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Mali leader says Tuareg rebels 'ready for talks'

Agence France-PresseMay 17, 2013 07:15

Tuareg separatist rebels who held a chunk of Mali's vast north and still occupy the key town of Kidal are ready for talks to end the west African country's crisis, President Dioncounda Traore said Friday. Traore, who met French counterpart Francois Hollande at the Elysee presidential palace, also pledged that elections would be held on July 28 to replace his interim government. The Malian leader "repeated that the elections will be held on the scheduled date and that is our position as well," Hollande told journalists.

Austrian Social Democrats routed in Salzburg election

Agence France-PresseMay 5, 2013 15:30

Austria's Christian Democratic party on Sunday ousted the Social Democrats from power in early regional elections in Salzburg state following a financial scandal involving the outgoing government. According to first estimates, the Social Democrats' vote had crumbled to 24.1 percent compared with 39.4 percent in 2009, their worst-ever score in Salzburg. While the conservative party won enough votes to form the new government, it also lost ground, garnering 30.5 percent against 36.5 last time.

At least two shot dead in fresh Guinea violence

Agence France-PresseMay 3, 2013 17:37

At least more people were shot dead Friday in Conakry during fresh clashes between Guinean police and opposition protestors, a hospital source and an opposition official said. "Three of our supporters were shot dead Friday in Conakry," senior opposition official Cellou Dalein Diallo told AFP. A medic at a hospital in Conakry was able to confirm two deaths. bm/mrb/jmm

20 million Sahel Africans facing food crisis

Agence France-PresseApril 24, 2013 12:16

Twenty million people in the north African Sahel region are experiencing "serious" food shortages, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said Wednesday. IFRC president Tadateru Konoe told delegates from the "Sahel-Plus" group of societies across the band of nations bordering the southern Sahara desert that weak infrastructure and health systems were putting people at further risk.

Paraguay in facts and figures

Agence France-PresseApril 19, 2013 17:01

Paraguay, a small landlocked nation that is among Latin America's poorest and historically most turbulent, is set to elect a new president, vice president, 45 senators, 80 deputies and the governors of the country's 17 departments on Sunday. Here are some facts about the country: GEOGRAPHY: The country stretches across 406,752 square kilometers (157,048 square miles) of territory in the center of South America. Linked to the Atlantic Ocean by the Parana River, Paraguay borders Bolivia to the north, Brazil to the east and Argentina to the west. CAPITAL: Asuncion.

Righteous path yields development, reforms in Mindanao

AsianetApril 15, 2013 14:03

Traversing the righteous path made it possible for Mindanao to accomplish reforms and build major projects that now has started to benefit the people, President Benigno S.

Suicide bomber kills at least three Chadian soldiers in Mali

Agence France-PresseApril 12, 2013 10:15

A suicide bomber killed at least three Chadian soldiers in Mali Friday, military sources said, in a deadly demonstration of the troubled nation's ongoing security crisis days after France began withdrawing its troops. The soldiers were shopping in the northern city of Kidal when an Islamist bomber struck, according to Malian and Chadian sources who gave a provisional toll of three soldiers killed and four wounded.

Suicide bomber kills at least two Chadian soldiers in Mali

Agence France-PresseApril 12, 2013 09:00

A suicide bomber killed at least two Chadian soldiers in Mali Friday, military sources said, in a deadly demonstration of the troubled nation's ongoing security crisis days after France began withdrawing its troops. The soldiers were shopping in the northern city of Kidal when an Islamist bomber struck, according to Malian and Chadian sources who gave a provisional toll of two soldiers killed and four wounded. "The centre of Kidal is now sealed off. This is an Islamist attack against the Chadian troops," said one regional security source.

Two Chadian soldiers die in Mali suicide bombing: military sources

Agence France-PresseApril 12, 2013 08:31

At least two Chadian soldiers were killed Friday in a suicide bombing by an Islamist militant in the city of Kidal in northeastern Mali, regional military sources told AFP. "Two Chadian soldiers were killed in an attack Friday in Kidal. It was jihadists who did it. The death toll is provisional," said a Malian military source. A Chadian military source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said three Chadian soldiers had been killed and four wounded as they bought groceries in shops they usually used.

Whose future was determined in Baku: South Caucasus and Central Asia, or European economic area? ANALYSIS

AsianetApril 9, 2013 16:48

Vugar Masimoghlu; Azerbaijan hosted one more world-famous international event. The regional meeting of Davos Forum held in Baku can be considered one of the indicators of Azerbaijanâ€™s growing influence. The forum focused on the projects on economic development and development of unique economic strategy for the South Caucasus. I World Economic Forum Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the South Caucasus and Central Asia was attended by the representatives of more than 300 world leading political and economic circles, financial institutions and civil societies.