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Avec le judo, le Kosovo pèse lourd sur les JO de Tokyo
JO de Tokyo : Lana Pudar, la nageuse sans piscine qui fait briller la Bosnie-Herzégovine
Covid-19 : grâce la Chine, la Serbie vaccine à tour de bras

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Avec le judo, le Kosovo pèse lourd sur les JO de Tokyo
JO de Tokyo : Lana Pudar, la nageuse sans piscine qui fait briller la Bosnie-Herzégovine
Covid-19 : grâce la Chine, la Serbie vaccine à tour de bras

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Avec le judo, le Kosovo pèse lourd sur les JO de Tokyo
JO de Tokyo : Lana Pudar, la nageuse sans piscine qui fait briller la Bosnie-Herzégovine
Covid-19 : grâce la Chine, la Serbie vaccine à tour de bras

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Avec le judo, le Kosovo pèse lourd sur les JO de Tokyo
JO de Tokyo : Lana Pudar, la nageuse sans piscine qui fait briller la Bosnie-Herzégovine
Covid-19 : grâce la Chine, la Serbie vaccine à tour de bras

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Avec le judo, le Kosovo pèse lourd sur les JO de Tokyo
JO de Tokyo : Lana Pudar, la nageuse sans piscine qui fait briller la Bosnie-Herzégovine
Covid-19 : grâce la Chine, la Serbie vaccine à tour de bras

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Avec le judo, le Kosovo pèse lourd sur les JO de Tokyo
JO de Tokyo : Lana Pudar, la nageuse sans piscine qui fait briller la Bosnie-Herzégovine
Covid-19 : grâce la Chine, la Serbie vaccine à tour de bras

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Avec le judo, le Kosovo pèse lourd sur les JO de Tokyo
JO de Tokyo : Lana Pudar, la nageuse sans piscine qui fait briller la Bosnie-Herzégovine
Covid-19 : grâce la Chine, la Serbie vaccine à tour de bras

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Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait

By Yasmine Sherif
NEW YORK, Aug 9 2021 (IPS)

The first time I visited South Sudan in 2004 – prior to its independence – I travelled across the entire the country which was then a region devastated by man’s inhumanity to man. Although South Sudan is slightly larger than France, I could find only one concrete school building in Rumbek.

Yasmine Sherif

Millions were impacted by the twenty-year civil war and decades of marginalization, and far too many children and their families were internally displaced or had fled the country as refugees to Kenya. Conflict, extreme poverty and a near total absence of infrastructure had left virtually every girl, boy and the youth furthest behind. I will never forget this sight of unspeakable injustice.

Reading and reflecting on ECW’s interview in this month’s Newsletter with the Honourable Awut Deng Acuil, Minister of General Education and Instruction for South Sudan, both deepened my indignation against any injustice – especially against girls and the forcibly displaced – and also gave me immense hope in learning more about such a resilient, experienced and educated female leader – a veteran in education, gender and human rights.

The Honourable Awut Deng Acuil reminds us all of the importance of local ownership, leadership and knowledge, as well as our absolute moral obligation to focus on girls’ and refugees’ education. Her strength, perseverance and dedication – exemplified by her many accomplishments in life – are astonishing and inspiring.

She describes the national context, her own struggles and Education Cannot Wait’s investments in the children of South Sudan in an authentic, genuine way, fully understanding the challenges faced by girls, refugees and children and youth enduring conflict, forced displacement, climate change induced disasters, not to mention COVID-19.

Under her guidance, ECW has worked closely with the government of South Sudan to deliver a $189 million multi-year humanitarian-development-peace nexus education investment. During our first year alone, we reached 116,240 crisis-affected girls and boys in 181 schools with $20 million in seed funds. But these results do not do justice to either their needs, nor to her leadership.

We now call on all our strategic donor partners, governments, private sector and foundations to urgently help close the $169 million funding gap. Under the leadership of an inspiring female leader – the Honorable Awut Den Acuil is South Sudan’s first-ever female Minister of Education – the children and youth of South Sudan now have a chance to have a better future. We cannot afford to look the other way. Our concerted commitment to girls’ education could not be in better hands.

When learning more about the Honorable Awut Den Acuil, and after reading her profound reflection on one of her favorite books, Alice in Wonderland, my thoughts turn to Jeanne d’Arc, who once said: “I am not afraid. I was born to do this.”

