14 NEW VISION, Tuesday, September 6, 2011 INTERNATIONAL NEWS Gadaffi forces remain defiant South Sudan to move city JUBA with new tarmac roads, solar-powered street lighting SHISHAN South Sudan said on in places and even floral Sunday it planned to move arrangements in the central Anti-Gadaffi fighters are play- its capital to a more central reservation on one street. ing a waiting game after an of- location in the next few Benjamin said sev- ficial said negotiations for the years, a project analysts say eral companies, including surrender of the town of Bani would be a costly distraction a South Korean firm, have Walid had failed and would for a nation with almost no already put forward design not resume. roads. proposals for building the China, meanwhile, denied a Juba lies to the south of new capital but no decision Canadian press report that it the country that split from had been made. The total had offered huge stockpiles of the rest of Sudan to become cost for the project is not yet arms to the ousted strongman an independent state on known, he said. during the final months of his July 9. “The government wants to regime and held secret talks on Following a resolution put in proper infrastructure shipping them through Algeria by the cabinet, the capital for the new city,” he said. and South Africa. would be moved in five to South Sudan’s secession, eight years to Ramciel, a which split Africa’s largest largely uninhabited area in country, followed a January Lakes state near the centre referendum promised in a of the world’s newest na- 2005 peace deal that ended Seif tion. It would sit on the west decades of civil war. bank of the White Nile river. The war left a country with Q The talks broke down South Sudan’s information few hardened roads, a poor after the weekends minister, Barnaba Marial power supply and limited Benjamin, said the new site, other infrastructure. broadcast of Seif al-Islam Anti-Gadaffi fighters stand on a plane destroyed by a NATO airstrike at Hamis military base Gadaffi aggresive speech which has no permanent “I think there are other buildings at present, lies more pressing issues than start the attack or to extend the man Muammar Gadaffi inside Saadi Gadaffi said the talks’ roughly 100km north of the moving or rebuilding of “I am leaving the military deadline,” said Abdulrazzak the town had wanted to come failure was the fault of his Juba. the capital,” said Sampson commander to resolve the Naduri, second in command in out with their weapons but high-profile brother Seif al- “There is no adequate Wassara, an associate politi- problem,” Abdullah Kenshil, the military council in Tarhuna, were rebuffed. Islam, who is wanted by the land in Juba. The land avail- cal science professor at Juba the chief negotiator for Libya’s north of Bani Walid. “They demanded that the International Criminal Court able is too small,” he said. University. new government, the National “Things are quiet now. There revolutionaries enter Bani along with their father for sus- “The only area that could “The government needs Transitional Council (NTC), are no clashes and there are Walid without their weapons pected crimes against human- accommodate the new to look at consolidating and said late on Sunday. parties who are trying to keep to negotiate,” he added, charg- ity during the uprising. government in Juba is an finishing the activities from The town southeast of Tripoli the talks going. ing that it was a pretext for an Saadi told CNN in a tele- area for the migration of the interim period before is one of the last strongholds of “We don’t want any blood- ambush. phone interview that an “ag- animals.” they think about making pro-Gadaffi fighters where at shed and we hope to hear good Kenshil said Gadaffi himself, gressive” speech broadcast by Juba is a city of potholed decisions that require extra least one of the ousted despot’s news later in the day.” his sons and much of his fam- his brother a few days ago had streets and muddy lanes, expenditure,” he said. sons is reported to be hiding. Kenshil said on Sunday the ily had been in Bani Walid, led to the breakdown of the ne- although efforts are being “We are waiting for orders to supporters of toppled strong- without specifying when. gotiations. made to spruce up the town Reuters AFP Former Libya security chief in Niger Scuffles disrupt Hosni Mubarak trial DUBAI CAIRO The head of Muammar Gadaffi’s security brigades, The trial of Hosni Mubarak Mansour Dhao, has appeared resumed yesterday after doz- in Niger, Al Arabiya television ens of the ousted 83-year-old reported yesterday. Egyptian president’s support- Niger, a southern neighbour ers and opponents clashed of Libya, has long had ties 2 near the Cairo courtroom. with Tripoli. The session was to hear About 10 people were witness testimony to try to de- travelling with Dhao, Al minute termine who gave the orders Arabiya reported. for the killing of hundreds of Niger recognised Libya’s protesters in the revolt that National Transitional Council catchup ousted the former autocratic on August 27, after Tripoli fell leader in February. to fighters seeking to oust The hearing was to be held Gadaffi. At least four off-camera unlike the first two Gadaffi’s whereabouts still z sessions which saw Mubarak unknown. people have appearing in court bound to A policeman struggles with an anti-Mubarak protestor AFP Muammar Gadaffi a stretcher and caged, in grip- been killed ping images broadcast live on and 10 others television. four arrests. to try to determine who gave But footage on state televi- The decision to stop the the order for the shooting of Trial of Kagame’s critic starts wounded in cen- sion showed Mubarak again live television broadcast was protesters during the January- KIGALI transfers to the Democratic arriving for the hearing at taken by trial judge Ahmed February revolution. Forces for the Liberation of tral Nigeria’s Jos the police academy in the Refaat, who was apparently “The court will hear four The trial opened yesterday of Rwanda, a Hutu rebel move- capital’s outer suburbs in an exasperated by the charged witnesses, including the Rwandan opposition leader ment based in Congo. state. ambulance on a stretcher, atmosphere in the courtroom head of communications Victoire Ingabire, an outspo- However, the prosecution z The trial of after a helicopter flew him in at the last hearing. in the central security force ken critic of president Paul called for more time to collect from hospital. Mubarak’s first dramatic ap- and officers responsible for Kagame’s regime. Ingabire is evidence from the Nether- former French Before he drew up under pearance in court came as a operations from the same charged with fomenting inse- lands, where Ingabire lived in heavy security, demonstrators shock to Egyptians who were force,” the government daily curity and ethnic divisions. exile until January 2010. President clashed near the courtroom. glued to watching the pro- Al-Ahram said. Charges were read out Ingabire’s British defence Jacques Chirac, “We have not abandoned ceedings on television, never The court would investigate against the handcuffed Inga- lawyer, Iain Edwards, said you,” the pro-Mubarak having believed he would be whether the orders to fire on bire, dressed in a pink regula- the trial should go ahead as on charges of il- protesters chanted, while forced to go on trial. the crowd were given solely tion prison outfit and with a planned. their rivals, included family After the adjournment of by the interior ministry or if shaved head. However, after “Delaying the trial would legal party fund- members of some victims of the August 15 session, several Mubarak was also implicated. opening the trial prosecutors not be in the interest of jus- ing during his repression, shouted: “Punish- relatives of victims and some More than 850 people were then called for it to be de- tice,” Edwards told the court. ment, punishment, they killed lawyers jumped on a bench killed in the 18 days that led layed. About 20 armed security of- time as mayor our children with bullets.” and started chanting “Execu- to Mubarak’s ouster after Rwandan prosecutors said ficials surrounded the court- The MENA state news tion!” at Mubarak. three decades in power, ac- they had evidence of her al- house, with several also inside of Paris, opened agency reported that a dozen After the earlier two formal cording to official figures. leged “terrorist” activities, the crowded courtroom. yesterday. people were injured in the sessions, the court was on including proof of financial AFP scuffles, and that police made Monday to begin questioning AFP