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Tchad : Idriss Déby Itno reporte la tenue des élections législatives « par manque de moyens »

Le président tchadien Idriss Déby Itno a annoncé ce jeudi lors d'une conférence de presse le report des élections législatives à une date inconnue. Le chef d'Etat a justifié cette décision par un manque de moyens pour les organiser.

« Quand je dis que nous ne pouvons pas faire des législatives, c’est par manque des moyens. En période de vache maigre, on ne peut rien faire. Quand nous aurons des ressources, on pourra organiser des élections législatives », a-t-il précisé jeudi 02 février devant la presse.

Les élections législatives devaient se dérouler courant 2016 rappelle la FIDH. Aucune nouvelle date n’a été fixée. C’est donc le statu quo pour l’instant à l’Assemblée nationale, où le Mouvement patriotique du Salut (MPS), le parti du président Déby, occupe 133 des 188 sièges depuis les dernières législatives en février 2011.

Appel au dialogue avec l’opposition

De retour du sommet d’Addis Abeba où il a fait élire son ministre des Affaires étrangères, Moussa Faki Mahamat, à la tête de la commission de l’Union africaine (UA), Idriss Déby Into a lancé un appel au dialogue en direction de l’opposition.

« Qu’elle n’ait pas peur de dialoguer avec moi, je suis Tchadien comme eux », a-t-il insisté, ajoutant que « l’opposition doit cesser de cultiver la haine qui a pour conséquence la déchirure du pays. Le Tchad n’a pas besoin de cela ».

L’opposition, emmené par l’ancien ministre Saleh Kebzabo, a contesté la réélection d’Idriss Déby pour un cinquième mandat en avril dernier avec près de 60%. L’opposition n’a recueilli que 12, 80 % des voix. Une réélection dès le premier tour donc qui marquait néanmoins un recul de presque 30 points par rapport à la présidentielle de 2011 (88%).

« Boko Haram est terminé »

Idriss Déby Itno a également profité de cette conférence de presse pour témoigner de son optimisme sur l’issue de la lutte contre les terroristes de Boko Haram, très dans la région du Lac Tchad. Le Tchad est un allié majeur de l’Occident en Afrique sub-saharienne contre les jihadistes dans la région. « Boko Haram est terminé, dans le cas contraire il est très affaibli. En plus des efforts faits par notre armée, la force mixte (composée du Tchad, du Niger, Nigeria et du Cameroun) a réduit la capacité de nuisance de Boko Haram », a-t-il assuré, avant d’ajouter « nous parviendrons à endiguer totalement Boko Haram ».


Pour rappel, Idriss Déby Itno avait déjà déclaré que Boko Haram était « décapité » en août 2015. L’organisation jihadiste continue de semer la terreur dans le nord Cameroun et du Nigéria où elle a pris d’assaut un convoi sous escorte militaire, faisant au passage 15 morts.

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Kenya rejects ICJ ruling over maritime border dispute with Somalia

President Uhuru Kenyatta slams ruling by UN's top court that largely went in favour of Somalia and gave Kenya only a small slice of the disputed tract of the sea off the East African coast.



Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta has slammed a ruling by the UN's top court to hand Somalia control of most of a potentially oil and gas-rich chunk of the Indian Ocean following a bitter row between the two countries.

Kenyatta said on Tuesday his government "rejects in totality and does not recognise the findings in the decision" by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) based in The Hague, which gave Nairobi only a small slice of the disputed tract of the sea off the East African coast.

With Kenya refusing to recognise the "biased" court's authority, all eyes will be on what Nairobi does next in one of the world's most troubled regions.



Somalia hails ICJ ruling

In a televised speech following the ruling, Somalia's Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, who is widely known as Farmajo, urged Nairobi to "see the decision of the court as an opportunity to strengthen the relationship of the two countries".

But Kenyatta said in a statement that the ruling amounted to "a zero-sum game, which will strain the relations between the two countries".

