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- South Sudan's President Salva Kiir sacks cabinet, including his deputy Riek Machar [1]
- South Sudan's ousted cabinet barred from entering ministries [2]
- UK Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds urges restraint after dismissal of south Sudanese Government [3]
- UN mission closely monitoring situation in South Sudan amid political changes [4]
- FULL TEXT Documents: Decrees issued by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir [5]
- UN Security Council Resolution 2109 (2013) Adopted by the Security Council at its 6998th meeting on 11 July 2013 [6]
- Darfur, Western Sudan: UN Chief: 'Situation in Darfur continues to regress' - UN peacekeeping chief visits Sudan [7]
- North Kordofan, Central Sudan: Sudanese army repulses SRF rebels' attack in North Kordofan - Sudan army, rebels clash ahead of oil deadline [8a & 8b]
- Seven Tanzanian UNAMID peacekeepers killed and 17 others injured in ambush in Darfur on 12 July 2013 - Tanzania bids farewell to its departed heroes [9a, 9b & 9c]
- Sudan files complaint to African Union against Uganda's support for rebels [10]
- DR Congo: Heavy fighting has resumed between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group in the Mutaho-Kibati area, near Goma, in N. Kivu Province [11]
- DR Congo: Over 30,000 Congolese flee rebel attacks to Uganda: UN [12]
- CAR: Communiqué of AU PSC on situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) [13]
[1] Report by AFP published at www.france24.com on Wednesday, 24 July 2013. Full copy:
South Sudan's Salva Kiir sacks cabinet
South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, on Wednesday sacked his entire cabinet, including his main political rival Riek Machar. The move raises fears of political instability in a country riven by ethnic rivalries and still reeling from decades of war.Source: AFP report reprinted at http://www.france24.com/en/20130724-south-sudan-salva-kiir-sacking-security-forces-president-
Heavily armed South Sudanese security forces guarded key government institutions in the capital Juba Wednesday as radio broadcasts called for calm after the president suspended his cabinet and his main political rival.
Those removed by President Salva Kiir include two of the country's most influential leaders - his rival vice-president Riek Machar Machar and Pagan Amum, the secretary-general of the ruling party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM).
The sackings have sparked concern over potential instability in the fledgling nation, which is awash with guns, riven by ethnic rivalries and still reeling from decades of war.
"We are asking our citizens, please do your duty and go to work," said Barnaba Marial Benjamin, who until his suspension late Tuesday was the information minister and government spokesman.
All 29 ministers were suspended as well as their deputies, in addition to 17 police brigadiers.
"Give the president a chance to form his government... he has already empowered the technocrats to see the day-to-day running of the administration," Benjamin said in a broadcast on the UN-supported Radio Miraya.
Troops and armed police blocked several key roads in Juba, with a heavy deployment at the government ministry complex, but the city was reported calm, army spokesman Philip Aguer said.
"This is routine work, they are being deployed to protect the ministries," Aguer told AFP.
Many of the ministers were key figures in the rebel SPLM or its armed wing that fought a brutal 1983-2005 war against the government in Khartoum, which led to a 2011 referendum in which South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to split from the north.
Machar, from the Dok Nuer people from the key oil producing Unity state, is a controversial figure for many, but commands loyalty among many branches of the Nuer, which form an integral part of the footsoldiers of the new nation's ex-rebel army.
He has made no secret of his desire to challenge Kiir for the presidency in elections due in 2015.
However, he fought on both sides of the civil war, leading a splinter SPLM faction that sided with Khartoum, battling troops commanded by Kiir, who comes from the Dinka people.
Machar's troops are accused of a brutal massacre in the ethnic Dinka town of Bor in 1991.
"This latest move is part of an ongoing struggle in the highest levels of South Sudan's political leadership," said Akshaya Kumar of the US-based Enough Project, which campaigns for peace in the Sudans.
Last month, Machar led talks with Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir to ease tensions after Khartoum threatened to halt oil flows worth billions of dollars to both impoverished neighbours.
Amum was the top negotiator with arch-foe Sudan at long-running African Union-mediated talks over a raft of issues left unresolved at independence, including border demarcation and oil exports, currently under threat of suspension again, this time by Khartoum.
The suspended party leader is to be also investigated for alleged "mismanagement of the party" by a parliamentary committee, the presidential orders broadcast on state radio said.
However, Khartoum said the suspensions would not impact oil and security pacts reached between them.
"These are agreements between two countries" not individuals, said Abubakr Al-Siddiq, spokesman for Sudan's foreign ministry.
Sudan has issued an August 7 deadline to shut down oil production -- accusing Juba of backing rebels in the north, claims Juba denies -- in the latest in a string of threatened cuts.
South Sudan's oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau, speaking Tuesday ahead of his suspension, said Juba will end its production by July 31, which would be the second major shutdown since independence two years ago.
No replacements have been announced, and it was not clear if any of those suspended would return, or if new blood would be brought in to the cabinet.
While Juba has been rife with rumours in recent weeks about a potential reshuffle by Kiir -- especially concerning tense relations with Machar -- the move still caught many by surprise.
"It is possible that this move could lead to increased political tension or disturbances in Juba and other parts of the country," Britain's Foreign Office warned.
The political reshuffle comes as civilians reel from heavy clashes in the troubled eastern state of Jonglei, where fierce fighting between rival ethnic groups have left hundreds of people wounded, and raised fears many others have been killed.
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[2] Report from Radio Tamazuj.org dated Wednesday, 24 July 2013. Full copy:
South Sudan's ousted cabinet barred from entering ministries
JUBA, South Sudan - The national ministers who were relieved of duty yesterday are barred from entering their former offices except under escort.
The entire cabinet of 28 ministers as well as all the deputy ministers were removed by decree of President Salva Kiir and have yet to be replaced.Source: http://radiotamazuj.org/en/article/south-sudan%E2%80%99s-ousted-cabinet-barred-entering-ministries
Undersecretaries are now responsible for discharging the functions of their respective ministries and are to report directly to an official in the presidency, Secretary-General of the Government Abdoun Agaw.
Agaw met today with the undersecretaries, state radio in Juba announced this evening. He was quoted as saying that former ministers and deputy ministers will only be allowed into the ministries to remove their personal belongings in the presence of security personnel.
According to a witness who spent the day at one of the ministries at the main ministries complex, very few government employees reported to work today. Some entrances to the complex were unguarded but at least one entrance was manned by soldiers armed with heavy machine guns.
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[3] Report from African Press Organization (APO) dated Thursday, 25 July 2013. Full copy:
UK Minister for Africa urges restraint after dismissal of south Sudanese Government
LONDON, United-Kingdom - FCO urge peaceful response to dismissal of South Sudan government and rapid appointment of new ministers reflecting country's diversitySource: APO report reprinted at http://www.icilome.com/nouvelles/news.asp?id=2&idnews=759052
FCO Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds said:
"I have been concerned by the growing political divisions in South Sudan over the past months, culminating in the decision of President Salva Kiir Mayardit to dismiss his Vice President and all Ministers from the Government of South Sudan on 23 July.
"At a time when South Sudan faces many challenges internally and in its relations with Sudan, it needs strong united leadership, committed to responding to the needs of its people, and resolving its internal conflicts and disputes with Sudan.
"I therefore encourage President Kiir to act quickly to appoint a new government, in accordance with the Interim Constitution, that reflects the diverse groups in South Sudanese society.
"I strongly urge all groups and individuals to respond in a measured and peaceful manner, and to work together to maintain security and the rule of law. We will look to them to engage constructively in the democratic process, for the benefit of South Sudan's peaceful development."