Let us not be afraid. Let us learn from those we serve. Or, as the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, once said: “Who are you to teach, and who am I to learn?” This is what localization and real empowerment is all about. This is the Grand Bargain in its essence. Let us invest now in South Sudan – the girls, children with disabilities, forcibly displaced children and all the other children and youth left furthest behind for decades.

With an overall investment of at least $400 million in Education Cannot Wait towards equitable, inclusive, quality education for crisis-affected children and youth around the world, we can help overcome the challenges already being tackled by such extraordinary female leadership in the education sector.

Together, we can drive global commitment for girls’ education and for all those left furthest behind, making a real difference in all their lives. Join us … we were born to do this!

 

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Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait

Le président du principal parti de la coalition conservatrice au pouvoir en Pologne, Jarosław Kaczyński, a annoncé samedi (7 août) la prochaine liquidation du volet disciplinaire d’une réforme controversée du système judiciaire, une décision réclamée par l’UE.

Tausende von Menschen sind aus ihren Häusern auf der griechischen Insel Euböa geflohen, nachdem die Waldbrände am Sonntag (8. August) einen sechsten Tag lang unkontrolliert brannten und Fähren für weitere Evakuierungen bereitstanden. Die Brände auf Euböa, der zweitgrößten Insel Griechenlands,...

The EU has blamed Iran for a drone attack on a merchant ship off Oman in July that killed a Romanian and a UK national. "All available evidence clearly points to Iran," EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell said Sunday, adding: "Such reckless and unilateral actions ... need to stop". The attack took place amid EU-led talks on an Iran nuclear non-proliferation deal, but Borrell did not link the two.

Monténégro : le pouvoir met au pas la direction de la télé publique
Monténégro : la société civile ne veut pas d'une télévision publique aux ordres du pouvoir
Monténégro : l'affaire Jovo Martinović, ou le procès du journalisme indépendant
Monténégro : la liberté de la presse en danger

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Monténégro : le pouvoir met au pas la direction de la télé publique
Monténégro : la société civile ne veut pas d'une télévision publique aux ordres du pouvoir
Monténégro : l'affaire Jovo Martinović, ou le procès du journalisme indépendant
Monténégro : la liberté de la presse en danger

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A truly sustainable economy will need to re-align the financial system around planetary boundaries, not ‘green growth’, writes Lily Tomson, head of networks at ShareAction. The European Environment Agency recently joined the growing list of organisations to acknowledge that there...

24.hu: Több ezer ember menekült el otthonából a görögországi Évia szigetén, vasárnap ugyanis már hatodik napja pusztított megállíthatatlanul az erdőtűz a területen. A kikötőben több hajó állt készenlétben, hogy biztonságos helyre menekítse a lakosokat.

Europe has threatened further sanctions against Lukashenko after a year of intensifying brutality, which has begun to spill across the EU border.

A 76-year-old man shows his vaccination card after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in Kasoa, Ghana. Credit: UNICEF/Francis Kokoroko

By Jeremy Allouche
BRIGHTON, UK, Aug 9 2021 (IPS)

An article published in April 2020 by the World Economic Forum warning that Africa was facing a Covid-19 time bomb was widely shared among the humanitarian sector, with increasing alarm.

Some anticipated a perfect storm in terms of violence against children while others talked about the potential for a hunger pandemic in the Sahel. But none of these catastrophic scenarios have been borne out in either the first or second waves of the pandemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.

There are current concerns regarding an increase of third wave cases, but so far the continent has recorded a far lower fatality rate than Europe.

Yet, despite the many innovations developed by Africans during the pandemic, there has been no acknowledgment that African agency played a part in keeping the numbers of dead and dying from Covid-19 in check.

Instead, this lower fatality rate was attributed to fate, the natural setting or demographics. It is another example of the humanitarian sector acting as a willing accomplice to racial stereotyping.

Instead of challenging an over simplified or “single story” narrative (to use Chimamanda Adichie’s words), it opted to share on a disempowering, attention grabbing headline to describe how Covid-19 had impacted Sub Saharan Africa.

It points to the glaring gap in stories relating to African ingenuity and innovation – despite the number of examples that exist. These were highlighted in the range of responses to Covid-19 seen across the continent.

For example, an ongoing project on African resilience found that , villagers in Côte d’Ivoire dealt with the heavy impact of the pandemic on crop production and trading by borrowing money from micro-finance institutions, leveraged by trading on their personal connection and reputation.