"It will also reverse the social, political and economic gains; and potentially aggravate the peace and security situation in the fragile Horn of Africa Region," he added, reiterating Nairobi's support for a negotiated settlement instead.

ICJ rules in Somalia's favour

Somalia dragged Kenya to the court in 2014 after years of efforts to resolve a dispute over the 100,000 sq km tract failed.

Judges unanimously ruled there was "no agreed maritime boundary" in force and drew a new border close to the one claimed by Somalia.

However Kenya kept a part of the 100,000 sq km area, chief judge Joan Donoghue said.

Kenya last week said it would not recognise the court's judgment, alleging that the judicial process had "obvious and inherent bias."

Dispute could go to UNSC

The ICJ's judgment is final and cannot be appealed, but the court, set up after World War II to rule in disputes between UN states, has no means of enforcing its rulings.

States can however go to the UN Security Council if another country fails to obey a ruling.

Nairobi says it has exercised sovereignty over the area since 1979.

The contested area is believed to contain rich gas and oil deposits, and also has important fishing rights.

Nairobi has already granted exploration permits to Italian energy giant ENI but Somalia is contesting the move.

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Russian Navy warships hold anti-piracy drills in Gulf of Guinea in eastern Atlantic

Under the scenario of the drills, the pirates captured a tanker whose crew managed to hide in the vessel’s machinery compartment and send a distress signal

MURMANSK, October 13. /TASS/. A Russian Northern Fleet taskforce deployed on an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Guinea in the eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean practiced freeing a notional vessel seized by pirates during drills, the Fleet’s press office reported on Wednesday.

"The crews of the large anti-submarine warfare ship Vice Admiral Kulakov, the medium sea tanker Akademik Pashin and the rescue tug Altai held drills for freeing a notional vessel seized by pirates in the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of the African continent," the press office said in a statement.

Under the scenario of the drills, the pirates captured a tanker whose crew managed to hide in the vessel’s machinery compartment and send a distress signal. The Russian naval sailors successfully stormed the vessel and freed its crew. A Ka-27PS helicopter that took off from the deck of the anti-submarine warfare ship Vice Admiral Kulakov provided fire support for the drills from the air, the press office said in a statement.

Following the drills for releasing the captured vessel, the crew of the large anti-submarine warfare ship practiced firing a 100mm AK-100 artillery gun and a Kinzhal surface-to-air missile system against the target that simulated the pirates’ boat.

The Northern Fleet’s taskforce went on its anti-piracy mission last week upon its arrival in the Gulf of Guinea. In addition to anti-piracy assignments, the crews of the large anti-submarine warfare ship Vice Admiral Kulakov and the support vessels have been trained to provide potential assistance to sailors in distress in the ocean, the statement says.

The large anti-submarine warfare ship Vice Admiral Kulakov embarked on its deployment in distant waters with its departure from the Northern Fleet’s main naval base of Severomorsk on June 28. Initially, the crew participated in Russia’s Main Naval Parade off Kronshtadt in the summer of this year and upon its completion practiced specific episodes of its Atlantic deployment in the course of a command and staff exercise for the Northern Fleet’s forces and troops.

On August 18 - September 23, the Northern Fleet’s sailors operated in the Mediterranean Sea, making business calls at Algeria, Syria and Cyprus and holding a series of drills for various types of defense for warships in transit by sea and practiced hunting down a mock enemy’s submarines. The Vice Admiral Kulakov has covered a distance of over 19,000 nautical miles since it left its home naval base, the press office said.

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Guinée-Bissau : le patron de l'armée annonce avoir déjoué les préparatifs d'un coup d'État

L'état-major des armées de la Guinée-Bissau a annoncé jeudi avoir identifié des militaires qui préparaient un coup d'État et pour renverser l'ordre constitutionnel dans ce petit pays d'Afrique de l'ouest.

«Nous avons réussi à identifier un groupe de militaires des FARP (Forces armées révolutionnaires du peuple) qui est en train de mobiliser des soldats en achetant leur conscience contre des billets de banque afin de subvertir l'ordre constitutionnel établi», a déclaré le général Biagué Na Ntan, chef d'état-major général des armées, à l'occasion de la cérémonie de célébration du 47e anniversaire de la création de la Police militaire.

