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President Kiir welcoming Mr Ladsous.

resident of the republic H.E Gen Salva Kiir Mayardit last week met the Undersecretary General of the United Nations peacekeeping force Mr Herve Ladsous, Mr Ladsous was accompanied by the deputy representative of the UN/SG in South Sudan Ms Lise Grande and Other UN officials.

The meeting exchanged views on the general political and security situation in the new state of South Sudan. Shortly after the meeting the Mr. Ladsous told the press that he came to South Sudan to confirm that the United Nations is always ready to help the new state in developing its human rights situation and to help the young state establish a good relationship with the Republic of Sudan.

Mr. Lasous said the new state is now building itself rapidly and that the UN will provide assistance for these efforts in good faith. He also announced that the UN forces in Abyei area are working. He also reported that as a consequence of the presence of the UN peacekeepers, the displaced citizens of Abyei are now migrating back to their homes. He also pledged that the UN will continue asking the SAF to withdraw from Abyei.

Bashir warns South Sudan over continued provocation

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he Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir last week warned that his country was running out of patience in the face of “continued provocations” by South Sudan, warning that his country was ready to go for war.

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Bashir warns South Sudan over continued provocation

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Bashir warned South Sudan president Al-Bashir declared that Khartoum was ready to go to war with the south should the latter fire the first shot.

The Sudanese president also claimed that his country was in possession of evidences indicating that the south was preparing to launch a war against the Sudanese Army (SAF), threatening that his country would respond in kind.

He further said that Khartoum had observed “too much patience and self-restraint” in the face of “continued provocations” by the southern army in Abyei and elsewhere.

Al-Bashir said that Khartoum was still keen on peace but if the south wanted war so be it.

“We tell our brothers in the south that if they want peace, we want peace. If they want war, our army is there,” Al-Bashir told the crowd, threatening to repeat what he termed as the lessons of Abyei, Kadugli and Al-Damazin.

“Our message to our brothers in the south is this: you won the south not because you were victorious but because of an agreement and a pledge we upheld, so you had better stay in your place,” he said.

S. Sudan finance ministry seeks to harmonise revenue collection

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outh Sudan’s finance and economic planning ministry last week convened a meeting seeking to devise mechanisms for harmonising revenue collections across the country’s 10 states.

The two-day event was aimed at ensureling that the ministers develop agreements to govern fair allocation of resources and collectively agree on eliminating all current systems of multiple roadblocks and checkpoints.

“Many checkpoints and roadblocks are unofficial. [Thus] by ending unofficial collections, it will be easier and less expensive to do business in South Sudan. That should mean lower prices at the market, more jobs and better choices of goods to buy,” said Kosti Manibe Ngai, the finance and economic planning minister.

All legally collected revenue, the minister reiterated, are expected to go to the government account as an “urgent priority.” This new economic approach, he emphasised, aims at ensuring that good and services are made affordable to the citizens in Africa’s newest nation.

The taskforce, which was formed in November 2009 comprises of finance ministers from all ten states of South Sudan.

To-date, however, the taskforce, established in the wake of multiple irregularities in the finance system and has analysed in depth the economic effects of multiple, unregulated fees on businesses, including, making urgent recommendations to fully implement the 2009 Tax Act.

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Lam Akol calls for multiparty democracy in S. Sudan

n his first public appearance since his return from Nairobi last month the leader of the opposition Sudan People’s Liberation Movement - Democratic Change (SPLM_ DC), said that the opposition and government should stop considering each other as enemies. The time was ripe, he said, for the two to engage in a dialogue to foster national unity. “Government should not see the opposition parties as enemies nor should the opposition look at government as a system they can hardly work with. Instead, these two systems of multiparty democracy must co-exist if national dialogue is to be achieved,” he said during a public lecture in Juba.

The lecture, which based on the theme, ’Issues of national dialogue,’ mainly focused on experiences from African countries that achieved independence in the post-colonial era. He also discussed why South Sudan needed dialogue at this critical moment and underlined issues

to be discussed at national levels.

The SPLM-DC leader, who received a standing ovation on arrival, also criticised South Sudan’s rampant corruption, which he said had eroded the country. He urged president Salva Kiir to devise stringent measures to ensure that those implicated are prosecuted by law.

He specifically applauded Kiir’s five-point anticorruption policy, but said that the mandate to fight corruption and all forms of graft should not only be left to the audit chamber and anti-corruption commission, but also include the country’s justice ministry.

Reacting to the auditor general’s recent report presented before the National Assembly, Akol said the financial shortfalls in the accounts were mainly due to government reluctance to institute a proper tax monitoring system.

“A country cannot achieve any meaningful development,

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ecrimination has recently returned to dominate the relations between Sudan and South Sudan after a short hiatus of superficial rapprochement that saw the southern president Salva Kiir visiting Khartoum last month and the two sides pledging to resume stalled talks over post-secession issues.

The Sudanese government on Saturday lodged a complaint with the UN Security Council accusing the south of supporting rebel groups in the country’s border states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan.

According to Khartoum’s complaint, Juba has provided military support to its erstwhile allies in the two states and allowed rebel groups from Sudan’s western region of Darfur to pass through South Sudan’s territories. This was the second complaint Sudan filed against its former war foes this year. Juba repeatedly denied the charges and recently reiterated accusations that Khartoum is supporting southern rebels who recently intensified activities in the south’s border state of unity.

Addressing a rally on Sunday in Al-Damazin town, the state capital of the Blue Nile State,

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South Korea’s Minister of Special Affairs Lee Jae-oh (left) and South Sudan’s Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol show protocols to establish diplomatic relations between the two countries at the presidential palace in Juba, South Sudan

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South Korean delegation will visit South Sudan in mid-November in order to follow up previous

assessments intended to lead to the deployment there of peacekeepers from the east Asian country.

Lam Akol calls for multiparty democracy in S. Sudan unless the government puts in place strong physical and monetary measures to manage the economy,” said SPLM-DC leader amid applause.

According to Akol, the newly independent South Sudan can only achieve meaningful dialogue if issues encompassing good governance, national unity, economic diversity and food

security through agriculture are properly addressed by the system in power.

For instance while nearly 80% of the southerners depend on agriculture as the backbone of rural economies, only 4% of the country’s agricultural land is reportedly being used, leaving over a million people food insecure.

The SPLM-DC leader also

South Korea’s Minister of Special Affairs Lee Jae-oh (left) and South Sudan’s Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol show protocols to establish diplomatic relations between the two countries at the presidential palace in Juba, South Sudan. …byline Soon after South Sudan gained independence in July this year, the UN’s secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon asked South Korea to send non-combat troops there, such as engineers and medics, as part of UN peacekeeping forces.

Indeed, Seoul took the request of the UN’s chief, himself a South Korean, into consideration and dispatched a delegation to South Sudan in early October. The delegation carried out an assessment of the local security situation, infrastructure and geographical features in the East African nation.

Yonhap, South Korea’s official news agency, on Monday reported that another

delegation comprising 10 officials from the foreign ministry, ministry of defense and the joint chief of staff will travel to South Sudan from 1418 November.

According to Yonhap, the follow-up delegation is meant to focus on military issues and submit a report to the government upon its return.

“Compared to a previous trip to South Sudan in early October, officials will take a closer look at circumstances for peacekeeping operations,” a state official said as quoted by the agency.

South Korea is expected to make its final decision following the return of the delegation.

The United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), whose mandate was authorized by the UN Security Council’s resolution 1996 in July, currently has 623 international civilian personnel and 7,900 military and police personnel.

urged the government to adopt a sound agro-based policy aimed at tapping agricultural potentials in the country.

He also called for a massive reduction in government expenditure at the national level. “For South Sudan to succeed, it needs to adopt a proper strategic plan that addresses the agricultural sector to give a relative competitive edge over other countries in regional markets,” he said. The SPLM-DC broke away from South Sudan’s ruling party - former rebels the SPLM. Since then the two have had a rocky relationship with the SPLM-DC being accused of by senior SPLM figures of supporting militia groups in South Sudan.

This has always been denied by the SPLM-DC, who threatened to take the SPLM’s secretary general Pagan Amum to court over the issue. In elections in 2010, SPLM-DC became the largest party in South Sudan’s parliament despite claiming that the vote was not free and fair.

$4 Billion road construction to link states

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he Minister of Roads and Bridges in South Sudan, Gier Chuang Aluong, has said that his ministry is planning to construct 3,000 kilometers of roads in the country over the next ten years.

Chuang revealed that the Ministry of Roads and Bridges has already drafted a road construction plan estimated at a cost $4 billion dollars and is currently awaiting the approval of the Council of Ministers.

Under this plan, all roads linking the ten states of south Sudan will be fixed with tar.

He described the construction of the new road network as critical to the needs of the people

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Opposition party SPLMDC in talks to join government S

outh Sudan’s main opposition party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement for Democratic Change, is negotiating an agreement with the ruling party to enable it join government, its leader has said.

“The problem why we did not join this government last time was because there was no Memorandum of Understanding.

Parties were invited and there was no reference,” Dr Lam Akol, the chairman of SPLMDC said at a public lecture on Saturday.

Out of the new country’s 25 political parties, SPLMDC is the only party that has elected members in the national parliament although it still constitutes a very meagre share of seats compared to the rul-

ing Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

“It is possible in the future that we can agree on key policy areas and form a government,” Dr Lam said.

Since its split from the ruling SPLM in 2009, the SPLMDC has been critical on corruption, nepotism and tribalism in the government.

In April elections last year, Dr Lam lost a tussle for the presidency to the incumbent Salva Kiir with a wide margin but claimed there was prevalent intimidation and that the elections were rigged in favour of SPLM. Neutralise opposition Due to fear of arrest over allegations that he had a military wing and that his party was an offshoot of

Bashir’s National Congress Party, Dr Lam went into exile in Nairobi.

He returned home in early October after getting assurances from Mr Kiir that his security was safe.

The SPLMDC’s intent to join the government could neutralise any significant opposition and erode the system of “check and balance”.

“If you can reach a stage where you can have a Memorandum of Understanding with another party, it is not ruled out. No political party is formed to be in opposition for life.

It is there to be in government and implement its policies,” Dr Lam said.

Dr Lam, however, said he agreed with President Salva Kiir during a meeting held in Nairobi that

the SPLMDC was “not coming to join the government now” because that could shift discussions from policy to power.

Dr Lam has called for a national dialogue for the parties to agree on a roadmap that he said would move the infant country forward.

Among the issues he raised for the dialogue were oil management, diversification of economy, infrastructure, security, corruption and national unity.

The SPLM confirmed the talks and said the focus should also aim at having a few but strong political parties instead of too many but weak ones so as to induce a credible multiparty democracy.