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[4] Report from Xinhua (Agencies) dated Thursday, 25 July 2013; 08:58. Full copy:
UN mission closely monitoring situation in South Sudan amid political changes
UN mission in South Sudan is closely monitoring the situation in the country after its president fired the vice president and dismissed the lead negotiator in talks with Sudan, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.Source: Reprinted by http://www.globaltimes.cn/NEWS/tabid/99/ID/798929/UN-mission-closely-monitoring-situation-in-South-Sudan-amid-political-changes.aspx
The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) noted that Vice President Riek Machar has publicly stated that he recognizes the President's right to dissolve the government and that he is willing to launch opposition through the electoral process, UN deputy spokesperson Eduardo del Buey told reporters at a daily news briefing.
"The Mission also notes that no actor has challenged the constitutionality of the steps taken by the President," del Buey said, adding that UNMISS is very closely monitoring the situation.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir on Tuesday sacked his deputy Riek Machar, dissolved the government, and suspended the top negotiator of the world's newest nation with Sudan.
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[5] Report by Radio Tamazuj.org dated Wednesday, 24 July 2013. Full copy:
Documents: decrees issued by South Sudan's President
JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir announced on Tuesday [23 July 2013] over the state radio in Juba [South Sudan] he was relieving several members of his government in a series of decrees.
Among those relieved are Vice President Riek Machar, every national minister and deputy ministers, 17 brigadiers in the police service and SPLM Secretary Pa'gan Amum.Source: http://radiotamazuj.org/en/article/documents-decrees-issued-south-sudans-president
Amum will be investigated by a committee chaired by Speaker of the Assembly James Wani Igga. The SPLM Secretary is accused of 'administrative mismanagement' within the party, and the investigation will report back within 30 days to the president, who is also chairman of the party.
See below the following Orders issued by President Salva Kiir:
RSS/RO/J/14/2013 – Reduction and Restructuring of the Ministries of the National Government of the Republic of South Sudan
SPLM/CPO/J/01/2013 – Suspension and the Formation of the Committee to Investigate the SPLM Secretary General
RSS/RD/J/49/2013 – Relief of the Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan
RSS/RD/J/50/2013 – Relief of National Ministers of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan
RSS/RD/J/51/2013 – Relief of National Deputy Ministers of the Government of the Republic of South Sudan
Restructuring of the ministries.pdf
http://radiotamazuj.org/sites/default/files/Restructuring of the ministries.pdf
Suspension of Pagan Amum.pdf
http://radiotamazuj.org/sites/default/files/Suspension of Pagan Amum_0.pdf
Relief of VP.pdf
http://radiotamazuj.org/sites/default/files/Relief of VP.pdf
Relief of National ministers.pdf
http://radiotamazuj.org/sites/default/files/Relief of National ministers.pdf
Relieve of National Deputy ministers.pdf
http://radiotamazuj.org/sites/default/files/Relieve of National Deputy ministers.pdf
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[6] UN Security Council Resolution 2109 (2013) Adopted by the Security Council at its 6998th meeting on 11 July 2013
Excerpt re: UN Peacekeeping operation in South Sudan: "Acting under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, 1.Decides to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) as set out in paragraph 3 of resolution 1996 (2011) through 15 July 2014;"Read full document at: http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/2109%282013%29
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[7a] Report by Radio Dabanga published Monday, 22 July 2013. Full copy:
UN Chief: 'Situation in Darfur continues to regress'
NEW YORK - In his latest update to the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has lamented the continued deterioration of the humanitarian and security situation in Darfur.
"The situation continues to deteriorate, the implementation of the peace agreement signed two years ago in Doha is at an unacceptably slow pace, while most of it has not even commenced. The government and allied militias have imposed increased restrictions for Unamid peacekeepers to investigate insecurity. Only 25 per cent (11 out of 44 units) of the UN military and police units with armoured cars are usable for the minimum required threshold service level."Source: http://www.radiodabanga.org/node/53714
These are Ban's main conclusions in his latest update, signed July 13, 2013, to the Security Council concerning the Unamid peacekeeping operation in Sudan's Darfur.
The Secretary General has a different view than that of members of the Implementation Follow-Up Commission (IFC) for the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) with regard to the 12 May killing of breakaway JEM leader, Mohamed Bashar (see related coverage below).
Mohamed Bashar, leader of a breakaway faction of JEM, his deputy, Suleiman Arko, and other colleagues were killed on 12 May during an attack near the Chad-Sudanese border. Conflicting reports surrounding the circumstances of the attack were issued by JEM-Ibrahim who are accused of carrying out the deadly attack, and the JEM-Bashar faction.
The IFC members condemned the killing of Bashar; reports were conflicting at the time, but they assumed the clash took place in Chad. Members include: Qatar, Chad, China, Egypt, France, Japan, Russian Federation, Sudan, United Kingdom, United States of America, UNAMID, African Union, United Nations, European Union, League of Arab States, Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Liberation and Justice Movement, and Justice and Equality Movement-Bashar.
According to Ban, Bashar was killed by another rebel group (JEM-Ibrahim) he had broken away from in order to sign a peace agreement with Khartoum. In his latest update to the UN Security Council, Ban confirms that Bashar was killed inside Darfur while returning from Chad supplied with heavy arms.
Apparently several of the people killed held Chadian nationality. According to Article 399 of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (less formally referred to as the Doha peace agreement), the government should disarm the militias before implementation of the peace agreement can start.
In the 4 June declaration, IFC members did not condemn the killing of a Nigerian peacekeeper by a pro-government militia. Neither did they mention the fact that several civilians were killed in government attacks and bombardments within sight of the Unamid team sites in Labado and Muhajeriya.
According the July report by Ban, an estimated 17,100 civilians took refuge around the two Unamid bases in the first two weeks of April. Widespread movement restrictions imposed by government forces and armed movements prevented the peacekeepers form assessing the situation and to help the casualties.
Radio Dabanga had reported that people were dying in front of the team sites, with no aid provided. The UN Secretary General says in his update: "I condemn, in the strongest terms, the attack on the Unamid base in Muhajeriya which resulted in the death of one peacekeeper.
"Such acts are reprehensible and a violation of international law. I call upon the Government to bring the perpetrators of these heinous acts to justice."
The UN chief also reiterated that that he is deeply disturbed by the killing of Mohamed Bashar and several other members of his faction. Amongst the slain pro-government militia was its leader Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus. A case against him was scheduled at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
Jerbo and Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain were the main suspects in the killing of 12 African peacekeepers from Nigeria, Mali, Senegal and Botswana in Haskanita in 2007. They were charged for war crimes including pillaging, murder and attacking peacekeepers.
Banda is now one of the main implementing officials of the peace agreement on behalf of the government. The UN does not mention the ICC, but refers instead to the Sudan government's Special Prosecutor saying that "no further details on the types of crimes or the status of their prosecution were provided".
Doha peace agreement
The UN chief is concerned about the scant implementation of the Doha peace agreement. Two years after the signing of the DDPD, the ceasefire and security arrangements are still pending, as is the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission. The reconciliation process is delayed, a micro-finance system for income-generating activities as well as a compensation fund for victims remain outstanding. He quantified the progress as "an unacceptably slow pace".
In the past three months Unamid was denied access and freedom of movement by the authorities to investigate insecurity 181 times, against 102 times in the previous months. In the reporting period, more than 300,000 people were displaced, as many as the total for all the previous years together.
The report said that paramilitary government forces, specifically the Central Reserve Police (Abu Tira), the Popular Defence Forces (an Islamist militia) and the border guards previously known as Janjaweed were often identified by survivors.
The UN chief hails the results of the Darfur donor conference in April 2013. A pledge of $3.6 billion was made against the $7.2 billion identified as funding needs, the main part coming from Sudan itself ($2,6 billion) and from Qatar.
The secretary general concludes that potential donors have indicated a reluctance to commit funds given the little progress in the implementation of the Doha peace agreement.
