08 12 2018 #Soul_Driver
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/emissions/soul-driver/08-12-2018-soul-driver
Maroc, Sénégal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Afrique du Sud... Une sélection 100% #hip-hop africain pour ce nouveau Soul Driver Radio Show.
#hip-hop,Soul_Driver
▻http://www.radiopanik.org/media/sounds/soul-driver/08-12-2018-soul-driver_05813__1.mp3
Côte d’Ivoire : Coupe des Confédérations, l’Asec chute au Maroc, l Côte d’Ivoire
▻https://www.emouaten.com/Cote-d-Ivoire-Coupe-des-Confederations-l-Asec-chute-au-Maroc-l-Cote-d-Ivoi
#Le_Fil
L’#Union_Africaine s’active pour un plan de rapatriement des migrants en #Libye
L’ONU, l’Union Européenne et l’Union Africaine se sont données rendez-vous ce 04 novembre à Addis Abeba au siège de l’organisation panafricaine pour la mise en œuvre d’un plan de #rapatriement de migrants bloqués en Libye en partenariat avec l’Organisation Internationale pour les Migrations (l’#OIM).
Il s’agira d’abord pour les organisations régionales et internationales de mettre en place « une #cellule_opérationnelle » qui coordonnera le rapatriement de 15.000. Ensuite, mobiliser le fonds pour la réussite de cette opération.
A cet effet, le #Maroc a fait une promesse, celle de contribuer au transport des migrants et le #Rwanda d’accueillir 3000 qui ne veulent pas retourner dans leur pays d’origine.
▻http://rjdh.org/ethiopie-lunion-africaine-sactive-pour-un-plan-de-rapatriement-des-migrants-en
#UE #EU #ONU #OIM #IOM (tous complices !) #sommet #rencontre #plan #expulsions #Libye #asile #migrations #renvois #réfugiés #Sommet_UA-UE
Et l’article parle de l’étonnement face à la vidéo de la CNN qui a montré les tortures perpétrées aux migrants en Libye :
Le reportage de CNN sur la traite des migrants subsahariens et leur soumission à l’esclavage avaient indigné l’opinion africaine internationale. Après une mission de l’UA dans « l’enfer libyen » et le Sommet UA-UE, les responsables de l’organisation onusienne, européenne et africaine se réunissent pour mobiliser les moyens et réfléchir sur un plan de rapatriement des migrants en Libye.
#hypocrisie, on le sait depuis des années !
Et voilà le type de marchandage auquel il faudra s’attendre... Ici, un article publié dans le Jerusalem Post... et parle évidemment de renvois depuis #Israël vers le Rwanda... à prendre avec les pincettes... mais débat intéressant
Rwanda says no to migrant deportation
Rwanda recently declared that it is willing to host as many as 30,000 African migrants currently trapped in Libya and being sold openly in modern-day slave markets. A tiny, densely populated African country recovering from the trauma of genocide, Rwanda was the first country to offer asylum to these unfortunate victims of human traffickers.
Contrary to reports in Israel that Israel had already signed a formal agreement with Rwanda, Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwaboo in an interview this week with Rwanda’s New Times noted that Rwanda and Israel are still negotiating the conditions for accepting Israel’s African asylum seekers.
Mushikiwaboo made it clear that Rwanda would not accept forced migration from Israel. “We have had discussions with Israel on receiving some of the immigrants and asylum seekers from this part of Africa who are willing to come to Rwanda,” he noted. “If they are comfortable to come here, we would be willing to accommodate them.” Rwanda offered to host 10,000 African asylum seekers from Israel.
▻http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Rwanda-says-no-to-migrant-deportation-515819
Amnesty: EU-AU plan to help refugees in Libya ’unrealistic’
The plan to evacuate refugees stuck in Libya’s camps will not work in practice, says Franziska Vilmar of the German branch of Amnesty International. It has only been designed to help the EU shirk its responsibilities.
