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Kosovo : le meurtre d'un couple de Serbes remet en cause le fragile processus des retours
Justice, minorités, retour des réfugiés, État de droit : zéro pointé pour le Kosovo
Kosovo : le ras-le-bol des Serbes
Kosovo : corruption et mauvaise volonté bloquent le retour des déplacés serbes
Kosovo : retour d'un petit groupe de Serbes à Pristina
Le retour n'est toujours pas possible pour les réfugiés rrom et ashkali du Kosovo
L'accord entre Belgrade et Pristina divise les Serbes du Kosovo
Kosovo : 20 ans de prison pour d'anciens policiers serbes

/ Courrier des Balkans, Kosovo, Populations, minorités et migrations, dialogue Kosovo Serbie

Kosovo : le meurtre d'un couple de Serbes remet en cause le fragile processus des retours
Justice, minorités, retour des réfugiés, État de droit : zéro pointé pour le Kosovo
Kosovo : le ras-le-bol des Serbes
Kosovo : corruption et mauvaise volonté bloquent le retour des déplacés serbes
Kosovo : retour d'un petit groupe de Serbes à Pristina
Le retour n'est toujours pas possible pour les réfugiés rrom et ashkali du Kosovo
L'accord entre Belgrade et Pristina divise les Serbes du Kosovo
Kosovo : 20 ans de prison pour d'anciens policiers serbes

/ Courrier des Balkans, Kosovo, Populations, minorités et migrations, dialogue Kosovo Serbie

August 27, 2016(BOR) - The office of governor of South Sudan's Jonglei state has described an "error" the increases in the number of the state counties from 11 to 14.

Jonglei state governor, Phillip Aguer speaks during the independence occassion July 9, 2016 (ST)

In a 2 May, decree No. 12/2016, Philip Aguer established 11 new counties in Bor.

The increase in the number of counties from 3 to 11, he said, came as a result of the demand of the people in the state, who wanted more administrative units closer to them.

Among the new counties, Bor county was divided into Bor South county (Kolnyang), Bor East county (Anyidi), Bor Centre county (Makuach), Bor West county (Baidit) and Bor North county (Jalle).

Also, Twic East county was divided into Twic North county (Panyagor), Twic Center county (Wangulei) and Twic South county (Adubaar/Maar). Similarly, former Duk county also have Duk Padiet county (Padiet), Duk Payuel county (Payuel) and Panyang county (Pajut).

Furthermore, the current commissioners of the former counties of Bor,Twic East and Duk counties shall continue to run the 11 new counties until further order is established.

But according order of 17 August 2016, the President of South Sudan has signed a document showing the number and names of the new counties in the 28 states.

In this order, Jonglei state appeared to have 14 counties. Three out of these had been added, namely Athooc county, Anyidi Makuach county and Kolnyang county.

These has therefore brought the number of counties to eight from the former Bor county.

Aguer told Sudan Tribune that this was an error from the office of the president.

“We have 11 new counties in Jonglei state. And there has been a lot of mess up in the names and in the number of the counties. This did not happen only in Jonglei state, but in other states, even in Boma and in other states of Bahre Al Gazal, other states of Equartoria. And the document was presented to the councils of states. And the councils of states presented [it ]to the presidency”, Aguer said Wednesday.

“And recently, we have received a final document, and this final document has indicated the counties that we want”, he added.

He said his office would consider only 11 counties and left out the three "error" counties.

“I think part of it is confusion in the typing in the office of the president. But we will not go by the confusion; we will take the real counties. The number here is even 14 [counties], but we don't have 14. So that is a printing error," stressed Aguer.

He also went as far as naming the counties believed to have resulted from the typing error.

“There is Athooc, which is an error, there is Anyidi-Makuach, which is an error, there is Kolnyang which again is an error. So we will have 11 counties out of this document, which is signed by the president of Republic of South Sudan, and that will go into the budgeting planning”, explained the governor.

“By the end of this month, we will embark on the appointment of new commissioners. So we will have new commissioners by the end of August”, he added.

