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The start of the trial in Belgrade of eight former Bosnian Serb policemen accused of involvement in the massacre of Bosniaks from Srebrenica in July 1995 was delayed by a legal challenge.

Az Európai Unió megállapodást írt alá Kubával a kapcsolatok rendezéséről.

Az Európai Unió megállapodást írt alá Kubával a kapcsolatok rendezéséről.

(Ameer Hamza / The Express Tribune)

We all remember where we were when we heard about a specific tragedy. I was sitting in a language class when my news app flashed “Pakistan International Airlines crash…” Of course, that is the moment my hands froze and the sweat on my fingers did not allow the fanciest of technologies to function so I could read the rest of that headline. Knowing that both my parents were traveling that day, potentially on that airline, I ran out of class to call them. They were both safe, I was relieved, but shaking.

48 people died that day, virtually everyone onboard that flight from Chitral to Islamabad. Among the dead was Pakistan’s pop-star-turned-evangelic-preacher, Junaid Jamshed.

Flashback to 1990s Dubai with 6 year old me, my parents and my siblings. Car rides anywhere would have “Vital Signs” playing off of a cassette my older brother had brought back from our last trip to Pakistan. They were considered the revitalizing band of Pakistan, pulling it out of the dictatorial theocracy of General Zia-ul-Haq, into a nation swaying with nationalistic pride and romantic harmony.

Junaid Jamshed was their lead singer and every girls dream. Not your typical alpha male lead singer, Junaid or JJ was tall, fair skinned, light eyed and awfully shy. His band created the song that many believe to be our national anthem. Dil Dil Pakistan (literally “heart heart Pakistan”—something I cannot translate) is still played today at any national celebration.

Over the years, JJ, as he was endearingly known, became the epitome of Pakistan. When he puffed up his hair and wore a bright waistcoat, you best believe all Pakistani boys were doing it. Years later, with this following, he started a successful fashion brand. Soon after launching his solo singing career, JJ disappeared from the public eye.

He reappeared years later with a long, stark black beard which sat as though fake, on his radiant white face. With his charm still handy and post-9/11 confusion, JJ had a new message of faith, of the consciousness of the fleeting characteristic of life in this world. JJ had become an evangelical, who would soon be given multiple television appearances to talk about his new found peace in preaching Islam.

He eventually had his own television shows, and like before, JJ drew crowds and set trends. Over the next few years he would be caught making sexist remarks, some of which would force him into temporary self-exile. At this point, you either loved or hated JJ, but you could not look away from him long enough.

Junaid was one of the 47 that died the day the flight PK 661 crashed when it’s left engine caught fire. Pakistan was united in grief, yes, but in a particular mourning for the loss of JJ. Pakistani journalist, Fasi Zaka wrote:

“One section [of society] remembers how he provided the soundtrack to their lives, every song marking a memory, a milestone in life. Another section remembers him for the religious figure that he had become. Junaid himself didn’t bridge the gap between modernity and religion – he shifted from one to another. But in his death, the two differing tribes of Pakistanis – the ‘moderns’ and the [religious]– shared the same pew, united not in what they said but in their use of the language of grief.”

JJ was an avid member of both those factions of society—a modern 20-something, bringing music to the youth in Pakistan, and a preacher speaking to the religiously fervent. During his life, he did not wish to serve as a mediator between the two sections he knew so well—on the contrary when he “reverted” to religion he seemed to see his past life in slight disdain—but his death served as that bridge.

In the last sermon he offered in Chitral, he talked about death and how near it was and so our actions should all be measured. Hours later, Pakistani’s the world over came together to mourn this man that had served as a measure to the current state of mind of Pakistani society.

Pakistanis will always remember where they were when news of JJ’s passing came to them.

The post Junaid Jamshed: Pakistan’s Bridge appeared first on Foreign Policy Blogs.

Le président du MoDem était le troisième invité de l’émission « Et si c’était vous ? », diffusée dimanche 11 décembre sur la chaîne Toute l’histoire.

For all the talk of Slavic, Orthodox solidarity, Russia has little to offer Serbia these days except continued support in its diplomatic battle over Kosovo.

Delphine Traore Maidou is the head of Allianz Global Corporate in Africa and she wants to see more people who "look like her" in the top jobs.

Le projet du candidat de la droite à la présidentielle en matière d’assurance-maladie prévoit de réserver les remboursements aux seules maladies graves et chroniques.