File photo: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (Mark Garten/UN Photo)
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[7b] A deterioration in the security situation in Darfur, Sudan - UN peacekeeping chief visits Sudan
HERE are some extracts from a Press Release by UNAMID (the UN-AU Mission in Darfur) dated 05 July 2013 entitled "UN peacekeeping chief visits Sudan":
- 300,000 displaced since the beginning of this year
- On 03 July 2013 three peacekeepers were injured in an ambush on a UNAMID convoy near Labado, East Darfur, Sudan
- On 03 July 2013 the head of UN peacekeeping Hervé Ladsous visited East Darfur, Sudan
- On 04 July 2013 Hervé Ladsous met with Sudan's President Bashir and other senior officials of the Government of Sudan
During the visit, which began on 03 July, Mr. Ladsous travelled to El Daein, East Darfur State, where he met with the Wali (Governor) and other members of local government, leaders of Native Administration and civil society, as well as internally displaced people at Neem camp. He also had extensive discussions with UNAMID personnel. In Khartoum, Mr. Ladsous met with President Omar Al-Bashir and other senior officials of the Government of Sudan.
Speaking to the press in Khartoum on 04 July, the USG expressed concern over the recent intensification of conflict in Darfur and its impact on the civilian population. "We have witnessed a deterioration in the security situation. More people have been displaced—over 300,000 since the beginning of this year—due mostly to tribal clashes," the head of UN peacekeeping said.
Mr. Ladsous called on all parties to cease hostilities and praised the efforts of UNAMID peacekeepers, who serve in very difficult circumstances, to protect civilians, secure the delivery of aid and support the peace process.
Speaking to the press in Khartoum, Sudan on 04 July 2013, Hervé Ladsous stated that on 03 July, three peacekeepers were injured in an ambush on a UNAMID convoy near Labado, East Darfur. "Attacks on peacekeepers are a crime," he said, adding that in violation of international humanitarian law a UNAMID ambulance was fired upon by the unidentified armed group that had mounted the ambush. Condemning the incident and noting the peacekeepers' robust response to the attack, the USG stressed that the perpetrators must be apprehended and prosecuted.
Source: UNAMID Press Release at: http://unamid.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=11027&ctl=Details&mid=14214&ItemID=22527&language=en-US
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[8a] Report by Xinhua English.news.cn published Wednesday, 24 July 2013; 22:32:57. Full copy:
Sudanese army repulses rebel attack in North Kordofan [Central Sudan]Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/africa/2013-07/24/c_132571074.htm
KHARTOUM, Sudan - The Sudanese army on Wednesday said it had repulsed an attack by the rebel Revolutionary Front in Al-Sidra area in North Kordofan state, official SUNA news agency reported.
"The remnants of the so-called Revolutionary Front this morning launched a heinous attack against Al-Sidra village in North Kordofan state with the aim to rob citizens of their money," the agency quoted Al-Sawarmy Khalid Saad, the Sudanese army spokesman, as saying.
He further said that the Sudanese armed forces repulsed the remnants of the rebels, inflicted on them huge casualties and equipment losses and forced them to flee the attack scene.
He said the area was now under the full control of the Sudanese armed forces, noting that five soldiers were killed during the clashes with the rebels.
South Kordofan state has been witnessing armed clashes since 2011 between the Sudanese army and the People's Liberation Movement (SPLM)/northern sector, which has formed the Revolutionary Front with a number of Darfur armed movements.
Last April, the rebel alliance, which brought together the SPLM/ northern sector, Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), the Sudan Liberation Army's Abdul-Wahid Mohamed Nur faction and the Minni Minawi faction, attacked Um Rawaba and Abu Karshula areas in North and South Kordofan states.
Khartoum accuses South Sudan of supporting the SPLM/northern sector, while Juba denies the allegation. (Editor: yan)
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[8b] Report from AFP by Ian Timberlake dated Wednesday, 24 July 2013. Full copy:
Sudan army, rebels clash ahead of oil deadline
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudanese rebels clashed with troops in North Kordofan Wednesday, both sides said, days before a Khartoum deadline to halt South Sudan's oil exports over allegations it is backing the insurgents.
The Justice and Equality Movement, a Darfur-based group which is part of a wider rebel alliance, said it attacked a military convoy and captured the garrison at Sidrah, about 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of El Rahad town.Source: AFP report reprinted at http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/24/sudan-army-rebels-clash-ahead-oil-deadline/#ixzz2ZyywOBmz
The attack ended weeks of relative calm in the area.
"Fighting is still going on," JEM spokesman Gibril Adam Bilal told AFP early Wednesday.
The army later confirmed an attack against Sidrah but said it forced the rebels to flee, leaving government forces in control of the area.
"The aim of their attack was to loot the civilian population," the official SUNA news agency quoted army spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad as saying.
A Rahad resident told AFP: "We hear shooting and explosions.
"Authorities closed the schools and asked students to go home," the resident added, asking to remain anonymous because of the situation.
The JEM and two factions of the Sudan Liberation Army in Darfur belong to the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), an alliance with insurgents fighting in South Kordofan state south of Sidrah, and in Blue Nile.
The SRF staged its first joint operation in April, sweeping through a previously peaceful part of North Kordofan near Sidrah as part of coordinated attacks in the region.
Analysts said those rebel strikes humiliated the authorities, who took a month to retake one of the seized areas, Abu Kershola.
In June, Khartoum gave oil companies 60 days to stop transporting crude from South Sudan through a Sudanese export pipeline after President Omar al-Bashir accused the Juba government of backing the rebels in the north.
There has been confusion, however, about whether the 60 days is merely a warning period, with a shutdown possible after that deadline, which expires around August 7.
A source close to the oil industry said on Wednesday that full preparations to close the pipeline had not begun and crude was still flowing.
"Yes it's flowing," the source said.
An oil analyst earlier told AFP that 45 days would be required to complete a shutdown without damaging the infrastructure.
Juba denies supporting the insurgents and in turn says Khartoum assists rebels on southern soil.
Observers say that, in reality, both governments have aided each other's rebels.
On Monday, the African Union and east African bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, inaugurated a panel to probe allegations of rebel support by each side.
Regional nations also began determining the centreline of a demilitarised buffer zone that is to straddle the 2,000-kilometre (1,250-mile) undemarcated border between the two countries.
The buffer zone is designed to cut cross-border rebel support.
While this process and the investigation of alleged rebel support take place, the AU and IGAD called on both states "to refrain from any unilateral action", an AU statement said on Monday.
South Sudan separated two years ago with most of the formerly united country's oil production but the pipelines and the Red Sea export terminal remained in the north.
After a fee dispute and intermittent border clashes, South Sudan in April resumed pumping its oil, which began slowly moving towards the Port Sudan terminal.
The South's export revenues, and the fees due Khartoum for use of the infrastructure, are potentially worth billions of dollars to both impoverished nations.
"The Sudanese government's priority is the insurgency; there are unlikely to be any positive developments in negotiations with South Sudan... if it continues," the Small Arms Survey, a Swiss-based independent research project, said in a briefing paper this month.
Earlier in July, Khartoum transferred Ahmed Haroun, the governor of South Kordofan, to take over the running of his native region North Kordofan.
Haroun is wanted by The Hague-based International Criminal Court on 22 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Darfur.
Photo: Sudanese army soldiers pictured in Abu Kershola in South Kordofan after capturing the town from Sudan Revolutionary Front rebels, May 28, 2013. Sudanese rebels clashed with troops in North Kordofan Wednesday, both sides said, days before a Khartoum deadline to halt South Sudan's oil exports over allegations it is backing the insurgents. (AFP/File)
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[9a] Seven Tanzanian UNAMID peacekeepers killed and 17 others injured in ambush in Darfur on 12 July 2013
Report from UN MultiMedia dated 18 July 2013 can be found at:
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[9b] UNAMID peacekeepers killed, injured in South Darfur ambush
UNAMID Press Release from El Fasher, Darfur, western Sudan 13 July 2013. Excerpt:
On 13 July, a joint patrol of the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) was ambushed in South Darfur.Source: http://unamid.unmissions.org/Default.aspx?tabid=11027&ctl=Details&mid=14214&ItemID=22537&language=en-US
The incident, which began at 9:00 hours, occurred approximately 25 kilometers west of the Mission's Khor Abeche team site.