On Saturday, elders, elites and intellectuals of former Bor county, living in Bor town, met in Bor, to find a common ground on the nnumber counties. The people, who got divided into payams, presented their views to the acting chairperson of Bor community and the present Bor county commissioner and the members of parliament.

Their resolution further indicated that former Bor county had accepted the eight new counties instead. Majority of people described it as a genuine number of counties that people of Bor deserved based on the their populations results of 2008 census.

(ST).

Le tourisme en Albanie, la grande illusion
Tourisme en Albanie : les vestiges du communisme font recette
Albanie : l'écotourisme, une alternative au tourisme de masse sur la côte sud
L'Albanie doit choisir : les déchets ou le tourisme ?
Tourisme en Albanie : plus de lois, plus de qualité ?
Tourisme culturel et de découverte : le potentiel méconnu de l'Albanie
Albanie : la côte sud défigurée par le tourisme de masse
Albanie : un plan ambitieux de développement du tourisme sur la côte sud

/ Dialogplus, Tourisme balkans, Albanie, Culture et éducation

Le tourisme en Albanie, la grande illusion
Tourisme en Albanie : les vestiges du communisme font recette
Albanie : l'écotourisme, une alternative au tourisme de masse sur la côte sud
L'Albanie doit choisir : les déchets ou le tourisme ?
Tourisme en Albanie : plus de lois, plus de qualité ?
Tourisme culturel et de découverte : le potentiel méconnu de l'Albanie
Albanie : la côte sud défigurée par le tourisme de masse
Albanie : un plan ambitieux de développement du tourisme sur la côte sud

/ Dialogplus, Tourisme balkans, Albanie, Culture et éducation

By Jim Yong Kim

Africa needs much more investment from the private sector to build its roads, energy and communications infrastructure. But for countries to make the most use of that infrastructure, they also need to invest more in people — - in brain power and “gray matter” infrastructure, to realize their demographic dividend that fuels inclusive economic growth.

This week in Nairobi, Kenya, at the sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development, African countries and their partners must grasp this unprecedented opportunity to chart a course toward universal health coverage, or UHC. This initiative, which is being led by the government of Japan, a global champion of UHC, is critical to Africa's future growth and prosperity. The World Bank Group will announce today a $15 billion commitment over the next five years to accelerate universal health coverage in Africa.

Better health and survival rates — particularly for mothers and children — are linked to economic growth. The evidence is overwhelming: The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health found that survival gains contribute disproportionately to economic growth in Africa. Improved early childhood nutrition, early stimulation and early learning programs extend school completion and improve learning outcomes, and in turn, increase adult wages. The commission also found that investments in universal health coverage pay off at a rate of as high as 10 to 1.

Our alignment around UHC needs to, first and foremost, assess the current state of health in Africa. Continued high levels of mortality for mothers and children, along with high rates of undernutrition, are top priorities where accelerated progress is possible and necessary. These must be balanced with the growing demands for chronic care associated with non-communicable diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Africa's brave and successful struggles with neglected tropical diseases such as guinea worm and river blindness, along with its meteoric progress in the fights against malaria and HIV, are evidence of what is possible.

Yet the recent outbreaks of Ebola, yellow fever, and new cases of polio in Nigeria are sobering reminders of the shared responsibility that all countries have in making sure that their health services are not only universal in name —but in practice. Against this challenging landscape of health needs, African leaders need to embrace ambitious reforms in services and financing.

Frontline primary health care services led by community health workers, with appropriate referral for essential hospital care and emergency outbreak response capacity, are the defining service pillars of universal health coverage. Breakthroughs in these models of care are in evidence across the continent.

But universal coverage of essential services requires a fundamental shift in the way health care is financed. UHC means changing from a pay-as-you-go system — which punishes the poor for being sick and led to the impoverishment of more than 11 million people in Africa in 2014 alone — to pre-paying for health, which promotes prompt access when people are ill, and protects the poor. We need to put money directly in the hands of poor women, through cash transfer programs that offer universal health, education and nutrition entitlements to these women and their children, and are strongly associated with inclusive growth.

