les magouilles du Soudan et le Tchad commence encore!!!

Ai-Tchad — Pendant plus d'une semaine, les organes officiels du régime islamiste de Khartoum avaient tambouriné pour donner un écho retentissant sur les bienfaits de cette réunion et ses conséquences dans la région dans un avenir très proche.
Le Président al Béchir, comme à l'accoutumée en brandissant sa canne et en esquissant quelques pas de danse, avait péremptoirement déclaré la fin de l'opposition armée avant la fin de l'année.
Après un mois presque jour pour jour, on assiste à un effet de boomerang et à un revirement total du régime soudanais de tout ce qui a été concocté avec son vassal d'Amdjaress ! En effet, en ouvrant le forum sur les problèmes économiques du pays dans la grande salle de l'Immeuble de l'Amitié ce jour du 24 novembre 2013, le Président Al Béchir a pour la première fois et de manière officielle reconnu qu'il est impératif que son régime trouve une solution pacifique avec le Front Révolutionnaire Soudanais. Comment et pourquoi en est-on arrivé à cette situation ?
D'abord sur le plan strictement interne, la réunion d'Amdjaress a été très mal vécue différemment, par la communauté zaghawa d'une part et par la classe politique soudanaise y comprise les partisans d'al Béchir d'autre part. Pour la communauté zaghawa, cette intervention est doublement inadmissible, non pas seulement Deby se permet de s'ériger en chef incontesté des zaghawas de deux pays mais il se permet aussi d'envoyer ses troupes pour massacrer les mêmes zaghawas pour le compte du régime génocidaire. Pour l'opposition intérieure, le Président al Béchir a délégué ses pouvoirs régaliens à un Chef d'Etat d'un autre pays, fut-il un pays voisin, pour chercher à résoudre des problèmes internes du Soudan, dans ce cas la constitution devrait le déclarer inapte de poursuivre sa mission et à la limite, il devrait être poursuivi pour haute trahison.
Ensuite les activités grandiloquentes du Front Révolutionnaire Soudanais sur le plan militaire et diplomatique ont eu raison sur les phantasmes politiques des dirigeants soudanais. En effet, après avoir minimisé à travers ses organes officiels et officieux, la portée diplomatique de la tournée européenne des responsables du FRS, le gouvernement soudanais vient de se rendre compte que la tournée a eu des résultats inespérés, aux dires mêmes des responsables du FRS.

Prostitution invades N'Djamena

Prostitution invades N'Djamena
The exercise of the most best job in the world to N'Djamena recorded in recent years, the emergence of a new breed of prostitutes. These girls called VCD and DVD.
Prostitution has grown especially in Chad with the oil boom . It has continued to grow over the last decade, most recently colonized some parts of the city of N'Djamena.
Again practiced by ladies of a certain age who lived in poor neighborhoods and their customers waited quietly , more or less regular and faithful in front of their house , which was also used as room password , the new generation prostitutes goes in search of its customers. They were able to imposed in the middle with their provocative look, their freshness and especially their audacity.
In their environment are called large VCD and DVD. Name borrowed jargon West Africa which means " belly and butt out" for VCD . The DVD is well attributed to prostitutes that suggest through their apparels pubis , belly, and a good part of the post . The big VCD often wearing chains kidneys. When a DVD which means " back and belly out" , it is attributed to find prostitutes who leave their backs and reveal much of their stomach through their attire. Their concept : "shocking to please ." They then dress in very skimpy outfits , which suggests the most intimate parts of the body . Very sexy breathtaking outfits. Sometimes a bra together with a low waist pants , a small culote or a mini skirt .
His approach their customers prostitutes shamelessly . They usually find yourself sun lying on the sidewalks of Avenue Kondole Bealoum , on the outskirts of some hotels and restaurant as " carnivore " or has the famous " Mokolo market " which means " the market girls" their favorite spot not far the roundabout Chagoua facing the ground of the former Rasta bar . High places of prostitution or all the vices are waiting for you . Massed in the dark night fell, the prostitutes do not hesitate to compete charms .
If this phenomenon is amplified in Chad is mainly due to the cost of living. Unemployed and without support, schoolgirls , schoolgirls , student , these girls to family difficulties , we chose to sell their charm to ensure the daily pittance , meet their needs and even their parents .
Against by other did not choose this profession willingly . A rare exceptions meadows , they were forced in one way or another. Some dishonest individuals will indeed look for girls or even minors in the provinces , and promise their work home in N'Djamena . These poor girls who have always dreamed of the capital, jump on the offer without calculating . Once there , these pimps force them into prostitution.
" It's been two years since I work here," confides a young 17 year old girl , met at the bar inn "The Boucaro ." Our interlocutor informed us that his work has many options and the prices varis " also , There are customers who do not want to use condoms. When it's bareback I put the price very high "without comment!
Times are tough , do you have the habit of saying . This situation of poverty has resulted in some women risk behaviors . And worse, many of them know , if they neglect the consequences of their actions. Their choice is to make money at any cost . Sad reality !

