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Des sources privées évoquent l’intention du Président mauritanien Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz de procéder incessamment à un remaniement ministériel. Le retard accusé par la nomination d’un nouveau commissaire à la sécurité alimentaire créditerait selon les mêmes sources ces tractations officieuses, visant ce chambardement.

Des ministres qui pourraient être touchés par le nouveau remaniement ministériel seraient encore en déplacement à l’étranger dans le cadre de missions gouvernementales.

Somali Government Spokesman Ridwaj Haji Abdiweli has announced his resignation from the office he was holding for the past two years. Abdiweli who announced his decision through his official twitter account cited undisclosed personal issue as the main reason.

"I want to announce my resignation as the government spokesman and media adviser to the prime minister of Somalia, it was great honor for me for the past two years to serve my country which is experiencing great challenge," he said in a letter sent to newsrooms.

Albania’s governing left wing has prevailed in the 21 June local government elections “snatching” a victory in the majority of the towns of the country, including the largest ones.

Up until today (23.06), ballot counting has been completed for 54 out of 61 municipalities. Out of them, 40 have been won by the left wing, 13 by the opposition and one by the Greek minority party, MEGA.

The ballot counting process continues in another seven municipalities and socialists are likely to win most of them too.

Plusieurs chefs de partis politiques ont reçu des directives fermes visant à éviter l’accréditation aux élections de personnes suspectées d’implication dans le trafic de drogue. Une liste noire sera élaborée plus tard, mais cela a déjà créé une sacrée zizanie dans certains partis.

After counting nearly one third of the ballots in the local government elections in Albania, the left wing of the governing majority is leading by a large margin.

The ballot counting has ended in the early hours of Monday in 7 small municipalities and all of them have been won by left wing candidates.

The race for the large cities is still not clear, but the tendency seems to favor the left wing.

Los talibán han atacado este lunes el Parlamento afgano con varios explosivos y un enfrentamiento armado mientras los parlamentarios se encontraban en una sesión. El asalto ha causado la muerte de siete talibán atacantes y de dos civiles. Además, 31 civiles han resultado heridos, aunque ninguno entre los legisladores.

The process of ballot counting in Albania is coming to an end and so far, the majority of 61 municipalities has been won by the left wing majority under the logo of the Alliance for European Albania coalition led by Edi Rama and speaker of Parliament, Ilir Meta.

This governing coalition has won the largest municipalities in the country.

The process has been officially concluded in less than half of municipalities. Out of 28 municipalities where the result has been announced, 20 of them have been won by the left wing and only eight of them by the opposition.

Polls for the local government in Albania have ended without any problems. The polling stations opened at 7 am and closed at 7 pm. Although, based on the law, when there are queues in the polling station, the voting continues beyond the official hours, it was not the case this time as there were not large numbers of voters.

Preliminary turnout figures vary from 40 to 50%.

The Central Election Commission has not yet issued official figures on turnout.

This year’s figures are expected to be lower than in the last polls, when turnout was 60%.

Egypt's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Transitional Justice Ibrahim Al-Heneidy disclosed Sunday that the justice ministry has finalised drafting a new law aimed at cracking down on terrorist crimes. 

"The new 52-article anti-terrorism law is primarily aimed at stemming the tide of funding terrorist activities and organisations and giving new definitions for terrorist crimes," said Heneidy in a press conference.