Esma Redžepova vient de mourir des suite d'une longue maladie. Elle était née en 1943 à Šutka, le faubourg rrom de Skopje. Sa carrière avait commencé en 1958 quand elle participe au radio crochet Le microphone est à vous sur la chaîne nationale macédonienne. C'est là qu'elle est repérée par le musicien Stevo Teodosievski, qui finit par persuader ses parents de l'emmener avec lui.
Avec l'Ansambl Teodosievski, la jeune Esma se produit sur les scènes du monde entier, de New York à Sydney en passant par Paris, (...)
Joli "caillou" hérissé d'antennes!
Cette montagne, qui domine Fort Carson (ville de garnison de la 4e division d'infanterie US), cache la base aérienne de Cheyenne Mountain. Une base sans piste et sans avions, nichée au cœur de la montagne. Mais c'est là qu'est en partie (des activités sont délocalisées à Peterson AFB, aussi localisée près de Colorado Spring) abrité le NORAD (le Commandement de la défense aérospatiale de l’Amérique du Nord).
Ce fameux Commandement de la défense aérospatiale de l’Amérique du Nord fête la 61e édition de sa célèbre expédition "sur la piste du père Noël"! En 1955, une erreur d’impression dans le numéro de téléphone du père Noël amis en contact les enfants de Colorado Springs qui appelaient et le commandant du centre des opérations de la défense aérienne continentale (CONAD, l'ancêtre du NORAD). Les militaires ont joué le jeu. C’est ainsi qu’est née la tradition que perpétue le NORAD depuis sa création, en 1958.
Le site web "sur la piste du père Noël", www.noradsanta.org, lancé le 1er décembre, met en vedette le village du père Noël au pôle Nord, avec notamment un compte à rebours, des jeux et des activités des Fêtes.
Il est possible d’accéder au site Web en huit langues : anglais, français, espagnol, allemand, italien, japonais, portugais et chinois. On peut également suivre le père Noël sur Facebook, Twitter, YouTube et Google+. Les abonnés du père Noël n’ont qu’à entrer le mot-clic « @noradsanta » dans le média social de leur choix pour débuter.
Le 24 décembre, les visiteurs du site pourront voir le père Noël s’affairer aux derniers préparatifs en prévision de son envolée. Les caméras du père Noël du NORAD diffuseront des vidéos des différentes étapes du voyage du père Noël sur le site Web.
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Au moins 20 personnes ont été tuées dimanche matin dans un attentat-suicide au camion piégé près de l'entrée du port de Mogadiscio, a annoncé la police somalienne. L'attaque a été revendiquée par les insurgés islamistes Shebab, affiliés à l'Al-Qaïda.
Cet article Somalie : plus de 20 morts dans l’explosion d’un véhicule à Mogadiscio est apparu en premier sur JeuneAfrique.com.
December 10, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - National, regional and international aid groups are working for the opening of a new camp of South Sudanese refugees in East Darfur.
El-Nimir refugee camp which is located at 13 km west of the state capital, Ed Daein, will host 10,000 refugees from Raja in South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal State who are in search of food and protection.
Sudanese and international officials say they didn't expect this important influx of South Sudanese to Darfur and East Darfur particularly. Also, they explain that this new camp aimed to congestion Khor Omer camp as the number of refugees has reached over 56,000 people.
The UN OCHA reported that the UNHCR and the Sudanese Red Crescent Society (SRCS) have demarcated 400 land plots. Also, Sudanese NGO Global Aid Hand (GHA) will build a child-friendly space and support on the identification and protection of unaccompanied children.
The Care International –Switzerland (CIS) will oversee water and sanitation services and will rehabilitate two existing boreholes; as well as extending 1,500 metres of water pipes from the village bore hole to the refugee camp.
UNHCR will build a reception centre and provide shelter and non-food items. Also, Qatar Red Crescent Society will assist in shelter, sanitation and primary health care services.
While the American Refugee Committee (ARC) will soon provide health and nutrition services to the camp residents. The World Health Organization (WHO) will supply medicines and also support ARC in running primary health care services for refugees in the Abu Jabra area, including free medication.
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(B2) Tunisie, Syrie, Libye, Egypte… le sable devient mouvant pour les Européens dans leur voisinage sud.
Dans toutes ces crises, notre confrère spécialiste du Moyen-Orient, correspondant à Bruxelles, Salim Badaoui, avec Hela Sahli, décryptent pas à pas les évènements, les déclarations européennes, souvent hasardeuses, parfois contradictoires… et la suite de ces déclarations, qui est parfois très limitée. L’attitude notamment de la Haute représentante d’alors, Catherine Ashton, est scrutée.
En 2010-2011, la révolution de Jasmin en Tunisie surprend les Européens. Ils croyaient le régime de Ben Ali stable et solide. Patatras tout s’écroule. En quelques mois, la politique européenne dans le pays est revue, mettant davantage l’accent sur la démocratie. Mais le soutien affirmé officiellement est-il réel sur le terrain ?
En 2011, en Libye, la victoire militaire n’a pas vraiment été suivie d’une stabilisation politique. Les Européens ont-ils eu raison de s’impliquer militairement dans la crise libyenne ?
