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Africa on everyone's lips

While Western economies are plummeting, Africa is at full speed ahead. Now Norway is waking up. Trond Giske and Erik Solheim travel on Africa tour. A new organization for Norwegian-African business cooperation sees the light of day. This fall everyone talks about Africa.

Norway sold defense equipment to Gaddafi

Just months before the war broke out in Libya this winter, the red-green government approved the sale of defense equipment to Gaddafi's regime. Norwegian F16 pilots can be more easily met if Gaddafi uses his Norwegian light amplifiers, as a Norwegian company has earned 800.000 kroner to sell the dictator.

Do not research on nonviolence

The peaceful protests in Egypt and Tunisia have put Norwegian scientists to bed. They have been more concerned with war than by nonviolent methods.

UN document rejects UN claim on Rahim (19)

* The Immigration Board (UNE) claims the Iranian regime does not release death sentences without defendants present. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has released a Canada report rejecting this justification for forcing the death sentence of Rahim Rostami (19) to Iran.

* UNE never referred to the UN document when Rostami's asylum application was rejected. Now he is in Iranian prison. Tonight, it is demonstrated for the threatened 19 year-old, for which Amnesty is now considering launching international emergency action.

Undecided for Ammar

* Norwegian Ammar Al-Hamdan (33), married to a well-known Norwegian journalist, was on assignment for Al-Jazeera in Libya. Now the New Time writer is imprisoned in Tripoli by Gaddafi's son, Saif al-Islam.

* The President of Mauritania and two other Arab heads of state are involved in getting the Norwegian released. See Al-Hamdan's Siv Jensen interview and other Ny Tid articles below.

Tax on assistance

Norwegian aid actors are today exempt from tax on goods and services in developing countries, but now the government will remove the exemption. Thus, organizations such as Norwegian People's Aid must pay millions to governments in the south. More for tax means less for aid projects, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs admits.

Norwegian People's Aid

Leader: The fierce war

"You see a bone here and an upper body there. Is there one or two people? How do you count? ”

Considering new agent

Norway's human rights work is being assessed. The result could be a new "MRI representative". On Tuesday, you are invited to submit a comment.

Jonas (19) manages WikiLeaks.no

While the US condemns the imprisoned Julian Assange, Jonas Braathen (19) keeps WikiLeaks available from Trondheim. He has set up the Norwegian mirror site wikileaks.no.