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lectricity supplies to residential areas and government offices in Juba have resumed according to the JEC, the Juba Electricity Corporation. JEC engineer, Kazi Yugusuk Tombe, said the corporation has received nine trucks of fuel which will over the next three weeks ensure a stable generation and supply of electricity in Juba town.

Tombe said the corporation will initially ration the power supplies to 14-hours daily until the situation is normalized with regular fuel supplies. Electricity in Juba was cut off for two weeks due to shortage of fuel in the town plunging government offices and residential areas into darkness.

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he ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan has rejected a U.S. proposal aimed at resolving the conflict in the country’s oil-rich state of South Kordofan, saying Khartoum will never accept to cede any part of it.

Al-Sahafah, a local Sudanese newspaper, last week reported that Washington proposed splitting South Kordofan in two as a mean to accommodate the rebels Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) which has been fighting government forces there.

The genesis of the tension that contributed to the outbreak of South Kordofan’s conflict in early June can be traced back to the dispute that marred the state’s guber-

natorial elections in May this year.

The elections’ result gave the NCP’s incumbent Ahmed Haroun victory over the SPLM-N’s candidate Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu who alleged the vote was rigged and refused to recognize its outcome.

However, the fighting is believed to have been triggered by the Sudanese army’s threats to forcibly disarm SPLM-N fighters.

According to Al-Sahafah’s report, the US proposed the reinstatement of West Kordofan state which ceased to exist following the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in 2005. The proposal reportedly suggests that Haroun would then be installed as governor of West Kordofan while Al-

Hilu would be made the governor of South Kordofan until such time that elections can be re-held in the state.

But the proposal was swiftly met with rejection

by Sudan’s state minister of media, Sanna Hamad, who said it would lead to the breakup of Sudan.

This rejection was echoed on Tuesday by the secretary of the NCP’s media department, Ibrahim Gandour, who asserted that his party rejects the proposal in its entirety.

Gandur, who speaking exclusively to the Sudanese Media Center, a pro-government website, said that his party’s rejection stems from the fact that South Kordofan was a Sudanese state and not a US territory to be handed over to the

SPLM-N, adding that the breakup of the state was out of the question.

He further stressed that the government would not give up any area of the country after the secession of South Sudan.

He went on to describe those who propagate such proposals as being ignorant about Sudan and what is happening in it.

The NCP official concluded that the U.S. proposal would not be discussed even if it was conveyed officially because it is rejected in principal by the government, the party and all levels of decisionmaking in the country.

There has been a variation in comments by Sudanese officials over the government’s willingness to seek a negotiated settlement to South

Kordofan conflict.

Whereas officials in Khartoum including president Al-Bashir have expressed rejection to any mediation with the SPLM-N and vowed to crush the rebellion militarily, their governor in South Kordofan Ahmed Haroun has indicated on more than one occasion that the SPLM-N could be accepted back into the political life if it lays down its arms. Efforts to resuscitate talks between the warring sides have failed since president Al-Bashir reneged on a framework agreement signed by his negotiators in Addis Ababa in late June to integrate SPLMN forces into the Sudanese army and recognize the movement as a legal political party in the country.

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Moslems pledge support for Education.

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South Sudan Government should give Youths good jobs.

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ore than 100 suspected cattle rustlers are being detained in Baburzit prison, in Yirol West County, Lakes state, the authorities there have confirmed.

The officer in-charge of the prison, Maker Dhieu, while talking to the press confirmed that about 60 of the suspects have not yet had their day in court due to the closure of Special court in Yirol West County.

He said that the closure of the court in September has led to the backlog of cases and the continued detention of the suspects.

The Yirol East County commissioner Bullen Bol Chinbai has appealed to the judiciary in the Republic of South Sudan to speed up the trial of suspects.

he chairman of the Islamic organization in South Sudan, Khamis Sindanni, has pledged his organization’s commitment to improve education in the greater Equatoria states.

Sindanni made his pledge during the celebrations to mark Eid-al-Dhuha also known as the muslim festival of sacrifice.

Sudan has the second lowest access to primary education after Afghanistan, with only 25 percent of the children enrolled in

school, according to recent statistics.

Sindanni said that education is a vital pillar for the growth and development of a nation and that his organization will work hard to increase the enrolment of children in schools.

He said that the Islam organization will also support initiatives aimed at providing clean drinking water in the rural areas.

he Government of the New Republic of South Sudan should give jobs to the South Sudanese Citizens who are graduating from the universities and Colleges across the globe rather than giving good jobs to the foreigners within the South .When you see the recruitment process in the Ministry of public Service in the Republic of South Sudan, you will find that, most of the works have been occupied by people who are not from the South. The question is, is it because there are no qualified citizens of South Sudan who can do the jobs or what is behind this process?

According to me, there are many citizens of the Republic of South Sudan who can do the jobs best to the large extent. Many people are always graduating across the globe yearly, which shows that, south Sudan is the Country with many intellectuals that make me proud of it. There is no one that can tell me, South Sudan have no qualified people that can do the best jobs, people are there in all the ten states of the Republic of South Sudan (RSS).

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he national Deputy Minister of Transport, Mayom Kuoc Malek, revealed plans to construct four new international airports in South Sudan in the next three years.

The Minister said feasibility studies on the airport construction have already started.

According to Malek, his Ministry in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources will also build ten ports on the Nile between Juba and Renk, and clean the spots with water hyacinth to ensure easy navigation.

The Minister did not disclose when the projects will exactly start, or the cost.

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UN Chief: Government of Sudan must bring attackers to justice

Government should really assist the new graduates to get employment opportunities in new Republic in the horn of Africa; we have just achieved our identity as the people of south Sudan, whereby the youths should be given chance to access of getting good jobs. Most of the graduate lost their parents in the longest civil war that claimed more than 2.5 million lives between the Sudan people Liberation movement (SPLM/SPLA) and the Khartoum government of Bashir.

Many people have been graduated, but reaching juba jobs are nowhere to be seen, which make some people ended up on streets of Juba daily looking for jobs that are not there.

Government should put some critical measures to the Ministry of Labor; public service Republic of South Sudan to make the recruitment in the good manner where by the public can enjoy the services of the government equally.

In other ward recruitment process should base on merit instead of tribalism, nepotism, bribery, so that the South Sudanese citizens have a chance of enjoying their privileges as their rights.

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he United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the attack on a United Nations-African Union patrol in Sudan’s Darfur region that killed one peacekeeper and wounded two others.

Sunday’s attack on the joint UN-AU peacekeeping force (UNAMID) took place near Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.

It comes less than one month after three peacekeepers were killed in an ambush in North Darfur.

According to UNAMID, a total of 33 peacekeepers have been killed in

Darfur since 2007, when the Mission was set up to help stop fighting between the Government in Khartoum and rebel forces.

In a statement issued by his spokesperson, Ban Ki-moon extended his heartfelt sympathy and condolences to the families of the three soldiers and their colleagues in Darfur.

The statement said that the UN Chief hopes that the Government of Sudan will swiftly bring to justice those responsible for the attack.

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he Republic of South Sudan is working on joining the Commonwealth, Hon Nhial Deng Nhial, the minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, has announced. He said that the country stands to gain a lot from Commonwealth membership.

Hon Nhial who was speaking to journalists at the Juba International Airport upon his arrival from a weeklong visit to Australia said the Commonwealth has programmes formulated to benefit its member countries. Particularly, he said, South Sudan

would benefit from of capacity building programmes by becoming a member country.

He said that South Sudan is in the process of establishing links with the Commonwealth secretariat to facilitate the membership application process. However, he stressed that this is a gradual process that will take time before South Sudan is fully accepted as a member.

The minister said he went to Australia on the invitation of the Foreign Affairs minister of Australia to strengthen bilateral relations and

again to participate in the deliberations of the Commonwealth Business Council Forum that brought together many Australian companies.

He said the forum was also attended by ministers from the other African countries. He said in this meeting, he was able to interact with many Australian companies and said they expressed willingness and readiness to explore the investment opportunities in South Sudan especially in mining and farming which he described as the areas where Australia excels.

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South Sudan offers economic package to Khartoum

NLA to pass new law for consumer protection

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he National Legislative Assembly has in its third reading passed the Consumer Protection Bill.

The bill was presented to the Assembly by the Deputy Chairman of the Legislation and Legal Affairs Committee, Parmena Aweckrial Aluong. If passed into law, the bill will provide protection for the rights of consumers in South Sudan.

The Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Michael Makuei Lueth, said that the Assembly has not done enough to fulfill the 100 days action plan that was announced by President Salva Kiir. He urged the members of Parliament to speed up their legislative duties.

The President told the National Legislative Assembly in August that he would build 30 primary schools and four secondary schools during the first 100 days of his Government. He also pledged to fight corruption, build physical infrastructure, bolster the rule of law and strengthen security of persons and their properties.

Kiir advises Bashir to solve internal problems T he President of the Republic and Commander in Chief of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) H.E. Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit said the President of the Republic of Sudan Field Marshal Omer El-Bashir is trying to run away from his own internal political problems basing on the allegations he made that the SPLA is supporting the Blue Nile and South Kordufan. the President revealed this

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Unity state citizens cry out over expensive Land registration

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he Secretary General of South Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) Hon. Pagan Amum announced that the Government of the Republic of South Sudan has offered a comprehensive package to the Khartoum government to create a relationship which will establish an environment which is conducive for addressing the outstanding issues between the two countries.

While speaking at New Sudan Palace in Juba attending a workshop organized by the SPLM in its efforts to strengthen the party leadership, Hon. Pagan said the Government of the Republic of South Sudan is committed to establish a new relationship with the North which he said will be based on assistance and cooperation in all fields. He added that in line with this the SPLM government has accepted to provide an economic assistance to the Republic of the Sudan in order for the latter to manage the economic crisis it is experiencing as a result of the loss of oil revenues produced in South Sudan.

Hon. Amum further stressed that in return South Sudan expects the Republic of the Sudan to respect the territorial integrity and dignity of the people of South Sudan, for instance by recognizing that Abyei is part of the Republic of South Susan.

“We believe this package will provide the basis for peace and mutual cooperation between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan”, he said. He added that if accepted

by Khartoum, the package would ensure a better future for the people of the Republic of the Sudan and the people of the Republic of South Sudan.

He said this would give both countries an opportunity to redirect their energies to peace, create wealth and change the lives of the people of the two countries. He said South Sudan’s delegation is waiting for communication for the next round of talks from the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AU-HIP), the body that is leading the negotiations between Khartoum and Juba in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Salva Kiir Officiating at the Pass out

while addressing the 2nd batch of the SPLA officers who have qualified after six months training in basic military and physical training, staff works, military leadership, peacekeeping operations and tactics, and graduated from the Nyachigak Military College in Ownyikibul, Magwi County in Eastern Equatoria State. The training is part of the national framework of transforming the SPLA into a professional

Army capable of defending the country.

