From Mogadishu to Toronto
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Partway through Hassan Ghedi Santur’s new novel The Youth of God, eighteen-year-old Nuur sits alone in
From Mogadishu to Toronto
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Partway through Hassan Ghedi Santur’s new novel The Youth of God, eighteen-year-old Nuur sits alone in
If Palestinians have 22 states, Israeli Jews have 200
The notion that the Palestinians have 22 states to go to is a blend of malice and ignorance: The Palestinians are the stepchildren of the Arab world, no country wants them and no Arab country hasn’t betrayed them
Gideon Levy
Mar 16, 2019 1
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Here we go again: The Palestinians have 22 states and, poor us, we have only one. Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t the first to use this warped argument; it has been a cornerstone of Zionist propaganda that we’ve imbibed with our mothers’ milk. But he returned to it last week. “The Arab citizens have 22 states. They don’t need another one,” he said on Likud TV.
If the Arab citizens of Israel have 22 countries, the state’s Jewish citizens have almost 200. If the prime minister meant that Arab citizens could move to Arab countries, it’s obvious that Jews are invited to return to their country of origin: Palestinians to Saudi Arabia and Jews to Germany.
Netanyahu belongs in the United States much more than Ayman Odeh belongs in Yemen. Naftali Bennett will also find his feet in San Francisco much more easily than Ahmad Tibi in Mogadishu. Avigdor Lieberman belongs in Russia much more than Jamal Zahalka belongs in Libya. Aida Touma-Sliman is no more connected to Iraq than Ayelet Shaked, whose father was born there. David Bitan belongs to Morocco, his birthplace, much more than Mohammad Barakeh does.
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The notion that the Palestinians have 22 states to go to is a blend of malice and ignorance. Underlying it are the right wing’s claims that there is no Palestinian people, that the Palestinians aren’t attached to their land and that all Arabs are alike. There are no greater lies than these. The simple truth is that the Jews have a state and the Palestinians don’t.
The Palestinians are the stepchildren of the Arab world. No country wants them and no Arab country hasn’t betrayed them. Try being a Palestinian in Egypt or Lebanon. An Israeli settler from Itamar is more welcome in Morocco than a Palestinian from Nablus.
There are Arab states where Israeli Arabs, the Palestinians of 1948, are considered bigger traitors than their own Jews. A common language, religion and a few cultural commonalities don’t constitute a common national identity. When a Palestinian meets a Berber they switch to English, and even then they have very little in common.
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The suggestion that Israel’s Arab citizens move to those 22 states is despicable and mean, well beyond its reference to a common language. It portrays them as temporary guests here, casting doubt on the depth of their attachment to their land, “inviting” them to get out. The amazing thing is that the ones making such proposals are immigrants and sons of immigrants whose roots in this country still need to withstand the test of time.
Palestinians are attached to this country no less than Jews are, possibly more so. It’s doubtful whether the hysterical clamoring for foreign passports would seize the Arab community as it did the Jewish one; everybody was suddenly of Portuguese descent. We can assume that there are more people in Tel Aviv dreaming of foreign lands than there are in Jenin. Los Angeles certainly has more Israelis than Palestinians.
Hundreds of years of living here have consolidated a Palestinian love of the land, with traditions and a heritage – no settler can match this. Palestinians have za’atar (hyssop) and we have schnitzel. In any case, you don’t have to downplay the intensity of the Jewish connection to this country to recognize the depth of the Palestinian attachment to it.
They have nowhere to go to and they don’t want to leave, which is more than can be said for some of the Jews living here. If, despite all their woes, defeats and humiliations they haven’t left, they never will. Too bad you can’t say the same thing about the country’s Jews. The Palestinians won’t leave unless they’re forcibly removed. Is this what the prime minister was alluding to?
When American journalist Helen Thomas suggested that Jews return to Poland she was forced to resign. When Israel’s prime minister proposes the same thing for Arabs, he’s reflecting the opinion of the majority.
From its inception, the Zionist movement dreamed of expelling the Palestinians from this country. At times it fought to achieve this. The people who survived the ethnic cleansing of 1948, the expulsions of 1967, the occupation and the devil’s work in general have remained here and won’t go anywhere. Not to the 22 states and not to any one of them. Only a Nakba II will get them out of here.
Keep it up, Ilhan Omar - Opinion
Neither Hamas nor a black day, but a glimmer of hope on Capitol Hill
Gideon Levy
Mar 07, 2019
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Maybe Mogadishu will turn out to be the source of hope. This war-torn city was the birthplace of the most promising U.S. congresswoman today.
Ilhan Omar is not only one of the first two female Muslim members of the House of Representatives, she may herald a dramatic change in that body. “Hamas has entered the House,” Roseanne Barr was quick to cry out; “A black day for Israel,” tweeted Donald Trump. Neither Hamas nor a black day, but a glimmer of hope on Capitol Hill.
Maybe, for the first time in history, someone will dare tell the truth to the American people, absorbing scathing accusations of anti-Semitism, without bowing her head. The chances of this happening aren’t great; the savage engine of the Jewish lobby and of Israel’s “friends” is already doing everything it can to trample her.
The president mentioned removing her from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Congress was set to pass a resolution, the second in one month, against uttering “anti-Semitic expressions,” specifically aimed at Omar’s statements.
>> We support you, Ilhan the heroine | Opinion
When will Americans and Europeans stop running scared every time someone screams “anti-Semitism”? Until when will Israel and the Jewish establishment succeed in exploiting (the existing) anti-Semitism as a shield against criticism? When will the world dare to distinguish between legitimate criticism of an illegitimate reality and anti-Semitism?
The gap between these two is great. There is anti-Semitism one must fight, and there is criticism of Israel and the Jewish establishment it is imperative to support. Manipulations exercised by the Israeli propaganda machine and the Jewish establishment have managed to make the two issues identical.
This is the greatest success of the Israeli government’s hasbara: Say one critical word about Israel and you’re labeled an anti-Semite. And labeled an anti-Semite, your fate is obvious. Omar has to break this cursed cycle. Is the young representative from Minnesota up for it? Can she withstand the power centers that have already mobilized against her in full force?
Maybe it’s important that she knows there are people in Israel crossing fingers for her?