«Ce sont les soldats ayant reçu de l'argent qui ont dénoncé les auteurs de ces actes ignobles», a ajouté le général Nan Ntan. Cette annonce intervient le jour même où le président Umaru Sissoco Embalo a quitté Bissau pour une visite de travail de 48 heures.

La Guinée-Bissau est une ancienne colonie portugaise devenue indépendante en 1974 après une longue guerre de libération, menée par le Parti africain pour l'indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau et du Cap-Vert (PAIGC) fondé par Amilcar Cabral, assassiné en 1973. Depuis son indépendance, le pays a connu quatre putschs dont le dernier remonte à 2012. La Guinée-Bissau a été le théâtre de seize tentatives de coup d'État et de nombreux changements de gouvernements.

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Guinée-Bissau : le patron de l'armée annonce avoir déjoué les préparatifs d'un coup d'État

L'état-major des armées de la Guinée-Bissau a annoncé jeudi avoir identifié des militaires qui préparaient un coup d'État et pour renverser l'ordre constitutionnel dans ce petit pays d'Afrique de l'ouest.

«Nous avons réussi à identifier un groupe de militaires des FARP (Forces armées révolutionnaires du peuple) qui est en train de mobiliser des soldats en achetant leur conscience contre des billets de banque afin de subvertir l'ordre constitutionnel établi», a déclaré le général Biagué Na Ntan, chef d'état-major général des armées, à l'occasion de la cérémonie de célébration du 47e anniversaire de la création de la Police militaire.

«Ce sont les soldats ayant reçu de l'argent qui ont dénoncé les auteurs de ces actes ignobles», a ajouté le général Nan Ntan. Cette annonce intervient le jour même où le président Umaru Sissoco Embalo a quitté Bissau pour une visite de travail de 48 heures.

La Guinée-Bissau est une ancienne colonie portugaise devenue indépendante en 1974 après une longue guerre de libération, menée par le Parti africain pour l'indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau et du Cap-Vert (PAIGC) fondé par Amilcar Cabral, assassiné en 1973. Depuis son indépendance, le pays a connu quatre putschs dont le dernier remonte à 2012. La Guinée-Bissau a été le théâtre de seize tentatives de coup d'État et de nombreux changements de gouvernements.

Have made clear today at the #EU Foreign Council our expectations for #Mali with regard to the political situation and when elections will take place. Do not rule out sanctions should Bamako contract mercenaries. - AM @HeikoMaas pic.twitter.com/w6WnXDgZhx

— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) October 18, 2021

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Opinion | Solar and Wind Force Poverty on Africa

Yoweri K. Museveni
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Wind turbines operate at a wind farm near Vredenburg, South Africa, Oct. 6.
Photo: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg News

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Africa can’t sacrifice its future prosperity for Western climate goals. The continent should balance its energy mix, not rush straight toward renewables—even though that will likely frustrate some of those gathering at next week’s global climate conference in Glasgow.

My continent’s energy choices will dictate much of the climate’s future. Conservative estimates project that Africa’s population of 1.3 billion will double by 2050. Africans’ energy consumption will likely surpass that of the European Union around the same time.

Knowing this, many developed nations are pushing an accelerated transition to renewables on Africa. The Western aid-industrial complex, composed of nongovernmental organizations and state development agencies, has poured money into wind and solar projects across the continent. This earns them praise in the U.S. and Europe but leaves many Africans with unreliable and expensive electricity that depends on diesel generators or batteries on overcast or still days. Generators and the mining of lithium for batteries are both highly polluting.

This stands to forestall Africa’s attempts to rise out of poverty, which require reliable energy. African manufacturing will struggle to attract investment and therefore to create jobs without consistent energy sources. Agriculture will suffer if the continent can’t use natural gas to create synthetic fertilizer or to power efficient freight transportation.

