Young Somali woman sets herself alight in Australian detention
A 21-year-old Somali asylum seeker has set herself on fire at an Australian offshore processing center on the pacific island of Nauru, less than a week after refugee advocates say she was forcibly sent back there.
#Nauru #suicide #immolation #asile #migrations #réfugiés #Australie #externalisation #mourir_en_détention #détention_administrative
2nd Refugee in a Week Sets Herself Afire on Nauru
The young woman, from Somalia, has severe burns and is being treated in a hospital on the islan
▻https://espminetwork.com/2016/05/20/2nd-refugee-in-a-week-sets-herself-afire-on-nauru
Piracy on the high seas is on the decline, and so is the anti-piracy industry — Quartz
▻http://qz.com/664036/piracy-on-the-high-seas-is-on-the-decline-and-so-is-the-anti-piracy-industry
the private maritime security industry has been a victim of its own success. Anti-piracy measures have been so effective that now smaller security firms are going out of business. Today (April 18, 2016) the Security Association for the Maritime Industry (SAMI), one of the main bodies that set standards for guard providers, announced its voluntary liquidation.
In a press release announcing the liquidation, SAMI said that its fee-paying membership had fallen as the industry has “consolidated,” rendering the organization financially unsustainable.
(...) Guys with guns is one measure the shipping community has used, but not the only one. International navies posted warships in the area. Cargo vessels increased their speeds, travelled in convoy, and installed onboard deterrents such as barbed wire and water cannons.
Oceans Beyond Piracy, a non-governmental organization that studies global piracy, said that the cost of global piracy (pdf) in 2011 was between $6.6 and $6.9 billion, with a large portion coming from the million-dollar ransoms demanded off East Africa’s coast by pirates for the return of captured ships and the people aboard. The last such successful hijack for ransom was in May 2012. In 2012, piracy off Somalia alone had an economic cost of up to $6.1 billion, according to Oceans Beyond Piracy. By 2014, that figure had fallen to $2.2 billion.
Migration in Libya : transit zone or final destination ?
Since the start of the Arab Spring in 2011, North Africa and in particular Libya has become a point of departure for people attempting to make the perilous sea journey to Europe.
Dramatic images of people in unseaworthy boats continue to capture the media’s attention, but these images obscure the long road – both in terms of distance and time – that many refugees and migrants endure before reaching Libya’s shores, let alone Europe.
What challenges do these migrants face during their journey, what support do they receive along their journey and how can international organisations better protect and support migrants?
Key messages:
Not all migrants who reach Europe via Libya intend to make this journey when they leave their countries of origin, but find themselves continuing their journey due to instability, peer behavior (realising this is what a lot of other migrants are doing) or due to poor conditions in the country.
Already fragile refugee/migrant protection has grown even more unpredictable since 2011, exposing migrants to increased abuse and exploitation and providing them with little means to seek protection from the authorities.
Most humanitarian organisations have withdrawn their international staff from Libya and are working through national staff or local partners. This lack of access raises a number of challenges: context analysis is partial, providing accurate figures on the number of people affected is difficult and engagement with the authorities and militias is not uniform.
▻http://www.odi.org/publications/10388-migration-libya-transit-zone-or-final-destination
#Libye #migrations #asile #réfugiés #pays_de_transit #pays_de_destination
En Libye, le calvaire des réfugiés avant la traversée
Naufrages, coups et menaces… Rien ne décourage les candidats à l’Europe qui attendent sur les côtes libyennes.
▻http://www.liberation.fr/planete/2016/04/20/en-libye-le-calvaire-des-refugies-avant-la-traversee_1447564
Libya-Italy: the other route, going through hell
Catania, 14 April 2016 — “I am never going back to Somalia, ever.” Yasmin’s firm determination not to return to her home country is more than justified. The 19-year-old girl left to avoid the unwelcome advances of a member of the Al-Shabaab terrorist group. Saying no was not an option. “Someone from Al-Shabab wanted to marry a friend of mine and her father said ’no’. Both father and daughter were killed.”
African Migrants in Libya Face Kidnapping, Torture, and Robbery on Smuggling Route to Europe
In an impoverished and violent neighborhood on the edge of Sebha in Libya’s southern desert, 30-year-old Ibrahim from Burkina Faso is struggling to survive — and to move on.
