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La cérémonie d'investiture du gouvernement de Muhammadu Buhari s'est déroulée le 11 novembre. Portraits des ministres en charge des questions économiques.

Cet article Nigeria : ils prennent les manettes de la première économie d’Afrique est apparu en premier sur JeuneAfrique.com.

François Hollande a présidé mercredi à Paris les traditionnelles cérémonies de commémorations de l'armistice du 11-Novembre 1918, en présence inédite de son prédécesseur, Nicolas Sarkozy.

Offene Grenze für Flüchtlinge oder Zaun: Während an der slowenisch-kroatischen Grenze die Arbeiten für die Errichtung eines Schutzzaunes begonnen haben, hat sich die Regierung in Wien vorerst nur auf eine "geordnete Einreisekontrolle" verständigt.

A new monograph calls for India and the U.S. to work together in Eurasia.

La carte collaborative Quakemap a été mise en ligne le lendemain de la première secousse qui a ravagé le Népal au printemps.

Lu dans notre édition de Caen ce matin, cet entretien avec les grands-parents du capitaine Gauvin tué en Afghanistan en 2011 (cliquer sur l'image pour l'agrandir):

 

Philippe de Villiers, en tête des ventes de livres politiques, annonce dans "Le Parisien" ne pas être candidat pour 2017... pour l'instant.

U.S. policy on Taiwan might have applicability to other international disputes.

A PTE Egészségtudományi Kar a 2016/2017-es tanév szeptemberétől ápolás és betegellátás alapképzési szakot indít Zomborban ápoló szakirányon.

Le président de la République a rendu hommage à Georges Clemenceau, déposé une gerbe sur la tombe du Soldat inconnu et serré la main de l'ex-chef de l'État.

Japanese face enormous obstacles understanding the world scene.

Laurent Pourceau, syndicaliste policier, affirme que ses collègues font désormais face à une situation de «guérilla».

Russia is not getting pulled into an arms race, but is simply catching up over the last few years.

Növekszik a magyar iskolakezdők száma a határon túli régiókban: a tanév szeptemberi indulása óta november elejéig 3500 első osztályos kisdiák részesült mintegy 140 helyszínen a Rákóczi Szövetség ösztöndíjában – közölte a szervezet szerdán az MTI-vel.

Jelezték: decemberig további kétezer magyar családoz jut el a magyar iskolaválasztást elismerő ösztöndíj.
A Rákóczi Szövetség közleménye szerint Felvidéken, a partiumi Bihar megyében, Temes megyében és a kárpátaljai Felső-Tisza-vidéken is egyértelműen növekszik a magyar iskolát választó családok száma. Ez állapítható meg a szövetség beiratkozási programjának szeptember eleje óta zajló, magyar iskolakezdőket érintő ösztöndíjátadásai alapján.
Az ösztöndíjakat szeptember és december között több mint 200 Kárpát-medencei helyszínen, közel 5800 magyar iskolába lépett diáknak adják át iskolai ünnepségek kertében. A program érinti a teljes Felvidéket, ahol 3550 diák részesül az ösztöndíjban, a teljes partiumi Bihar megyét, Temesvárt és Dést, ahol 1800 kisdiákhoz jut el a támogatás, részese a programnak a kárpátaljai Felső-Tisza-vidék 100 iskolakezdője, továbbá 40 délvidéki szórványtelepülés közel 300 első osztályos tanulója – jelezték.
Kitértek arra is, hogy a program támogatói között közel 300 magyarországi önkormányzat, országgyűlési képviselők, köztük a teljes KDNP-frakció, magánemberek, cégek sorakoztak fel. Az ünnepélyes ösztöndíjátadásokon sok esetben részt vesznek a programot támogatók is.
A Rákóczi Szövetség beiratkozási programja 2004 óta zajlik annak érdekében, hogy minél több külhoni magyar család írassa gyermekét magyar tannyelvű iskolába, vállalva ezzel a magyar közösségek megmaradását is. A program a Felvidéken indult, és az ott elért pozitív eredmények alapján – a szlovákiai magyar iskolakezdők száma az utóbbi években stabilizálódott, az elmúlt évben növekedett – terjesztette ki a szövetség a programot olyan erdélyi, kárpátaljai és délvidéki területekre, ahol az asszimilációs folyamatok felgyorsultak.
Az ösztöndíj értéke 10 ezer forint, amit támogatási szerződés keretében vehetnek át az iskolakezdők szülei.

