Sunday, September 5, 2010
Spain: Armed basque separatist group Eta declared ceasefire
Armed Basque separatist group Eta says it will not “carry out armed actions” in its campaign for independence.
In a video obtained exclusively by the BBC, the group said it took the decision several months ago “to put in motion a democratic process”.
The Spanish government has not responded. In the past it has said it will only negotiate with Eta if it renounces violence and disarms.
Eta’s violent campaign has led to more than 820 deaths over the past 40 years.
It has called two ceasefires in the past, but abandoned them both.
Under pressure
It is unclear whether Eta is declaring a permanent or temporary ceasefire.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Western Sahara: Polisario Front condemns brutal oppression against defenseless Sahrawi citizens
The Polisario Front expressed Monday condemnation of Moroccan new brutal repression against dozens of unarmed Sahrawi citizens, including activists of human rights, simply because peacefully demanding their right to self-determination and independence.
The Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, president of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has called, in a letter to Mr. Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary general, to “take an urgent action to ensure the protection of human rights in the occupied Western Sahara, including an effective UN mechanism for this purpose.”
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Somaliland: A radical change?
Although the international media has under-reported it, the world has recently witnessed a major event in the Horn of Africa - a free, fair and generally peaceful election in Somaliland.
On July 2, Isse Yusuf Mohamud, the chairman of Somaliland’s election commission, announced that Ahmed Mohamud Silanyo, the leader of the opposition Kulmiye Party, won the presidential election with 49.59 per cent of the 538,246 votes cast. The incumbent president, Dahir Riyale Kahin, came a distant second with 33.23 per cent of the votes.
International observers declared the election “free and fair” and praised the conduct of political actors and stakeholders involved in the election campaign.
Even more significantly, unlike many leaders in the region, Kahin embraced the popular verdict and accepted defeat gracefully.
A peaceful transfer of power is now underway.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Ingushetia: Reportage in republic at border with Chechnya prey of civil war
Plastic guns and shouting: two children with short hair chase one another among the cheeses of ricotta of bazaar in Nazran, Russian Republic of Ingushetia.
They play at cops and robbers that here is in «menty and waha», «cops and islamists». The problem for Moscow is that «goods» of play are the «waha», or wahabiti, islamic foundamentalists.
It’s not yet Afghanistan, but Ingushetia is already a Russia talibanization. Vladimir Putin commands during the day, Dokku Umarov, Emire of North Caucasus, during the night.
Moscow patrols go fast, spies of clandestine Emirate watch every movement.
I «governments» live under siege, like in a occupation land. Also first city, Nazran, is changing face like is happened in Bagdad during faida between shiites and sunnis: there are districts pro-russia and others pro-islamics.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Kosovo: Serb provocations in northern Mitrovica cause 1 dead and 9 wounded
At least one grenade has exploded in northern Mitrovica after a crowd of several hundred local Serbs gathered to march towards a Republic of Kosovo newly established civil registration center at the Albanian and Bosniak-inhabited Bosniak neighbhorood.
According to media reports, one person has died from the explosion, one has recieved life-threatening injuries while nine others light injuries.
It is believed the grenade was thrown from within the crowd into a manhole. The explosion was followed by gunshots from armed Serb groups.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Catalonia: One milion on streets……Independence from Spain
According newspaper El Pais has been biggest demonstration of democratic history of Catalonia.
The verdict of yesterday of Costitutional Spain Court has pushed mor than one milion of catalonians to the streets in Barcelona demonstrating for autonomy of own Country.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Democratic Republic of the Congo: Mineral rich Province of Katanga dreams of independence
A subsoil endowed with riches; a metropolis with controlled development; a distinctive identity maintained by its political elite; and a secessionist heritage …The most opulent province of the country cultivates its difference without complex.
Welcome to Kamalondo, the popular residential area of Lubumbashi, Katanga`s provincial headquarters. Here, life goes on quietly, peacefully, like maize that sway in the breeze on plots of land, orderly like shacks aligned in laterite streets. Sitting in garland in the talus, young women place their odds and ends on the floor.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Somaliland votes under tight security
The self-proclaimed state of Somaliland closed its borders Saturday as voters chose their president amid fears Islamists from neighbouring Somalia could try to disrupt the polls.
The northern territory has been more stable than Somalia since it broke away in 1991 but a message warning voters to stay home by the leader of the Al-Qaeda-inspired Shebab movement drew draconian security measures.
“All our country’s forces are locking the borders. Movements and transport inside Somaliland are also forbidden except for those authorised by the national election commission (NEC),” police chief Mohamed Saqadi Dubad said.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Somaliland: Citizens will vote for the second time in 8 years, al-Shabab islamic fighters have threatened voters
Somalia’s Al Qaeda-inspired Shabab warned voters in the northern self-proclaimed state of Somaliland not to vote in the presidential elections, in an audio message obtained by AFP Friday.
“Those who take part in those so-called elections will face the consequences,” Ahmed Abdi Godane, the overall leader of the al-Shabab group, said in the message released ahead of Somaliland’s Saturday polls.
Godane, also known as “Abu Zubayr” and a native of the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, said the elections were organised by the anti-Islamic forces in Somalia.
Somaliland’s presidential polls, which were delayed three times since 2008, are due to go ahead on Saturday, 50 years to the day after the territory obtained its independence from Britain.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Chechnya: dictatorship sleek, dirty Grozny doesn’t exist more, but the hell is behind the facade
Anna Politkovskaya was killed in her condominium in Moscow on October 7 2006. In her computer had another article against Ramzan Kadyroy, man that today is president of Chechnya.
For seven years the journalist wrote about this little republic of Russia Federation such as a black hole of conscience, where rapes, tortures and massacres were normal for soldiers and militias.
«A place - sustained - where many can do what they want and others have to accept it. Russia continues to permit that exist a place of country where civils rights don’t exist. It is a very risky choice» («A little corner of hell», Rizzoli 2008). Four years have passed since her death. Chechnya is still that «place»?
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Kosovo: Somalia recognizes officially Kosovo independence
Republic of Somalia has recognized today, on May 19, officially the Republic of Kosovo as and independent and sovereign state said in a statement the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Kosovo.
In a diplomatic note addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Somalia confirms the decision of the Government of the Republic of Somalia to recognize Kosovo as an independent and sovereign state.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Kosovo: Djibouti recognizes officially Kosovo independence
The Ambassador of the Republic of Djibouti in Paris has informed the Embassy of the Republic of Kosovo in Paris, through a diplomatic note, that the Government of Djibouti has recognized Kosovo as an independent state.
In the letter signed by the Foreign Minister of Djibouti, Mahmud All Youssouf, it states, amongst other comments, that, “The Government of the Republic of Djibouti has decided to recognize Kosovo’s independence”.
