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tisdag, januari 18, 2011

Sudan: "A new African state will be born" - Tunisia: Islamist leader arrested


"A new African state will be born from Sudan’s womb this week. The fifty fourth state in Africa will change the map of the entire continent and that of the one-million-square-miles country, considering it will no longer be the largest in Africa, as its geographic border and some of its political boundaries will be changing. The secession of the South is raising a series of challenges for the Sudanese on both ends, for the people of the region among the close and distant neighbors, for some European states and especially for the United States. This secession will open the doors before a series of consequences and questions. As for the post-referendum stage, it will be the main thing at stake considering it is no less dangerous than the stages which necessitated from the population half a century of civil wars that reaped the lives of around two million victims, depleted the energies and the resources, and prompted regional and international interferences." /Al Arabiya



Turabi
Hours after he warned of Tunisia-style uprising:
Sudan's Islamist opposition leader Turabi arrested /Al Arabiya
Read more: http://www.alarabiya.net/english/

Wikipedia: Al Arabiya (Arabic: العربية‎ al-ʿArabīyah; "The Arabic One") is an Arabic-language television news channel (http://www.alarabiya.net/english/). Launched on March 3, 2003, the channel is based in Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates, and is partly owned by the Saudi broadcaster Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC).
A free-to-air channel, Al Arabiya carries news, current affairs, business and financial markets, sports, talk shows, and documentaries. It is rated among the top pan-Arab stations by Middle East audiences. Al Arabiya says it tries to use neutral, non-supportive language when covering Islamist militant groups.
On January 26, 2009, American president Barack Obama gave his first formal interview as president to the television channel.
Read more (Wikipedia):  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Arabiya

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