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La Commission européenne a décidé de faire appel de l'arrêt rendu en juillet 2020 dans l’affaire des aides d'État irlandaises à Apple. Margrethe Vestager pointe « un certain nombre d'erreurs juridiques » dans l’arrêt du tribunal. Un article d’Euractiv Italie.

Nemzetközi embercsempész-hálózatot számolt fel a rendőrség, a szervezet tagjai fejenként 500 és 1000 euró közötti összegért főleg arab és afrikai országokból érkező illegális migránsokat csempésztek át Szerbián keresztül Magyarországra még 2014-ben – közölte a Készenléti Rendőrség Nemzeti Nyomozó Iroda (KR NNI).

A közlemény szerint a lengyel, líbiai, tunéziai és szír állampolgárokból álló bűnszervezet Magyarországról Nyugat-Európába akarta juttatni a migránsokat. A szervezők és szállítók ellen a KR NNI már korábban befejezte az eljárást, de a banda tagjai ellen a magyar rendőrség mellett az osztrák és német hatóságok is eljárást folytattak, ítélet is külföldön született.

Mint írták: a KR NNI nyomozói azonosítottak egy 34 éves férfit is, aki a biztonsági határzárral akkor még nem védett szerb-magyar határon kísérte át a migránsokat. Ellene nemzetközi és európai elfogató parancsot bocsátottak ki, de kiderült, hogy a körözött férfit időközben Olaszországban más bűncselekmények miatt elítélték, büntetését egy pármai börtönben töltötte.

Szabadulása után az olasz hatóságok pénteken átadták a magyar rendőrségnek a férfit, akit a KR NNI nyomozói hat éve elkövetett bűncselekmények miatt gyanúsítottként hallgatták ki, és őrizetbe vették. Letartóztatásáról várhatóan hétfőn dönt a bíróság – olvasható a közleményben.

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OPINION on a new EU-Africa Strategy – a partnership for sustainable and inclusive development
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Anna Fotyga

Source : © European Union, 2020 - EP

At the beginning of the year, when the revision of the EU Youth Guarantee was being prepared, unemployment rates had been slowly but steadily decreasing for years. The policy instrument that would provide offers to young people who are not...

Le bâtonnier d’Alger Me Abdelmadjid Sellini a eu un malaise lors de l’audience du procès de l’homme d’affaire Mourad Oulmi tenu jeudi dernier à la Cour d’Alger. Et c’est cet « incident », qui a été derrière le mouvement de protestation des avocats. Le président du Syndicat national des magistrats (SNM), Issad Mabrouk, a précisé dans un […]

L’article Malaise de Me Sellini à la Cour d’Alger : le SNM et le bâtonnat d’Alger livrent leurs versions est apparu en premier sur .

Im Zuge der jüngsten Bemühungen um mehr Nachhaltigkeit sind eine Reihe neuer Fachbegriffe entstanden, darunter "Agrarökologie", "Agroforstwirtschaft" und "Urban Farming" (oder städtische Landwirtschaft).

"Agrarforstwirtschaft" wird offenbar immer wichtiger: Der Begriff taucht nun sowohl im Green Deal auf als auch in der neuen Farm to Fork (F2F)-Strategie.

Mohamed Chorfi, président de l’Autorité nationale indépendante des élections (ANIE) a révélé aujourd’hui le 20 septembre, que le début de la campagne électorale pour le référendum de la constitution du 1er  novembre,  aura lieu le 7 octobre. Mohamed Chorfi a déclaré que le processus de révision exceptionnelle des listes électorales a connu une forte dynamique […]

L’article Référendum du 1er novembre : La date de début de la campagne électorale dévoilée est apparu en premier sur .

Le président de la République, Son Excellence Patrice Talon, a déjà pris sa décision quant à sa candidature ou non, pour un second mandat à la présidentielle de 2021. Il l'a fait savoir à travers un entretien accordé au magazine Jeune Afrique.

« A l'heure où je vous parle, ma décision est prise. Je sais si je serai ou non candidat », a confié le chef de l'Etat avant de souligner qu'au moment opportun, il portera le message à ses concitoyens.
Sur la question du parrainage, considérée comme un verrou, Patrice Talon a été rassurant. « Il y aura compétition. Les maires et les députés joueront leur rôle pour parrainer les candidats de leurs choix, lesquels ne relèveront pas tous de la majorité », a-t-il expliqué.

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Er war ganz oben: Delonte West (37) lebte den NBA-Traum, spielte mit Shaquille O'Neal, LeBron James und Dirk Nowitzki. Nun lebt der einstige Multimillionär obdachlos auf der Strasse.

Wer zieht in Wildhaus-Alt St. Johann in den Gemeinderat ein? Der erste Wahlgang bringt keine Entscheidung. Simon Ammann müsste aber stark zulegen, wenn er eine Chance haben will.

According to the European Green Deal, transport accounts for a quarter of the European Union’s greenhouse gas emissions, a substantial contributor to climate change. A 90% decrease in transport emissions, and an increase in renewable energy sources, will be necessary...

Az oktatásügyi minisztérium a COVID-19-pandémiával összefüggésben eddig 66 millió eurót osztott szét az iskolák között. Erről Branislav Gröhling (SaS) oktatási miniszter tájékoztatott a közösségi hálón még pénteken.

Die UBS gewährt Vätern weiterhin zwei Wochen mehr Papizeit als vorgeschrieben: Nachdem die Stimmbürger am Sonntag den zweiwöchigen Vaterschaftsurlaubs angenommen haben, baut die Grossbank ihren bezahlten Vaterschaftsurlaub ab 2021 von zwei auf vier Wochen aus.

