Agrégateur de flux

Minderjährige Asylsuchende und Flüchtlinge haben in Österreich zwar formal das Recht auf Bildung, de facto tragen aber viele Faktoren zum Ausschluss aus dem Bildungssystem bei. Das Land muss diese Hürden und Barrieren dringend aus dem Weg räumen. Nicht nur um dem Menschenrecht auf Bildung gerecht zu werden, sondern um den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt auf Dauer zu sichern, meint Monika Mayrhofer.

Fewer crimes are being committed in Georgia and more offences are being solved, new figures reveal.

Depuis le début du coup d'Etat au Burkina Faso, les journalistes, plusieurs fois brutalisés par les putschistes, ont du mal à faire leur travail. Plusieurs médias ont été visés, des radios attaquées, empêchées d'émettre. Certains décident de se mettre en grève, d'autre de se rabattre sur les réseaux sociaux Facebook et Twitter afin de diffuser leurs reportages.

Iran has ignored repeated requests from the United States for a diplomatic meeting with Iranian officials on the Iraq crisis, a report says, Press Tv reports.

Seismological Service has disseminated an information.

Europe is experiencing crisis.

September 17, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudan's armed opposition faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) has condemned the ongoing offensive by president Salva Kiir's forces against their bases in Central Equatoria state.

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar addresses a news conference in his office in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, August 31, 2015. (Photo REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri)

In a statement issued on Thursday, SPLM-IO led by former vice- president, Riek Machar, said government forces have continued to violate the ceasefire and target civilians in Wunduruba payam, south of the capital, Juba.

“We have been receiving disturbing reports of ongoing ceasefire violations by soldiers of Salva Kiir. They have continued to attack our bases in Wunduruba payam at Lainya county while at the same time targeting civilians in the area,” said Machar's spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Thursday.

He also said president Kiir's forces on Wednesday attacked civilians in Mundri county of Western Equatoria state, shooting at civilians in Jambo and Lui areas, looting property and burning houses to ashes.

“We condemn this barbaric act by the regime,” he said.

Dak said many civilians have been killed by government troops in the area while thousands more have been displaced and in dire humanitarian situation.

He accused the government of violating the ceasefire deal with the intention to try to regain territories from the opposition faction before it could declare positions controlled by their forces.

He said this is the same strategy the government has been attempting to implement in other states including the two oil-rich Unity and Upper Nile states, which shall be governed by the opposition governors for 30 months in accordance with the peace agreement signed in August.

“The regime's intention is to try to capture territories we have been holding. The plan is to claim control of these areas so that their military team could declare them as their areas of control at the workshop on security arrangements in Addis Ababa,” he said.

He called on the East African regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), to monitor and verify the violations and for the international community to condemn these violations.

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Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a fermement condamné la prise de pouvoir par la force par des éléments de la garde présidentielle au Burkina Faso et a demandé à ces derniers de rendre sans tarder le pouvoir aux autorités civiles de transition.

Une nette augmentation des attaques par le groupe armé Boko Haram a déraciné plus de 500.000 enfants au cours des cinq derniers mois, portant le nombre total d'enfants en fuite dans le nord-est du Nigéria et dans les pays voisins à 1,4 million, selon le Fonds des Nations Unies pour l'enfance (UNICEF).

A l'issue d'une visite de cinq jours au Niger, le Coordonnateur humanitaire régional pour le Sahel, Toby Lanzer, a souligné vendredi la générosité des communautés et du gouvernement du Niger qui accueillent les déplacés qui ont fui les violences au nord-est du Nigéria.

The ongoing refugee  crisis in the Mediterranean has created fears  among policy-makers  and  security  practitioners  alike  that  the  Islamic  State  (ISIS)  will  use  and ‘exploit the refugee crisis to infiltrate the West’. This Briefing Note written by Dr Dimitris  Skleparis, presents a brief history of international terrorism in Greece; assesses current international terrorist activity in the country and the Greek authorities’ response to it; and proposes first-line and pre-emptive counter-radicalisation measures that would not undermine a humanitarian response to the refugee crisis.