A Frontex legfrissebb adatai szerint január és október között 1,2 millió tiltott határátlépésre derült fény az EU külső határain, ami a 2014-es év egészében regisztrált szám négyszerese. Ebből nagyjából 500 ezer tiltott határátlépést észleltek a szerb-magyar és a szerb-horvát határon.

Selon les estimations, les passeurs empochent environ un million de dollars pour 400 migrants embarqués.

The Briefing Paper series “Financing Global Development” analyses key financial and non-financial means of implementation for the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and discusses the building blocks of a new framework for development finance.

Financing social service delivery is becoming more and more challenging. At the same time, private assets are increasingly seeking out investment opportunities. Some high-net-worth individuals and foundations are accepting lower returns as long as pressing societal objectives can be achieved. This presents an opportunity to mobilise more private capital for social investments. The so-called impact investors can play a promising role in financing social and environmental service delivery in G7 countries as well as in the developing world. Impact investing is intended to finance projects, organisations and social enterprises to intentionally create a measurable social or environmental impact alongside financial returns. One innovative instrument is the so-called social impact bond (SIB) – or, in the case of development cooperation, development impact bond (DIB) – through which private investors pre-finance the intervention, and governments or donors provide funding solely when the intended outcome goes beyond what would have occurred otherwise.
Advocates of impact investing see SIBs and DIBs as useful instruments for the financing of the 2030 agenda. However, they are still largely unproven; even though some promising interim evaluations exist, this innovative  
financing approach faces a number of challenges. Besides questionable or outstanding evaluations, the most important challenges are: limited transferability, the nascent development of the market, high transaction costs and the hurdles for investors. Nevertheless, given the urgency to mobilise finance for sustainable development in developed and developing countries, it is worth considering and prudently developing impact bonds further, and more generally impact investing. Supporting them would entail:

• Data- and information-sharing have to be furthered by the impact investing community in order to critically evaluate first experiences of pilot SIBs and DIBs, provide recommendations and enable basic education for entrepreneurs and investors.
• Further research should be encouraged to get a better understanding of how to create additional impact and to deploy different instruments in the development context as well as to offer exit opportunities for private investors.
• Policy-makers should support the development of clearer definitions and a common impact-measurement system as well as standardised and mandatory reporting requirements to ensure effectiveness and quality.
• Development finance institutions should become more active in the market by providing resources to encourage the implementation of SIBs and DIBs. Governments and/or donors need experienced partners who provide catalytic capital for first initiatives and serve as intermediaries.

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)Deadly Public Order Raid in Umm Dawm

On the 14th of October, the Public Order Police (POP) carried out a sweep in Umm Dawm, an area in Eastern Nile in Khartoum state, leading to the death of five civilians - three women, an infant and a young man - as well as the arrest of dozens and the spread of fear in an entire community.

Umm Dawm lies on the banks of the Blue Nile, the farm area is mainly inhabited by low-income communities, internally displaced and migrant workers. The majority is involved in the informal sector, working as tea-sellers, alcohol-sellers, petty traders and brick-makers. On Wednesday October 14, the Public Order Police carried out a raid in the neighbourhood. With the POP being infamous for their brutality during the Kasha, also known as sweeps or on-spot raids, people began running for their lives.

The Public Order Police is part of the POR, or Public Order Regime, in Sudan. The POR is a set of laws and mechanisms which prohibit and enforce a range of behaviors; offences can be interpreted with great latitude and are enforced by a special police and court system with a reputation for violence and summary justice. Procedures before the Public Order Courts largely fail to meet fair trial standards, despite Sudanese constitutional protections guaranteeing due process for the accused (Article 34, Constitution of Sudan), and lastly involve the imposition of penalties such as fining, imprisonment and lashing.

In an attempt to avoid arrest, those trying to escape were whipped and beaten with batons by the officers. The desperate attempt made them run towards the Nile, and ultimately led them to jumping into the water, even though the majority does not know how to swim. This did not spare them from police brutality, as the police officers followed them into the water. A relative of two of the victims described the situation as follows:

"They began shooting live ammunition in the air and in the water and began throwing rocks at those trying to swim towards safety"

Achol Kuol, a 40-year-old woman of South Sudanese roots, was attempting to swim when a police officer threw a rock towards her which hit her forehead causing her to lose conscious and ultimately drown due to her severe head injury.

A mother, whose name is unknown, had left her six-month old daughter behind, hoping the Public Order Police would not inflict harm upon her child.

“A police officer held the girl and threw her into the water as he said, ‘Go follow your mother,'" said one of her relatives.

She was eventually rescued that day by the men and women who were trying to stay afloat in the water, but she died a few days later as a result of the trauma and injuries she sustained.

