Abu Dhabi to help fund the Australian cyclone houses

SYDNEY- l' Emirate of Abu Dhabi Monday oil-rich donated $ 32 million in Queensland to protect the Australian State of the cyclones after a monster snowstorm that hit in February.

Yasi, the most powerful cyclone struck the Australia in a century, packed winds of 290 kilometres (181 km) per hour when he ran in Queensland, smashing buildings and trees and bringing power lines crashing to the ground.

The United Arab Emirates Minister of State Reem Al Hashimy, stated that she saw television coverage of destruction caused by the Yasi and weeks of unprecedented flooding that preceded the storm.

"What struck me particularly is the strength and resilience of the people of Queensland," she says, adding that images of Australians soft hand on their fellow was comforting.

"We want to support your effective attitude, your ability to pick yourself up and get with it," she told reporters in Brisbane.

Al Hashemi was in Australia as part of a delegation from the Gulf of Queensland on tour as part of a Government plan to stimulate trade and investment in the wake of natural disasters.

The Premier of Queensland Anna Bligh said that his Government would match the gift 10 shelter to protect each more than 500 people against the fierce winds, debris and storm surges created by worst cyclones of flight.

The Government came under pressure after that Yasi for taking too long to build cyclone shelters promised after the Cyclone devastated Larry Innisfail in 2006.

Sites for shelters, which will be used as multi-purpose facilities throughout the year, have not yet been selected but Bligh said that this new unwelcome currency meant construction could begin later this year.

"We will build shelters as quickly as possible," she said.

"This gift of Abu Dhabi is a chance for us to do something in two years which would have otherwise held for 20 years."

Yasi roars in the Australian coast in Mission Beach, between the towns of Innisfail and Cardwell, which binds in a heavily populated and tourism region near the great barrier reef in early February.

The storm, which had an eye measuring 35 kilometres wide, caused massive destruction, but the winds and rain caused no deaths or injuries.

Attackers kill 16, burn houses of the city of Northern Nigeria

BAUCHI, Nigeria - the attackers killed at least 16 people and set fire to more than a dozen houses in a town in Northern Nigeria has been beset by years of sectarian violence, police said late Friday.

Residents, said that the attack on the town of Tafawa articulated in Bauchi State appears to have been an act of retaliation for the earlier murders, in the region while the police said that the authors had not yet be identified.

"Sixteen people were confirmed killed by unknown assailants," Bauchi police Commissioner, said John Aba Kasanga.

Bauchi neighbors of Nigeria "Middle Belt," a region Plateau State where the predominantly Muslim North meeting the predominantly Christian South and where communities of different ethnic and religious backgrounds are seated side by side.

The tension is rooted in decades of resentment among Aboriginal groups, mainly Christian or animist, are vying for control of fertile agricultural land and to political and economic with migrants and settlers in the Muslim north.

There were frequent clashes between crowds of Christians and Muslims, in the villages around Jos the capital of the State of Plateau, and Bauchi. Hundreds of people were killed in violence around Jos in the first months of the year.

At least 500 people were killed last month in protests and the murders of reprisals after President Goodluck Jonathan, a Southern Christian, was declared winner of the presidential election, defeating the leader of the former North Muhammadu Buhari Muslim army.

There were demonstrations in cities across the North, but the worst violence was in the southern part of Kaduna State, Plateau of neighbours, sharing diverse ethnic and religious in the rest of the middle belt.

Jonathan, who had broad support in the South, but also earned millions of votes, in the North promised "all included" Government to try to heal the breaches.

Congress of the Buhari for change party progressive (CPC) said that there was evidence that electoral commission computers have been rigged and that the vote count was manipulated in Jonathan favor. He promised to challenge the outcome in court.

Friday, the Group has asked a court to compel the electoral commission to preserve all the data and the ballot box capture machines used in the polls for forensic examination and to enable access to the voter new biometric register so he could cross check thumb on the ballots.