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Death toll rises to 27: Married couple found dead under rubble in Gaza
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GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinian Civil Defense and ambulance crews were able to recover the bodies of a married Palestinian couple from the rubble of the completely destroyed buildings, which were targeted by Israeli warplanes, bringing the death toll in the Gaza Strip to 27, on Monday.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza confirmed that the two bodies recovered from under the rubble were husband and wife, identified as Talal Abu al-Jadyan and Raghda Muhammad Abu al-Jadyan.

Talal and Raghda’s 12-year-old son, Abdul Rahman al-Jadyan, was also killed several hours earlier due to the Israeli airstrikes.

The bodies of Talal and Raghda were transferred to the Indonesian Hospital, in northern Gaza, were they were pronounced dead.

#Palestine_assassinée

السديس صابا جام غضبه على العودة والقرني ومعتقلي الرأي ومحذّرا من نفثات الحاقدين ونقد الحاسدين وتغريدات المأزومين ونعيق المهزومين : هم المتنكرون لدينهم وهويتهم الخائنون لأوطانهم وبلادهم الخارجون على ولاة أمرهم وأئمتهم.. أما علموا أن أناملهم مستنطقة وأياديهم مستشهدة | رأي اليوم
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Sans surprise, il n’y a pas beaucoup de solidarité entre les prédicateurs stars saoudiens. Abdul Rahman al-Sudais, l’imam en chef de La Mekke, étrille ses confrères en prison (et passibles de la peine de mort) en les traitant notamment d’ingrats !

#arabie_saoudite

1 Palestinian killed, dozens more injured with live ammunition during Israeli raid in Nablus
Feb. 7, 2018 12:51 P.M. (Updated: Feb. 8, 2018 11:21 A.M.)
▻http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=779829

NABLUS (Ma’an) — A young Palestinian man died on Tuesday night after succumbing to wounds he sustained earlier in the afternoon during clashes with Israeli forces in the al-Jabal a-Shamali area of Nablus City in the northern occupied West Bank.

Head of the Al-Najah Governmental Hospital in Nablus told Ma’an that Khaled Walid Tayeh , 22, from Iraq al-Tayeh village near Nablus, died of a critical gunshot wound to the chest.

Israeli forces had raided the al-Jabal al-Shamali as part of their manhunt for the Palestinian teen suspected of stabbing and killing an Israeli settler on Monday.

Locals told Ma’an that forces surrounded a building in search of the suspect, 19-year-old Abd al-Karim Adel Assi, a Palestinian citizen of Israel. Israeli forces surrounded two houses in the area, one of the suspect’s family and another home allegedly belonging to Assi’s friends.

During the raid, clashes erupted between Palestinian youth in the area and Israeli forces, who heavily fired live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets and tear gas at youth.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said that 110 injuries were reported during the raid: 32 of them with live bullets, 26 with rubber-coated steel bullets, 51 with severe tear gas inhalation, and one youth who was run over by an Israeli military jeep.

#Palestine_assassinée

» Israeli Soldiers Kill One Palestinian, Injure Eight And Abduct Four, Near Jenin
IMEMC News - February 4, 2018
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Israeli soldiers killed, Saturday, one Palestinian, injured at least eight others, and abducted four, in addition to demolishing a room and a barn, during a massive invasion into Burqin town, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.

The Palestinian Health Ministry has confirmed that, on Saturday evening, the soldiers shot Ahmad Samir Abu ‘Obeid , 19, with a live round in his head, in Wadi Burqin, west of Jenin city.

The young man suffered a very serious injury, before medics rushed him to Jenin Governmental Hospital, where he died from his wounds.

The Ministry added that the soldiers also shot two young Palestinian men with live rounds in their legs, and six others with rubber-coated steel bullets, in addition to causing dozens to suffer the severe effects of teargas inhalation, after the army attacked locals, who protested the invasion.

The army also abducted four young Palestinian men, and demolished a room and a barn, in addition to causing damage to several structures and cars, before withdrawing from the town.