En Syrie, en 2012, la révolte civile — soutenue par les occidentaux — se transforme en conflit civil violent — où les Européens ne sont plus audibles. L’Europe pouvait-elle agir ? N’a-t-elle pas pêché par naïveté en appelant au départ de Bachar sans avoir les moyens de cette politique. La naissance dans l’Irak voisin de l’organisation de l’état islamique était-elle prévisible ?
En 2013, ils misaient sur une avancée démocratique en Égypte après les évènements de la place Tahar, la place prise par les frères musulmans rend silencieux les Européens — à une ou deux exceptions près — face au coup d’état militaire.
Un livre, court, qui se lit facilement et captivant car il met à nu une politique moins connue de l’Europe dans un voisinage explosif.
December 10, 2016 (JUBA) - The chief of South Sudan army (SPLA), Paul Malong Awan has warned government soldiers not to be aggressive towards foreign troops coming to compliment and strengthen the protecting and fighting capacity of the forces under the new mandate of United Nations Mission in South Sudan UNMISS).
Speaking to soldiers during a parade at the army's general headquarters on Friday, Awan said he received orders from the president, also commander in-chief of the army, instructing the SPLA to respect foreign forces and protect civilians during their engagements with armed opposition forces in the country.
“Civilians are not our targets. We are the government. Our mandate is to protect the constitution and territorial integrity of the country against foreign forces and for those who wants to undermine the sovereignty of the country, whether those wanting to do this comes from within or outside”, Awan told the state-owned SSBC.
The top level military officer urged the command and military officers to cooperate with the forth coming foreign troops, saying they were not their immediate enemies, but coming to supplement efforts to ensure stability.
Awan's remarks came in the wake of a statement attributed to Japan's Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, in which she said Japanese forces were deployed to the country under Self-Defense Force (SDF) and could be withdrawn if security conditions deteriorate.
“The situation could abruptly change so we will consistently gather necessary information for ensuring safety,” Inada said in a recent media interview with various news outlets. Her comments come ahead of Monday, when the SDF personnel stationed in the new country begin operating under expanded guidelines that allow them to respond to requests by U.N. staff and others in need of assistance, such as if they come under attack.
Inada said she is “not concerned” about the new mission, which is in line with the nation's new security legislation that gives SDF personnel greater operational leeway.
The SDF troops “are well trained” and the officer commanding the unit in South Sudan “is a person who can assess the situation calmly,” the minister added.
More than 270 people died in Juba in July due to large-scale clashes between government forces and rebels. While admitting that the overall security situation in South Sudan is tough, the Japanese government has said Juba is relatively calm.
“If gun battles last longer than the (July) fighting, and the SDF cannot secure their own safety, it is possible that we would consider their withdrawal,” Inada said.
The new role legally includes operations to rescue foreign military personnel, but Inada said such a scenario “is not expected to arise. Foreign troops can protect themselves.”
The rescue mission remains controversial at home, with some critics warning that the new role could lead SDF members to become embroiled in overseas military actions for the first time since World War II, in possible violation of the country's war-renouncing Constitution.
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December 10, 2016 (JUBA) - South Sudan government claimed Sudanese security agents arrested a representative of armed opposition faction led by its former First Vice-President, Riek Machar in the capital, Khartoum and closed down their offices.
The Sudanese National Security, several opposition and government sources disclosed, arrested Gatbang Riir Puk, the armed opposition representative in Khartoum. Machar appointed Puk as the movement representative to Sudan in July.
Offices of the movement were allegedly closed down after his arrest and all documents confiscated, sources told Sudan Tribune Saturday.
He did not however, confirm or deny when contacted on Saturday, instead describing relations between the movement and the Sudanese government as “excellent and look forwarding to strengthening them further for mutual interest of the citizens of the two countries, regardless of whoever is in the control of the affairs”.
Unconfirmed reports had claimed that the Sudan National Security were preparing to arrest more supporters of Riek Machar and deport them to south Sudanese capital, Juba, in honour of the Security Agreement signed in August by the Ministers of Defense of the South and Sudan.
Meanwhile, spokesman of the ministry of foreign affairs and international cooperation, Mawien Makol, claimed in a separate interview that government was hoping Khartoum would cease helping South Sudanese opposition groups from using Sudanese territory to wage war against Juba.
"We haven't asked Khartoum to close any rebel offices in their territory but we asked Sudan to refrain from supporting opposing members of the government of South Sudan to create an environment that will help us implement the cooperation agreement," Makol said.
Makol said South Sudan was committed to implementing agreements signed with Sudan, adding that members of a joint border committee from both countries recently met in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to fast-track the process of addressing boundary disputes.
He urged the Sudanese government to desist from making contradictory statements that may hamper efforts to restore full ties between the two neighbors and to give more time for the implementation of the signed deal.
Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir in October gave South Sudan until the end of 2016 to implement the cooperation agreement signed between the two countries in 2012.
The joint cooperation agreement provides mechanisms for oil and trade, security, border demarcation as well as status of citizens.
South Sudan accuses Khartoum of supporting opposition forces loyal to Machar while Khartoum accuses Juba of hosting and supporting armed groups fighting against the Sudanese regime in Kordofan and Blue Nile regions.
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