This Mesmerizing Interactive Map Displays Ship Movements Across the Globe - gCaptain
►https://gcaptain.com/this-mesmerizing-interactive-map-displays-ship-movements-across-the-globe
This Mesmerizing Interactive Map Displays Ship Movements Across the Globe
Researchers at UCL Energy Institute together with London-based data visualization and digital journalism studio Kiln have released this amazing interactive map that plots 250 million data points to show the movements of the world’s commercial shipping fleet during the year 2012. (Hit the play button above to learn more about what is being displayed)
The map was created based on the methodology developed for the Third IMO GHG Study 2014 and AIS data to estimate emissions from five different ship types; containerships, tankers, dry bulk, gas carriers and vehicle carriers.
Based only on ship movements and without a background map, the world’s coastlines are clearly defined, with plenty of variation in ship activity: from the buzz of activity in the East China Sea to the relative quiet of Somalia’s piracy afflicted waters to ship movements in areas where one might not expect them, such as the Arctic and Antarctic. The map also clearly shows the most crucial shipping thoroughfares of all: the canals linking different bodies of water, such as the Panama Canal, opened a century ago to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, and the even older and busier Suez Canal which saw 17,000 transits in 2012 alone.
►http://www.shipmap.org
(mais je ne peux pas la consulter avec la casserole qui me sert d’ordi…)
Italy Rescues 300 on Boat from Egypt
The Italian Coastguard launched an overnight rescue on Thursday to rescue some 300 migrants from a vessel that left from Egypt.
Hundreds of migrants arrive in Italy on boat from Egypt
Italy’s coast guard said on Thursday it had rescued more than 300 migrants from a packed boat in which they had traveled hundreds of kilometers (miles) from Egypt to the Strait of Sicily.
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-italy-rescue-idUSKCN0X41AJ
Migrant crisis : Europol to investigate Egypt mass drowning
The European policing agency Europol is planning to investigate what is believed to be the biggest loss of a migrant boat in 2016, following a Reuters-BBC Newsnight investigation.
Thirty-seven people survived the shipwreck, but more than 500 are believed to have died. Those who perished came from Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Syria, Egypt and a number of other countries.
The forgotten shipwreck
An investigation by Reuters and BBC Newsnight has, for the first time, revealed the untold story of what is understood to be the biggest single shipwreck of a migrant boat in 2016. More than 500 people are believed to have died, but there has been no inquiry into the deaths.
Special Report: 500 migrants drowned at sea. No one investigated
At around 2 a.m. on Saturday, April 9, a large blue fishing boat carrying hundreds of African migrants and their children capsized just off the coast of Egypt.
Question intéressante soulevée par White dans un rapport sur médias et migrations (2015)...
Il donne des exemples de problématiques qui auraient pu être traitées par les médias, mais qui ne l’ont pas fait.
Voici une question autour du #tri, de la #catégorisation entre les #bons_réfugiés et les #mauvais_migrants :
A second question concerns the myth fuelled by European Union leaders, national politicians and media that all the refugees arriving in Europe are from Syria. The Council of the European Union on 22 September set the priority as being to recognise people from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea, thus seeking to exclude the second largest group of refugees – from
Afghanistan, which is far from being a stable country.
Other arrivals include people from Somalia, Libya, sub-Saharan Africa and Kurds from Syria and Iraq passing through Turkey.
So are the institutions seeing people from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea as “good refugees” to be relocated in the EU, and the rest as “economic migrants”, to be returned to their country of origin, and would this in the context of international law be mass “refoulement” (returning them to potentially threatening situations)?
Source : Moving Stories. International Review of How Media Cover Migration, ▻http://ethicaljournalismnetwork.org/assets/docs/054/198/8feb836-108e6c6.pdf
p.14
Autre question intéressante que les médias ne sont pas posée :
A third question concerns coercion in fingerprinting all refugees in “hot spots”, a process to which people fleeing persecution might be reluctant to submit. Guidelines drafted by the European Commission have suggested that “officials trained in the proportionate use of coercion may apply the minimum level of coercion required,” including, if necessary, to “vulnerable persons, such as minors or pregnant women”. What, media might ask, is the “proportionate use of coercion” on minors or pregnant women?