The WAFA Palestinian News Agency reported that the invasion was carried out by twenty-two armored military vehicles, and two bulldozers, and added that the soldiers invaded and ransacked many homes, and used K9 units in searching the properties, causing anxiety attacks among many Palestinians, especially children.

After the army withdrew from the town, hundreds of Palestinians marched in Ahmad’s funeral procession, while chanting against the ongoing Israeli military occupation and escalation and for ongoing struggle until liberation and independence.

#Palestine_assassinée

The incredible story behind the Syrian protest singer everyone thought was dead
▻http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/syria-civil-war

Vous avez aimé la Gay Girl of Damascus ? Voici maintenant Qashoush, le faux poète de la révolution égorgé par le régime ? (Il y a des travaux universitaires sur son oeuvre, en France !) Bientôt peut-être on connaîtra l’histoire de la petite Twitteuse (anglophone) d’Alep, et même peut-être celle des enfants aux ongles arrachés de Deraa. Ca nous rappellera les bébés dans les couveuses de Koweït City, entre autres. #propagande #syrie

So how come a blatantly false story went around Syria and the world? “I don’t know who spread the rumour,” Farhood told me, with uncharacteristic irritation. “I hope I find him.” But it was someone from the Local Coordinating Committees, the new- media-friendly opposition outfits receiving ad hoc support from the US and other western governments, who was quoted in newspaper articles in support of the story.

The Syrian conflict was the first real YouTube war, where much of what we see comes via the grainy lens of a smartphone. Early on in the uprising some of Syria’s activists had put their faith in it to get their message out. They were encouraged to do so by foreign governments and well-meaning NGOs. As the vogue for “media activism” in western capitals developed, scores of young Syrians were invited to Turkey and paid up to ten times the Syrian national wage to make new media against the Syrian regime. None of it did their revolt any good. The resulting wall of made-for-YouTube agitprop compromised many young politicos and distracted them from the hard work of persuading their fellow Syrians away from the devil they knew. And in the end, when faced with the might of the Syrian regime and war-hardened Islamists, it turned out to be a very weak weapon anyway.

Anti-Wahhabism spreading in Muslim world
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/09/anti-wahhabism-shiism-sufism-muslims-world-saudi-sunnism.html

Such a tone is not new in the Salafi-Wahhabi discourse. It dates back to the old history of Wahhabism in the kingdom continuing to the present time. When Abdul-Aziz bin Baz was grand mufti from 1962-1999, he deemed Shiites apostates on several occasions, including in official fatwas and speeches. Ibn Jibreen, the oldest member of the Council of Senior Scholars when he died around age 76 in 2009, issued several fatwas stating that Shiites are polytheists who have deviated from Islam, saying they “deserve to be killed” if they reveal their beliefs. The council is the highest religious authority in the kingdom. Other fatwas from influential and living clerics in the kingdom such as Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Barrak called for considering Shiites apostates, secluding them, treating them with hatred and banning humanitarian aid from reaching them.

#faux_musulmans #anti-wahhabisme

U.S.-backed rebels launched their first attack against Islamic State. They lost.
▻http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-syria-us-rebels-20160629-snap-story.html

Video posted by the news agency showed jubilant Islamic State fighters parading in trucks sporting the New Syrian Army’s insignia and fawning over heavy weapons and ammunition belts apparently captured in the fighting.

[…]

The New Syrian Army, however, had promised to be different.

It first appeared in November 2015 with the stated goal of pushing Islamic State out of the eastern Syrian desert. Since then, its fighters have shown up in slickly produced videos uploaded to social media that depict uniformed men training with U.S. weapons.

Analysts say the group – which is headquartered near Tanf, a southern town close to where the borders of Jordan, Iraq and Syria converge – has also received support from Jordanian special forces units.

Wednesday’s defeat, however, may have cost the group a full fifth of its cadres.

Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the pro-opposition monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, estimated that the rebel group had comprised about 125 fighters, but that after Islamic State’s counteroffensive “they are probably less than a hundred.”