Mentally Ill in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wednesday, October 16, 2013 |

Harrowing Photos of the Mentally Ill in Sub-Saharan Africa

Robin Hammond—Panos

Severely mentally disabled men and women are shackled and locked away in Juba Central Prison for years on end. The new nation of South Sudan faces a tremendous challenge to build a modern country capable of caring for all of its citizens. Juba, Sudan. January 2011.

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At its most elemental, photojournalism documents conflict — conflict between individuals, between nations, between ideologies, between humanity and nature. Literally and figuratively, photographers capture conflagrations large and small. Some burn strong and fast; others — often the more frightening, and more destructive — burn more slowly. They smolder.

Tonight, Robin Hammond, a New Zealand-born photojournalist, received the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his attention to one of the sub-Saharan Africa’s slowly burning fires: the plight of the mentally ill.

“Where there is war, famine, displacement, it is always the most vulnerable who suffer the greatest” says Hammond. The mentally ill, he notes, are a “voiceless minority condemned to lives of quiet misery.”

Based in South Africa, Hammond traveled for two years to regions of severe crisis — eastern Congo, Mogadishu, northern Uganda, Liberia and South Sudan — photographing in stark detail the barbaric conditions endured by tens of thousands of Africa’s mentally ill. Broken, largely forgotten, the mentally ill suffer abominable degradations, literally chained and caged throughout their days.

Time and time again while working on his project, Hammond found himself at a loss for words in the face of the unspeakable.

“I discovered a entire section of communities abandoned by their governments, forgotten by the aid community, neglected and abused by entire societies,” he said. “This is not just a document of what shouldn’t be. This work is my protest.”

Maga is a small city located east of Maroua, in the extreme north of Cameroon few kilometres from the Chad border, south of D’jamena.

I found that place one of the highlight of my trip in the Northern Cameroon with a mix of many different cultures and of great landscapes. Here, an artificial lake was created in 1979 to give birth to the SEMERY project, an attempt to develop the rice culture so that local people can improve their standard of living.

Maga itself is a crossroad for Mousgoum and Choa people.

Mousgoum people are pride farmers and fishermen who have a large influence over the area together with the Kotoko people. 4 kilometers from here, one can discover beautiful clay “Sare” which used to be the traditional dome-shaped houses for a family.

Choa people who are arab speaking nomads who periodically enter the Cameroon territory with their animals during the dry season so they can survive. Women form these tribes seem to have extremely beautiful traditional red dresses and to wear a profusion of earrings, collars, etc…

I only spent one day sailing along the shore but it gave me a strong motivation to come back for several days and meet these different people. It’s not totally clear if this would be safe enough to stay overnight but I’ll try to collect as much information as possible before doing so.

Another curiosity is to meet the hippos who found a great ecosystem to proper. It’s really spectacular to observe between 30 and 40 hippos at sunset. The show is really impressive especially because they may be aggressive if we come to close with boats.

Here is one of the latest shot I made during that great afternoon when leaving the area with hippos. This is a local Mousgoum fisherman who came back to Maga with his fishing nets.

                                                                                                                                  








                                   let celebrate the king's day
                                            all together






I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

                                        historical election petition hearing



bonjour, y a du toneur au GHANA la verdict de l'election presidentielle de juin 2012 avait connu quelque contradiction sera donner, le jeudi 29 aout 2013 par cour de grande instance du Ghana . la population a peur, certaine disent que si leur partie politicque ne l'emporte pas ils serons pret pour ses battre et les autres disent qu'il faut qu'il y la paix..... a suivre dans qulque jours
Ali Baba Mahamat Valamdou.