Donor assistance needs to more effectively support UHC expansion in countries. Through the Global Financing Facility, we are working with countries to achieve smarter, scaled and sustainable financing for their health sectors. We know, however, that even the best-prepared and financed health systems can be overwhelmed in the context of an epidemic. This is why at the G7 meeting in May, we launched the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, an innovative, fast-disbursing global financing mechanism designed to help stop the next outbreak before it becomes an epidemic.

We must continue to invest in what works – such as the scale-up of bed nets to protect people from malaria, the use of drones to deliver life-saving medical supplies to remote villages, and the deployment of thousands of new community health workers across Africa. We can harness this potential more systematically and ultimately create more jobs while delivering better health outcomes.

With the right investments, we can save the lives of millions of people, help people lift themselves out of extreme poverty, and ensure that all people are healthier and live longer and more productive lives. This is within Africa's reach, and one foundation for the prosperity of the continent will be commitments to universal health coverage.

The author is President of the World Bank Group.

(B2) La force militaire internationale de stabilisation en Afghanistan (Force internationale d'assistance à la sécurité FIAS/ IFAS) prend fin en décembre 2014. La présence internationale ne cesse pas. Après avoir hésité sur leur présence dans le pays, les Américains (et l'OTAN) décident de rester avec une force, plus limitée, et aux fonctions moins ambitieuses. La […]

De nombreux maires ayant publié un arrêté anti-burkini ont décidé de le maintenir malgré la décision du Conseil d'État. L'avocat de la Ligue des droits de l'Homme affirme que ces arrêtés "vont être attaqués" comme l'a été celui de Villeneuve-Loubet.

August 27, 2016 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan People's Liberation Movement – North (SPLM-N) Saturday has called on the United States Special Envoy Donald Booth to help to secure the release of detained pastors and activists in Sudan.

Sudanese Presidential Assistant Ibrahim Mahmoud, (L) shakes hands with U.S. Special Envoy Donald Booth at his office in Khartoum on July 29, 2016 (ST Photo)

Last week a Sudanese court began the trial of two Sudanese Christian pastors, a Czech missionary filmmaker and a human rights activist. The four are accused of conducting intelligence activities and providing material support for the rebels in South Kordofan.

Ahead of Booth's visit to Khartoum, SPLM-N Secretary General Yasir Arman disclosed in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune that he requested the U.S. special envoy to advocate for their release.

“SPLM-N Secretary General on Friday phoned the US special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan who is on his way to Khartoum about the attacks on Sudanese Christians especially the trial of Christian pastors from the Nuba Mountains and civil society activists including, Rev. Kuwa Shamal, Rev. Hassan Abdel Rahim, activist Abdel-Moneim and Czech journalist Petr Jasek,” said the statement .

According to the statement, the US diplomat stressed that the American embassy in Khartoum is following this “important issue”.

"The Secretary-General sent the same message to the other international envoys to Sudan" added the statement, underlining that the issue is related to the "right of citizenship without discrimination and to ensure basic human rights".

The SPLM-N and two armed groups in Darfur signed earlier this month a Roadmap Agreement providing to negotiate cessation of hostilities and humanitarian access agreements with the government.

The rebel groups and the government are expected to resume talks within two week to finalize the humanitarian truce before to hold a meeting to discuss other confidence building measures including basic freedoms. These steps are supposed to pave the way for their return to Khartoum to take part in a constitutional conference.

In a related development the SPLM-N formed a 23-member committee to reach the international community and to campaign for the rights of Sudanese Christians .

(ST)

En Italie, après le séisme qui a frappé le centre du pays mercredi 24 août, les secours continuent de fouiller les décombres. Au bilan humain du tremblement de terre très lourd, 290 morts et de nombreux blessés, s'ajoutent les dégâts sur le patrimoine historique. Au moins une dizaine de villages ont été très endommagés. Le village de Pescara del Tronto est entièrement détruit et celui d'Amatrice, l'un des plus beaux, est aussi très touché.

Le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, Ban Ki-moon, s'est dit « profondément préoccupé » par la situation tendue dans l'étroite zone tampon au sud-ouest du Sahara occidental entre la berme marocaine et la frontière mauritanienne suite à des changements dans le statu quo et à l'introduction d'unités armées du Maroc et du Polisario proches les unes des autres.

