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U.S. shows interest in Africa: Office got off to rocky start, ambassador says (The Herald - Monterey County)(Pan-Africa) By creating a United States Africa Command, the U.S. signaled agreater interest in a vast continent that has been "an afterthought" in foreignpolicy.

President Obama's Letter to Congress on the War Powers Resolution and the

U.S. Mission in Libya (Fox)(Libya) Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by myAdministration and consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148), as part of my efforts to keep the Congress informed about deployments ofU.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat.

Obama sued over war in Libya (ABC)(Libya) Ten members of the US Congress are suing president Barack Obama forexceeding his authority by involving America in the Libyan conflict.

World leaders look for way out of Libya (LA Times) (Libya) With questions growing about NATO's air war and international arrestwarrants threatening to close off a diplomatic solution, new players are joiningthe search for a way out of the Libya conflict. But the efforts have stumbled so faron Moammar Kadafi's insistence that he remain in the country.

African Leaders Demand Halt to NATO Bombing Campaign in Libya (Bloomberg)

(Libya) African leaders today demanded an immediate end to the North AtlanticTreaty Organization·s bombing campaign in Libya and called for the AfricanUnion and United Nations to take the lead in reaching a political solution.

WRAPUP 1 ² Libyan rebels take new villages in Western Mountains (Reuters)



(Libya) Libyan rebels have pushed deeper into government-held territory fromtheir base in the Western Mountains, taking two villages from which forces loyalto Muammar Gaddafi had been shelling rebel-held towns.

Government Believes Arms Haul Comes from Libya (RFI)

(Libya) Niger's military is hunting for two vehicles involved in a clash withsecurity forces last Sunday after a third, which was captured, was found tocontain 640 kgs of explosives, 435 detonators, and 90,000 dollars in cash.

The Borderlands Between North and South SudanGet Bloodier (TIME)(Sudan) Tensions in Sudan -² which many observers hoped had turned a cornerfollowing this January's Southern Sudanese independence referendum ² haveboiled over in yet another round of ethnic bloodletting in this battered andimpoverished nation.

Sudan leader al-Bashir to skip Malaysia forum amid calls to arrest him on warcrime charges (Washington Post)(Sudan) Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on war crimecharges, will skip an economic forum in Malaysia next week due to otherengagements, officials said.

Michelle Obama heads to Africa next week (Washington Post)(Pan-Africa) First lady Michelle Obama·s official visit to South Africa andBotswana next week will focus on engaging African youth and paying tribute tothe cultural heritage and political struggles of both countries.

Experts warn S.African corruption helps terrorists (CBS)(South Africa) When an alleged mastermind of al-Qaida attacks on U.S.embassies was killed in East Africa, officials said he was carrying a fake SouthAfrican passport.

Eritrea volcano: Ash disrupts air travel in East Africa (BBC)(Eritrea) Flights to East Africa have been severely disrupted as ash from anEritrean volcano spreads across the region and heads towards Saudi Arabia.Several airlines said they had stopped flying to Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti andEthiopia.

Water Filter Project in AfricaGets Technology Boost (VOA)(Kenya) Technology plays an increasingly prominent role in Africandevelopment projects. One example is a Swiss company's water filter project inwestern Kenya that makes use of a sophisticated network of cell phones andsatellites.



UN News Service Africa Briefs

Full Articles on UN Websitey Ban urges immediate end to hostilities in Sudan·s Southern Kordofan

state y M ore must be done to overcome obstacles in providing aid ² UN official

y UN envoy hails Chad·s action plan to end use of child soldiers y Sudan: UN reports intense air bombardment of Southern Kordofan state y Ongoing insecurity preventing return of displaced civilians in Côte

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WHEN/WHERE: Wednesday, June 15th at 9:00am to 10:00am; CarnegieEndowment for International Peace WHAT: ´Senator Lindsey Graham on the War on Terrorµ will discuss Libya and

Afghanistan WHO: Senator LindseyGraham, Senate Armed Services Committee; Jessica

Tuchman Matthews, President, Carnegie Endowment for International PeaceInfo: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/?fa=eventDetail&id=3296

WHEN/WHERE: Wednesday, June 15th at 10:30am to 12:00pm; Live Webcast from Brookings Institution WHAT: ´A Global Compact on Learning: Taking Action on Education inDeveloping Countriesµ WHO: Rebecca Winthrop, Director, Center for Universal Education; Jenny

Perlman Robinson, Special Guest, Center for Universal Education, TheBrookings Institution; Carol Bellamy, Chair, Education for All-Fast TrackInitiative Board of Directors; Oley Dibba-Wadda, Executive Director, Forum ofAfrican Women Educationalists (FAWE); Deepali Khanna, Director, YouthLearning, The MasterCard FoundationInfo: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0615_education_compact.aspx

WHEN/WHERE: Wednesday, June 15th at 11:00am; SD ² 192, Senate Committeeon Appropriations; Live Webcast WHAT: ´Hearing on FY 2012 DOD Budget (Defense Subcommittee)µ WHO: The Honorable RobertGates, Secretary of Defense; Admiral Mike

Mullen, USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffInfo: http://appropriations.senate.gov/events.cfm?date=6/15/2011

WHEN/WHERE: Wednesday, June 15th at 4:30pm to 6:00pm; Woodrow WilsonCenter WHAT: ´Africa: 53 Countries, One Union ² The New Challengesµ



WHO: Steve McDonald, Director of the Africa Program and Project onLeadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson Center; Jessica

Einhorn, Dean of SAIS, Johns Hopkins University; Romano Prodi, President,Foundation for World Wide CooperationInfo:http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summar

y&event_id=701440

WHEN/WHERE: Wednesday, June 15th at 5:00pm to 6:30pm; B1 ConferenceCenter, 1800 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20006, Center for Strategic andInternational Studies WHAT: ´The Road to Presidential Elections in the Democratic Republic of theCongoµ WHO: Etienne Tshisekedi, President and Co-founder, Union pour laDémocratie et le Progrès Social, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Mvemba