President Kiir urged H.E. Bashir to sit down with his people and resolve all the political issues in the North.

President Kiir announced that Omer El-Bashir bombed an area in northern Upper Nile called Gufa and killed not less than seven people.

H.E. Kiir congratulated the graduates for having completed the training

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new land policy registration office in South Sudan’s Unity state has proved controversial, asking citizens to pay around 1,500SSP (approx. $560) for a now mandatory land ownership certificate.

Residents in the Unity state have cried foul over the 1500 Residents claim that this will mean that the rich will be able to take land from poorer citizens who cannot afford to pay the fee.

The Unity state governor, Taban Deng Gai, and the speaker of legislative assembly witnessed the chairman of Bentiu high court open land registration policy last week.

Unity is the fifth state to open a land registry office after N. Bhar el Gazal, Warrap and W. Bhar-el-Gazal. The president of high court of Unity state Benjamin Bak said at the ceremony that it was important for everyone to have a certificate for the land they own.

“I agree with the governor’s request, since we came in the state in 2006, the governor of the state requested [a] land registration office. We have complete[d] all the process

requirement from the national government in July, with approval through the chairman of the high court in the republic of South [Sudan] now we [can] confirm our operation [has] started,” said Bak. Governor Gai said that he welcomed the opening of the office and said the office would assist in fighting corruption and prevent illegal land grabbing. He thanked citizens for standing by the government, describing the opening office as very important.

He urged the whole state to register their land and said documentation would now be needed to prove ownership of land.

Previously land was registered and surveyed by the ministry of physical infrastructure for a fee of around 600SSP ($225), he said.

Unity state, which borders north Sudan, has received a high number of returnees who came from Khartoum, both before and after South Sudan’s independence in July. Many returnees and long term residents do not have the funds to pay for the new land certificate

successfully, and said the graduation of the second batch of the SPLA officers was a starting point of their mission in defending the new state and its constitution from internal and external insurgents.

President of the Republic drastically said the former chairman of UDF who rebelled against the Republic of South Sudan and apprehended recently in Western Equatoria State Mr. Peter Abdulrahman Sule will be properly investigated by the police and will face justice.

H.E Kiir called on the Acholi and Madi ethnic groups not to be driven by the politicians in Juba or EES urging them to discard tribal differences and be united and contribute in building the new nation of South Sudan. H.E Kiir donated 100,000 SSP to the graduates.

On his part the minister for National Security Gen. Oyay Deng Ajak said he is committed to building a strong

intelligence and security service organs which will cooperate with South Sudan citizens horizontally and vertically, adding that more national intelligence and security service officers will be recruited. He also called on the graduates to be disciplined.

While the deputy minister for Defense Gen. Majak Agot extended sincere gratitude to the C-IN-C of the SPLA for his personal commitment to transforming the South Sudan Army into a professional one.

He urged the graduates to behave responsibly and win the confidence of the people of South Sudan.

The SPLA Chief of General staff Gen. James Oath Mai said the SPLA leadership is committed and will continue to improve the capacity of the SPLA and make it vigilant in facing and dealing with internal and external challenges.

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We should come together and support farming in Africa

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In most countries, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative has expanded the capacity to tackle other infectious diseases, such as avian influenza or Ebola, by building effective disease-reporting and surveillance systems, training local epidemiologists and establishing a global laboratory network. This capacity has also been deployed in health emergencies such as the 2010 floods in Pakistan and the 2011 drought in the Horn of Africa.

Routine immunization services have been strengthened by bolstering the cold chain, transport and communications systems for immunization. Improving these services helped to lay the groundwork for highly successful measles vaccination campaigns that have saved millions of young lives.

Vitamin A is often administered during polio SIAs. Since 1988, more than 1.2 million childhood deaths have been prevented through provision of vitamin A during polio SIAs. On average, one in every 250 people in a country has been involved in polio immunization campaigns. More than 20 million health workers and volunteers have been trained to deliver OPV and vitamin A, fostering a culture of disease prevention.

Through the synchronization of SIAs, many countries have established a new mechanism for coordinating major cross-border health initiatives aimed at reaching all people – a model for regional and international cooperation for health.

Once polio is eradicated, the world can celebrate the delivery of a major global public good that will benefit all people equally, no matter where they live. Economic modelling has found that the eradication of polio in the next five years would save at least US$ 40-50 billion, mostly in low-income countries.

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EDITORIAL

By MARK BOWMAN

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t is easy to see why today, above all, agriculture has never been higher on the world’s agenda. The official forecasts that the world’s population has reached seven billion and is likely to grow by two billion more by 2050, has highlighted concerns over how these extra people can be fed. This is all too understandable given that one in seven people who share our planet already do not have enough to eat.

Africa and its farmers are, of course, at the centre of this challenge. One in three of the world’s hungry live in Africa. It is the continent as well, which is expected to see the largest rise in population. Climate change, with its damaging effect on yields and productive land, will make the task of meeting this shortfall only more difficult. We are already seeing the impact of the famine which is causing untold misery in the Horn of Africa.

No one would underestimate the difficulties ahead. But there is another, more optimistic, side of the story. Africa has abundant land and natural resources. We have seen, too, in many countries how its hardworking farmers, with the right support, can dramatically increase production to turn food shortages into surpluses.

By learning from these successes, we can transform agriculture across the continent, meeting food needs and, in turn, improving the lives of

hundreds of millions of Africa’s citizens.

Estimate For just as the green revolution was the motor for progress in South-East Asia, Africa’s agriculture can provide the springboard for wider prosperity and development across the continent. The World Bank has estimated that growth in the agricultural sector is twice as effective at reducing poverty as in other sectors.

The good news is that, after decades of neglect and chronic underinvestment, the fundamental importance of farming and agriculture for Africa has now been recognised.

Governments across the continent have put in place framework, policies and resources to increase agricultural production.

International donors are remedying the shortsighted cuts in aid for agriculture. Academic institutions within and outside the continent are tackling the lack of collaboration, which had blighted hopes of solving Africa’s specific farming challenges.

But if we are to help Africa’s farmers achieve their potential, it is vital that business also plays its full role in supporting agriculture. This is nothing new for a company like SABMiller.

We may now be a leading global brewer but our roots remain firmly in Africa where we began making beer over 100 years ago. Our beer has long been brewed from raw materials bought, wherever possible, lo-

cally. The farmers who produce the crops we use are the bedrock of our business. But like other companies, we have realised in recent years that we have to step up our efforts to equip farmers with the knowledge, skills and support they need to play their full role in building this continent’s prosperity.

This is particularly the case with Africa’s army of small holder farmers – so important to food production and rural life – who have found themselves locked out from the developments in agriculture, which have helped farmers around the world raise production. By guaranteeing markets and fair prices for crops, and helping to improve quality and yields, we are able to buy increasing volumes of our staple crops direct from smallholder farmers.

Diversification We have led the way in developing beers brewed from new crops. We were the first international brewer to use sorghum and have now developed a new beer from cassava – another widely grown crop. We are even using mobile plants so we can process the cassava where it is harvested.

This is important for the quality of the beer but also ensures more remote rural areas can benefit from this new market for their crop.

Through our programmes and partnerships, we are also helping farmers who grow our crops learn skills and

share best practice. We encourage them as well to diversify the crops they grow so we become just one of their customers. These are important initiatives for us and, we believe underline our commitment to the communities and countries in which we operate. We also see them as central to the success of our business. Buying and processing crops locally, for example, can reduce transport costs, shorten supply lines and ensure high-quality raw materials for our breweries. By guaranteeing markets for crops and paying a prenegotiated and jointly agreed price, we help create jobs, incomes and local prosperity.

So there is no conflict between what is good for development and good for business. They are two sides of the same coin. Nor do we see supporting agriculture, as some have in the past, as a retreat towards some pre-industrial past for Africa. It is about building a modern and successful agricultural sector, which can meet the continent’s own food needs, improves health, drives prosperity, strengthens communities - and, in turn, can help grow food to feed the hungry around the world.

This is why it is vital that we all come together to support and improve farming across Africa. As we mark the population reaching seven billion, it is clearer than ever that agriculture is the key to our continent’s success.

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outh Africa’s ruling African National Congress began deliberations Monday in a disciplinary hearing to decide the fate of Julius Malema, the controversial leader of the party’s youth league. (Read: ANC hears closing arguments in Malema case) Mr Malema, whose racially charged rhetoric has made him one of South Africa’s most controversial figures, faces possible expulsion from the party if found guilty in the internal disciplinary process, where he is charged with “sowing divisions” in the ANC and bringing it into disrepute.

“Yesterday (Sunday)

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Zimbabwe premier cancels rally after party supporters attacked

was closing arguments for both parties. They are done with that now.

From today, the national disciplinary committee will be finalising their verdict,” ANC spokesman Keith Khoza told AFP.

“They’re going to announce it either late this week or early next week.”

Closing arguments in the case wrapped up late Sunday night, after having been rescheduled twice, Mr Khoza said.

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nearby city of Maiduguri blamed on the Islamist Boko Haram group.

There are reports from a hospital in Damaturu that as many as 60 people may have been killed.

An unnamed local government official in Damaturu was quoted

by AFP news agency as saying that hundreds of wounded people were being treated in the hospital.

Witnesses said the attacks began on Friday at about 18:30 (17:30 GMT) and lasted for about 90 minutes.

Gunmen then engaged in running battles with security forces.

Somali pirates overwhelmed by Taiwan fishing boat crew

A Roman Catholic parish priest told our correspondent his church had been burnt down and eight other churches also attacked.

The attacks followed a triple suicide bomb attack on a military headquarters in Maiduguri, in neighbouring Borno state.

Military officials said the three attackers had died.

That attack is believed to be the work of Boko Haram, which has launched frequent attacks on the police and government officials.

The name means “Western education is forbidden”.

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he crew of a Taiwanese fishing vessel has overwhelmed a group of Somali pirates who hijacked their boat last week. The 28-member crew of the Chin Yi Wen were taken hostage while sailing off the East African coast and disappeared from radio contact on 4 November.

The six pirates were later attacked and overwhelmed by the sailors.

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imbabwe prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai was Sunday forced to cancel a campaign rally in a town on the outskirts of the capital Harare after his supporters were attacked by youths linked to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party.

