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Baktérium- és vírusellenőrzést kér a jövő évi riói olimpia szabadtéri vizeire a vizes sportokat tömörítő nemzetközi szövetség (FINA).

A FINA az ötkarikás szervezőknek, valamint Eduardo Paes polgármesternek is eljuttatta azt a levelet, amelyben a versenyzők egészségi állapotáért aggódva kéri a vizsgálatokat.
Az elmúlt hónapokban több olyan felvétel készült, amelyen az látszik, hogy a riói szabadtéri vizek rendkívül szennyezettek, tele vannak hulladékokkal, haltetemek borítják a felszínt és a partokat.
A FINA a levelében úgy fogalmaz, hogy szennyezés nélküli, baktériumoktól és vírusoktól mentes vízben szeretné látni a nyíltvízi úszók küzdelmeit, amelyeket egyébként ugyanott bonyolítják majd le, ahol a triatlonosok úszószámát is.
Az elmúlt hónapban az ENSZ Egészségügyi Világszervezete (WHO) már javasolta a riói szervezőknek a vízminőség vizsgálatát.
Cornel Marculescu, a FINA általános igazgatója azt mondta: az elmúlt hetekben rendezett tesztversenyek szereplői közül eddig senki sem jelzett megbetegedést.

September 17, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – Former South Sudan's vice-president and leader of the armed opposition faction, SPLM-IO, said the fuel tank explosion which reportedly resulted to over a 100 people dead and many more injured was a tragedy that should be investigated.

The designated first vice-president paid his heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families of those who lost their loved ones in these untimely deaths.

“This is a great tragedy which has in a single day befallen our citizens in Western Equatoria state. On behalf of the SPLM/SPLA and on my own behalf, I pay my heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families who have lost their loved ones in this tragic incident,” Machar said in a statement on Thursday from his office's media official.

The incident occurred on Thursday, according to reports, when a fuel tanker carrying petrol overturned on the road about 7km from Maridi town, prompting hundreds of residents in the area to rush to the scene to get fuel which was spilling down from the tanker.

A gunshot by unknown person maybe to try to disperse the crowd, or with ill intention resulted into the explosion of the tanker, killing over a hundred people instantly, with some dying later on.

But the rebel leader's spokesman said there was need to thoroughly investigate the incident.

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Rendkívüli EU-csúcstalálkozót hív össze jövő szeptember 23-én az uniós országok állam-, illetve kormányfői testülete, az Európai Tanács elnöke. Donald Tusk Twitter-bejegyzésben közölte ma a döntést. Ezután nem sokkal közzétették a hivatalos uniós bejelentést is, amely “rendkívüli, informális&#...

September 17, 2015 (JUBA) – An independent newspaper has been ordered by security agents in the South Sudanese capital, Juba, not to publish stories on Friday, a source told Sudan Tribune late on Thursday.

South Sudanese journalist and editor, Nhial Bol , reads a copy of the Juba Monitor, with a heading referring to the killing of journalist Peter Moi of The New Nation newspaper, on August 21, 2015 (Photo AFP/Samir Bol)

The Juba Monitor newspaper, which is owned by a former BBC correspondent, a South Sudanese national. Alfred Taban, has been told to stay off on Friday after publishing an opinion critical of the government soldiers' crackdown on civilians in Wonduruba payam of Lainya county in Central Equatoria state.

“We are told not to publish on Friday and our editor-in-chief, Alfred Taban, has been called to attend a meeting at the office of the national security on Friday,” a source asking to remain unanimous in fear of repercussions told Sudan Tribune on Thursday.

Alfred Taban wrote an opinion castigating the behaviours of the army in Wunduriba payam that led to displacement of tens of thousands of people, with some local reports suggest that up to 80,000 have been displaced in Lainya county for the past one week of army's random shooting at civilians in the area suspected to host rebels.

Wunduruba payam of Lainya county is home to the current government minister of cabinet affairs, Martin Elia Lomoro.