Dizolele, Writer and Journalist,Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover

Institution, Stanford University; Jennifer Cooke, Director, CSIS Africa ProgramInfo: http://csis.org/event/road-presidential-elections-democratic-republic-congo-0

WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, June 16th at 11:00am to 12:30pm; LehrmanAuditorium, The Heritage Foundation; Live Webcast WHAT: ´U.S. Engagement in Libya: The Way Forwardµ WHO: NileGardiner, Ph.D., Director, Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom;Todd Gaziano, Director, Center for Legal and Judicial Studies; Brett Schaefer,

Jay Kingham Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs, Margaret Thatcher

Center for Freedom; Michael Franc, Vice President, Government Studies Info: http://www.heritage.org/Events/2011/06/Libya

WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, June 16th at 1:00pm to 2:30pm; Live Webcast fromBrookings Institution WHAT: ´Libya and the Responsibility to Protectµ WHO: Peter Rundlet, Vice President, Humanity United; Mike Abramowitz,Director, Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum;Manal Omar, Director, Iraq and Iran Program, USIP; Sarah Sewall, Lecturer inPublic Policy and Faculty Director, Mass Atrocity Response Operations Project,Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; Richard Williamson,Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign PolicyInfo: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2011/0616_libya_responsibility.aspx

WHEN/WHERE: Thursday, June 16th at 2:00pm; Room 2172, Rayburn HouseOffice Building, House Committee on Foreign Affairs WHAT: ´Africa·s Newest Nation: The Republic of South Sudanµ



WHO: The Honorable Princeton Lyman, Special Envoy for Sudan, Departmentof State; Ms. Rajakumari Jandhyala, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau forAfrica, USAID; Mr. Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, Bishop, Diocese of Tambura-Yambio; Mr. John Eibner, CEO, Christian Solidarity International ² USA; Ms.

Dana Lyons Wilkin, Campaigner, Global Witness; The Honorable Roger

Winter, Former Special Representative on Sudan, Department of StateInfo: http://foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearing_notice.asp?id=1311

WHEN/WHERE: Friday, June 17th at 10:00am to 12:00pm; Room B241, USInstitute of Peace WHAT: ´From Crisis to Community: Mapping as a Peacebuilding Toolµ WHO: Patrick Meier, Director of Crisis Mapping, Ushahidi; Sheldon Himelfarb,Director, Center of Innovation: Science, Technology & Peacebuilding, USIP; PeterMandaville , Policy Planning Staff, Office of the Secretary of State, USIP; NigelSnoad (remotely from Sudan), Communications and Information Services

Branch, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA);Crisis Mappers from Conflict ZonesInfo: http://www.usip.org/events/crisis-community-mapping-peacebuilding-tool

WHEN/WHERE: Monday, June 20th at 10:30am to 12:00pm; Woodrow WilsonCenter WHAT: ´Certification: The Path to Conflict-Free Minerals from Congoµ WHO: H.E. Ambassador Faida Mitifu, Embassy of the Democratic Republic ofCongo; Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Center;

Steve McDonald, Director of the Africa Program and the Project on Leadershipand Building State Capacity, Wilson Center; Robert D. Hormats, UnderSecretary of State for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs, USDepartment of State; John Bradshaw, Executive Director, Enough Project; TimMohin, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Advanced Micro Devices; Sasha

Lezhnev, Policy Consultant on Conflict Minerals, Enough Project; Joanne Lebert,Director of the Great Lakes Policy Program, Partnership Africa CanadaInfo:http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event_summary&event_id=701620

WHEN/WHERE: From 8:30am on July 29th to 4:00pm on July 31st; OmniShoreham Hotel, 2500 Clavert Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 WHAT: ´2011 World Congress of the Society for International Development(SID) WHO: Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank; Prime Minister Raila

Odinga, Kenya ; President Joaquim Chissano, the former President ofMozambique



TOPICS: Economic Progress, Human Development, Global Health, Governanceand Citizenship, Science and Technology, and Gender EqualityInfo: http://www.interaction.org/event/2011-world-congress-society-international-development-sid ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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U.S. shows interest in Africa: Office got off to rocky start, ambassador says (Monterey County The Herald)By Kevin Howe June 15. 2011By creating a United States Africa Command, the U.S. signaled a greater interestin a vast continent that has been "an afterthought" in foreign policy.

But the bombing of Libya last month shortly after the appointment of Gen.

Carter F. Ham to head Africa Command sent an alarming signal to Africanleaders at a time when the U.S. wants to assure them the command doesn'tportend an aggressive American military role on the continent, according toAmbassador Anthony Holmes, the command's deputy to the commander forcivil-military relations.

Holmes covered that topic in the opening address Tuesday at a two-dayconference at the Hyatt Regency Monterey developed by the Naval PostgraduateSchool and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. Itwas the first of a series of forums on culture and organizational awareness titled

"Cooperative Engagement for Partnership Capacity: Africa as a Model for Wholeof Government."

The conference drew participants from Europe, Africa and the United States andcontinues through today.

Africa Command got off to a rocky start in other ways, Holmes said, includingits headquarters location ³ Stuttgart, Germany ³ a parsimonious budget andfew troops or other resources. It has made it difficult to carry out its mission tofoster respect for law and human rights and professionalism in the ranks of andcivilian control over African military organizations, increase their ability to act ina continental peace-keeping role, combat terrorism and generally promote peaceand security.

"Our resources are shockingly modest," Holmes said. The command received$389million in funding this year, less than 5 percent of the $8 billion total in U.S.aid to Africa, and has 2,273 people assigned to it, half of them civilians.



The end of the Cold War saw the U.S. Agency for International Developmentoffices in Africa cut from 36 to 22 and not much has been replaced since, he said.

The command also competes for qualified troops with higher priority demandsfrom the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

"We're about protecting American national security interests," he said, and thebest way to do that is "by sustained engagement and stability in Africa" througheconomic, social and political development.

Its most successful program, Holmes said, has been training peacekeepers,noting that 169,985 African troops have been trained for 25 peacekeepingmissions. Africa Command, he added, is limited by law to dealing only withAfrican military organizations.

