{"id":276,"date":"2007-04-17T10:54:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=276"},"modified":"2007-04-17T10:54:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T15:54:07","slug":"news-and-analysis-41707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/17\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national elections already marred by violence and accusations of ballot manipulation become more complicated as popular banned candidate is finally cleared to run \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 5 days before elections: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/16\/AR2007041600738.html\"><font size=\"2\">Nigerian Court Overturns Ban on Accused Candidate<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Voluntary pullout of Sadrists from Iraqi government could fill ministries based on merit, but also poses potential problem of worsening political situation on the street with many Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122a: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/16\/AR2007041600638_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">Six Sadr Loyalists Quit Cabinet in Challenge to Iraqi Premier<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Dire refugee situation in Iraq for refugees forces them to flee to the stable Kurdish controlled northern areas and prompts the UN to ask regional neighbors to continue to open their borders to those escaping the violence: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/16\/AR2007041601585_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">West Urged to Accept More Iraqi Refugees<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Associated Press)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0417\/p04s01-wome.htm\"><font size=\"2\">More Iraqis go North, Fleeing Violence<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Human Rights Watch report condemns Taliban attacks against civilians as War Crimes: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-afghan17apr17,0,3371476,print.story?coll=la-home-world\"><font size=\"2\">Death Toll Rises Among Afghan Civilians, Report Says<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Los Angeles Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Sudanese objections to UN aid to Darfur dropped, paving way for joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/17\/world\/africa\/17nations.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">Sudan Drops Objections to U.N. Aid in Darfur<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Analysts find that one of Indonesia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest courts needs its powers to be more separated from the executive branch by making its judges serve their positions as life terms: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/detailnational.asp?fileid=20070417.H03&#038;irec=2\"><font size=\"2\">Constitutional Court Judge a Lifetime Duty: Analysts<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (The Jakarta Post)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s national elections already marred by violence and accusations of ballot manipulation become more complicated as popular banned candidate is finally cleared to run \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 5 days before elections: Nigerian Court Overturns Ban on Accused Candidate (Washington Post) Voluntary pullout of Sadrists from Iraqi government could fill ministries based on merit, but also poses potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}