He said the aggression of the army amounted to creating more enemies to the government of president Salva Kiir, a move that is against a peace agreement signed last month.

The veteran journalist suggested army's “rebooting” and restructuring to reflect a diverse composition of South Sudan. He lamented that all South Sudanese communities have to send sons and daughters to the army who are entrusted to propel nationalism as opposition to tribalism.

Juba Monitor is the only independent English language newspaper after the Citizen was shut down by the security in July. Citizens newspaper's chief editor, Nhial Bol Aken, said he had to quit journalism last week after receiving a series of threats against his life.

At least 9 journalists have been killed so far and many more tortured or imprisoned by government's security personnel for the past four years after independence in 2011.

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Giving an interview on Bloomberg on 10 September 2015, Research Fellow of ELIAMEP Dr Angeliki Dimitriadi discussed the refugee crisis. You can read the article here.

Minderjährige Asylsuchende und Flüchtlinge haben in Österreich zwar formal das Recht auf Bildung, de facto tragen aber viele Faktoren zum Ausschluss aus dem Bildungssystem bei. Das Land muss diese Hürden und Barrieren dringend aus dem Weg räumen. Nicht nur um dem Menschenrecht auf Bildung gerecht zu werden, sondern um den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt auf Dauer zu sichern, meint Monika Mayrhofer.

Fewer crimes are being committed in Georgia and more offences are being solved, new figures reveal.

Depuis le début du coup d'Etat au Burkina Faso, les journalistes, plusieurs fois brutalisés par les putschistes, ont du mal à faire leur travail. Plusieurs médias ont été visés, des radios attaquées, empêchées d'émettre. Certains décident de se mettre en grève, d'autre de se rabattre sur les réseaux sociaux Facebook et Twitter afin de diffuser leurs reportages.

Iran has ignored repeated requests from the United States for a diplomatic meeting with Iranian officials on the Iraq crisis, a report says, Press Tv reports.

Seismological Service has disseminated an information.

Europe is experiencing crisis.

September 17, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudan's armed opposition faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) has condemned the ongoing offensive by president Salva Kiir's forces against their bases in Central Equatoria state.

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar addresses a news conference in his office in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, August 31, 2015. (Photo REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri)

In a statement issued on Thursday, SPLM-IO led by former vice- president, Riek Machar, said government forces have continued to violate the ceasefire and target civilians in Wunduruba payam, south of the capital, Juba.

“We have been receiving disturbing reports of ongoing ceasefire violations by soldiers of Salva Kiir. They have continued to attack our bases in Wunduruba payam at Lainya county while at the same time targeting civilians in the area,” said Machar's spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Thursday.

He also said president Kiir's forces on Wednesday attacked civilians in Mundri county of Western Equatoria state, shooting at civilians in Jambo and Lui areas, looting property and burning houses to ashes.

“We condemn this barbaric act by the regime,” he said.

Dak said many civilians have been killed by government troops in the area while thousands more have been displaced and in dire humanitarian situation.

He accused the government of violating the ceasefire deal with the intention to try to regain territories from the opposition faction before it could declare positions controlled by their forces.

He said this is the same strategy the government has been attempting to implement in other states including the two oil-rich Unity and Upper Nile states, which shall be governed by the opposition governors for 30 months in accordance with the peace agreement signed in August.

“The regime's intention is to try to capture territories we have been holding. The plan is to claim control of these areas so that their military team could declare them as their areas of control at the workshop on security arrangements in Addis Ababa,” he said.

He called on the East African regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), to monitor and verify the violations and for the international community to condemn these violations.

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Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a fermement condamné la prise de pouvoir par la force par des éléments de la garde présidentielle au Burkina Faso et a demandé à ces derniers de rendre sans tarder le pouvoir aux autorités civiles de transition.

Une nette augmentation des attaques par le groupe armé Boko Haram a déraciné plus de 500.000 enfants au cours des cinq derniers mois, portant le nombre total d'enfants en fuite dans le nord-est du Nigéria et dans les pays voisins à 1,4 million, selon le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF).