Holmes described Africa as "a laboratory for a lot of issues the United States willbe struggling with in its withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan," and themilitary will face "shocking" budget reductions.

Afghanistan, he said, has proven to be "a failed model" for nation building. Thecountry "is less secure than when we began" and its government "cannot besustained after withdrawal. We have absolutely no political will nor theresources for another nation-building program. We've got to come up withsomething else." ------------------------------------------------------

President Obama's Letter to Congress on the War Powers Resolution and theU.S. Mission in Libya (Fox)White House June 15, 2011The following is a letter from President Obama to House Speaker John Boehner(R-OH) and Senate President Pro Tempore Daniel Inouye (D-HI).

Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by myAdministration and consistent with the War Powers Resolution (Public Law 93-148), as part of my efforts to keep the Congress informed about deployments ofU.S. Armed Forces equipped for combat.

MILITARY OPERATIONS AGAINST AL-QA'IDA, THE TALIBAN, ANDASSOCIATED FORCES AND IN SUPPORT OF RELATED U.S.COUNTERTERRORISM OBJECTIVESSince October 7, 2001, the United States has conducted combat operations inAfghanistan against al-Qa'ida terrorists and their Taliban supporters. In support



of these and other overseas operations, the United States has deployed combat-equipped forces to a number of locations in the U.S. Central, Pacific, European,Southern, and Africa Command areas of operation. Previously such operationsand deployments have been reported, consistent with Public Law 107-40 and theWar Powers Resolution, and operations and deployments remain ongoing. These

operations, which the United States has carried out with the assistance ofnumerous international partners, have been successful in seriously degrading al-Qa'ida's capabilities and brought an end to the Taliban's leadership ofAfghanistan.

United States Armed Forces are also actively pursuing and engaging remainingal-Qa'ida and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The total number of U.S. forces inAfghanistan is approximately 99,000, of which more than 83,000 are assigned tothe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)-led International SecurityAssistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan. The U.N. Security Council most recently

reaffirmed its authorization of ISAF for a 12-month period from October 13, 2010,in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1943 (October 13, 2010). The mission of ISAF,under NATO command and in partnership with the Government of the IslamicRepublic of Afghanistan, is to conduct population-centric counterinsurgencyoperations, enable expanded and effective capabilities of the Afghan NationalSecurity Forces, support improved governance and development in order toprotect the Afghan people, and promote sustainable security. Including theUnited States, 48 partner nations, including all 28 NATO Allies, contribute troopsto ISAF. These combat operations are gradually pushing insurgents to the edgesof secured population areas in a number of important regions, largely resulting

from the increase in U.S. forces over the past 2 years. United States and othercoalition forces will continue to execute the strategy of clear-hold-build, andtransition, until full responsibility for security rests with the Afghan NationalSecurity Forces.

The United States continues to detain approximately 1,000 al-Qa'ida, Taliban,and associated force fighters who are believed to pose a continuing threat to theUnited States and its interests.

The combat-equipped forces, deployed since January 2002 to Naval Base,Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, continue to conduct secure detention operations for theapproximately 170 detainees at Guantanamo Bay under Public Law 107-40 andconsistent with principles of the law of war.

In furtherance of U.S. efforts against members of al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, andassociated forces, the United States continues to work with partners around theglobe, with a particular focus on the U.S. Central Command's area ofresponsibility. In this context, the United States has deployed U.S. combat-



equipped forces to assist in enhancing the counterterrorism capabilities of ourfriends and allies, including special operations and other forces for sensitiveoperations in various locations around the world. The United States is committedto thwarting the efforts of al-Qa'ida and its associated forces to carry out futureacts of international terrorism, and we have continued to work with our

counterterrorism partners to disrupt and degrade the capabilities of al-Qa'idaand its associated forces. As necessary, in response to the terrorist threat, I willdirect additional measures against al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces toprotect U.S. citizens and interests. It is not possible to know at this time theprecise scope or the duration of the deployments of U.S. Armed Forces necessaryto counter this terrorist threat to the United States. A classified annex to thisreport provides further information.

MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ Since the expiration of the authorization and mandate for the Multinational Force

in Iraq in U.N. Security Council Resolution 1790 on December 31, 2008, U.S.forces have continued operations to support Iraq in its efforts to maintainsecurity and stability in Iraq, pursuant to the bilateral Agreement Between theUnited States of America and the Republic of Iraq on the Withdrawal of UnitedStates Forces from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during TheirTemporary Presence in Iraq (Security Agreement), which entered into force on January 1, 2009. These contributions have included, but have not been limited to,assisting in building the capability of the Iraqi security forces, supporting thedevelopment of Iraq's political institutions, enhancing the capacity of theministries of Defense and Interior, providing critical humanitarian and

reconstruction assistance to the Iraqis, and supporting the U.S. diplomaticmission. The United States continues its responsible drawdown, in accordancewith commitments in the Security Agreement, to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraqby December 31, 2011. The number of U.S. forces in Iraq at this time isapproximately 45,000.

MILITARY OPERATIONS IN LIBYA As I reported on March 21, and at my direction, consistent with a request fromthe Arab League, and as authorized by the United Nations Security Councilunder the provisions of U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973, U.S.military forces commenced operations on March 19, 2011, to prevent ahumanitarian catastrophe and address the threat posed to international peaceand security by the crisis in Libya and to protect the people of Libya from theQadhafi regime. The initial phase of U.S. military involvement in Libya wasconducted under the command of the U.S. Africa Command. By April 4,however, the United States had transferred responsibility for the militaryoperations in Libya to NATO and the U.S. involvement has assumed asupporting role in the coalition's efforts. Since April 4, U.S. participation has



consisted of: (1) non-kinetic support to the NATO-led operation, includingintelligence, logistical support, and search and rescue assistance; (2) aircraft thathave assisted in the suppression and destruction of air defenses in support of theno-fly zone; and (3) since April 23, precision strikes by unmanned aerial vehiclesagainst a limited set of clearly defined targets in support of the NATO-led

coalition's efforts. Although we are no longer in the lead, U.S. support for theNATO-based coalition remains crucial to assuring the success of internationalefforts to protect civilians and civilian populated areas from the actions of theQadhafi regime, and to address the threat to international peace and securityposed by the crisis in Libya. With the exception of operations to rescue the crewof a U.S. aircraft on March 21, 2011, the United States has deployed no groundforces to Libya.

