Agrégateur de flux

Des centaines de personnes ont défilé au cours du week-end à l’hôpital de district de Kariba, faisant la queue pour identifier les corps de leurs proches.

Soldiers told survivors that the massacre in Byain Phyu was retaliation for the defeat and casualties the military suffered at the hands of the Arakan Army in the Battle for Kyauktaw.

En février, après avoir subi les foudres du président américain, Donald Trump, pour ne pas avoir suffisamment investi dans ses capacités industrielles, le groupe Raytheon, filiale de RTX, fit savoir qu’il venait de signer cinq accords-cadres «historiques» avec le Pentagone afin d’accroître significativement la production et d’accélérer la livraison de cinq munitions «complexes» clefs, à...

Cet article Le Pentagone notifie un contrat de 22,9 milliards de dollars à Raytheon pour produire 1 000 missiles Tomahawk par an est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

Quarante-cinq hommes et cinq femmes secourus, dont vingt-neuf mineurs non accompagnés, étaient à bord d’une petite embarcation en bois. Ils affirment être originaires d’Egypte et de Somalie, selon l’ONG Emergency.

Ipswich Town complete the signing of Julio Enciso and Abdoul Ouattara from French club Strasbourg.

Aliza Marcus’s “Resurgence and Revolution” sheds light on the past and future of the Kurdish cause.

De la dédiabolisation à la présidentialisation du RN (2/3). Une nouvelle étape de l’ascension du parti d’extrême s'ouvre entre 2017 et 2022 avec la volonté de Marine Le Pen de rassurer les Français pour continuer à élargir son électorat. La patronne du Rassemblement national, qui lance durant cette période Jordan Bardella sur le devant de la scène, est par ailleurs bien aidée par un contexte socio-économique compliqué mais favorable à son parti.

À quelques semaines de la Coupe du monde féminine U20 2026 en Pologne, les Amazones U20 du Bénin poursuivent leur préparation en France. Après plusieurs séances d'entraînement, la sélection béninoise a lancé sa série de matchs amicaux par une victoire écrasante face à l'équipe senior de l'AASS Sarcelles.

Une large victoire face à Sarcelles
Pour leur première rencontre de préparation en France, les joueuses dirigées par Ouzérou Abdoulaye se sont largement imposées sur un score de 7-2. Romaine Gandonou s'est particulièrement illustrée en inscrivant cinq buts, tandis que Germaine Honfo a contribué au succès béninois avec un doublé. Cette première sortie a permis au staff technique d'évaluer les acquis du groupe après les premières semaines de travail et d'identifier les derniers ajustements à effectuer.
Au-delà du résultat, cette rencontre constitue un premier repère pour les Amazones U20, qui doivent progressivement monter en puissance en vue de leur participation à la compétition mondiale.

Trois autres matchs amicaux au programme
La préparation des Béninoises se poursuit avec plusieurs séances d'entraînement et trois autres matchs amicaux programmés dans les prochains jours.
Ces différentes confrontations doivent permettre au sélectionneur national de renforcer les automatismes, d'accroître le rythme de compétition et d'évaluer les joueuses face à des adversaires aux profils différents.
Après cette première victoire contre Sarcelles, les Amazones U20 disposent ainsi de plusieurs rendez-vous pour poursuivre leur montée en puissance avant les échéances internationales.

Le calendrier des autres matchs
15 août : AASS Sarcelles (équipe senior) – Bénin 2-7
23 août : FC Fleury U19 – Bénin U20
27 août : France U20 – Bénin U20
30 août : Paris FC U19 – Bénin U20
Après leur stage en France, la sélection nationale va rallier Pologne le 1er septembre 2026, pour la compétition prévue pour se dérouler du 5 au 27 septembre 2026.

F. A. A.

LES RÉSULTATS DOUBLE CHANCE

LOTO FORTUNE Tirage N°131

Lundi 17 Août 2026 (14H)

– Zone A (5 premiers numéros) :

13 • 58 • 34 • 24 • 70

– Zone B (5 derniers numéros) :

16 • 74 • 20 • 46 • 69

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Rendez-vous à 18H pour le prochain tirage.

