldier and two civilians were killed Wednesday in Zinjibar, capital of the province located in southern Yemen, one of the strongholds of the local branch of Al-Qaida in an armed attack against a convoy Police and ensuing clashes, an official security services and a medical source.

The violence is almost daily in southern Yemen, where central government is faced with both Al-Qaida militants and a secessionist movement. "We will avenge our sheikh Osama. We will prove that the enemies of God. They will see what they did not expect, "said one leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) of Abyan province, a stronghold of the network.

For local chief who requested anonymity, "the martyrdom of Sheikh Osama does not mean that Jihad will stop." Celebration of the agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas's Palestinian rivals Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday welcomed the end of a "black page" of four years of fratricidal antagonism and violence, at a ceremony in Cairo marking the conclusion of a reconciliation agreement between the two factions.

President Mahmoud Abbas has formally Israel, very hostile to agreement, to "choose between settlements and peace." The political bureau chief of the Islamist movement Hamas, Khaled Mashaal, said his side: "Our only struggle is against Israel [and the time of the divisions that have plagued the Palestinian camp is] behind us.

"" The signing of the agreement by Palestinian factions is a very happy event, welcomed Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, whose government has, under this agreement, transfer replaced by a Transitional Executive independents. The agreement, hailed by King Abdullah II of Jordan, was again vilified by the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, visiting London, who denounced "a blow to peace and a great victory for terrorism.

" "After this agreement, nothing will change, because all of this is window dressing, Hamas and Fatah agree on anything and the best example was expressed about the disappearance of the super-terrorist Osama bin Laden, "said the Israeli minister responsible for defense civilians, Matan Vilnai, public radio.

Young Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank celebrated the reconciliation agreement. In Gaza City, about seven hundred demonstrators marched waving the national flag Palestinian flags and green for the Islamists of Hamas, and yellow for the nationalists of Fatah. As a symbol of reconciliation, the Hamas TV station was allowed Wednesday to send West Bank.

That of the Palestinian Authority took over its distribution in the Gaza Strip, after four year hiatus. Budget support internationally to support reforms in Tunisia The African Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank (WB) plan to provide $ 1 billion to support Tunisia following the meeting of presidents of the two institutions' s took place on Tuesday in Tunis.

"Through this joint action, each bank is committed to providing $ 500 million in emergency budgetary support in the country," according to the terms of the statement released Tuesday. "The African Development Bank and World Bank were able to show early signs of support for reforms to (...) are very important for the confidence of the country," said World Bank President Robert Zoellick.

These reforms, he said, include "some steps to improve governance, transparency, laws on freedom of association, and also efforts to create jobs and improve the employment sector and focus on disadvantaged areas. " Political life in Tunisia is the responsibility of the parties and should not spread in the mosques, which must remain places of prayer, "said Minister of Religious Affairs of Tunisia, Laroussi Mizouri.

In many mosques, particularly located in the popular suburbs of Tunis, the circles of religious instruction organized spontaneously after prayer when some Islamists spread their political ideas. On the other hand, Mr. Mizouri said that the promotion of religious discourse depends, now, the imam, noting that the Ministry is working to strengthen training and retraining of imams to double central and regional level.

Ten wounded during a protest of doctors in Algiers A new demonstration in Algiers before the presidency of hundreds of doctors in specialty courses, on strike since March 7, was abruptly postponed Wednesday by police, making ten wounded, according to Sid Ali Marwan, spokesman of the Collective Self resident physicians.

Physicians bill mainly cancellation of civil service, which requires them to spend two to four years in remote areas once completed their specialization. They also want a wage increase and reaffirmed that they will not stop their strike until they have obtained satisfaction. No arrests "blind" after the attack in Marrakesh, Moroccan Islamists rejoice Moroccan Islamists say they are reassured by the fact that there has been no mass arrests and "blind" after the bombing of 28 April in Marrakesh, as was the case in the aftermath of the attacks of 2003.

"There was no immediate reaction is blind and reassuring," said Nadia Yassine, of the Islamist Justice and Charity, one of the largest in Morocco, banned but tolerated by authorities. "The king is involved in a progressive process, everyone wants to move forward," said Nadia Yassine. "Initially we had concerns that there is a retreat from the human rights (...), but I think they are no longer appropriate," said Saad Eddine Othmani, MP leading member of the Justice and Development party (PJD, Islamist opposition represented in parliament).

The Salafists have also made their voices heard: "It is an act of madness perpetrated by people who do not believe in any religion," he told the newspaper Today, Morocco Sheikh Mohamed Fizazi, which received the royal pardon April 14, after being sentenced to thirty years in prison following the Casablanca bombings.

Health officials brought before a military court in Bahrain The Bahraini authorities have decided to bring him before a military tribunal forty-seven doctors and nurses at a hospital in Manama, accused of aiding the Shiite opposition movement, according to an official . Twenty-four physicians and twenty-three hospital nurses Salmaniya, the largest of Manama, are accused of "incitement to overthrow the regime by force," according to an official statement.

They are also accused of "refusing to provide assistance to persons in danger, embezzlement, assault causing death, unlawful possession of arms and ammunition and refusal to exercise their functions". The Bahraini authorities had deployed in the Salmaniya Medical Complex in the crash of the protest movement led by Shiites in mid-March.

At least seven dead in new violence in Iraq At least seven people were killed Wednesday in fresh violence in Iraq, including three civilians killed by roadside bombs in southern Baghdad, it was learned from several sources. Two handmade ordnance exploded in the morning in the village of Al-Khanafsa, north of Karbala, a Shiite holy city 110 kilometers south of the capital.

Two roads were also killed in the attack on a convoy of trucks on a motorway leading to Syria, west of Mosul, an Iraqi military announced on condition of anonymity. In northern Baghdad, an employee of the Department of Transportation was assassinated by unknown persons with weapons equipped with silencers in the district of Al-Shaab, said an official of the Ministry of Interior.

A policeman was also killed in similar circumstances in the district of Qahira, still in the north of the capital. In addition, several attacks in Baghdad and Kirkuk, 240 kilometers north of the capital, made a total of five wounded, officials said security services. An independent Kurdish newspaper and organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of the murder of a young Kurdish journalist criticizing the lack of transparency of the official investigation into the murder.

Sardasht Osman, 23, was abducted May 4, 2010 shortly after he wrote articles critical of Kurdish leaders and corruption. His body was found twenty-four hours later in Mosul in northern Iraq with a bullet in the head.

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