MILITARY OPERATIONS IN EGYPT On January 31, a security force of approximately 40 U.S. military personnel from

the U.S. Central Command deployed to Cairo. Although this security force wasequipped for combat, this movement was undertaken solely for the purpose ofprotecting American citizens and property. A security force remains deployed tothe U.S. Embassy in Cairo and will remain through July 4, or until the securitysituation becomes such that it is no longer needed, if earlier. This security force isseparate from, and in addition to, the approximately 693 military personnel thatconstitute the U.S. contingent of the Multinational Force Observers present inEgypt since 1981.

MARITIME INTERCEPTION OPERATIONS

As noted in previous reports, the United States continues to conduct maritimeinterception operations on the high seas in the areas of responsibility of each ofthe geographic combatant commands. These maritime operations are aimed atstopping the movement, arming, and financing of certain international terroristgroups. A classified annex to this report provides further information.

U.S./NATO OPERATIONS IN KOSOVO The U.N. Security Council authorized Member States to establish a NATO-ledKosovo Force (KFOR) in Resolution 1244 on June 10, 1999. The original missionof KFOR was to monitor, verify, and, when necessary, enforce compliance withthe Military Technical Agreement between NATO and the then Federal Republicof Yugoslavia (now Serbia), while maintaining a safe and secure environment.Today, KFOR deters renewed hostilities and, with local authorities andinternational institutions, contributes to the maintenance of a safe and secureenvironment.

Currently, 22 NATO Allies contribute to KFOR. Eight non-NATO countries alsoparticipate. The United States contribution to KFOR is approximately 800 U.S.



military personnel out of the total strength of approximately 6,000 personnel. Theprincipal military task of KFOR forces is to help maintain a safe and secureenvironment and freedom of movement.

I have directed the participation of U.S. Armed Forces in all of these operations

pursuant to my constitutional and statutory authority as Commander in Chief(including the authority to carry out Public Law 107-40 and other statutes) and asChief Executive, as well as my statutory and constitutional authority, to conductthe foreign relations of the United States. Officials of my Administration and Icommunicate regularly with the leadership and other Members of Congress withregard to these deployments, and we will continue to do so.Sincerely,BARACK OBAMA ----------------------------------------

Obama sued over war in Libya (ABC)

By Craig McMurtrie June 15, 2011Ten members of the US Congress are suing president Barack Obama forexceeding his authority by involving America in the Libyan conflict.

With support for the Libyan engagement fraying, a bipartisan group ofcongressman says Mr Obama has violated the US constitution by pursuingmilitary action without congressional approval.

In a lawsuit filed in Federal Court the politicians argue the president has

exceeded his authority.

With the Libyan mission about to reach its 90th day, Republican speaker JohnBoehner is warning the White House the administration could be in violation ofthe War Powers Resolution.

The White House is sending a 40-page report to Capitol Hill explaining thelimitations of the US role in Libya.

Administration officials argue there are no American troops on the ground andthe US support role is legal.---------------------------------------- African Leaders Demand Halt to NATO Bombing Campaign in Libya (Bloomberg)By Bill Varner June 15, 2011



African leaders today demanded an immediate end to the North Atlantic TreatyOrganization·s bombing campaign in Libya and called for the African Union andUnited Nations to take the lead in reaching a political solution.

´We have not voted for a substitute for bombing of one group by the other,µ

South Africa·s Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane told reporters in NewYork, referring to the UN resolution authorizing military action against Libyaleader Muammar Qaddafi·s regime, which her government supported. ´Allforms of military intervention and bombing must stop now.µ

Nkoana-Mashabane and ministers of Mali, Mauritania, Uganda and Republic ofCongo, which formed the AU·s Ad Hoc Committee on Libya, expressed theirconcern about the NATO bombing campaign to the UN Security Council.Adoption of a draft statement demanding a ´complete end to violence and allattacks against and abuses of civiliansµ was blocked by the U.S. and other

Western nations.

Western and Arab leaders have demanded an end to Qaddafi·s four-decade rule,and NATO aircraft have targeted his forces in a military campaign about to enterits fourth month.

´This was a meeting for expressions of frustration,µ said Ambassador NestorOsorio of Colombia, a Security Council member. Ambassador Jose MoraesCabral of Portugal, also a council member, said Uganda·s Foreign MinisterRuhakana Rugunda suggested the NATO intervention amounted to ´going back

to colonialismµ in Africa.

Call from Russia, ChinaThe meeting in New York followed a statement today by the ShanghaiCooperation Organization, a security alliance led by China and Russia andincluding the former Soviet states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan,urging an end to the NATO campaign. ´Domestic conflicts and crises have to beregulated exclusively by peaceful means, through political dialogue,µ the groupsaid in Astana, Kazakhstan, where it is holding a summit.

The African ministers stopped short of directly criticizing the NATO campaign,saying only that it has contributed to a humanitarian crisis rather than a politicalsolution.

´The situation also underscores the moral and also political imperative to seek arapid solution, to spare the suffering of the civilian population, create conditionsfor the return of sustainable peace in Libya and to spare the region from new



tribulations that stand the risk of plunging it back into instability,µ Mauritania·sForeign Minister Hamady Ould Hamady said.