▻http://www.dw.com/en/amnesty-eu-au-plan-to-help-refugees-in-libya-unrealistic/a-41626514?maca=en-Twitter-sharing
Nigerian returnees from Libya narrate tales of abuse, violence
« Je ne voulais pas mourir » : ces migrants qui ont choisi de rentrer chez eux
Ils sont trois. Trois parmi tant d’autres, plus de 300 au total. Issa, Mamadou et Abdou* viennent de Conakry, en Guinée, ont tenté leur chance pour passer en Europe via le Mali puis l’Algérie ou la Libye, avant de finalement renoncer et de rentrer chez eux, pour « ne pas mourir ». Depuis quelques jours, ils sont de retour à Agadez, le corps et l’esprit meurtri. Reportage.
▻http://www.jeuneafrique.com/503012/societe/je-ne-voulais-pas-mourir-ces-migrants-qui-ont-choisi-de-rentrer-chez-e
One year of EU partnership with IOM: migrants protection and reintegration in Africa
The objective was clear: to respond to the urgent protection needs and unacceptable loss of life of migrants along the Central Mediterranean migration route while addressing the challenges faced by returning migrants and their communities in countries of origin.
Fourteen countries have been involved: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Libya. And so far, nearly 20 000 vulnerable migrants have been assisted through this initiative.
“Libya… not easy to come and not easy to leave”, a group of fellow stranded Nigerians warned Debbie, probably too late.
Debbie is one of the 15000 migrants that have been voluntarily returned to their countries thanks to the joint European Union and UN Migration agency’s effort launched a year ago to save lives and improve conditions for migrants along the migration routes and for those stranded in Libya.
She dreamt of becoming a fashion designer and a lady from her church told her she could earn more money as a tailor in Libya than in Nigeria. So Debbie paid a smuggler to cross the desert. Many of her companions died along the route. When she finally got to Libya she was arrested at the hospital because she did not have travel documents. She was there to give birth to her twin babies and only one survived.
Through the joint initiative, Debbie was offered a flight home to Nigeria, sewing machines and material to launch her fashion designer dream.
▻https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/37353/one-year-eu-partnership-iom-migrants-protection-and-reintegration-africa
#retour_volontaire
L’évacuation des migrants en Libye fait consensus, pas la facture
Les pays africains et européens ont adopté une déclaration conjointe spéciale sur la Libye et affirmé vouloir rapatrier les migrants bloqués dans leurs pays d’origine. Mais la question de l’addition a soigneusement été évitée.
Juste pour montrer jusqu’à quel point c’est hypocrite, voici une vidéo qui date de 2015 (et plus précisément, elle a été publiée le 15 septembre 2015) :
Detained by Militias : Libya’s Migrant Trade (Part 1)
In a desperate bid to seek a better life in Europe, thousands of refugees and migrants leave the shores of Libya and cross the perilous Mediterranean Sea every month. Over 2,000 people have died making the journey in 2015 alone. The routes to and journey through Libya are also dangerous, however, and since the fall of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, the country has struggled to achieve and maintain stability. Porous desert borders, rival fighters, and weak governance have left much of Libya in complete chaos. With militias controlling large swathes of land, their attentions have turned to the people that cross their territories. The fighters assert they are bringing order to the country as they detain the refugees, yet these people’s lives have become valuable commodities to the militias as they try to solidify their positions in the country. VICE News secured exclusive access to a camp outside Tripoli, run by a militia that has seized hundreds of migrants. Food is scarce, dehydration and disease is rife, and control comes in the form of whips and warning shots. The militia claims to have the migrants’ interests at heart, but what emerges is a very different story. In part one of a two-part series, VICE News examines how Libya is struggling with the Mediterranean migrant crisis, where state-run detention centers are overcrowded and violent, and how government immigration controls are outsourced to militias, where they detain migrants en masse.