“They did nothing,” he said. “They went to the border and came back. This was more a media show than anything else.”

Bon courage à l’agence de pub américaine qui gère leur compte Twitter…

Six children killed. Sudanese call for justice in #Heiban

“My children were turned into shreds and their scattered remains [were found] in the woods and around the house,” said a stunned Abdul Rahman Ibrahim to #Nuba Reports.

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Iraqi Kurds Build Washington Lobbying Machine to Fund War Against ISIS - The New York Times
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/us/politics/iraqi-kurds-build-washington-lobbying-machine-against-isis.html?ref=todaysp

Amitiés kurdo-israéliennes... Il s’agit des Kurdes d’Irak. Leurs liens avec Israël sont malheureusement connus depuis longtemps. (Via Angry Arab.)

To bolster the effort, the Kurdistan government has sent a stream of top officials to Washington, including Mr. Talabani, as well as Sherzad O. Mamsani, who was recently named as Kurdistan’s first director of Jewish affairs in an open appeal to build support in Israel for the Kurdish effort.

Already, the Kurds have started to receive some behind-the-scenes support from political consultants who work on Israel’s behalf in Washington and who see the Kurds — a minority group that like the Jews have at times been targeted for persecution by Arabs in the Middle East — as an unusual but potentially important ally.

It is a delicate relationship, Ms. Abdul Rahman agreed, because the Kurds cannot appear to be too closely aligned with Israel without causing tensions with neighbors like Iran.

“Here in Washington, if the pro-Jewish and pro-Israel interests see the Kurds are a friend of the Jewish community, it could lead to Congress being even more forceful in its support of the Kurdish Regional Government,” said Zach D. Huff, a political consultant who traveled to Washington from Israel in April to help the Kurdish lobbying effort, a visit that included a meeting with the powerful, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to ask for its assistance.

Just last month, two House lawmakers — Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican of Florida, and Brad Sherman, Democrat of California — both known as strong supporters of Israel, introduced their own resolution, asking the State Department to send military assistance to the Kurds.

#Kurdistan #Israël #Irak

Passeurs d’hospitalité | Vers une pénalisation du franchissement de la frontière
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Le 4 août, un exilés soudanais, Abdul Rahman Haroun, a traversé le Tunnel sous la Manche à pied, et a été arrêté côté britannique. Il a été arrêté et placé en détention provisoire en attendant son procès, qui aura lieu le 4 janvier 2016. Il est poursuivi en vertu d’une loi de 1861 réprimant le […]

Passeurs d’hospitalité | Vers une pénalisation du franchissement de la frontière
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Le 4 août, un exilés soudanais, Abdul Rahman Haroun, a traversé le Tunnel sous la Manche à pied, et a été arrêté côté britannique. Il a été arrêté et placé en détention provisoire en attendant son procès, qui aura lieu le 4 janvier 2016. Il est poursuivi en vertu d’une loi de 1861 réprimant le […]

Ramallah : 3 Palestiniens blessés par des tireurs
Par Le Figaro.fr avec AFPMis à jour le 07/10/2015 à 14:58
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Trois Palestiniens ont été blessés aujourd’hui, dont un très grièvement, par des tireurs qui s’étaient infiltrés parmi les jeteurs de pierre. Ils ont ensuite été rejoints par des soldats israéliens, lors de heurts à Ramallah, en Cisjordanie occupée, selon des journalistes de l’AFP.

Lors de heurts commencés à la mi-journée au point de passage de Bet-El en Cisjordanie occupée, les journalistes ont vu quatre hommes, le visage masqué, l’un d’eux portant un drapeau du Hamas, lancer des pierres. Soudain, ils se sont détachés du groupe de jeunes, ont sorti des pistolets et ont tiré sur plusieurs d’entre eux.

