ABU DHABI // A Sudanese man planned to detonate a bomb in Abu Dhabi with the intention of killing foreigners, the Federal Supreme Court was told.
The 29-year-old is on trial for his alleged plans to commit acts of terror in the capital.
“He scouted and inspected locations to execute his plan of planting explosives to kill foreigners in the country,” court documents stated.
O A M is also charged with posting ISIL propaganda on Twitter and Facebook.
“He posted information that belonged to a terrorist organisation, to promote it and recruit members,” said prosecutors.
O A M is being tried under the UAE’s anti-terror legislation. If convicted, he could face execution, life imprisonment and/or fines of up to Dh100 million.
He denied all of the charges against him and asked for a court appointed an attorney because he is unable to afford his own.
The case was adjourned to March 14.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
MATCH INFO
Qalandars 109-3 (10ovs)
Salt 30, Malan 24, Trego 23, Jayasuriya 2-14
Bangla Tigers (9.4ovs)
Fletcher 52, Rossouw 31
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