Falling short of an apology, President Francois Hollande has acknowledged France's colonisation of Algeria was "brutal and unfair".
"For 132 years, Algeria was subjected to a brutal and unfair system: colonisation. I acknowledge the suffering it caused," Hollande told the Algerian parliament on Thursday on the second and final day of a landmark visit to the North African country.
Contrairement aux informations distillées il y a quelques jours par des sources de presse selon lesquelles la Commission électorale nationale indépendante (CENI) va fixer dans les 48 heures, une date pour la tenue d’élections législatives et municipales, les faits semblent prouver le contraire.
Selon d’autres indications, ces scrutins, qui souffrent déjà d’un retard de plus d’un an par rapport à leur délai constitutionnel, ne pourront pas avoir lieu en 2013. Certains analystes tablent pour des élections générales en 2014.
The National Dialogue Committee (NDC) has completed its final list of nominations for the Shura Council and plans to present it to President Mohamed Morsy on Friday.
The NDC was formed by the president in an attempt to appease political forces who oppose the draft constitution, and to bridge differences across the parties in the future of the political process.
Leftists and pan-Arab parties agreed to run for the January 23 parliamentary elections under one national list, a leftist leader said on Wednesday.
“We will form the necessary coalitions with candidates at the national level, particularly those who adopt programmes similar to ours, but we will not have our own candidates to run in the local districts,” Abla Abu Olbeh, secretary general of the Jordanian Democratic People’s Party (Hashed), said.
Religious scholars on Wednesday asked people, political parties, civil society organisations and warring parties to participate in the next presidential and provincial council polls to ensure a just political system in the country.
Several observers have blamed existing legislation for encouraging political parties to rely on business tycoons to support their operational costs, saying such practices often lead to political transactions.
According to the Clean Indonesia Movement (GIB) chairman Adhie Massardi, several existing regulations had driven political parties to dishonestly exercise all possible means to solicit financial aid.
El presidente palestino, Mahmud Abbas, viajará este martes a Madrid para entrevistarse con el presidente del Gobierno, Mariano Rajoy, y agradecerle personalmente el apoyo de España a Palestina en la reciente votación en la Asamblea General de la ONU en la que recibió estatus de Estado observador no miembro, han informado a Europa Press fuentes diplomáticas palestinas.
| The head of Iran Presidency international affairs office reported of the cancellation of the president’s trip to Turkey due to preoccupations in job. | |
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Mohammad Reza Forghani, head of Iran Presidency international affairs office told news of the president’s revocation of his plan to travel to Turkey. Forghani counted the revocation due to engagement. |
Presque rétabli, le président mauritanien, Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, revient sur "l'accident" qui a failli lui coûter la vie et sur sa convalescence. Sans oublier ses relations avec l'opposition, qu'il souhaite voir plus responsable.
Egypt's new public prosecutor, appointed by President Mohamed Morsi last month, has resigned from his post, judicial sources and the main state newspaper al-Ahram reports.
The resignation of Public Prosecutor Talaat Ibrahim Abdallah on Monday follows a furore among members of the judiciary who said Morsi's decision in November to sack the former public prosecutor and appoint Abdallah was an assault on the independence of the judiciary.
Angry protesters have hurled rocks at the Tunisian president and parliamentary speaker in Sidi Bouzid, the cradle of the revolution that erupted in the north African country two years ago.
The incident began after a speech by President Moncef Marzouki in the central Tunisian town, where celebrations are taking place on Monday to mark the anniversary of the revolution.
Mustapha Ben Jaafar, the parliamentary speaker, was about to address the crowd when the violence began.
L’opération d’installation des APC qui devait prendre fin hier, semble avoir toutes les chances de maintenir les positions de classement des partis politiques sur la base de la proclamation des résultats du 30 novembre passé. Dans cette optique, le FLN qui compte garder sa position de première force politique en tendant de se maintenir à la présidence d’un millier d’APC, réunira demain lundi, son bureau politique pour évaluer la situation et agir en conséquence sur le terrain dans la mesure de nombreuses communes traditionnellement lui acquises ont changé de couleurs.
Le retour du président après sa convalescence suscite moins de commentaires sur un état de santé visiblement au top que sur ce qui va se passer dans quelques jours.
Les regards sont tournés vers la présidence où une forte présomption de remaniement du gouvernement en cette fin d’année alimente les rumeurs. L’absence de l’homme fort a, quoi qu’on dise, changé d’une façon ou d’une autre le climat de confiance entre le Rais et certains de ses hommes. Beaucoup de choses ont été dites et rapportées au président soit par ses proches ou par correspondances spéciales.
Yousry Hammad, official spokesman of the Salafist El-Nour Party, accused Sunday via his Facebook page the media and dissolved National Democratic Party of using all means to stop the forward momentum of Egypt.
The official Salafist spokesman said "it is no surprise that people were misled by liberal forces as the law does not stop them." He further accused liberals of "promoting lies" and "underestimating the minds of the citizens."
Liberal forces deliberately spread rumours about the constitution in order to undermine it, says Salafist spokesman
Hundreds of Islamist protesters gathered outside the High Constitutional Court (HCC) have prevented the head of the court, Judge Maher El-Beheiry, from entering the premises Sunday afternoon.
El-Beheiry contacted the police to report the incident but was still unable to enter the court.
Supporters of President Morsi camped at the High Constitutional Court since last week prevent Maher El-Beheiry from entering the premises
Kuwait’s ruler opened the country’s new parliament on Sunday in the face of months of street protests and political unrest, warning critics he would not accept lawless behavior and chaos on the streets.
Security forces had set up barriers that stopped several hundred opposition activists - a small crowd by Kuwaiti standards - approaching the building overnight to continue their demonstrations against what they see as a rubber-stamp assembly.
Voting has ended in the first round of the constitutional referendum in Egypt, with initial results indicating that supporters of the draft document have a narrow lead heading into the second round.
The early result of the poll is based on unofficial tallies that emerged on Sunday. Complete results are not due to be released until the second round of voting on December 22 in the remaining 17 provinces.
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said the party is seeking three more parliamentary and 10 extra state seats in Penisular Malaysia for the next general election.
Lim said Pakatan Rakyat partners PKR and PAS should agree to this if they recognised DAP's loyalty to the Opposition coalition.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Turkey on Dec. 17 upon an invitation from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, but the visit comes increased tension due to the two countries’ differences over Syria, as well as difficulties stemming from sanctions against Tehran.
