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Au Sénégal, depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir en 2012 du chef de l’État, la stratégie économique du pays a connu des succès, en particulier sur le plan des infrastructures et de l’énergie. Mais, sur d’autres volets, dont la création d’emplois et l’industrie, il reste beaucoup à faire

Les Serbes du Kosovo sont de plus en plus tentés par le passeport kosovar, qui devrait permettre de circuler librement dans l'espace Schengen dès le 1er janvier 2024. Pour le moment, les détenteurs d'un passeport serbe domiciliés au Kosovo sont exclus du régime sans visa.

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On en revient toujours à ses premières amours. Le président serbe Aleksandar Vučić a annoncé que son parti se présenterait aux élections municipales en coalition avec les Radicaux de Vojislav Šešelj. Dans les années 1990, l'actuel président était le dauphin du chef de l'extrême-droite et criminel de guerre.

- Le fil de l'Info / Seselj, Courrier des Balkans, Serbie, Politique intérieure, Vucic

French maritime shipping giant CMA CGM, Denmark's Maersk, China's Cosco Shipping Ports and the Swiss-Italian MSC are set to lose an average of $30m each annually in the wake of new rules regarding terminal handling charges (THC) in Dubai's ports.

Amid its ground offensive, Tsahal is mobilising its intelligence resources to map the "Gaza underground", with Israel's geospatial intelligence unit

Intelligence Online understands that Vietnam's Vingroup, which owns the electric car brand VinFast, is planning to launch a management training

According to customs slips seen by Intelligence Online, American development agency USAID recently delivered several items of security equipment from

A chapter of the annual report of the French parliamentary intelligence delegation, or DPR, published this month (IO, 02/11/23), covers

Did the White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre speak too soon? Her announcement on 2 November that US President Joe Biden

One of the directors of London-based beauty retailer CP Parfums has called in a variety of private investigators to show

Wo der Weltpolizist USA mit der Durchsetzung der 1945 festgelegten regelbasierten internationalen Weltordnung immer mehr überfordert scheint, grassiert der Ruf nach Multipolarität. Profitieren würden davon Staaten, die auf Geld und Gewalt als Mittel der Politik setzen.

La junte au pouvoir en Guinée a démis une soixantaine d'officiers, soldats et agents des services pénitentiaires après l'opération commando qui a ébranlé le pays en faisant provisoirement sortir de prison l'ancien chef de lajunte Moussa Dadis Camara et trois co-détenus.

As the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) approaches, it is increasingly crucial to understand and develop clear actions for not only mitigation but also adaptation. While mitigation has the clear numerical target of limiting warming to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, adaptation is a complex concept that cannot be captured in a single figure. Ahead of COP28, there is a need for conceptual clarity as to what exactly the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) aims to achieve and how it can be globally applicable when adaptation is so often locally implemented.

One way to clarify the GGA is to adopt well-being as the ultimate outcome toward which countries should be working. Well-being is a state where one can pursue one’s goals and thrive. This requires having adequate physical health, water, food, and a healthy environment, even as the impacts of climate change worsen. Adaptation actions that further this goal should be assessed by their effects on present and future human and environmental well-being. Whenever possible, these actions should be both transboundary, reaching across national borders and administrative or jurisdictional boundaries, and transformational, addressing the systemic root causes of climate impacts and working toward a more stable, flexible, and equitable future.

This policy paper lays out the various climate risks that affect each of the four pillars of the GGA: human health, water security, food security, and biodiversity. It then details adaptation actions that can be taken in response to these risks, as well as indicators for improvement. While each step of the adaptation policy cycle should be robust and well-funded, these four pillars are the areas where progress is most crucial to achieving the GGA. When crafting a framework for transformational adaptation in these four areas, negotiators and technical experts can draw on existing, agreed-upon frameworks and indicators that point the world toward the goal of well-being for people and planet.

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Johannesburg accueillait le 20e forum relatif à l’accord de libre-échange américain avec les pays d’Afrique subsaharienne à moins de deux ans de son expiration et alors que tous veulent le voir prolongé.

Une coalition improbable de fonctionnaires tapis dans la haute administration et d’activistes évoluant en dehors de l’État s’échine depuis des années à renationaliser des pans entiers de l’économie. Une lame de fond qui risque de perdurer.

Francisco, six mois, a passé deux semaines intubé à l'hôpital après avoir développé une bronchiolite. Selon les médecins, le cas aurait pu être fatal si la famille ne s'était pas rendue rapidement à l'hôpital.

