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South Sudan court sets free four senior politicians accused of treason


April 25, 2014 (JUBA) – A South Sudanese court has freed four politicians accused of plotting to overthrow president Salva Kiir by military force after the government dropped treason charges.

The court order read out a request by the ministry of justice asking it to drop the case against all four officials, explaining the decision was made “in order to promote peace and reconciliation among our people”.

The president of the special court, Judge James Alala Deng, said the court had accepted the government’s request to stay the case and release the officials in the interests of the nation.

Former security minister Oyay Deng Ajak, former secretary-general of South Sudan’s ruling party (SPLM) Pagan Amum Okiech, former defence minister Majak D’Agoot and former US envoy Ezekiel Lol Gatkouth have been in detention for the past four months after being accused of masterminding the alleged coup plot with a number of other senior officials, including former vice-president turned rebel leader Riek Machar.

“Based on the report and request by the government … the court decided to stay the process and release the officials who were on trial,” Deng announced amid celebrations.

The release comes after justice minister Paulino Wanawilla Unango announced on Thursday that the leadership had decided to drop treason charges in a move aimed at ending conflict, which erupted in mid-December last year following escalating political tensions between Kiir and Machar.

However, the government said it will maintain similar charges against Machar, former Unity State governor Taban Deng Gai and former environment minister Alfred Lado Gore, all of whom have been charged in absentia.

CELEBRATIONS IN COURT

Supporters, relatives and friends and relatives of the accused were in court to hear the decision, with the announcement greeted with jubilation.

Some of the officials were carried on the shoulders of supporters through the crowd, who described the decisions as “an honour to [the country’s] justice system”.

Speaking to journalists shortly his release, Amum, said he welcomed the government’s decision, expressing hope peace could be restored in the fractured country.

“This decision marks the beginning of a serious work and the search for peace. We will now work with all the parties and the stakeholders to bring peace to this country,” he said.

“We will make necessary contacts with the government and those in the opposition to end this senseless war that is killing our people,” added Amum, who was previously considered a powerful figure within the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

“We have to return South Sudan to peace and stability as a matter of priority and we must do it now to avoid more death and endless suffering,” he said.

ALLEGATIONS UNPROVEN

Amum maintained that the group had been arrested and imprisoned without valid reasons, while lead defence lawyer Monyluak Alor said the decision vindicated his clients of any wrongdoing.

“Really what happened was legally unbelievable. There was no single legal evidence to prove the allegations,” Alor told journalists outside the court.

“They are innocent. They were witch hunted, but justice has prevailed. We accept their release because peace and reconciliation are paramount now,” he added.

In a separate statement, presidential spokesperson Ateny Wek Ateny said that the decision was a significant step as rebels would no longer be able to use the release of the officials as a precondition for peace talks.

“This is a significant step because the issue of the four suspects of the coup attempt cannot be used by the party as a ploy to stay away from negotiating in good faith,” Ateny told reporters.

It will definitely bridge the gap between the parties at the negotiation table in Addis Ababa when these talk resume,” he added.

The presidential aide added the decision would now reduce international pressure on the government, as well as expedite efforts aimed at ending the conflict.

“The international community has been calling for their release and the government has been studying and evaluating the genuineness of these calls … We want to see if it can give chance for peace to come to South Sudan,” he said.

WEAK CASE

Meanwhile, veteran journalist and editor of the Juba-based Daily Monitor Alfred Taban said the government’s case had been weak.

“The release of these people is a significant step. It will encourage peaceful dialogue and promotion of reconciliation. It also means that the government does not want to be embarrassed by the ruling of the court because the government had a weak case,” said Taban, adding that prosecution witnesses had failed to establish the group had participated in the alleged coup.

Charges were also dropped against seven other senior SPLM officials, who were released into the care of neighbouring Kenya in January.

Fighting in South Sudan initially broke out in the capital, Juba, between rival members of the presidential guard.

The fighting rapidly escalated, pitting government troops loyal to Kiir against defectors and ethnic militia aligned with Machar, who was sacked last July.

The UN has threatened to impose targeted sanctions on South Sudan’s warring parties amid worsening violence and human right abuses.

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S. Sudan drops charges against four treason suspects

Steeling in day light.

ولاية الجزيرة ولاية عصابة النصب والإحتيال












04-24-2014 03:09 AM

عماد شبارقة



ولاية الجزيرة تعتلي عرش الفساد تحت قيادة أمير مؤمنيها البروفيسور الزبير بشير طه, وكما تابع القراء خلال الاسابيع المنصرمة وروائح الفساد التي ازكمت الانوف وكان بطلها وزيرة مالية ولاية الجزيرة, وفي الوقت الذي توقع فيه الكثيرين أن تشكل له محاكمة فورية لتتم محاسبته ,فاذا بوالي الجزيرة يعني وزير ماليته الفاسد المفسد نائبا له, كأن ولاية الجزيرة أصبحت ضيعه من ضيعاته يتصرف فيها بيعا ورهنا وتعيينا.

وكما أكرم السيد الوالي وزير ماليته واصل مسيرة فساده النتن تمت ترقية مستشارة والذي تم دفع مبلغ 10ملايين و780 الف جنيه ثمنا لتكلفة مكالماته ليصبح وزيرا للثقافه والاعلام.



