[Al Ahram] Two Afghan military officials were locked away Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for 20 years after a two-year trial for sharing state secrets with Pakistain, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
The sentence highlights a long-standing belief between Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistain that the other country does not adequately prevent cross-border myrmidon attacks.
Shah Mohammad and Nazirullah were placed in durance vile Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! in 2016 after travelling to Pakistain to hand over information to Pakistain's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) agency. They pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." but eventually "confessed to their crime" before the military court in the eastern city of Jalalabad, officials said.
"Each of them has been sentenced to 20 years in prison by the primary court," said Najiburrahman Nadim, a military prosecutor.
Nadim said the accused had shared secret information about attacks and kabooms.
Afghanistan’s Western-backed government has long accused Pakistain of harbouring Afghan Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... krazed killers, a charge that Islamabad denies.
Islamabad, in turn, accuses Afghanistan of not doing enough to eradicate Pak Talibs, many of whom are based in Afghanistan and mostly carry out attacks inside Pakistain.
A defence lawyer representing the two army officials rejected the court's verdict, which was delivered on Tuesday.
"My clients were beaten during the investigations and they were forced to confess. We don't accept the decision and we will appeal," said Toryalai Muqanen.
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[All Africa] Authorities in Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... are appealing for calm after hundreds of youths marched through the streets of Yaounde, celebrating what they called the victory of their candidate, Maurice Kamtos, in Sunday's presidential election. No results have been released yet from the election, in which eight candidates challenged longtime President Paul Biya.
Hundreds of young people demonstrating in the streets of the capital sing songs urging President Paul Biya to step down. They sing that they believe their candidate, Maurice Kamto of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement Party, won Sunday's presidential election.
The demonstration began after Kamto declared victory in the polls, without giving any election results.
The ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement organized a news briefing that was broadcast live on state TV to counter the declaration made by Kamto.
Party Central Committee Secretary-General Jean Nkuete said Kamto exploited the naivete of the youths and sent them into the streets in an effort to win power at all costs.
Nkuete accused Kamto of breaking the law by announcing that he won the election.
"We express our surprise, our indignation and worry in the face of such irresponsible declaration that has no foundation. They are doing this in a bid to cause an uprising of the population to defend an imaginary victory," he said.
Kamto is not the only candidate claiming victory. Cabral Libii of the opposition Universe Party announced he is leading the vote count.
Opposition candidate Garga Haman of the Alliance for Democracy and Development says two candidates want to create social unrest to oust President Paul Biya, who has led Cameroon for 36 years.
"Those two candidates are in a hurry to go to Etoudi [to be president]. Not yet my dear friends, not yet. Let us wait for the decision of the constitutional council. There is no reason to go on to the streets. Do not exploit the mentality of the youths," he said.
Cameroon's electoral code states election results are proclaimed by the Constitutional Council 15 days after the polls. It forbids the early publication of results.
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[All Africa] The National Humanitarian Development Report 2018, themed 'Achieving Human Development in North East Nigeria" notes the most effective way to deal with potential humanitarian and development crises is to "prevent them from occurring in the first place".
Launched by United Nations ...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... Development Programme and the Nigerian government, the report proposed that the root causes of the crisis should be addressed conclusively, rather than glossed over.
It recommends that "potential crisis triggers" and their root causes be tackled.
The "incessant and frequent farmers-herders conflict and associated violence and loss of lives in north central region of the country is one such "potential trigger" that should be conclusively addressed to halt any possible slide into a crisis situation, the report noted.
In addition, the report recommends a policy to delink state from religion and a bold encouragement of social justice on the basis of human equality rather than religious inclination or faith.
It says the coupling of state and religion tends to play "right into the hands of the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... ideology that disparages Western education and blames it for all and any governmental shortcomings."
The report also calls for strengthening rule of law and promoting peace building.
"ABIDING INFLUENCE"
Overall, the report, focusing on Yobe, Adamawa and Borno, the three worst-affected states, underlies poverty, disenchantment as having playing into the historical and socio-cultural factors that facilitated the rise of Boko Haram.
Politics, religious ideology and governance deficit are also factors.
It cites the "abiding influence" of the Jihad associated with Usman Dan Fodio as a major factor accounting for the rise of Boko Haram.
Across the region, polygamous orientation of local populations led to phenomenal increase in population of especially young people that could not be properly catered for.
The huge population of idle and unemployed youth encouraged almajiri, which meant children are sent to distant places away from their biological parents in order to pursue Koranic education.
"This is a fodder that has partly fuelled the crisis, especially given that the almajiris live in extremely appalling conditions and hence spend their time begging for alms or else are readily available for recruitment into bad boy organistions such as the Boko Haram," the report notes.
OLD CASE
It is not the first time such recommendations have been made in attempts to get the humanitarian situation in the wake of the crisis under control.
But this is the first in three years it has been documented since international agencies began making similar recommendations.
Three years on, the report is expected to chart a new course.
"Three years ago, the forces of Evil controlled large parts of the north east; they don't anymore," the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock told Daily Trust.
"Three years ago, eight million people were at the risk of famine; that's not the case anymore. There is a serious food security problem but it affects much small number of people.