Briefing Note 37/2015: The Islamist Threat amidst the Refugee Crisis: Background and Policy Proposals

Author: Dr Dimitris Skleparis

The present paper written by Dr Angeliki Dimitriadi, discusses the current refugee crisis from its outbreak to its evolution, attempts to set current EU responses in a contextual setting, from the early response to the Lampedusa tragedy of 2013 with Task Force Mediterranean to today’s proposal for the redistribution of 160,000 refugees, critically discusses European Member States’ responses and the resurface of ‘Fortress Europe’ and proposes priorities and measures, stressing the need for a global response to the current refugee crisis.

«ELIAMEP Thesis»: Europe’s dubious response to the refugee crisis

Author: Dr Angeliki Dimitriadi

Változott a helyszín, de a forgatókönyv ugyanaz. Horgos után most Sid városához szállítják a migránsokat az autóbuszok és a taxik, hogy ez alkalommal Horvátországon keresztül próbálják meg folytatni útjukat Európába. Kedd óta több ezer migráns indult meg az új útvonalon, amely a szerbiai Sid városától a horvátországi Tovarnikba vezet. Ez A cikk folytatása …

Tovább….: http://pannonrtv.com/web2/?p=229138

      

“We would not want to lose. But our opponent is a really good team. But our players also made mistakes", the head coach of Karabakh FC Gurban Gurbanov said, APA reports quoting “apasport.az”.

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle

September 17, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) –A report released by a research project, said that Ethiopia is on course to become world's fastest growing economy.

A general view of the Friendship City Center shopping mall in Ethiopia's Capital Addis Ababa May 26, 2014. (Photo Reuters/Tiksa Negeri)

The new report "One foot on the ground, one foot in the air" released by the UK-based Think tank group Overseas Development Institute (ODI) forecasts for Ethiopia said Ethiopia's economy would significantly accelerate in the coming three years.

The case study highlighted major strides in massive agricultural investment, a sector which employs three in four Ethiopians, and a government committed to pro-poor spending to halve its poverty.

It also explores progress achieved in material wellbeing in Ethiopia, measured by reduction in income poverty, and two key contributors to material wellbeing: education and employment.

“Ethiopia's stability and consequent ability to make long-term plans and investments in education, agriculture and infrastructure over the past 20 years has allowed the country to make great leaps in development” the report said.

Some critics consider the stability in the country was the outcome of the government's systematic repressive practices, or at least of the restricted contestability of national and local politics.

However, the horn of Africa's nation, according to the report, has experience over the past two decades contains significant lessons that can be applicable in different country contexts.

Ethiopia has managed to decline extreme poverty vastly making it one of the successful countries in the world in the fight against poverty.

According to the report, poverty has fallen to 37% from 63% between 1995 and 2011while maintaining low level of income inequality.

Also, the report points that the agricultural sector, which the country's economy is hugely depend on, has cut poverty by 7% between 2005 and 2011.

Maintaining teams of agronomists across vast rural areas to boost productivity by recommending best agricultural practice and scientific innovation was mentioned as one of the practices the country used to achieve development.

“Further, a doubling of Ethiopia's road network in two decades, which has allowed more farmers to bring their produce to market,” said the report.

The notable takeaway lessons from Ethiopia's experience in sustainable developmental goals is firstly, “Centering government policy on a single goal - poverty reduction - and taking a multidimensional approach can encourage ministries to work more comprehensively and consistently”

The second strategy the report mentioned is, “Integrating social sectors into broader economic planning and high rates of pro-poor spending benefit the economy”.

Thirdly, “Long-term planning and a clear division of responsibilities can build the foundation for broader transformation”

Development Progress is an ODI project which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is a four-year research project that aims to measure, understand and communicate progress in development.

ODI is the UK's leading independent think tank on international development and humanitarian issues.

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Après plusieurs jours de consultations suite à l'échec de la réunion des ministres de l'Intérieur de l'Union européenne, ce lundi 14 septembre, le président du Conseil européen, Donald Tusk, a annoncé la convocation d'un sommet extraordinaire des chefs d'Etats et de gouvernements pour le 23 septembre à Bruxelles, au lendemain d'une nouvelle réunion - extraordinaire elle aussi - des ministres de l'Intérieur. Les rencontres au sommet se multiplient mais elles ne seront sûrement pas de trop pour faire progresser l'UE vers une solution à l'actuelle crise provoquée par l'afflux massif de migrants.

Security operations against the PKK terrorists will continue until all armed groups in Turkey are “eliminated”, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has attended the opening of Aghsu-Kurdamir part of Aghsu-Kurdamir-Imishli highway.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 50 million to the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) to finance projects promoted by SMEs and midcaps in the country.