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Il faut briser le cycle des catastrophes pour les enfants du Sahel et agir maintenant, affirme l’UNICEF

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Anthony Lake, Directeur général de l'UNICEF, parle à une mère et ses enfants dans un centre d'alimentation nutritionnelle de Mao, au Tchad

N’DJAMENA, Tchad, 4 avril 2012 – Alors que la malnutrition atteint des niveaux d’urgence dans tout le Sahel, mettant en danger au moins un million d’enfants, le Directeur général de l’UNICEF Anthony Lake, en déplacement dans la région aujourd’hui,  a demandé que l’on redouble d’efforts de toute urgence pour mettre fin à la crise et briser le cycle des catastrophes.
« C’est une région qui est toujours au bord d’une crise. Les familles et les enfants ont été affaiblis par les sécheresses de 2005 et 2010. Maintenant l’insécurité s’aggrave dans plusieurs pays où l’on compte des centaines de milliers de personnes déplacées, où les prix alimentaires augmentent et où les récoltes sont mauvaises », a déclaré M. Anthony Lake aujourd’hui au cours de sa visite dans l’ouest du Tchad.
« Les enfants ont plus de mal maintenant à "rebondir" et à résister aux dangers que représentent la polio, la rougeole, la méningite et le choléra, a-t-il ajouté. Les populations du Sahel sont menacées par une "tempête parfaite" qui met en danger un million d’enfants ».
Dans le cadre des préparatifs à la crise, l’UNICEF a mobilisé des nutritionnistes et mis en place des centaines de centres de réadaptation nutritionnelle dans les huit pays du Sahel, où quelque 15 millions de personnes sont affectées, d’après les estimations. En janvier et février, des dizaines de milliers d'enfants ont été traités pour malnutrition aiguë sévère dans les centres de réadaptation nutritionnelle qui se remplissent d’autant plus vite que c’est le début de la saison de soudure – traditionnellement la pire période de l’année dans un environnement hostile, où la logistique est compliquée.
L’alarme a été déclenchée en décembre 2011, lorsque la crise nutritionnelle au Sahel apparaissait à l’horizon, mais la réponse n’a pas été à la hauteur des besoins. Cette semaine les comités nationaux de l’UNICEF de 36 pays ont lancé une campagne de médias sociaux pour sensibiliser le public à l’intervention d’urgence et faire agir les gouvernements en faveur des enfants au Sahel.
Avec le concours du Ministère de la santé, UNICEF-Tchad a mis sur pied 261 centres de réadaptation nutritionnelle et prévoit d’en doubler encore le nombre au cours des deux prochains mois. Le Tchad compte également le nombre le plus élevé de cas de polio en Afrique (2e dans le monde, après le Pakistan). Le Tchad est aussi touché en ce moment par une flambée de méningite.
L’UNICEF considère que la crise actuelle représente une nouvelle occasion de lutter contre les causes chroniques des taux élevés de malnutrition au Sahel en aidant les gouvernements et les communautés à bâtir des systèmes de santé solides, des services sociaux, à mettre en place une protection sociale et à appuyer des moyens de subsistance durables et un changement de comportement.

L’UNICEF a reçu près de la moitié des 120 millions de dollars E.-U. dont il a besoin pour sauver la vie des enfants et des femmes qui souffrent des conséquences de ces multiples dangers – mauvaises récoltes dues à la sécheresse, prix élevés des denrées alimentaires et insécurité dans certaines parties du Sahel.
« Il ne s’agit pas seulement de sauver des vies aujourd’hui », a déclaré Anthony Lake. « Il s’agit de prévenir de nouvelles urgences demain avec la bonne sorte de nutrition donnée au bon moment, surtout pour les enfants de moins de trois ans. Il s’agit aussi de consolider les systèmes de santé de manière à prévenir une nouvelle situation d’urgence tragique et de manière à éviter que les enfants ne se retrouvent dans des centres nutritionnels ».
« Ce sont des pays sans littoral aux climats éprouvants et à la topographie difficile. Ils ont besoin d’aide avant et après ces crises », a-t-il ajouté.
À propos de l'UNICEF
L'UNICEF intervient dans 190 pays et territoires pour aider les enfants à survivre et à s'épanouir, de leur plus jeune âge jusqu'à la fin de l'adolescence. Premier fournisseur mondial de vaccins aux pays en développement, l'UNICEF soutient la santé et la nutrition des enfants, l'accès à de l'eau potable et à des moyens d'assainissement, une éducation de base de qualité pour tous les garçons et toutes les filles et la protection des enfants contre la violence, l'exploitation sous toutes ses formes et le SIDA. L'UNICEF est entièrement financé par des contributions volontaires de particuliers, d'entreprises, de fondations et de gouvernements.