Jouez avec modération et responsabilité. Le jeu doit rester un plaisir.

The shape of the Kazakh legislature may have changed, but the politics of Kazakhstan have not necessarily been transformed. 

Next AFET committee meeting will be held on:

Tuesday 1 September 2026, room ANTALL 4Q2, Brussels

Meetings are webstreamed with the exception of agenda items held "in camera".

AFET - DROI calendar of meetings 2026
Meeting documents
Webstreaming
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Next AFET committee meeting will be held on:

Tuesday 1 September 2026, room ANTALL 4Q2, Brussels

Meetings are webstreamed with the exception of agenda items held "in camera".

AFET - DROI calendar of meetings 2026
Meeting documents
Webstreaming
Source : © European Union, 2026 - EP

À deux semaines de la rentrée scolaire 2026-2027, prévue le 1er septembre, des parents d’élèves en Ituri appellent les responsables des établissements scolaires à renforcer les mesures de prévention contre la maladie à virus Ebola.

Cette demande intervient alors que l’épidémie se poursuit dans la province et que des décès communautaires continuent d’être signalés dans certaines familles à Bunia.

Manchester City are in advanced talks with Lille over a move for Morocco midfielder Ayyoub Bouaddi.

The U.S., South Korea, and Japan are pursuing different AI-driven combat systems. That will lead to different recommendations on the same battlefield.

« Je ne meurs pas, j'entre dans la vie »
Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux

Sa Majesté le Naba Saaga de Zitenga dans la province du Bassitenga ;
Sa Majesté le Naba Ligdi de Wemtenga à Ouagadougou ;
Les grandes familles : KAFANDO, COMPAORE, OUEDRAOGO, à Zitenga, Kombissiri, Ouagadougou ;
Les familles alliées : TONTOROGOBO, OUEDRAOGO, SAWADOGO, DA, SAVADOGO, ZARE, SANGARE, ADDO, TROIVAUX, SIMPORE, NANA, KABORE et YAMEOGO à Kaya, Ouagadougou, Bobo-Dioulasso, États Unis, France

ont le regret de vous annoncer le rappel à Dieu de leur épouse, sœur, belle-sœur, mère, grand-mère KAFANDO/TONTOROGOBO Mariam Cécile, survenu le samedi 15 août 2026 à Ouagadougou.
Les obsèques se dérouleront selon le programme suivant :

Jeudi 20 août 2026
– 16H00 : Levée du corps à la morgue du Centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Bogodogo
– 20H00 : Veillée de prières au domicile familial sis au quartier Wemtenga dans l'arrondissement n°5 de Ouagadougou
Vendredi 21 août 2026
– 08H00 : Levée du corps au domicile familial à Wemtenga
– 09H00 : Messe d'absoute tenant lieu de funérailles chrétiennes à la Paroisse Saint Camille suivie de l'enterrement au cimetière municipal de Gounghin.

Que Dieu dans sa divine miséricorde accorde le repos éternel à notre très chère regrettée KAFANDO/TONTOROGOBO Mariam Cécile

Is New Zealand's 'Greatest Rivalry' tour of world champions South Africa a signpost to the future of rugby union?

La cour d’appel de Bamako a condamné, lundi, les deux militants à dix ans de prison. Cette décision, dénoncée par leur défense comme politiquement motivée, illustre le durcissement de la répression contre les voix dissidentes.

Participants in traditional dress take part in a cultural welcome at the UNCCD COP17 venue in Ulaanbaatar on Aug. 17, 2026, highlighting the cultural diversity of communities whose livelihoods are closely linked to rangelands. Credit: UN photo

By Kizito Makoye
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Aug 17 2026 (IPS)

After moving more than 6,000 km across Eurasia, the Silk Road Caravan has reached Mongolia with stories from pastoralists whose livelihoods are increasingly threatened by drought, degraded land and shrinking access to grazing areas.

