Auteur : Michael
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63,000 dead on the roads of exile in 10 years
Over the last ten years, 63,000 refugees have died on the road to exile. More than half of them, 36,000, died in shipwrecks, including 27,000 in the Mediterranean, according to a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The IOM points out that the actual figures must be much higher, given that collecting reliable…
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Talon seeks to divide the peoples of Togo and Benin
President Patrice Talon is shutting down one border crossing after another between villages on the Benin-Togo border, building veritable walls of granite blocks. Village populations and families are separated on either side of the border, prevented from accessing their fields, and all trade is blocked. With these closures, Talon is seeking to turn people against…
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Niger breaks off military cooperation with the USA
The July 2023 coup in Niger received some popular support when the junta, dubbed the Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie (National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland, (CNSP), broke off military cooperation agreements with France. French troops were seen as the guarantors of the plundering of the country by multinationals such…
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Attacks and intimidation against the trade union movement
While the military government in Burkina Faso has driven French troops out of the country and broken with ECOWAS, which was strangling the economy, it has also at the same time engaged in dangerous practices against democracy and workers. At a conference on 24 March, the spokesman for the CGT-B trade union center denounced these…
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A determination to break
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was elected in the first round of the presidential election with 54.28% of the vote. It was a slap in the face for the incumbent president, Macky Sall, whose candidate was swept aside, while his coalition exploded in mid-air, against a backdrop of disputes over the award of concessions for new offshore…
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Gaza: famine, one of the weapons of genocide
« In Gaza today, we can clearly speak of famine« , says Jean-Pierre Delomier, deputy director of operations for Handicap International (RFI, 25 March), as « ceaseless bombing » continue. Back from Rafah – in the south of the Gaza Strip, where 1.4 million refugees driven out by the Israeli army are packed together – Jean-Pierre Delomier says: « Five…
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Gaza: el hambre como arma genocida
“En Gaza el día de hoy, podemos claramente hablar de hambruna”, afirma Jean-Pierre Delomier, director adjunto de operaciones para Hándicap International (RFI -Radio Francia Internacional del 25 de marzo), pese a que continúan “los bombardeos incesantes”. De regreso de Rafah – al Sur de la banda de Gaza, donde están hacinados 1.4 millones de refugiados…
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¿Quién quiere prohibir TikTok y por qué razón?
La famosa aplicación china TikTok, con la que todos los jóvenes están muy familiarizados – hay 1 200 millones de usuarios en todo el mundo –, es el punto de mira de los Estados Unidos. Los parlamentarios estadounidenses, tanto Demócratas como Republicanos, se disponen a votar su prohibición en los Estados Unidos so pretexto de…
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Dos años después del levantamiento popular, persisten las mismas preguntas
Hace dos años, a finales de marzo de 2022, decenas de miles de trabajadores y jóvenes asaltaron la residencia del presidente Rajapaksa, que ejecutaba el trabajo sucio para el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), y lo expulsaron del poder. A falta de una alternativa política, los sucesivos gobiernos han prolongado la subordinación del país a las…
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Two years after the popular uprising, the same questions remain
Two years ago, at the end of March 2022, tens of thousands of workers and young people stormed the residence of President Rajapaksa, who was doing the dirty work for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and they kicked him from power. For lack of a political alternative, successive governments have prolonged the country’s subordination to…
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