Her success and that of her congressional colleagues, Rashida Tlaib from Michigan and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York, could be the first swallows that herald the coming of spring. This is the spring of freely expressing opinions about Israel in America. Cortez already asked this week why isn’t bigotry aimed at other groups condemned just like statements against Israel are.
>> As an American-Israeli, I am thrilled for the Palestinians and for Rashida Tlaib | Opinion
What, after all, has Omar said? That pro-Israel activists demand “allegiance to a foreign country”; that U.S. politicians support Israel because of money they receive from the pro-Israel lobby group AIPAC, and that “Israel hypnotized the world.” What is incorrect in these statements? Why is describing reality considered anti-Semitic?
Jews have immense power in the U.S., far beyond the relative size of their community, and the blind support given by their establishment to Israel raises legitimate questions regarding dual loyalty. Their power derives from their economic success, their organizational skills and the political pressure they exert. Omar dared to speak about this.
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Just imagine what Israelis and Jews would feel if Muslim Americans had the same political, economic and cultural power Jews have. Such power, above all the intoxication with power that has seized hold of the Jewish establishment, comes with a price. Omar and her colleagues are trying to collect on it.
Due to the Israel lobby, the U.S. does not know the truth about what is happening here. Congress members, senators and shapers of public opinion who are flown here ad nauseam see only Israeli victimhood and Palestinian terror, which apparently emerged out of nowhere. Islamists, Qassam rockets and incendiary balloons – not a word about occupation, expropriation, refugees and military tyranny. Questions such as where the money goes and whether it serves American interests are considered heresy. When talking about Israel one must not ask questions or raise doubts.
This cycle has to be broken as well. It’s not right and it’s not good for the Jews. Omar is now trying to introduce a new discourse to Congress and to public opinion. Thanks to her and her colleagues there is a chance for a change in America. From Israel we send her our wishes for success.
When will the world dare to distinguish between legitimate criticism of an illegitimate Israeli reality and anti-Semitism?
La défense d’Ilhan Omar contre les attaques d’antisémitisme montre que la bataille autour de l’antisémitisme et de sa manipulation par le gouvernement israélien est devenue un enjeu international
We Support You, Ilhan the Heroine
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar thought she was living in a democratic country, and that she could report to the public about what she sees: how naive!
Odeh Bisharat Feb 18, 2019 5:12 AM
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Why attack Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who said that Congressional support for Israel has been bought by money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, at a time when someone who is very familiar with the lobby attests to its tremendous power. On the online news publication The Intercept, journalist Mehdi Hassan describes a meeting between Steven Rosen, a former president of AIPAC, and journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in 2005. “You see this napkin?” asked Rosen. “In 24 hours, we could have the signatures of 70 senators on this napkin.”
That’s corrupting power, which should cause any decent Jew to lose sleep. After all, we’re not talking about a poor country, to which policy can be dictated, whether by force or with money. We’re talking about the world’s biggest superpower. We’re also talking about 70 senators out of 100 – 70 percent of the Senate is in AIPAC’s pocket.
So what would happen if the situation were reversed, and neo-Nazism, which according to U.S. President Donald Trump also includes good people, were to assume senior positions? Would the Jews then be blamed for all the ills of the United States?
At the moment I feel for Congresswoman Ilhan, who thought she was living in a democratic country, and that she could report to the public about what she sees. We can assume that a few years ago Omar was able to observe Republican candidates knocking on the door of far-right mogul Sheldon Adelson, asking for his support – his monetary support, of course.
I assume that Omar also noticed the strange phenomenon which, with the exception of Gideon Levy, almost nobody in Israel noticed: that all the senior members of the White House Middle East team are Jews, and not leftist, Peace Now Jews, God forbid, but right-wing, Habayit Hayehudi Jews. The poor Palestinians were unable to comment on that for fear of AIPAC, which is responsible for putting “anti-Semite” stickers on anyone who dares criticize Israel.
Now President Trump is angry at Omar. “I think she should be ashamed of herself. I think it was a terrible statement,” he said. But Trump has apparently forgotten that on the eve of his election in 2015 he told the participants at a convention of the Republican Jewish Coalition: “You’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money.”
Trump’s statement included the two most benighted elements that anti-Semites have attributed to Jews for hundreds of years: money and control. That statement, about which Chemi Shalev wrote at the time: “As though the Jews are incapable of supporting a candidate whom they can’t buy,” was met here by almost total silence. How do they say it in Arabic: “The blows of the beloved are like raisins.”
Now Omar, after the witch hunt surrounding her, has retreated from her tweet. She will have to work hard to prove that she’s not anti-Semitic, and that what she sees is actually an illusion. The truth must be told: Her retreat is a mark of Cain on the forehead of reasonable Jews, both in Israel and the United States. After all, cleaning the stables of the ills of the Israeli right is mainly the job of reasonable Jews.
Why impose that job on Omar? Why outsource the dirty work to the gentiles, instead of buckling down and taking action. And starting, for example, by sending tens of thousands of signatures on postcards saying: We support you, Ilhan the heroine.
And if not, Ilhan will yet say to herself: Why do I need another headache? And retreat to her home. Whereas you, Jewish democrats, will continue to obey the orders of the insane alliance of the Israeli and American right, and continue to send your sons on terrible missions in the occupied territories. And if TV news anchor Oshrat Kotler says that it’s because of the occupation – you’ll stone her, instead of stoning the occupation. Only the occupation could produce such genius.
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Somali Night Fever: the little-known story of Somalia’s disco era | World news | The Guardian
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In the 1970s and 80s Mogadishu’s airwaves were filled with Somali funk, disco, soul and reggae. Musicians rocking afros and bell-bottom trousers would perform at the city’s trendiest nightclubs during the height of the country’s golden era of music. But it was short-lived: a brutal civil war began, musicians fled to all corners of the world and the vibrant music scene came to an end.
Habib and Abdulkadir, two former band mates and best friends, lost touch after the war started, and neither knew if the other was alive. But both kept playing music.
Somali Night Fever tells the story of the people keeping Somali music alive, including these two friends, separated by war but united by the music of the golden era.
Meditating on youth in Mogadishu
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The youth (in Somali: dhalinyaro), as I see them, affect a certain cultivation of maturity far beyond their actual years.
Reporter’s Diary: Heal Somalia’s former child soldiers, heal a nation
Even by Mogadishu standards, late September was particularly violent.