The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said 30 of its supporters were injured and property destroyed in Chitungwiza town forcing it to cancel the rally. “The Zanu PF youths attacked the MDC staff organising the rally and members of the public with iron bars, machetes, stones and other crude weapons,” MDC secretary general Mr Tendai Biti told journalists.

“Thirty MDC supporters who were going to the rally were attacked and suffered tissue and other various injuries. “Seven activists have been hospitalised

Several hundred people and dozens of vessels are currently held captive by Somali gunmen.

The Chin Yi Wen disappeared from radio contact while several hundred kilometres off the coast of Somalia last week.

A group of armed pirates initally took control of the boat, but were defeated when the crew fought back. According

in Harare, while about 15 others were referred to a Chitungwiza hospital for treatment.”

MDC said the Zanu PF youths were linked to a shadowy militia group known as Chipangano that in July attacked MPs and journalists inside Parliament in Harare.

The group has also been linked to resurgent political violence in the capital with Mr Tsvangirai warning the country was sliding back to the anarchy that characterised the period before the formation of the unity government in 2009.

MDC says Zanu PF is resorting to violence to making the holding of free and fair elections in Zimbabwe impossible. Last week, Mr Tsvangirai was blocked by armed police from having campaign rallies in southern Zimbabwe despite getting clearance from the courts. to Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency, three sailors were injured, while the pirates fell into the sea.

Their fate is not known.

The fishing crew later sought the assistance of the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO), an international anti-piracy task force which patrols the area under the supervision of the UK. The International Mari-

“The MDC is deeply concerned by these activities, which are clearly designed to close all democratic spaces in Zimbabwe and prevent the MDC from carrying out its lawful activities,” MDC said in a statement late on Sunday.

“There is a clear history of Zanu PF’s recent disruptions of various MDC meetings across the country.”

The violence came hard on the heels of a visit by representatives of South African President Jacob Zuma who is the mediator in negotiations between the MDC and Zanu PF to set up a frame work for free and fair polls.

time Bureau has said that better policing and improved security have reduced successful hijackings by Somali pirates this year. Nevertheless, attacks linked to Somalia made up more than half the piracy incidents reported worldwide.

A US study found that maritime piracy costs the global economy between $7bn (£4.4bn) and $12bn (£7.6bn) a year.

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ANc Youth Leader Malema during the Voting

‘At least 30’ killed in Nigeria bomb attacks

series of bomb and gun attacks in the north-eastern Nigerian city of Damaturu has killed at least 30 people, reports say.

The attackers bombed a city police headquarters, three other police stations and several churches in the city late Friday, after similar raids were carried out in another city that had already been the target of attacks by an Islamist sect.

Witnesses said the bombs hit several targets, including churches and the headquarters of the Yobe state police.

It follows attacks on security forces in the

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ambia’s new government has backtracked on its campaign promise to overhaul the constitution within 90 days.

In his maiden address to Parliament last month, new President Michael Sata said that his government was committed to delivering a peopledriven constitution within three months--one of his campaign pledges-drawing praise both locally and internationally.

(Read: Sata promises new law within 90 days) But Justice minister Sebastian Zulu told Parliament Friday that the law making process would go beyond the envisaged period.

“Let me inform the nation that it will not be possible for the Patriotic Front (PF) government to come

up with a constitution within 90 days,” he said.

“This is because we want to come up with a constitution that the people of Zambia will appreciate and this will take a little longer.”

President Sata’s ruling PF party, while in the opposition, gave a wide berth to the constitution making process during the administrations of former Presidents Levy Mwanawasa and Rupiah Banda.

The ten-year-old party was elected to power on September 20.

Zambia, which gained independence from British rule 47 years ago, has for years struggled to formulate a peopledriven constitution.

At least four constitution review commissions have been set up since

the early 1970s without any tangible progress.

Meanwhile, the Zambian government has said it would privatise 35 per cent of its shares in state-run media houses.

“The shares will be floated on the Lusaka Stock Exchange,” vice-president Guy Scott told Parliament.

Mr Scott said there were discussions with private newspapers in east Africa to buy some shares in Zambia’s state-owned dailies.

The Zambia government owns the Times of Zambia, Zambia Daily Mail and the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) TV and radio channels.

It also owns a news agency – the Zambia News and Information Service (ZANIS)

ANC mulls youth leader Malema’s future S

outh Africa’s ruling African National Congress began deliberations Monday in a disciplinary hearing to decide the fate of Julius Malema, the controversial leader of the party’s youth league. (Read: ANC hears closing arguments in Malema case) Mr Malema, whose racially charged rhetoric has made him one of South Africa’s most controversial figures, faces possible expulsion from the party if found guilty in the internal disciplinary process, where he is

charged with “sowing divisions” in the ANC and bringing it into disrepute.

“Yesterday (Sunday) was closing arguments for both parties. They are done with that now. From today, the national disciplinary committee will be finalising their verdict,” ANC spokesman Keith Khoza told AFP. “They’re going to announce it either late this week or early next week.”

Closing arguments in the case wrapped up late Sunday night, after having been rescheduled twice, Mr Khoza said.

wo people were killed and five seriously injured following a grenade attack on a church in Garissa, Northern Kenya on Saturday night.

The grenade blasts occurred inside a house within the Garissa East Africa Pentecostal church compound.

According to Rev Ibrahim Makunyi, who was inside the compound during the explosion, two grenades were hurled into the house next to the church’s main entry door. He said the first grenade did not explode but the second one resulted in a huge blast. ‘’I thought it was an electric fault but when I rushed to the scene

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I found some victims writhing in pain and lying in a pool of blood,’’ he said.

One of the victims died instantly while the other passed on at the local hospital as doctors were attending to him.

By the time this correspondent visited the church, hundreds of people had thronged the compound as armed military and police officers patrolled the scene.

Area MP Aden Duale asked the provincial security committee to investigate the incident that he termed as inhuman and cowardly.

He urged the public to cooperate with the government and alert police

of any strangers in the area. ‘’We should be concerned with what happens around us. The AlShabaab have recruited Kenyans and we should be accurate with the kind of information we are giving out,’’ he said.

Garissa Supkem chairman Abdullahi Salat also condemned the attack on the church saying it would sow seeds of discord among Muslims and Christians who live in harmony.

He said clerics should join hands to ensure those behind the attack are arrested .

Kenya is currently fighting Al-Shabaab militants deep in Somalia territory.

UN calls for crisis meeting over West Africa piracy

spate of piracy attacks in West Africa have forced the United Nations to call an emergency conference over the incidences that threaten to harm the region’s economy.

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon’s special representative in West Africa, Said Djinit, told diplomats accredited to the Guinean capital Conakry that the meeting would take place there on October 19.

It comes in the background of increased piracy in several west African countries over the last six months. The International Maritime Bureau has registered 20 acts of piracy there since the beginning of the year, where none were recorded in 2010.

On Sunday Benin’s President Thomas Boni Yayi andNigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan met over how to combat pirates operating in the region.

Nigeria and Benin have been most affected. In Benin, pirates reportedly released a ship Saturday which they had hijacked several hundred kilometres off the country’s coast.

My Yayi told reporters in Abuja he was there to brief President Jonathan on the progress of the new

programme set up by the neighbours’ last month to mount naval patrols off their coasts.

Outstanding problem The force is based in the port of Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin.

Accompanying President Yayi was Benin’s chief of defence staff General Mathieu Boni who said the joint operation had been successful.

“There have has been no more attacks apart from some little, little cases here and there,” he added.

Nevertheless pirates captured an oil ship and its 20-strong crew off the coast of Nigeria on October 8 but freed them on Friday last week.

For Nigeria however, piracy has been a longstanding problem.

One of Africa’s top oil producing countries, its coastal waters are swarming with oil tankers.

While east Africa’s pirates make their money by ransoming the crew, those off the west coast of Africa seem more interested in the cargos, particularly when the ships are carrying oil.

Illegal trade The attacks are also seen as more dangerous in west Africa due to the

heavy illegal trade that takes place in the region including drug and human trafficking.

But the incident that reportedly led to the conference is seen as one that occurred off the coast of Guinea on September 29 where Conakry allegedly kept a tight lid on the issue until it was revealed by the Ukrainian embassy in the capital.

The Ukrainian envoy reported that one his compatriots was killed in the ensuing gun battle between the pirates and the ship’s crew.

The envoy alleged that all of the pirates wore uniforms belonging to the Guinean army and urged the government to provide a “convincing” explanation over the incident.

Conakry has denied the allegation and said the pirates could have obtained the uniform elsewhere and used them to camouflage their real identity.

The government of Guinea further explained that such incidents were taking place in the country’s waters due to a UN embargo on arms placed on the country since 2008 and called for international help to lift the embargo in a bid to help effectively fight piracy.

10 ways to create true intimacy, find pure love, and be truly happy in your relationship:

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1. Use relationships to teach you how to be whole within.

Relationships aren’t about having another person complete you, but coming to the relationship whole and sharing your life interdependently. By letting go of the romantic ideal of merging and becoming “one,” you learn as Rainer Maria Rilke says, to love the distances in relationship as much as the togetherness.

2. See your partner for who he or she really is.

The romantic tragedy occurs when you view the person you are in love with as a symbol of what they have come to represent, the idea of them. When you realize that more often than not you don’t really know your partner, you begin to discover who they are and how they change and evolve.

3. Be willing to learn from each other.

The key is to see the other as a mirror and learn from the reflection how you can be a better person. When you feel upset, rather than blame your partner and point fingers, remain awake to what has yet to be healed in yourself.

4. Get comfortable being alone.

In order to accept that love can’t rescue you from being alone, learn to spend time being with yourself. By feeling safe and secure to be on your own within the framework of relationship, you will feel more complete, happy, and whole.

5. Look closely at why a fight may begin.

Some couples create separateness by fighting and then making up over and over again. This allows you to continue the romantic trance, creating drama and avoiding real intimacy.

If you become aware of what you fear about intimacy, you’ll have a better sense of why you’re fighting—and likely will fight far less.

6. Own who you are.

We generally grasp at romantic love because we’re yearning for something that is out of reach, something in another person that we don’t think we possess in ourselves. Unfortunately, when we finally get love, we discover that we didn’t get what we were looking for.True love only exists by loving yourself first. You can only get from another person what you’re willing to give yourself.

7. Embrace ordinariness.

After the fairy-dust start of a relationship ends, we discover ordinariness, and we often do everything we can to avoid it. The trick is to see that ordinariness can become the real “juice” of intimacy. The day-to-day loveliness of sharing life with a partner can, and does, become extraordinary.

8. Expand your heart.

One thing that unites us is that we all long to be happy. This happiness usually includes the desire to be close to someone in a loving way. To create real intimacy, get in touch with the spaciousness of your heart and bring awareness to what is good within you. It’s easier to recognize the good in your partner when you’re connected to the good in yourself.