The UNAMID team came under heavy fire from a large unidentified group. Following an extended firefight, the patrol was extracted by UNAMID reinforcements that arrived from the Mission's Khor Abeche and Manawashi team sites. Seven UNAMID military peacekeepers were killed and 17 military and Police personnel, among them two female Police Advisers, were wounded.
"The Mission condemns in the strongest possible terms those responsible for this heinous attack on our peacekeepers," said UNAMID Joint Special Representative Mohamed Ibn Chambas. "The perpetrators should be on notice that they will be pursued for this crime and gross violation of international humanitarian law."
Photo: UNAMID peacekeepers, based in Khor Abeche, South Darfur, drive in one of the Armored Personnel Carriers that was damaged during the attack. Photo by Albert González Farran, UNAMID.
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[9c] Tanzania bids farewell to its departed heroes
Report from The National Citizen entitled "Tanzania bids farewell to its departed heroes", written by Katare Mbashiru (email the author) published Monday, 22 July 2013; 19:17. Excerpts:
[Tanzanian] President Kikwete, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, led senior government officials and top army officers in bidding farewell to Sergeant Shaibu Othman, Corporal Oswald Chaula, Corporal Mohammed Juma Ali, Corporal Mohammed Chokizo, Private Rodney Ndunguru, Private Fortunatus Msofe and Private Peter Muhiri Werema. [...]
The soldiers were killed when gunmen ambushed a convoy of African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (Unamid) peacekeepers in southern Darfur on July 13. Seventeen others were wounded in the worst attack in Unamid's five-year history.Full story at: http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/News/Tanzania-bids-farewell-to-its-departed-heroes/-/1840392/1923262/-/xjlmq7z/-/index.html
[10] Report by Xinhua dated Saturday, 20 July 2013:
Sudan files complaint to African Union against Uganda's support for rebelsFull story at this blog's sister site Uganda Watch, Sunday 21 July 2013:
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Sudan has filed a complaint to the African Union (AU) against Uganda over its support for rebel insurgency against Khartoum, Almeghar Alsyasi daily reported Saturday. The paper quoted Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Rahamtalla Mohamed Osman as saying that the Sudanese government "is waiting for the AU's response to its complaint."
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[11] DR Congo: Heavy fighting has resumed between the Congolese army and the M23 armed group in the Mutaho-Kibati area, near Goma, in N. Kivu Province, DRC
Excerpt from Monday, 22 July 2013 Daily Press Briefing by the UN's Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo [MONUSCO] reports that heavy fighting has resumed between the Congolese army and the M23 [23 March Movement] armed group in the Mutaho-Kibati area, near Goma, in North Kivu Province.Source: http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2013/db130722.doc.htm
The Mission, MONUSCO, adds that after exchanging intermittent fire over the weekend, both sides are now using small arms, mortars and rockets. The Mission reiterates its call for restraint and its peacekeepers in the area remain on high alert.
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[12] DR Congo: Over 30,000 Congolese flee rebel attacks to Uganda: UN
Report from KAMPALA, Uganda by AFP dated 13 July 2013. Excerpt:
Full story at this blog's sister site Congo Watch, Monday 22 July 2013:More than 30,000 refugees from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo fleeing a rebel attack on the town of Kamango have arrived in neighbouring Uganda, UN officials said on Saturday...
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[13] CAR: Communiqué of AU PSC on situation in the Central African Republic (CAR)
From the Communiqué of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 386th meeting on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) [Last Updated on Friday, 19 July 2013]:
"The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 386th meeting held on 19 July 2013, adopted the following decision on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR)...[...] 6. Decides, on the basis of the concept of operations, annexed to the report of the Chairperson of the Commission, to authorize the deployment, for an initial period of six months, of AFISM-CAR, which will have a total strength of 3 652, including 3 500 uniformed personnel (2,475 for the military component and 1,025 for the police component) and 152 civilians, the nucleus of which will be constituted by the contingents currently serving in MICOPAX, in order to contribute to: (i) the protection of civilians and the restoration of security and public order, through the implementation of appropriate measures; (ii) the stabilization of the country and the restoration of the authority of the central Government; (iii) the reform and restructuring of the defense and security sector; and (iv) the creation of conditions conducive for the provision of humanitarian assistance to population in need;"Full story published at this blog's sister site Congo Watch, Friday, 19 July 2013:
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Forbidden Desert: Thirst For Survival
Forbidden Desert: Thirst For Survival
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After Newt's smashing victory in South Carolina, the long battle between Gingrich and Romney may come down to a fundamental question about forgiveness: Do Christian conservatives, who cast some 60 percent of Republican ballots in the Palmetto State, consider marital misbehavior a less significant, more forgivable abomination than a long-abandoned pro-choice position on abortion?
If conservatives are ready to believe that Newt's many marital failings are a thing of the past and to accept the idea that he's a changed and better man, why are they so reluctant to believe that Mitt's many ideological failings are a thing of the past and to accept the idea that he's also a changed and better man?
Both candidates insist that they've permanently transformed themselves and will never go back to the bad old days of serial infidelity (in Newt's case) or political moderation (in Mitt's case). For both men, their protestations seem credible. Gingrich has been married to Callista for nearly a dozen years and he'll be 69 years old at the time of the election. Romney has also curbed his instinct for ideological meandering, maintaining consistent, unapologetically conservative positions since his final years as Massachusetts governor in 2005 and 2006. Moreover, as Peggy Noonan observes, his previous high-profile changes on abortion and other issues probably vaccinate him against further vacillation: having already reversed himself once, he can hardly retain credibility if he suddenly announces he's switching back.
To put it more generally: Do serious but long-ago sins in personal conduct allow for more ready redemption than serious but long-ago sins in political positioning?
This question highlights some of the hypocrisy currently afflicting Republican partisans on the issue of infidelity. Former Bush speechwriter Pete Wehner points out that the same people who insisted that Bill Clinton deserved condemnation and even impeachment for his flamboyant failings as a husband now readily embrace Newt Gingrich despite even more flamboyant failings in his personal past.
Of course, Newtonians can explain that conservative champions (including their guy, Speaker of the House during the Lewinsky impeachment crisis) attacked Clinton over current, or at least recent, hanky-panky; in the case of Gingrich, however, the lamentable conduct occurred more than 12 years ago and only became known to the public after Newt left public office.
This distinction does not, however, erase another contrast that actually works to Clinton's advantage: in the case of the embattled Slick Willy, his misbehavior never destroyed a marriage and his aggrieved wife not only forgave him but enthusiastically defended him. In the case of Gingrich his ex-wives (yes, plural) have been famously less willing to reconcile or to rally to their one-time hubby's behalf. In fact, the daughters he often cites as defending his conduct were not the children of Marianne (the ex who is currently providing angry ammunition to Gingrich critics in interviews with ABC and The Washington Post) but were in fact the daughters of first wife Jackie—who presumably resent second wife Marianne for having shattered their mother's marriage in a previous extramarital romp with the irrepressible Newt.
Yes, in the famous Facebook phrase, "it's complicated," but how can conservatives (including Gingrich himself) possibly defend the idea that it made sense to convulse the country and pursue impeachment over Clinton's infidelity, while finding it somehow inappropriate, even outrageous and "despicable" (to use Newt's own language) if members of the media dare to ask questions about Newt's infidelity? Should Christian conservatives really grant a special pass to fiercely flawed leaders who compensate for their own shortcomings by taking impassioned pro-family stands in public?
Such logic bears an eerie resemblance to the notorious statement by Nina Burleigh (then of Time magazine) that she would gladly forgive Bill Clinton for any personal maltreatment of women, and even provide him with her personal sexual services, as long as he faithfully defended abortion rights. In a sense, such thinking actually matches liberal priorities since the left regularly exalts the importance of politics over private life, of "public service" above building businesses or sustaining families. But for conservatives, who trumpet values of vibrant families and personal faith, it's wildly inconsistent to embrace the idea that public positions matter more than private character.
