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28/08/2023

What’s Happening in Niger Is Far from a Typical Coup

Human Wrongs Watch

By Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service*

On 26 Jul 2023, Niger’s presidential guard moved against the sitting president—Mohamed Bazoum—and conducted  a coup d’état. A brief contest among the various armed forces in the country ended with all the branches agreeing to the removal of Bazoum and the creation of a military junta led by Presidential Guard Commander General Abdourahamane “Omar” Tchiani.

Niamey, the capital of Niger (file photo).

This is the fourth country in the Sahel region of Africa to have experienced a coup—the other three being Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Mali.

The new government  announced  that it would stop allowing France to leech Niger’s uranium (one in three lightbulbs in France is powered by the uranium from the field in Arlit, northern Niger).

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27/08/2023

Surviving Seven Days in the Hands of Smugglers 

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Tog-wachale, 21 August 2023 (IOM)* – “The promise sounded too good to be true, travelling from Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia for work, but I just went with it. They said it will only be for seven days. Now, seven days later, I have three bullet wounds in my body and am nowhere near where I intended,” narrates Halima*, a student from Arsi, Oromia Region of Ethiopia.

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Halima* survived a deadly ordeal after crossing from Ethiopia to Somalia, trying to reach the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in search of work. Photo: IOM 2023/Kaye Viray

Like many Ethiopians searching for better work opportunities, Halima was lured to embark on a deadly journey from Ethiopia to the Gulf countries through Somalia, across Yemen, to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries through what is often referred to as the Eastern Migration Route.

She had no idea about the insecurity and the conflict situations in the neighbouring countries making up this route.

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27/08/2023

Sexual Violence Survivors in Tigray Need Urgent Medical, Psychological and Economic Support

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By Francis Kokutse

ACCRA, Aug 22 2023 (IPS)* – The war in Tigray, northern Ethiopian, led to sexual and gender-based violence against women, but when Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the Yellow Movement AAU, appeared before the UN Security Council Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict last year, and catalogued the problems that the victims of the war faced, it didn’t shock the world.
 
Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the Yellow Movement AAU, addresses the UN Security Council. CREDIT: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the Yellow Movement AAU, addresses the UN Security Council. CREDIT: UN Photo/Loey Felipe

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27/08/2023

Israel/OPT: Supreme Court Approves Punitive Demolition of Child Detainee’s Home   

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By Amnesty International*

The Israeli Supreme Court today [August 25, 2023] approved the punitive demolition of the family home of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who has spent the past six months in pre-trial detention on unfair charges.

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In February 2023, Mohammed Zalabani stabbed an Israeli border police officer on a bus at a checkpoint in the Shu’afat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem. He was overpowered, but moments later a private Israeli security guard accidentally shot the officer dead.

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27/08/2023

Interfaith Discussion on Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians

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By Victoria Strang, Policy Advocate with Faith Communities | Human Rights Watch*

Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Leaders Speak at Parliament of the World’s Religions

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Rabbi Brant Rosen speaking at the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, Illinois on August 16, 2023.  © 2023 Victoria Strang/Human Rights Watch

— At a gathering of 7,000 people of faith last week in Chicago, an important discussion took place on Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians.

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26/08/2023

109-year-old Tulsa Massacre Survivor Reflects on Legacy of Slavery in UN Visit

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Viola Fletcher was just seven years old when she was forcibly displaced from her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, by an armed mob which destroyed the predominantly Black enclave of Greenwood, killing hundreds of residents.

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UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | At age 109, Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Massacre, visits the Ark of Return at UN Headquarters.

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26/08/2023

Sudan: ‘Lost Generation’ of Children amid War, Hunger, Disease

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(UN News)* — UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said on Friday [25 August 2023] that the spread of fighting and hunger in Sudan could destroy the country, as the future of a “lost generation” of children lies in the balance.

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© WFP/Eloge Mbaihondoum | A Sudanese family take shelter at a refugee entry point close to the Chadian border with Sudan.

Mr. Griffiths said that the conflict spelled trauma for Sudan’s youth and cited “deeply disturbing” reports that some children were being used in the fighting.

He also warned that hundreds of thousands of children in the country were severely malnourished and “at imminent risk of death” if left untreated.

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25/08/2023

The Ocean Is Hotter than Ever. Here’s Why

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(UNEP)* — It has been another season of extreme weather, with everything from record temperatures to devastating floods hammering countries around the world. But one of the most worrying trends has been what scientists have called an unprecedented planet-wide ocean heatwave.

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Biosphoto via AFP/Gabriel Barathieu

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25/08/2023

Don’t Let Wastewater Opportunities Flow Down the Drain

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(UN News)* — Wastewater, long seen as an environmental and health hazard, possesses untapped potential as an alternative energy and clean water source to offset fertilizer use, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Wednesday [].

Water treated at a wastewater treatment plant in Jakarta, Indonesia, being discharged into a river.
© UNICEF/Ose | Water treated at a wastewater treatment plant in Jakarta, Indonesia, being discharged into a river.

In its new report, Wastewater: Turning problem to solution, UNEP warned that only 11 per cent of treated wastewater is reused while around half of the world’s untreated wastewater still enters rivers, lakes and seas.

Furthermore, CO2 emissions from wastewater are substantial, hovering slightly below those from the global aviation industry.

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24/08/2023

Abolish ‘Human Exploitation’ Once and For All, UNESCO Chief Urges

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(UN News)* — Commemorating the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition on Wednesday [], the head of the UN’s education, science and culture agency UNESCO, emphasized the urgent need to end exploitation.

A slavery memorial in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.
UN News/Elizabeth Scaffidi | A slavery memorial in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania.

“It is time to abolish human exploitation once and for all, and to recognize the equal and unconditional dignity of each and every individual,” said Audrey Azoulay, Director General of UNESCO.

“Today, let us remember the victims and freedom fighters of the past so that they may inspire future generations to build just societies.”

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