By Steve Paterno

The last British soldiers who ever served and stepped feet in South Sudan were South Sudanese, people not of British origins, but typical South Sudanese.

When Great Britain entered the Sudan in late ninetieth century with the aim of colonizing the land, they ended inheriting South Sudanese soldiers who were serving under the fledgling Ottoman Empire. The British immediately noted the bravery, discipline and dedication of those newly discovered South Sudanese soldiers in the continent. Therefore, to the advantage and manipulation of British, those brave soldiers could help them accomplish their primary goal. That primary goal was the defeat of Mahdiyah regime. When those soldiers put their skills into work, without doubt, the Mahdist's Dervishes, who by then overran the Ottoman Empire out of the country, were crashed without much contest and in no time at all.

Contingents of those soldiers were then used to establish an expansion of British colony in Eastern Africa. In today's East African; in countries like Uganda and Kenya, the decedents of those soldiers are very much visible. Their distinctive community is referred to as the "Nubi." To this day, this unmistakable community of distinctive South Sudanese maintains their culture, speaks colloquial Arabic, and of course, they are considered outsiders within those East African countries, for obvious reason that they are typical South Sudanese. For they are South Sudanese who just happened to end up somewhere else as a result of British dominance during scrambled for Africa.

During World War I and II, those brave South Sudanese soldiers played pivotal role in winning victories in favour of allies forces. For examples, they successfully defeated the Mussolini's fascist soldiers along Abyssinia's frontier. Some of them went as far as Burma, deep in heart of Asia to confront and defeat axis forces, led by fiercest Japanese imperialism soldiers.

As the British were preparing for the hasty independence of Sudan, it was then obvious that the betrayal of the South Sudanese soldiers who for decades were standing alongside British soldiers was being put into motion. It was already cleared, by August 18, 1955, that the British were leaving the country and in process leaving their decades long allies under the mercy of Northern Sudanese Arab rule. As such, the South Sudanese soldiers reacted in the famous Torit Mutiny. The Torit Mutiny ignited like a wildfire, engulfing the entire major South Sudanese towns. The result of which was the dispersion of all the Northern Sudanese out of the entire South Sudan territorial region. South Sudan was free for a moment. A sense of a temporary freedom was ushered in.

The British, who were by then packing to get out of the country, decided mistakenly to intervene in most callous ways. They began to airlift Northern Sudanese soldiers, with more superior firepower, into hot spots in South Sudan. The British established contacts with the leaders of mutineers in South Sudan. The British then convinced those leaders of mutineers to surrender with guarantees to address their legitimate grievances.

Unfortunately, after mutinying and surrendering, the British participated into the arrest of those brave soldiers and jetted out of the country, abandoning the mutineers to rot under detention and mercy of the Northern Arabs. This act marked the beginning of the long Sudan's civil war. Since, then, the country has been embroiled in a vicious war, with South Sudan bearing much of the brunt of the violence. The British, particularly British troops never ever showed up in South Sudan at any point since then.

Now, it is ironic that the country, which abandoned South Sudan, their long time ally, is trying to come back after six decades. Surprisingly, Great Britain has just announced that it is intending to send peacekeepers troops into South Sudan. In a more serious manner, such ironic news must be viewed with skepticism and suspicion. First of all, Great Britain record in deploying peacekeepers around the world is pathetic, for a country that once claimed an 'imperialism where the sun never sets.' Britain only has few finger counts of peacekeepers in history who are being deployed for peacekeeping force. Second of all, Britain financial contributions into peacekeeping forces around the world is near no any of the world powers. Third, Great Britain troops disappeared of South Sudan since 1955. Hence, they are strangers as of today in the land that they were once respected. Fourth, they just betrayed South Sudan even though ignoring South Sudanese generosity in winning them victories for Britain's raison d'être. By now, Great Britain must also understand that out of its struggle, South Sudan is a country and pursuing its raison d'être, either independently or in cooperation.

In conclusion, the so much suspicious intention of Britain to deploy foot on the ground in South Sudan at this time and moment needs much scrutiny, especially given the fact that the last British soldiers in South Sudan were South Sudanese, not of British origins. Great Britain help for South Sudanese is much welcomed in other forms, but otherwise, much is desired with this move of foot on ground by someone who has been MIA for six decades.