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After eight years, Somalia closer to a constitution
Somalia’s constituent assembly on Wednesday endorsed a draft constitution billed as a key step to ending decades of civil war during a vote two suicide bombers failed to scupper. The Horn of Africa country’s outgoing government hailed the end of an eight-year interim period but the UN warned that the…
Libya to postpone June election
Elections for a constituent assembly, originally set to be held by June 19 as Libya’s first such vote for four decades, are to be postponed, electoral commission members said on Saturday. One commission member, on condition of anonymity, said the postponement until July or later had been decided for logistical…
Libya says 330,000 voters register for June poll
TRIPOLI — The chief of Libya’s election commission said on Sunday that 330,000 people have so far registered as voters to elect the nation’s first constituent assembly in June. “The number of voters registered by yesterday (Saturday) evening is 330,000,” Nuri al-Abbar told a news conference in Tripoli. Abbar said…
UN warns on weapons as Libya elects new PM
Libya’s new prime minister pledged his interim government would set respect for human rights as its priority, as the UN warned against the proliferation of arms looted from Moamer Kadhafi’s huge stockpile. Abdel Rahim al-Keib, an academic and wealthy businessman who is a native of Tripoli, was elected interim prime minister in a public vote…
Tunisia’s Democratic Party hopes for poll win
TUNIS — Tunisia’s Progressive Democratic Party (PDP) leader hopes it will upstage the Islamist Ennahda, which he accused of pushing an “ideological state” agenda, in polls next month. “Today in Tunisia, there are 100 parties, but two main streams: the Islamists of Ennahda and the democratic stream that includes the…
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