.- The party of Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh said he will not sign an agreement to transfer power "closed" and instead calls for the creation of a public event that includes the leaders of the opposition. The statement released Sunday by the General People Congress (GPC), published by the official news agency SABA, came hours before Saleh was scheduled to sign the agreement and is another sign of a series of mixed signals on whether the president leaves office.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Double bombing kills 15 in Pakistan
Two separate attacks in Northwest Pakistan destroyed 12 trucks Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with supplies that went into Afghanistan and caused a fire that killed 15 civilians who collected fuel that leaked from a tanker truck. In the town of Landi Kotal in the Khyber tribal province, bordering Afghanistan, residents gathered around a tanker of NATO to recover gasoline that leaked after a bomb blast.
Ouattara is sworn in as president of Ivory Coast, to provide crisis
The new president of Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, took office six months after his election and after election conflict that has claimed at least three thousand lives. Ouattara said that with his inauguration, "has been respected democracy and the will of the people" in a ceremony surrounded by great expectation, after post-election conflict that led to the refusal to leave office, the former president, Laurent Gbagbo, after be defeated in elections.
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Colonialism, DSK and the IMF
Recent news related to the IMF bring a bad whiff of colonialism. I am not referring to the fact that a rich and powerful Frenchman who was head of the IMF is accused of attempted rape in his luxury hotel waitress a young African. What happened there we do not know and you have to wait before convicting Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
But what no one had to wait are the ebbs ugly colonial attempt to impose a European as his successor. According to this view only in Europe can be in charge of the IMF, an institution owned by 187 countries. This proposal "only" discriminates the remaining 93% of humanity. It is unusual for an organization that requires governments borrow it to adopt principles of transparency, efficiency and meritocracy choose their leader through a process that violates the rules you preach.
But what no one had to wait are the ebbs ugly colonial attempt to impose a European as his successor. According to this view only in Europe can be in charge of the IMF, an institution owned by 187 countries. This proposal "only" discriminates the remaining 93% of humanity. It is unusual for an organization that requires governments borrow it to adopt principles of transparency, efficiency and meritocracy choose their leader through a process that violates the rules you preach.
Fifteen killed in an explosion in the Pakistani-Afghan border
At least 15 people were killed Saturday, May 21 near the Afghan-Pakistan border in the fire, caused by a bomb, a truck NATO. The victims were youths who had gathered to collect the leaking fuel tank near the town of Landi Kotal in the Frontier Province du Nord-Ouest, said an official of the local government.
"The tanker caught fire after an explosion caused by a small bomb," he said. "The villagers of nearby houses rushed to collect leaking gasoline truck damaged after the fire was under control," he added. "Suddenly, the fire resumed and at least 15 people, including five young boys, who collected the fuel in buckets, were fatally burned." According to another Pakistani official, eleven trucks and tanker trucks from NATO were destroyed Friday around midnight near Torkham (northwest).
"The tanker caught fire after an explosion caused by a small bomb," he said. "The villagers of nearby houses rushed to collect leaking gasoline truck damaged after the fire was under control," he added. "Suddenly, the fire resumed and at least 15 people, including five young boys, who collected the fuel in buckets, were fatally burned." According to another Pakistani official, eleven trucks and tanker trucks from NATO were destroyed Friday around midnight near Torkham (northwest).
Haiti: the entrepreneur Daniel Gerard Rouzier-appointed Prime Minister
The Haitian president, Michel Martelly, appointed Friday, May 20-entrepreneur Daniel Gerard Rouzier, 51 years as prime minister, said President of the Chamber of Deputies, Saurel Jacynthe. "That's Mr. Rouzier has been appointed" prime minister, confirmed Mr. Jacynthe, interviewed by telephone. "The president Martelly wrote to the chairmen of both houses of Parliament to inform them of the choice of Mr.
Kuwait elected to the Council on Human Rights UN
Kuwait is among the 15 countries elected Friday, May 20th at Board of Rights after the UN decision of Syria, whose government is facing an unprecedented wave of protest, to postpone his 2013 candidacy. The 192 countries represented at the UN General Assembly was called to renew every year as one third of the 47 Council seats, the main UN body responsible for periodically reviewing the situation of human rights in the member countries.
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