MOGADISHU， Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- Somalia's security forces on Monday arrested seven suspected Al-Shabaab militants in Beledweyne town in central Somalia's Hiiraan region.


"The police conducted an operation throughout the town of Beledweyne this morning， and arrested seven suspects during the operation. We will do more investigation towards these men，" Beledweyne Police Commissioner Ali Dhuh Abdi told reporters.


The Somali army， together with AU forces， is battling the Al-Shabaab Islamist group， which stages periodic attacks in the country. Enditem


ACCRA Nike Air Huarache Sale , March 17 (Xinhua) -- Stakeholders began a meeting here Thursday to propose ways of mobilizing finance for a project to protect and restore forests across the globe.


The project, which seeks to restore 100 million hectares of forest cover in Africa alone, requires over 160 million U.S. dollars annually.


In his keynote address at the meeting dubbed "Forests for the Future: New Forests for Africa" , Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, lamented the depletion of forests across the globe.


"From the Amazon to Indonesia Nike Air Huarache Utility , forests that have taken centuries to grow are destroyed in only a few months to serve the international demand for palm oil, soybeans or timber. Some of the world's most precious ecosystems, such as the Virunga National Park in the Congo Basin, are threatened by oil, gas and mineral exploration and exploitation," Annan observed.


Despite all the invaluable ecological Nike Air Huarache Pink , economic and social benefits, Annan lamented that "we are destroying the very forests and ecosystems vital for sustainable living on our planet".


Approximately 130 million hectares of forest, an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa, have been lost since 1990, according to records.


Forest protection and conservation, forest restoration and reforestation Nike Air Huarache Grey , and the transformation of energy systems are three critical areas the former Secretary General said action must be taken urgently, and where Africa could play a leading role in support of global efforts.


He said Africa's leadership on reforestation had to go hand-in-hand with a massive transformation of its energy systems, adding that two out of three Africans, over 600 million people, had no access to electricity.


"Cut off from the grid, rural populations across the continent often have no other choice than chopping trees to make charcoal for cooking. This is not just driving deforestation and climate change Nike Air Huarache Red , but also putting people's health at risk," he argued.


Samuel Afari Dartey, CEO of the Forestry Commission of Ghana, said Ghana was to "leave future generations and their communities with richer, better more valuable forest and wildlife endowments than we inherited'.


"The country is making strenuous efforts at significantly reducing deforestation and forest degradation through a number of development projects to restore our lost forest cover by employing strategies that create green jobs and boost food production in the rural areas of Ghana," he stated.


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The illegal gatherings of the Occupy Central movement are aimed at challenging both China's supreme power organ and Hong Kong citizens' democratic rights, and are doomed to fail, according to a commentary to be carried by Friday's People's Daily.


For several days, some people have been staging protests in Hong Kong in the name of seeking the so-called "real universal suffrage."


They attempt to force the central authorities to change the decision made by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, on Hong Kong's electoral system. Such actions blatantly violate the Basic Law of Hong Kong and the principle of rule of law Nike AirHuarache Triple Black , according to the opinion piece.


"There is no room to make concessions on issues of important principles," says the commentary on the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China.


The decision made on Aug. 31 granted universal suffrage in the selection of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)'s chief executive on the basis of nomination by a "broadly representative" committee.


The decision possesses unchallengeable legal status and authority. It is "a certain choice and the only choice" to safeguard the decision, according to the commentary.


The NPC decision is in line with the "one country, two systems" policy and the Basic Law. It has fully heeded opinions from all walks of life in Hong Kong, it says.


The core purpose of instigators of illegal activities is to ensure that their representatives, including those in defiance of the central authorities Nike AirHuarache White , can become candidates of HKSAR's chief executives, the commentary says. "Such a demand is neither illegal nor reasonable."


As one of China's local administrative regions, Hong Kong is directly under the jurisdiction of the central government rather than a state or an independent political entity, the commentary says.


Once the public opinions were hijacked by a minor group, it would not be conducive to the implementation of "one country, two systems" policy Nike Air Huarache Black , Hong Kong's long-term prosperity and stability as well as realization of universal suffrage, the commentary warns.


BUDAPEST, May 31 (Xinhua) -- The International Swimming Federation (FINA) has significantly modified the regulations of the 2017 edition of the FINA Swimming World Cup on Tuesday, and the new measures were harshly criticized by the best performing swimmer of last years, the Hungarian Katinka Hosszu.


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