Amino Hussein Hassan, a female law student, was shot dead on her university campus. Yahye Amir, a prominent economics professor and political analyst, escaped an assassination attempt when a bomb strapped to his car exploded, killing his brother. And Ahmed Mukhtar Salah, from the long-marginalised minority Bantu community, was beaten and burnt to death by a mob after his nephew married an ethnic Somali woman.
Violence has been a way of life in Somalia since the outbreak of the civil war in 1991, seeping deep into the nation’s marrow as clan conflict gradually morphed into an all-out war against the al-Qaeda affiliated Islamist group #al-Shabab. “The layers of violence that people have had to digest is one of the key problems for building a peaceful and healthier society,” Laetitia Bader, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW), told me recently.
Most often, those who bear the life-long consequences are the poor, the politically marginalised, and young people. In particular, the thousands of children who must deal with the trauma of years on the front lines.
In May, I travelled to the capital, Mogadishu – as I have done regularly since 2012 – to report on a crisis that, save for some international NGOs and human rights organisations, few seem to talk about: child soldiers.
There, I met Abdi, 16, a former child soldier. Intelligent and eloquent, he had been a star pupil at the Koranic school in his home town, about 55 miles from the capital. In 2009, at the age of seven, his teacher took him and seven other boys to join al-Shabab.
For two years, Abdi lived in a camp with about three dozen other young recruits. By the time he was eight, he had learned how to drive a car and shoot a gun. By nine, he took part in his first raid in the village of Darussalam Mubarak, where he witnessed an assassination: a man killed by three bullets to the back.
As horrific as that experience was, the image that has most haunted Abdi for years is that of the severed head of a young man his al-Shabab camp commander brandished before the recruits as a warning: this is what happens to informants.
“Even now after all these years, I have nightmares,” Abdi told me. “Sometimes I wake up screaming in the middle of the night.”
A disposable front line
While al-Shabab’s use of children as soldiers is nothing new, in the last several years the number of child soldiers has increased markedly.
In al-Shabab’s heyday around 2010, when it controlled vast swaths of the country, including a sizable chunk of the capital, persuasion and indoctrination were enough to ensure a steady supply of young fighters. Since 2016, increased attacks by the Somali national army and US and African Union troops have resulted in a loss of territory for the group. Most recently, on October 16, the US military announced that it had carried out one of the deadliest airstrikes against al-Shabab, killing 60 militants in the Mudug region.
So, desperate for more foot soldiers, al-Shabab has turned to the abduction and forced recruitment of minors. Accurate numbers are difficult to come by. Child Soldiers International calculates that there has been a 269 percent increase in the number of children within the ranks of armed groups in Somalia between 2015, when there were 903 documented cases, to 2017, with 3,335 cases. Meanwhile, according to a May report on children and armed conflict presented by the UN secretary-general to the General Assembly, 1,770 children were recruited as soldiers in 2017 alone, with al-Shabab doing the vast majority of the recruitment. The overall number is likely even higher: UNICEF Somalia estimates that as many as 6,000 children and youths are part of armed groups in the country.
In a single military operation carried out by the Somali National Army and US troops in January on a base near the town of Baledogle, 70 miles northwest of Mogadishu, for instance, 36 child soldiers between the ages of eight and 13 were rescued.
Often untrained and ill-equipped, these child soldiers make for a disposable front line on the battlefield, protecting older, more experienced fighters. This makes them more likely to suffer physical wounds and psychological trauma.
Young defectors
I first met Abdi and other boys through a man I’ll call Hussein. I am not using his real name, or identifying his location, since in addition to running an orphanage he manages a centre that works with young al-Shabab defectors. About 120 boys now live there, two hours’ drive from the capital, but at one point it housed as many 520.
Mogadishu’s Tipping Point | Warscapes
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To better understand the political and security implications of last Saturday’s massive attack in Mogadishu, I reached out to Dr. Afyare Abdi Elmi, a Somali-Canadian academic who teaches international politics at Qatar University in Doha. “The security approach that has been used for the last ten years has not worked,” Dr. Elmi said emphatically. “If Al Shabaab can pick and choose their targets, attack government military posts and drive a lorry full of explosives into the busiest area of Mogadishu and kill hundreds, then this means that for the government, regional forces and the U.S, there is a need for a new security strategy.”
One thing that the deadliest terrorist attack in Somalia’s history has made crystal clear is the utter failure of the hyper militarized counterterrorism strategy of the past decade. Ultimately, the Shabaab conundrum is a political one, and not a purely military problem. The time has come for Somali leaders and the international community to think outside the box and try a new approach instead of continuing with the same failed strategy. Negotiations with willing Shabaab members was one such proposed idea but it has not been pursued in any meaningful fashion.
There have already been some high profile defections from the group, most recently that of Mukhtar Robow who surrendered to the government in August of this year. And proponents of the negotiation strategy contend that more members would be willing to defect if they are offered credible promises of amnesty. Dr. Elmi asserts that in the past, negotiating with Shabaab has been a redline for Western donor nations, especially the United States which wants nothing less than total defeat of the terrorist group.
Saturday’s attack is likely to become a turning point. Years from now, we might view the fight against Shabaab in terms of before and after October 14, 2017. There is something new in the way Somalis are talking about it that makes it seem like this reached a tipping point. There is so much anger on the part of the public. There has also been so much support and goodwill toward Somalia from all over the world. The magnitude of attack has put the vast majority of Somalis on the same page in terms of how they view Shabaab and its crimes against humanity. And it is this shift in opinion that appears to be unprecedented. Somali leaders must take advantage of this moment. This is the time to come up with long-term political solution to the Shabaab question.
Mogadishu bombing: parents’ grief for medical student killed in blast | World news | The Guardian
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On Saturday morning, Maryam Abdullahi Gedi made breakfast for her family, packed her books and laptop and set out across Mogadishu, the battered capital of Somalia, to see her supervisor at Banadir University about her thesis. She was excited about the prospect of her graduation as a medical doctor this week.
Her father – who flew in from the UK to attend the ceremony – found himself at her funeral instead. Gedi, 24, was among more than 300 people killed in a massive bombing in the centre of the city on Saturday afternoon.
In Somali drought, women fighting sexual predators as well as hunger
The reported cases of rape and sexual violence in drought-affected areas are on the rise, in what UNICEF calls another troubling consequence of the crisis.