Der Blick der Weltöffentlichkeit richtet sich aktuell nach Gaza. Für die Ukraine eine schwierige Situation, denn das Land ist auf Unterstützung aus dem Westen angewiesen. Im «Tagesgespräch» analysiert die Sicherheitsexpertin Claudia Major die Lage.

 

Africa’s place in the world has changed drastically over the last decades. With a young, self-assured and well-connected population, it is claiming a more prominent position on the world stage. Geo-political interest in the continent has surged, with countries such as China, India, the Gulf States, Russia and Turkey having increased their presence across Africa in the competition for good-will and resources. In this context, the influence of the EU and the Netherlands is waning. Africans look to Europe with mixed feelings, as the continent represents a bounty of opportunities while also harbouring a colonial past that seems to apply double standards at times. In view of continued instability, armed conflict and unrest, as well as persistent gaps in living standards when compared to European societies, more cooperation is not only necessary, but urgently needed.

Responding to calls from the Dutch Parliament and the government’s Advisory Council for International Relations to redefine Dutch cooperation with Africa so that it stands on equal footing and is based on mutual interests, the Netherlands and its African partners have begun formulating a 10-year strategy. Consultations with stakeholders from civil society, academia and diplomacy from Africa and the Netherlands have provided a starting point for the Netherlands’ first continent-wide strategy. With the EU as our primary vehicle for action, we are committed to contributing towards the African Union’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, which will extend those elements of the SDG agenda that we are committed to beyond 2030.

The Africa Strategy of the Netherlands is an integrated agenda relating to 1) economic development on an equal footing, 2) security and stability, 3) migration, reception and return and 4) poverty reduction, sustainability and inclusion. Having been published in May 2023 and discussed in Parliament in early October 2023, implementation has just started and is being followed with a fixed action agenda for the short, medium and long term. Concrete actions include aiming for dialogue with African countries on priorities in the framework of EU Global Gateway projects, improving matters regarding the issuing of visas for entrepreneurs from growth markets and strengthening local civil society on the basis of local ownership. At the same time, “how to” questions still remain, especially with regard to ensuring genuine equality in the implementation of the strategy.

What does equality and the pursuit of shared interests mean in practice? What language and attitudinal changes are needed to genuinely build equal relations? How does this relate to different fields of implementation – from diplomacy, trade promotion and knowledge exchange to development programming? How do we ensure a sustainable government-wide commitment? How do we shape an effective monitoring and evaluation process while highlighting what works and what does not? And how do we involve our African partners throughout?

Finding answers to these questions requires attitudinal changes on the part of diplomats, business people and development professionals as well as other Dutch actors with connections to Africa. Equality requires a mutual understanding of positions, looks for cooperation on the basis of shared interests and puts the relationship first. More engagement is needed with partners across the African continent to ensure this strategy delivers the desired results – from government, civil society and business to academia. It also requires working with domestic and international implementation partners. In the process of formulating our strategy, we looked closely at the strategic approaches of our friends in Europe. Initiative taken by the German Government, in particular by formulating the BMZ Africa Strategy and currently the revision of the Africa Policy Guidelines, are a point of influence and very welcome. . Germany has taken responsibility for its historical legacy by addressing the more difficult periods of its past and drawing lessons on how future generations may live together. Similarly, the Netherlands and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs are trying to take on their historical responsibility to address colonialism, slavery and institutional racism. Having adopted a Feminist Foreign Policy that is focussed on addressing systematic inequality world-wide, the current Africa Strategy is a logical next step for the Netherlands to take regarding its international responsibility.

Lofty declarations and policy objectives alone are not enough. The challenge is for governments in Europe as well as Africa to take responsibility and move towards a secure, just and prosperous future. In this endeavour of working towards mutual interests and benefits, there is a possibility to lead by example and share the opportunities for leadership with the women, men and youth in Africa, Europe and beyond.

Disclaimer: This blog post provides the author’s perspective on the Netherlands’ Africa Strategy for 2023-2032. Though it reflects on a strategy submitted by Ministers to parliament, it may not precisely and fully reflect the position of the Government of the Netherlands. The author is an independent advisor within the government, contributing to the diversity of thought.

Dr Melle Leenstra is Strategic Policy Advisor at the Africa Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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Politikwissenschafter und Nahost Experten Peter Lintl, von der Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, spricht über den Krieg in Israel. Die israelische Armee hat Gaza-Stadt eingekreist und habe laut eigenen Angaben damit den Gazastreifen in zwei Hälften geteilt.