Hotspot, le impronte dei migranti
“La polizia ci ha portato in un campo e ci ha circondato”, dice il migrante etiope F., sbarcato a Messina. “Poi ci hanno chiesto le impronte digitali, con la forza. ‘Non vi diamo da mangiare né da bere finche non ci date le impronte’. Mi hanno colpito dappertutto, sul corpo e sulla testa”.
►http://www.internazionale.it/video/2016/05/12/hotspot-le-impronte-dei-migranti
Méchants coups de pinces dans le panier de crabes : les Turcs balancent des infos compromettantes sur le comportement étonnant des Européens et l’exportation si facile de leurs jihadistes vers la Syrie.
Turkish officials : Europe wanted to export extremists to Syria
▻http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/25/turkish-officials-europe-wanted-to-export-extremists-to-syria
Turkish officials have accused European governments of attempting to export their Islamic extremist problem to Syria, saying the EU has failed to secure its own borders or abide by pledges to share intelligence and cooperate in fighting the jihadist threat.
The failures were outlined by Turkish officials to the Guardian through several documented instances of foreign fighters leaving Europe while travelling on passports registered on Interpol watchlists, arriving from European airports with luggage containing weapons and ammunition, and being freed after being deported from Turkey despite warnings that they have links to foreign fighter networks.
[…]
In interviews with the Guardian, Turkish officials challenged the assessment that they did not do enough to combat the terror threat, and provided details of several incidents they say show European governments allowed people to travel to Turkey.
In June 2014, Turkish security officers at Istanbul airport interviewed a Norwegian man who openly told them that he had come to Turkey in order to travel to Syria for “jihad”. Isis had just surged through Iraq, conquering the plains of Nineveh, and would soon announce a caliphate on its territories in Syria and Iraq, upending fragile nation states that had already begun to collapse.
When they searched his luggage, they found that he had managed to travel out of Oslo with a suitcase that contained a camouflage outfit, a first aid kit, knives, a gun magazine and parts of an AK-47, the contents of which had managed to elude customs authorities in Europe.
Two months later, a German man arrived in Istanbul with a suitcase containing a bulletproof vest, military camouflage and binoculars that he managed to carry through an airport in Paris on his way to Turkey.
In 2013, A Danish-Turkish dual citizen, Fatih Khan, left Denmark for Syria, but was detained while trying to cross the border in the Turkish province of Kilis and deported back to Copenhagen. He was given another passport by the Danish authorities, and made his way back to Syria.
That same year, Mohamed Haroon Saleem, a British citizen, arrived in Istanbul from London and travelled to Syria, having managed to travel out of the UK with a passport that was flagged on the Interpol list as stolen or lost.
Mohamed Mehdi Raouafi, a French citizen, left France in January of 2014 to join the war in Syria. Despite his sister warning the Turkish authorities who subsequently informed the French government that he was going there to join radical groups, he was allowed to travel out of France.
Maintenant pour compléter les choses j’aimerais bien des révélations européennes sur le comportement des autorités turques.
Tandis que King Playtstation se lâche sur Erdogan - pour exaucer @kassem ? - devant des représentants du Congrès américain :
Jordan’s king accuses Turkey of sending terrorists to Europe MEE / 25.03.16
▻http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordans-king-accuses-turkey-sending-terrorists-europe-1687591648
The king said Europe’s biggest refugee crisis was not an accident, and neither was the presence of terrorists among them: “The fact that terrorists are going to Europe is part of Turkish policy and Turkey keeps on getting a slap on the hand, but they are let off the hook.”
Asked by one of the congressmen present whether the Islamic State group was exporting oil to Turkey, Abdullah replied: ”Absolutely.”
Abdullah made his remarks during a wide-ranging debriefing to Congress on 11 January, the day a meeting with the US president, Barack Obama, was cancelled.
[...]
According to a detailed account of the meeting seen by MEE, the king went on to explain what he thought was the motivation of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Abdullah said that Erdogan believed in a “radical Islamic solution to the region".
