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Published in Bikya Masr on 19 - 08 - 2010

Newspaper: CIA tape proves Morocco rendition
THE CIA has admitted it has videotapes of the September 11 plotter Ramzi Binalshibh under interrogation in Morocco.
The videotapes are the only surviving footage from inside the clandestine “black prison” system where suspects were tortured.
The two videotapes and one audiotape were discovered by a staffer under a desk at the CIA's Counterterrorism Center in 2007 long after the agency destroyed its cache of videotapes depicting the interrogations of terrorism suspects in clandestine prisons, The Australian reported.
Algeria to allow foreign orgs back in country
Algeria will allow several international organizations previously banned from the country to return next month.
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Farouk Ksentini, head of Algeria's National Advisory Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, convened a special cabinet meeting to review a number of requests by foreign rights and research organizations to visit the country, the Algerian daily El Khabar reported on Tuesday.
Malajila joins Tunisian club
Zimbabwean international striker Cuthbert Malajila has become the first player to join a Tunisian soccer club when he finally completed his long-anticipated move away from Dynamos when he signed for Club Africain on Monday.
Malajila's manager Gibson Mahachi could neither deny nor confirm that his client had made the switch to Tunisia and referred all questions to his original club Chapungu.
Libya/Nigeria: Towards a normalization of relations
Nigeria has made contact with Libya last week by sending the foreign minister, Odein Ajumogobia, as a special envoy of President Goodluck Jonathan. The Nigerian foreign minister was received in audience in Tripoli by the Libyan Prime Minister, Baghdadi Mahmudi. Nigeria and Libya would work together to strengthen the historical ties and cultural rights of their peoples, but also to increase and strengthen their political consultations at all levels. They also agreed to explore the creation of economic projects and strategic benefits to their peoples and to the continent. The two countries' officials will exchange visits, at all levels to establish the framework for the achievement of objectives.
Sudan says will deport foreign NGO workers
Sudan says it will expel a number of international aid workers from the restive western region of Darfur, without specifying how many.
Local media reported earlier this week that six foreign staffers, including employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross, had been told to leave the country.
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