A better solution is for Africa to move slowly toward a variety of reliable green energy sources. Wildlife-friendly minihydro technologies should be a part of the continent’s energy mix. They allow for 24-hour-a-day energy production and can be installed along minor rivers without the need for backup energy. Coal-fired power stations can be converted to burning biomass, and carbon capture can help in the meantime. Nuclear power is also already being put to good use in South Africa, while Algeria, Ghana and Nigeria operate research reactors with the intent of building full-scale nuclear facilities.

All this will take time, meaning Africa will have to use fossil fuels as it makes the transition. Natural gas is a greener option that will help the continent reduce emissions even as it grows, as developed nations have done themselves.

Saying any of this meets with backlash from developed nations. Instead of reliable renewables or greener fossil fuels, aid money and development investments go to pushing solar and wind, with all their accompanying drawbacks. And many Western nations have put a blanket ban on public funding for a range of fossil-fuel projects abroad, making it difficult for Africa to make the transition to cleaner nonrenewables.

In the coming decades my continent will have a strong influence on global warming. But it doesn’t now. Were sub-Saharan Africa (minus South Africa) to triple its electricity consumption overnight, powering the new usage entirely by gas, it would add only 0.6% to global carbon emissions.

Africans have a right to use reliable, cheap energy, and doing so doesn’t prevent the development of the continent’s renewables. Forcing Africa down one route will hinder our fight against poverty.

Mr. Museveni is president of Uganda.

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Europe-Africa: An Indispensable Partnership

26.10.2021 - Namensbeitrag

Op-Ed by Foreign Ministers Anže Logar (Slovenia), Heiko Maas (Germany), Augusto Santos Silva (Portugal), Jean-Yves Le Drian (France) on Europe-Africa relations

On 26th of October, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the European Union and the African Union will gather in Kigali for the first AU-EU Ministerial meeting since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This gathering is of particular importance, as it will set the stage for the next AU-EU Summit in 2022.

Both events underscore the relevance of the EU-Africa Partnership as a key priority of our foreign policies. It is not only geography making Europe and Africa natural allies. Both continents share a deep attachment to the principles of multilateralism, international cooperation and the rules-based international order. Our political, economic and social futures are tied together.

The pandemic was another reminder that we must work together to build our common future. For this, we must take into account the enhanced political, security and economic role of the African continent, tied with the responsibility to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth to secure perspectives for its young populations. In order to achieve this, investing in people – in quality education, skills development and access to decent work, is an essential part of our common endeavours. Special attention should be given to investing in women’s and girls’ education, health and economic opportunities, which are fundamental to realizing the continent’s human capital

Both continents are benefiting from a rules-based global order and from regional integration. They are also benefiting from the digital transformation and understand well the importance of making it cyber-resilient and human-centric.

With its huge potential for renewable energies and its rich biodiversity, we count on Africa to become a key partner in the pursuit for a more sustainable world, in line with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the African Unions’ Agenda 2063. The Green Transition should not be regarded as a hindrance but as the cornerstone of a cleaner and more sustainable economic growth, enhancing connectivity and generating new and better jobs for African and European youths, while addressing important global challenges of climate change and the scarcity of natural resources, particularly water.

We take note that other global players have rightfully realised the continent’s considerable economic and geostrategic importance. Europe remains, by far, Africa’s main trading partner, largest investor and its most dependable ally in the pursuit of peace and security. We should build on this partnership and deepen our cooperation in a spirit of even greater equality, solidarity and mutual respect.

The meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the African and European Unions will address all these issues, as will the forthcoming Europe-Africa Summit. It will be an opportunity to acknowledge the road taken together thus far and to address common challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

The three consecutive Presidencies of the Council of the European Union by Germany, Portugal and Slovenia and the upcoming one by France have strongly supported the vision of a renewed and mutually reinforcing political partnership between Africa and Europe, one which sets new roles on both sides.

