Over the past five years Syria entered a vicious cycle of a depreciating economy after a drought destroyed the wheat crop that the Baath regime had always boasted would guarantee food self-sufficiency for the country's 22 million people.
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Political officials tell Ahram Online they view the North's invasion of the contested hotspot in the centre of Sudan, Abyei, as a provocation of war to deflect attention from the problematic Bashir regime
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned of a sectarian war in Syria if the Baath regime continues to use force to suppress the uprising and Syrian newspapers responded by criticising Ankara's position and its Islamist party.
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Elections in the state of South Kordofan in central Sudan have raised the concern of political circles regarding a new civil war; it seems no party will accept the result of the election, no matter what the outcome. Residents went to the polls to (...)
The count of members of the Syria's ruling Baath party that have resigned as of this weekend is up to 233. The members from regions as far south as Huran and as far north as Banyas broke ranks over how “security forces are dealing with protesters.” (...)
The Baath regime in Syria is resorting to the most extreme and brutal levels of violence in the face of peaceful protests demanding reform. The confirmed death toll from the government's crackdown has reached 450, in addition to thousands wounded (...)
Bashar Al-Assad lifted state of emergency and cancelled the state security court yesterday in efforts to control a spiralling uprising that, initially, only asked for reforms but is increasingly asking for his political capitulation.
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