9. Focus on giving love.

Genuine happiness is not about feeling good about ourselves because other people love us; it’s more about how well we have loved ourselves and others. The unintentional outcome of loving others more deeply is that we are loved more deeply.

10. Let go of expectations.

You may look to things such as romance and constant togetherness to fill a void in yourself. This will immediately cause suffering. If you unconsciously expect to receive love in certain ways to avoid giving that love to yourself, you will put your sense of security in someone else.

Draw upon your own inner-resources to offer love, attention, and nurturance to yourself when you need it. Then you can let love come to you instead of putting expectations on what it needs to look like.

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utual respect. Does he or she get how cool you are and why? (Watch out if the answer to the first part is yes but only because you’re acting like someone you’re not!) The key is that your BF or GF is into you for who you are — for your great sense of humor, your love of reality TV, etc. Does your partner listen when you say you’re not comfortable doing something and then back offright away? Respect in a relationship means that each person values who the other is and understands and would never challenge — the other person’s boundaries.

Trust. You’re talking with a guy from French class and your boyfriend walks by. Does he completely lose his cool or keep walking because he knows you’d never cheat on him? It’s OK to get a little jealous sometimes — jealousy is a natural emotion. But how a person reacts when feeling jealous is what matters.

There’s no way you can have a healthy relationship if you don’t trust each other.

Honesty. This one goes hand-in-hand with trust because it’s tough to trust someone when one of you isn’t being honest. Have you ever caught your girlfriend in a major lie? Like she told you that she had to work on Friday night but it turned out she was at the movies with

her friends? The next time she says she has to work, you’ll have a lot more trouble believing her and the trust will be on shaky ground.

Support. It’s not just in bad times that your partner should support you. Some people are great when your whole world is falling apart but can’t take being there when things are going right (and vice versa). In a healthy relationship, your significant other is there with a shoulder to cry on when you find out your parents are getting divorced and to celebrate with you when you get the lead in a play.

Fairness/equality. You need to have give-and-take in your relationship, too. Do you take turns choosing which new movie to see?

As a couple, do you hang out with your partner’s friends as often as you hang out with yours? It’s not like you have to keep a running count and make sure things are exactly even, of course. But you’ll know if it isn’t a pretty fair balance. Things get bad really fast when a relationship turns into a

What Should A Girl Wear On A First Date 1. Girls are almost paranoid before the first date. After the date is planned, they spend endless hours at the mall searching for the right outfit, the right pair of shoes and the right accessories.

2. Another important aspect is makeup and jewellery.

Makeup and jewellery should complement your looks and not dominate. Excessive use of makeup would make you look

like a clown and going over the top with jewellery would make you look like a portable jewellery store. Either ways, the guy would find it very embarrassing to walk in your company.

3. If your date plans to take you to a posh and classy restaurant for dinner, it would pay to go light and subtle. The best possible dress on such an occasion would be a cocktail dress. As it would be a dinner

power struggle, with one person fighting to get his or her way all the time.

Separate identities. In a healthy relationship, everyone needs to make compromises. But that doesn’t mean you should feel like you’re losing out on being yourself. When you started going out, you both had your own lives (families, friends, interests, hobbies, etc.) and that shouldn’t change.. And you also should feel free to keep developing new talents or interests, making new friends, and moving forward.

Good communication.

You’ve probably heard lots of stuff about how men and women don’t seem to speak the same language. We all know how many different meanings the little phrase “no, nothing’s wrong” can have, depending on who’s saying it! But what’s important is to ask if you’re not sure what he or she means, and speak honestly and openly so that the miscommunication is avoided in the first place. Never keep a feeling bottled up because you’re afraid it’s not what your BF or GF wants to hear or because you worry about sounding silly. And if you need some time to think something through before you’re ready to talk about it, the right person will give you some space to do that if you ask for it.

date, colours like black, maroon, beige, forest green, white and deep blue would go better than their lighter versions.

If you think that the cocktail dress would be too flashy, the LBD or the little black dress is an evergreen option. It is a safe way to ensure that you look great without thinking too much. Another possible option is a fancy white shirt with a classy pair of trousers or a smart little skirt. Keep makeup to a limit so that it accentuates your features. Give heavy accessories a miss and don something on the lighter side.

4. On the other hand, if your date plans to take you somewhere casual, think of denims, a bright and attractive top and sneakers to go with it. In this case you can accessorize according to what you might do on usual days. Avoid something that may look too revealing as it may give a wrong impression.

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Nyapals journey to be the best .

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Nyapal lual

Nyapal lual on a concert Show

yapal lual was born in 1982 from Christian family in Nassir, south Sudan.

Her father and mother hail from Eastern Jikany Nuer in Upper Nile state in Southern Sudan. When heavy fighting broke out in 1988 in Nassir between the Sudan army forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, Nyapal and her three sisters, brother and mother escaped the fighting with and went to live in Khor-Wakow few miles away from Nassir town. Like other children who grew up in Sudan’s civil war; it was difficult for Nyapal to get education. But in 1991 when she joined her father in Malakal and begin to attend school. At the age of 14 in 1996, Nyapal stop learning at class 6 in Mederesa shaab primary school in Malakal in Upper Nile state and moves to Nassir with her mother, leaving her father and other family members behind in Malakal. With the exception of class one to four, Nyapal didn’t get her class in Nassir since the war had affected learning in upper primary in Nassir. Nyapal’s father who was a local musician by the time became her mentor. In 1998 when she was 16, her dream in music starts when her father, who was a local musician engaged her and other girls as back stage singers. Nyapal married her husband, the father of three children in 2000 in Nassir. Later in 2002, she located to Nairobi where her husband works. Her hope in music was made possible when her dubbed album production was supported by Sudan radio service in Nairobi, 2007. Nyapal recognition begin when she start performing at stage in Nairobi and southern Sudan. The biggest events for Nyapal was when Sudan Embassy in Nairobi organized the Sudanese female artist concert under the theme “Music for Sudan” in July 2007, the concert gave Nyapal recognition among Sudanese living in Nairobi and their Kenyan friends. Nyapal and her female colleague Marry Boyoi were featured in local TV station in Kenya and Kenyan press that also gave them good publicity. In Southern Sudan, Nyapal also did a lot of music show from June to October 2007, this including the launching of her dubbed album in Juba, September 2007. She also participated in Sudanese-Eritrean musicians joint concerts in Juba, September, 2007. The shows were organized by SPLA headquarters inviting local and foreign musicians to go and boost the morale of the SPLA soldiers in their respective barracks throughout southern Sudan. Although Nyapal didn’t visit all the SPLA barracks, she performed jointly with Eritrean musicians at the SPLA military headquarters and the SPLA barrack at new site. In October 2007, Nyapal toured the SPLA barrack in Molbuok and Renk in Upper Nile state, where she performed with other southern Sudanese artists. Nyapal also performed in most national events organized by the government southern Sudan. In May 2008 she staged her show jointly with Kenyan artist in Nairobi under theme “Music for change”.

Nyapal is currently living in Nairobi where her husband is working. She is also taking intensive English Language course in Nairobi to improve her English. Nyapal hopes to be the best artist both locally and internationally.

Nyapal lual on a Photo Pose

Nyapal lual on a Photo Pose

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loyds said the UK economy had weakened Lloyds Banking Group has reported a £3.9bn ($6.3bn) loss for the first nine months of 2011, mainly due to the cost of settling claims for misselling payment protection insurance (PPI).

The pre-tax loss for the period ending 30 September compares with a profit of £2bn a year earlier.

Lloyds said that during the nine months it spent £3.2bn covering PPI claims.

Its total income for the period also fell 15% to £15.3bn, indicating a decline in business levels.

Lloyds said its latest results came against a backdrop of a weakening UK economic environment.

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Lloyds expects Mr HortaOsorio, who only took up the job in March, to return to his position before the end of the year.

Tim Tookey, who has taken up the chief executive role on an interim basis, said it was “very much business as usual” while Mr Horta was away.

He added: “There’s nothing that’s being stopped or paused while we go through these few weeks before we expect Antonio to return.”

Mr Tookey, who is due to leave Lloyds in February after handing in his resignation over the summer, said that Lloyds was continuing to strengthen its balance sheet and reduce costs. The government currently still holds a 41% stake in Lloyds.

Business editor Robert Peston said Lloyds was being hit by the slowdown in the UK economy, but he questioned whether it and fellow banks were also at fault.

“Some will say the banks are partly to blame for the sluggishness of the economic recovery, having pumped up the leverage in the boom years and now - in this era of so-called de-risking and deleveraging - starving businesses with good growth prospects of the credit they so badly need.”

He added that while Lloyds was meeting its lending targets to small and medium-sized firms, the banks appear unwilling to lend to the riskier, yet potentially highergrowth companies.

Mr Tookey also said that Lloyds was closely watching the financial turmoil in the eurozone “with a lot of caution”.

In the three months to 30 September, Lloyds reduced its exposure to Italian banks by one third to £1.2bn.

It has also cut its investments in banks in Spain, Portugal and the Republic of Ireland.

Lloyds’ share were up 6.6% in early trading

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he recent floods in Thailand have had a negative impact on Toyota’s results Second quarter profits at Japanese carmaker Toyota have fallen by 18.5% to 80.4bn yen (£642m; $1.03bn) due to supply problems caused by the recent floods in Thailand.

The company has withdrawn its profit and vehicles sales forecasts due to uncertainty over the flood impact.

A Toyota spokeswoman said lost output from the Thai floods from October would be about 150,000 vehicles.

They also said the strong yen was making its exports less competitive.

Disruption to the supply of parts caused by the floods have continued to effect production.

The company said it would halt operations in Thailand and reduce output in the US, Canada, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Pakistan.

Supply problems caused by the floods will not be over this year, Yuuki Sakurai, chief executive of Fukoku Capital Management in Tokyo told the BBC. “Floods sustain for quite a long time... recovery start from maybe the next year [2012],” he said.

These cutbacks have come at a time when Toyota was starting to ramp up global production to make up for lost

output after the earthquake and Tsunami in Japan in March.

However, Toyota Vice President Satoshi Ozawa said that although sales in Japan and the US had fallen due to these natural disasters, demand from emerging economies had made up some of the shortfall: “In Asia, despite a negative impact from the earthquake, we increased vehicle sales above the same period last fiscal year due to expanding sales in India, Indonesia and Thailand,” he said.

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on Dr Barnaba Marial Benjamin the minister for Information and Broadcasting said this week that the republic of South sudan welcomes and encourages only genuine investors to come and invest in the country. The minister made these remarks during a meeting with investors from Middle East in his office. Dr Marial said South Sudan is a virgin territory that needs a lot of investors but cautioned that it will only allow genuine investors who are willing and

able to operate under the established procedures and regulations for the benefit of the country.