Nearly two million people displaced have been able to go home. So we see progress in stabilizing the humanitarian situation. We also see a bad continuing situation but know because of the progress we have made, further progress is possible.
"We also know we need to address the underlying reasons why the insurgency was able to take hold, and that relates to the need to improve governance, provide opportunities, create jobs, provide education, health services and rebuild in the minds of the people of the north east the hope that the human spirit brings with it--the hope for a better future for themselves and their children."
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[Al Ahram] The woman who led the global campaign to free Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... turbans is now running for president, saying she is fighting for "the soul" of Africa’s most populous nation.
Oby Ezekwesili is the most prominent woman to seek the presidency in Nigeria, where politics, as in many African nations, have long been dominated by men.
A former World Bank vice president, Ezekwesili also co-founded Transparency International, one of the world’s leading organizations against corruption ‐ a widespread problem in oil-rich Nigeria.
But she is perhaps most well-known for her vocal work in turning the world’s attention to Boko Haram’s Islamic Lion of Islam insurgency and its abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls from the community of Chibok in 2014.
The #BringBackOurGirls movement, supported by former U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and others, put relentless pressure on Nigeria’s government to free the students.
Police broke up some of the campaign’s protests with violence. Finally, after a breakthrough in negotiations ‐ and, reportedly, millions of dollars paid to Boko Haram ‐ scores of the girls were freed last year.
President Muhammadu Buhari, who promised to fight both Boko Haram and corruption when he took office in 2015, met with the freed schoolgirls while his government claimed a victory.
More than 100 of the Chibok schoolgirls have never returned, however, and a similar mass abduction occurred earlier this year in the community of Dapchi.
Almost all of those schoolgirls have been released, but the kidnapping exposed Nigeria’s difficulties in defeating the Lion of Islams.
Now Ezekwesili is challenging the 75-year-old Buhari on his campaign vows, drawing on personal experience on both fronts ahead of the February 2019 election.
A major challenge is the attitude toward female candidates in Nigeria, where many say women are fit only for the kitchen.
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#BringBackOurGirls activist runs for Nigeria’s presidency
You mean #Michellebeleavin?
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... sent the U.S. authorities a grave warning regarding the Kurdish-led YPG’s increased military activity around the city of Manbij in northeastern Aleppo.
Citing Turkey’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, the Daily Sabah reported that Ankara has reached out to Washington regarding this violation in Manbij.
"The terror group must know that when the time and place comes, it will be buried in the trenches it has dug," Akar told the Anadolu Agency.
Akar claimed that the YPG has been digging trenches and building up their forces around Manbij, which is a violation of the U.S.-Ottoman Turkish agreement from June.
Over the last two weeks, the Ottoman Turkish military has been complaining about the increased YPG presence in Manbij, prompting them to reinforce the area in preparation for a new operation.
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"You been killing Kurds. We don't control 'em. What are ya gonna do?"
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[APNEWS] Two Gulfstream jets carrying 15 Saudis landed at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport before dawn on the day last week that journalist Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi Consulate and vanished. The men checked into hotels and left The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... later that night.
Ottoman Turkish media, which released surveillance camera video of the men on Wednesday, said they were members of an elite Saudi "liquidation squad," sent to kill Khashoggi, a Saudi critic.
Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... remained silent at the accusation as the images were seen around the world, raising pressure on the kingdom to explain what happened to the writer, a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... .
Adding to the macabre mystery, a Ottoman Turkish official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that one member of the team was an "autopsy expert."
Saudi Arabia has dismissed allegations it played a role in Khashoggi’s disappearance as "baseless," but it has offered no evidence to support its contention he left the consulate unharmed last week and vanished into Istanbul while his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, waited outside.
The video, shown on the state-run broadcaster TRT and others, did not offer definitive proof about Khashoggi’s fate. Ottoman Turkish officials have said that they fear the team killed him.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this afternoon that the Russian-Ottoman Turkish agreement on Idlib is currently being fulfilled.
"The Russian-Ottoman Turkish agreement on Idlib is being fulfilled," Lavrov said.
Lavrov continued that the withdrawal of all murderous Moslems is a gradual process; however, they have already begun leaving the demilitarized zone.
The Russian Foreign Minister’s comments come just days after the Ottoman Turkish regime announced that the rebel forces were removing their heavy weapons from the demilitarized zone.
Despite the claims regarding the withdrawal of these rebel groups, the Ottoman Turkish-backed National Liberation Front (NLF) continues to launch attacks against the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) from this demilitarized zone.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The legal team of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran moved to reject US objections in its preliminary statements at a hearing regarding Iran’s frozen assets, which was held at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Wednesday.
Speaking of provisional measures imposed by the US on Iranian entities and companies, specifically its Central Bank [Bank Markazi], Iran’s lawyer Mohsen Mohebi said "the case we discussed this week does not concern the so-called nuclear-related sanctions."
"It is related to the treatment by different branches of the United States government through a range of legislative, executive, and in particular judicial measures," he added.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
[Al Ahram] The woman who led the global campaign to free Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by 
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