August 27, 2016 (JUBA)- The head of the Jieng Council of Elders (JCE), has commended the decision by President Salva Kiir to disown hostile statements from members of his administration towards the United Nations, saying it demonstrated wisdom and responsibility.

President adresses a joint press conference on 9 July 2016 (Reuters Photo)

“The country is in crisis and for this reason there is a need to exercise strong leadership and take decisions and actions which may be protested by others but which are necessary and good for the interest of the country. The world was waiting to hear what he would say in the parliament. So he acted wisely," said Ambrose Riiny Thiik.

"He [Kiir] demonstrated strong leadership and should people appreciate the address and support the speech", he added.

A former chief of justice in the regional administration before South Sudan seceded from Sudan, Thiik said Africa's newest nation was not an island to be isolated from the region.

The JCE is a tribal group largely comprising of relatives to the president and Dinka politicians loyal to him who mainly act as informal advisors to the South Sudanese leader.

“Yes, we are a sovereign state. We are independent country. There is no argument about. But the truth of the matter is that we support from other countries because we are part of a family of the world. Because of this the government decided to accept in principle the deployment of the protection force but this what does this mean? It means that they will not automatically be deployed without the approval of the government," stressed Thiik.

He added, "They government will have to get into discussions with IGAD, with the African Union and the United Nations to discuss the specific details of what they would do. There are things government can do, then that will be agreed and left to the government”.

President Kiir recently said those speaking against the deployment of regional protection forces in the South Sudan capital, Juba do not necessarily reflect his government's position.

(ST)

August 27, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Ghandour has said differences that existed among Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have completely been settled.

The Grand Renaissance Dam is under construction on the Blue Nile River in Ethiopia. (Photo AFP/William Lloyd-George)

The Dubai-based Al Bayan newspaper reported on Saturday that Ghandour said relations among the three nations have moved into a new phase, saying they are now considering proposals developed by Egypt in this regard.

Ghandour underscored the three countries have overcome the differences on the GERD, saying the international consultants would achieve solutions pertaining to the technical aspects of the project.

He pointed the three countries are currently developing a strategic cooperation agreement covering political, security and economic issues that serve the interests of their peoples and the region.

The Sudanese top diplomat pointed that leaders of three nations would meet soon to discuss the latest developments pertaining to the GERD, saying they would also discuss ways to enhance tripartite cooperation and to establish a comprehensive development fund.

Last year, Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia signed a declaration of principles on the dam project that tacitly approves the dam construction but calls for technical studies aimed at safeguarding the water quotas of the three riparian states.

On September 22, 2014, a tripartite committee from the three countries proposed the conduction of two additional studies on the dam project, the first one on the effect of the dam on the water quota of Sudan and Egypt and the second one to examine the dam's ecological, economic and social impacts of the dam on Sudan and Egypt.

The French Artelia and BRL groups have been selected to undertake the dam impact studies. The U.K.-based law firm Corbett & Co was selected to manage the legal affairs of the tripartite committee.

Last month, Egyptian Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Mohamed Abdel Ati said the final contracts on the impact studies of the GERD would be signed within a few days. However, the three nations are yet to sign the contracts.

The multi-billion dollar dam is being constructed on the Blue Nile, about 20 kilometres from the Sudanese border, and has a capacity of 74 billion cubic meters, and is expected to generate electrical power of up to 6,000 megawatts.

Egypt is concerned that the dam could reduce its quota of 55.5 billion cubic meters of the Nile water, while the Ethiopian side maintains that the dam is primarily built to produce electricity and will not harm Sudan and Egypt.

Last May, Ethiopia's Minister of Information and Communication Getachew Reda said the GERD is almost 70% complete.

(ST)

August 27, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's First Vice-President Bakri Hassan Salih on Saturday has discussed with the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni bilateral ties between Kampala and Khartoum and the regional developments.

Sudan's President Omer Hassan al-Bashir waits to welcome Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni at Khartoum Airport September 15, 2015 (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)

The meeting was held on the sidelines of the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) in Nairobi, Kampala.

Sudan's official news agency (SUNA) quoted the Sudanese Foreign Minister as saying that the meeting also discussed the ongoing arrangements for the upcoming visit of the Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir to Kampala besides the meeting of the joint security and political committees between the two countries.