Between November and March, UNICEF and partners responded to about 300 cases of rape, sexual assault and gender related violence on average each month. In June, however, the number tripled, with 909 reported cases. So far, that’s the highest number of reported cases in a single month in 2017.
According to Lokenga, displacement means women travel long distances to find food and other necessities in towns such as Mogadishu or Baidoa.
Traveling and in some cases, lack of a permanent residence, make them vulnerable to gender-based violence, even from the people meant to protect them during a time of food insecurity.
#Somalie #viols #violences_sexuelles #eau #sécheresse #femmes #alimentation #nourriture
Amid Drought, Somali Pastoralists Watch Their ‘Sources of Life’ Perish
With 17 million people crippled by drought in the Horn of Africa, Samuel Hall researchers and photographer #Ashley_Hamer explain the realities of climate-induced displacement in Somalia on World Refugee Day.
On the Edge of Disaster: Somalis Forced to Flee Drought and Near Famine Conditions
At present, Somalia remains in the chokehold of a severe, protracted drought. The Somali government, the United Nations, and donor governments, including the United States, United Kingdom, and the European Union, deserve credit for acting early to address the risk of famine and avoiding a wide-scale loss of life. But the failure of the most recent rains and a third consecutive season of below normal harvest and pasture have prolonged the crisis and left significant numbers of Somalis destitute. Worse yet, getting aid to many of the most affected areas has been a challenge due to the presence of Al-Shabaab and other non-state militant groups which often hinder or prevent aid delivery.
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With 3.1 million people facing crisis and emergency, acute food insecurity persists in Somalia
An estimated 3.1 million people, 25 percent of the population, are expected to be in Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or Emergency (IPC Phase 4) through December. The Gu (April-June) cereal harvest was far below average, prices of local cereal remain well above average, and substantial livestock losses have occurred, all of which have lowered household access to food and income. Persistent drought has led to large-scale population displacement. Deyr (October-December) rains are expected to be average to below average, but levels of acute food insecurity in Somalia will remain high through the end of the year. Acute and widespread food insecurity and increased morbidity have contributed to further deterioration of the overall nutrition situation in Somalia. Scaled up humanitarian assistance must be sustained in order to prevent further deterioration of food security and nutrition situation of the affected population. A risk of Famine continues through the end of the year in the worst affected areas: in a worst-case scenario where there is a significant interruption to current food assistance programs and higher prices further decrease household food access. Areas of greatest concern include the northeast and some IDP populations.
Somalia’s climate change refugees
Displaced by drought and conflict, rural Somalis have been heading to Mogadishu in their tens of thousands. They get no safety or support and are increasingly targeted for forced evictions, but they are still coming.
▻https://www.irinnews.org/feature/2018/02/21/somalia-s-climate-change-refugees
Trump administration announces new military operation in Somalia - World Socialist Web Site
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On pensait Clinton comme une guerrière, c’est finalement Trump qui est sur tous les fronts...
Trump administration announces new military operation in Somalia
By Eddie Haywood
18 April 2017
The Pentagon announced the deployment of dozens of US troops to Somalia last week, the first deployment of regular infantry since 1994, to assist the Somali military in the fight against Al Shabaab militants. Coincident with the announcement of the US deployment, a combat contingent from Uganda arrived in Somalia’s capital city Mogadishu on the weekend.
The Ugandan military contingent, which is one part of a multi-country cooperative offensive, replaces a group of Ugandan forces after that group’s one-year tour of duty ended. The Ugandan troops are to augment the US-backed African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) against the Islamist militants.
#Little_Mogadishu. Eastleigh, Nairobi’s Global Somali Hub
This portrait of Somali life in Nairobi counters much of the recent media hype about Eastleigh’s role as a safe haven for Al-Shabaab and focuses instead on its function as an African economic hub.
Somali pirates hijack first commercial ship since 2012 | Reuters
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Pirates have hijacked an oil tanker with eight Sri Lankan crew on board, Somali authorities said on Tuesday, the first time a commercial ship has been seized in the region since 2012.
Security forces have been sent to free the Aris 13, a regional police official said late on Tuesday.
“We are determined to rescue the ship and its crew. Our forces have set off to Alula. It is our duty to rescue ships hijacked by pirates and we shall rescue it,” Abdirahman Mohamud Hassan, director general of Puntland’s marine police forces, told Reuters by phone.
Puntland is a semi-autonomous northern region of Somalia. Alula is a port town there where pirates have taken the tanker.
Navire détourné en Somalie : #Eunavfor confirme un acte de piraterie - RFI
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Le bateau détourné lundi 13 mars au large de la Somalie est bien victime d’un acte de piraterie et les hommes armés qui en ont pris le contrôle demandent une rançon : c’est l’annonce faite mardi soir par la force navale européenne anti-piraterie opérant dans la zone. Le sort de l’équipage et du navire est désormais suspendu à l’ouverture de négociations.
Pirates demand ransom for oil tanker captured off coast of Somalia | World news | The Guardian
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Les affaires reprennent au large des côtes somaliennes
AP in Mogadishu
Tuesday 14 March 2017 22.44 GMT
Armed men are demanding a ransom for the release of an oil tanker they have seized off the coast of Somalia and the crew is being held captive, the European Union anti-piracy operation in the region announced late on Tuesday.
An EU naval force statement said the operation had finally made contact with the ship’s master, who confirmed that armed men were onboard the Comoros-flagged tanker Aris 13.
’We had to eat rats,’ say sailors held by Somali pirates for four years
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Monday’s hijacking was the first such seizure of a large commercial vessel off Somalia since 2012. It came as a surprise to the global shipping industry as patrols by the navies of Nato countries, as well as China, India and Iran, had suppressed Somali pirate hijackings for several years.
Officials: Somali Pirates Hijack Oil Tanker in Indian Ocean
Somali officials say pirates have hijacked an oil tanker in the Indian Ocean and guided it to the coast of #Puntland region.
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Ingenious : Jonathan Berger - Issue 38 : Noise
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I was electrified by Jonathan Berger’s music before I knew he wrote about music. His chamber works arise out of a lightning storm of modernist angles, dramatic and startling, though anchored to melodies that sail like a swallow, as one of his string quartets is called. His one-act operas Theotokia and The War Reporter, performed together in concert, match taut musical brocades to the hallucinations of, respectively, a schizophrenic, hearing voices of various mothers, and a photojournalist, based on Paul Watson, who won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for his image of the corpse of an American soldier being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu. A few years ago, I read some of Jonathan’s academic writing about music, which had a sharp focus on neurology and acoustics. He is a professor of (...)