Die Externalisierung der humanitären Grenze. Das Beispiel der ‚Unterstützung freiwilliger Rückkehr‘ durch die IOM in Marokko
En prenant l’exemple du programme de l’aide au retour volontaire, cet article analyse les pratiques ambivalentes et les significations contradictoires de la gestion de la migration au-delà des frontières extérieures de l’Europe. La reconstitution de la mise en œuvre controversée de ce programme par l’Organisation Internationale pour la Migration (OIM) au Maroc permet de montrer le développement de frontières humanitaires anticipées. Le régime d’aide qui en résulte ne répond pas tant aux besoins des migrant.es vulnérables qu’à ceux de l’OIM elle-même, qui cherche à se positionner comme un acteur crédible méritant d’être subventionné dans le domaine concurrentiel en expansion de la politique migratoire. Dans le même temps, cette gestion de la migration au nom de l’humanitarisme contribue à (re)stabiliser le régime frontalier européen en crise et favorise sa consolidation le long des routes migratoires. Bien que ce programme soit présenté comme une action humanitaire apolitique pour le bien de migrant.es vulnérables, sa mise en œuvre au Maroc est non seulement le résultat, mais aussi l’objet de conflits politiques actuels autour des frontières extérieures de l’Europe.
Thousands of migrants return home safely from Libya as part of UN-supported programme
Since last November, 10,171 migrants have safely returned from Libya, the United Nations migration agency announced Tuesday, crediting the achievement to a scale up of its #Voluntary_Humanitarian_Return (#VHR) programme.
Nigeria–Libyen retour: Ein Flüchtling kehrt zurück
Für den Traum von Europa hat der Anstreicher Isaac Nigeria verlassen. Nach höllischen Monaten in Libyen gibt er auf und kehrt, von Versprechungen der EU gelockt, in seine Heimat zurück. Wie erlebt er dort seine Ankunft?
En 2019 le Rwanda semble dire oui à la proposition...
Rwanda to receive over 500 migrants from Libya
►https://seenthis.net/messages/796723
Archive 2017, pour compléter le fil de la discussion.
Reçu avec ce commentaire de @pascaline :
Le Rwanda dit non aux expulsions, pas non au fait d’accueillir des demandeurs d’asile, c’est pas pareil
Et c’est en effet une différence importante. Merci @pascaline.
Rwanda Offers to Host African Migrants Stranded in Libya
In an unusual gesture that could partly reverse a more familiar northward odyssey toward Europe, Rwanda offered on Thursday to house or help repatriate some of the thousands of African migrants being held in Libya and reportedly auctioned there as slaves.
A statement from the country’s Foreign Ministry said Rwanda was “horrified” that “African men women and children who were on the road to exile have been held and turned into slaves.”
“Given Rwanda’s political philosophy and our own history, we cannot remain silent when human beings are being mistreated and auctioned off like cattle,” the statement said. The evocation of Rwanda’s history apparently referred to bloodletting in 1994 when more than 800,000 people perished in an ethnically driven genocide.
“We may not be able to welcome everyone but our door is wide open,” the Foreign Ministry said.
The statement did not say how many people might be taken in by Rwanda, a small, landlocked country of 12 million in east-central Africa that ranks as one of the continent’s most densely populated.
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But Moussa Faki Mahamat, the newly appointed head of the African Union, the continent’s biggest representative body, said on Twitter that Rwanda had offered to resettle as many as 30,000 migrants.
Mr. Mahamat said he was “deeply appreciative” of the offer.
Libya has in recent years become a leading entrepôt for migrants from Africa seeking passage to Italy in vessels operated by smugglers. The migrants have long been known to live in squalid conditions as they wait to board ramshackle and unseaworthy vessels. Thousands have drowned when the boats sank or capsized. Many others have reached Italy or been rescued on the way.
Since CNN broadcast footage of bidding and the sale of African migrants in Libya, an international outcry has gathered in volume.
On Monday, António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, said he was horrified by the images.
“Slavery has no place in our world, and these actions are among the most egregious abuses of human rights and may amount to crimes against humanity,” Mr. Guterres said in a statement.
