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UNESCO: Qatar’s Candidate Leads First Round of Vote for Director General

Qatar’s candidate in the race for the post of UNESCO Director General, Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawar, Monday won the first round of elections ahead of Friday final decision. Kawar won 19 out of 58 votes outdoing French candidate Audrey Azoulay and Cairo’s candidate Moushira Khattab who got respectively 13 and 11 votes. The four […]

Rwanda regrets expulsion of ambassador from DRC

Rwanda Sunday expressed regret after neighbor Republic Democratic of Congo, DRC, expelled its ambassador Vincent Karega over alleged support for M23 rebel group. “It is unfortunate that the DRC government continues to blame Rwanda for its own governance and security failures,” the spokesman for the Rwandan government said in a statement. Rwanda “remains committed to […]

Tunisia: LGBT community leader flees to France over death threats

Former presidential candidate, rights activist and leader of LGBT community in Tunisia has fled the country for France arguing that he had received threats to his life. Mounir Baatour, a candidate at last year presidential elections has told Thomson Reuters Foundation he had received threats and had to flee to France where he was granted […]