For The First Time, A Team Of Refugees Will Compete At The Olympics
In an Olympic first, 10 members of an unusual team will be competing at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro: a squad made up entirely of refugees.
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#jeux_olympiques #réfugiés #asile #migrations #post-national #post-nationalisme #sport
Olympians without nations: first-ever team of refugees heads to Summer Games
With 20 million refugees worldwide, the International Olympic Committee announces a new team to make the games more inclusive for people without a nation to call home.
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#jo #équipe
Why the first Olympic refugee team may not be the last
▻https://Ten refugee athletes will march into the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, August 5, 2016. Unlike the other athletes there, they will not represent the countries of their birth, heritage or citizenship. These athletes will comprise the first-ever Olympic refugee team, and they will march under the Olympic flag.theconversation.com/why-the-first-olympic-refugee-team-may-not-be-the-last-58919
▻https://theconversation.com/why-the-first-olympic-refugee-team-may-not-be-the-last-58919
#post-nationalisme
The Olympic Team With No Flag
The first Refugee Olympic Team will arrive in Rio dreaming of gold — and the countries they were forced to leave behind.
▻http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/07/01/the-olympic-team-with-no-flag
One refugee’s journey to the Olympics. After losing his family in Congo’s civil war, Popole Misenga found purpose in judo
For the first time in Olympics history, a 10-person all-refugee team will compete in the games, which begin Aug. 5 in Rio de Janeiro. Popole Misenga, a 24-year-old judo fighter originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is one of these nation-less athletes.
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She Swam to Escape Syria. Now She’ll Swim in Rio.
BERLIN — Yusra Mardini, an Olympic swimmer, was an hour and a half into her first training session of the day, butterfly-kicking down the length of a pool with a yellow rubber duck balanced on her head.
Meet The First Ever Refugee Olympic Team | Rio 2016 Olympic Games
The Olympic Games Rio 2016 will have the first ever Refugee Team at the Olympic Games. Meet these incredible athletes and get ready to support them at the Olympics!
I rifugiati all’Olimpiade di Rio de Janeiro
Fra poche ore cominceranno i giochi olimpici e nella festa inaugurale sfileranno, sotto la bandiera olimpica, dieci atleti provenienti da paesi diversi e unificati dal loro status giuridico. E’ stata battezzata come la squadra dei rifugiati e ospita persone keniote, sud sudanesi, siriane, etiopi, congolesi della RDC.
The Refugee Olympians in Rio
Samia Yusuf Omar, who was lithe to the point of frailty, sprinted her way to momentary fame at the Beijing Olympics, in 2008. She was one of two athletes on the team from war-torn Somalia. Only seventeen, she’d had no professional coaching, and had dropped out of school in the eighth grade, after her father died, to help care for five younger siblings while her mother peddled produce. She practiced at a bombed-out stadium in Mogadishu. Female athletes were rare in Somalia, and she faced harassment and intimidation from Islamist militias. In Beijing, she dared to run without a hijab. Virtually no one in Somalia was able to watch her compete—no TV station carried the Olympics, and many Somalis had no television or electricity, anyway. Omar’s running shoes had been donated by runners on Sudan’s team.
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▻http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-refugee-olympians-in-rio
Yusra e le sue sorelle
Yusra Mardini ce l’ha fatta. Alcune settimana fa, vi avevamo raccontato la sua storia e il suo sogno di gareggiare alle Olimpiadi di Rio de Janerio. Oggi, il sogno di Yusra è realtà. La giovane nuotatrice siriana farà parte della squadra dei rifugiati selezionata dal Comitato Olimpico. Per la prima volta nella storia, alle Olimpiadi parteciperà anche un team formato da dieci atleti provenienti da diversi Paesi di tutto il mondo e che, per motivi diversi, non possono gareggiare sotto la bandiera del proprio Paese d’origine. Gareggeranno quindi sotto il vessillo con i cinque cerchi del Comitato Olimpico.
#JO2016 L’équipe des réfugiés reçoit les encouragements du pape François pour les Jeux Olympiques
Le pape a envoyé samedi une lettre aux athlètes de l’équipe de réfugiés qui participent aux jeux Olympiques de Rio, les encourageant à lancer au monde « un cri de fraternité et de paix », rapporte Radio Vatican.
L’équipe des réfugiés, dernier étendard de l’idéal olympique
Quand il pénétrera dans le stade Maracana de Rio de Janeiro (Brésil), vendredi 5 août, lors de la cérémonie d’ouverture des Jeux olympiques (JO), Rami Anis aura une pensée pour son oncle Majad. C’est lui qui, en nageur émérite, fit un jour découvrir la natation au petit garçon d’à peine 3 ans, lors d’une compétition qu’il disputait à Alep (Syrie), bien avant le déclenchement de la guerre civile en Syrie en 2011. Vingt-deux ans plus tard, le voici qui s’apprête à prendre part au plus grand événement sportif du monde. « C’est le rêve de tout athlète professionnel de participer aux JO, le mien va devenir réalité. »
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/jeux-olympiques-rio-2016/article/2016/08/04/rio-2016-jeux-sans-frontieres_4978473_4910444.html
Refugee Popole Misenga breaks down in tears ahead of the Olympics as he prepares to compete in Rio 15 years after last seeing his two brothers
Popole Misenga broke down crying - for the family in Congo that he hasn’t seen in 15 years, and for all the world’s refugees who haven’t been as lucky as he’s been.
▻http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3718485/Refugee-athlete-Popole-Misenga-breaks-tears-ahead-Olympics-describes-ar
Rio 2016: First ever refugee team ’have already won’
A team of 10 refugees who will compete at the games in Brazil say they are ready to represent refugees around the world.
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/rio-2016-refugee-team-won-160731045943653.html
Hungarian state TV silent about Olympic refugees
In a flashback to the days of the Cold War, Hungary’s state TV has stayed mum about the presence of a refugee team at the Olympics, a fact drawing criticism from opposition media on Sunday.