South Africa·s President Jacob Zuma was more direct yesterday in Cape Town,saying the UN resolution authorizing military action was ´being abused for

regime change, political assassinations and foreign military occupation.µ

Hamady called for an ´immediate humanitarian pauseµ in the fighting andexpressed the AU·s ´surprise and disappointment at the attempts to marginalizethe continent in the management of the Libyan conflict.µ

Britain·s Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said a precondition of a halt to theNATO bombing was a cessation of attacks on civilians by the Qaddafi regime.´The ball is in Qaddafi·s court,µ Lyall Grant said. ----------------------------------------

World leaders look for way out of Libya (LA Times) By Patrick J. McDonnell and Paul Richter June 15, 2011Tripoli, Libya, and Washington³ With questions growing about NATO's air warand international arrest warrants threatening to close off a diplomatic solution,new players are joining the search for a way out of the Libya conflict. But theefforts have stumbled so far on Moammar Kadafi's insistence that he remain inthe country.

Russia and Turkey have recently added their voices to Western demands that

Kadafi leave. Libyan officials long have declared that a nonstarter, and diplomatssay it is unlikely they can change Kadafi's mind.

However, they hope to convince enough of the leader's children and closestassociates that leaving Libya becomes the only realistic option.

Adding urgency to the diplomatic push are concerns about how long NATO cansustain its military campaign and a pending ruling by the International CriminalCourt on prosecutors' request for arrest warrants for Kadafi, his son and brother-in-law.

Issuance of arrest warrants could forestall a solution in which Kadafi goes intoexile. Once warrants are issued, other countries that have agreed to ICC jurisdiction would be required to arrest him.

"To insist that he both leave the country and face trial in the InternationalCriminal Court is virtually to ensure that he will stay in Libya to the bitter end



and go down fighting," the International Crisis Group, a nonprofit organizationthat seeks to resolve global conflicts, said in a recent report on Libya.

Britain's top naval commander, Adm. Mark Stanhope, said Monday that it couldbe difficult to continue the campaign in Libya past September. "Beyond that, we

might have to request the government to make some challenging decisions aboutpriorities," he said.

The overall head of the British military, Gen. David Richards, contradicted him.But the admiral's remarks reinforced criticism last week by outgoing DefenseSecretary Robert M. Gates of NATO allies' faltering commitment to the Libyacampaign.

Fewer than half of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's 28 member nationsare engaged in the conflict, Gates said, and after only 11 weeks some are

beginning to run short of munitions.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday cited "numerous andcontinuous discussions" but acknowledged that there was not yet a clear path toforcing Kadafi to give up power.

Leading the latest effort to persuade Kadafi to go is longtime ally Russia.

Russia's Africa envoy, Mikhail Margelov, has suggested that the ICC case againstKadafi, his son Seif Islam and the regime intelligence chief could be deferred if

the Libyan leader agreed to leave soon.

Margelov, who visited the rebel stronghold Benghazi last week, told Russianmedia that he planned to visit Tripoli on Thursday and stress to Libya's leaderthat time was running out.

"The main international guarantee for Mr. Kadafi is his own common sense andhis understanding of the calendar," Margelov said. When ICC prosecutor LuisMoreno-Ocampo filed his request in mid-May, he said it would take at leastthree weeks for judges to make a decision. Margelov suggested that there wereonly a couple of weeks left.

"The clock is ticking, and there is time to do something in two weeks," he saidSaturday in a television interview.

Turkey, a growing regional power, also has had cordial relations with Kadafi.But last week, it also publicly offered to facilitate his departure.



"We said we would help you leave for wherever you would like," Turkish PrimeMinister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government informed the Libyan leader."Kadafi has no way out but to leave Libya."

In Tripoli, the government publicly continues to reject any peace blueprint that

sets Kadafi's exit as a precondition.

"No one can come here with a plan that includes the departure of the leader,"Musa Ibrahim, chief government spokesman, said Sunday. "This tells us thatpeople are not interested in peace and democracy in Libya. They are interested inimplementing a foreign agenda in Libya."

Nonetheless, diplomats and others say avoiding an international tribunal couldbe an incentive for Kadafi and his extended family to leave.

They cite the cumulative pressure of being in the cross hairs of NATO's aircraft.Although the government denies it, reports circulate that Kadafi's wife anddaughter have left the country. Kadafi's youngest son and three grandchildrenwere reportedly killed in a NATO airstrike in April. Several people who haveseen Kadafi in recent weeks said he remains visibly distressed by their deaths.

One Western diplomat said some of Kadafi's aides have started exploring whatoptions might be open to the leader if he is willing to give up power. Aides haveasked whether Kadafi could stay in Libya, perhaps with his tribe. Although themain rebel group has steadfastly rejected such suggestions, discussions continue,

the diplomat said.

"Kadafi may be beginning to understand that he's in a complicated spot," thediplomat said.

A second Western diplomat said Kadafi is losing ground with a steady stream ofdefections. "We think we're getting closer to what we're looking for," thediplomat said. "But we're not there yet."----------------------------------------

WRAPUP 1 ² Libyan rebels take new villages in Western Mountains (Reuters)By Nick Carey June 15, 2011GHARYAN, Libya - Libyan rebels have pushed deeper into government-heldterritory from their base in the Western Mountains, taking two villages fromwhich forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi had been shelling rebel-held towns.

But the rebels are still a considerable way from Gaddafi's main stronghold inTripoli, while their fellow fighters on the other two fronts -- in Misrata and in



eastern Libya -- have made only halting progress against better-armedgovernment troops.

The rebel advance some 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Tripoli on Wednesday,came as the White House insisted that President Barack Obama had the legal

authority to press on with U.S. military involvement in Libya.

Strains have begun to show in the Western alliance trying to topple Gaddafi. TheU.S. defense secretary rounded on European allies last week for failing to backthe mission the alliance took over in late March.

The White House urged sceptical lawmakers not to send "mixed messages" abouttheir commitment to the NATO-led air war that has helped the rebels push onfrom their bastion in the east.

"The revolutionaries (rebels) now control Zawiyat al-Babour and al-Awiniyahafter pro-Gaddafi forces retreated this morning from the two villages,"Abdulrahman, a rebel spokesman in the nearby town of Zintan, told Reuters.In Gharyan, a Gaddafi-held town that forms the gateway from Tripoli to themountains, there was an undercurrent of tension as the frontline moves closer tothe capital.

