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Student anti-regime activists from the southern town of Swaida have declined to take part in “local council” elections overseen by the opposition National Coalition, because it has “failed to learn from past mistakes.” In recent days, pro-uprising Facebook pages from the Druze-majority province have circulated the response by the Swaida Students Coordinating Committee, which accused the Coalition of suffering from “favoritism” and a lack of clarity with regard to officials’ duties and responsibilities.

Cdp ! C pour congrès, D pour démocratie et P pour progrès. Cdp, c’est en fait le sigle du dernier né des partis politiques de la République du Mali. Le Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès est un parti de gauche. Sa ligne directrice repose exclusivement sur le social, un vaste secteur oculté ou mal géré, République après République, au grand malheur de la populace. Le Congrès pour la démocratie et le progrès entend ainsi piloté le bâteau Mali autrement avec un gouvernement sans Premier ministre, un sytème à l’américaine quoi.

An Egyptian court has banned officials from the country's former ruling party under ousted President Hosni Mubarak from running in elections.

The ban comes as Egypt prepares for presidential elections later this month. Former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi - who removed Islamist president and Mubarak's successor, Mohammed Morsi - is poised to win that vote.

In preparation for the run-up to a two-round presidential election scheduled for August, opposition parties have started to consider nominating a joint candidate.

The idea behind a joint candidate is to name the strongest possible competitor to the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) candidate, who will most likely be Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The elections scheduled for August will be different to those of the past, as Turks will be electing their president through direct voting for the first time.

El presidente del Parlamento sirio, Mohamed Yihad al Laham, ha invitado este lunes a los "países amigos" a enviar misiones de supervisión a las elecciones presidenciales previstas para el mes de junio.

   "Es un placer para mi invitarles a enviar a un grupo de miembros de sus parlamentos y expertos en asuntos electorales para supervisar las elecciones presidenciales en nuestro país", ha indicado Al Laham en su misiva, enviada a varios países.

Au chapitre des mesures individuelles, le Conseil ordinaire des ministres du 30 avril 2014 a procédé à plusieurs nominations, notamment au titre du ministère de la Jeunesse et de la Construction citoyenne. Un conseiller technique et des chargés de mission ont été confirmés ou nommés. Mais, à la grande surprise, l’un des conseillers techniques les plus expérimentés pour traiter des questions de jeunesse n’a pas été confirmé.

Plus d’une semaine de tractations pour déboucher sur aucun changement.

The leader of the National Umma Party (NUP) al-Sadiq al-Mahdi and his son Abdel-Rahman are working steadfastly to move the party towards rapprochement with the ruling National Congress Party (NCP), the outgoing Secretary General Ibrahim al-Amin said.

In a phone interview with Sudan Tribune on Tuesday, al-Amin lashed out at al-Mahdi and accused him of deliberately blocking any attempts to mobilize the party behind popular uprisings in the country as was the case during the September 2013 protests that broke out across the country after the government lifted fuel subsidies.

A Turkish court in Ankara has granted a stay of execution for a ban on YouTube following an appeal by the company’s lawyer, Gönenç Gürkaynak.

Access to YouTube was blocked March 27 by Turkey’s Telecommunications Authority (TİB) without being supported by a court decision, hours after recordings of a key security meeting on Syria were leaked online.

The decision by Ankara’s 4th Administrative Court paves the way for a lifting of the ban on the popular video-sharing website.