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Last October, seven prisoners in Iran escaped a near-certain death sentence.
Emirates Group Security recently hosted 11 aviation professionals from the Nigerian presidential fleet for a three-day Aviation Security Training (AVSEC) course in Dubai.
The Head of the Federal Government medical team to the 2009 Hajj, Dr Ibrahim Kana, has confirmed that 11 Nigerian pilgrims have died in Saudi Arabia.
UN Envoy, Ellen Margrethe Løj has commended Jordanian police peacekeepers for their role in consolidating peace throughout Liberia. In remarks made during a medal award ceremony early this week, Ms. Løj acknowledged their support to the Liberia National Police and noted that their "efforts to curb crime and public disorder, play an important part in maintaining peace and stability."
As part of developing the Tunisian-Jordanian cooperation, a Tunisian businessmen mission led by Mr. Mounir Mouakhar, President of the Tunisian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI) is visiting Amman, Jordan from November 16 to 18, 2009.
The top United Nations-African Union official for Darfur has highlighted the role of civil society groups in the search for a solution to the strife that has plagued the Sudanese region, encouraging their full participation in the peace talks that resumed in Doha today.
United Nations-backed mediation talks aimed at bringing peace to the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur will resume tomorrow in Doha, Qatar, the world body announced today.
On Morocco's celebration of Independence Day, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali sent a message to congratulate king Mohamed VI, hailing the comprehensive development the brotherly state of Morocco is living through under the wise leadership of the King.
On the National Day of the Sultanate of Oman, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali sent a message to congratulate Sultan Qabus Ben Said.
A Lagos pilgrim,currently in Mecca,Saudi Arabia, for this year's Hajj has been arrested by the Saudi police for being in possession of fake $22, 000 (N3.3 million) from which he had been spending.
The first batch of 400 out of the 20,000 Christian pilgrims have arrived in Israel for this year's Christian pilgrimage.
The federal government has set up a special monitoring on the 2009 Hajj Muslim airlift to Saudi Arabia to stave off any hitch in the process.
"On 20 August 2009, off the Italian island of Lampedusa, the Italian coastguard rescued five of the remaining 78 Eritrean passengers aboard a rickety boat set sail from the Libyan capital, Tripoli. While a number of European sailing vessels had passed their boat in the three weeks it had spent at sea, only one stopped to give them life jackets, bread and water. But it soon went on its way ... ...
The Botswana Telecommunications Corporation (BTC) says the upgrading of its nationwide wireless backbone and the backhaul network of its mobile subsidiary be Mobile by Ceragon Network is ongoing after the Israeli company was awarded a $1.5 million (P9.96 million) contract earlier this year.
UGANDA plans to export 50,000 security guards to the United Arab Emirates in the coming year, the labour minister has said.
His Excellency Gideon Behar, the ambassador extra-ordinary plenipotentiary of the Republic of Israel based in Dakar (Senegal) who is also overseeing The Gambia, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau, has expressed optimism that the bilateral relationship between The Gambia and Israel will yield meaningful gains as the relationship continues.
Why should anyone care about Fatah's fate? The 50-year-old movement, once the beating heart of Palestinian nationalism, is past its prime, its capacity to mobilise withered. Racked by internal divisions, it lost the latest and only truly competitive election in Palestinian Authority (PA) history.
Thousands of Palestinians turned out Wednesday for a rally here on the fifth anniversary of the death of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and to show support for his successor, President Mahmoud Abbas, who recently expressed an intention to retire.
It's already well over a decade-and-a-half since two great men on opposite sides of the conflict in the troubled Middle East region signed an historic agreement in the Norwegian capital Oslo, with one side, namely the Israelis, offering up chunks of occupied land in exchange for peace from the other side, namely the Palestinians and Arabs.
His Excellency Gideon Behar, the ambassador extra-ordinary plenipotentiary of the Republic of Israel based in Dakar (Senegal) who is also overseeing The Gambia, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau, has expressed optimism that the bilateral relationship between The Gambia and Israel will yield meaningful gains as the relationship continues.
Tunisia took part in the 25th session of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) and the COMCEC Economic Summit, held from November 5 to 9, 2009, in Istanbul, Turkey.
Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande has signed an agreement of cooperation with visiting Syrian Minister of Higher Education Dr Ghias Barakat.
The Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Abuja has said it is not responsible for any delay in the airlifting of Muslim pilgrims from Nasarawa State as alleged.
The National Library of South Africa and the Iranian National Library have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the relations that already exist between these two national institutes.
The coastal town of Hammamet is hosting these days the 7th international congress of "life, religion and death in the Phoenician and Punic world".
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