Author: M Barbu

Au moins 5 000 migrants arrivent dans l’enclave espagnole de Ceuta, un record en un jour

C’est un fait sans précédent. Au moins 5 000 migrants, dont un millier de mineurs, sont parvenus, lundi 17 mai, à atteindre l’enclave espagnole de Ceuta depuis le Maroc voisin, arrivant à la nage ou à pied quand la marée le permettait, ont indiqué les autorités espagnoles, évoquant un « record » pour une journée.

Des hommes, des femmes et des enfants ont utilisé des bouées gonflables, d’autres des canots pneumatiques et certains ont même nagé jusqu’au territoire espagnol de Ceuta.

Selon un porte-parole de la garde civile espagnole, la marée était si basse à certains endroits qu’on pouvait pratiquement arriver à Ceuta en marchant.

À l’aube, ils n’étaient encore qu’une centaine. Mais au fil des heures, le flot n’a cessé de gonfler. Dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, le porte-parole de la préfecture a annoncé à l’AFP que 5 000 personnes avaient franchi la frontière et que ce chiffre, inédit, pourrait encore augmenter.

#Inmigración #Marruecos Ya se ha superado la cifra de 4.000 personas que han entrado en Ceuta de manera irregular. Al parecer, una persona ha fallecido y varias han sido heridas o con semiahogamientos, y trasladadas al Hospital. Ceuta está desbordada.#MarruecosgolpeaaEspaña pic.twitter.com/zEx8ZraZNe
— Ceuta Ahora (@AhoraCeuta) May 17, 2021

Des migrants tentent régulièrement de rejoindre Ceuta en escaladant les hautes clôtures qui séparent cette enclave du Maroc.

Fin avril, une centaine de migrants marocains avaient déjà gagné ce territoire espagnol, à la nage. La majorité d’entre eux avaient ensuite été expulsés vers le Maroc.
Contexte de tensions diplomatiques entre Madrid et Rabat

Ces arrivées s’inscrivent dans un contexte de tensions diplomatiques entre Madrid et Rabat, rappelle notre correspondant à Madrid, François Musseau. Même si le gouvernement socialiste espagnol le nie, en relâchant la surveillance policière à Finideq, la ville frontalière, Rabat punit son voisin pour avoir hébergé dans un de ses hôpitaux à la mi- avril Brahim Ghali, le leader du Front Polisario, ce mouvement qui revendique l’indépendance du Sahara occidental, occupé par le Maroc depuis 1976.

Pour Rabat, c’est une provocation qui méritait des représailles. Celle-ci a pris la forme de cette arrivée massive, qui déborde les infrastructures de Ceuta, petit territoire qui ne dispose que d’un seul hangar habilité par l’armée et d’une capacité de 200 personnes pour accueillir les sans-papiers. Madrid aimerait rapatrier ces migrants arrivés à la nage, mais pour cela il faudra le feu vert du Maroc. Or, pour l’heure, la tension est à son comble entre les deux pays en raison du conflit au Sahara occidental. Rabat souhaite une pleine reconnaissance de sa souveraineté sur ce territoire. Madrid veut une négociation avec le Front Polisario.

Sommet de Paris: éviter le décrochage de l’Afrique

Ce mardi 18 mai se tient à Paris un sommet consacré au financement des économies africaines et à l’épineuse question de la dette. La pandémie de Covid-19 a plongé l’an dernier le continent dans une récession sans précédent. Les pays africains ont besoin de financer leur relance, mais contrairement aux grandes puissances, ils n’ont pas les mêmes capacités. Le sommet de Paris doit notamment examiner les décisions prises par la communauté internationale à propos d’une réallocation de DTS, les fameux droits de tirage spéciaux.

Generali americani: SUA sunt în mare pericol

La scurt timp după ce zeci de generali și amirali în retragere din Franța au semnat o scrisoare deschisă în care au atras atenția asupra unui posibil război civil, a venit rândul generalilor americani să lanseze o scrisoare similară, în care fac apel la ”salvarea republicii constituționale” de atacul marxismului. Scrisoarea generalilor și amiralilor americani în retragere a avut, până acum, mult mai puțin ecou în presă.

