Le Haut-Commissariat des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme va ouvrir un bureau au Burkina Faso, pour contribuer à la promotion des droits humains “dans le contexte d’une situation sécuritaire complexe dans la région du Sahel”.
L’accord a été signé par la Haute-Commissaire des Nations unies aux droits de l’homme, Michelle Bachelet, et le ministre des Affaires étrangères, de la Coopération et de l’Intégration africaine du Burkina Faso, Alpha Barry, lors d’une cérémonie au siège du Haut-Commissariat à Genève, selon un communiqué publié mercredi.
Moscow is intensifying its airstrikes on Islamic State targets in the Syrian desert.
ALEPPO — Islamic State attacks in the Syrian desert have escalated over the past two weeks, causing heavy losses among the Syrian government forces and their allied militias.
Russia has intensified airstrikes on IS positions in support of regime forces as they attack IS positions and hideouts in the rugged desert areas.
Iraqi national security forces working closely with local tribal fighters say they have managed to kill two key Islamic State figures involved in planning suicide attacks.
ERBIL, Iraq — A man driving a car loaded with explosives who was thought to have been about to attack a police station detonated himself in the regional capital of the Sunni-majority Anbar province, Ramadi, about 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, on Oct. 3.
Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by the export of militant groups, while the Taliban leadership has accused Tajikistan’s government of interference.
“They said they are going to stay in Syria and will not withdraw – they will keep fighting Islamic State,” Ahmed said. “Before they were unclear under Trump and during the Afghan withdrawal.”
A leading Syrian Kurdish politician said on Thursday the United States will stay on in Syria to destroy Islamic State, build infrastructure and remain a player in the search for a political settlement after more than 10 years of civil war.
Blinking under the garish lights of a hotel ballroom in southern Iraq, Wael Makhsusi argued his case to a young audience.
Microphone in hand, the engineer in his 30s stood onstage in Basra with other novice candidates in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Among them were independents and hopefuls drawn from the protests that filled the streets two years ago with demonstrators angry about high unemployment, government corruption and lack of basic services like electricity and water.
Sur fond de famine et de conflit, les personnels onusiens sont accusés d’ingérence dans les affaires internes par Addis-Abeba.
La communauté humanitaire en Ethiopie peine à encaisser l’onde de choc provoquée par l’expulsion de sept responsables onusiens, dimanche 3 octobre. « C’est une claque magistrale », lance le responsable d’une organisation présente à Addis-Abeba, la capitale éthiopienne. Accusés d’ingérence dans les affaires internes du pays, les hauts responsables de l’Unicef, du Haut-Commissariat aux droits de l’homme, et du Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires, ont été déclarés persona non grata. Une décision extrêmement rare à une telle échelle.
If Russia has recently regarded Turkey warily as a result of Turkey’s successful backing of Azerbaijan in its recent war with Armenia over Nagorno Karabakh, being on opposite sides in Syria and Libya, Turkey’s supply of arms to Ukraine, and Turkey’s refusal to recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea, in the run up to the Putin-Erdogan summit in Sochi on September 29, 2021 and in its aftermath, the music changed. Professor Alexander Dugin, a Putin advisor and a leading light of the Eurasian school attached historical significance to the meeting: “At this summit, the heads of the two states drew their red lines and a roadmap for the new world. From now on, Turkey and Russia have embarked on a new path, and this will affect both regional dynamics and the whole world. “[1] The pro-Kremlin television commentator and presenter Dmitry Kiselyov pronounced that Erdogan and Putin had achieved unity on almost all issues.[2] During the summit Putin emphasized the quest for compromises, but Russian commentators believe that Erdogan generally acceded to Putin, and drew encouragement from a Turkish military withdrawal from Idlib in Syria. In seeking to explain the more accommodating policy of Erdogan, Russian commentators concentrated on Turkey’s economic and political vulnerability. The latter was the result of a chill between Erdogan and the Biden administration that deprived Erdogan of the option to play both sides.
The news comes at a time of high tension between Kurdish groups and the Islamic Republic.
A Kurdish political party in Iran said Tuesday that its operatives killed an Iranian intelligence agent allegedly responsible for killing Kurdish activists.
It is difficult to speak of European ambitions for international crisis management against the backdrop of the images from Kabul over the past few weeks, which seem to tell a story of the failure of Western interventionist policies. But that discussion is urgently needed.