A groundbreaking new report by UNICEF finds that, while much progress has been made in abandoning female genital mutilation/cutting, millions of girls are still at risk – and sets out key steps needed to eliminate the practice for once, and for all.
NEW YORK, United States of America, 22 July 2013 – “I don’t want any part of my body to be cut. I don’t want to be circumcised,” says 10-year old Kheiriya Abidi from Boorama town, North-West Somalia.
Kheiriya is terrified of the blood, the pain and physical torture she will have to suffer if her genitals are cut.
The pressure on her to be cut is mounting every day, and she is often ridiculed and insulted by her friends for being ‘different’. Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is rooted deep in Somali culture; the practice is nearly universal. Girls and women are made to have their external genitalia removed fully or partially– some when they are just infants, others when they hit puberty – in the name of preserving female honor, chastity, beauty, ensuring their marriage ability.

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Fatima, 7, sits on a bed in her home in Afar region, Ethiopia. She was subjected to FGM/C when she was 1 year old.

But Kheiriya refuses to be one of them. She is standing strong in the face of criticism with support from her family and community health workers who are part of a larger movement to eliminate FGM/C.
Increasing opposition
A groundbreaking new report by UNICEF shows that more girls like Kheiriya, as well as women and men, are saying no to FGM/C than ever before, and more communities than ever are abandoning the centuries-old tradition.
In Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change, UNICEF compiles and analyses data from 74 nationally representative surveys that were conducted over a 20-year period in 29 countries across Africa and the Middle East in which FGM/C is practised. 
“This report is the most comprehensive compilation of statistics and data analysis on FGM/C to date,” says UNICEF Statistics and Monitoring Specialist Claudia Cappa. “It’s extremely important because it illustrates, for the first time, what we know about how widespread is the practice is, the attitudes surrounding the practice and the reasons why this practice is continued. It’s also the first report that includes data for countries like Iraq for which we didn’t have national figures.”
The findings of the report point to a sharp decline in FGM/C in numerous countries in which it is practised. Prevalence has dropped by as much as almost half among adolescent girls in Benin, the Central African Republic, Iraq, Liberia and Nigeria. “In most of the countries surveyed, majority of girls and women who have undergone the practice do not see benefits to it and think that the practice should stop,” says Ms. Cappa. “More mothers are aware that FGM/C can lead to their daughter’s, or a girl’s, death. So, there is a better understanding of the consequences, which, in itself, is very important progress.”
“We don’t talk”
Perhaps one of the most striking revelations is the degree of discrepancy between the low support for FGM/C and the high prevalence of its practice. Even in countries in which most girls and women are cut, a significant proportion of the population opposes the practice.

Josephine Akissi Coulibaly, a former FGM/C practitioner, in her traditional ceremonial attire at her home in Katiola, Côte d'Ivoire. She abandoned the practice, thanks to advocacy work by UNICEF partner organization OIS Afrique.

“It confirms that there is a social obligation, that the practice is relational,” explains UNICEF Senior Child Protection Specialist Francesca Moneti. “I do what I do because I know that you expect me to do it, and vice versa. The clear programmatic insight from the report is you have to make visible the fact that people in their private sphere don’t support the practice. So, I may not support cutting, and you may not support it, but I see you cutting your girl, and you see me cutting my girl, and you think I support it because you see me cutting my girl – but we don’t talk.” 
The report sets out some key steps needed to eliminate FGM/C – one of which is finding ways to make attitudes that favour abandonment of the practice visible, so families know they are not alone. Ms. Moneti emphasizes that increasing visibility would generate a chain reaction against FGM/C that would lead to a relatively quick end of the practice.
“By that, I mean decades before it will completely disappear in a population group… but that’s not a very long time in development terms, especially if you think that the practice has been around for over 1,000 years,” she says.
Speaking out loudly and clearly
More than 125 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to FGM/C in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East in which it is concentrated, and 30 million girls are at risk of being cut within the next decade. 
“FGM/C is a violation of a girl’s rights to health, well-being and self-determination,” says UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Geeta Rao Gupta. “What is clear from this report is that legislation alone is not enough. The challenge now is to let girls and women, boys and men speak out loudly and clearly and announce they want this harmful practice abandoned.”

Click to enlarge: 29 countries, more than 125 million girls and women [PDF]

 Ali Baba Mahamat Valamdou
Jhr vice president