50 Migrants Die When Dinghy Sinks in the Mediterranean Sea

The boat departed from Libya on Sunday and sank due to overweight and weather conditions such as continuous rain, strong winds, and high waves.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday reported that at least 50 people drowned off the coast of Tunisia when the dinghy carrying them to Europe capsized.

The boat departed from Libya on Sunday and sank due to overweight and weather conditions such as continuous rain, strong winds, and high waves.

About 30 African migrants were rescued by coast guard units and taken to Tunisia, according to IOM spokesperson Safa Msahli.

This would be the deadliest deadly shipwreck so far in 2021 off the coast of Tunisia after 41 people were shipwrecked on April 14.

On May 14, the Red Crescent also reported the disappearance at sea of at least 17 migrants from sub-Saharan and Sahelian countries. They were drifting in a dinghy that had left one of the beaches surrounding the Libyan city of Zawiya.

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), around 23,500 African migrants have reached the coasts of Italy and Spain.

Approximately 633 people have disappeared at sea, mostly on the route from Tunisia and Libya to Italy, which is considered one of the deadliest routes in the world. So far this year, over 7,000 migrants have been intercepted by patrol boats and returned to Libya.

US Must Take Responsibility in Palestinian Issue, China Says

“Instead of actively preventing the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the United States is prepared to add fuel to the fire,” China’s diplomat Zhao warned.

China on Tuesday urged the United States to shoulder its due responsibility on the Palestine-Israel conflict and support the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to play its due role in promoting the easing of the situation, rebuilding trust, and political settlement.

Spain hit by massive wave of migrants from Morocco

Morocco is also angry at Spain for providing medical care to the leader of a Western Saharan independence group.

Morocco and Spain are in a diplomatic row over a migration surge involving the two Mediterranean states. The issue coincides with Moroccan anger over Spain providing medical treatment to a Western Saharan independence leader.

No victory picture for Israel in Gaza

The IDF success in destroying Gaza underground infrastructure cannot erase photos of Hamas rockets reaching Tel Aviv.

This operation was supposed to be the jewel in Israel’s crown, the result of impressive, painstaking intelligence collection mapping out the vast network of Hamas tunnels in the northern section of the Gaza Strip, including the fortified, fully equipped bomb shelter for the organization’s leadership. The Islamist group had little idea that everything it was digging underground over the years was being documented by Israeli intelligence in order to compile a bank of bombing targets for future use. Israel had also devised a series of sophisticated ruses designed to force Hamas commanders to flee underground into what the military was dubbing the “metro,” where they would be buried by heavy bombs bringing the tunnels crashing down on their heads.

Erdogan: Turkey won’t ‘remain silent’ over Israeli strikes in Gaza

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called on the UN Security Council to address the worsening bloodshed.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Ankara is “furious” over Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip and lashed out at countries that “remain silent” in the face of Israel’s operation.

“We are both saddened and furious at the cruelty of the terrorist state of Israel against Palestinians,” Erdogan told a virtual meeting of his ruling Justice and Development Party.

Turkey’s Jewish minority takes the heat amid Israeli-Palestinian violence

A frenzy of anti-Israeli coverage in Turkish media has accompanied anti-Semitic attacks on the country’s small Jewish community.

Turkey’s tiny Jewish community is once again in the crosshairs of the ongoing violence between Israelis and Palestinians, with its community newspaper the target of a fresh wave of anti-Semitic attacks.

Individuals who identified themselves as disciples of Necip Fazıl Kisakurek, a Turkish nationalist poet and anti-Semite revered by Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hacked the website of Salom, the sole newspaper serving Turkey’s dwindling Jewish minority. They posted, “Our actions will continue until Palestine is free and independent.” They also posted a verse from one of Kisakurek’s poems evoking Palestinians responding to Israeli missiles with stones. The perpetrators have yet to be caught. Turkey’s Jews are on edge.

Nigeria: Religious Extremism Fueling Violence

Escalating bloodshed in Nigeria is fueled in part by religious extremism – and the United States must recognize this in order to achieve peace, says the former U.S. religious freedom ambassador.

“This thing’s going to blow up on us, as we would say, ‘bigger than Dallas,’ if we don’t get into there and really start taking this seriously at this point,” Sam Brownback, former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, told CNA on Wednesday of violence in Nigeria.