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• Obama et Bush critiquent Donald Trump

  Oct 21, 2017 by Admin / 252 Views

  

  Les anciens présidents américains, Barack Obama et George W Bush, ont émis leurs inquiétudes concernant le climat politique actuel aux Etats-Unis.

  Les Américains doivent envoyer un message au monde en rejetant une politique de division, une politique de peur. Nous ne pouvons pas avoir encore les vieilles politiques de division que nous avions il y a des siècles. La politique actuelle... on croyait en avoir fini il y a longtemps... Les gens ont 50 ans de retard ! On est au 21eme siècle, pas au 19eme
  Barack Obama, Ancien président des Etats-Unis

  M. Obama a appelé les américains à rejeter la politique de "division" et de peur alors M. Bush a critiqué "le harcèlement et le préjudice" dans la vie publique.

  Les deux présidents se sont exprimés séparément et n'ont en aucun moment cité le nom de Donald Trump qui n'a pas encore réagi à ces critiques.

  Traditionnellement, les anciens présidents américains ne font pas de commentaires publics sur leurs successeurs.

  En quittant la Maison Blanche, Barack Obama avait promis de respecter ''pour un temps'' cette courtoisie vis-à-vis de M. Trump comme M. Bush l'avait fait pour lui.

  Image captionTraditionnellement, les anciens présidents américains ne font pas de commentaires publics sur leurs successeurs.

  Il a brisé le silence au New Jersey pour s'exprimer sur la volonté de Donald Trump de faire abroger l'Obamacare, sur "son projet controversé d'interdiction de voyage" visant majoritairement des pays musulmans et sur le retrait américain des Accords de Paris sur le Climat.

  A New York, George Bush a déploré la dégradation du discours par la cruauté banalisée.

  A certains moments, on a l'impression que les forces qui nous divisent sont plus fortes que celles qui nous unissent. Nos débats se détériorent à l'aune d'une cruauté nonchalante Georges Bush, Ancien Président des Etats-Unis

  "Nous avons vu le nationalisme se dénaturer en nativisme, et nous avons oublié le dynamisme que l'immigration a toujours apporté à l'Amérique. Nous perdons confiance dans l'économie de marché et le commerce international, en oubliant que les conflits, l'instabilité et la pauvreté sont les conséquences du protectionnisme"

  Selon Georges Bush, l'Amérique observe le retour des idées isolationnistes, en oubliant que la sécurité de l'Amérique est menacée par le chaos et le désespoir frappant des lieux distants où terrorisme et épidémies, gangs et trafics de drogue tendent à émerger".

   

  Auteur: bbc - BBC-Afrique

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• Six years since Muammar Gaddafi was killed

  Oct 21, 2017 by Admin / 402 Views

  

  October 20, 2011 was the day on which longtime Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, was deposed. Six years on, news about the north African country has been a mixture of chaos and anarchy despite global efforts to put it back on track.

  Six years after he was captured and killed in his home town of Sirte, we look at some highlights of his reign and present a dozen pictures that chronicle his time as leader of Libya.

  Local rebel groups were aided by western forces, specifically, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to overthrow the man who had ruled Libya for close to five decades.

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• Somalia updates bombing casualty list, deaths could top 400 – govt

  Oct 21, 2017 by Admin / 321 Views

  

  The Somali government on Friday gave its latest update on the Mogadishu bomb attack that happened a week ago.

  The attack according to government figures released by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management had directly affected 642 people.

  Of the number, 358 deaths had been confirmed. Another 56 people had been classed as ‘missing’ with 228 others injured.

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• Weah, VP Boakai to face off in November 7 Liberia election run-off

  Oct 21, 2017 by Admin / 317 Views

  

  Ex-football star, George Weah of the Congress For Democratic Change (CDC) will face current vice-president, Joseph Boakai of the ruling Unity Party (UP) on November 7 in Liberia election run-off.

  After collating results from the 5390 polling places across the country on Thursday, George Weah Manneh polled 596,037 votes (38.4%), and
  Joseph Boakai Nyuma of UP polled 446,716 votes (28.8%).

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• G7, tech giants agree on plan to block jihadist content online

  Oct 21, 2017 by Admin / 261 Views

  

  G7 countries and tech giants including Google, Facebook and Twitter on Friday agreed to work together to block the dissemination of Islamist extremism over the internet.

  "These are the first steps towards a great alliance in the name of freedom," Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti said after a two-day meeting with his Group of Seven counterparts, stressing the role of the internet in extremist "recruitment, training and radicalisation."

  French Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said the goal was to ensure pro-jihadist content "is taken down within two hours of it going online".

  "Our enemies are moving at the speed of a tweet and we need to counter them just as quickly," acting US Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke said.

  While acknowledging progress had been made, Britain's Home Secretary Amber Rudd insisted "companies need to go further and faster to not only take down extremist content but also stop it being uploaded in the first place".

  Senior executives from the internet giants and Microsoft attended the ministerial session devoted to the issue but did not offer any explanation on how they might go about clamping down on web extremists.

  - Jihadists fleeing Syria -

  The meeting on the Italian island of Ischia off Naples also focused on ways to tackle one of the West's biggest security threats: jihadist fighters fleeing Syria. The European Union has promised to help close a migration route considered a potential back door for terrorists.

  Tens of thousands of citizens from Western countries travelled to Syria and Iraq to fight for the Islamic State group between 2014 and 2016. Some then returned home and staged attacks that claimed dozens of lives.

  Minniti warned last week that fighters planning revenge attacks following the recent collapse of the IS stronghold in Raqa could hitch lifts back to Europe on migrant boats from Libya.

  The US and Italy signed an agreement on the sidelines of the G7 meeting to share their fingerprint databases in a bid to root out potential extremists posing as asylum seekers.

  The group also said international police agency Interpol -- which currently holds details of nearly 40,000 foreign fighters -- would play a bigger role in information sharing.

  Interpol's secretary general Juergen Stock said the agency's global databases could "act as an 'early warning system' against terrorists and crime threats and help close potential loopholes for terrorists".

  - 'De-radicalisation' -

  Earlier, EU President Donald Tusk promised the bloc would fork out more funds to help shut down the perilous crossing from Libya to Italy -- a popular path for migrants who hope to journey on to Europe.

  The EU would offer "stronger support for Italy's work with the Libyan authorities", and there was "a real chance of closing the central Mediterranean route", he said.

  Italy has played a major role in training Libya's coastguard to stop human trafficking in its territorial waters, as well as making controversial deals with Libyan militias to stop migrants from setting off.

  Minniti said the G7 ministers had discussed how to go about "de-radicalising" citizens returning from the IS frontline, to prevent them becoming security risks in jails.

  - UK's hard approach -

  The Group of Seven --- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US -- said it had also called on the web giants to work with their smaller partners to bolster the anti-extremism shield.

  Rudd said the UK government would do its part by changing the law so that those accessing and viewing extremist material on the web could face up to 15 years behind bars.

  But Julian Richards, security specialist at BUCSIS (Buckingham University Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies), said the rest of the G7 was unlikely to get behind her on that front.

  "The UK's fairly hard approach of introducing legislative measures to try to force companies to cooperate... and suggestions that people radicalising online should have longer sentences, are often considered rather unpalatable and too politically sensitive in many other advanced countries," he told AFP.

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