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/ 30 September 2011
Sudan’s debt risks exacerbating a difficult economic situation as annual debt servicing costs hit about $1-billion after the secession of the South.
President Mahmoud Abbas has told the United Nations chief he will seek full UN membership for a Palestinian state.
IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged on Sunday with sexually assaulting a New York hotel maid.
France said on Tuesday that negotiations were under way for the exit of Laurent Gbagbo from Côte d’Ivoire, saying the strife could be over in hours.
France asked its citizens to leave Côte d’Ivoire and the World Bank froze funding to the country on Wednesday, as a power struggle deepened.
French police cleared access to the refinery supplying fuel to Paris on Friday as unions hardened their stance ahead of a vote on pension reform.