Certainly, forgiveness constitutes a beautiful quality of human existence, extolled in both Christian and Jewish traditions. According to ancient wisdom, forgiveness blesses both those who receive it and those who extend it. Republicans would certainly strengthen their party and enhance their chances for victory if they could offer absolution to both of their frontrunners for past failings, ideological as well as personal. Judge the candidates as they are today, not based on their mistakes of previous years. Emphasize their common commitments on all major issues and their shared dedication to steering the nation in a new direction. It distracts from Barack Obama's relevant and recent failings to focus on Newt's censure and fine by the House of Representatives 15 years ago, or Mitt's endorsement of gay rights 18 years ago. In other words, focus on the future instead of the past and allow the candidates to offer their positive vision for tomorrow rather than their apologies for yesterday.
But this principle should be consistently, not selectively, applied; it makes no sense to say that Newt's personal sins don't count because he committed them years ago, but Mitt's political errors still count even though he disowned them years ago.
It's possible, of course, that religious prejudice (or at least preference) might help to explain the double standard, at least for some voters in South Carolina. Christian leaders who have endorsed Newt Gingrich often cite his well-advertised conversion to Catholicism (he had originally identified as a Lutheran, then a Baptist) as a basis for accepting the idea that he's changed his very nature and left behind the wayward husband of yesteryear. Mitt, on the other hand, has maintained an unwavering commitment to the faith of his ancestors, living his life as a deeply committed member of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints. If he rejected that church (no, it won't happen) and embraced, say, Catholic commitment à la Gingrich, would unconvinced social conservatives finally accept the idea he had sincerely shifted his approach to abortion? Many of them probably would, which raises the ugly possibility that part of the greater skepticism to changes in Romney's outlook than to the transformation of Newt's character relates to deep doubts on the part of Christian conservatives about the nature of Mitt's Mormon faith.
A general GOP amnesty on past transgressions would also need to overcome the classic distinction between crimes of passion and crimes of calculation were it to apply equally to Romney and Gingrich. Emotionally, and perhaps irrationally, we more readily forgive sins of the heart born of passion and impulsiveness than misdeeds of dissembling and deception in the cause of personal advancement. Newt's marital infidelity represents the ultimate in lustful, emotional, irrational misbehavior—cruel and selfish to those around him, but clearly arising from powerful inner urges rather than a drive for increased power and standing. Mitt, on the other hand, looks like a cold conniver in his shifts on issues, with the widespread assumption that he altered core values for the sake of votes.
In this particular presidential race, conservatives crave passion and authenticity above all and that fervent desire might shape their unequal application of forgiveness. Many Republicans yearn for a candidate who will confront, discredit and ultimately disgrace Barack Obama, not just defeat him at the polls. They want emotion, intensity and anger, not mild or logical persuasion, from their standard bearer. In this context, it becomes perhaps inevitable that true believers on the right will continue to find it easier to forgive Newt Gingrich his crimes of the heart than to forget Mitt Romney's mistakes of the head.


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UNITED NATIONS, (AP) – A U.N. expert on Thursday launched a special investigation into drone warfare and targeted killings, which the United States relies on as a front-line weapon in its global war against al-Qaida.
One of the three countries requesting the investigation was Pakistan, which officially opposes the use of U.S. drones on its territory as an infringement on its sovereignty but is believed to have tacitly approved some strikes in the past. Pakistani officials say the drone strikes kill many innocent civilians, which the U.S. has rejected.
The other two countries requesting the investigation were not named but were identified as two permanent members of the U.N. Security Council. That makes it clear the two countries are Russia and China, since the other permanent members are the United States and U.S. allies France and Britain.
The civilian killings and injuries that result from drone strikes on suspected terrorist cells will be part of the focus of the investigation by British lawyer Ben Emmerson, the U.N. rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights.
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"The exponential rise in the use of drone technology in a variety of military and non-military contexts represents a real challenge to the framework of established international law," Emmerson said in announcing the probe Thursday in London.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed lawsuits against the United States over drone attacks that killed three U.S. civilians in Yemen in 2011, including an al-Qaida leader who had been born in the U.S., cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
"We welcome this investigation in the hopes that global pressure will bring the U.S. back into line with international law requirements that strictly limit the use of lethal force," said Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project.
Drone strikes have risen under President Barack Obama. According to the Long War Journal, which tracks such attacks, there were 35 strikes in Pakistan during 2008, the last year President George W. Bush was in office. That number grew to 117 in 2010, then fell to 64 in 2011 and 46 last year.
The program has killed a number of top militant commanders, including al-Qaida's then-No. 2, Abu Yahya al-Libi, who died in a drone strike in June.
The General Assembly could pass a resolution asking for monitoring or restrictions on drones, but it would be non-binding and the United States and other countries that use drones could ignore it. In the Security Council, which can issue legally binding resolutions, the United States has a veto and could block any attempt to restrict drone use.
A report to the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2010 by Philip Alston, the independent U.N. investigator on extrajudicial killings, said that the United States, Israel and Russia were all credibly reported to have used drones to kill alleged terrorists and insurgents. Recently, Iran has also announced it is building drones.
Alston at the time called on countries to lay out rules and safeguards for carrying out the strikes, publish figures on civilian casualties and prove they have attempted to capture or incapacitate suspects without killing them. None of those precautions have been adopted.
Alston, a New York University professor, later wrote in an academic paper published in 2011 saying that the CIA drone program lacked oversight.
"The CIA's internal control mechanisms, including its Inspector-General, have had no discernible impact; executive control mechanisms have either not been activated at all or have ignored the issue; congressional oversight has given a 'free pass' to the CIA in this area; judicial review has been effectively precluded; and external oversight has been reduced to media coverage which is all too often dependent on information leaked by the CIA itself," he wrote. "As a result, there is no meaningful domestic accountability for a burgeoning program of international killing."


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Treatment reverses symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice without side effects.
Treatment reverses symptoms of type 2 diabetes in mice without side effects.
LA JOLLA—In mice with diet-induced diabetes—the equivalent of type 2 diabetes in humans—a single injection of the protein FGF1 is enough to restore blood sugar levels to a healthy range for more than two days. The discovery by Salk scientists, published today in the journal Nature, could lead to a new generation of safer, more effective diabetes drugs.
The team found that sustained treatment with the protein doesn't merely keep blood sugar under control, but also reverses insulin insensitivity, the underlying physiological cause of diabetes. Equally exciting, the newly developed treatment doesn't result in side effects common to most current diabetes treatments.
In the liver tissue of obese animals with type 2 diabetes, unhealthy, fat-filled cells are prolific (small white cells, panel A). After chronic treatment through FGF1 injections, the liver cells successfully lose fat and absorb sugar from the bloodstream (small purple cells, panel B) and more closely resemble cells of normal, non-diabetic animals.
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"Controlling glucose is a dominant problem in our society," says Ronald M. Evans, director of Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory and corresponding author of the paper. "And FGF1 offers a new method to control glucose in a powerful and unexpected way."
Type 2 diabetes, which can be brought on by excess weight and inactivity, has skyrocketed over the past few decades in the United States and around the world. Almost 30 million Americans are estimated to have the disease, where glucose builds up in the bloodstream because not enough sugar-carting insulin is produced or because cells have become insulin-resistant, ignoring signals to absorb sugar. As a chronic disease, diabetes can cause serious health problems and has no specific cure. Rather it is managed—with varying levels of success—through a combination of diet, exercise and pharmaceuticals.
Diabetes drugs currently on the market aim to boost insulin levels and reverse insulin resistance by changing expression levels of genes to lower glucose levels in the blood. But drugs, such as Byetta, which increase the body's production of insulin, can cause glucose levels to dip too low and lead to life-threatening hypoglycemia, as well as other side effects.