L’un des jeunes a été touché à l’arrière du crâne. Puis des soldats israéliens qui se tenaient à quelques dizaines de mètres derrière sont venus aider les tireurs à ramener les trois jeunes blessés à bout de bras vers les véhicules de l’armée. Avant d’être évacués, deux des blessés ont été frappés par les tireurs et des soldats. Tous ont été embarqués à bord d’ambulances de l’armée israélienne. Les Palestiniens accusent régulièrement Israël d’envoyer dans les manifestations des membres de leurs forces de sécurité, déguisés en manifestants et parlant l’arabe, pour procéder à des arrestations.

Trois Palestiniens blessés par des tireurs infiltrés
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Liberté pour Abdul Rahman Haroun, le marcheur sous la manche !
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Au début du mois d’août, un homme d’origine soudanaise, Abdul Rahman Haroun, a été arrêté alors qu’il sortait tout juste du tunnel sous la Manche situé côté anglais à Folkstone. Il venait de parcourir les 50 km à pied sous le tunnel, depuis Calais, sans se blesser ni se faire repérer. Les gouvernements (...) — Tracts, Textes & Affiches, Calais, Frontière, Grande Bretagne, Liberte pour Abdul Rahman Haroun, prison, répression

Syrian Army Advances in the South as Aloush Renews Threats Against Damascus | Al Akhbar English
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/syrian-army-advances-south-aloush-renews-threats-against-damascus

The Syrian army battles against “al-Rahman Brigade” fighters in Jobar resulted in advances by army units towards new military posts behind the city’s post office. Al-Tadamon Front (south of Damascus) joined the confrontations following renewed clashes in the area of “prefabricated homes.” It has also been reported that al-Nusra Front field commander Abdul Rahman Taqlagi was injured during clashes with the army in the vicinity of Kafr Batna. The capital, Damascus, was hit by mortar shells, mainly in the areas of al-Wafideen camp and Al-Assad suburb, leaving a number of civilians wounded. In the same context, an attack by FSA militants against Syrian army posts in the town of al-Qadam south of the capital may compromise the field settlement reached there.

“Army of Islam” commander Zahran Aloush has been in “media isolation” after his Twitter account was suspended by the site’s administration. However, Alloush appeared on the Qatari Al Jazeera satellite channel, where he renewed threats against the people of Damascus. He said that he will stop giving warnings ahead of missile strikes, and warned that his future attacks will be carried out in the form of “600 to 1,000 rockets and mortar shells in a single hit… in response to the barbaric bombardment by the regime’s forces in Douma, which mainly targeted civilians.”

#Saudi_Arabia Carries out Seventh #beheading in 2015
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/saudi-arabia-carries-out-seventh-beheading-2015

Saudi Arabia beheaded on Monday a Myanmar female child-killer, bringing to seven the number of death sentences carried out this year in the conservative Muslim kingdom. After a trial, Layla bint Abdul Mutaleb Bassim was executed for killing her husband’s daughter Kalthoum bint Abdul Rahman bin Ghulam Gadir, aged six, the interior ministry said, quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA). read more

#executions #human_right

Kuwaiti union official accuses ministry of ’human trafficking’ - ArabianBusiness.com
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A top official representing expatriates in Kuwait has quit his position in protest over what he says is the government’s involvement in the exploitation of expat labourers.

Abdul Rahman Al Ghanim, the head of Kuwait Labor Union’s expat division, said more than 500 foreign labourers had complained of not receiving their salaries for months but government organisations were doing little to respond, Kuwait Times reported.

He claimed the Ministry of Health had employed numerous expats who did not have the required work residency visas, “which [is] human trafficking”.

The government department in charge of expatriates, the Manpower Authority, also had convinced some labourers to forfeit their overdue salaries in return for allowing them to transfer their visas to other sponsors – a promise that was not fulfilled once the labourers had signed papers to forfeit their money, Al Ghanim said.

He claimed he had unsuccessfully raised the issues with the relevant authorities on numerous occasions.

There are an estimated almost 2 million expatriates living in Kuwait, equal to about two-thirds of the population.

