Egypt Elections Expose Divisions in Muslim Brotherhood

CAIRO — Abdel Moneim Abou el-Fotouh is a popular leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and a candidate to become Egypt’s first president since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak.



Khaled Desouki



A Muslim Brotherhood rally in Cairo. The group figures to play a leading role in elections.

But he is not running as a Brotherhood candidate; in fact, he is running despite its opposition and openly criticizing many of its decisions. And instead of demonstrating the group’s growing power as Egypt’s best-organized political movement, his candidacy is exposing its internal divisions, as the unifying sense of opposition to a secular dictatorship fades and various factions — including two breakaway political parties and much of the group’s youth — move toward the political center.
“To the Brotherhood, I am more liberal,” said Dr. Abou el-Fotouh, a 59-year-old physician, smiling over a neatly trimmed beard in the office he uses as head of the Egyptian doctors union.

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Exxon Mobil Hit With $100 Million For Akwa Ibom Oil Spill Victims

Posted: June 20, 2011 - 22:01

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By SaharaReporters, New York 
 

The Nigerian Environmental Rights Action group has issued a demand for N51 billion ($100 Million) from ExxonMobil in Nigeria for their failure to compensate fishermen within the coastal areas who suffered devastating losses due to the oil company’s exploration activities and major oil spills last year which was revealed by SaharaReporters in a series of exposes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nigeria: Boko Haram's Threat

　
　

　
Obi Nwakanma
19 June 2011
　
On Thursday, the militant Islamist group, Boko Haram took their challenge to the Nigerian state one notch up. They bombed the Louis Edet House, the headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force in Abuja.
As a statement of defiance, nothing could be bolder. It is a simple statement of challenge: catch me if you can. Boko Haram is the most recent of the bones in Nigeria's throat as a nation. It is one other manifestation of anti-Nigerianism, based this time on a toxic mix of religious extremism and anger over social inequity. Let us here, try a bit to understand Boko Haram.

Broadband could signficantly boost economy - report

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:24

 A new report by the GSM Association (GSMA) says that Nigeria stands to gain an additional N862-billion by 2015 from mobile broadband.

The report, which focuses on Nigeria and the economic impact of broadband, was unveiled in Lagos on Monday and reveals that the 1.22% growth will be driven by High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) and Long Term Evolution (LTE).

How Suicide Bombers Evaded Bomb Detector

Mon, 20/06/2011 - 4:23am | CHUKA ODITTAH and KINGSLEY OPURUM

Last Thursday’s bomb attack at the Police Headquarters in Abuja, LEADERSHIP investigations can authoritatively confirm, happened while the inspector general of Police (IGP), Mr. Hafiz Ringim, was in the lift headed for his office.

The suicide bombers struck at the car park a few metres away. Impeccable sources told LEADERSHIP that the bombers came in two cars and had successfully beaten security checks at the entrance into Louis Edet House because the bomb devices brought by the terrorists were not frisked as had been the practice for all incoming vehicles.

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Mon, 20/06/2011 - 12:47am | SAM NDA-ISAIAH

 

 

The sixteenth day of June, two thousand and eleven, witnessed the arrival of the first Nigerian suicide bomber on the Nigerian soil; he was certainly not the first Nigerian suicide bomber. Farouk Abdulmutallab was the first Nigerian suicide bomber to have hit the world’s consciousness. It was only that God did not allow him to kill innocent people in his evil attempt to detonate his ware on Detroit, in faraway United States, and, thankfully, he is being safely kept away somewhere.