Libyan government minders took a group of reporters to the town, which liesabout 120 km southwest of Tripoli and about 20 km east of Kikla, which rebelsseized from loyalists on Tuesday.

Despite an outward appearance of normality, walls around town on Wednesdayhad recently painted over graffiti. The windows of one government buildingwere smashed, the sign for another was riddled with holes.

While many traders and people on the streets were reluctant to talk to reporters,one shop owner said the calm in the area during the day was replaced byfighting every night.

"Two thirds of the people here are for the rebels," he told Reuters, giving hisname as Mohammed.

Those willing to talk in front of the minders were strongly pro-Gaddafi."Sarkozy is stupid, he is fighting this war for petrol," a man called Yunis said inFrench, referring to the French president, vilified by Gaddafi supporters as thedriving force behind NATO bombing. "This is colonialism all over again."

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The NATO military alliance, which has been pounding Gaddafi's military andcommand-and-control structures for nearly three months, has failed to dislodgehim.

Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, said the alliance was "sliding down

and being dragged more into the eventuality of a land-based operation in Libya".Ties are becoming strained in the alliance, with some NATO memberscomplaining that others have been reluctant to commit additional resources.Tension in Washington itself over the conflict reflects unease over U.S.entanglement in a third conflict in the Muslim world in addition to wars in Iraqand Afghanistan and pressure for Obama to clarify U.S. goals in the NorthAfrican country.

The cost of U.S. military operations and humanitarian assistance in Libya was$716 million as of June 3 and was projected to reach $1.1 billion by Sept. 30, 2001,

according to a White House a report to Congress released on Wednesday.

"We believe that it's important for Congress not to send mixed messages about agoal that we think most members of Congress share," White House spokesman Jay Carney said.

Speaking in London after meeting NATO Secretary General Anders FoghRasmussen, British Prime Minister David Cameron reiterated that time wasrunning out for Gaddafi and that the alliance was as determined as ever.

"I think there is a very clear pattern emerging which is time is on our side,because we have the support of NATO, the United Nations, the Arab League, ahuge number of countries in our coalition and in our contact group," he said.Rasmussen echoed those comments despite senior NATO commander GeneralStephane Abrial on Tuesday raising questions about the alliance's ability tohandle a long-term intervention.

"Allies and partners are committed to provide the necessary resources and assetsto continue this operation and see it through to a successful conclusion,"Rasmussen said.

GADDAFI DEFIANCEIn a theatrical show of defiance, Gaddafi was shown at the weekend playing agame of chess with a Russian official, but after weeks of ambivalence, Moscowhas joined Western countries this month in calling for Gaddafi to step down.



Saad Djebbar, a former legal adviser to the Libyan government, told ReutersGaddafi would continue to play for time and seek to demoralise and split thecoalition.

"Gaddafi's mentality is that as long as my enemies haven't triumphed, I haven't

lost," he said.

Gaddafi has said he has no intention of leaving the country -- an outcome which,with the military intervention so far failing to produce results, many Westernpolicymakers see as the most realistic way out of the conflict.

At the United Nations, Britain's ambassador urged the African Union to send astrong message that he should go, adding there could be no ceasefire as long ashe remained in power.

Gaddafi's government approved a $31.4 billion budget for the rest of 2011, theofficial news agency said, in an apparent move to show it was functioningdespite air strikes and sanctions.

The Libyan leader has described the rebels as criminals and al Qaeda militants,and called the NATO intervention an act of colonial aggression aimed atgrabbing Libya's oil.

Though under attack from NATO warplanes and rebel fighters, Gaddafi's troopshave showed they are still a potent force.

A rebel spokesman in Nalut, at the other end of the Western Mountains rangefrom Zintan, said Gaddafi's forces had been shelling Nalut and the nearby bordercrossing into Tunisia. The rebels depend on that crossing to bring in supplies.----------------------------------------

Government Believes Arms Haul Comes from Libya (RFI)By Unattributed Author June 15, 2011Niger's military is hunting for two vehicles involved in a clash with securityforces last Sunday after a third, which was captured, was found to contain 640kgs of explosives, 435 detonators, and 90,000 dollars in cash.

Officials believe the arms came from Libya.

The skirmish between the army and what appears to have been banditshappened north of the town of Arlit and left two people dead, one on each side.



One four-wheel drive vehicle containing, explosives, arms and money, wasrecovered. But two other vehicles managed to flee.

And Niger authorities believe the captured arms came from insurrection-hitLibya and were intended for Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim).

The captured explosive, known as Semtex, is manufactured in the CzechRepublic and was being transported in containers with Libyan markings.

For security services there is no doubt that these explosives were being smuggledout of Libya for Al Qaida, which operates in the Sahara and Sahel region.

Semtex, which is hard to detect, was used to blow up a Pan Am flight over theSocttish town of Lockerbie in 1988.

And in the past, its main importer has been Libya, which is believed to havebought about 700 tons of it in the 1970s.

Since the uprising in Libya, Niger, Mali and Mauritania have voiced concern thatlarge stocks of arms have fallen into the hands of the insurgents and are beingsold to Al-Qaida.----------------------------------------

The Borderlands Between North and South SudanGet Bloodier (TIME)Posted by Everett Rosenfeld June 15, 2011

Tensions in Sudan -² which many observers hoped had turned a cornerfollowing this January's Southern Sudanese independence referendum ² haveboiled over in yet another round of ethnic bloodletting in this battered andimpoverished nation. This time, forces serving President Omar al-Bashir's Arab-dominated government are reportedly implicated in dozens of deaths in themountainous Nuba area of Northern Sudan's South Kordofan region. Accordingto the U.N. the majority of a 60,000 person population has fled the region in thewake of government-led aerial bombings and an offensive launched by Arabmilitias, targeting the religiously-heterodox African tribesmen collectivelyknown as the Nuba people.