Mr. Guterres said the reported auction of slaves “also reminds us of the need to address migration flows in a comprehensive and humane manner,” including “enhanced international cooperation in cracking down on smugglers and traffickers and protecting the rights of victims.”
Last weekend, hundreds of protesters gathered outside the Libyan Embassy in Paris chanting, “Put an end to the slavery and concentration camps in Libya.”
Many of the African migrants in Libya began their journeys in West Africa or the Horn of Africa to escape poverty and upheaval. According to the International Organization for Migration, almost 9,000 migrants have been helped to return to their home countries this year.
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/world/africa/rwanda-libya-migrants.html
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Rwanda offers refuge to enslaved Libya migrants
Rwanda has offered to give refuge to around 30,000 African migrants stuck in Libya often in enslaved conditions.
It comes in the wake of a video, released by CNN last week, showing men being auctioned off as farm workers.
“Given our own history... we cannot remain silent when human beings are being mistreated and auctioned off like cattle,” the foreign ministry said.
Hundreds of thousands of Africans travel through Libya every year as they try to make their way to Europe.
They are often held by smugglers and forced to work for little or no money.
During Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutu were massacred in 100 days while most countries did little to help.
“Rwanda, like the rest of the world, was horrified by the images of the tragedy currently unfolding in Libya, where African men, women and children who were on the road to exile, have been held and turned into slaves,” the foreign ministry statement said.
Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said Rwanda was a small country but it would find space.
She told the pro-government New Times newspaper that Rwanda was in talks with African Union (AU) Commission to determine how to intervene and resettle them.
“What I expect and know is that Rwandans will welcome these people. As Rwandans we are sensitive to people who are helpless and have no way of protecting themselves. It is something that is deep in ourselves, we take pride in human beings,” the paper quotes her as saying.
The minister also said negotiations were also continuing with Israel about accommodating African migrants seeking asylum there.
Last week, the AU expressed outrage after the footage emerged appearing to show slave markets in Libya.
Youths from Niger and other sub-Saharan countries were seen being sold to buyers for about $400 (£300) at undisclosed locations in Libya.
In April, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said it had gathered evidence of slavery in Libya.
Smugglers hold migrants for ransom and if their families could not pay, they were sold off at different prices depending on their qualifications, an IOM official in Libya said.
African Modernism: Nation Building | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
▻https://www.architectural-review.com/rethink/african-modernism-nation-building/10019150.article
As countries in Africa gained their independence, modernist architecture attempted to express their new identities
In the late 1950s and the early ’60s most countries of Sub-Saharan Africa gained their independence. Architecture became one of the principal means for the young nations to express their national identity. Parliament buildings, central banks, stadia, conference centres, universities and independence memorials were constructed, often featuring heroic and daring designs.
Modern and futuristic architecture mirrored the aspirations and forward-looking spirit dominant at that time. A coinciding period of economic boom made elaborate construction methods possible, while the tropical climate allowed for an architecture that blended the inside and outside, focused on form and the expression of materiality.
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‘The paradigm of development-aid-charity has come to dominate African architecture to the exclusion of almost everything else’ | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
▻https://www.architectural-review.com/rethink/the-paradigm-of-development-aid-charity-has-come-to-dominate-african-architecture-to-the-exclusion-of-almost-everything-else/10019122.article
Only with change will Africa – confined by the expectation of being influenced rather than influencing – realise its true architectural potential
It has often been said that the number of times the word ‘Africa’ is heard in a song is in almost inverse proportion to its quality: in other words, ‘Africa’ has become a lazy substitute for any number of ideas from the political to the social, cultural, historical, economic – you name it, ‘Africa’ covers it. In 2005, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina published a controversial essay, How To Write About Africa, which, to this day, remains Granta’s most forwarded article. With its uneasy combination of laugh-out-loud satire and sarcasm, Wainaina offers a number of tips for would-be writers on Africa: ‘always use the word “Africa” or “Darkness” or “Safari” in your title. Subtitles may include the words “Zanzibar”, “Congo”, “Big”, “Sky”, “Shadow”, “Drum”, “Sun” or “Bygone”.
