Tag Archives: Al-Jazeera

Ethiopia ‘blocks’ Al Jazeera websites

March 18, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Traffic to English and Arabic websites has plummeted since the network aired coverage of protests in August last year. Google Analytics shows the English website’s traffic declined from 50,000 hits in July 2012 to 117 in September Al Jazeera’s English … read more »

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Eritrea’s president Isaias Afewerki breaks silence over army mutiny incident

February 11, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki on Friday spoke for first time about last month’s mutiny incident in Asmara after remaining silent for three weeks. On 21 January around 200 mutinous soldiers with two tanks stormed the information ministry and forced the … read more »

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Ethiopia: The Irresponsibility of the Privileged? By Alemayehu G. Mariam

January 21, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Recently, Naom Chomsky, MIT Professor of Linguistics and arguably America’s foremost public intellectual, gave an interview to Al Jazeera on the social (ir)responsibility of American academics and intellectuals. Chomsky, 84, has been raising hell for over four decades, getting into … read more »

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Former hostages recount ordeal at Algerian gas plant

January 21, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

They hid in false ceilings and beneath beds. They blocked doors with furniture. They waited as hours turned into terrifying days, echoing with the sounds of gunfire and mortars. They were unarmed, unable to defend themselves. Many were captured. Some … read more »

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Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Says No Change of Policy On Eritrea

January 2, 2013 by IndepthAfrica

Prime Minister Hailemariam  on January 1st, 2013 responded to questions raised by MPs’ in a special Parliamentary question and answer session. Questions covered a wide variety of subjects including the performance of the Growth and Transformation Plan, transport problems in … read more »

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Ethiopia’s persistence for peace and Eritrea’s belligerence

December 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

By Sani Awol Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegne’s recent statement during an interview on Al-Jazeera that he would go even to Asmara in search for a lasting peace was reported as a new event by the international media and pundits with … read more »

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Who is a true or real Muslim?

December 21, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

An excerpt from Dabashi’s book ‘Being a Muslim in the World’ dismisses the Western narrative of the ‘Muslim’. It is a false to say that voting for Morsi is voting “yes” to Islam, as most Egyptians themselves are Muslims [EPA] … read more »

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Sudan plane crash kills up to 31, minister

August 19, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Up to 31 people including at least one Sudanese minister were killed when a plane taking them to an Islamic festival crashed in the south of the country, an official and state media said on Sunday. The plane went down … read more »

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What Killed Arafat? As Arafat’s Widow Calls to Exhume his Body

July 5, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

(RAMALLAH, Palestine) – It was a scene that riveted the world for weeks: The ailing Yasser Arafat, first besieged by Israeli tanks in his Ramallah compound, then shuttled to Paris, where he spent his final days undergoing a barrage of … read more »

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Mali coup leaders agreed to step down

April 6, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

West African states and military junta reportedly agree deal in which president and coup leader will both stand aside. Representatives of West African states and the military junta which seized power in Mali are reported to have reached a deal in which the country’s president and … read more »

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Toulouse Gunman Sent Killings Footage To News Channel

March 27, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Mohammed Merah, who shot seven people in France before being killed after a 30-hour police siege, sent video footage of his attacks to Al Jazeera in Paris. The TV news network received a computer memory drive containing a montage of … read more »

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Election anger mounts in Senegal

February 21, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

New round of protests called against Abdoulaye Wade’s controversial move to seek third term of office in Sunday’s vote. Senegalese are continuing their protests against incumbent president Abdoulaye Wade’s decision to seek a third term in office, erecting barricades and … read more »

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Egypt gets jail hospital ready for Mubarak

February 5, 2012 by IndepthAfrica

Cairo – Egypt’s interior minister has ordered Cairo’s Tora prison hospital to make preparations to receive former President Hosni Mubarak, who has till now been held in a military hospital while he has been standing trial, Al Jazeera television said … read more »

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Qatar accused of arming Libyan Islamists

November 18, 2011 by benim

Tangier – Libya’s United Nations envoy Mohammed Abdel Rahman Shalgam accused Qatar on Friday of providing weapons and money to Libyan Islamists and told the fellow Arab state to stop meddling in Tripoli’s domestic affairs. “There are facts on the … read more »