Last week, a survey of 14,000 expats in 160 countries by InterNations found Kuwait was the worst state to be an expat. The survey measured quality of life, ease of settling in, working abroad, family life, personal finance, and overall satisfaction living abroad.

Israeli airstrikes kill 33 Palestinians | Maan News Agency
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❝GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Israeli airstrikes across the besieged Gaza Strip killed over 30 Palestinians overnight Wednesday and Thursday, including a family of eight.

The latest Palestinian to die, an eight-year-old, was killed in an airstrike in al-Hakar area in Deir al-Balah. Abdul Rahman Khattab was killed after an Israeli airstrike on his home.

Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a car in the northern Gaza Strip killing three Palestinians. A medical official confirmed that the remains of the victims were taken to Kamal Udwan Hospital.

Two of the men were identified as Mahmoud Waloud and Hazim Balousha .

One man was killed after an airstrike targeted a motorcycle south of Gaza City and another man Ahmed Zaher Hamdan died from his injuries after Israel targeted a group of men in Jabaliya.

A four-year-old baby girl, Yasmin Muhammad al-Mutawwaq , also succumbed to wounds sustained in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis overnight.

Ismail Abu Jami , 19, was killed in a strike on Khan Younis and Abdullah Ramadan Abu Ghazal , five, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beit Lahiya, Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said.

(...) Muhammad Ihsan Farawneh , 18, was found dead on Thursday under the rubble of the cafe [Waqt al-Marah coffee shop on a Khan Younis beach].

#UAE reveals 68 infected, 10 dead from #MERS virus since early 2013
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/uae-reveals-68-infected-10-dead-mers-virus-early-2013

The MERS coronavirus has killed 10 people and infected 68 in the United Arab Emirates since March 2013, the health minister said in comments published by local media on Wednesday. Health Minister Abdul Rahman al-Owais gave the latest toll in comments to the national federal council, a partially-elected parliament, saying six UAE nationals and four foreigners have died from the disease, local newspapers said. He also said 68 people have been infected since March 2013 when the country’s first case of MERS was diagnosed. read more

Syria Death Toll Reported to Rise By 10,000 in Less Than 2 Months
►http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/world/middleeast/syria.html

Mr. Abdul Rahman claims to have contacts among government supporters and the security forces, and has provided rare estimates of the toll among pro-government forces: currently 61,170 Syrians, including 37,685 from the military and 23,485 from pro-government militias.

The Syrian Observatory also said that it had tallied 438 dead from Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia fighting on the government side, which has not cited a figure for its own losses. And the group said that 1,224 non-Syrian, pro-government fighters had also died. Iraqi and other foreign fighters, most of them Shiite Muslims, have flocked to the government side, much as foreign Sunnis have joined the insurgents.

The group also said that 42,701 antigovernment fighters had been killed, including more than 13,500 from jihadist groups like the Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, both of which are affiliated with Al Qaeda. It has also documented more than 2,000 deaths of people whose names and affiliations could not be determined.

Villes de sel — Abdul Rahman Mounif (par @warda)
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Le roman de l’Arabie
Une œuvre majeure de la littérature arabe

Dans Villes de sel, Abdul Rahman Mounif raconte la transformation de la péninsule arabique après la découverte du #pétrole.

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#livre recommandé par @alaingresh #arabie_saoudite #histoire #roman #bédouins

Seul défaut : seul le premier tome est traduit ; du coup c’est frustrant…

Al Wefaq leader to face trial on October 24 | GulfNews.com
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Manama: Bahrain’s First Attorney General on Saturday said that Khalil Marzouq, the Assistant Secretary-General of Al Wefaq National Islamic Society, would be put on trial on October 24 on charges of “inciting terrorism and promoting acts that constitute crimes of terrorism.”

Abdul Rahman Al Syed said that the charges levelled after the Public Prosecution completed its investigations of the case also included “using a position and management within a legally formed political association to call for committing crimes that constitute acts of terrorism punishable under the Community Protection Law.”
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charged with “advocating support for perpetrators of criminal activities and justifying their crimes, calling for the continued planting of explosives and for acts of violence, supporting the criminal activities by persons accused of committing terrorist acts, advocating their crimes as well as pushing for disobeying laws.”