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‘Speak up, speak out, speak back’: Africa Architecture Awards 2017 | News | Architectural Review
▻https://www.architectural-review.com/today/speak-up-speak-out-speak-back-africa-architecture-awards-2017/10024190.article
‘What is African architecture?’, asks Mark Olweny, senior lecturer at Uganda Martyrs University and chair of the judging panel of this year’s Africa Architecture Awards, ‘What makes architecture work on this continent?’
Towards the end of the ’80s the ‘Ivorian Miracle’, the economic boom that underlay this development, came to an end. In the late ’90s the country descended into a period of internal conflict. Though no longer operating as a hotel, the Hôtel Ivoire, and especially its tower, remained an important player in the country’s dynamics. In the early 2000s it became the base for the militia group #Jeunes_Patriotes and was in 2004 taken over by French UN troops, both of which understood the strategic advantage that occupying the tower would lend them in controlling large swathes of the urban fabric of #Abidjan. When on 9 November 2004 Ivorian demonstrators amassed around the hotel to protest against the presence of French troops in their country, snipers from the French unit, positioned in the tower, shot and killed as many as 20 demonstrators. Far from being a simple piece of architectural infrastructure, the Hôtel Ivoire itself became an actor and part of the machinery of urban conflict. In 2011, under the management of Sofitel, it re-opened with much fanfare almost 50 years after its inauguration. Since then it has enjoyed a renaissance as one of the prime luxury hotels of West Africa.
Hôtel Ivoire
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_Ivoire
Alliance des jeunes patriotes pour le sursaut national
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_des_jeunes_patriotes_pour_le_sursaut_national
Front populaire ivoirien
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_populaire_ivoirien
Opération Licorne
▻https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%A9ration_Licorne
Le coût de cette opération est estimé à environ de 200 millions d’euros par an.
Cette opération militaire débute en septembre 2002 (début de la crise politico-militaire en Côte d’Ivoire), indépendamment de l’opération des Nations unies, dans le cadre des accords de défense signés entre les deux pays le 24 août 1961. La France, puis la CEDEAO (Communauté des États d’Afrique de l’Ouest), envoient d’importants contingents militaires pour séparer les belligérants (forces d’interposition)3. Selon les autorités françaises, soutenues par une résolution des Nations unies, cette interposition aurait permis d’éviter une guerre civile et de nombreux massacres.
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La force Licorne est remplacée, le 21 janvier 2015, par les Forces françaises en Côte d’Ivoire.
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L’objectif en est la tenue d’élections démocratiques fin de l’année 2005 (fin octobre), mais celles-ci seront repoussées. Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies fait sien cet accord. Le 4 avril 2004, l’Opération des Nations unies en Côte d’Ivoire (ONUCI, 6 240 hommes) prend le relais des contingents de la CEDEAO, aux côtés de la force Licorne qui reste en soutien sous commandement français (4 600 hommes).
Le 4 novembre 2004, prenant acte de l’échec de la voie de la négociation, le président Laurent Gbagbo engage l’« Opération Dignité », pour reconquérir militairement les territoires occupés. Le 6 novembre 2004, deux Soukhoï Su-25 de l’aviation gouvernementale ivoirienne mais pilotés par des mercenaires biélorusses, effectuent un raid aérien sur la position française de Bouaké. Ce bombardement sur la base française fait 9 morts et 38 blessés parmi les soldats français4 (2e régiment d’infanterie de marine, régiment d’infanterie-chars de marine, 515e régiment du train). Les forces françaises ripostent, quinze minutes après l’attaque en neutralisant les deux Soukhoï Su-25 après leur retour sur l’aéroport de Yamoussoukro. L’essentiel des forces aériennes ivoiriennes est anéanti dans les heures qui suivent : quatre hélicoptères de combat ivoiriens (2 MI 24, 1 MI 8 et 1 Puma) seront totalement détruits devant le palais présidentiel de Yamoussoukro par un raid nocturne de Gazelle HOT et canon du Batalat et deux MI 24 basés sur l’aéroport international d’Abidjan seront neutralisés.
