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Sudanese Minister of Foreign Affairs has called on the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to intensify pressures on the armed groups and opposition parties to sign the African Union Roadmap Agreement for peace in Sudan.

According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, Ghandour who is currently in New York briefed Ban Ki Moon on the outcome of the national dialogue and the efforts exerted to convince holdout opposition groups to join the peace process.

The Internet should be an equal world for all of its users, without any discrimination in terms of accessing content or expressing ideas, activists have said. However, the 2008 Information and Electronic Transaction (ITE) Law has failed to preserve that principle, they said, and most likely, the revised version of the law would as well.

The first few months of 2016 have seen almost frantic attempts by leading Western diplomats to salvage the new EU initiative for Bosnia and Herzegovina - which is not even that new anymore - and break through endless obstructions erected by local politicians.

Despite optimistic statements that still occasionally come from local and international officials about the country's progress on its EU path, by the beginning of June, local leaders had still failed to find solutions to any of the key issues that were supposed to unlock Bosnia and Herzegovina’s EU accession process.

The President of the Office of Darfur Peace Follow-up, Dr. Amin Hassan Omer has described the recent conditions of Sadiq Al Mahdi in Johannesburg with regards to signing the road map as step backwards and will not push him forward and if he is willing to join the peace process the doors are open.

Lebanon's Agricultural Ministry is banning the import of Syrian produce in an effort to protect Lebanese farm revenues.

Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb says he is trying to protect "production and farmers" in the country. He says authorities will crack down on cross-border smuggling.

El presidente del Parlamento de Líbano, Nabih Berri, ha expresado este miércoles su insatisfacción con la incapacidad de los partidos para acordar una nueva ley electoral para el país.

"Los encuentros de los comités parlamentarios conjuntos para discutir la ley electoral no han logrado aún resultados, y siguen estancados", ha dicho, según ha informado el diario local 'An Nahar'.

"Trataré el asunto durante el encuentro de diálogo nacional del 21 de junio, para que todo el mundo asuma sus responsabilidades", ha manifestado, agregando que "se trata de una pérdida de tiempo".

Air drops to distribute aid in Syria can only go ahead only with “the benign blessing” of the Syrian government, the UN special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has said, while insisting he was not backtracking from an apparently more assertive stance taken by the international community in May.

De Mistura’s latest remarks, at a briefing in Geneva, will anger the Syrian opposition, which believed the international community was prepared to act without the permission of the Syrian air force.

El Banco Central del Líbano ha cerrado cien cuentas bancarias vinculadas al grupo chií Hizbulá en el marco de las sanciones previstas por el Acta para la Prevención de la Financiación Internacional de Hizbulá, aprobada por el Congreso de EEUU en diciembre, confirmó a Efe una fuente de la entidad.

French President Francois Hollande told al-Mustaqbal Movement chief MP Saad Hariri that the only solution to the presidential impasse is through the election of founder of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun, al-Akhbar daily reported on Tuesday.

“During Hariri's latest visit to France in May, Hollande told the Mustaqbal chief that the solution to the internal crisis can only come from Aoun's side,” March 14 sources told the daily on condition of anonymity.