Eurasia Press & News

The first round of Mali’s legislative elections will be held on Nov. 24, according to the government. The date was unveiled at the end of a cabinet meeting chaired by President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, an official statement said.

The international community should provide more aid to help Lebanon allocate Syrian refugees, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Wednesday. “The international community must take its responsibility towards Lebanon, given that the latter has become the first hosting country,” Mikati said.

Several presidents from Africa and elsewhere have arrived in the Malian capital Bamako to participate in the swearing-in ceremony of newly elected President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. The presidential inauguration is set to take place on Thursday at the March 26 Stadium in Bamako.

Mali’s President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita will be publicly inaugurated on Thursday, in an elaborate ceremony with foreign dignitaries including French President Francois Hollande. Mr. Keita, who was sworn in as President on September 4, will welcome Mr. Hollande, his guest of honour, at the airport in the capital Bamako at …

The Dokki Misdemeanor Appeals Court will rule on 30 September on an appeal by former Prime Minister Hesham Qandil against an earlier verdict that sentenced him to one year and stripped him of his ministerial post. Qandil had received the sentence in April from a first instance court for failure …

Egyptian army and police troops Thursday launched a dawn clampdown on a restive area near Cairo where alleged backers of the deposed Islamist president Mohammad Mursi killed a dozen policemen last month. The forces, backed by armoured vehicles, stormed Kerdasa in the twin Cairo city of Giza, where they hunted …

Pakistan’s government informed the Lower House of the cabinet that it has planned to send the Afghan refugees back home by December 2015. The Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions retired Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch told the National Assembly on Thursday that the government has planned to complete …

 Foreign Secretary William Hague and Arab League Secretary General Nabil El-Araby stressed late Wednesday that it was important to implement the US-Russian agreement in regards to the chemical weapons in Syria. A statement by the British Foreign Ministry said that Hague and El-Araby meeting also touched the Mideast peace process …

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad promised Wednesday he would surrender Syria’s chemical weapons but warned it would take at least a year to do so and cost one billion dollars. His latest appearance came as UN envoys debated

A group of 160 Chadian troops from the United Nations peacekeeping force in Mali have deserted their posts in a dispute over pay and conditions, a military source and the soldiers themselves said Sept. 17. A Chadian army captain claiming to be the leader of the deserters said his men …