In 2012, Evans and his colleagues discovered that a long-ignored growth factor had a hidden function: it helps the body respond to insulin. Unexpectedly, mice lacking the growth factor, called FGF1, quickly develop diabetes when placed on a high-fat diet, a finding suggesting that FGF1 played a key role in managing blood glucose levels. This led the researchers to wonder whether providing extra FGF1 to diabetic mice could affect symptoms of the disease.
Evans' team injected doses of FGF1 into obese mice with diabetes to assess the protein's potential impact on metabolism. Researchers were stunned by what happened: they found that with a single dose, blood sugar levels quickly dropped to normal levels in all the diabetic mice.
"Many previous studies that injected FGF1 showed no effect on healthy mice," says Michael Downes, a senior staff scientist and co-corresponding author of the new work. "However, when we injected it into a diabetic mouse, we saw a dramatic improvement in glucose."
From left: Jae Myoung Suh, Annette Atkins, Michael Downes, Maryam Ahmadian, Ronald Evans and Ruth Yu of the Gene Expression Laboratory
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The researchers found that the FGF1 treatment had a number of advantages over the diabetes drug Actos, which is associated with side effects ranging from unwanted weight gain to dangerous heart and liver problems. Importantly, FGF1—even at high doses—did not trigger these side effects or cause glucose levels to drop to dangerously low levels, a risk factor associated with many glucose-lowering agents. Instead, the injections restored the body's own ability to naturally regulate insulin and blood sugar levels, keeping glucose amounts within a safe range—effectively reversing the core symptoms of diabetes.
"With FGF1, we really haven't seen hypoglycemia or other common side effects," says Salk postdoctoral research fellow Jae Myoung Suh, a member of Evans' lab and first author of the new paper. "It may be that FGF1 leads to a more 'normal' type of response compared to other drugs because it metabolizes quickly in the body and targets certain cell types."
The mechanism of FGF1 still isn't fully understood—nor is the mechanism of insulin resistance—but Evans' group discovered that the protein's ability to stimulate growth is independent of its effect on glucose, bringing the protein a step closer to therapeutic use.
"There are many questions that emerge from this work and the avenues for investigating FGF1 in diabetes and metabolism are now wide open," Evans says. Pinning down the signaling pathways and receptors that FGF1 interacts with is one of the first questions he'd like to address. He's also planning human trials of FGF1 with collaborators, but it will take time to fine-tune the protein into a therapeutic drug.
"We want to move this to people by developing a new generation of FGF1 variants that solely affect glucose and not cell growth," he says. "If we can find the perfect variation, I think we will have on our hands a very new, very effective tool for glucose control."
In this analogy, too much sugar in the bloodstream is equivalent to a car in the danger zone. In type 2 diabetes (commonly associated with obesity) the body cannot use sugar properly, leading to serious health problems. The growth factor FGF1 has been shown to decrease the amount of blood sugar in diabetic mice, bringing glucose levels back to normal.
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Other researchers on the study were Maryam Ahmadian, Eiji Yoshihara, Weiwei Fan, Yun-Qiang Yin, Ruth T. Yu, and Annette R. Atkins of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Weilin Liu, Johan W. Jonker, Theo van Dijk, and Rick Havinga of the University of Groningen; Christopher Liddle of the University of Sydney; Denise Lackey, Olivia Osborn, and Jerrold M. Olefsky of the University of California at San Diego; and Regina Goetz, Zhifeng Huang, and Moosa Mohammadi of the New York University School of Medicine.
Ronald Evans is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and is also supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, Ipsen/Biomeasure, CIRM, and the Ellison Medical Foundation. Other study authors received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, the European Research Council, the Human Frontier Science Program, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and the Dutch Digestive Foundation.
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PL/SQL User's Guide and Reference Release 2 (9.2) Part Number A96624-01 |
PL/SQL Language Elements, 11 of 52
You can declare constants and variables in the declarative part of any PL/SQL block, subprogram, or package. Declarations allocate storage space for a value, specify its datatype, and name the storage location so that you can reference it. Declarations can also assign an initial value and impose the NOT
constraint. For more information, see "Declarations".
Identifies a collection (index-by table, nested table, or varray) previously declared within the current scope.
Identifies a user-defined collection type that was defined using the datatype specifier TABLE
or VARRAY
Denotes the declaration of a constant. You must initialize a constant in its declaration. Once initialized, the value of a constant cannot be changed.
Identifies a program constant. For naming conventions, see "Identifiers".
Identifies an explicit cursor previously declared within the current scope.
Identifies a PL/SQL cursor variable previously declared within the current scope.
A database table or view that must be accessible when the declaration is elaborated.
A database table and column that must be accessible when the declaration is elaborated.
An arbitrarily complex combination of variables, constants, literals, operators, and function calls. The simplest expression consists of a single variable. When the declaration is elaborated, the value of expression
is assigned to the constant or variable. The value and the constant or variable must have compatible datatypes.
This constraint prevents the assigning of nulls to a variable or constant. At run time, trying to assign a null to a variable defined as NOT
raises the predefined exception VALUE_ERROR
. The constraint NOT
must be followed by an initialization clause.
Identifies an instance of an object type previously declared within the current scope.
Identifies a user-defined or %ROWTYPE
record previously declared within the current scope.
Identifies a field in a user-defined or %ROWTYPE
record previously declared within the current scope.
Identifies a user-defined record type that is defined using the datatype specifier RECORD
Identifies a user-defined cursor variable type is was defined using the datatype specifier REF
This attribute provides a record type that represents a row in a database table or a row fetched from a previously declared cursor. Fields in the record and corresponding columns in the row have the same names and datatypes.
Identifies a predefined scalar datatype such as BOOLEAN
, or VARCHAR2
. Includes any qualifiers for size, precision, or character versus byte semantics.
This attribute provides the datatype of a previously declared collection, cursor variable, field, object, record, database column, or variable.
Identifies a program variable.
Constants and variables are initialized every time a block or subprogram is entered. By default, variables are initialized to NULL
. So, unless you expressly initialize a variable, its value is undefined.
Whether public or private, constants and variables declared in a package spec are initialized only once for each session.
An initialization clause is required when declaring NOT
variables and when declaring constants. If you use %ROWTYPE
to declare a variable, initialization is not allowed.
Several examples of variable and constant declarations follow:
credit_limit CONSTANT NUMBER := 5000; invalid BOOLEAN := FALSE; acct_id INTEGER(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT 9999; pi CONSTANT REAL := 3.14159; postal_code VARCHAR2(20); last_name VARCHAR2(20 CHAR); my_ename emp.ename%TYPE;
"Declarations", "Predefined Datatypes", Assignment Statement, Expressions, %ROWTYPE Attribute, %TYPE Attribute
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As House Republicans once again march us toward the precipice, they are being led by one Tom Graves, a member from Georgia. It was Graves who took charge earlier this month in demanding that the defunding of Obamacare be a requirement for keeping open the government, and it is he who rebuffed Speaker John Boehner's attempt yesterday to keep the government running and delay the Obamacare fight until the debt ceiling showdown next month. "I'd like to see us keep that focus there," said Graves. "We've got a responsibility to finish this up and let it play out."
I've been amused (albeit in a despair-for-the-country sort of way) to see Graves moving into the spotlight like this, because I have a certain recollection of Graves from the last time we arrived on the verge of a credit default. Graves arrived in Washington as, essentially, an advance member of the firebrand class of 2010—he won a special election in the spring of that year to fill an open seat that runs from the hill country along the Tennessee border to the exurbs of Atlanta. By the following year, as the new House Republican majority decided to make a stand around the debt ceiling limit, Graves was a vociferous member of the Tea Party faction urging against surrender: "This is something that we've been fighting for for a long time," Graves told a Dalton (Ga.) Tea Party gathering on July 20, 2011, as the debt clock ticked down. "There's a strong group of conservatives that are holding together and standing firm for what we know are the solutions to move us through the debt crisis…The debt crisis is not a future crisis. It's today's crisis. We've got to cut the deficit now."