Le président français Jacques Chirac donne l’ordre de destruction de tous les moyens aériens militaires ivoiriens, afin d’empêcher toute nouvelle attaque des Forces armées nationales de Côte d’Ivoire (FANCI) contre les « rebelles » des Forces armées des forces nouvelles, qui serait contraire aux Accords de Marcoussis, et d’interdire d’autres agressions contre les positions françaises.
Les évènements de novembre 2004, pendant lesquels l’armée française ouvre le feu sur des manifestants ivoiriens hostiles, mettent la force Licorne en position délicate vis-à-vis des populations civiles. La mort suspecte d’un ivoirien, en mai 2005, provoque la suspension, puis le blâme et la mutation, du général de division Henri Poncet et de son adjoint opérations, le général de Malaussène, ainsi que la suspension du colonel Éric Burgaud, chef de corps du 13e bataillon de chasseurs alpins et d’un sous-officier de ce bataillon par le ministre de la Défense, Michèle Alliot-Marie.
L’opération Licorne a impliqué plus de 5 000 hommes et femmes au plus fort de la crise en novembre 2004. Les troupes françaises ont été ramenées à 2400 militaires depuis août 2007, puis à 1800 hommes à partir de mars 2008.
Hôtel des Mille Collines
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_des_Mille_Collines
The Hôtel des Mille Collines (French pronunciation: [otɛl dɛ mil kɔlin]) is a large hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. It became famous after 1,268 people took refuge inside the building during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994. The story of the hotel and its manager at that time, Paul Rusesabagina, was used as the basis of the film Hotel Rwanda.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Facade_of_Hotel_des_Mille_Collines_-_a.k.a._Hotel_Rwanda_-_Kigali_-_Rwanda.jpg 
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https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1273/4677811517_afa8babfe8_o.jpg #France #Afrique #Françafrique #Côte_d_Ivoire #Ruanda #politique #guerre #histoire
Un rapport cartographie la circulation des armes dans le Sahel - RFI
▻http://www.rfi.fr/afrique/20161116-rapport-cartographie-circulation-armes-le-sahel?ns_campaign=reseaux_soc
L’organisation CAR (Conflict Armament Research), basée en Grande-Bretagne, rend ce mercredi 16 novembre son rapport sur les transferts d’armes transfrontaliers dans le Sahel. L’ONG a travaillé dans une dizaine de pays pour établir une cartographie des flux d’armements dans la zone et dévoile les sources d’approvisionnement des groupes armés et islamistes à travers l’Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest.
Claudio Gramizzi est l’un des conseillers de l’Organisation. Dans le rapport d’une cinquantaine de pages auquel il a contribué, il lève un coin du voile sur les approvisionnements en armes de la RCA, avant et pendant la crise. Deux sources sont clairement identifiées : la Côte d’Ivoire, côte gouvernementale ; et le Soudan côté ex-rébellion Seleka. Sur le volume d’armes retrouvé, évalué, par l’ONG, près d’une Kalachnikov sur cinq provenait de Côte d’Ivoire, des armes détournées des arsenaux ivoiriens.
La même organisation citée ici, expliquant que grâce aux Seoudiens, les armes sont livrées quasiment en direct à Daech :
►https://seenthis.net/messages/524137
Il faut peut-être utiliser l’imparfait sur la dernière période et faire la distinction entre de riches familles saoudiennes ou qatari et les gouvernements de ces pays.