He also clarified that contrary to popular belief petroleum is not the economic backbone of the country. He revealed that the true mainstay of the economy is agriculture. He encouraged the investors to prioritize the sector so as to boost food production in the country.

“South Sudan is an organic farm that does not even need fertilizers; it also receives adequate

rainfall over a period of eight months”, he said. The minister also encouraged potential investors to consider the wildlife and tourism sector.

The Middle East investors demonstrated interest in helping South Sudan especially in the energy, roads and cement production sectors.

They explained that the cement produced in Kapoeta, Eastern Equatoria, is one of the best given the high presence of gypsum (equivalent to 88.6%) in it.

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ichael Jackson’s personal physician, Dr Conrad Murray, has been found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of the star by a jury in Los Angeles.

A panel of seven men and five women took two days of deliberation to reach a verdict.

Michael Jackson died on 25 June 2009 from an overdose of the powerful anaesthetic propofol.

Murray, 58, could now receive a maximum prison term of four years and lose his licence to practise medicine.

There was a shriek in the courtroom as the verdict was read.

Outside the courthouse, the BBC’s Peter Bowes said that at the moment the verdict was read, the crowd along the street erupted with cheers and chanting.

Jackson’s family sat in the courtroom, weeping quietly. LaToya Jackson told the Associated Press news agency the family was overjoyed at the verdict.

“Michael was looking over us,” she said When the verdict was announced there was a stifled scream in the courtroom from the Jackson family entourage and a huge roar from the fans packed on to the pavement outside.

Police had to corral the crowds and shepherd the media from the main road as they gathered for the lunchtime verdict, crushed outside the court and clutching phones and touch pads to watch the announcement streamed live on the internet.

Some of the die-hard fans were in floods of tears as they celebrated the “relief” that “justice had been done”.

The jury of seven men and five women took less than a day and a half of deliberations to find Conrad Murray guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Murray was the man Michael Jackson entrusted as his personal doctor and the man who provided him with propofol - the anaesthetic drug he was using to get to sleep.

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LA District Attorney Steve Cooley said the verdict sent a strong message fans will have nothing to do now the trial is over, after having gathered each day in tribute to the king of pop and taken part in a daily lottery for a seat in the public gallery.But they’ll be back at the end of the month when Dr Murray will appear again for sentencing - he faces a maximum of four years in jail.

During the trial, Dr Mur-

ray’s lawyers argued that Jackson self-administered a lethal dose of the drug while he was out of the room.

Dr Murray was remanded in custody without bail until he receives his sentence, set for 29 November.

Explaining his decision, the judge said Dr Murray was now a convicted felon and had consider-

able ties outside the state of California, meaning he could not guarantee that the doctor would remain in the state.

Dr Murray sat silently in court, shifting slightly in his seat as the verdict was read out.

Court officers began to handcuff the physician as the judge made his final announcements, before leading him away into

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The jury - made up of one African American, six whites and five Hispanics - deliberated on Friday and through the morning on Monday.

Outside the court, fans of Michael Jackson were cheering and chanting, “Guilty! Guilty!” in the run-up to the verdict being announced. During the six-week trial, 49 witnesses and more than 300 pieces of evidence were presented to the court. Michael Jackson, who had been out of the public eye for several years, died in 2009 as he was preparing for a series of comeback performances at the O2 arena in London. LA District Attorney Steve Cooley said the verdict sent a strong message In his closing argument last Thursday, the prosecution said Dr Murray had caused the star’s death through negligence, depriving Jackson’s children of their father and the world of a “genius”. The defence argued that Jackson was a drug addict who caused his own death by giving himself an extra dose of propofol while the cardiologist was out of the room at the star’s rented mansion in Los Angeles.

However, lawyers for Dr Murray dropped a key argument midway through the trial - that the pop superstar had drunk the propofol. But they continued to argue that Jackson had somehow dosed himself otherwise.

Each side of the trial called their own expert witness on the anaesthetic drug, There is no law against administering propofol, but the prosecution’s case rested on the argument that Dr Murray was grossly negligent by doing so outside a hospital setting and without the proper monitoring equipment.

In some of the more shocking moments of the trial, the jury heard a recording of Jackson, sounding incoherent and slurred, speaking about his upcoming concert series, as well as viewing a photo of a lifeless Jackson on a gurney.

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surprise inspection in a prison in Mexico has revealed the presence of 19 prostitutes, 100 plasma televisions, two sacks of marijuana, and 100 cockerels for cock fighting.

The discovery in the prison in Acapulco came as police prepared to transfer the inmates to a maximum security jail.

The officers also found six female inmates living in the male section of the prison and two peacocks.

Mexican jails are notorious for overcrowding, corruption and rioting.

It is not the first time luxury items and weapons have been found in a Mexican jail.

In July, prisoners in a jail in Sonora state were found to be running a lottery to raffle off a luxury cell they’d equipped with a fridge, DVD player and air conditioning.

An inspector from the State Commission for the Defence of Human Rights, Hipolito Lugo Cortes, recently denounced conditions in five prisons in Guerrero state, among them the one in Acapulco.

He said inmates were running affairs at these penitentiaries according to their own laws and customs, with little or no control by prison authorities.

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n asteroid that is 400m (1,300ft) wide will pass by the Earth on Tuesday, closer to it even than the Moon.

It poses no danger to the Earth and it will be invisible to the naked eye.

Asteroid 2005 YU55’s closest approach, at a distance of 325,000km (202,000mi), will be at 23:28 GMT. It is the closest the asteroid has been in 200 years.

It is also the largest space rock fly-by the Earth

has seen since 1976; the next visit by such a large asteroid will be in 2028.

The aircraft-carrier-sized asteroid is incredibly darkly coloured in visible wavelengths and nearly spherical, lazily spinning about once every 20 hours as it races through our neighbourhood of the Solar System.

It will trace a path across the whole sky through to Thursday.

“This is the closest approach by an asteroid that large that we’ve

ever known about in advance,” said Lance Benner of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

But he stressed that there was no chance that the

Greek politicians in talks over PM and unity government

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reece’s political leaders are locked in debate over the formation of a unity government they hope can save the country from imminent bankruptcy.

PM George Papandreou is to stand down once the government is formed but his replacement has not yet been named.

The new leadership will be tasked with ratifying a vital EU bailout package.

Greece is under huge international pressure to resolve its political crisis, in order to calm the global markets and protect the eurozone.

An agreement on an interim leader had been expected on Monday but negotiations between Mr Papandreou and opposition leader Atonis Samaras, of the New Democracy party, had produced no announcement by Tuesday morning.

The country must accept the bailout if it is to avoid going bankrupt by the end of the year. But the deal demands stringent austerity measures and spending cuts which have proved hugely unpopular with many Greeks.

Mr Papandreou agreed to stand down on Sunday, after days of upheaval caused by his call - now revoked for a referendum on accepting the bailout.

He had since been trying to build a national unity government to replace his Pasok party administration, but Mr Samaras had been refusing to negotiate unless his rival resigned.

But the beginning of the formation of the government was finally announced after late-night talks on Sunday between both men, hosted by President Karolos Papoulias.

A Greek government spokesman said

a new administration would be sworn in and a confidence vote held within a week, if all went well.

Greece’s new political roadmap envisages elections being held - possibly on 19 February - once the new government has approved an EU bailout package.

Government figures spent Monday locked in discussions on the framework of the interim authority and their roles within it.

Lucas Papademos, a former deputy president of the European Central Bank (ECB), has been named as as potential interim prime minister, while Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos - for a time considered to be candidate - is expected to remain at the finance ministry.

The BBC’s Mark Lowen in Athens says there will be immense pressure on whoever takes over, while European leaders will be hoping that person will work with them in trying to contain the country’s debt crisis and prevent it from spreading further across the Eurozone.

Eurozone finance ministers held talks in Brussels on Monday, adding to the pressure on Greece to find an early solution to the political deadlock.

Mr Venizelos also attended the talks, telling reporters that the move towards a unity government was “proof of our commitment and of our national capacity to implement the programme and to reconstruct our country”.

Views of the Greek people: “When there’s an uprising, then things will change” But eurozone finance minister have asked for written assurances from Mr Papandreou and Mr Samaras that they are committed to passing the rescue package.

Eurozone chief Jean-Claude Juncker said he was “quite confident that now

pass would be anything other than a close encounter.

“2005 YU55 cannot hit Earth, at least over the interval that we can the situation in Greece is developing in the right direction” but that it “should have been done months ago”.

The EU says no more of the funds which have been promised to Greece will be released until the new bailout deal has been approved.

The hard-fought bailout deal for Greece agreed by the EU last month gives the government 130bn euros (£111bn; $178bn) and imposes a 50% write-off on private holders of Greek debts, in return for deeply unpopular austerity measures.

But Mr Papandreou faced the wrath of fellow EU leaders when he announced that he would put the deal to the people of Greece in a referendum The idea was dropped days later, but not without sparking a deeper financial crisis and triggering the political crisis which led to the confidence vote last Friday.

Mr Papandreou narrowly won that vote, but had been under continuing pressure to resign amid chaos over the debt crisis.

The possibility of Greece leaving the euro has also been raised by EU leaders, if Athens fails to resolve its political and financial problems.

There are fears that the crisis could spread to bigger eurozone countries like Italy.

compute the motion reliably - which extends for several hundred years,” he said.

Instead, the pass gives astronomers a rare opportunity to study the asteroid in detail.

In particular, two radio telescopes - the Goldstone Observatory in California, US and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, US - will be tracking radio echoes off it in a bid to understand better what it is made of and how it is shaped.

The precise details of the asteroid’s path will also help scientists to predict where it will go much farther into the future.

Amateur astronomers may catch a glimpse of it with telescopes of 15cm or larger, Nasa suggests.

The Earth has several regular visitors like 2005 YU55 - most famously the Apophis asteroid.

Apophis has in the past been claimed as a possible future impactor when it returns to our neighbourhood in 2029 and again in 2036.

There is, according to the latest calculations, no danger from Apophis either. However, it will pass much closer to the Earth on 13 April 2029 - at a distance of just 29,500km (18,300mi).

India stampede ‘kills 16’ at Haridwar festival

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t least 16 people were killed in a stampede in the holy northern Indian town of Haridwar.

The stampede happened at a religious ceremony observing the 100th anniversary of the birth of the founder of a Hindu sect.

Thousands have been attending the ceremony for Sri Ram Sharma, founder of the Gayatri Parivar sect.