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▻https://aboutcroatia.net/news/europe/hungarian-state-tv-silent-about-olympic-refugees-32070
Live Blog: Refugee Olympic Team turns dreams into reality in Rio
Ten refugees have made history at Rio2016 as members of the first-ever Refugee Olympic Team. They include two Syrian swimmers, two judokas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a marathoner from Ethiopia and five middle-distance runners from South Sudan.
L’équipe olympique des réfugiés sous les projecteurs avant la Cérémonie d’ouverture
Depuis l’arrivée de l’équipe olympique des athlètes réfugiés au Brésil, des célébrités et d’autres athlètes se sont ralliés à leur côté.
▻http://www.unhcr.org/fr/news/stories/2016/8/57a30d6ba/lequipe-olympique-refugies-projecteurs-ceremonie-douverture.html
Refugee Olympic Team makes history at Rio Games
Rose Lokonyen, 23, leads a squad of 10 athletes behind the flag of the International Olympic Committee.
#Yusra_Mardini: Olympic Syrian refugee who swam for three hours in sea to push sinking boat carrying 20 to safety
Almost every athlete at the 2016 Olympic Games will have an interesting backstory, but Yusra Mardini’s is more extraordinary than most.
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/yusra-mardini-rio-2016-olympics-womens-swimming-the-syrian-refugee-co
Victorious in Rio, the Syrian refugee who saved 20 lives in the Aegean Sea
From helplessness to hope: inspirational tales of the #Refugee_Olympic_Team
For the first time in Olympic history, 10 athletes will compete at Rio 2016 for a special team in a move designed to bring global attention to the magnitude of the worldwide refugee crisis
▻https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/05/helplessness-rio-hope-olympic-refugee-team?CMP=share_btn_tw
Team Refugees: 5 Remarkable Journeys to Rio 2016 Olympic Games
KAKUMA, Kenya — From the flames of war in southern Sudan, five young runners who survived violence, displacement and the confines of a refugee camp are preparing to make history at the Rio Games.
Escape to victory: the refugees who will run at the Rio Olympics
Escaping South Sudan in 2005, Yiech and his family had to eat leaves to stave off hunger. Now, he’s part of the first ever “Team Refugee”.
▻http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2016/08/escape-victory-refugees-who-will-run-rio-olympics
10 athletes with no national team. No flag. And no anthem to call their own. Until now.
▻http://www.therefugeenation.org/#presentation
#nation #drapeau
#Yusra_Mardini : de la mer Egée aux bassins des JO
La jeune réfugiée Syrienne et sa sœur avaient tiré leur canot défectueux jusqu’à Lesbos. Cet été, la nageuse a pu vivre son rêve olympique et elle a gagné, à sa manière.
▻http://www.femina.ch/societe/news-societe/yusra-mardini-de-mer-egee-aux-bassins-jo-2016-natation-equipe-refugie
Rio 2016. Une équipe de réfugiés, est-ce une si bonne idée ?
C’est une première : parmi les délégations présentes à Rio pour les Jeux olympiques 2016 figure une équipe composée de réfugiés, dont les histoires sont souvent bouleversantes. Ainsi, raconte The Independent, la nageuse syrienne Yusra Mardini a failli mourir en Méditerranée, après avoir pris place dans un bateau surchargé. Quand il a commencé à couler, elle s’est jetée à l’eau avec sa sœur et a nagé plusieurs kilomètres tout en poussant la barque jusqu’à la terre ferme.
Olympic refugee team: prolific marathon runner Yonas Kinde finally able to compete at Olympic Games
The Ethiopian who has won many races in Europe has thus far been unable to prove himself at major competitions due to his lack of citizenship
Rio 2016 : un drapeau (officieux) pour l’équipe des réfugiés
Une artiste syrienne a créé un drapeau aux couleurs des gilets de sauvetage pour l’équipe olympique des réfugiés.
An Olympic Dream, Shattered
The life of Somali sprinter #Samia_Yusuf_Omar came to a tragic end on the perilous Mediterranean sea crossing from Libya to Europe.
"Der Traum von Olympia": Die Läuferin, die im Mittelmeer ertrank
Sie wollte bei den Olympischen Spielen in London antreten und starb vor Malta: In der Graphic Novel „Der Traum von Olympia“ erzählt Reinhard Kleist die wahre Geschichte von Samia Yusuf Omar - exemplarisch für Ungleichheit und Flüchtlingselend.
An Olympic Dream
In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Europe, risking her life on the waters of the Mediterranean. An Olympic Dream tells the remarkable story of Omar’s attempt to compete at the London Games in 2012. Picturing her life in Mogadishu, a city ravaged by conflict where the female athlete faces discrimination and abuse, Reinhard Kleist reveals the challenges she faced both as a sportsperson and as a woman. In doing so, he shows why Omar, like so many others, would choose to flee. Following Omar’s journey through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya to its tragic conclusion, An Olympic Dream is a forceful statement on Europe‘s response to the refugee crisis. But it is also a moving account of a remarkable life.
Gambian national goalkeeper dies during Mediterranean crossing
#Fatim_Jawara, believed to have been just 19, was on board a boat that ran into trouble last month crossing from Libya to Europe
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/02/gambian-national-goalkeeper-drowned-crossing-mediterranean?CMP=share_bt
#sport #football #Gambie
Gambia goalkeeper who died in Mediterranean wanted to play in Europe
Fatim Jawara, 19, drowned while trying to reach Lampedusa in Italy on one of two ships hit by a sudden storm
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/03/gambian-goalkeeper-who-died-in-mediterranean-wanted-to-play-for-major-c
Mali: Three years after the music ban | Freemuse
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When the religious music ban in the northern part of Mali was lifted in 2013, Andy Morgan wrote the book ‘Music, Conflict and Culture in Mali’. Here is his account of what has happened in the country since then.
By Andy Morgan
One of the accusations often levelled at the West is that distance has numbed it to the suffering caused by terrorism and religious intolerance in faraway places. The Paris attacks of 13 November 2015 bought many feelings home to roost and gave France a bitter taste of what people in Baghdad, Mogadishu or Maiduguri have experienced with horrific regularity. The murder of so many innocents at the Bataclan, one of Paris’ best-loved and most revered music venues, was ‘justified’ by ISIS / Daesh in a statement which declared that the venue was hosting a “profligate prostitution party” that night. This misjudgement bought home a new flavour of extreme religious hatred that had never been expressed with anything like the same violence in Europe before, at least not since the 17th century: the hatred of music and all its sensual by-products.
