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In Oman the rioters have blocked the access to the port of Sohar
The port of call is managed by joint venture 50:50 between the omanita government and the Port of Rotterdam
February 28, 2011
The series of protests and insurrectionary movements against the governments in existence in the last weeks in the North African nations and those Middle Eastern ones is recording a new apex in the Sultanate omani. To Sohar, situated city to 220 kilometers to the north-west of the Mascate Capital, is continued also today the crashs in existence from saturday slid between the manifesting and police forces that in these last hours they have blocked the access to the port. The marine landing place is managed by the Sohar Industrial Port Company, joint venture 50:50 between the omanita government and the Port of Rotterdam ( on March 25, 2002 and 15 November 2007).
While governmental sources support that the citizens of Sohar are mobilizing themselves in order protect the privates property and public of the city and are dealing with the rioters in order to induce them to stop the sabotage activities, the Qaboos sultan bin Said Al Said, than from 1970 reigns on the Country, has emitted - evidently in the attempt to alleviate the protests - decrees for the assumption of 50.000 citizens and in order to guarantee a subsidy salary of unemployment of 150 riyals (282 euros) to which they are waiting for job. Moreover the omanita government has confirmed that yesterday to Sohar the minister of the public Administration Sayyid Ali bin Hamoud to the Busaidi has met the rioters.
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