He repeated: "Turkey sought a religious solution to Syria, while we are looking at moderate elements in the south and Jordan pushed for a third option that would not allow a religious option.”
The king presented Turkey as part of a strategic challenge to the world.
“We keep being forced to tackle tactical problems against ISIL [the Islamic State group] but not the strategic issue. We forget the issue [of] the Turks who are not with us on this strategically.”
He claimed that Turkey had not only supported religious groups in Syria, and was letting foreign fighters in, but had also been helping Islamist militias in Libya and Somalia.
Abdullah claimed that “radicalisation was being manufactured in Turkey” and asked the US senators why the Turks were training the Somali army.
Il faut en faire un tag, @nidal : #panier_de_crabes_en_Syrie
Italian Villages Welcome Refugees to Avoid Oblivion
A mild February afternoon finds nine young men kneeling in prayer on small green and red carpets in a dimly lit dining room of an 18th-century palazzo overlooking the distant shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
The worshipers from countries including Pakistan, Somalia and Mali have crossed continents to arrive in the town of Satriano in Italy’s Calabria region. Their quest for survival or for a better life may also be the last chance for #Satriano to escape oblivion in a region whose youth unemployment of 60 percent has made it a land of the aged.
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The Pentagon’s secret foreign aid budget
▻http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/03/the-pentagons-foreign-aid-budget-needs-oversight-000060
Et ledit budget augmente d’autant plus que l’échec du programme est retentissant (armes récupérées par les ennemis nominaux des Etats-Unis, grossissement des rangs de AQ, etc...), à croire que l’échec du programme en question est en fait programmé.
In Yemen, for example, the U.S. spent more than half a billion dollars from 2010 to 2014 to beef up the Yemeni government’s security forces. But by strengthening an already corrupt and repressive regime, the United States helped drive ordinary citizens into the arms of sectarian groups like the Houthi rebels and extremists like Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and the Islamic State.
In Somalia, the United States has spent more than $1 billion since 2007 to support regional allies in efforts to fight Al Shabaab militants. But U.S. partners’ abusive or discriminatory practices have led many people in the region to support Shabaab extremists. Meanwhile, U.S. support has strengthened the hand of authoritarian leaders in Uganda and Burundi, where recent mass killings of protesters have led to accusations of genocide.
On m’a dit que c’est très très bien !
What do you do when 3000 Somalis run over your small town in the backlands of Sweden, and McDonalds starts being called ’Little Mogadiscu’? Local journalist and jack of many trades Patrik Andersson has an idea: let sport unite the people. And so guys who have never known temperatures below 20 degrees become the national team for Bandy ice hockey of Somalia. Count on having some fun: they do for sure!
▻https://vimeo.com/firsthandfilms/review/138716910/9fecff6bb1
#film #documentaire #intégration #sport #réfugiés #asile #migrations #hockey_sur_glace #Suède
cc @reka
Nobody Knows the Identity of the 150 People Killed by U.S. in Somalia, but Most Are Certain They Deserved It
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/03/08/nobody-knows-the-identity-of-the-150-people-killed-by-u-s-in-somalia-b
yesterday the President killed roughly 150 people in a country where the U.S. is not at war. The Pentagon issued a five-sentence boilerplate statement declaring them all “terrorists.” And that’s pretty much the end of that. Within literally hours, virtually everyone was ready to forget about the whole thing and move on, content in the knowledge — even without a shred of evidence or information about the people killed — that their government and president did the right thing.
#drones #États-Unis #Somalie (le type en question a toujours son #prix_nobel)
Australian Navy says seizes huge weapons cache headed for Somalia | Top News | Reuters
▻http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN0W919M
An Australian Navy ship has seized a huge cache of weapons near Oman’s coast from a fishing vessel bound for Somalia, the navy said on Monday, exposing a possible violation of a U.N. Security Council arms embargo.
The United Nations has a decades-long arms embargo in place against Somalia, which has been mired in conflict since civil war broke out in 1991.
The Australian navy, which patrols waters around the Indian Ocean as part of an international maritime force, said it had seized nearly 2,000 AK-47 rifles, 100 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 49 PKM machine guns, 39 PKM spare barrels and 20 mortar tubes from the fishing vessel.