Taking to heart the European Commission’s proposal for a “Comprehensive Strategy with Africa”, in a concerted effort as “Team Europe”, the EU and its Member-States have endeavoured to expand a global mechanism for the fair distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, tests and treatments and bolstering African healthcare systems through supporting the manufacturing of vaccines in Africa.

We have also approved a new set of ambitious instruments such as the European Peace Facility (EPF) and the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI), providing the EU with a better toolkit to work alongside our African partners in the fields of peace, security, good governance, global challenges and sustainable development.

Moreover, throughout the last year and half, we have undertaken various initiatives related to debt relief and the promotion of further investments and financing for the continent, be it through the G20 Compact with Africa, hosted by Germany in August, the High-Level EU-Africa Green Investment Forum, co-hosted by Portugal and the European Investment Bankin April, or the Summit on the Financing of African Economies, hosted by France in May. Through these initiatives, we have sought to create building blocks for the next Summit, which should guide the EU-Africa Partnership’s efforts to advance a truly sustainable post-COVID recovery. Further supporting the gradual implementation of the African Union Continental Free-trade Area will be another milestone to this effect.

As the 6th EU-AU Summit draws near, it is time to strengthen our ambition for a deeper and more substantive common agenda into practice. The Summit will also be an opportunity to explore the synergies and linkages with the new framework for cooperation with the African, Caribbean and Pacific States, as envisioned in the Post-Cotonou Agreement.

We are not only united by common strategic interests but also bound together by the vision of a partnership which benefits people on both continents. The pandemic has shown how closely our fates are intertwined. Making use of this experience creates an unrivalled opportunity - for Africa and for Europe.

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— TODAY (@todayng) October 27, 2021

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Le pentagone a annoncé le renforcement de l'appui US dans le Sahel aux côté de la France

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ALGÉRIE : LE BURKINA FASO ATTAQUE LES FENNECS AUPRÈS DE LA CAF !
Le Burkina Faso a écrit à la Confédération Africaine du Football pour se plaindre des conditions d’accueil de l’Algérie à quelques jours de leur affrontement.


Les passes d’armes entre le Burkina Faso et l’Algérie se poursuivent. Alors que les deux équipes vont s’affronter mardi 16 novembre pour se disputer la tête du groupe A, les visiteurs se sont plains de l’accueil des Fennecs.



En cause selon eux, la non-conformité du stade Tchaker de Blida, où doit se disputer la rencontre : « nous avons attiré votre attention sur la non-conformité de la pelouse du stade de Blida. Malgré cette démarche, dictée par le souci de préserver la santé et l’intégrité physique des acteurs et également de garantir la qualité du spectacle, nous constatons que notre requête. N’a pas obtenu gain de cause ».


Les Etalons demandent un changement de stade : « il nous plait par la présente de solliciter à nouveau la programmation dudit match sur un autre stade ».  Ces derniers rappellent le précédent de leur confrontation en 2013 pour justifier leur communiqué : « en effet, à l’instar de 2013, l’équipe Burkinabé avait été l’objet de tracs aux fins qu’elle n’aborde pas le match dans des conditions propices à la performance, dont entre autres, des nuisances sonores toute la nuit durant aux abords de son hôtel, des embouteillages créés sciemment sur la voie d’accès au stade, des jets d’objets contre les buts du Burkina et les joueurs empêchés de quitter l’hôtel pour une fouille au prétexte que les couverts et les serviettes de chambre n’étaient pas au complet. ».


La Fédération demande à ce que la CAF veille aux conditions d'accueils : « Au regard de tous ces faits, de nature à fausser l’équité de nos compétitions, nous vous saurons gré des dispositions appropriées qu’il vous plaira de faire prendre pour la sécurité de la délégation du Burkina Faso en Algérie et surtout pour le déroulement du match dans le fair-play, l’esprit sportif, la quiétude et la préservation des chances de chacune des équipes. Convaincu de votre attachement à l’équité sportive, à la sécurité des joueurs et aux valeurs fondatrices du sport, nous savons compter sur votre soutien et votre implication pour le bon déroulement du match » Drôle d'ambiance avant cet affrontement capital.