Since leaving Türkiye in May, the thud of horse hooves has echoed through landscapes in the Russian Federation, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and China. Along the way, its riders met pastoralists adapting to a harsher climate and deteriorating rangelands. Now their experiences have converged in Ulaanbaatar, where the caravan’s final leg coincides with the opening of COP17 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. Governments, scientists, financial institutions, businesses and civil society have gathered there to address the pressures on the world’s drylands.

The journey has brought an old question into the spotlight: can global efforts to restore rangelands succeed without the knowledge of the people who have managed them for generations?

Delegates in traditional attire gather at the UNCCD COP17 venue in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on Aug. 17, 2026, as the conference brings together pastoralists, Indigenous representatives and policymakers to discuss land degradation, drought and rangeland restoration. Credit: UN photo

For centuries, caravans travelling the ancient Silk Road carried goods, ideas and cultures between distant civilisations. This one has carried stories of communities trying to keep up their land productive and their livelihoods intact as drought and degradation spread across drylands from Eurasia to Africa.

Its arrival on the eve of COP17 highlights the conference’s challenge of turning commitments to land restoration into action on the ground.

Land Degradation

Land degradation and drought cost the global economy USD 900 billion annually and affect 40% of the world’s land and 3.2 billion people. Droughts have increased by almost one-third since 2000 and generate at least USD 300 billion in annual losses, according to UN data.

For Tanzania’s pastoralist communities, Neema Seki, an Indigenous women and youth advocate connected to the Pastoralist Women’s Council, urged world leaders in Ulaanbaatar to guarantee land security for pastoral communities.

“The most rapidly changing aspect is access to land. This by implication affects everything else in pastoral livelihoods. Without land tenure security, livestock health is impacted, mobility is affected, and family food security is affected,” she told IPS.

Her warning is central to the COP17 debate as land degradation increasingly threatens pastoralist women’s rights, livelihoods and mobility.

“In a pastoralist setting, women play a significant role that is oftentimes not stated. If livestock health deteriorates, women are mostly responsible for feeding them, bringing water from far distances to water the ailing or weak livestock,” Seki said.

She added that restrictions on pastoral livelihoods can also create a gendered burden that national climate and conservation policies rarely capture.

“Another aspect is a reality that when the pastoral livelihoods are dismantled by restrictions on access to resources, women oftentimes remain in the land to suffer while men are able to go into cities to look for work while women remain with children at home.”

Mongolian ceremonial guards stand beside the national flag during the opening of UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar on Aug. 17, 2026. The conference is focused on accelerating global action on land restoration and drought resilience. Credit: UN photo

That experience is echoed thousands of kilometres away in Niger, where Abarchi Harouna, a pastoralist leader with the association Nodde Nooto and co-chair of the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists for West and Central Africa, argues that mobility itself is an environmental management tool.

“Mobility is essential to pastoralism because it allows livestock keepers to search for water, pasture and salt wherever they are available,” Harouna told IPS.

For nomadic pastoralists such as Tanzania’s Maasai, restricting traditional migration corridors directly affects livelihoods.

“When governments restrict access to traditional routes and water points, nomadic pastoralists are deprived of pasture, water and salt,” he said.

“This can lead to a pastoral crisis, with significant livestock deaths and even conflicts between farmers and herders.”

Relevance in Mongolia

Similar pressures are evident in Mongolia, where pastoralism is key to the economy, yet nearly 77 percent of the country’s land suffers from degradation. Rangelands cover about 70 percent of its territory and support the livelihoods of roughly one-third of the population, leaving pastoral communities exposed to climate shocks.

Rangelands cover 54% of the Earth’s land surface, support about 2 billion people and provide nearly 70% of global livestock feed and one-sixth of the world’s food. Yet up to half are degraded, particularly in dry regions facing mounting climate pressures.

Harouna challenges a persistent narrative that pastoralism itself is responsible for land degradation.

“Livestock keepers are never responsible for land degradation. This narrative is incorrect. Livestock mobility ensures the health of pastures.”