Salwa Ali Koko, a 35-year-old mother, also jumped into the water and drowned as she didn't know how to swim. Her body was found by fishermen when it washed up on the shores of Al-Hafliya in Khartoum North and was later identified by her family.

Fatima Ali Nato, a 45-year-old mother, and Eisa Ali Bakheit, a 30-year-old single man, also drowned that day. An eyewitness said that while all of them were in the water, hardly alive and unable to swim against the forceful current, they told the police to stop shooting and hitting them with stones as they will die anyway.

They were told, “No, we want to kill you instead".

A few days later, Bakheit's body appeared in Shendi, in River Nile state, almost 200 kilometres North of Khartoum. Nato's corpse has yet to be found.

The Public Order Police, ignored the community and bystanders who were appealing to them to briefly pause the sweep and to call the Civil Defence Rescue Operation to assist those who were about to drown. Unfortunately, their pleads were ignored, leading to a deliberate loss of lives.

The tragedy continued to unfold outside the water, as at least seven women and three men who made it out of the water ran into a nearby farmland. The POP managed to arrest them later and they were brought to the POP station, where they were fined 500 SDG for charges of brewing alcohol.

"They ran as if they had committed a crime which has never been committed in the history of mankind, that is how the Public Order Police made them feel," Sudanese activist Jalila Khamis commented on the event.

As the community in Umm Dawm continues to search for the remaining body the government, and especially the POP, refuse to take responsibility for the incidents. The Ministry of Interior Affairs denied the happenings and emphasized in a statement that no one has drowned for at least two weeks, making it difficult for relatives and the community to coordinate with the Civil Defense Rescue Unit to continue their search for the missing body.

"Each police unit is blaming the other; the Public Order Police blamed the local police forces, and at the end, we were told that all of the victims have committed suicide," a relative of the victims stated.

The incidents of the 14th of October are a clear example of the scope of brutality employed by the Public Order Police during their raids. This was not an isolated incident as in March 2012 when Awadia Ajabna, a school teacher who lived in Al-Daim neighborhood of Khartoum, was shot by the Public Order Police on her doorstep after an argument with police officers. Further back in 2010, Nadia Saboon, a tea-seller, tried to escape the POP during a kasha sweep in Souq Arabi market, when she fell on an iron bar and suffered injuries, which ultimately led to her death.

The Public Order Laws have a clear gender bias, which leads to an average of 40 women per day who are arrested for offenses falling under the laws, which prescribe fines, imprisonment or flogging as sentences. Many of those affected come from low-income communities, and represent marginalized groups of society, such as women working in the informal sector, IDPs and migrant workers. Lastly they end up at Omdurman Women's Prison, where they face months of imprisonment when they are unable to pay the hefty fines (which at times measure up to 20,000 SDG, more than 2,000 USD).

SIHA is alarmed and deeply concerned with the incidents and the brutality of the Public Order Police and strongly condemns the incidents of October 14. Since 2009, SIHA has been advocating for a reformation of the Public Order Laws, as the gender biased laws are one of the main instruments used to regress women's rights in Sudan and to persecute the public presence of women and represent a continuous threat to their well-being and the possibility of living a life of dignity in Sudan.

For further reading, a detailed analysis of the Public Order Regime carried out by SIHA can be found in English, Arabic, and French here: Beyond Trousers: The Public Order Regime and the Human Rights of Women and Girls in Sudan (2009).

The Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA) is a coalition of over 80 women's civil society organisations from across the Horn countries inclusive of Sudan, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Somaliland, Eritrea and Uganda. The organisation works on women's access to justice, promoting and protecting women's human rights, activating women's political participation and supporting economic empowerment.

YEREVAN, 11 November 2015 - A public discussion hosted by the OSCE Office in Yerevan on the main issues concerning the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting in Armenia, will be held tomorrow, Thursday, 12 November, at 14:00, at Tigran Mets Hall, Marriott Hotel, Yerevan.

The discussion aims at creating a platform for dialogue between representatives of the government, parliament, civil society and other stakeholders on the legal, technical and social implications of the switchover, which is scheduled for January 2016.

The event will focus on identifying solutions to problems in this field.

It will also elaborate on the role and functions of the National Commission on Television and Radio in the process of the digital transition, as well as prospects for the operation of regional broadcasters in the digital regime.

The Head of the OSCE Office in Yerevan Ambassador Andrey Sorokin, First Deputy Minister of Transport and Communication of Armenia Arthur Arakelyan, and Chairperson of the Committee to Protect Freedom of Expression Ashot Melikyan will deliver opening remarks at the event.

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