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Europe Needs a Real Policy on Israel-Palestine

Foreign Policy - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 16:13
As U.S. opinion shifts, Europe has an opportunity to be a player, not just a payer.

Les 10 créatures les plus dangereuses au monde

BBC Afrique - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 15:37
Bien que de nombreuses créatures soient réputées pour effrayer les gens, une seule détient le titre de la plus dangereuse. Cette créature est notamment responsable du plus grand nombre de décès.
Categories: Afrique

Ukraine : Poutine privilégie l’option militaire 

IRIS - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 15:23

Les envoyés spéciaux du président des États-Unis Donald Trump, Jared Kushner et Steve Witkoff ont annoncé que des progrès significatifs avaient été réalisés au cours de leur déplacement en Europe, qui les a d’abord menés à Moscou, puis à Kiev. S’ils sont déjà venus plus de huit fois dans la capitale russe, c’était la première fois qu’ils se rendaient en Ukraine.

Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, a profité de leur visite pour leur montrer les dégâts des frappes russes sur son pays et plaider pour recevoir de nouveaux missiles de défense Patriot, afin de limiter les morts civils et les pertes sur les infrastructures.

Le problème est que les États-Unis ont utilisé une grande partie de leurs propres réserves de munitions dans le cadre de la guerre contre l’Iran. Ils ont certes promis d’octroyer à l’Ukraine une licence qui permettrait au pays de construire lui-même les missiles intercepteurs, mais cela ne pourra pas produire d’effets concrets avant plusieurs années.

L’Ukraine se retrouve donc dans une position de grande fragilité face à la multiplication des attaques russes qui endommage fortement son potentiel industriel et son système énergétique. Cette situation laisse les Ukrainiens démunis face au froid de l’hiver qui rend le quotidien presque invivable.

La situation est également grave sur le plan démographique : il n’y a déjà plus que 23 millions de personnes qui résident en Ukraine aujourd’hui contre 50 millions lors de l’indépendance du pays en 1991.

De son côté, le président russe Vladimir Poutine, malgré sa courtoisie envers les États-Unis, n’a absolument rien cédé. Il estime que le rapport de force est tel que s’il n’obtient pas ce qu’il souhaite par la négociation, il fera usage de la force militaire, quel qu’en soit le prix.

Il maintient ainsi ses exigences, en particulier que l’armée ukrainienne se retire de la partie du Donbass où elle est encore présente (soit un quart de ce territoire).  Cela est jugé tout à fait inadmissible par l’Ukraine, tant au regard du droit international, que des lourds sacrifices consentis. Vladimir Poutine, continue d’insister sur sa volonté de s’attaquer aux « causes profondes du conflit » c’est-à-dire aux demandes qu’il avait formulées dès le début. Cela concerne notamment la non-accession de l’Ukraine à l’OTAN. En réalité, les membres de l’OTAN eux-mêmes refusent l’adhésion de l’Ukraine, mais Volodymyr Zelensky continue de formuler de façon très maladroite cette demande.

Vladimir Poutine demande également une relative démilitarisation de l’Ukraine afin qu’elle ne soit plus en mesure de frapper la Russie en profondeur, ce qu’elle a fait récemment en réponse aux frappes russes.

Ainsi, le président russe maintient ces exigences malgré un coût humain et financier important : 1 million de morts et de blessés et une économie largement tournée vers la guerre au détriment des autres secteurs.

Cet entêtement tient tout d’abord au fait parce qu’il prend le pari que l’Ukraine va céder, et que les Européens qui sont encore les seuls à financer son effort de guerre en seront bientôt fatigués. La victoire inédite du parti d’extrême droite AfD dans le Land allemand de Saxe-Anhalt est une bonne nouvelle pour lui puisque ce parti réclame la fin de l’aide à l’Ukraine. Il compte certainement sur la victoire de Marine Le Pen à l’élection présidentielle de 2027 pour tirer les mêmes bénéfices à l’échelle nationale en France. 

Au fond, son entêtement est dû à son échec. Il avait promis une victoire facile dans une « opération militaire spéciale » qui s’est transformée en guerre de longue durée au coût humain 40 fois supérieur à celui de la guerre en Afghanistan. La population russe est lassée de la guerre, mais propagande et répression empêchent un mouvement réel de contestation.

