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09 Feb 2012
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Yemen
The financial cost of the February 21 elections

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Yemen Times

Shatha Al-Harazi (author)

With the presidential election fast approaching, Vice President Abd Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s short electoral campaign is already in motion.

The campaign, which started on Tuesday, February 7, will last until February 20.

The election is not understood to be democracy in action, but rather a move to shift ruling power away from outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

09 Feb 2012
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Yemen
Human Rights minister vows to shut down private jails

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Yemen Times

Shatha Al-Harazi (author)

SANA’A, Feb. 8 – Hooria Mashour, Minister of Human Rights in the interim government, has promised to close Yemen’s private and secret jails run by officials and tribal sheikhs.

At present the number of these unofficial jails – or any detailed information on their locations – is not known. However, the ministry will begin work on the jails they already have information about. Both the Interior Ministry and the Justice Ministry will work to close down the illegal jails.

09 Feb 2012
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Yemen
Houthi-Salafi fighting claims 39 lives

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Yemen Times

Mohamed Bin Sallam (author)

SANA’A, Feb. 8 – An estimated 39 people have been killed and many more injured in the latest round of clashes between Houthis and Salafis in Hajjah.

Fighting broke out in the town – which sits 127km from the capital Sana’a - on Sunday, with local sources claiming that Houthi fighters carried out a surprise attack against Ahim, a town located in Keshir in east Hajjah. Clashes continued from dawn on Sunday February 5 until late Monday night.

09 Feb 2012
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South Sudan (Republic of)
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Khartoum and Juba sign memo to repatriate 300 to South Sudan

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Sudan Tribune

February 8, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government and its counterpart in South Sudan have inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to transport more than 300 southern citizens living in north Sudan back to their country.

Sudan denationalized its former southern citizens following their massive vote in favor of the secession of their region in a plebiscite held in January 2010. The vote was promised under a 2005 peace deal that ended nearly half a century of intermittent civil wars between the Arab-Muslim north and the predominantly Christian south.

09 Feb 2012
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Israel
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The tribulations of being an Ethiopian Jew

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TEL AVIV, 9 February 2012 (IRIN) - Growing up in Israel, Shai Siun became accustomed to being called a "nigger".

Siun, 32, has lived in Israel most of his life, but says he and other Ethiopian Jews are treated differently from other Israelis: factories do not want to employ them; landlords refuse them; and certain schools turn away their children.

"The word discrimination doesn't describe what we experience. There is another word for it: racism. It is a shame that we still have to use this word today," he told IRIN.

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