[ToloNews] On Sunday, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) disclosed a list of ten individuals charged with drug trafficking whom the government is seeking to apprehend.
The suspected people are:
1-Samim, a.k.a. Faqir Shah
2-Azizuddine, a.k.a. Mohammad Qasim
3- Farid, a.k.a. Khodadad
4- Matine, a.k.a. Abdul Rashid
5-Obiadullah, a.k.a. Najibullah
6- Najibullah, a.k.a. Mujeeb
7- Joma Murad, a.k.a Dawlat Makhdum
8-Sayed Jan
9-Toryali
10- Sher Aziz
"If anyone assists us in arresting these ten smugglers, we will not disclose (the informant's) name but will reward them. This will allow us to rid Kabul of these sorts of criminals," stated Najibullah Ahmadi, head of the investigation department in MoI.
"Anyone, in any position, who stands against the law will be punished," said Mohammad Hashim Ortag, interior deputy minister.
The MoI states it has arrested 204 individuals, including eight foreigners charged with drug trafficking. Furthermore, 23 "major traffickers", 68 public service employees, 86 women, and 9 under-aged people are accused of drug trafficking.
Moreover, the MoI has arrested three Iranian nationals, two Paks and three Turkmens also charged on drug trafficking.
"They keep the battlefield warm (meaning the fight will continue) until the perpetrators are sentenced by law in court." said Mohammad Hashim Ortaq, deputy minister of interior.
Figures by the MoI indicated that poppy-planting has decreased by 38% compared to 2018.
The United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... (UN) has consistently named Afghanistan as a top-producer illicit drugs in recent years.
[KhaamaPress] The NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... -led Resolute Support Mission handed over equipment to Kabul Police in a bid to help with the security and stop spread of the novel coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... (COVID-19) in the capital.
"Our support for #ANDSF during the #COVID19 outbreak continues. Kabul police received 18,000 surgical masks, 18,000 gloves, 18,000 disinfectants and sanitizers, protective equip. kits & infrared thermometers to assist their efforts to provide security and #stopthespread of #coronavirus in #Afghanistan’s largest city," the Resolute Support mission said in a Twitter post.
It also added "These supplies are being distributed to the 16,000 #Kabul #coppers providing protection for the city’s residents. #NATO Resolute Support stands behind our #Afghan partners."
The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday announced that 133 people have contracted the coronavirus disease in the past 24 hours, raising the total number of the infected people to 1,463.
According to Public Health Ministry officials, the disease has so far killed at least 47 people across the country.
[NORTH-AFRICA] A United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... panel said Monday it had no "credible evidence" of Sudanese paramilitaries fighting in conflict-wracked Libya for military strongman Khalifa Haftar ...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly... as alleged by some media outlets.
Several Libyan and regional media outlets had claimed in recent months that hundreds of Sudanese paramilitaries from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were deployed in Libya to fight alongside Haftar’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces. But a UN panel of experts on Sudan dismissed these claims in a report released on Monday.
"The panel has no credible evidence of the presence of Rapid Support Forces in Libya," the report said. It said there were, however, many Arabs from Sudan’s conflict-wracked region of Darfur and neighbouring Chad fighting as "individual mercenaries" in Libya and they belonged to the same tribes that made up a majority of RSF personnel.
The UN experts’ report also said several Darfuri gangs operating in Libya "have participated in various festivities and military operations alongside Libyan warring parties".
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[ALMARSAD.CO] The Forum for Development, Culture, and Dialogue (FDCD) condemned on Sunday the breach of the UN-sponsored ceasefire by the militias of the Government of National Accord (GNA) allied with the Turkish regime with the continuous targeting of civilians and by bombing the city of Tarhouna, southeast of the capital Tripol.
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[Rudaw] Having spent a year shirking its end of the oil-for-budget agreement with Baghdad, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has said it is ready to hand over its quota of 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil in exchange for its share of the Iraqi federal budget.
Is this one of those situations where they’ll now get more from the Iraqi government under the deal than they would on the open market?
Dara Rashid, the KRG planning minister, told a presser in Erbil on Sunday the Kurdistan Region is ready to deliver the oil quota to Iraq’s State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO) in return for public finances.
"We are ready not only to hand over 250,000 barrels of oil per day to Baghdad, but also to hand over the entire KRG oil product. But in return, Baghdad must commit to sending all the financial shares of the Kurdistan Region and the entitlements of the oil companies operating in Kurdistan Region oilfields," Rashid said.
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[ToloNews] On Sunday, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) disclosed a list of ten individuals charged with drug trafficking whom the government is seeking to apprehend.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...Self-proclaimed Field Marshal, served in the Libyan army under Muammar Qadaffy, and took part in the coup that brought Qadaffy to power in 1969. He became a prisoner of war in Chad in 1987. While held prisoner, he and his fellow officers formed a group hoping to overthrow Qadaffy, so it's kind of hard to describe him as a Qadaffy holdover. He was released around 1990 in a deal with the United States government and spent nearly two decades in the United States, gaining US citizenship. In 1993, while living in the United States, he was convicted in absentia of crimes against the Jamahiriya and sentenced to death. Haftar held a senior position in the anti-Qadaffy forces in the 2011 Libyan Civil War. In 2014 he was commander of the Libyan Army when the General National Congress (GNC) refused to give up power in accordance with its term of office. Haftar launched a campaign against the GNC and its Islamic fundamentalist allies. His campaign allowed elections to take place to replace the GNC, but then developed into a civil war. Guess you can't win them all. Actually, he is, but slowly...