Pour le président des États-Unis Donald Trump, le fait que la guerre ne prenne toujours pas fin, alors même qu’il s’était engagé durant la campagne présidentielle de 2024 à y mettre un terme « en 24h », est un échec. Cela est cependant largement compensé à ses yeux par le fait de voir la Russie engluée et affaiblie en Ukraine, tandis que l’Europe accepte de prendre une part plus importante dans le soutien à Kiev sur le plan militaire, stratégique et énergétique.

Vladimir Poutine pourrait finir par obtenir satisfaction et contrôler l’ensemble du Donbass. Quand bien même il ne peut conquérir l’Ukraine, il se contentera de la détruire. Quoi qu’il en soit, il ne s’agirait que d’une victoire à la Pyrrhus, car poursuivre la guerre affaiblirait encore davantage la Russie, qui est devenue dépendante de la Chine et qui a perdu des positions tant au Proche-Orient qu’en Afrique.

L’article Ukraine : Poutine privilégie l’option militaire  est apparu en premier sur IRIS.

South Korea Should Help Defend Ukraine’s Skies

Foreign Policy - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 15:15
Seoul can prove itself a genuine partner to Europe, not just an opportunist.

The U.S. and China Don’t Need an AI Grand Bargain

Foreign Policy - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 15:01
The countries can cooperate—even without trust or consensus.

Comprendre la sécurité énergétique

IRIS - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:52

Alors que la guerre en Ukraine a favorisé une large restructuration des flux énergétiques, notamment au profit des États-Unis, l’année 2026 apparaît comme une rupture majeure dans l’histoire énergétique mondiale avec le déclenchement de la guerre en Iran par les États-Unis et Israël.

Aussi, l’incertitude actuelle rappelle le rôle majeur de l’énergie dans l’économie mondiale et la nécessité de conceptualiser des politiques de sécurité énergétique résilientes dans un environnement géopolitique marqué par la polycrise. C’est dans ce contexte que l’IRIS publie dans le cadre de l’Observatoire de la sécurité des flux et des matières énergétiques son nouveau rapport ayant pour titre « Comprendre la sécurité énergétique : concepts, réalités physiques, transition énergétique et polycrise » : celui-ci propose une analyse des évolutions du concept de sécurité énergétique et étudie les réalités infrastructurelles et superstructurelles qui sous-tendent la sécurité énergétique dans un contexte de transition bas-carbone et d’instabilité croissante dans un monde en polycrise. Ses auteurs, Noor Bitat, Sami Ramdani et Alexandre Roussel, nous en présentent les grandes lignes.

L’article Comprendre la sécurité énergétique est apparu en premier sur IRIS.

DURBAN CONFERENCE, 25 YEARS ON – Paul Divakar Namala: “Solidarity and Resistance Work in the Long Run”

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:44

Protests during the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 7 September 2001. Credit: NCDHR

By Paul Divakar Namala
LONDON, Sep 8 2026 (IPS)

My name is Paul Divakar Namala. I am the Executive Director of The Inclusivity Project and Convenor of the Global Forum of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent. My work focuses on communities whose social status, occupations and exclusion are inherited across generations through caste, analogous hierarchies and systems rooted in traditional slavery.

Durban also taught us that affected communities must speak for themselves. They must not be treated merely as victims or sources of testimony, but as human rights defenders and leaders who define the problem and shape the solution

I am a Dalit. Dalits were historically treated as “untouchable” and placed at the bottom of, or outside, the caste hierarchy. This can shape every part of life: access to a common water source, where a child sits at school, where a family may live, what work a person is expected to perform and whether others will eat with or even be seen with them.

Poverty is widespread in South Asia, but its burden falls disproportionately on Dalits because caste restricts access to land, education, dignified employment, public services and political power.

Inherited hierarchies remain deeply entrenched

Across South Asia, constitutional guarantees and democratic institutions coexist with caste discrimination and practices of untouchability.