He points instead to the ecological functions performed by mobile herds.

“Animals carry the seeds of grasses and woody plants from one place to another, thereby enriching biological diversity.”

Manure, he said, fertilises soils, while trampling can loosen compacted ground.

“The knowledge of livestock keepers helps governments and all stakeholders restore degraded land and improve resilience to climate change.

For Seki, a similar knowledge system exists in Tanzania but is increasingly undermined by government policies.

“One of the greatest traditional knowledge practices by pastoralists which is being wrongly discouraged by government policies is pastoral mobility,” she said.

The implications extend to a younger generation that, despite the pressures, has not necessarily abandoned pastoralism.

“Young pastoralists still see pastoralism as the best livelihood system. They are, however, daily confronting the ugliness caused by state-restrictive policies and the climate crisis,” Seki said.

The Economics of Waiting

COP17 organisers are seeking to frame restoration not just as an environmental obligation but also as an economic investment.

The conference estimates that about USD 355 billion is needed every year to combat land degradation and drought, compared with the current investment of roughly USD 77 billion. That leaves an annual financing gap of USD 278 billion.

The private sector currently contributes only around six percent of global finance for land restoration and drought resilience.

Closing that gap will be central to the negotiations.

The conference will explore ways of reducing investment risks and encouraging businesses, financial institutions and governments to finance regenerative landscapes. An initiative linked to the COP has recorded commitments of more than USD 9 billion across more than 210 million hectares.

The argument for investment is strengthened by the potential returns: every dollar invested in drought resilience can generate returns of up to USD 10, while some nature-based solutions can generate benefits many times their cost.

UNCCD Executive Secretary Yasmine Fouad has described the challenge bluntly: “The world does not lack solutions; the challenge is taking them to scale.”

From Commitments to Measurable Results

Mongolia’s Prime Minister N. Uchral has called for a shift “from talk to action, from targets to implementation, and from commitments to measurable results”.

The conference comes at a time when multilateral cooperation faces pressure and the world’s environmental crises grow increasingly interconnected. Land degradation affects food production. Drought intensifies water insecurity. Loss of vegetation contributes to biodiversity decline. Livelihood losses can drive migration and deepen competition over scarce resources.

As the first of the three Rio Convention COPs being held in 2026, COP17 offers an opportunity to connect land policy with negotiations on biodiversity and climate change later in the year.

It is also taking place during the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, giving pastoral communities a prominent place in the global policy calendar.

Seki argues that women and young people should be recognised as custodians of knowledge and resources.

“Women and young people play a great role in the pastoral system. This role extends to forest stewardship and resource management.”

Yet, she said, traditional knowledge often gets sidelined.

“Both women and young people are discouraged by state policies and conservation policies from using traditional knowledge for ecology and nature sustainability.”

COP17’s agenda includes a proposed policy framework on rangelands and pastoralists and the launch of a Rangelands Flagship Initiative aimed at attracting long-term investment into sustainable rangeland management and pastoral livelihoods.

For Harouna, restrictions on livestock mobility potentially affect agriculture, pastoral production and the environment. He warns that declining soil fertility could trigger dismal crop yields, while degraded grazing areas could foster invasive pests, consequently affecting livestock and reducing milk and meat supplies.

Exchange of Knowledge

The Silk Road Caravan’s final journey across Mongolia will take participants from the Gobi Desert to the country’s central forests and grasslands. They are expected to meet nomadic herder families, researchers, local authorities and pastoral cooperatives and visit restoration projects.

The challenge for delegates is to ensure the caravan’s lessons continue beyond the conference.

For dryland communities in Tanzania, Niger and Mongolia, restoration can determine whether livestock survive, families remain on their land, food production continues and ecosystems endure.

As the conference opens under the theme “Restoring Land. Restoring Hope”, its success may depend on whether the afflicted communities living on vulnerable landscapes receive the space, resources and recognition they need to restore and manage them.

IPS UN Bureau Report

 

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