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Syria - Assad warns against sowing chaos in Syria

Countries that “sow chaos” in Syria could suffer from it themselves, President Bashar al-Assad has said in an interview shown on Russian television.
Assad is facing an increasingly militarised uprising, which has claimed thousands of lives across the country since it erupted in March last year.

“For the leaders of these countries, it`s becoming clear that this is not `Spring` but chaos, and as I have said, if you sow chaos in Syria you may be infected by it yourself, and they understand this perfectly well,” Assad said in the interview, broadcast on Rossiya-24 TV on Wednesday, referring to the so-called Arab Spring that toppled other long-time rulers.
He again denounced the armed opposition as a gang of “criminals” who he said contained religious extremists including members of al-Qaeda.
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UN - Taylor `sympathy` for Sierra Leone victims

Charles Taylor, the former Liberian president found guilty of perpetrating war crimes in neighbouring Sierra Leone, has accused prosecutors of paying and intimidating witnesses as a UN court heard arguments before his sentence hearing in two weeks.
“Witnesses were paid, coerced and in many cases threatened with prosecution if they did not give statements,” Taylor told the special court at The Hague for war crimes committed during Sierra Leone`s civil war.

“I express my sadness and sympathy for crimes suffered by individuals and families in Sierra Leone,” said Taylor, speaking before his scheduled sentencing on May 30.
Seeking leniency, Taylor, who was convicted last month of 11 counts of war crimes including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers, said he did not condone impunity in any form.
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Nigeria - 2015: ACN joins Buhari’s CPC to attack Presidency

By Gbenga Omokhunu, Abuja
MORE missiles were fired yesterday in the Presidency-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari battle.
Two leading opposition parties queued up behind the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) presidential candidate in last year’s election in his scathing attack on the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan administration and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Buhari had warned of dire consequences, should the PDP rig the 2015 elections “the way it did in 2011”.

But the Presidency and the PDP fired back at him. The PDP described Gen. Buhari as “blood thirsty”. The Presidency said he is “a sectional leader” and “a serial loser” always encouraging violence.
Yesterday, the CPC and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) rose in defence of Buhari.
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Ghana - Kufuor, Konadu laud Duncan-Williams Foundation

A former President of Ghana, John Agyekum Kufuor, has appealed to Ghanaians to support any well-meaning project aimed at improving the livelihood of the people.
He emphasised that it is only through some of these initiatives that people’s lives would be impacted positively.
Ex-President Kufuor made the appeal when he launched the Duncan-Williams Foundation in Accra. The aim of the foundation is to improve the lives of the under-privileged and the needy, mostly in rural communities.

Launching the project, Ex-President Kufuor urged Ghanaians to throw their weights behind people who take up such initiatives like Arch-Bishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams and many others who, one way or the other have touched the lives of individuals and society as a whole. He said such initiative can only survive if Ghanaians will support it whole-heartedly.
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Uganda - Defamation: Mbabazi sues Monitor for sh5b

By Vision Reporter
The Prime Minister, Amama Mbabazi has threatened to drag the Monitor publications and its top management to court over alleged defamation and also demanded sh5b compensation in damages.
In a notice of intention to sue addressed to the Editor of Monitor newspaper, Mbabazi\'s lawyers Mugisha and Co. Advocates, also asked for an apology prominently published on the front page like the “malicious” article which reportedly projected their client as “a criminal who engages in fraud” and not worth to be “trusted with public resources.”

The Daily Monitor on May 7, 2012 published a lead story titled: \"Police quiz Mbabazi over NRM party cash money problems.\" Mbabazi later dismissed the report as false and said he was consulting his lawyers on what remedy to seek.
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Greece - Greece swears in caretaker prime minister

A senior judge has been sworn in as Greece`s caretaker prime minister with the sole task of holding new elections on June 17.
Wednesday`s development followed an inconclusive general election on May 6 which delivered a strong anti-austerity message and raised fears of a Greek eurozone exit.

Panagiotis Pikrammenos, the 67-year-old head of the Hellenic Supreme Administrative Court, will name his cabinet on Thursday, when the new parliament is also scheduled to convene.
Reports said that a veteran diplomat, Petros Molyviatis, would return to head the foreign ministry after a prior stint in 2004-2006, while the outgoing interior minister, Tassos Yianitsis, would take over as finance minister.
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Zambia - Don`t be Intimidated, Sata tells Chikopa

PRESIDENT Michael Sata yesterday urged Malawian judge Lovemore Chikopa and his members not to get intimidated as they carry out the work of the tribunal.
And the Law Association of Zambia (LAZ) says it expects the tribunal to proceed expertly, expeditiously and exhibit fairness in its proceedings.
Swearing in judge Chikopa , two other judges and their secretary at State House, President Sata said the Zambian Constitution recognised both the High Court and the Supreme Court judges.

President Sata has suspended Supreme Court judge Philip Musonda and High Court judges Nigel Mutuna and Charles Kajimanga over their conduct in a civil case involving the Development Bank of Zambia as complaint and The Post Newspapers Limited, Mutembo Nchito and JNC Holdings Limited as defendants. President Sata has consequently set up a tribunal to be led by judge Chikopa to investigate the alleged misconduct of the three judges.
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UN - Ratko Mladic goes on trial for genocide

The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special UN court at The Hague in the Netherlands.
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia made their opening statements against Mladic on Wednesday almost a year after his arrest in Serbia and subsequent deportation after years on the run.

Mladic is accused of 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including orchestrating the week-long massacre of over 7,000 Muslim boys and men at Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian war.
Prosecutor Dermot Groome said the prosecution would present evidence showing “beyond a reasonable doubt the hand of Mr. Mladic in each of these crimes”.
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Canada - `Food insecure` Canada rebukes UN official

Stung by a UN official`s criticism of the country for allowing some of its people to go hungry, Canada has dismissed him as a “patronizing academic” and said there are more pressing food concerns in other countries.
“Canada has long been seen as a land of plenty. Yet today one in 10 families with a child under six is unable to meet their daily food needs,” Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said in a statement on Wednesday.

“These rates of food insecurity are unacceptable, and it is time for Canada to adopt a national right to food strategy.”
He said 800,000 households in the country are “food insecure”. Canada has a population of 34 million.
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Nigeria - Naira falls to two-month low on dollar demand

Naira fell to its lowest level in two months against the U.S dollar on the interbank market yesterday, on strong dollar demand from investors repatriating their dividends abroad, traders said. The naira closed at 158.90 to the dollar on the interbank market, the lowest since the middle of February, compared with the 158.03 naira it closed at on Tuesday, according to Reuters.
“The market was hit by large demand for the dollar with which it could not cope with due to lack of dollar flow, putting pressure on the naira,” one dealer said.

Dealers said several foreign investors are taking profit on their investments, increasing pressure on the local currency.
The naira had traded around the 157.10-157.90 naira to the dollar band for the better part of the last two months on the impact of dollar sales by oil companies and offshore investors who are investing in Nigeria’s short-dated debt notes.
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