These persist in villages and cities, and in public institutions, private workplaces and corporations. Dalits may face threats or violence for asserting land rights, entering places of worship, marrying across caste, accessing common resources, seeking education or standing for elected office.

Dalits in South Asia are not alone. Roma communities in Europe and beyond, Burakumin in Japan, Haratine and other communities affected by traditional slavery in the Sahel, Osu communities in Nigeria, Quilombola communities in Brazil and other communities in Latin America experience distinct histories and realities.

They should not be collapsed into a single category. Yet many face structurally connected patterns: inherited stigma and social status, endogamy, segregation in housing and education, exclusion from land and decent work, confinement to dangerous or degrading occupations, trafficking and forced labour, and backlash violence when they resist. We describe these peoples, in all their diversity, as Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent, or CDWD.

Reconnecting with my identity

Where I grew up in India, my family faced repeated attacks as we asserted our rights, including rights over public land. When I was 21, a petrol-bomb attack took the life of my mother.

Only as I grew older did I understand how much of what happened to my family was connected to caste. My father taught me that our purpose should not be limited to seeking justice for ourselves; we had to dismantle the structures that allow such abuses to continue. That teaching guided me away from vengeance and towards challenging the social norms and caste structures that treat some human beings as inferior, exploit their vulnerability and assign them a life of servitude.

Together with my spouse, who came from a different caste, I helped build a community of human rights defenders. For too long, Dalits were portrayed only as victims or survivors. We are also organisers, advocates and defenders of human rights. This work began more than four decades ago, when I was in my twenties.

In 1998, together with leaders from across India, we formed the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights. We wanted caste-based discrimination and violence to be documented and discussed nationally and internationally. Looking back, I realise how groundbreaking that effort was, especially with so few resources.

Bringing caste to Durban

When we learned that the United Nations was organising a World Conference Against Racism, our immediate response was: “We have to be there.” We were new to these international processes. We contacted people working on caste discrimination and were invited to a preparatory meeting in Bellagio that helped shape the agenda for Durban.

At Bellagio, many participants supported putting caste on the agenda, including Pierre Sané, then Secretary General of Amnesty International. Civil society succeeded in making caste a major issue in the Durban process, but several Asian governments resisted its explicit inclusion in the final Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, arguing that it would target their countries or interfere in internal matters.

Although the final Declaration did not contain the explicit recognition we sought, what the movement achieved was extraordinary. Durban gave unprecedented international visibility to caste discrimination and helped move Dalit rights from the margins towards the centre of international human rights debate.

Dalit activists were present in large numbers, carrying documentation, testimonies, drums and protest across the conference grounds. People approached us and said, sometimes awkwardly but with genuine solidarity, “You are untouchable? Let me hug you.” Those encounters showed both how unfamiliar the issue was internationally and how quickly human connection could challenge the stigma imposed upon us.

Activists protest caste and descent-based discrimination during the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa, held from 31 August to 7 September 2001. Placards call attention to caste, racism and the struggle for Dalit rights. Credit: NCDHR

Solidarity, resistance and the unfinished agenda

Over the years, we have connected with communities and advocates in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Mauritania and Nigeria, with Roma movements across Europe and beyond, and with Quilombola and other communities in Latin America.

Their histories are different, but their struggles reveal how inherited status, stigmatised work and exclusion can reinforce one another across generations. Working together makes these structures visible and prevents governments and institutions from excusing them in the name of culture or tradition.

Durban also taught us that affected communities must speak for themselves. They must not be treated merely as victims or sources of testimony, but as human rights defenders and leaders who define the problem and shape the solution. Solidarity does not require us to claim that every oppression is identical. It requires us to respect distinct histories while recognising common structures of dehumanisation and standing together against them.

The fight is far from over. We are working for stronger international recognition, including comprehensive CERD guidance and, ultimately, a Declaration on the Rights of Communities Discriminated on Work and Descent.

Yet the real test is always on the ground. International declarations have meaning only when they change the life of a woman confronting untouchability, a sanitation worker demanding safe and dignified work, a Roma child resisting school segregation, or a Haratine family seeking freedom, land and equality.

Learn more about racial justice with Amnesty International’s online course.