C’est un nouveau rebondissement dans l’affaire Karachi, et peut-être l’une des clés de l’affaire : cette semaine, le juge Van Ruymbeke, chargé d’instruire le volet financier du dossier, s’est procuré les preuves que les commissions versées à des intermédiaires étrangers, en marge de contrats d’armement, ont servi au financement de la campagne d’Edouard Balladur pour l’élection présidentielle de 1995.

►http://www.franceinfo.fr/justice/karachi-le-juge-detient-la-preuve-d-un-financement-occulte-de-la-campagne

Selon nos informations, l’administration des impôts a renoncé en 2009 à saisir la cour d’appel de Paris pour réclamer à Bernard Tapie le paiement de près de 15 millions d’euros d’arriérés d’impôt, dont 12 millions au titre de ses impôts sur le revenu des années 1992 et 1993. La justice risque de s’intéresser à cette nouvelle affaire, pour déterminer notamment qui a pu donner des instructions.

▻http://www.mediapart.fr/journal/france/170513/tapie-le-fisc-passe-leponge-sur-15-millions-dimpots

Les ombres de la révolution égyptienne se soulèvent doucement. Le site des FM égyptiens commentent les déclarations de Abdel-Rahman Mansour, coadministrateur avec Wael Ghonim de la page We are all Khaled Said

Abdul Rahman Mansour Mastermind behind Egypt Uprising - Ikhwanweb
▻http://www.ikhwanweb.com/article.php?id=28124

Abdul Rahman Mansour Mastermind behind Egypt Uprising
Much controversy has risen lately about the mastermind behind Egypt’s uprising as Shady Ghazali Harb, member of the January 25 coalition, revealed that activist and journalist Abdel Rahman Mansour is one of the administrators of the “We are all Khaled Said" (Kolona Khaled Said) Facebook page.

#égypte_révo #égypte_fm #égypte_tic

Algeria puts off decision on Desertec solar project until preconditions are met - sourceOil & Gas - Zawya
►http://www.zawya.com/story/Algeria_puts_off_decision_on_Desertec_solar_project_until_preconditions_are_met__source-ZAWYA20121022035839/?lok=035800121021&weeklynewsletter&zawyaemailmarketing

Algeria has decided to postpone its decision on participating in the Sonelgaz Desertec Renewable Energy Program until 2013, and is waiting for Germany’s Desertec to approve its preconditions, a government official told Zawya.

The Algerian government would delay its final resolution on the project till the mid of 2013, as it is still unclear whether Algeria will take part in the project, the official at the Algerian ministry of energy and mining said.

“The government is reconsidering the economic gains it may acquire from participation and is testing the acquiescence of the foreign partner to its terms, which require manufacturing the project appliances and needs in Algeria, as well as involving the Algerian experts in the project,” the official told Zawya on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to media. Algeria’s participation may not exceed 50%, he added.

The EUR 400 billion Desertec project intends to convert solar energy from Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Saudi Arabia and export it to Europe. It is expected to supply as much as 15% of Europe’s power needs by 2050.

Christoph Partsch, the general manager of the German-Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was earlier quoted as saying that the forthcoming round of talks between the German company and the Algerian government will be launched in Oran in October and some serious steps will be disclosed by the first quarter of 2013.

Algeria is facing a 1,300 MW shortfall in power supply, pointed out Abdul Rahman Mabtoul, a former senior executive at Sonatrach. The Algerian government generates 9,700 MW, while the demand is as high as 11,000 MW, he said.

“The government needs to invest USD 20 billion over the next five years to resolve the power supply crisis,” Mabtoul told Zawya.

#Desertec
#Algérie
#solaire
#énergie
#électricité

#Damascus: Khalid Bin Al-Waleed Street: Demonstration started from Abdul Rahman Bin Awf mosque, demonstrators chanted for toppling the regime#syria