ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 29 April 2014 29 Jumadal II 1435 - Volume 19 Number 6050 Price: QR2 Huge turnout Guardiola needs at QNB meet to give Bayern for small firms a cutting edge Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir, Swaziland King hold talks Emiri Diwan President to be Govt seizes 70 in charge in Emir’s absence DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday issued an Emiri Order No. 1 of 2014 delegating unused plots the Emiri Diwan President H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (pictured) to assume the Emir’s duties during the periods of his absence. The Emiri Order is effective as of the date of its publication in the official gazette. given to SMEs QNA Beneficiaries not serious about projects Egypt court sentences Brotherhood DOHA: Some 70 plots of land industrial areas were being set leader Badie, 682 others to death that were allotted for SMEs in up to boost SMEs. the Industrial Area have been Currently, some 620 SME MINYA, Egypt: An Egyptian court sentenced 682 alleged taken back by the government projects are at various stages Islamists and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie to death as the beneficiaries were not of launch in the country and yesterday, a lawyer and prosecutor said, after two brief sessions the found serious about launching their total investment is a huge defence partly boycotted. projects. QR10bn. The same court in the southern province of Minya also reversed 492 These plots are to be given away Of these, 200 projects are of 529 death sentences it passed in March, commuting most of those to serious entrepreneurs: People expected to begin production to life in prison. The court, presided over by Judge Said Youssef Sabry, who are serious about launching soon, said Al Kubaisi. Some had sparked an international outcry with its initial sentencing last small and medium-sized projects, of the remaining 420 projects month amid an extensive crackdown on supporters of ousted president say the authorities. are under construction, while Mohamed Mursi. More such plots (that have many are at the licensing In Cairo, a court banned the April 6 youth movement that spear- been allotted for SMEs) but stage. headed the 2011 revolt, following a complaint accusing it of defaming so far remain unused will be According to Sultan Khalifa T he Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received King Mswati Egypt and colluding with foreign parties. AFP seized and given away to serious Al Hitmi, director of customer III of Swaziland yesterday. They reviewed bilateral relations. Later, the See also page 7 entrepreneurs. relations at Dhameen at the Emir hosted a luncheon banquet in honour of the Swaziland monarch. The Industrial Area for SMEs state-owned Qatar Development has been divided into nine zones Bank (QDB), the bank will with the idea to create active finance 300 SME projects this production bases for local mar- year. keting of products as well as for Al Dhameen is a programme Al Jazeera demands $150m damages from Egypt exports. exclusively devoted to bolstering “We have until now taken back SMEs, which are crucial to the 70 plots that we had allotted for success of the state’s economic DOHA: The Al Jazeera net- based on a 1999 bilateral invest- Egyptian military, Al Jazeera’s subjected to compulsory liquida- SMEs and we will be withdraw- diversification effort. work has served Egypt with a ment treaty between Egypt journalists and staff have been tion of assets, Al Jazeera said. ing many more from those who The QDB has so far given away $150m compensation claim for and Qatar, which stipulates the subjected to a sustained campaign Four Al Jazeera journalists are not serious entrepreneurs,” financing to the tune of a whop- what it said was damages to mutual promotion and protection of harassment and intimidation, remain in custody, and six have said Hamad Al Kubaisi, head ping QR800m for SMEs. its investments in the country of investments, Al Jazeera said said the network. been tried in absentia. of planning and development As for new SMEs, the QDB inflicted by the military-led yesterday. The interim government’s According to the bilat- section at the Industrial Areas is giving away up to 85 percent interim government since July If there is no settlement within actions have included ransacking eral investment treaty signed Department. of the value of a project, while last year. six months, Al Jazeera said it and closure of Al Jazeera offices, between Doha and Cairo, inves- The Department is part of for existing project the bank Yesterday the network lodged would send the case to interna- confiscation of equipment, jam- tors from both sides should be the Ministry of Energy and provides financing up to 75 a formal “notification of dispute” tional arbitration. ming of