Reports said the number of casualties could be higher.

TV pictures showed injured people being taken to hospital.

A senior local official, D Santhel Pandiyan, told Agence France-Presse news agency that 14 women and two men had died in the stampede. Forty-six others have been seriously injured.

“More worshippers turned up than the place could accommodate and so the stampede occurred,” Mr Pandiyan said.

Hemant Sahu, who works for the event organisers, said: “When the big ritual was going on, too many people rushed forward to make their offerings to the holy fire and the crowd got out of control.”

Reports said a number of people fell but the other pilgrims continued to push.

Haridwar, 173km (107 miles) north of Delhi, is a temple-filled town where the Ganges emerges from the Himalayan mountains and is considered a sacred Hindu city.

The huge numbers attending religious festivals in India make stampedes a frequent risk.

A stampede at a festival in the southern state of Kerala in January killed more than 100 people.

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Italy: Umberto Bossi urges Silvio Berlusconi to quit

ressure on Mr Berlusconi to resign is now coming from his main coalition partner Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s key coalition partner has urged him to step aside ahead of

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he UN’s atomic watchdog is planning to reveal evidence that Iran has been working secretly to develop a nuclear weapons capability, diplomats say.

The evidence is said to include intelligence that Iran made computer models of a nuclear warhead.

Iranian officials say the International Atomic Energy Agency report, due next week, is a fabrication.

Israeli officials have said a military option to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons is drawing nearer.

Diplomats, speaking anonymously, have been briefing journalists on the IAEA’s next quarterly report on Iran.

They said the report would also include satellite images of what

the IAEA believes is a large steel container used for high-explosives tests related to nuclear arms.

Iran says that its nuclear programme is exclusively to generate power for civilian purposes.

But the IAEA has reported for some years that there are unresolved questions about its programme and has sought clarification of Iran’s secretive nuclear activities.

Of next week’s report, one Western diplomat told Reuters news agency: “There are bits of it which clearly can only be for clandestine nuclear purposes. It is a compelling case.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said the alleged evidence was a fabrication and part of a multi-pronged US smear campaign against his

New setback’ for Palestinian hopes on UN membership

UN diplomat says the UK, France and Colombia have told Security Council members they would abstain in any vote on Palestinian membership.

None of these countries have officially confirmed this yet.

But their decision is a setback for the Palestinians, who have been trying to win support from European states.

A Council committee is considering a Palestinian application to become a UN member state and is expected to present its report next week.

Violence fears The UN diplomat said Britain, France and Colombia stated their positions in a private meeting of the Security Council committee dealing with the Palestinian application.

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country.

Israeli President Shimon Peres, when asked by Israeli television if “something was bringing us closer to a military option rather than a diplomatic one”, he replied: “I believe so.”

He continued: “I estimate that intelligence services of all these countries are looking at the ticking clock, warning leaders that there was not much time left.“Iran is nearing atomic weapons and in the time left we must turn to the world’s nations and demand [they] fulfil their promise... which is not merely passing sanctions.

What needs to be done must be done and there is a long list of options.”

Analysts say they believe Iran may still be several years away from having nuclear weapons.

a crucial budget vote.

Northern League leader Umberto Bossi is a volatile ally who brought down Mr Berlusconi’s first government in 1994.

Mr Berlusconi’s majority has crumbled ahead of the vote, with several MPs defecting or saying they will rebel.

Until now he has insisted he has enough support to be able to continue to govern and has denied he will resign.

While Italy’s deficit is relatively low, investors are concerned that the combination of Italy’s low growth rate and 1.9tn euro (£1.63tn; $2.6tn) debt could make it the next country to fall in the eurozone debt crisis.

“We asked the prime minister to stand aside,” Mr Bossi told reporters on the margins of parliament, adding that the former justice minister and personal protege of Mr Berlusconi, Angelino Alfano, should take over.

The normally routine vote on approving state finances has taken on much more significance now as a test of Mr Berlusconi’s political strength.

After late-night talks with his own party and Northern League leaders, Mr Berlusconi is reported to have said that he would wait to see the outcome of the vote before making a decision on his future.

One of Berlusconi’s closest allies, MP Francesco Cicchitto, told

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“One thing at a time.

First the vote, let’s let it happen. Then we’ll reflect on the vote,” Mr Cicchitto said.

Mr Berlusconi spent the morning attempting to shore up his support with those MPs who had threatened to abandon him ahead of the vote, which has now been delayed until 16:00 GMT. Borrowing costs spike Last month, the same budget measure was defeated in parliament by a single vote. Mr Berlusconi is reported to be short of the 316 votes - more than than half of the 630-member chamber - needed to prove that he still has a majority.

But analysts say Mr Berlusconi may still win as the centre-left may abstain, allowing the essential measure to pass.

Members of the opposition have said they will be present in the chamber, but will not vote, La Repubblica reports.

“Our message to the coalition is, ‘be counted’,” Pier Luigi Bersani, secretary of the centreleft Democratic Party said, according to the paper.

Were Mr Berlusconi to lose, he could either resign immediately or

be ordered by President Giorgio Napolitano to call a confidence vote.

The BBC’s Alan Johnston, in Rome, says it is certainly worth remembering that Mr Berlusconi is a master deal-maker and political infighter, having survived more than 50 confidence motions in the past.

But this crisis is different as it goes beyond Italian politics: it is instead linked to the international money markets, which have lost faith in Mr Berlusconi’s ability to fix the Italian economy, our correspondent says.

The markets are now forcing Italy to pay interest rates that could eventually ruin it, which means the pressure on Mr Berlusconi is extraordinary, he adds.

Doubt about Italy’s governance and its ability to repay its debts have sent the markets seesawing over the past two days.

On Tuesday, the cost of government borrowing spiked at a new record of 6.74% because of the crisis, just short of the 7% threshold at which Portugal and Ireland were forced to accept bailouts.

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Libra: 24th September – 23rd October When the want for security paralyses us from making the next logical move, we have effectively stopped growing and learning. To be too afraid of making mistakes, is the gravest mistake of all. It means that your focus is on the negative, and your past experience is being used as regret rather than a resource. To get something this week you have to give something else up. It’s that simple!

Scorpio: 24th October – 22nd November The Full Moon opposing your sign is bringing matters to a head. You discover exactly where you stand with others now, and may also receive more acknowledgment and credit late in the week. It’s a time to put something on show. Birthdays born at the very end of the sign, around November 19, have excellent travel indications, with lots of inspiration for the great escape

Sagittarius: 23rd November – 21st December Cerebral Mercury and accommodating Venus are meeting in your sign, and imparting the ability to charm apples off trees. They can accompany good news, and social niceties increasingly for the November born. The Full Moon in your house for duty and obligation brings work to the fore later in the week, and pro-active mars moving into your career house spells busy times ahead, with a competitive edge attached.

Capricorn: 22nd December – 20th January Get set for a busy week ahead. People around you can be looking for advice, or seeking your expertise to begin. This can provide real inroads in the career sense, and positions of greater responsibility can be in the offing. Playing your emotional cards close to your chest is important Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Full Moon is lighting up the social side of your solar scope by Friday

Aquarius: 21stJanuary – 19th February A new idea, most likely attached to your work, or immediate ambitions, is being put to the test. You may not know until the end of the week exactly how this is going to pan out. It is going to require some effort, and the results are initially uncertain, but that shouldn’t keep you from trying. You can always make adjustments from the feedback.

HEALTH

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Magic Johnson still beating HIV 20 years later

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f Magic Johnson had known just how well he could live with HIV, he wouldn’t have retired from the Lakers on Nov. 7, 1991.

Johnson would never change what he did for the fight against the HIV/ AIDS epidemic when he publicly revealed his diagnosis to a stunned world. His courage that day, along with two subsequent decades of vibrant living, forever altered attitudes about the virus and its effects.

Magic is simply glad the world knows such happy endings are possible with access to treatment and vigilance.

“At that time, it was the right decision,” Johnson said Monday on the 20th anniversary of his stunning retirement.

“If I knew what I knew today, that I could still play basketball and do my thing, I probably

wouldn’t have retired.

But I’m a guy that doesn’t have regrets.

I don’t look back. I’m happy, because I wanted to be here a long time.

We made the right call at that time.”

Johnson recognized the occasion at Staples Center on Monday with an upbeat celebration and a message of steadfastness. Dozens of politicians, celebrities and Lakers greats from Jerry West and Pat Riley to James Worthy and Michael Cooper joined Johnson and AIDS researcher David Ho for a luncheon, and the Magic Johnson Foundation announced a $1 million gift to continue its mission for worldwide HIV awareness and testing.

Two decades after his shocking admission and quick retirement at 32, Johnson’s doctors

say he’s a 52-year-old specimen of health, comfortably managing HIV with a daily regimen of drugs and exercise.

While he once took upwards of 15 pills several times a day, he now requires just a few daily medications.

He rises around 5 a.m. each day for a vigorous workout — everything from stretching and running to Tae Bo — before spending his days overseeing his large business empire.

Yet Johnson worries his strong health could encourage complacency, and he sees the anniversary of his historic announcement as a call to renew dedication to the cause.

“I often say I’m good for the virus, and bad for it,” Johnson said.

“Good because I’m doing well, and that I can go out and try and raise

the awareness level, get people to go get tested ... but on the flip side of that, people see that I’m doing well, so they’ve kind of relaxed on HIV and AIDS. People think that now if they get the virus, they’ll do well, but a couple million will die this year.”

While Johnson mostly remembers a feeling of confidence derived from the unflinching support of his wife, Cookie, on the day of his announcement, his fellow Lakers have no trouble recalling the shock and confusion they felt 20 years ago.

“It stunned me, and I think I was only semiconscious,” Lakers owner Jerry Buss said.

“The whole day is just like a blur in my mind.

I remember Kareem (Abdul-Jabbar) had to assist me. I don’t think I had enough blood in the

brain.”

Worthy remembers the Lakers being sent from practice at Loyola Marymount to the Forum, with no idea why. The power forward wondered whether West was retiring from his executive job, or perhaps Johnson was seriously injured after missing the previous week of practice.

“When he announced, it was a reality check, because at that time, it could have been anybody,” Worthy said. “A lot of people started to wonder about themselves, especially people who had never been tested before. ...

He’s taught us all a valuable lesson. Back in the early ‘90s, you thought it was a death (sentence). You thought it was over. To see him put meaning on a disease that only had one

meaning, that was great.”

Ho, a pioneering researcher who grew up in Los Angeles idolizing West and Elgin Baylor, said he met Johnson “on one of his darkest days” after his diagnosis.

Ho has always been impressed by Johnson’s upbeat willingness to acknowledge his condition, using himself to raise funds for research and treatment.