“The weapons were seized under United Nations sanctions, which authorise interdiction on the high seas of illicit weapons destined for Somalia,” the navy said in a statement.
[…]
The navy said personnel from HMAS Darwin had boarded the fishing vessel about 170 nautical miles (313 km) off the coast of Oman to verify which flag it was sailing under and they determined that it was stateless.
Narratives of Famine : Somalia 2011
This paper is important reading for anyone working in or on Somalia because it presents the famine of 2011 from the perspective of those who lived through it in their own words. The Somali voices bring critical (but often neglected) insight to the study of the crisis, particularly in today’s context where the distance between local populations and humanitarian actors is increasing as remote management is becoming the new norm.
There’s a secret « black site » in New York where terrorism suspects are tortured for years at a time / Boing Boing
▻http://boingboing.net/2016/02/05/theres-a-secret-black-site.html
Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center has a special wing, 10-South, in which terrorism suspects who have been kidnapped from foreign territories are imprisoned and tortured in secret, before being given secret trials and lengthy sentences.
Cet article contient une histoire plus détaillée :
The Guantánamo in New York You’re Not Allowed to Know About
▻https://theintercept.com/2016/02/05/mahdi-hashi-metropolitan-correctional-center-manhattan-guantanamo-pret
On y retrouve l’histoire de Mahdi Hashi
Mahdi Hashi has British citizenship revoked for ’extremism’ - BBC News
▻http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-20157167
Family and friends of Mahdi Hashi, 23, from Camden, claim the government acted because he had refused to become an informant for the security services.
Mr Hashi, from Camden, is currently thought to be in a jail in East Africa.
Revoking his nationality in the summer, the Home Office said he was considered a threat to UK national security due to his “extremist” activities.
The government has since made no further comment.
Mr Hashi was born in Somalia and moved to London with his family at the age of five.
In 2009, Mr Hashi claimed he and a group of friends - all of Somali origin - were approached by MI5.
’Posing as postmen’
One of them, Mohamed Nur, said: "One day they (MI5 officers) came to my house pretending to be postmen. When I let them in they accused me of being an extremist.
“They said the only way to remove that taint from my name is if you work for us, otherwise wherever you go we can’t protect you... We perceived it as blackmail.”
Retirer la nationalité à une personne est interdit par le constitution allemande si cette mesure rend apatride la personne concernée. L’idée que chacun ait le droit fondamental à une nationalité est la conséquence le l’expérience nazie quand priver les opposant de leur nationalité allemande faisait partie des mesures courantes.
Verlust der Staatsangehörigkeit
▻https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Staatsangeh%C3%B6rigkeit#Verlust_der_Staatsangeh.C3.B6rigkeit
Das Grundgesetz verbietet in Art. 16 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GG den Entzug der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit. Unter Entzug werden hierbei nur solche Maßnahmen oder Regelungen verstanden, durch welche jemand gegen oder ohne seinen Willen seine Staatsangehörigkeit verliert und diesen Verlust nicht vermeiden kann.[19] Das gilt auch für die Staatsangehörigkeit, welche durch Einbürgerung erworben wurde. Aber auch gegen einen vermeidbaren Verlust ist der Staatsbürger grundsätzlich geschützt, wobei ein Verlust mit Willen des Inhabers unproblematisch ist, weil ein solcher Vorgang keinen Eingriff in Art. 16 Abs. 1 Satz 1 GG darstellt.
Life in Dadaab: three generations of refugees isolated from Kenyan society | Global development | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jan/27/life-dadaab-three-generations-of-refugees-isolated-from-kenyan-society
When Halima Abdi fled the civil war in Somalia with her young daughter, she hoped her stay across the border in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp would be short.
Twenty-five years on, her granddaughter, Mihiyo, is breastfeeding her fourth child. Three generations of refugees in one family: just like the other 330,000 people, mostly Somali, who have come here, they are forced to call this barren, dusty settlement some kind of home.
The Drone Papers
The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in #Afghanistan, #Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.