Two weeks later, Graves was one of 66 Republicans to vote against the last-minute deal to raise the debt limit and avert catastrophe. But he did not take the defeat too hard. That same evening, he slipped off to Nationals Park to take in a game between the Nats and his own team, the Braves. Well, that wasn't the only reason for going to the game. It was the scene of a $1,500-per-head fundraiser being held in his honor—in the AT&T skybox at the park.
I'd seen mention of the event and found it rather remarkable, given the context—a Tea Party congressman arriving in Washington on a wave of populist fervor and invoking that fervor to risk a default on the national debt even as he basked in the comfort of a corporate skybox. And of course, it wasn't just that one night's fundraiser—Graves and his Tea Party brethren had been backed all along by more than just the might of rusty pitchforks: the top two donors to his 2010 campaign were the Wall Street-backed Club for Growth and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's "leadership PAC."
I decided to head over to the park myself to see if Graves had in fact made it there despite the hugely consequential showdown on the Hill that he helped precipitate. I talked my way into one skybox after another, looking for him in vain. The game ended—the Nats won, 5-3—and I was about to give up when there, coming out of one of the skyboxes and into the corridor was Graves, dressed in faded blue jeans and flanked by two aides. I approached him to ask about the fundraiser and was stiff-armed away by one of the aides while Graves fled into the men's room. "Standing firm," indeed.
I reached him the next day on the phone as he headed to a corn roast in his district to explain his vote to his constituents. "Unfortunately, it was a compromise," he said of the deal. "Compromises led us into this mess, and you can't compromise your way out of it."
As it happens, Graves was in the news just ten days after that for a different debt-related story. From the Associated Press:
The former chairman of a north Georgia bank who signed off on a $2.2 million loan to two prominent Republican lawmakers said he believes the eventual default on the loan was partly to blame for the bank's financial collapse. Morgan Akin told The Associated Press in a recent interview that Bartow County Bank took an $875,000 hit on the loan when U.S. Rep. Tom Graves and state Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers defaulted. The bank went under in April."Was it the only loan we had default? No," Akin said. "But it was one of the larger loans, and it contributed significantly (to the bank's failure)."
Graves and Rogers recently settled a lawsuit filed against them by the bank, but both sides have signed a confidentiality agreement and declined to provide specifics of the settlement. Neither Graves nor Rogers would respond directly to Akin's claims. "As the congressman said, all parties involved have reached a positive agreement and have moved on," Graves spokesman John Donnelly said…
Akin said that while the arrangement may be fair and equitable for Graves and Rogers, it hasn't been good for Bartow shareholders who saw the nearly 40-year-old community bank sink. Nor has it been fair, he said, to the FDIC, which says the bank's failure is expected to cost $69.5 million. The FDIC is funded by insurance fees from banks. Akin said he was speaking up because he felt only one side of the story had been represented. He said he was disappointed with Graves and Rogers, who cast themselves as champions of fiscal responsibility.
"They talk up the tea party stuff, but when it comes to their own finances they're irresponsible and leave the bank on the hook," he said.
Remarkably, the disclosure of that episode has not kept Graves from now taking up the fiscal-rectitude standard again, with even greater prominence. But if you're looking for him on the night when it all comes crashing down, don't necessarily expect him to be on the Hill. There won't be any more Nats games by then, but the Redskins are at home on October 20 against the Bears, three days after we're supposed to hit the debt limit. Anyone got a corporate skybox available at FedEd Field for a Tea Party fundraiser?


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The Sept. 15 terrorist bombing in a crowded London subway station – which injured at least 30 passengers but caused no deaths – was the latest in a string of terrorist attacks in Western Europe in recent years.
In mid-August, attacks in Barcelona and the nearby city of Cambrils killed 16 people and injured more than 130 just a few days before an attacker with a knife in Finland killed two and wounded eight others. Earlier assaults this year in London and Manchester, England, left dozens dead and hundreds more wounded.
Since 2015, there has been a sharp increase in both the number of attacks and deaths caused by terrorism in Europe. As someone who studies European security issues, I see three key factors contributing to this development: Europe's large and often poorly integrated Muslim population, proximity to unstable regions like the Middle East and North Africa, and terrorists' new focus on highly vulnerable "soft" targets.
Poor integration
The Islamic State claimed on its Amaq news outlet that a "detachment" of its followers were responsible for last week's London attack.
While terrorism in Europe today is commonly associated with Islamic extremism, since the end of World War II Europe has experienced different waves of terrorist violence. In the 1970s and 1980s, the biggest terrorist threat was secular Marxist groups such as the Red Brigades in Italy and Germany's Red Army Faction as well as separatist groups such as Spain's ETA and Northern Ireland's Irish Republican Army (IRA).
But since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, radical Islam has become the greatest terrorist threat facing Europe.
In many Western European countries today, Muslims make up between 5 and 10 percent of the population. Many second- and third-generation European Muslims have struggled more than their parents or grandparents to assimilate, in part due to unemployment and xenophobia.
Their often poor integration creates a large pool of disaffected young people vulnerable to radicalization and extremist violence, though of course only a small number of them turn to terrorism.
In contrast, the U.S. has a much lower proportion of Muslim residents – about 3.3 million people, or 1 percent of the population – and they tend to be well-integrated into American society, with educational attainment, household income and employment levels comparable to those of the general public.
According to a recent U.S. government study, over a period of more than 15 years, from Sept. 12, 2001, to the end of 2016, radical Islamic extremists killed 119 people in the U.S. in 23 separate attacks – fewer than the number who died in coordinated attacks in and around Paris on the night of Nov. 13, 2015 (an attack that was, for the record, perpetrated by primarily French and Belgian nationals).
The short road to IS
Geography also works against Europe. For jihadis fleeing the battlefields of Iraq or Syria, Europe is simply easier to reach than the U.S. or other far-flung Western countries such as Canada or Australia – and vice versa.
As many as 5,000 Europeans left to wage jihad in Iraq and Syria, far more than the number of Americans who joined IS and other terrorist groups. European security services estimate that as many as 30 percent of those fighters have returned home. Many pose little security threat, but there are likely dozens who are actively plotting attacks in Europe.
And thanks to the Schengen Agreement, which dismantled internal border controls within the European Union, terrorists can slip in and out of EU countries with ease – though not necessarily the UK, which does not participate. Counterterrorism cooperation among European countries has advanced in recent years, but Europe remains a patchwork of security and intelligence agencies.
Even so, Europe still sees far fewer terrorism-related incidents than Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria and other parts of the world. In 2016 Western Europe accounted for less than 2 percent of global total terrorist attacks and one percent of deaths worldwide.
Nor is this even the worst period of terrorism in modern European history. In 1972, the bloodiest year of Northern Ireland troubles, terrorist attacks killed 400 people in Western Europe, and the region accounted for more than 70 percent of terrorist attacks worldwide.
Soft targets
Still, the number and lethality of attacks in Europe has indeed been rising sharply in recent years, partially as a result of terrorists' changing tactics.
While al-Qaida preferred complex, well-planned assaults like the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks and plans to take down airliners over the Atlantic Ocean, IS has demonstrated a penchant for indiscriminate violence.
Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a senior IS strategist killed last year, called on Muslims to murder Europeans by any means necessary: "Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car." He was especially keen on killing "the spiteful and filthy French."
Either through incompetence or sheer good fortune, the crude, homemade bomb that shook London last week failed to detonate properly. The New York Times reported that witnesses on the train "described a tremor, a wave of heat and then a barrage of flames that quickly dissipated."
But elsewhere IS's modus operandi of employing unsophisticated means to spread mayhem has proven deadly. When a van mowed down pedestrians in Barcelona in August 2017, for example, it was the sixth incident of vehicular terror in Europe since last year, following similar attacks in Nice, Berlin, Stockholm and London.
