Tag Archives: Qatar
Addis Ababa: The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn yesterday witnessed the signing of several agreements memorandums of understanding (MoU). The agreements and MoU were signed in the filed of … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, News, Pan African News
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Tagged Emir, Ethiopia, Government, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, IndepthAfrica, List of emirs of Qatar, List of Prime Ministers of Qatar, Qatar
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS Events in the last twelve months indicate growing discontent inside Eritrea’s tightly controlled regime, as well as deepening political and social divisions. While the mounting number of incidents suggests that President Isaias Afwerki’s regime is vulnerable, … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Op-ed
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Tagged African Union, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrean, European Union, Horn of Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, Qatar
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A desolate island is a reminder of Qatar’s ambition to pacify the African nation, even if it meant subsidizing one of the most oppressive governments on the continent. A tourist wades out to a boat moored by a campsite on … read more »
Posted in Article, Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Dahlak Kebir, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Isaias Afewerki, North Korea, Qatar, Qatari
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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 »
Posted in Djibouti, East Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Al Gore, Al-Jazeera, Arab Spring, Arabic, Arabic language, Current TV, Ethiopia, ethiopia addis ababa, ethiopia latest news, Ethiopian, ethiopian news, Ethiopians, IndepthAfrica, indepthindepthafrica, latest ethiopian news, news ethiopia, Qatar, United States
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Qatar is a great country and the people are nice I was a high school teacher in Doha (Rayaan Alateeq) in the70s and early 80s. That was the old Qatar! The Qatari people are generally generous and reasonable, however it … read more »
By Anne Bartlett If the dragging of student bodies from a water-filled ditch this week served to illustrate anything, it showed that the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) is not worth the paper it is written on. It … read more »
Posted in Article, East Africa, South Sudan, Sudan
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Tagged Al-Fashir, Darfur, Darfuri, Doha, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Indepth Africa Magazine, Khartoum, Middle East, Qatar, Sudan
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by Hindessa Abdul Ethiopia and Qatar restored diplomatic ties, was the news that dominated the airwaves this past week. The Qatari delegation led by the Prime Minister were accorded a warm welcome in Addis Ababa that included a banquet. There … read more »
Posted in Article, Eritrea, Ethiopia
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Tagged Addis Ababa, Aljazeera, Doha, Ethiopia, ethiopian news, Horn of Africa, IndepthAfrica, Nation Media Group, Oromo Liberation Front, Qatar
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Two countries fell out in 2008 when Doha was accused of destabilising Horn of Africa. Image Credit: AFP Addis Ababa: Ethiopia and Qatar have resumed diplomatic and economic ties, the prime ministers of both countries said on Monday, ending a … read more »
DOHA: Qatar said on Wednesday it was “surprised” by Ethiopia’s decision to cut diplomatic ties with the Gulf state, and rejected as unfounded the accusation that it sought to destabilize the Horn of Africa. The official Qatar News Agency (QNA) … read more »
Former Real Madrid and Spain striker Raul has joined Qatari club Al Sadd after deciding to leave Bundesliga side Schalke at the end of the season. Despite pleas from Schalke and his family to remain at the German club, Raul … read more »
Posted in Soccer, Sports
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Tagged afria travel, Al Sadd, FC Schalke 04, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, madrid, map africa, map of africa, news, Qatar, Raul, Real Madrid C.F, Schalke, South Africa, spain, travel to africa
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Najmuddin A. SHAIKH As I was writing this last instalment of my analysis of the Afghan situation we heard of President Obama’s secret visit to Kabul to sign the Enduring Strategic Partnership Agreement with President Karzai and to make a … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Afghanistan, afria travel, Al-Qaeda, BarackObama, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, india south africa, map africa, map of africa, news, obama, Osama bin Laden, Qatar, South Africa, Taliban, travel to africa, United States
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Nairobi – Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki is at the “peak of his health” the secretive Red Sea state said Monday, in a statement aimed to quash rumours the authoritarian leader is sick. Blaming “demonising campaigns” by the United States spy … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, East Africa, Eritrea, News
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Tagged afria travel, Africa news, African news, Asmara, Central Intelligence Agency, Eritrea, Health, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Qatar, Red Sea, United States
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Vadim VIKHROV This April, the gas sector news centered around the traditional issues of production, supplies, and plans for the cultivation of recently discovered deposits occasionally bordered on battlefield reports. The events which were drawing media coverage hardly warrant the … read more »
Posted in Asia, Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Al-Qaeda, IndepthAfrica, Liquefied natural gas, LNG, persian gulf, Qatar, Russia, tel aviv, United States
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Portsmouth striker, Nwankwo Kanu has been offered the chance to finish his career with a mega-bucks move to Qatar side, Al-Arabi. Arsenal legend Kanu, 35, is negotiating a pay-off on the final year of his Pompey deal after being left … read more »
Posted in Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Benjani Mwaruwari, IndepthAfrica, Kanu, Michael Appleton, Middle East, Nwankwo Kanu, Pompey, Portsmouth, Qatar
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Doha – Qatar has promised to invest $2bn in Sudan, the official QNA news agency reported on Wednesday, as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir visited the gas-rich Gulf state. A Qatari government delegation is to travel to Khartoum “in the coming … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Sudan
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Tagged Africa news, African, African news, Bashir, Darfur, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, Indepth Soccer, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Qatar, South Sudan, Sudan
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Nigerian Amos Adamu, who was kicked off FIFA’s executive committee for his part in the World Cup bribery scandal, has lost his appeal against a three-year ban from soccer. The ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in … read more »
Posted in Daily News Wrap, News, Nigeria, West Africa