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Je vois que cela avait déjà été signalé par @capn, mais je laisse car j’y ai ajouté des tags
Droni Usa contro campi Isis nello Yemen: decine morti
Lo ha reso noto il Dipartimento della Difesa degli Stati Uniti, secondo cui i jihadisti usavano i due campi colpiti per addestrare militanti a condurre attacchi terroristici con fucili AK-47, mitragliatrici e lanciagranate. Fonti locali contestano la versione del Pentagono: a essere presi di mira ancora miliziani di Al Qaeda nella penisola arabica, già colpiti a gennaio nel primo raid ordinato da Trump
▻http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2017/10/17/news/raid_usa_isis_yemen_vittime-178504224/?ref=twhr
Allegations levelled against US military over airstrikes in Afghanistan
The US military is looking into allegations that its strikes killed scores of civilians in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province, but many details, including the size of the death toll, remain unclear, days after the attack. If the highest estimate for the number of civilians is confirmed, it would be the US military’s deadliest mistake in Afghanistan for years.
▻https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-11-06/air-strikes-afghanistan
Al Shabab attacks African Union troops in Somalia. Any prospects for security?
Forces from several African countries have been fighting the militant group in Somalia for over a decade now.
▻http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2016/0115/Al-Shabab-attacks-African-Union-troops-in-Somalia.-Any-prospects-for-secu
#32C3 Keynote: Fatuma Afrah
▻http://ccc.de/en/updates/2015/fatuma
As a child, Fatuma was displaced and found #refuge in #Kenia, where after studying developmental aid, she worked with kids in a refugee camp in Dadaab, located at the border between Kenia and Somalia. Her work’s main focus is on women and children.
Direct audio #live now (and video also in this page) :
▻https://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/hall1/audio
No Hearts, No Minds - ZAM
▻https://www.zammagazine.com/chronicle/chronicle-17/295-heartsandminds
A new ZAM-AIPC transnational investigation shows that a “war-only” strategy creates more and more terrorists in East and West Africa.
(...) The investigation surfaces two reasons why young people – mostly boys – in forgotten areas in Mali, Nigeria, Kenya and Somalia join militant “jihadi” extremist groups that commit acts of terror. Firstly, hunger and unemployment make people receptive towards promises and money offered by these groups. But the second factor is perhaps even more important: bitterness and anger vis-à-vis mostly corrupt and callous local governments and local elites.
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.
[...]
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”
Ethiopia: The Biggest African Refugee Camp No One Talks About
On a sunny November day in Addis Ababa the courtyard of the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) centre is packed with people—some attend a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reception clinic, others get essential supplies, while students attend classes, and many simply play volleyball, table football or dominoes to pass the time.
Benyamin told IPS he came to Ethiopia from Yemen because practising his religion freely just wasn’t an option. After converting from Islam to the Jewish faith, he was put in a psychiatric hospital. “If I’d been sent to court I could have been put to death,” Benyamin adds phlegmatically.
Guilain, 35, from Guinea in West Africa, has lived in Ethiopia for 11 years, while two years ago his wife and daughter managed to enter the United States, where he hopes to join them—eventually.
“I miss them but I must keep my heart intact, so I can’t think about it too much,” Guilain told IPS. While he remains in Ethiopia, Guilain has formed a seven-member band of fellow Guineans who practise in the JRS’s small music room. “The music gives me hope. I am happy when I come here; you see people enjoying themselves—it helps you to forget.”
Now in its 20th year, the JRS compound resembles a microcosm of Africa’s—and even the Middle East’s—troubles, hosting refugees from South Sudan, Congo, Uganda, Somalia, Eritrea, Yemen, Burundi and more. It aims to assist 1,700 people in 2015, Hanna Petros, the centre’s director, told IPS.
While many European countries bemoan the arrival of refugees, developing countries host 86 per cent of the world’s refugees, according to a 2013 UNHCR Global Trends report. Ethiopia hosts about 680,000 refugees, the largest number of any African country.
▻http://www.ipsnews.net/2015/11/ethiopia-the-biggest-african-refugee-camp-no-one-talks-about
#Ethiopie #réfugiés #camp_de_réfugiés #asile #migrations
Somalians say Saudi #obsession with smoking Hookah destroying forests
▻https://mideastwire.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/somalians-say-saudi-obsession-with-smoking-hookah-destroying-
Saudi newspaper Arab News website on November 24:
JEDDAH: Somalia has blamed Saudi Arabia for contributing to the decline of 90 percent of the forests that once covered that country.
