Sudan president affirms to bring stability in Darfur

NYALA: Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir stressed on Wednesday his full commitment to realizing security, stability and development in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. He made the remarks when addressing a rally of local residents at the Sabdo area in South Darfur State during his second visit to the restive region since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant against him on March 4. The president reiterated his total rejection of the allegations of the ICC against him, terming the ICC move as "a plot against the unity of Sudan." "We respond to (General Prosecutor of the ICC Luis Moreno) Ocampo and his assistants in the Sabdo area today with more projects of development, reconstruction and expansion in building infrastructure and providing basic services including education, health and respectable livelihood to the Sudanese people in general and Darfur in particular," he announced. Bashir said that the allegations of the ICC was a conspiracy targeting Sudan and its unity after the country had take real steps in the development of infrastructure and services to achieve real life of dignity for his people. He underlined his country's "ability to overcome all difficulties and hardships brought by enemies from abroad, who wanted to tear the country's unity." He said that the people's rally at Sabdo would "send a message to the international community to assure them of the unity of the Sudanese people." "What has happened in Darfur is the work of the devil," he said, calling on the people of Darfur overpass the bitterness of the past, reject the racism, and advance towards the reconstruction, development and education to eliminate illiteracy and ignorance. The president also called on the members of the armed rebel movements to put down their weapons to participate in the development and construction. He pledged to provide all basic services and health education to the children of nomad tribes to remove the barrier of illiteracy.

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India's swine flu death rate is increasing

Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...

Snake bite deaths

Monday, July 06, 2009 COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government recorded some 33,000 snake bites in 2008, with most of the victims coming from remote villages.The Department of Government Information said in a statement that most of the snake bite cases could be fatal if neglected.The statement said snake bites are often neglected in Sri Lanka as victims do not seek treatment at hospitals where advanced medication is available. Instead, the victims rush to traditional type of treatment which could be a risk, reports Xinhua.Snake bites death at domestic level, outside hospitals, go unrecorded, said the statement.Most victims of snake bite are from the rural and remote villages where there is no electricity after dusk.Statistics show that Sri Lanka has over 90 species of snake with around 10 species possessing venom capable of killing a human being.In Sri Lanka the annual death rate due to snake bite envenoming is one of the highest in the world being 6 in 100,000 population.

Suicide bombings kill 18 in Iraq

Thursday, August 13, 2009 MOSUL: At least 18 people, most of them members of the ancient Yazidi religious sect, were killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Thursday in a packed cafe in northern Iraq, a local government official said.At least 31 people were also wounded after the bombers detonated suicide belts packed with explosives in the cafe in Kalaa town, in the district of Sanjar, local district chief Dakheel Qassem Hasoon, told a foreign news agency."Two suicide bombers entered the Cafe Barbaroz at 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) and blew themselves up, killing 18 civilians and wounding 31. Most of the victims were Yazidis," Hasoon said.Kalaa, northwest of the insurgent stronghold of Mosul in northern Nineveh province is predominantly populated by the minority Yazidi religious sect, as well as Arabs and Kurds.The attack is the deadliest since Monday, when 51 people were killed across Iraq, including 28 members of the tiny Shabak sect cut down when two truck bombs det...

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