Egy, a dél-kínai Hajnan szigetén élő muszlim nemzetiséggel szemben is korlátozásokat alkalmaz Peking - írta internetes kiadásában hétfőn a South China Morning Post (SCMP) című hongkongi lap.

Die SVP steht vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Die Partei kann mit ihrem Hauptthema Zuwanderung nicht mehr mobilisieren. Zu diesem Schluss kommt auch Politologe Claude Longchamp im Blick-TV-Studio.

The UN estimates that 74% of Africans cannot afford healthy diets. That is nearly 1 billion Africans. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS

By Dr Lawrence Haddad and Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko
ADDIS ABABA, Sep 28 2020 (IPS)

One of the biggest revelations of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that people with pre-existing, diet-related conditions such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, are more at risk of suffering severe forms of the disease leading to a need for intensive hospitalization.

In Kenya, for instance, the Ministry of Health in July reported that 16 percent of seriously ill COVID-19 patients had diabetes, while diabetes and hypertension alone accounted for 47 percent of the COVID-19 deaths linked to pre-existing conditions.

According to WHO data, these chronic diet-related conditions were among the main risk factors for illness and mortality in Africa prior to COVID-19. The current crisis is simply throwing fuel on the fire. It has highlighted the criticality of diet as the key determinant of health of individuals and populations, particularly in urban areas, where an increased uptake of highly-processed and unhealthy foods is increasingly undermining regional nutrition goals.

In fact, data from countries in East and Southern Africa published in the Journal of International Development show that highly-processed foods now account for more than one third of the purchased food market. Not all of these foods are unhealthy, but many are, and combined with the availability of cheap, convenient and tasty street foods, the result is cheap food that is high in saturated and trans fats, salt and sugar.

Long-term solutions must be sought, a process that demands the involvement of all the world’s leaders from communities, governments, civil society and the private sector. The challenge is clear: how to incentivize food producers, processors, distributors and marketers to make nutritious food more available and affordable? 

To change these devastating trends fresh foods such as vegetables, fruits, high-protein legumes, nuts, eggs and fish must become more widely available and much more affordable in Africa’s food markets. Healthy diets are often inaccessible to most of Africa’s population.

The UN estimates that 74% of Africans cannot afford healthy diets. That is nearly 1 billion Africans. This is shocking and unacceptable. These numbers are only likely to rise during this time of a pandemic, where job cuts have greatly reduced people’s spending power and lockdowns have broken food supply chains, further increasing food prices, especially the prices of perishable fresh foods.

Temporary and very partial workarounds include the expansion of social protection programmes such as in Nigeria providing targeted transfers to poor and vulnerable households. These financial packages help the vulnerable to meet their minimum dietary and nutritional needs, but they are not a complete or sustainable solution.

Long-term solutions must be sought, a process that demands the involvement of all the world’s leaders from communities, governments, civil society and the private sector. The challenge is clear: how to incentivize food producers, processors, distributors and marketers to make nutritious food more available and affordable?

First public policy needs to be aligned with this goal. Too many policies are working against this aim. For example too few food production and consumption subsidies are going to nutritious foods; too little public agricultural research development and farmer extension focuses on these foods; too often public food procurement disfavours these items and infrastructure development ignores cold chain development.

Agriculture in Africa is a key economic driver and supporter of livelihoods. Productivity needs to be increased, biodiversity promoted and climate resilience attained. Is this possible? Yes. Already, farmers in countries like Zambia are recording up to a 60 percent increase in yields through the application of ecosystem-based adaptation techniques.

Elsewhere, in Burkina Faso, farmers have reclaimed 200,000 to 300,000 hectares of degraded lands by digging shallow pots in barren land and filling them with organic matter. The reclaimed land now produces an estimated 80,000 to 120,000 additional tonnes of cereal for the Burkinabe. The challenge is to replicate these successes throughout the continent.

Second, private investment into these more nutritious foods needs to be incentivised. Of the $200 billion impact investment fund industry, GAIN estimates less than 0.3% goes to nutritious foods in Africa. Fund facilities that stimulate private investment in small and medium sized companies that produce nutritious foods for low income populations need to be established that offer loan rates that are lower than market while targeting nutrition outcomes.

Institutional investors such as pension funds need to signal to the bigger companies with extensive value chains in Africa that they will favour companies producing more nutritiously beneficial foods.

Third, consumer demand needs to be shifted towards healthy foods. Too often healthy food campaigns pale in comparison to private sector campaigns for highly processed foods: they lack imagination, humour and flair.

Healthy eating campaigns must be engaging, aspirational and memorable. Food environments—where consumers come face to face with food—are stacked against the consumption of healthy foods which are often consigned to unattractive spaces in markets and stores. This needs to change too.

Fourth, civil society campaigns can hold businesses and governments accountable for promoting healthy foods. Civil society activism is particularly essential to focus attention on silent crises such as unhealthy diets.

Together these four levers can incentivize businesses and other stakeholders to innovate and develop business models, products and services that make nutritious and safe foods more available, affordable, desirable, and sustainable. Africa cannot move ahead smoothly if 1 billion of its people cannot afford a healthy diet.

The approaches defined above are not exhaustive, but if well implemented will bring the continent closer to better nourishment, further improving the prospects of properly fighting emerging health challenges such as COVID-19, both from a health and economic perspective.

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Dr. Lawrence Haddad is the Executive Director, GAIN and H.E. Ambassador Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko is Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union Commission

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