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Semáforo is a fortnightly collection of news from around the world, classified by geographical area - Africa, America, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East. Semáforo also includes a section which monitors international organisations and the subjects on the international agenda for peace building.
Daily monitoring of news items is based on more than 60 sources and includes areas related to armed conflicts, humanitarian crises, international behaviour, unresolved conflicts, forced displacements, human rights, sustainable development, gender, governability and economic and political crises, militarisation and disarmament, peace processes and post-war rehabilitation and gender.
Although the unit analysed is usually a country, news items on regions, international organisations and other broad-based subjects are also included. At the end of each news item, the source consulted is shown in italics, and the code of the subject area related to the news item is shown in brackets. A glossary and a code of concepts and sources is attached at the end of each Semáforo.
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Semáforo 202
Fortnight's newsletter 14.08.08 - 28.08.08
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01: Africa
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Forces Nouvelles troops demonstrate in Bouaké and attack their headquarter offices demanding a rise on their payments for demobilisation within the DDR process in Côte d’Ivoire. |
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Sudanese armed forces attack an internal displacement camp in northern Darfur killing more than 40 people. |
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Two peace agreements are reached in Somalia between the President and the Prime minister of the Federal Transitional Government, and between the FTG and the moderate faction of the ARS. |
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The President of Burundi and the leader of the armed group FNL meet for the first time in a year to relaunch the peace process. |
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The armed opposition group APRD intensifies its attacks against the Central African Republic armed forces after abandoning the process of an inclusive dialogue. |
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In a trial without procedural guarantees, Chadian tribunals sentence to death the ex President Hissène Habré and 11 insurgence leaders for the planning of a coup d’état. |
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The north Ugandan rebel leader, Joseph Kony, justifies its absence from the meeting with the UN special representative due to attacks perpetrated against its armed group, the LRA. |
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Several bomb attacks in Algeria kill 70 people in a significantly deadly week. |
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The former UN secretary general personal envoy to Western Sahara affirms that a negotiated solution excluding the total independence of this territory might be a way out of the conflict, although he believes that the POLISARIO Front will not accept it. |
02: Americas
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Bolivian President announces the holding of a referendum to ratify the new Constitution while a general strike is going on in the autonomist regions of the Media Luna. |
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The Peruvian Congress derogates de legislative decrees allowing the speeding up on the buying and selling of jungle territories in the Amazonia, after 10 days of protests in the north of the country against the so-called Jungle Law. |
03: Asia
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Myanmar opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, refuses to meet the UN special envoy in a decision understood as a message of frustration with the lack of progress in the dialogue between the UN and the Military Junta. |
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More than 800 people have died in northern India since June due to the Monsoon rains. |
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Sri Lankan conflict worsens, with 200 hundred deaths in the last two weeks and the advance of the army towards the symbolic capital of the LTTE, Kilinochchi. |
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The Government of the DPR Korea cancels the dismantling of its nuclear facilities accusing the US of failing to remove the country from the list of states sponsoring terrorism. |
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Tension rises in Thailand due to the protests of hundreds of opposition supporters asking for the resignation of the Government. |
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Clashes in the Philippines’ region of Mindanao leave 40 deaths, in the worst outbreak of violence registered in the last years. |
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Pakistani Prime Minister, Pervez Musharraf, resigns in view of the impeachment process initiated by the Government against him. |
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The leader of the former Maoist guerrilla, Prachanda, is appointed Prime Minister of Nepal. |
04: Europe
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Russia recognises formally the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and keeps part of its troops deployed in Georgia, while tensions rise in the Black sea. |
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Human Rights Watch denounces that Russian planes dropped cluster bombs in inhabited areas of Georgia, killing at least 11 civilians. |
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Violence increases in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, with a large-scale rebel raid into the capital and several attacks in other towns. |
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Two bomb attacks in two cities in the western coast of Turkey leave 29 people wounded, mainly police officers, and the responsibility for both actions has been claimed by the Kurdish group TAK. |
05: Middle East
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Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, states that Israel will not allow the return of any Palestinian refugee as part of a future agreement. |
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Following the visit of Lebanese President to Syria, both countries decide to normalise their diplomatic relations and to deal with the issue of border demarcation. |
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