Where is the fastest growing city in the world? | Cities | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/nov/18/where-is-the-worlds-fastest-growing-city-batam-niamey-xiamen
The fastest growing city in the world is Batam in Indonesia … or Niamey in Niger … or maybe Xiamen in China. It all depends on who you ask.
Batam is the fastest-growing city in the world by population, according to US-based consultancy Demographia, which bases its annual Demographia World Urban Areas ranking largely on the United Nations’ 2010-20 world population forecasts – but only includes cities with a population of 1 million or more. Batam is close to Singapore and operates as a transport hub and industrial area, while a free-trade zone boosts trade with the island city-state. Batam had a population of 1.1 million in the latest estimate, with an annual growth of 7.4%.
Second on Demographia’s ranking is Mogadishu in Somalia, with a population of 2.1 million, growing at 6.9%. Mogadishu’s growth is driven by its improving security situation and economic prospects after decades of civil war – many Somalis have returned from abroad.
116 Somali refugees from Kenya land in Mogadishu, spearheading new phase of voluntary repatriation
The arrival at Mogadishu International Airport today of 116 Somali refugees from Kenya marks a new chapter in the voluntary return process. Earlier in the morning, the two planes took off from Dadaab in Northeastern Kenya, the largest refugee settlement in the world, still hosting 333,000 Somali refugees. This is the result of efforts by the Tripartite Commission formed by UNHCR and the Governments of Kenya and Somalia, to step up support for voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees.
Somalia’s first cash machine opens in Mogadishu
Some people are confused about how the machine works because they have never used one before
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29519877
#ATM
German-U.S. reporter held in Somalia freed after 2 years | The Salt Lake Tribune
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German-U.S. reporter held in Somalia freed after 2 years
By ABDI GULED
| The Associated Press
First Published 5 hours ago • Updated 5 hours ago
Mogadishu, Somalia • A German-American journalist who was kidnapped in Somalia more than two years ago was freed Tuesday, according to a Somali police official and a leader of the Somali pirates who held the journalist.
The journalist, identified by the German weekly Der Spiegel as 45-year-old Michael Scott Moore, was immediately flown to Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, after being freed, Somali police official Mohamed Hassan said by phone from the town of Galkayo in north-central Somalia.
Alors que les États-Unis envoient 3000 militaires en Afrique de l’Ouest, une compilation d’articles sur #Ebola et la réponse internationale
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What We’re Afraid to Say About Ebola - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/12/opinion/what-were-afraid-to-say-about-ebola.html
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has the potential to alter history as much as any plague has ever done. (...)
There are two possible future chapters to this story that should keep us up at night.
The first possibility is that the Ebola virus spreads from West Africa to megacities in other regions of the developing world. (...) What happens when an infected person yet to become ill travels by plane to Lagos, Nairobi, Kinshasa or Mogadishu — or even Karachi, Jakarta, Mexico City or Dhaka?
The second possibility is one that virologists are loath to discuss openly but are definitely considering in private: that an Ebola virus could mutate to become transmissible through the air.
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The Mathematics of Ebola Trigger Stark Warnings: Act Now or Regret It | WIRED
▻http://www.wired.com/2014/09/r0-ebola
I’ve spent enough time around public health people, in the US and in the field, to understand that they prefer to express themselves conservatively. So when they indulge in apocalyptic language, it is unusual, and notable.
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BBC News - Ebola outbreak ’threatens Liberia’s national existence’
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-29136594
[Defence minister] Brownie Samukai Samukai warned on Tuesday that the disease was “devouring everything in its path” in Liberia.
The country’s weak health system was already overwhelmed by the number of cases, he said.
Mr Samukai told UN Security Council members that Liberia lacked “infrastructure, logistical capacity, professional expertise and financial resources to effectively address this disease”.
“Liberia is facing a serious threat to its national existence. The deadly Ebola virus has caused a disruption of the normal functioning of our state,” he said.
Separately on Tuesday, the UN’s envoy in Liberia said that at least 160 Liberian health workers had contracted the disease and half of them had died.❞
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‘Ebola’ Draining Economy - Min. Konneh - The New Dawn Liberia | Truly Independent
▻http://www.thenewdawnliberia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12673:ebola-draining
According to him, some concession companies have already scaled down operations, as expatriates depart the country for fear of contracting the Ebola virus. He said productivity in the various sectors of the economy was adversely affected, resulting in lower revenue performance, and increased expenditure demands, threatening the post- conflict recovery process of sustainable, inclusive and proper growth.
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Poor will die of hunger, not just Ebola, say Sierra Leoneans
▻http://www.trust.org/item/20140915104032-w7rs4?
FREETOWN: Supplies of food are running so low in Sierra Leone that residents fear many could die of hunger if the Ebola virus is not contained soon, reports humanitarian organisation Plan International.
Freetown residents say food prices are soaring out of control due to the lack of cross-border trade.
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Ebola’s Hard Lessons | The CSIS Global Health Policy Center
▻http://www.smartglobalhealth.org/blog/entry/Ebolas-Hard-Lessons
In the acid words of one observer, Ebola is to WHO what Katrina was to FEMA in 2005. MSF is at its limits and cannot possibly continue to shoulder the lion’s share of responsibilities. In the meantime, staff on the ground are becoming steadily more vulnerable – to infection and to violence – requiring greater investments to ensure their protection.
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The Ebola War
▻http://haicontroversies.blogspot.ca/2014/09/the-ebola-war.html
Although there are clearly downsides, experts from Peter Piot to MSF leaders to Mike Osterholm are calling for military involvement.
The need for such involvement is based simply on the scale of this disaster—WHO, CDC, non-governmental groups like MSF, no group has anything close to the logistical capability of the military to quickly deploy personnel and supplies almost anywhere in the world. If, as MSF suggests, military assets are “not…used for quarantine, containment, or crowd control measures”, which have backfired (particularly in Liberia), such a response could help bring essential capacity where it is needed most. The chart below provides a comparison of the total budgets for the US military, CDC, WHO and MSF.