@cepcasa : non non, lis l’article référencé, ce que raconte CAR n’est pas au passé, et ça concerne bien le gouvernement séoudien :
Despite signing an agreement saying it would not sell the weapons to any other countries, Saudi Arabia appears to send them “straight to Turkey”, from where they get into Islamic State’s hands “very, very rapidly” via illicit means. […] That’s almost direct. If you want to put something on a boat and float it, it’s going to take a month.
Toujours dans le cadre des voyages des armes, les blindés M113 d’origine USA, montrés par le Hezbollah en Syrie, et probablement récupérés dans les stocks de l’Armée du Liban du Sud ▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/11/16/hezbollah-has-u-s-armored-personnel-carriers-but-how-did-they-get-them/?tid=pm_world_pop
… récupérés dans les stocks de l’Armée du Liban du Sud
… et donc auraient étés aimablement fournis initialement par Israël.
Mais avec une production autour de 80000 exemplaires en plus de 50 ans, les sources de seconde main du M113 ne manquent pas…
The armored personnel carrier, known as the M113, is one of the United States’ most ubiquitous armored vehicles and has been in service since the 1960s. The tracked semi-rhombus-shaped vehicle comes in numerous variants and can be outfitted to carry troops and artillery; its chassis was even used as the basis for a nuclear-missile carrier. It has appeared in every major U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War and is used by U.S. police departments and dozens of others countries’ militaries around the world.
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In a tweet, the Lebanese military denied that the M113s were taken from its stocks, a claim backed up by a State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the issue.
“The Lebanese military has publicly stated that the M113s depicted online were never part of their equipment roster,” the official said. “Our initial assessment concurs: The M113s allegedly in Hezbollah’s possession in Syria are unlikely to have come from the Lebanese military. We are working closely with our colleagues in the Pentagon and in the Intelligence Community on to resolve this issue.”
Closely aligned with Iran and Syria, Hezbollah has been fighting alongside Syrian government troops since the beginning of the conflict.
The Hezbollah M113s appear to be an older variant, and U.S. officials said they are inclined to believe that vehicles came from the disintegration of the Southern Lebanese Army, or SLA. The SLA was an Israeli-allied and supplied Christian militia that fought during the Lebanese civil war. Its military equipment was ultimately absorbed by Hezbollah in the early 2000s when Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon.
Presidency Of The Republic Of Turkey : “I Neither Obey Nor Respect Constitutional Court’s Ruling”
▻http://www.tccb.gov.tr/en/news/542/39958/anayasa-mahkemesinin-kararina-uymuyorum-saygi-da-duymuyorum.html
Holding a news conference at Atatürk Airport ahead of a travel to West Africa covering Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria and Guinea, President Recep Tayyip #Erdoğan said regarding the release of Can Dündar and Erdem Gül pursuant to the ruling of Constitutional Court that: “I just keep silent in the face of Constitutional Court’s ruling; however, I am not in a position to approve the ruling. I neither obey nor respect the ruling because we have an obvious truth. This is not a ruling for acquittal, but a ruling for release.”
Après avoir été élue pour présider le Conseil des droits de l’homme des Nations Unies, l’Arabie saoudite est en train de monter une coalition ("islamique") contre le terrorisme.
Voila, voila...
▻http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-security-idUKKBN0TX2LN20151215
Saudi Arabia on Tuesday announced the formation of a 34-state Islamic military coalition to combat terrorism, according to a joint statement published on state news agency SPA.
“The countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh to coordinate and support military operations,” the statement said.
A long list of Arab countries such as Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, together with Islamic countries Turkey, Malaysia, Pakistan and Gulf Arab and African states were mentioned.
The announcement cited “a duty to protect the Islamic nation from the evils of all terrorist groups and organizations whatever their sect and name which wreak death and corruption on earth and aim to terrorise the innocent.”
Shi’ite Muslim Iran, Sunni Saudi Arabia’s arch rival for influence in the Arab world, was absent from the states named as participants, as proxy conflicts between the two regional powers rage from Syria to Yemen.
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Asked if the new alliance would focus just on Islamic State, bin Salman said it would confront not only that group but “any terrorist organisation that appears in front of us.”