Following ten years of strained relations, Museveni visited Khartoum last September where he and al-Bashir agreed to work together to bring stability in South Sudan and the region, and to end tensions between the two countries over the issue of rebel groups.

Last May, al-Bashir, who was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity, was one of the dignitaries at President's Yoweri Museveni's inauguration in Kampala.

The two presidents held a short meeting on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony where Museveni invited Bashir to visit Kampala again within the framework of bilateral relations.

Uganda is a state party to the Rome Statute and has an obligation to arrest the Sudanese president.

However, during his inauguration, Museveni described the ICC as a “bunch court” to be ignored by African leaders, downplaying the its case against the Sudanese president.

(ST)

August 27, 2016 (JUBA) - Regional countries that negotiated South Sudanese shaky peace agreement have signalled recognizing controversially appointed new First Vice President Taban Deng Gai according to media reports.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said Gai is "naturally accommodated" by provisions of the Agreement to Resolve Conflict In Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS). The agreement gave position of first Vice President to SPLM in opposition leader Riek Machar. Machar fled was sworn in April but fled Juba in Juba when his bodyguards clashed with thousands of soldiers loyal to President Slava Kiir.

In an email message to the press on Friday, Sharon Kuku, a spokesperson for the IGAD states, said that the decision by Juba to replace Machar has never being rejected by IGAD.

"[This decision] is naturally accommodated by IGAD and IGAD did not stop Gen. Deng from attending the summit nor speaking for the South Sudan government," said Kuku as quoted by Kenyan independent newspaper, Nation.

IGAD statement is the second such utterance after the United States Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters in Nairobi on Monday that Machar replacement is "legal" under the provisions of the peace accord.

The top U.S diplomat's statement was echoed by State Department spokeswoman on Friday in Washington.

US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudea said that ''the [peace] agreement provides the top leadership of the armed opposition the power to nominate a new first vice president if that position is vacant.''

Machar supporters said the replacement is illegal and insist that Gai is an illegal First Vice President.

But Machar's silence, after exiting South Sudan to Democratic Republic of Congo and being hospitalized in Khartoum, Sudan last week, is fuelling speculations that he is not capable of making his comeback in politics.

Analysts say the diplomatic change of position is attempt to persuade Juba to allow United Nations Security Council-authorized 4,000 troops to be allowed deployment in Juba. The government has rejected the extra troops, claiming it's an attempt to effect regime change. But president Kiir has since softened his stance rejection to the force.

(ST)

August 27, 2016 (JUBA)- South Sudan president Salva Kiir warned on Saturday that any attempt to impose a return to power his main political rival and the leader of armed opposition, Riek Machar, will prolong the war and increases the suffering of the people.

Riek Machar, left, first vice president of the Republic of South Sudan, and Salva Kiir, the president, at the first meeting of the new transitional coalition government in Juba, South Sudan, in April, 2016 (Jason Patinkin/AP)

Machar was replaced as the country's first vice president when he left the capital, Juba days after his forces clashed with those loyal to Kiir outside the presidential palace.

“What is that they want in South Sudan? If it is peace and end of sufferings, they should wait and see whether comrade Taban and I will do. We know our people are suffering and for this comrade Taban and his group have agreed in principle with me to cooperate to implement this agreement”, he said.

The South Sudanese leader made these remarks after receiving a security briefing from is advisor on security affairs, Tut Kew Gatluak and the security team comprising of the director general for external bureau at the national security service, Thomas Duoth.

Kiir, according to a close aide, opposed diplomatic engagements pushing him to reinstate Machar as first vice president and indicate readiness to work with the latter.

“If they are for peace, they should work with us and the transitional government of national unity to implement this agreement. We do not want more time to be wasted again. If it is because of war is reason they want to send more troops, let them give us and see what we will do and let them talk to Riek to denounce violence and wait elections," stressed the South Sudanese leader.

When time comes for election, nobody will stop him to contest for whichever position he wants but he should not continue to agitate for war to prolong suffering because he is not part of this government”, he added.

(ST)

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