Morocco looks to extradite three allege terrorists Morocco has asked Senegal to extradite three Moroccans accused of terrorism who were arrested in Dakar last month on their way to war-ravaged Somalia, their lawyer said on Friday. The three men – Si Mohamed, Mohamed Brigph Nadane and Moulaye Abdelhani Nadane – were arrested on June 1 at Dakar airport, lawyer Assane Dioma Ndiaye said. “Morocco at first issued an arrest warrant and then demanded their extradition on about June 10,” said Ndiaye, who is also president of the National Organisation for Human Rights. Al-Qaida in North Africa Says French Hostage Killed The head of al-Qaida's branch in North Africa says his group has killed a French hostage in response to a raid by France and Mauritania against the militant group. In an audio message broadcast Sunday on the Arabic network Al-Jazeera, a man identified as the leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb said Michel Germaneau was killed in retaliation for the death of six al-Qaida members during the raid conducted last week in Mali by Mauritanian troops backed by French special forces. Tunisia's green harvest to be lower Tunisia's 2010 grain harvest may be less than last year's as a result of a decline in rainfall, the state-run TAP news agency said today, citing preliminary data. “Farmers have harvested 480,000 tons of grain so far this year, compared with 870,000 tons in the same period last year,” TAP quoted Abdessalam Mansour, minister of agriculture, water resources and fishing, as saying. Officials in Tunisia's Agriculture Union had predicted that this year's grain crop wouldn't exceed 1.6 million tons, compared with 2.5 million tons last year. Libya stops diplomatic operations in South Korea Libya has suspended diplomatic operations in South Korea, officials said Monday, amid reports of worsening relations over the arrest of a Christian pastor and Seoul media coverage of Tripoli. The foreign ministry confirmed Libya has closed its de facto embassy, an economic cooperation office, in Seoul and said Korean businessmen must now travel to other countries to get visas. The ministry gave no reason for the move. Bashir returns to Sudan after defying ICC in Chad President Omar Hassan al-Bashir returned to Sudan on Friday after defying indictment for genocide by visiting Chad, a party to the International Criminal Court and so in theory obliged to arrest him. Chadian President Idriss Deby instead gave a red-carpet welcome to Bashir, who spent three days in N'Djamena scoring a propaganda coup and exposing the ICC's key weakness — its lack of a mechanism to arrest war crimes suspects. Bashir landed at Khartoum airport on Friday evening and he shook hands with around a dozen ministers. BM