´They are killing the black people,µ a Sudanese aid worker who just escapedfrom a bombed village on Wednesday told the New York Times. ´The northernarmy is slaughtering people who supported [southern independence].µReligious organizations are also confirming the accounts of targetedviolence. "The reports being received from various quarters point to a deliberateprocess of ethnic cleansing," said a statement from the All Africa Conference ofChurches.



This would not be the first attempt by North Sudanese paramilitaries to eradicatethe Nuba people: in the 1990s, nearly 500,000 people were killed in what hasbeen described as forgotten genocide.

Bashir's government and loosely organized paramilitary groups have begun torepeat the horrors of those years: fleeing Nuba "are being hunted down likeanimals," according to the Sudanese Council of Churches.

The roots of the conflict in the Nuba Mountain range are not difficult tocomprehend: many Nuba fought with the southern Sudanese during theprotracted civil war, yet when borders are officially drawn in July, their land isset to belong to Northern Sudan. Outnumbered ethnically, abandoned by formerallies, and finding themselves living in a formerly antagonistic nation, the Nubarefused to disarm when the northern army came calling on June 5.

Now, as ethnic violence once again ravages Sudan, the United Nations is lookinginto the situation.

´We will take the necessary measures to immediately investigate,µ Hua Jiang, aspokeswoman for the United Nations Mission in Sudan, told the Times,requesting that ´anyone who possesses any evidence to bring them to ourattention.µ

Meanwhile, Southern Sudan and its president Salva Kiir Mayardit are set to

officially declare independence on July 9. The violence in South Kordofan rightalong the border could, however, complicate the situation.---------------------------------------- Sudan leader al-Bashir to skip Malaysia forum amid calls to arrest him on war

crime charges (WP)By Unattributed Author June 15, 2011KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia ³ Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who iswanted on war crime charges, will skip an economic forum in Malaysia nextweek due to other engagements, officials said.

The announcement came amid pressure from rights group AmnestyInternational for Malaysia to arrest al-Bashir if he enters the country. TheInternational Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for al-Bashir forallegedly orchestrating atrocities in Sudan·s Darfur region.

Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman told state-owned Bernama TV lateWednesday that al-Bashir canceled his trip because he had other pressing



engagements and would instead send his foreign minister to the three-day forumthat begins Sunday.

An aide to Anifah confirmed his comments Thursday and said the cancellation ofal-Bashir·s visit had nothing to do with the ICC arrest warrants. The aide, who

declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media,couldn·t give further details.

The Sudanese leader remains in power, rejecting the charges and theNetherlands-based court, which has no police force and relies on member statesto execute its orders and warrants. Malaysia is not an ICC member, but in Marchit announced its intention to join.

London-based Amnesty International said earlier this week that Malaysia·sinvitation to al-Bashir ´flies in the face of its decision to join the ICCµ and called

for al-Bashir to be arrested if he turns up.

Darfur was plunged into turmoil in 2003, when ethnic African rebels took uparms against the Arab-dominated Sudanese government, which they accuse ofdiscrimination.

Al-Bashir·s regime is accused of retaliating by unleashing Arab militias oncivilians ³ a charge the government denies. The U.N. estimates 300,000 peoplehave died and 2.7 million have been displaced in the conflict. ----------------------------------------

Michelle Obama heads to Africa next week (WP)By Krissah Thompson June 15, 2011First lady Michelle Obama·s official visit to South Africa and Botswana nextweek will focus on engaging African youth and paying tribute to the culturalheritage and political struggles of both countries.

Obama·s schedule ³ which includes a hearty mix of public events, visits withlocal consulate officials and tourism ³ was released by White House officialsWednesday afternoon. She will be accompanied by her daughters, Malia andSasha, her mother, Marian Robinson, and her niece and nephew, Leslie andAvery Robinson, on the five-day goodwill tour.

Their trip will begin June 20 in Pretoria, where Obama will meet with SouthAfrican President Jacob Zuma·s wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma at Zuma·sofficial residence. The meeting will highlight one significant cultural difference:Zuma is a Zulu traditionalist and polygamist. Reports conflict on how manywives he has.



In Johannesburg, Obama and her entourage will visit the Nelson MandelaFoundation, where the anti-apartheid movement·s archives are housed. A visitwith Mandela, who is 92 and battled a difficult respiratory infection earlier thisyear, is not on her schedule, but his wife, Graca Machel, the former first lady of

Mozambique, will lead the family·s tour of the archives.

As in past trips, Obama will spend much of her time with children and youngleaders, focusing her talks on education and wellness. Last year, in her first soloofficial visit overseas, Obama held a roundtable discussion with young adults inMexico, hugged schoolchildren and visited earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Obama·s itinerary in South Africa similarly includes a visit to Soweto, the mostpopulous black urban residential area in the country, where she will give akeynote address to 75 young women selected by U.S. officials for their leadership

skills and lead them in a community service project.

During the latter part of the trip, Obama will visit Cape Town. She will meetwith students at the University of Cape Town, visit an HIV/AIDS project thateducates children about the virus, and travel to Robben Island, where Mandelaand other anti-apartheid activists were held during the country·s years of racialoppression.

The family·s trip ends with a visit to Gabarone in Botswana and a safari in thatcountry.

Both countries, which are democracies and have made progress on theHIV/AIDS epidemic, are well placed to be showcased with a visit by the firstlady, said John Campbell, a former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria, who has alsoserved in South Africa.

´If you want to showcase countries that are moving in a democratic directionwith a track record of credible elections and with governments that are activelywrestling with real issues that impact on their citizens, Botswana and SouthAfrica are the right ones,µ Campbell said.----------------------------------------

Experts warn S.African corruption helps terrorists (CBS)By Unattributed Author June 15, 2011PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) ³ When an alleged mastermind of al-Qaidaattacks on U.S. embassies was killed in East Africa, officials said he was carryinga fake South African passport.



Security experts have been warning for years that corruption in South Africa isallowing terrorists to get documents to hide their identities and make it easier totravel.

An official responsible for issuing South African passports says there have been

improvements, but acknowledges more needs to be done. Mkuseli Apleni saysthe passport found with terror suspect Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is a copy ofthe easily forged passport South Africa no longer produces. Mohammed waskilled last week in Somalia.