By mobilising their social capital, villagers were able to foreground trust and hope as bankable commodities in rural agriculture.

This innovation challenges the traditional relationship between micro-finance institutions and villagers, and continues to redefine lending procedures even after lockdown. But this type of social innovation and community resilience is barely reported by the media and the humanitarian world.

For too long the humanitarian sector were part of reinforcing a vision of Africa as a rural continent plagued by civil war, state corruption, and suffering from the effects of climate change.

This narrative does not allow for any recognition of how the continent is changing driven by trends including, high population growth and urbanisation, digitisation and economic advancement.

The emergence of a middle class in countries including Côte d’Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Tanzania illustrate the continent’s potential for growth and economic innovation. The failure of the humanitarian sector in general to acknowledge such trends has significant ramifications to the type and nature of work undertaken.

The importance of recognising and dealing with African agency and diversity are fundamental questions for the humanitarian sector, especially at a time where localisation and the humanitarian-development nexus are put forward as the main paradigm and policies to address the sectors’ effectiveness and legitimacy.

The dominance of localization in humanitarian work relies on a simplified understanding of what ‘the local’ is and who ‘the locals’ are, which can result in problematic backlash.

Other research on humanitarian protection in DRC showed that many organisations working in Eastern DRC would categorise Lingala-speaking people from Kinshasa (2400km away) as locals and hire them as local experts, even when they do not speak Swahili and have little understanding of the local context.

Those that are hired have to ‘to speak in the northern way’, that is, to use the jargon and standards developed by international organisations (Sphere, Core Humanitarian Standards), or guidelines and processes (cluster mechanisms, response cycles and Humanitarian Response Plans, Humanitarian Needs Overviews).

As a result, participation of ‘affected communities’ are superficially sought as an ‘add on’ rather than essential to better understanding of local contexts.

The challenges for the sector are to go beyond creating single story narratives and prioritise instead space for African agency and diversity. Of course, funding and political barriers complicate things.

Justifying aid expenditure to domestic audiences means that donors have a low tolerance for financial and reputational risk. As such, aid continues to be provided on the basis of what agencies and donors want to give rather than on what people say they need and want.

In such a supply-driven relationship, paternalistic attitudes that donors know best, make a mockery out of any attempts to enable localisation.

We need a better way forward, focusing on transdisciplinary, decoloniality and reinforce the partnerships between humanitarians and researchers on the one hand, and the collaboration amongst Global North and practitioners and researchers on the other.

To move away from a narrow, single-story narrative of Africa, humanitarian and research relations must at their most fundamental level change from functional and ad hoc collaborations to more equitable partnerships.

 

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The writer is Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and co-director of the Humanitarian Learning Centre, Brighton, UK.

Der Iran will nach Angaben der EU die Verhandlungen über eine Neuauflage des internationalen Atomabkommens rasch fortsetzen. Dies kam entgegen von Fürchten dass der neue konservative Präsident Ebrahim Raisi dem Abkommen skeptisch gegenübersteht. Die iranische Führung sei bereit, „so schnell...

L'empereur mondial de la confrérie Ogboni, Kabiessi Owolobè et huit de ses ministres, sont devant le juge ce mardi 10 août 2021 dans l'affaire « Flagellations infligées à un jeune homme ».

Placé sous convocation alors que huit (8) de ses ministres sont en prison depuis le 19 juillet 2021 dans l'affaire de « flagellations » d'un jeune homme, sa majesté Kabiessi Owolobè, empereur mondial de la confrérie Ogboni sera fixé sur son sort ce mardi 10 août 2021. L'audience des neufs prévenus en flagrant délit s'ouvre au tribunal de première instance de première classe de Cotonou. Ils sont poursuivis pour « coups et blessures volontaires ».
Les faits remontent dans la nuit du 23 au 24 juin 2021. Tout est parti de la diffusion de vidéos de flagellation d'un jeune homme sur les réseaux sociaux le weekend du 18 juillet 2021. Des images insoutenables, accompagnées d'un audio du jeune homme, secrétaire au palais de la confrérie, battu par des ministres de l'empereur mondial de la confrérie Ogboni suite à une opération de Mobile money.
Sa majesté Kabiessi Owo-lobè ainsi que huit de ses ministres ont été interpellés et présentés au procureur de la République le 19 juillet 2021. L'empereur mondial de la confrérie Ogboni a été mis sous convocation. Quant à ses huit ministres ils ont été déposés en prison.
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