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf Arab neighbours have been locked in nine months of warfare with Iran-allied rebels in neighbouring Yemen, launching hundreds of air strikes there.
Monsieur de defensa vient de traiter le sujet, voir ici :
On fait coalition dimanche, vous venez ?
►http://www.dedefensa.org/article/on-fait-coalition-dimanche-a-la-maison-vous-venez
La liste des 34 pays de cette nouvelle « coalition islamique contre le terrorisme » :
▻http://edition.cnn.com/2015/12/14/middleeast/islamic-coalition-isis-saudi-arabia
In addition to Saudi Arabia, the coalition will include Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, the Palestinians, Comoros, Qatar, Cote d’Ivoire, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Yemen.
Sauf qu’au Liban ils ne savent même pas qu’ils participent à cette coalition d’aprèas un communiqué des affaires étrangères :
الخارجية : ما يجري خارج الأصول الدستورية : : لبنان | جريدة السفير
▻http://assafir.com/Article/1/462035
من جهتها، أعلنت وزارة الخارجية والمغتربين في بيان اليوم، أنها “لم تكن على علم، لا من قريب ولا من بعيد بموضوع إنشاء تحالف إسلامي لمحاربة الإرهاب”
Ivory Coast’s ambitions to dominate the world #cashew market
▻http://af.reuters.com/article/ivoryCoastNews/idAFL6N0SC3X120141029?sp=true #Côte_d'Ivoire
95% of Ivorian cashew production is exported raw to India and Vietnam for processing...
Ivory Coast mercenaries train child soldiers for attacks across Liberia border | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/10/ivory-coast-child-soldiers
Militias loyal to the former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo are recruiting child soldiers in Liberia to launch attacks similar to that which caused the death last week of 15 people, including seven UN peacekeepers.
Child soldiers as young as 14 are being groomed in training camps and used as scouts in increasingly deadly attacks in the volatile west of Ivory Coast, witnesses said. Human Rights Watch said that youths aged between 14 and 17 were being trained.
Netanyahu orders swift deportation of 25,000 illegal African migrants - Haaretz
►http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/netanyahu-orders-swift-deportation-of-25-000-illegal-african-migrants-1.434
By Barak Ravid | Jun.04, 2012
Orders acceleration of holding facility construction for citizens of Eritrea and Sudan who cannot be deported due to conditions in their home countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered his ministers to accelerate efforts to deport citizens of South Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Ethiopia who are living in Israel illegally on Sunday.
Paris et l’Afrique, citoyenneté et nation (1945-1960) | Jane Burbank et Frederick Cooper
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2011/12/BURBANK/47021
En #France, les liens entre citoyenneté, nation et empire sont historiquement ambigus. / #Algérie, Côte d’Ivoire, France, #Haïti, #Sénégal, #Colonialisme, #Impérialisme, #Nationalisme, #Madagascar, #Colonisation, #Dahomey, Indochine française - (...) / Algérie, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Haïti, Sénégal, Colonialisme, Impérialisme, Nationalisme, Madagascar, Colonisation, Dahomey, Indochine française - 2011/12
#Côte_d'Ivoire: Toxic Waste Victims Wait Years for Compensation - IPS ipsnews.net
►http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105004
According to a United Nations report published in 2009, toxic waste from a tanker chartered by the international commodities trading firm Trafigura Beheer BV affected more than 100,000 people, who sought medical attention for a range of health problems. The incident has been linked to the deaths of 15 people.
Since 2007, Trafigura has paid 260 million dollars in several payouts, but much of the money remains unaccounted for and thousands of victims still have not received any economic compensation that would, if paid, be equal in some cases to a year’s worth of wages.
#corruption #chimie #pollution #cdp
En Côte d’Ivoire, une armée à refaire | Philippe Leymarie (Les blogs du Diplo)
►http://blog.mondediplo.net/2011-05-20-En-Cote-d-Ivoire-une-armee-a-refaire