Bonn, 12 December 2016. Even though it was the seventh installment in the conference series, the 2016 Conference on Earth System Governance (ESG), co-hosted by the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), was a premiere. Taking place at the University of Nairobi from 7-9 December, it was the first to convene in Africa. It was about time! Many members of the ESG research community have long engaged in empirical research in Africa. Specific issues that have drawn scholarly attention in recent years include effective participatory governance at the grassroots level, achievements in protecting the continent’s unique biodiversity and related ecosystem services, a large potential for green technology development and implementation. All this paired with dynamic urbanisation and accelerating growth rates that may help lift millions of people out of poverty. More than these successes, however, researchers keep addressing the many challenges. The world’s hottest continent is particularly vulnerable to climate change, it currently exhibits deforestation rates that are twice the average of the rest of the world, and more than half of its agricultural land is estimated to be subject to land degradation and desertification. ESG’s eventual choice for Nairobi may not be that much of a surprise. It follows a pattern. International academic events in Africa typically recur to the usual conference locations in South Africa, Morocco or Tunisia and, of course, Nairobi: the hub of global environmental governance, headquartering the United Nations Environment Programme and UN-HABITAT as well as a host of regional chapters of international NGOs, research institutes and development agencies. Yet, these conferences are typically dominated by Northern scholars, as if the usual circus had just been teleported southwards for a few days. Yet, convening at the University of Nairobi’s Upper Kabete Campus and with the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies as a local host, the 2016 ESG conference avoided the pitfalls of a token conference and distinguished itself from the many conferences that almost exclusively take place in Nairobi's big convention hotels or lavish compounds of international organizations. By contrast, convening at the university campus effectively embedded the conference within a thriving scholarly environment. It also demonstrated that it is indeed feasible to host international-standard conferences at such venues. Moreover, the ESG project sought to leave a lasting footprint by sponsoring minor renovations of campus infrastructure, improved audio-systems and wireless internet facilities. The organizers also ensured that well over a third of the some 170 conference participants were African. One of the conference's four major thematic threads was dedicated to sustainable development governance in Africa. Research institutions like the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), the Africa Sand Dam Foundation (ASDF), the African Technology Policy Studies Network (ATPS), the university's own African Drylands Institute for Sustainability as well as local host Wangari Maathai Institute could showcase their visions and projects in side-events and designated spotlight presentations, including a field trip to rural community projects southeast of Nairobi and an innovative research game jam with creative artists and storytellers from Nairobi. Moreover, an entire panel stream was dedicated to local early-career scholars to discuss their research, but also their working conditions and career plans. This impressive list of initiatives will further underpin ESG credibility vis-à-vis developing country researchers and already boosted engagement of African scholars and African priorities in the pertinent global research community. Yet, there are limits to inclusiveness. Available funds allowed for conference fee waivers, but only for very few travel grants. Thus, the vast majority of African participants unsurprisingly came from host country Kenya. It is unlikely that many of them will have the means to participate in next year’s ESG conference in Lund, Sweden. This, of course, is not a specific problem of this conference but a point in case for the Sustainable Development Goals, notably SDG 17 that calls for global partnership. Ambitious action is needed to harness scholarly exchange on sustainable development challenges in a truly global manner. Mobilizing more travel grants will not suffice. There are persistent structural issues at stake in global academia that we know too well and that, by and large, leave African researchers disadvantaged. They need to be tackled by policy-makers and donors, but also and not least by researchers themselves. To this end the 2016 ESG conference in Nairobi was a small, but significant step, providing not merely a platform for a couple of days but new perspectives, new knowledge and maybe even new and sustainable collaborations between African scholars and the rest of the research world. More than a few renovations at the local university campus, this may be the major legacy of the ESG conference: showing what is possible to truly globalize academic networks for the benefit of sustainable global development.

Fariborz Zelli is chair of the 2016 Nairobi Conference on Earth System Governance, currently a senior fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research and an associate researcher of the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik. Steffen Bauer is a senior researcher at the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik.

Nacsa Lőrinc, az IKSZ elnöke szombati budapesti sajtótájékoztatója után az MTI-nek elmondta: vállalkozói fórumokkal, célzott gazdaságfejlesztési pályázatokkal is segítené a kárpátaljai fiatal vállalkozókat az Ifjúsági Kereszténydemokrata Szövetség. A kárpátaljaiakat is szeretnék bevonni a Kárpát-medencei magyar fiatal vállalkozók ernyőszervezetébe, amelynek létrehozását pár héttel korábban jelentették be.

Nacsa Lőrinc, az Ifjúsági Kereszténydemokrata Szövetséga elnöke és Dobsa István, a Kárpátaljai Magyar Kulturális Szövetség ifjúsági szervezetének elnöke

Az IKSZ elnöke elmondta, hogy Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg megye és Kárpátalja között szeretnének vállalkozói fórumokat indítani 35 év alatti fiataloknak.