 

Excerpt:

The third UN Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in 2001 was a watershed moment for millions across the world. Seven thousand people representing governments and civil society from 170 countries gathered in Durban, South Africa. Led by countries in the Global South, the Durban Conference challenged the idea that human rights is a Western concept, recognized the historical roots of contemporary forms of racism and called on States to repair the lasting consequences of colonialism and slavery. While the US and Israel withdrew from the Conference, the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action were adopted, both of which became foundational documents for the global fight against racism. But with racism still very much alive, we spoke with activists about their struggles and hopes.
Categories: Africa

Décès DE MME DIALLO/TALL JEANNE

Lefaso.net (Burkina Faso) - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:30

La famille de feu Diallo Jean-André au Canada et au Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)
La famille Ariste au Burkina Faso, France, Canada et Angleterre
La famille Curnier en France
Les enfants : Alain Yves ; Guy Roger et Nicole Louise
Les petits enfants : Binta ; Jean Simon ; Julien Claude ; Johanne Andrée Dona et Jean Isaac Roger

Les arrière-petits-enfants : Adé, Ina, Luce et Julia
Les familles alliées et amies
Ont le profond regret de vous annoncer le décès de leur mère, sœur, tante, belle-sœur, belle-mère, grand-mère et arrière-grand-mère :

Mme Diallo /Tall Jeanne

Enseignante, Conseillère pédagogique à la retraite
Décès survenu à Ouagadougou le 05/09/2026 dans sa 94ème année.
Le programme des obsèques sera communiqué ultérieurement.

Union de prières

Categories: Afrique

Russia Pounds Ukrainian Capital, Killing At Least 5, Hours After US Envoys Depart

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
Russia hammered the Ukrainian capital with drones and ballistic missiles, killing at least five people in a major attack hours after White House envoys left Kyiv amid a renewed push for peace negotiations.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

European Commission approves Ukraine's request to procure Patriot missiles with EU loan funds

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
The European Commission has approved Ukraine's request to procure missiles for Patriot air defence systems under the Ukraine Support Loan.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

New space strategy will bolster UK defences against threats from space

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
New UK space strategy to bring government's investment and activity under one plan to drive growth, strengthen security and back everyday technologies
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

How A Resurgent Al-Qaeda Is Helping Militant Attacks In Pakistan

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
In May, an explosion at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan was followed by an intense firefight in which 21 people were killed. It was just one in a series of violent incidents in which militants operating out of Afghanistan, with support from Al-Qaeda, have launched attacks on targets in neighboring Pakistan.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

From Al-Qaeda To Lone Wolves And AI: How Terrorism Has Changed Since 9/11

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
Farhad N. was just a few months old when hijacked airliners were deliberately piloted into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, part of attacks on the United States that killed thousands of people.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

25 Years After 9/11, Could Afghanistan Again Become A Launchpad For Global Terror?

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
Twenty-five years after serving as the global launchpad for the 9/11 attacks, Afghanistan has come "full circle" -- with the Taliban retaking power after a 20-year US-led military presence and Al-Qaeda operatives again finding safe haven in the country.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Ebola response in eastern DR Congo must include food aid, WFP says

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
As Ebola sweeps across the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ensuring families meet their basic food needs is crucial to halt the spread of the deadly disease.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

FM Sa'ar announces closure of British consulate in Jerusalem and countermeasures against UK sanctions

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
The closure of the British Consulate in Jerusalem is part of a series of Israeli countermeasures in response to the new sanctions announced by the British Foreign Secretary of the Labour Government and following a series of anti-Israel decisions by the Labour Government.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

PM call with President Xi of China: 8 September 2026

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
The Prime Minister spoke to President Xi Jinping of China this morning.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Iranian Media Report US Strike On Tanker

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
Iranian media reported that a US strike hit a tanker near Kharg Island, the country's main oil export hub.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Iran captures US submarine drone in Strait of Hormuz

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has announced the seizure of an unmanned American submarine in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Iran: Armed forces have full control over Strait of Hormuz

Globalsecurity.org - Tue, 08/09/2026 - 14:00
The Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) reiterated that Iran's armed forces maintain full command and control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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