Kobler slams Derna murder
Mar 17 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
UNSMIL chief Martin Kobler has denounced yesterday’s murder of Derna civil society activist Abdul Basset Abu Al-Dahab as shocking and heinous.
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GNA to move to Tripoli “within a few days” says Serraj
Mar 17 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
A security deal has been worked out to allow the Government of National Accord to relocate from Tunis to Tripoli within a few days prime minister-designate Faiez Serraj said today.
Haithem Tajouri named in UN report for financial fraud and human rights infringements
Mar 17 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
A UN report has named prominent Tripoli militia leader Haithem Tajouri of financial fraud and human rights infrin
Ageela Salah refutes spoiling HoR GNA vote, does not fear EU sanctions
Mar 17 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
The House of Representatives president Ageela Salah has refuted claims that he is hindering reconciliation in Libya by blocking a vote on the Government of National Accord (GNA). He also said he had nothing to fear from planned sanctions against him.
Iran’s Guardian Council validates results for Experts Assembly elections
Mar 17 2016
Iran
Source:
Press TV
Iran’s Guardian Council, which oversees elections and legislation, has validated the results for last month’s Assembly of Experts elections.
In a letter to the Interior Ministry on Thursday, Iran’s top supervisory and vetting body confirmed the results of the February Assembly of Experts elections for all constituencies across the country.
On February 26, Iranians went to the polls in twin elections to choose members of the Majlis (Parliament) and Assembly of Experts.
UN report acknowledges Malta-based Thinni government LIA has access to assets
Mar 16 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
A UN report has acknowledged that the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) based in Malta and under the control of the internationally recognized government at the time of Prime Minister Abdullah Thinni, appointed by the House of Representatives in Tobruk, ‘’have access to the assets of those wealth funds’’.
Haithem Tajouri wants return of monarchy
Mar 16 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
Tripoli militia leader Haithem Tajouri has come out of favour of a restoration of the Senussi monarchy as the solution to the Libyan crisis.
UN report accuses CBL of bias and of supporting militias and terrorists
Mar 16 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
A UN report has accused the Tripoli-based CBL of supporting militias and terrorists and of being ‘’lenient towards the National Salvation Government’’.
Qatar controversial poet Ibn Al Dheeb pardoned
Mar 16 2016
Qatar
Source:
Gulf News
Manama: A Qatari poet who had been sentenced to life in prison for insulting the Emir and encouraging the overthrow of the nation’s ruling system has been released.
Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Dheeb Al Ajami was arrested in Doha on November 16, 2011 after a poem he recited in August in the Egyptian capital Cairo where he was studying was posted on social media.
Mohammad, popularly known as Ibn Al Dheeb, recited the poem to a group of people, but he was reportedly unaware that he was recorded and that the recitation would be uploaded on You Tube.
Libia ya tiene tres Gobiernos
Mar 16 2016
Libya
Source:
El País
UNSMIL calls on CDA members to meet in Oman tomorrow
Mar 16 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
In an effort to end the divisions that have stymied the writing a new constitution, all members of the Constitution Drafting Assembly have been invited to begin meeting in Oman from tomorrow.
Ghwell again refuses to hand over to Serraj, but Tripoli officials dismiss the threat
Mar 16 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
There will be no handover of power to Faiez Serraj or any “foreign imposed” government, the administration in Tripoli headed by Khalifa Ghwell has said. It also denied there had been any meeting in Tunis between the two men.
Mali : Mise en place des autorités transitoires : Le non des élus du nord
Mar 15 2016
Mali
Source:
Maliactu.net
L’Accord de paix constitue un véritable goulot d’étranglement pour les autorités maliennes. Pressées de toutes parts par la communauté internationale, la Médiation, la classe politique, la société civile et les groupes armés pour accélérer la mise en œuvre du document, l’Etat pose des actes qui semblent poser plus de problèmes qu’ils n’en donnent la solution. La mise en place des autorités intérimaires dans les régions du nord, prévue par l’Accord et dont le projet de loi vient d’être adopté par le gouvernement, est l’illustration parfaite de cet état de fait.
Results of electoral complaints due soon: Iranian official
Mar 15 2016
Iran
Source:
Press TV
Iran’s Guardian Council, which oversees elections and legislation, has reportedly addressed electoral complaints weeks after the country’s double elections, confirming a healthy voting process at dozens of the constituencies in question.
Siyamak Rahpeyk, the spokesman for Iran’s Central Elections Supervising Committee, said Monday that “so far [the results of] more that 100 constituencies have been reviewed by the Guardian Council and the election process [there] has been validated.”
Elections Disqualified Vote-Rigging Claims: Ayatollah Khamenei’s remarks in meeting with top clerics
Mar 14 2016
Iran
Source:
Iranian Diplomacy
Nearly a fortnight after the elections held on February 27, Iran’s Supreme Leader commented on the Assembly of Experts’ election in a meeting with members, who had just attended their last summit before the new assembly takes over, on Tuesday in Tehran.
Tripoli Congress takes on new members
Mar 14 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
The continuing General National Congress (GNC) has sworn in a new batch of members to replace the ever diminishing number of those actually elected in July 2012.
According to the Tripoli office of the Libyan news agency LANA, a group of new members was sworn in today at the GNC’s Rixos headquarters in front of GNC president Nuri Abu Sahmain.
Voting day set for second round of parliamentary election
Mar 14 2016
Iran
Source:
Radio Zamaneh
The head of Iran’s Elections Office announced that voting in ridings that went into the second round of the election will be held on April 29.
Ali Pourali reported that the ministry of interior and the Guardian Council have agreed on the date.
Iranians went to the polls on February 26 to elect parliamentary representatives, and in a number of ridings, candidates went into the second round of the election.
Civil Registry Authority taken over by ‘’extremists’’
Mar 13 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
The Civil Registry Authority (CRA) confirmed yesterday that it had been forcibly taken over by ‘’ideologically extremist groups’’ who took control of its database of Libyan citizens which would have ‘’enabled them to control the affairs of Libyans and the manipulation of their identities for their own interests’’.
Presidency Council claims green-light for unity government now given; Dialogue group disagrees
Mar 13 2016
Libya
Source:
Libya Herald
The Presidency Council has claimed that its proposed 13-ministry government has effectively been given the go-ahead by the endorsement signed by some hundred members of the House of Representatives (HoR) last month and by the Libya Dialogue in its statement on Thursday.