وتواصل سيل الفساد لتتم ترقية ( أ.ي ) من الدرجة السادسة الى الدرجة الاولى لانه متزوج من ثلاث نساء ليصبح مديرا للاستثمار بالولاية وكل مؤهلات هذا الامير أنه ابن شيخ يتم اللجوء اليه في عمليات الدجل والشعوذة. ويواصل والي الجزيرة فساده ليقوم بترقية معتمد أم القرى الى وزير للبيئة في الولاية, رغم علم السيد الوالي بأن هناك اكثر من 10 بلاغات جنائيه مفتوحه ضد وكلها تتعلق بارتداد شيكات مصرفيه,



أما وزير المالية فلدية ملف حافل بمغتنيات من أراضي ومال لايقدر بثمن وشراكة مشبوهة مع كرار التهامي والمحامي (الحرامي ) عمر نقد و محمود المشرف و عصام الخواض ( دريم لاند ) و معاوية البرير و عبد الله عباس ( صاحب الخرفان ) و أمير كيلا ( صاحب التسويةالمشهورة )



وسوف ننشر كل المستندات الخاصة به قريبا فـ (ص.ط ) الآن لديه حساب شخصي في بنك أبوظبي الوطني جملته (370.000) دولار و حساب آخر في بنك بيبلوس جملته (400.085 ) دولار بالإضافة إلي عمارتين تحت الإنشاء بالخرطوم و واحدة بمدني والمقاول الذي يعمل معه في البناء هو ( أ.ق ) وكل هذه عمولات من معاوية البرير وآخرون في ملفات ( تخفيضات تغيير الغرض )و الزبير الدرويش ما جايب خبر لأنه الوزير ورئيس النيابة قاما بقتل ملف تزوير لشقيق الوالي ( ياسر بشير طه ) بالبلاغ رقم (4334) بتاريخ 25 / 12 /2012 لعدد (90) قطعة ارض بمربع (306) بمدني وتمت سرقة ملف القضية من داخل المحكمة بصفقة مع رئيس الجهاز القضائي وكوفيء في مقابل ذلك بحصوله على قطعة أرض بحي المنيرة

ونواصل غدآ بإذن الله

Humans and the background.

Humans May Have Dispersed Out of Africa Earlier Than Thought


Modern humans may have dispersed in more than one wave of migration out of Africa, and they may have done so earlier than scientists had long thought, researchers now say.

Modern humans first arose between 100,000 and 200,000 years ago in Africa. But when and how the modern human lineage then dispersed out of Africa has long been controversial.

Scientists have suggested the exodus from Africa started between 40,000 and 70,000 years ago. However, stone artifacts dating to at least 100,000 years ago that were recently uncovered in the Arabian Desert suggested that modern humans might have begun their march across the globe earlier than once suspected.

Out of Africa models

To help solve this mystery, Katerina Harvati, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany, and her colleagues tested four competing out-of-Africa models. Two models involved a single dispersal — one involved a route northward, up the Nile River valley and then eastward across the northern end of the Arabian Peninsula into Asia; the other involved a "beachcomber" route along the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula into Asia. Two other models involved multiple dispersals, with both models involving routes along the northern and southern ends of the Arabian Peninsula — one involved connections and gene flow between these routes, and the other did not.

The investigators used these models to predict how much the genes and skull measurements of different groups in Africa, Asia and Australia might have diverged from one another given how separated they were by space and time. Then, the researchers compared these predictions with actual gene and skull data from 10 African, Asian and Australian human populations.

The researchers found that both the genetic and skull data supported a multiple-dispersal model involving several migrations.

"It is really exciting that our results point to the possibility of a multiple-dispersals model of modern humans out of Africa," Harvati said. "A multiple-dispersals scenario, with earlier modern humans leaving Africa as early as 130,000 before present, can perhaps account for part of the morphological and genetic patterns that we see among modern human populations."

The first wave of migrations probably followed the southern coast of the Arabian Peninsula as early as 130,000 years ago to Australia and the west Pacific region, while the second wave traveled along the northern route about 50,000 years ago, the researchers said. These waves of migration appear relatively isolated from each other.

"Australian Aborigines, Papuans and Melanesians were relatively isolated after the early dispersal along the southern route," study lead author Hugo Reyes-Centeno, of the University of Tübingen, said in a statement. Other Asian populations apparently descended from members of the later northern wave of migration, the researchers said.

The delay between these waves of migration could be due to ancient environmental factors, "specifically climatic conditions that might have impeded the crossing of the Arabian Peninsula, such as desert conditions," Harvati said.

Ancient environmental factors might not only have prevented migrations, but also spurred them, Havarti said.

"For example, the documentation of severe droughts throughout eastern Africa between about 75,000 to 135,000 years ago could have encouraged a dispersal into other parts of Africa as well as outside of the continent," Harvati said. "More favorable conditions within Africa could have limited migrations out of the continent between 75,000 to 50,000 years ago."



Effects of interbreeding



The researchers cautioned that interbreeding between modern humans and other lineages of humans might influence the results of this new study. For example, instances of interbreeding with the now-extinct Denisovan lineage might have introduced ancient genes into certain modern human groups, perhaps making them look as if they left Africa earlier than they actually did.

"Our study did not specifically test for hybridization with archaic humans, and, of course, it is possible that such admixture could contribute to our results," Harvati said. "We feel, however, that the very low levels of admixture that have been proposed are not sufficient to drive our findings."

The researchers said continued fieldwork and genetic advancements might help confirm this model of multiple, relatively isolated waves of migration.

"The story of human evolution tends to be simplified," Harvati said. "However, more complex models, such as multiple dispersals versus a single dispersal out of Africa, gain strength as more data and new methods become available."

"Further fieldwork in the region of the southern route — for example, the Arabian Peninsula, southeast Asia, Melanesia — is essential in order to further understand the timing and route of early modern human dispersals," Harvati said. "Of course, this is a vast geographical space that has been largely understudied, but it is crucial in developing our knowledge of the first Eurasians."

The scientists detailed their findings online April 21 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.



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