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VIDEO: Burkina Faso army 'marches' on capital September 21, 2015
Burkina Faso's military chiefs have demanded that the leaders of last week's coup disarm, saying the army is marching on the capital Ouagadougou.
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VIDEO: Austria now a 'humanitarian corridor' September 21, 2015
Austria's interior minister says a Europe-wide resettlement plan is needed, after thousands more people crossed into the country over the weekend.
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VIDEO: Why Afghans are leaving the country September 21, 2015
Afghans, the second biggest group of migrants into Europe after Syrians, tell the BBC's Harun Najafizada in Kabul, why they want to leave their country.
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VIDEO: A guide to Rugby Union September 21, 2015
The Rugby World Cup is now well under way in the UK, but what are the rules?
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VIDEO: Thailand tackles its monkey problem September 21, 2015
The Thai authorities round up scores of long-tailed macaque monkeys near Bangkok to relocate them after complaints from villagers.
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VIDEO: Thousands more migrants enter Austria September 21, 2015
Thousands more migrants and refugees entered Austria over the weekend, as European leaders are set to push for a unified response to the crisis.
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VIDEO: The lens that could shrink your camera September 21, 2015
Engineers at the California Institute of Technology are working on creating super-thin lenses.
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VIDEO: Game of Thrones, Veep win big at Emmys September 21, 2015
HBO programmes Games of Thrones and Veep dominate the 67th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
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VIDEO: Peston: How will China cope with slowdown? September 21, 2015
With China facing an economic slowdown, economics editor Robert Peston asks whether the government will let market forces work or go back to its old habit of intervening?
– SHEIK SHARIF AHMED
* Sheik Sharif Ahmed is one of the leaders of the “Council of Islamic Courts” – C.I.C in Somalia. He was captured in the beginning of the the Ethiopian-Somali War in 12/2006 and kept in Kenya.** On Saturday 01/31/2009 Sheik Sharif Ahmed has been sworn in as the new president of Somalia just months after his Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) signed a peace deal with the transitional Government.
The ceremony in neighboring Djibouti on Saturday came after Sheik Sharif Ahmed, who also led the Council of Islamic Courts (CIC), won a run-off parliamentary vote. The new president’s Islamic Courts movement ruled Mogadishu and most of southern Somalia for six months before being ousted by the Ethiopian military at the end of 2006 in the Ethiopian-Somali War
Sheik Sharif Ahmed easily defeated Maslah Mohamed Siad, son of ex-president Mohamed Siad Barre, in Saturday morning’s second round of voting, winning 293 votes to Siad’s 126.
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