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The oily lands of the Middle East have an image problem. As the nations of the world prepare for the most significant international negotiations on carbon emissions in two decades, countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Morocco are rarely depicted...
Tags: climate change, Middle East, oil producing, arab world, carbon emissions, Saudi Arabia, Nejib Friji, producing countries, United Kingdom, London, Environment, Arab, Arab League, Western Asia, North Africa, Munqeth Mehyar
One functions at the decision-making level, whereby government officials in each country suddenly find themselves compelled by an unanticipated development that threatens the "supreme values" of their society to take difficult decisions in a short period...
Tags: Egyptians Algeria, Egyptian-Algerian, Algerian Football Federation, EgyptAir, Khartoum, Cairo Airport, algerians crisis, football matches, Arab, algerians football, Algeria, Algiers, Western Asia, North Africa, African countries, Arab World, African Union member states, Arab League member states
In Fadila's words, "I was very happy when my country, Algeria, won, but I was very sad when Algerian fans in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, attacked Egypt supporters after the match." Fadila, who married her Egyptian husband, Ismail, 22 years ago when...
Tags: Egyptian, Algeria, Sudan, Khartoum, African countries, African Union member states, Arab League member states, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Politics, North Africa, Khartoum State, Gamal Mubarak
Tension in the country is rising ahead of elections due in April 2010. They are the first presidential, parliamentary and local elections in 24 years. On Sunday, about 20 opposition parties called for a gathering in front of the parliament building in...
Tags: Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Sudan Tribune, Sudan Liberation Army, Sudanese Foreign Ministry, South Sudan, West Darfur, North Darfur, UNAMID Rwandan, Sudan, Khartoum, Politics, War Conflict, Darfur conflict, War in Darfur, African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, Second Sudanese Civil War, Politics of Sudan, Darfur, Omar al-Bashir, African Union Mission in Sudan, Paul Kagame, International response to the War in Darfur, Foreign relations of Sudan, Secession, Sadiq al-Mahdi, Osman Kebir, North Africa, East Africa, Ibrahim Gambari, Kigali, African countries
The Sudanese electoral commission warned that some election monitors have ulterior motives during the upcoming 2010 elections other than simply watching out for the integrity of the process. The secretary general of the electoral board Galal Mohamed Al-Amin...
Tags: Sudan, international monitors, Galal Mohamed Al-Amin, electoral commission, commission warns, Khartoum, National Congress, Politics, North Africa, East Africa, Kurdufan, War Conflict
Unemployment in the Arab World has reached an alarming level, exceeding 20 million people, and the problem could worsen in the absence of intense job-creation plans, the region's top labour official warned yesterday. Several decades of socio-economic...
Tags: Arab Labour Organisation, Mohammed Lukman, Qatar, Doha, Western Asia, Unemployment, North Africa, Social Issues, Business Finance, Arab World, Labor economics, Labor, Middle East
An ambitious project to import electricity from North African deserts faces plenty of political hurdles. How long does it take 12 companies plus a potentially larger number of governments from Africa, the Middle East and Europe to get together and complete...
Tags: Desertec Industrial Initiative, Middle Eastern, North Africa, Europe, desertec members, Belgium, Brussels, Environment, European Union, Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation, RWE, Alternative energy, Solar power, Energy conversion, Desertec, Renewable energy in the European Union
December 5, 2009 — Judging by the turn of events, it is clear that the Sudanese politics has no doubt entered its crucial stages. While the peace agreement between the north and the south still holds, it is no longer true to continue to hold any one of...
Tags: North Darfur, Sudanese Parliament, peacekeepers force, gunmen kill, peacekeepers kill, Sudan, Khartoum, Politics, War Conflict, Darfur conflict, African Union Mission in Sudan, African Union - United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, International response to the War in Darfur, Omar al-Bashir, Politics of Sudan, North Africa, Darfur, East Africa, Peacekeeping, Second Sudanese Civil War, National Congress, War in Darfur, Al-Fashir, African Union, Military operations other than war, United Nations peacekeeping, Law Crime, Abyei, Operation Hedgerow, Sudanese politicians, Social Issues
Russian special envoy on Friday reiterated full support of his country to the general election in Sudan stressing that Russia bears its responsibility towards social and economic development. Russian envoy to Sudan Mikhail Margelov (L) speaks to the...
Tags: Sudan, Russia, Mikhail Margelov, South Kordofan, Khartoum, Politics, North Africa, East Africa, Sudanese politicians, Ahmed Haroun, War Conflict
December 4, 2009 — It is very pathetic to have heard about people who are selling their voting tickets for short term gains. Let me emphasis this very clearly that selling these voting tickets is selling your rights,priviledges,rights of others and right...
Tags: Sudan, southern sudan, NCP, voting tickets, political parties, Khartoum, Politics, North Africa, Second Sudanese Civil War, Politics of Sudan, Sudanese politicians, East Africa, Rebecca Nyandeng De Mabior, Abel Alier