A l'issue d'une visite de cinq jours au Niger, le Coordonnateur humanitaire régional pour le Sahel, Toby Lanzer, a souligné vendredi la générosité des communautés et du gouvernement du Niger qui accueillent les déplacés qui ont fui les violences au nord-est du Nigéria.

The ongoing refugee  crisis in the Mediterranean has created fears  among policy-makers  and  security  practitioners  alike  that  the  Islamic  State  (ISIS)  will  use  and ‘exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West’. This Briefing Note written by Dr Dimitris  Skleparis, presents a brief history of international terrorism in Greece; assesses current international terrorist activity in the country and the Greek authorities’ response to it; and proposes first-line and pre-emptive counter-radicalisation measures that would not undermine a humanitarian response to the refugee crisis.

Briefing Note 37/2015: The Islamist Threat amidst the Refugee Crisis: Background and Policy Proposals

Author: Dr Dimitris Skleparis

The present paper written by Dr Angeliki Dimitriadi, discusses the current refugee crisis from its outbreak to its evolution, attempts to set current EU responses in a contextual setting, from the early response to the Lampedusa tragedy of 2013 with Task Force Mediterranean to today’s proposal for the redistribution of 160,000 refugees, critically discusses European Member States’ responses and the resurface of ‘Fortress Europe’ and proposes priorities and measures, stressing the need for a global response to the current refugee crisis.

«ELIAMEP Thesis»: Europe’s dubious response to the refugee crisis

Author: Dr Angeliki Dimitriadi

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“We would not want to lose. But our opponent is a really good team. But our players also made mistakes", the head coach of Karabakh FC Gurban Gurbanov said, APA reports quoting “apasport.az”.

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle

September 17, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) –A report released by a research project, said that Ethiopia is on course to become world's fastest growing economy.

A general view of the Friendship City Center shopping mall in Ethiopia's Capital Addis Ababa May 26, 2014. (Photo Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

The new report "One foot on the ground, one foot in the air" released by the UK-based Think tank group Overseas Development Institute (ODI) forecasts for Ethiopia said Ethiopia's economy would significantly accelerate in the coming three years.

The case study highlighted major strides in massive agricultural investment, a sector which employs three in four Ethiopians, and a government committed to pro-poor spending to halve its poverty.

It also explores progress achieved in material wellbeing in Ethiopia, measured by reduction in income poverty, and two key contributors to material wellbeing: education and employment.

“Ethiopia's stability and consequent ability to make long-term plans and investments in education, agriculture and infrastructure over the past 20 years has allowed the country to make great leaps in development” the report said.

Some critics consider the stability in the country was the outcome of the government's systematic repressive practices, or at least of the restricted contestability of national and local politics.

However, the horn of Africa's nation, according to the report, has experience over the past two decades contains significant lessons that can be applicable in different country contexts.

Ethiopia has managed to decline extreme poverty vastly making it one of the successful countries in the world in the fight against poverty.

According to the report, poverty has fallen to 37% from 63% between 1995 and 2011while maintaining low level of income inequality.

Also, the report points that the agricultural sector, which the country's economy is hugely depend on, has cut poverty by 7% between 2005 and 2011.

Maintaining teams of agronomists across vast rural areas to boost productivity by recommending best agricultural practice and scientific innovation was mentioned as one of the practices the country used to achieve development.

“Further, a doubling of Ethiopia's road network in two decades, which has allowed more farmers to bring their produce to market,” said the report.

The notable takeaway lessons from Ethiopia's experience in sustainable developmental goals is firstly, “Centering government policy on a single goal - poverty reduction - and taking a multidimensional approach can encourage ministries to work more comprehensively and consistently”

The second strategy the report mentioned is, “Integrating social sectors into broader economic planning and high rates of pro-poor spending benefit the economy”.

Thirdly, “Long-term planning and a clear division of responsibilities can build the foundation for broader transformation”

Development Progress is an ODI project which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is a four-year research project that aims to measure, understand and communicate progress in development.

ODI is the UK's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

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