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Ebola outbreak an avoidable tragedy, say UK MPs | Global development | theguardian.com
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/sep/12/ebola-outbreak-avoidable-tragedy-uk-ministers-mps
“The devastating ongoing Ebola epidemic in west Africa has served to emphasise the importance of establishing strong health systems,” it said. “The apparent hesitancy and lack of coordination in the international response suggest that the global health system and emergency plans have failed.”
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Ebola – the World’s Katrina | Molecules to Medicine, Scientific American Blog Network
▻http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/molecules-to-medicine/2014/09/09/ebola-the-worlds-katrina
the world’s response has been incomprehensibly and seemingly irresponsibly slow. Why is this the case? Likely because of disparities in the power and wealth of people affected by the epidemic.
The Washington Post has a good backgrounder, “The long and ugly tradition of treating Africa as a dirty, diseased place,” by professors Laura Seay and Kim Yi Dionne. They note the racism of the European colonizers, and how that led to “othering” of Africans, attributing inherent flaws to the people and their societies rather than to cultural differences, without any true basis or understanding. And they cite the “persistent association of immigrants and disease in American society.”
The impact of such “othering” was first really brought home to me in a provocative lecture by Eileen Stillwaggon in 2006, at a Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases conference. She spoke of the perception that AIDS was more prevalent in Africa because of different sexual mores—hypersexuality and promiscuity. Then she ripped this apart with eye-opening evidence of the links between helminth (worm) infections, schistosomiasis, malaria, and AIDS, effectively demonstrating that the parasitic infections strongly increase the susceptibility to HIV, explaining the difference in HIV rates between Africa and industrialized countries.
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Ebola highlights slow progress in war on tropical diseases | Reuters
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/11/us-health-ebola-neglected-analysis-idUSKBN0H60TA20140911
[until this crisis] the absence of economic incentives for drugmakers to develop and supply medicines for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) has long been highlighted by health campaigners, but it rarely gets on to the political radar in the West. (...)
It is not that scientists don’t have ideas for new drugs and vaccines but, until now, they have lacked the industry buy-in needed to take experimental products through the costly late stages of clinical development.
BIOWEAPON FEARS IN WEST
Significantly, much of the funding for Ebola has been driven not by concerns about sporadic outbreaks in Africa but by a biodefence strategy in the United States and other countries fearful of the potential to weaponize the virus.
Terrible compilation, mais qui recoupe bien ce que je voyais émerger de ce merdier. Merci @fil
H5N1: Ebola: Richard Horton tweets the future
▻http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2014/09/ebola-richard-horton-tweets-the-future.html
the outbreak appears to have been a kind of Sputnik moment, with the Americans realizing that we all face a threat greater than we’d imagined. After a Sputnik moment, nothing can stand in the Americans’ way. For once, they may be stampeding in the right direction.
M’enfin, si les États-Unis envoient des militaires quand Cuba envoie des médecins, c’est qu’ils y ont des intérêts précis à défendre ! Comme la présence de firmes américaines par exemple. Pétrole, plantations commerciales... faudrait voir à ne pas faire obstacle au business. C’est du #pur_cynisme
réponse à l’article d’Osterholm par Vincent Racaniello (qui au passage cite l’intérêt des expériences de Ron Fouchier) :
What we are not afraid to say about Ebola virus
▻http://www.virology.ws/2014/09/18/what-we-are-not-afraid-to-say-about-ebola-virus
More problematic is Osterholm’s assumption that mutation of Ebola virus will give rise to viruses that can transmit via the airborne route:
If certain mutations occurred, it would mean that just breathing would put one at risk of contracting Ebola. Infections could spread quickly to every part of the globe, as the H1N1 influenza virus did in 2009, after its birth in Mexico.
The key phrase here is ‘certain mutations’. We simply don’t know how many mutations, in which viral genes, would be necessary to enable airborne transmission of Ebola virus, or if such mutations would even be compatible with the ability of the virus to propagate. (...)
The other important message from the Fouchier-Kawaoka ferret experiments is that the H5N1 virus that could transmit through the air had lost its ability to kill. The message is clear: gain of function (airborne transmission) is accompanied by loss of function (virulence).
édito du Guardian :
The Guardian view on using the American military to contain the Ebola epidemic in Liberia | Editorial | Comment is free | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/17/guardian-view-american-military-ebola-epidemic-liberia
President Barack Obama’s decision to despatch a force with a strong military component to contain the Ebola epidemic in Liberia is to be welcomed. This is one of those cases where American boots on the ground will be an unalloyed good.
(...) But there are lessons – about readiness, about the proper funding and staffing of the World Health Organisation, and about the need to work on cures for diseases ignored in the past because there were no easy profits to be made by the pharmaceutical industry – and they must be learned.
Mogadishu: evolution of an African capital – in pictures
A new exhibition by Somali-British architect Rashid Ali and British photographer Andrew Cross presents contemporary images of the battle-ravaged Somali capital alongside rare archive images that document Mogadishu under Italian colonial rule
▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2014/feb/28/mogadishu-somalia-photography-city-exposures#/?picture=430817219&index=0
#photographie #colonialisme #Mogadiscio #Somalie #photographie_historique
Saudi Arabia : 12,000 Somalis Expelled
Saudi authorities have deported more than 12,000 people to Somalia since January 1, 2014, including hundreds of women and children, without allowing any to make refugee claims. Saudi Arabia should end the summary deportations, which risk violating its international obligations not to return anyone to a place where their life or freedom is threatened or where they face other serious harm.
Seven Somalis recently deported from Saudi Arabia told Human Rights Watch researchers in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, that the Saudi authorities had detained them for weeks in appalling conditions and some said Saudi security personnel beat them. None had been allowed to speak with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to discuss possible refugee claims before being deported. UNHCR said in mid-January that “south central Somalia is a very dangerous place.” UNHCR also said the Saudi authorities have denied its staff access to detained Somalis in the country.
▻http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/18/saudi-arabia-12000-somalis-expelled
#Somalie #Somaliens #Arabie_Saoudite #expulsion #migration #renvoi
Saudi Arabia deports almost 40,000 Pakistanis in just 4 months
Saudi Arabia has deported almost 40,000 Pakistanis over the past four months, claiming that they could be involved in the commission of terrorist acts, Moheet.com reported on Friday.
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170211-saudi-arabia-deports-almost-40000-pakistanis-in-just-4-m
#pakistan #pakistanais #migrants_pakistanais