A kereszténydemokrata politikus emlékeztetett arra, hogy nemrég négyszáz kárpátaljai magyar vállalkozó írt alá gazdaságfejlesztési pályázati szerződést Beregszászon. Azt szeretnék, ha a jövőben célzottan a fiatal vállalkozókhoz is eljutnának hasonló támogatások.

Elérnék azt is, hogy a magyar egyetemek további, emeltebb összegű ösztöndíjat juttassanak kárpátaljai fiataloknak, akik így versenyképest tudást szerezve a közösséget tudják otthon építeni.

Rámutatott: Ukrajnával kapcsolatban a legfontosabb a stabilitás és a béke, hogy a magyar emberek és minden ott élő polgár biztonságban legyen.

Nacsa Lőrinc a sajtótájékoztató keretében adta át székesfehérvári IKSZ kárpátaljai fiataloknak gyűjtött adományát a Kárpátaljai Magyar Kulturális Szövetség ifjúsági szervezetének. Mint jelezte: a gyűjtés lényege az volt, hogy a diákok, fiatalok lemondtak valamiről, aminek az összegét felajánlották. Így 5-600 forintonként gyűlt össze közel félmillió forint.

Dobsa István, a Kárpátaljai Magyar Kulturális Szövetség ifjúsági szervezetének elnöke megköszönte a magyar kormány folyamatos és egyre bővülő támogatását.

Kiemelte, hogy a segítségnyújtás már nemcsak az intézményrendszert, a pedagógusokat, az egészségügyi dolgozókat érinti, hanem elindult a gazdaság fejlesztését célzó program is. Nagyon fontosnak nevezte az ottani magyarság megmaradása szempontjából, hogy legyenek erős fiatal vállalkozók és vállalkozások Kárpátalján.

Mindkét ifjúsági szervezet vezetője beszélt a vasárnapi romániai parlamenti választásokról, és arra biztatta az erdélyi és az országaik területén élő, román állampolgársággal bíró magyar fiatalokat, hogy menjenek el választani. Rámutattak: erős magyar képviselet szükséges a bukaresti parlamentben ahhoz, hogy a magyar érdekek megfelelően legyenek képviselve, és a magyarság megküzdhessen azért, ami jár neki.

Objet de nombreuses polémiques et de tiraillements partisans, la loi de finances 2017 a été adoptée par les députés tunisiens le samedi 10 décembre.

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Objet de nombreuses polémiques et de tiraillements partisans, la loi de finances 2017 a été adoptée par les députés tunisiens le samedi 10 décembre.

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EU Ministers of Foreign and European Affairs meet in Brussels on 13 December 2016 to finalise preparations for the December European Council, adopt conclusions on enlargement and be informed on the state of play of the mid-term review of the multi-annual financial framework 2014-2020.

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A címvédő Real Madrid a Napolival mérkőzik a labdarúgó-Bajnokok Ligája nyolcaddöntőjében. A csoportgyőzteseket hétfőn Nyonban a csoportmásodikokkal sorsolták össze.
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Quiconque n’est pas au fait de la chose militaire ne peut imaginer le nombre d’ouvrages qui traitent de ce sujet. Le 8e forum de la pensée militaire, qui s’est tenu hier dans le péristyle de l’hôtel de ville, est là pour en témoigner. Lire la suite sur lanouvellerepublique.fr  

Bűnvádi eljárást indított a DNA Dan Nica volt távközlési és Alexandru Athanasiu volt oktatási miniszter ellen, akiket hivatali hatalommal való visszaéléssel gyanúsítanak a Microsoft 2 néven ismertté vált ügyben.
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Pour la première fois, la justice serbe organise, à partir de ce lundi 12 décembre, le procès d’auteurs présumés du massacre de Srebrenica, en Bosnie, en 1995. Nedjelko Milidragovic, surnommé « Nedjo le boucher », comparaît avec sept autres membres d’une unité policière spéciale.

La Banque africaine de développement va soutenir financièrement le projet d'électrification rurale, périurbaine et urbaine du Niger (Pepern) afin de renforcer la capacité de production du pays et de l'aider à fournir de l'électricité à la totalité de sa population d'ici neuf ans.

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La Banque africaine de développement va soutenir financièrement le projet d'électrification rurale, périurbaine et urbaine du Niger (Pepern) afin de renforcer la capacité de production du pays et de l'aider à fournir de l'électricité à la totalité de sa population d'ici neuf ans.

Cet article La BAD investit 65 millions dans l’électrification du Niger est apparu en premier sur JeuneAfrique.com.