In an official report, submitted to the United Nations, the African country has alleged that one of the main reasons for deforestation is cutting of trees, particularly the mahogany species, to meet the charcoal demand of hookah or shisha smokers in the kingdom.
The report, which comes ahead of the conference on climate change to be held in Paris, says that only 10.5 per cent of Somalia’s dense forests remain – a very different situation from what existed prior to the outbreak of the civil war in that country in the 1980s.
The report indicates that charcoal is exported in enormous quantities to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, to be used for shisha. The report adds that other quantities are exported to Yemen and India, leading to the disappearance of the forest cover, and to increased drought and desertification.
The report warned that the deforestation has led to dwindling acreages allocated to growing frankincense or olibanum (aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia) and to lower volumes of crops of bananas, cotton, rice, mangoes, and citrus.
#Somalie #Emirats_Arabes_unis #E.A.U #Arabie_Saoudite #climat #narguilé #déforestation
How Many Muslim Countries Has the U.S. Bombed Or Occupied Since 1980?
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, le 6 novembre 2014
▻https://theintercept.com/2014/11/06/many-countries-islamic-world-u-s-bombed-occupied-since-1980
Syria has become at least the 14th country in the Islamic world that U.S. forces have invaded or occupied or bombed, and in which American soldiers have killed or been killed. And that’s just since 1980.
Let’s tick them off: Iran (1980, 1987-1988), Libya (1981, 1986, 1989, 2011), Lebanon (1983), Kuwait (1991), Iraq (1991-2011, 2014-), Somalia (1992-1993, 2007-), Bosnia (1995), Saudi Arabia (1991, 1996), Afghanistan (1998, 2001-), Sudan (1998), Kosovo (1999), Yemen (2000, 2002-), Pakistan (2004-) and now Syria. Whew.
#USA #Musulmans #Guerre #décompte
#Iran #Libye #Liban #Koweit #Irak #Somalie #Bosnie #Arabie_Saoudite #Afghanistan #Soudan #Kosovo #Yemen #Pakistan #Syrie
Gen. Wesley Clark Weighs Presidential Bid: “I Think About It Every Day”
StoryMarch 02, 2007
►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOtbNC4oJ54
GEN. WESLEY CLARK : I knew why, because I had been through the Pentagon right after 9/11. About 10 days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon, and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.” I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said, “Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military, and we can take down governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said, “I just got this down from upstairs” — meaning the secretary of defense’s office — “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”
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.
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: Some observations about the carnage in Paris
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.de/2015/11/some-observations-about-carnage-in-paris.html
Some observations about the carnage in Paris
1) ISIS has gone on the offensive: in ten days, they downed a Russian civilian airliner, massacred Hazara Shi`ites in Afghanistan, bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut and now Paris.
2) Western governments: US and France in particular along with their Saudi,Qatari, and Turkish allies are directly responsible for the rise and expansion of ISIS through their policies in Syria which cuddled and nurtured ISIS and its sister terrorist organizations.
3) there is no way on earth to stem the menace of ISIS and Al-Qa`idah like organizations without going to the source, in Saudi Arabia which is the official headquarters of the Ibn Taymiyyah’s terrorist interpretation of Islam.
4) Ibn Taymiyyah is the one thinker/theologian who has inspired and guided the deeds and thoughts of terrorists striking in the name of Islam.
5) Western governments AND media have been rather cynically silent about victims of ISIS terrorism if the civilian victims happen to be categorized as “enemies”. Western governments AND media (look at the dispatches from Times and Post over the last 4 years about Syria) have consistently ignored and even cheered sectarian massacres of Syrian and Lebanese civilians if seems as being perpetrated by foes of the Syrian regime.
6) Just as ISIS and Al-Qaidah brought terrorism to the heart of the West, Western governments have also been exporting death and destruction to the Middle East and North Africa: from Mali to Libya to Egypt to Sudan to Somalia to Syria to Iraq to Pakistan to Afghanistan. Terrorism has been inflicted on people in those countries by the terrorism of ISIS and Al-Qaidah and by the bombs and rockets and drones of Western governments.