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Tagged Africa news, African news, Amos Adamu, CAS, FIFA, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Lausanne, Mohammed bin Hammam, Qatar, Sunday Times, World cup
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By Pepe Escobar What is happening in Syria is a NATO-led regime change plot. It is not a popular uprising, as the West and its Gulf allies would like the world to believe. Syria is battling heavily armed foreign mercenaries. … read more »
Posted in Global Issues, Middle East
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Tagged Arab League, GCC, House of Saud, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, NATO, Pepe Escobar, Qatar, Syria
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The Obama administration is redefining the War on Terrorism as a war on Al-Qaeda, with Vice President Biden going so far as to say that the “Taliban, per se, is not our enemy.” In June, Afghan President Hamid Karzai confirmed … read more »
Posted in America, Global Issues
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Tagged Abdul Haq Wasiq, Afghanistan, AlQaeda, Ibrahim Haqqani, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Louie Gohmert, obama, Qatar, Taliban
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There are fears that the US is in the process of sending thousands of troops to Libya, but there is a way that you can vote for peace. It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, North Africa
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Tagged Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Internet service provider, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, NATO, Qatar, Tripoli, United States
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Cameroon goalkeeper Carlos Kameni has sealed a move to Malaga from La Liga rivals Espanyol. Negotiations between the player and the two clubs have been successfully completed, Espanyol said on their website (www.rcdespanyol.com) on Friday. The 27-year-old has agreed a … read more »
Posted in Soccer, Sports
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Tagged Barcelona, Cameroon, Espanyol, Idriss Carlos Kameni, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, La Liga, Le Havre, Malaga, Qatar
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It appears, from interviews and discussions with a wide range of Libyans including students, lawyers, judges at the Ministry of Justice, shopkeepers and casual acquaintances that the Muslim Brotherhood currently has very little popular support among this pious conservative, Sunni … read more »
Posted in Article, Libya, North Africa
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Tagged Central Bank of Libya, Egypt, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Muslim Brotherhood, obama, Qatar, United States
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By Natalia MEDEN The World Petroleum Congress, a highly respectable forum whose history dates back to 1993, is supposed to facilitate communication within the energy sector. The 20th World Petroleum Congress which convened in Doha, Qatar, in December, 2011, became … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Doha, European Commission, European Union, Gas Exporting Countries Forum, Gazprom, Günther Oettinger, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Qatar, Russia
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By Natalia MEDEN The 2010 German government’s annual Defense Exports Report reaffirmed the trend to extention that had already been confirmed by Stockholm International Peace Institute (SIPRI). As SIPRI review says Germany’s world market arms sales share increased from 7% … read more »
Posted in Europe, Global Issues
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Tagged Bahrain, German, Germany, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Middle East, persian gulf, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
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Grahamstown – Alleged drug mule Nolubabalo Nobanda came into a lot of money shortly before her departure for Brazil, a friend of hers said on Thursday. Four weeks before Nobanda’s departure for Brazil she offered to take five friends to … read more »
Posted in News, South Africa, Southern Africa
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Tagged Bangkok, Brazil, Indepth Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Mule (smuggling), Port Elizabeth, Qatar, South Africa, Suvarnabhumi Airport, White matter
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The Libyan war has left a legacy of hatred, which may poison the lives of the people there for generations. But, writes Diana Johnstone, that is of no interest to the West, which doesn’t care about the human damage of … read more »
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 »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Al-Jazeera, Arab, breaking news, East Africa, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica Magazine, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, Islamism, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, North Africa, Pan African News, Qatar, Southern Africa, United Nations, West Africa
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September 14, 2011 by benim
Benghazi – Benghazi hospitals face huge shortages as few antibiotics are left and cotton and gauze have run out, rattling the nerves of staff and patients alike. Many Libyan hospitals had long suffered from a chronic lack of basic medicines … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged Benghazi, Hospital, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, International Committee of the Red Cross, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Pan African News, Qatar, Southern Africa, Tripoli, West Africa
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September 1, 2011 by benim
Paris – Libya’s rebels in April promised France 35 per cent of the country’s crude oil in exchange for supporting the National Transitional Council in its fight against Muammar Gaddafi, a French newspaper reported on Thursday. Liberation newspaper published a … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged France, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, Libya, London, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi, Qatar, Rebellion
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Tripoli – Fighting raged on Wednesday as Muammar Gaddafi’s troops fought back at his Tripoli compound a day after it was captured, while rebels offered a $1.7m reward for the elusive strongman, dead or alive. Meanwhile diplomatic efforts were launched … read more »
Posted in Libya, News, North Africa
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, Burkina Faso, East Africa, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Nigeria, Nigeria news, North Africa, Pan African News, Qatar, Southern Africa, Tripoli, United Nations, West Africa
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Sudan carried out air strikes on a village in Darfur, killing one civilian, peacekeepers UNAMID said on Wednesday, in the first confirmed strike since Khartoum signed a peace deal with small rebel group Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) two weeks … read more »
Posted in News, North Africa, Sudan
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, All Africa, Arab League, breaking news, Darfur, Doha, East Africa, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, North Africa, Omar al-Bashir, Pan African News, Qatar, Southern Africa, Sudan, United Nations, West Africa
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