Dans le contexte de crise qu’il traverse depuis plusieurs années, le Mali a plus que jamais besoin de tous ses amis et partenaires. Ce qui taraude les esprits, depuis les débuts de l’affaire Wagner : nombreux sont les partenaires de notre pays qui ne cessent de « taper du poing sur la table ».
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the military junta in Mali has turned to “private Russian companies” for help in its fight against Islamist insurgents in the Western African country.
“This is activity which has been carried out on a legitimate basis,” Lavrov said during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York on September 25. “We have nothing to do with that.”
Environ 2 000 manifestants, selon des observateurs, ont dénoncé dimanche à Tunis “le pouvoir aux mains d’un seul homme”, disant redouter “un retour à la dictature de Ben Ali”, après l’adoption cette semaine par le président Kaïs Saïed de mesures exceptionnelles.
“La légitimité passe par le vote.” Les manifestants présents à Tunis ont dénoncé, dimanche 26 septembre, “le pouvoir aux mains d’un seul homme”, visant le président Kaïs Saïed qui a adopté des mesures exceptionnelles cette semaine.
Real Estate is the world’s largest asset class. The numbers are staggering- globally, real estate in aggregate is worth approximately $230 trillion. Of this, residential real estate is the majority player, worth approximately $180 trillion. This far exceeds the value of all stocks and is on the order of 25 times the value of all the gold ever mined. Again, the numbers defy imagination.
One of the problems with capitalism is that it is driving us towards disaster.
Greed is good?
Adam Smith (1723-1790) maintained that individual self-interest can and should be the principle guiding our economic behavior . He told the readers of his book “The Wealth of Nations”, that, as if guided by an invisible hand, individual self-interest leads to the general good. To put is in fewer words, Smith maintained that greed is good. However, during England’s industrial revolution the contrast between the lives of factory owners and those of slave-like workers, who had been driven off the land by the Enclosure Acts.
The military transitional government of Mali is expected to announce a deal with the Russian Wagner Group to combat the Islamic jihadist movements that are spreading violence across the country.
Moscow has confirmed the deal. Nevertheless, it stated that it had nothing to do with the negotiations as Mali approached Wagner directly. Moscow said that Mali feels it is effectively being banned by France which decided to unilaterally withdraw from the country.
A delegation of Palestinian clerics from Gaza, South Lebanon and Syria has been visiting Iraq in the recent days to attend the “Call of Al-Aqsa Procession”, organized by the Iraqi “Call of Al-Aqsa” (Nida Al-Aqsa) organization. The procession is held as part of the “Arba’een Pligrimage” march from Najaf to Karbala, held annually at the end of the 40-day mourning period for Imam Hussein, the Prophet’s grandson, who was assassinated in 680.
On September 24, 2021, some 300 Iraqi notables, both Sunnis and Shi’ites, held a conference in Erbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, calling for Iraq to join the Abraham Accords and establish diplomatic ties with Israel. They also called to abolish the law criminalizing contacts between Iraqi and Israeli citizens. The conference was initiated by the Center for Peace Communications, based in New York.
A system of abuse against migrants in Libya, carried out by militias and the government, is fueled by European Union money given to authorities in a country where violence has been normalized after years of instability, according to a new documentary to be released in October.
A number of migrants and refugees speak of the abuses and torture they suffered at the hands of Libyan militias in Libya: No Way Out of Hell by documentary filmmaker Sara Creta.
Increased military movements by government forces and Russia near the Idlib fronts and the strategic M4 highway indicate that the battle against the Turkey-supported opposition may be drawing near.
Since mid-September, the Syrian government has been leading a large-scale military operation against opposition factions to expel them from areas under their control south of the international M4 highway connecting Aleppo and Latakia.