Counterterrorism specialist Scott Stewart says it's possible in South Africa to"give the right guy several hundred dollars" for a passport.---------------------------------------- Eritrea volcano: Ash disrupts air travel in East Africa (BBC)By Unattributed Author

June 15, 2011Flights to East Africa have been severely disrupted as ash from an Eritreanvolcano spreads across the region and heads towards Saudi Arabia.Several airlines said they had stopped flying to Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti andEthiopia.

The ash cloud was now changing direction, from north-west to south-west andhad reached Sudan and Egypt, an Ethiopian academic said.

The cloud followed a volcanic eruption in Eritrea at the weekend.

It forced US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to cut short a three-nation tour ofAfrica on Monday.

'Size decreasing'

Initially only the German airline Lufthansa cancelled flights to Eritrea andneighbouring Ethiopia.

Now Ethiopian Airways has said it has cancelled flights to Sudan and Djibouti.

Kenya Airways said it was no longer flying on the Ethiopia-Djibouti route andDubai's Emirates airline said it had cancelled flights to the Ethiopian capital,Addis Ababa.

Satellite images obtained by the France-based Volcanic Ash Advisory Centreshowed the cloud was moving towards Saudi Arabia, Reuters news agencyreports.



But Atalay Ayele of the Geophysical Observatory Centre of Ethiopia's AddisAbaba University said the size of the ash cloud was decreasing.

"The ash's direction and its intensity were very high on Sunday, but... the Modis[Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer] satellite shows a weakening,"

he said.

According to the US space agency Nasa, the satellite images confirm the eruptionwas at the Nabro volcano, which is not known to have erupted before.

Earlier reports had said it was the Dubbi volcano that had sent the plumes of ash13km (eight miles) into the air.

Peggy Hellweg, a seismologist at the University of California, told the BBC thevolcano could go on rumbling and spewing ash for some time.

---------------------------------------- Water Filter Project in AfricaGets Technology Boost (VOA)By Cathy Majtenyi June 15, 2011NAIROBI, Kenya ² Technology plays an increasingly prominent role in Africandevelopment projects. One example is a Swiss company's water filter project inwestern Kenya that makes use of a sophisticated network of cell phones andsatellites.

It's evening at command central in the western Kenyan town of Kakamega. Here,

staff of the Swiss company Vestergaard Frandsen pores over results of the day'sdistribution.

Hours earlier, 3,800 workers visited homes across the area to demonstrate andhand out the company's LifeStraw water filter.

They also took photos and gathered basic information about the households onAndroid smart phones.

"I have been using [the phone] to record the information - it is easy," saidKhaemba. "If you have recorded using this phone, the data is safe, unlikewriting. This is the time of rain - maybe I can lose the record or the record can bespoiled by rain. So I am using this phone [and] it is safe."

Information that Khaemba and other workers gather is uploaded to a server at arate of 100 files every 80 seconds.

It includes the map coordinates of each household visited.



Max Gold is chief technology officer with Manna Energy Ltd., a companyworking on Vestergaard Frandsen's carbon credit project designed to reducegreenhouse emissions. He says the map ensures the smooth distribution of theLifeStraw, and notes areas that still need to be reached.

"We may deploy extra people there to help out, or we might call up the localsupervisor and ask them what's going on, see if we can identify any problems,"she said. "It also helps us see if there are network outages and other issues thatmay come up in such a large deployment."

The technology, and the information it gathers, is needed to monitor the project'ssuccess in cutting down on the amount of firewood used to boil water so that itcan be safe to drink.

This will enable Vestergaard Frandsen to claim carbon credits on the globalcarbon market, a new form of revenue for companies operating in Africa andworldwide. Vestergaard Frandsen turns the information it gathers over to theKenyan government, says company CEO Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen.

"This data platform will be shared with the government here, specifically in theMinistry of Health, so that they have a very strong platform to go out and doother things - hand washing campaigns, delivery of bed nets, etc., so that ishugely important," said Frandsen.

Company officials say the technology also ensures that some 900,000 homesteadsin western Kenya receive a consistent supply of safe drinking water.

Access to safe drinking water and respiratory problems caused by indoor smokeare big problems in Kenya, particularly among children. The World HealthOrganization says 20 percent of deaths in children under the age of five are dueto diarrhea, while 16 percent of these children die from pneumonia.

Worldwide, the United Nations says diarrhea is the second leading cause ofdeath among children under five, with around one in five children dying fromthe disease, largely because of dirty water.---------------------------UN News Service Africa Briefs Full Articles on UN Website

Ban urges immediate end to hostilities in Sudan·s Southern Kordofan state

15 June ² Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged an immediate end to thefighting in Sudan·s Southern Kordofan state, which has caused the death of



many civilians and the displacement of tens of thousands, and put UnitedNations staff directly at risk.

M ore must be done to overcome obstacles in providing aid ² UN official

15 June ² Aid workers and peacekeepers face a range of security and logistical

challenges as they assist the most vulnerable, but there are steps they can take toimprove the plight of those in need, a senior United Nations relief officialstressed today.

UN envoy hails Chad·s action plan to end use of child soldiers 14 June ² A senior United Nations official today hailed the action plan signed bythe Government of Chad to end the use of children by the country·s securityforces, while highlighting important next steps on the path to eradicating thescourge of child soldiers.

Sudan: UN reports intense air bombardment of Southern Kordofan state 14 June ² The United Nations has reported heavy bombardment by Sudanesewarplanes during the past week in areas surrounding the towns of Kadugli andKauda in the troubled state of Southern Kordofan, with planes early todaydropping at least 11 bombs on an airfield close to a UN camp.

Ongoing insecurity preventing return of displaced civilians in Côte d·Ivoire ² UN 14 June ² At least 300,000 civilians are still displaced in Côte d·Ivoire two monthsafter the end of the post-election crisis, the United Nations refugee agencyreported today, adding that ongoing insecurity in some areas is preventing theirreturn.

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