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Libyan Rebel announces executive shakeup

October 3, 2011 by benim

Benghazi – Libya’s new rulers on Monday announced a shakeup of their executive, pending the liberation of the entire country from forces loyal to ex-leader Muammar Gaddafi. The new line-up would be announced in the coming days, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, … read more »

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Gaddafi kept photos of ‘darling’ Rice

August 26, 2011 by benim

Tripoli – Libyan rebels who took control of Muammar Gaddafi’s sprawling compound made a surprising discovery in one of the buildings: a photo album with pictures of Condoleezza Rice. Although the discovery may not be that surprising, over the years … read more »

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Video – Rebels take Gaddafi’s famous golf cart

August 24, 2011 by benim

After Muammar Gaddafi’s compound was overrun Libyan rebels paraded through Tripoli with Gaddafi’s famous golf cart.

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Gaddafi pledges ‘martyrdom or death’

August 24, 2011 by benim

Cairo – Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi pledged “martyrdom or death” after rebels captured his compound in the capital, media reports said on Wednesday. A Tripoli radio station quoted Gaddafi as saying he abandoned the Bab al-Azizya compound as “tactical … read more »

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Uganda president: sorry for inauguration stoning

May 17, 2011 by benim

KAMPALA, Uganda – Uganda’s president on Tuesday apologized to foreign leaders whose vehicles were targeted with stones while driving through Kampala during last week’s presidential inauguration and said the actions brought shame to the East African country. President Yoweri Museveni … read more »

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Vanity Fair journalist killed in Misrata

April 20, 2011 by benim

Award-winning news photographer Tim Hetherington of US magazine Vanity Fair was killed by mortar fire on Wednesday in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, and three colleagues wounded, an AFP journalist learned at the local hospital. Vanity Fair, a politics … read more »

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Six killed after rebels say Gaddafi forces bombard Misrata

April 17, 2011 by benim

Libyan rebels said Muammar Gaddafi’s forces shelled Misrata on Sunday, killing six people, and evacuees said conditions inside the besieged Libyan city were becoming increasingly desperate. A rebel spokesman, Abdel Basset Mezerik, told Al Jazeera television that at least 47 … read more »

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Egypt army denies Mubarak gone

April 4, 2011 by benim

Cairo – Egypt’s military council denied on Sunday a report carried by Al Jazeera television channel that former President Hosni Mubarak had left the country for Germany. Asked whether Mubarak had left Egypt, a source from the military council told … read more »

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Libya’s foreign minister defects, arrives in Britain

March 31, 2011 by benim

Libyan Foreign Minister Moussa Koussa, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s closest advisers and a former spy chief, defected and flew to Britain on Wednesday in protest at attacks by Gaddafi forces on civilians, a friend said. A British government source described … read more »

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Sudan, Egypt, Libya, and Back Again: Witness to the Revolution

March 18, 2011 by benim

My father came back from the supermarket armed with bags full of pasta, rice, flour, and canned products. He rushed there after hearing about protests in Benghazi. This was in mid-February, and the world was not yet aware of the … read more »

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Squatters hit Gaddafi son’s £11m mansion in UK

March 10, 2011 by benim

The uprising in Libya has reached a genteel residential street in Britain after squatters occupied a £10million house belonging to Colonel Gaddafi’s son. A group calling themselves ‘Topple the Tyrants’ said they had taken over the palatial neo-Georgian townhouse belonging … read more »

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Gaddafi offered talks on quitting – rebels

March 8, 2011 by benim

Benghazi – A Muammar Gaddafi envoy offered to hold talks on the Libyan leader’s exit but the rebel National Libyan Council rejected negotiations with a leader they do not trust, a rebel spokesperson said on Tuesday. Arab media had reported … read more »

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PA: Al-Jazeera has declared war on Palestinians

January 23, 2011 by benim

Erekat: This is part of campaign targeting PA, Abbas refused to make far-reaching concessions on Jerusalem; Abbas: We have nothing to hide. A senior Palestinian Authority official in Ramallah on Sunday strongly condemned the Al-Jazeera TV network for publishing hundreds … read more »

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