Ho also shot down the long-held suspicion that Johnson easily managed the virus because his wealth and celebrity gave him access to preferential treatment. Johnson’s condition is “quite typical” at this point in the virus’ treatment, he said.b“All of us working in the field are grateful to him and his foundation for doing so, because this is a plague that continues to rage,” Ho said.

Mass polio vaccination campaign kicks off in S. Sudan

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mass Polio vaccination of children less than five years old has began in South Sudan on Tuesday as health officials and development partners seek to make Africa’s newest nation free from the deadly disease that cripples children.

The four-day campaign, targeting an estimated three million children is spearheaded by the country’s health ministry in partnership with United Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO), US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Japanese government and Center for Disease Control (CDC).

At least two drops of the vaccine is administered per child. To be successful immunisation campaign will be conducted four times a year.

In his address during last week’s colourful launch of the campaign, Dr. Michael Millie Hussein, South Sudan’s health minister remained optimistic that the house to house initiative make the country polio free.

A total of 20,000 volunteers, Dr. Hussein added, have been earmarked to embark on the nationwide exercise, which takes place from 8-12 November.

“This Polio campaign is very timely in that

it remains in line with the health ministry’s 100 days programme of effective service delivery initiated by president Salva Kiir,” said Dr. Hussein, lauding the various development partners for their contributions.

To-date, over 720,000 children have reportedly benefited from this Polio vaccination campaign, believed to have achieved 72% coverage across South Sudan. The last Polio case, officials told Sudan Tribune, was reported 27 months ago.

Pelucy Ntambirweki, UNICEF’s chief of programmes said she was overwhelmed by the turnout of parents at the

A child Being Immunised campaign launch and pledged the organisations firm commitment to make South Sudan a Polio free society

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Black and Tan Coonhound named Harbor has the longest ears of any living dog, with measurements of 12.25 inches for the left ear and 13.5 inches for the right.

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afirah, a 3-year-old girl in the City of Parepare, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, got metal objects like nails and needles embedded in her legs mysteriously.

A few months earlier, this little girl had complained of pain in both of her legs. Finally, his mother took her to the hospital, doctors decided to scan her legs. The x-ray results showed strange objects looked like nails and needles embedded in her legs.

Surgery operation to remove the nails took two hours to finish.

There were 27 metals were detected in her body, which the 26 of them were success-

ful removed. The last one was planted in her back that not been remove because it embedded in a critical area that could damage nerves in the spine, so it should be carefully to do.

Doctors could not explain in the medical conditions, the presumption is the metals are intentionally inserted into Safirah’s body. So, it is still mystery how the strange metal objects got into her body. Her family believed no one put the things into her legs. Even both of her legs were no marks or scars.

The same strange condition occurred in Samarinda, East Kalimantan. Syaidah Noer, a

40-year-old woman, had aches and pains in the abdomen since 1991. Since then some wires began to appear from her stomach and got longer and longer. Sometimes she had to cut the wires herself if they got too long.

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ussian police are investigating a man living with the remains of more than two dozen women who were dug up from their graves. (Photo credit: Getty Images) Police have arrested a Russian journalist and historian after authorities discovered the remains of about 26 corpses in his apartment.

Anatoly Moskvin, 45, was detained in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod after police

found his small apartment filled with decaying remains, according to The Telegraph.

Moskvin had a fascination with cemeteries and had visited more than 750 of them, according to the Telegraph. He was apparently writing a book about the region’s cemeteries.

Moskvin reportedly dressed the corpses in women’s clothing as if they were dolls. The corpses were apparently all of young women

between the ages of 15 and 25.

The Telegraph said this morbid collection was initially discovered by Moskvin’s parents when they returned from their summer house to the apartment they share with their son.

Police said it appeared that Moskvin had dug up two local graveyards to get the skeletal remains.

ose Mourinho’s Real Madrid appear ready to overcome Barcelona in La Liga It may be early in the day, but after overcoming a blip in the first few rounds of the Primera Division campaign, Real Madrid are already starting to look like champions.

The men in white have been in imperious form in recent weeks, and if they can emerge unscathed from their next five fixtures, the title could well be returning to the capital Early on Sunday, Madrid showed no signs of sleepiness as they swept aside Osasuna 7-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu.

That’s 10 wins in a row for Jose Mourinho’s men now in all competitions - and seven on the spin in the Primera Division. Championship form.

Madrid’s pre-season preparations had been immaculate and expectations were raised following two promising performances against Barca in the Spanish Supercopa series, even if the Catalans eventually edged out their rivals 5-4 on aggregate.

Slipping up | Barca remain unbeaten in La Liga, but the Catalans are dropping points Soon, the two will meet again this time in the league. And on this occasion, unlike in the last few seasons, the first league fixture between the two eternal enemies takes place in Madrid.

And if Jose Mourinho’s men can preserve their three-point advantage until then, the Catalans really cannot afford to lose it.

Under Pep Guardiola, Barca boast five wins and a draw over their fiercest foes in La Liga. But the tide could be turning. The Catalans lost out to Madrid in the final of the Copa del Rey last season, while the teams’ Champions League semi-final tie was decided by Pepe’s dismissal and Lionel Messi’s masterclass after the defender’s departure.

Madrid extended their lead over Barca on Sunday to three

Realmadrid Team is on fire this season points after the champions could only draw at Athletic Bilbao. And Guardiola has never been that far behind before. In fact, you have to go back 125 games since Madrid held such an advantage over Barca.

That’s why Madrid president Florentino Perez brought in Mourinho. And it’s why the Portuguese has been allowed to assume almost complete control at the capital club. It’s the only way Real can topple this Barca side, who are perhaps the greatest team in history.

Mourinho has that glint in his eye. The Portuguese may have lost his cool in the Supercopa as he poked Barca assistant Tito Vilanova in the face, but he exudes calm now and his side have looked devastating since an early-season defeat at Levante and a draw away to Racing Santander in their next match. In total, they have scored a massive 39 league goals, too - five more than Guardiola’s men.

The next five fixtures are huge. Madrid travel to in-form Valencia following the international break, before a derby clash at home to Atletico Madrid and then a trip to Sporting Gijon, who ended Mourinho’s

nine-year unbeaten home record by winning at the Santiago Bernabeu last season.

Last term, Madrid led Barca ahead of the teams’ first fixture at Camp Nou. But Mourinho’s men were humiliated in the Catalan capital as they lost 5-0.

They never recovered. This time, the sides meet in Madrid and it’s a very different Real to the one humbled last November. And while Real seem less reliant on Cristiano Ronaldo, Barca appear to depend increasingly on Lionel Messi.

The Argentine has played in every single match this season and surely needs a rest soon.

Less tricky fixtures against Zaragoza, Getafe and Levante may allow Guardiola to rotate his squad ahead of the Clasico, but if Madrid keep winning, the Catalans will have to win at the Bernabeu just to restore parity. And they also have the added distraction of the Club World Cup to contend with in that time.

The next month, then, will go a long way to deciding the outcome of this season’s Liga. And at the moment, it’s starting to look like Madrid and Mourinho may have the last laugh.

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Real Madrid’s Angel Di Maria faces one-month layoff due to hamstring injury The Argentina international picked up a knock in Sunday’s La Liga win over Osasuna and could be unavailable for about four weeks Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho has received some disturbing news on the injury front in the aftermath of his side’s 7-1 La Liga win over Osasuna on Sunday afternoon, as winger Angel Di Maria sustained a hamstring problem in the match and will be sidelined for up to one month, AS reports.

The former Benfica ace impressed in the first half of Madrid’s victory as he created three goals, but was forced to leave the pitch in the 49th minute after picking up a knock.

Di Maria will undergo

further examination on Monday to clarify the exact extent of the problem, but Mourinho fears he will have to make do without the winger for a while.

“He has a hamstring injury. We will have to wait for results of further tests, but I have enough experience to realise that he will be unavailable for some time,” the Portuguese coach said during the post-match press conference.

Di Maria has withdrawn from the Argentina squad for the upcoming 2014 World Cup qualifiers at home versus Bolivia on November 11 and away against Colombia four days later due to the injury.

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AC Milan’s Kevin-Prince Boateng quits Ghana national team PROMOTIONAL ITEMS

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he AC Milan midfielder, who played for Ghana at the 2010 World Cup, said that physical demands of playing for both club and country at a high level are taking a toll on his health AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng has decided to quit the Ghana national team, the country’s FA has confirmed.

The FA announced on its official website that it has received a letter to that effect. Officials have refused to comment on the sudden turn of events, but a statement revealed that a decision is yet to be taken.

According to Boateng, the physical demands of playing for both club and

country at a high level have taken a toll on his health.

The player also explained that in order to remain healthy and avoid injuries, he has consulted his doctors and family over the matter and has decided to take the decision to excuse himself from national duties since he is on a special training regime that he has to interrupt in order to honour national team invitations, a statement added.

Boateng chose to play for Ghana before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, where he scored against the USA and gained fame as a Black Stars player with fantastic performances in midfield.

Jack Wilshere: I promise to stay at Arsenal

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he midfielder is currently out with an ankle injury but says he could return in December and hopes to be part of the Gunners recent revival and long term future When asked if he could promise he would stay with the Gunners ‘forever’ the 19-year old made clear how much the club meant to him.

He told iFilm London: “I

promise that, yeah. I’ve been at the club since I was nine and learned to love it.

“From the [Patrick] Vieira days, to [Dennis] Bergkamp, [Cesc] Fabregas, I’ve watched them come through and move on. There’s a crop of new players, [Aaron] Ramsey, myself, Kieran Gibbs… hopefully we can really create something special.

“I love the club and I want to be part of its future.”

Wilshere has been frustrated by his recent injury progress but looked forward to getting back into the team and helping to improve on a disappointing end to last season.

“It’s going really slow at the minute and obviously I’m

really frustrated,” he continued.

“I should be back in training by mid-December, then I can crack on and it’s up to the boss when he picks me.

“It’s massively frustrating, especially after last year when we were so close to winning a trophy.

“We beat Barcelona at home and everything seemed to be going well and it ended sadly.

“I was looking forward to this season; I really thought we could push on and do something. To get a setback is massively frustrating but I’ll be back in December and hopefully we can push on from then.”

The England midfielder also hailed the Gunners’ turn around in form as they continue to shake off a sloppy start.

He added: “We seem to get better and better every week. We had a bad start to the season and everyone knows that. I’m not going to lie and say we did well, we didn’t” “The boys had to play together, they’re new players some of them. We seem to be getting better and better every week.

“Today [vs WBA] was probably one of our best performances. We passed it around like the old Arsenal and we seem to be back to winning ways.”

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