European cities have added new physical barriers to guard against such crude offenses, but police and security services can do little to completely eliminate similar attacks.
Can Europe stay safe?
Security services and law enforcement in Europe are certainly getting better at identifying, tracking and arresting potential terrorists and preventing attacks, though.
Since June 2013, security services in the U.K. have foiled 13 terrorist attacks. And in the dozen-plus years between the Madrid train attack in March 2004 and last month's attacks in and around Barcelona, Spanish authorities stopped a number of potential Islamist terrorist attacks.
Still, Europe will be vulnerable to terrorism for some time. It is virtually impossible to stop someone who is committed to killing civilians using everyday items such as cars, kitchen knives or bombs built with easy-to-find materials like hydrogen peroxide and acetone.
The bigger question is what impact ongoing terrorism attacks will have on European politics and societies. In seeking to reduce the frequency and lethality of inevitable future terrorist attacks, Europe's democratic societies are confronting hard choices.
As in the U.S. after September 11, Europe is hotly debating the scope of governmental powers, how to guard public spaces without surrendering freedom of movement and ways to better integrate Muslim members of society.
Many Britons seem to accept indiscriminate, jihadist-inspired violence as the "new normal." As one resident of Parsons Green, the site of last week's subway attack, said to The New York Times, "We get attacked, and then we carry on, waiting in anticipation for the next one."


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If you're experiencing a crisis or in need of immediate assistance, dial 9-1-1 or any of the following resources:
Regional Toll-Free 24-hour Care/Crisis Line for Kitsap, Clallam, and Jefferson County: 1-888-910-0416
Military Crisis Line: Suicide Prevention Hotline, Chat & Text – Veterans Crisis Line
Disaster Distress Helpline: call 1-800-5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 (multilingual crisis counseling for people in emotional crisis)
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Dial 988
Child Protective Services: 1-800-562-5624
Kitsap Sexual Assault Center (24-hour advocacy, support or therapy): 1-866-831-2050
YWCA of Kitsap County and ALIVE (serves women and families affected by domestic violence, has a 24-hour crisis line): 1-800-550-5513
For general resource information, you can dial 2-1-1 on your phone to ask about local community resources. Or, click a bar below to find links to resources in our community.
Organizations across our community offer meal programs. Download a flier that shows free meals in Kitsap County. Our area has several organizations that offer food pantries:
Central Kitsap Food Bank Hours: Mon. to Fri., 10 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Location: 3537 Anderson Hill Road, Silverdale Phone: 360-692-9818
Bremerton Foodline Hours: Mon. to Fri., 10 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Location: 1600 12th Street, Bremerton Phone: 360-479-6188
Salvation Army Hours: Mon. to Fri., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Location: 1137 Callow Ave., Bremerton Phone: 360-373-5550
St. Vincent DePaul Hours: Mon. to Fri., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Location: 1137 Callow Ave., Bremerton Phone: 360-479-7017
North Kitsap Fishline Hours: Mon., Tues, Thurs., Fri., 10 a.m.–3p.m; Wed. 1–7 p.m. Location: 19705 Viking Ave NW, Poulsbo Phone: 360-779-5190
Ask your school counselor about additional services that partner with the school.
New Beginnings Closet Provides free children's clothing size infant to teen to support foster, adoptive and low income families. Location: 4171 Wheaton Way #7, Bremerton
Silverdale United Methodist Church Clothing bank has men's, women's youth, baby and professional clothing. Location: 982 Silverdale Way, Silverdale Hours: Mon. 9 a.m.–4p.m.; Thur. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Phone: 360-692-9813
Standup for Kids Kitsap
Kitsap County Housing Solutions Center helps families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. They work with 20 local agencies to place families at shelters and provide rental assistance.
1201 Park Avenue
Bremerton, WA 98337
837 4th Street, Bremerton, WA 98337
787 Liberty Lane NW
Poulsbo, WA 98370
Please also note that our students who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime home may qualify for extra help. Please visit the district's page on services for homeless students for more information.
Offers emergency shelter 7 nights a week 7 p.m. to 7 a.m., as well as laundry, clothing and other homeless support.
Location: 832 Sixth Street
Phone: 360-373-5550
Offers laundry and shower services, as well as emergency shelter for teens age 16 to 20.
Location: 837 4th Street, Bremerton, WA 98337
Phone: 360-377-5560
For open status, call 2-1-1. Open when temperatures are expected to be 32 degrees or colder for four or more hours, if an inch of snow is expected or if an inch of rain is expected between noon and 6 a.m. the next day. Locations include Silverdale United Methodist Church.
Apple Health is the Washington State Medicaid Program
Kitsap Community Resources offers services for families and children
The YMCA offers programs for youth both during and after the school year
West Sound Free Clinic, provides free medical care to uninsured and under-insured. Located at the Salvation Army in Bremerton.
24-hour Care/Crisis Line: 1-888-910-0416
Kitsap Mental Health: 360-479-4994
Peninsula Community Health Services: 360-337-3776
National Alliance on Mental Illness in Kitsap (Nonprofit organization supports and advocates for people with mental illness and their families) Email: [email protected]
Salish Behavioral Health Organization offers of Mental Health and Substance Abuse treatment services in Kitsap, Clallam and Jefferson counties: 360-337-4886
Kitsap Recovery Center (treatment referral): 360-337-4625
Fleet & Family Support Centers (military resource only): 866-854-0638
Kitsap Mental Health Services: 360-405-4010
Center for Child and Family Therapy: 360-698-9296
Clear Creek Psychological Associates: 360-698-8980
Front Street Clinic, Inc.: 360-697-1141
MCS Counseling Group: 360-698-5883
NW Family Psychology: 360-692-3970
Peninsula Psychological Center, Inc.: 360-698-4860
Discounts for families with financial obstacles to getting internet access may qualify for programs through WAVE or Comcast. Families can qualify with a letter of approval for free- or reduced-cost lunches or if they receive other state assistance. Visit the links below for program applications:
The federal Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) program may also be able to help households struggling to afford internet service during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The School Liaison oversees child and youth programs and interfaces with local schools.
Phone: 360-396-5139
This office provides counseling, advice, and assistance for victims of domestic abuse.
Phone: 360-315-3045
Family Victims Advocates assist victims in obtaining legal counsel, treatment, and mental health services.
Navy Chaplains provide spiritual, crisis, and substance abuse counseling.
Bangor: 360-396-6005
Bremerton: 360-476-2183
Jackson Park: 360-476 7445 ex26
This program provides counseling and rehabilitation services for drug or alcohol abusers.
the Outpatient Crisis Intervention Program, Naval Hospital Mental Heath Dept. provides classes and counseling for persons experiencing crisis which are affecting their personal or professional lives.
Eligible students can access Military & Family Life Counselors (MFLC) at school. Visit our MFLC page for details. Navy Region Northwest Child Counseling Services, Fleet and Family Support Center at Keyport or Bangor provides counseling by state licensed clinicians for military children in an individual, family, or group settings. Counselors specifically address:
Counselors and therapists are also available to consult with parents and school staff.
Volunteer victim advocates are on call 24/7 and have been trained to assist victims of sexual trauma.


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- Lecture
The Dr. John and Helen Collis Lecture
The Religion of Relics in early Byzantium
About The Event
By the fourth century, Christians had begun to hold the physical remains and personal effects of their holy men and women in high regard, treating them with special reverence and expecting them to provide help with practical and spiritual problems.
Together with simple substances like oil, earth, wood, or water collected while on pilgrimage, such relics offer a window on religious practices and sensibilities in Byzantium from the fourth to the ninth century.
Derek Krueger, Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has been a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a contributor to the catalogue for the exhibition Treasures of Heaven.
The Hellenic Preservation Society of Northeastern Ohio