transmission and arbi- afforded fair and equitable treat- Industry. percent of the value, said Al with the interim government of In the months following the trary detention of journalists. ment by the governments of both Al Kubaisi said in a press Hitmi. Egypt. overthrow of the government of Its broadcast license has been countries. statement yesterday that more THE PENINSULA The “notification of dispute” is president Mohamed Mursi by the revoked and its Cairo branch was THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 29 APRIL 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Qatar confirms $88m for Darfur development Doha to fund 19 projects across Darfur’s five states KHARTOUM: Qatar con- asked why the money had not is to move the war-devastated firmed yesterday it will provide come sooner. region away from food hand- $88m to kick-start a strat- “They have already transferred, outs and other emergency aid, egy for lasting development of even before we signed anything, helping people to become more Sudan’s Darfur, which this year $10m to the United Nations self-reliant. has seen its worst violence in a Darfur fund,” providing it with But emergency needs remain decade. its first contribution, Za’tari said high in the territory where, The commitment, signed in from El Fasher. according to UN figures released the North Darfur capital El The grant will be handed yesterday, about 224,000 people Fasher, comes one year after over “once the documentation have been displaced by fighting an international donors’ con- is ready,” likely within a month, since late February. ference in Doha secured $3.6bn he added. Qatar will fund 19 That has added to the aid bur- The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmud (centre), in pledges — mostly from cash- UN-sponsored projects across den in a region where about two chairs a meeting of an international commission monitoring a limited peace deal in Sudan’s Darfur, in Al Fasher, strapped Khartoum — to finance Darfur’s five states. million were already displaced by northern Darfur, yesterday. the six-year Darfur Development Known as “Foundational and 11 years of violence. Strategy. Short-term (FaST) activities, While Darfur’s aid needs have splinter factions. — have worsened. Separately from the tension between groups,” a Qatar said at the conference the Development Strategy had soared, the number of aid workers Numerous aspects of the deal its contribution to the UN fund, humanitarian source said. “On that it would make an immedi- called for them to be essentially has fallen in recent years, as has have not been implemented on Za’tari said Qatar has been sup- the other hand, the time doesn’t ate contribution of $88m, half the completed within 12 months. the amount of funding, according schedule and major rebel groups porting clinics and other projects entirely seem to be ripe for it.” $177m needed for critical short- Among the targeted projects were to the United Nations. have refused to sign it. under its total $500m pledge from The UN-backed Development term activities. “It took some the construction of water hand The Development Strategy At the same time, other forms the conference. “On the one hand, Strategy argues that there will time... We’re glad that it’s on pumps, the building of schools and comes under a July 2011 peace of unrest — including battles it’s good that there will be money likely never be an ideal time for the right track,” the UN chief in upgrading of health facilities. deal which Khartoum signed in between heavily armed tribes, to do more longer-term things, Darfur’s “recovery” to begin. Sudan, Ali Al Za’tari, said when The strategy’s longer-term goal Doha with an alliance of rebel militia violence and criminality which eventually could reduce AFP Silatech, IYF advisers graduate RAMALLAH: Silatech and the assessment that analyses the person- Palestinian Vision Organisation, International Youth Foundation ality, interests and strengths of young YWCA, Leaders, Ta’awon for Conflict (IYF) recently celebrated the grad- people, and then helps align these with Resolution, and Vocational Education uation of a new batch of Tamheed available career paths. and Training Association. Over the advisers. Silatech’s partnership with IYF was past 16 months, advisers have reached Over 40 graduates from 11 part- launched in 2012, and now trained over 2000 young men and women from ner institutions received training as advisers provide career guidance to various parts of the West Bank, where career advisers, qualifying them to Palestinian youth at a variety of insti- the program was well received. conduct individual career counseling tutions. The Tamheed program me is Dr Mohammed Al-Mbaid, Director, sessions aimed at helping youth choose currently operating at four univer- IYF Palestine, thanked the graduates a career.