mercredi 27 août 2014
Saint-Louis - Des pêcheurs et pirogues arrêtés en Mauritanie : Guet Ndar fustige et menace
L'arrestation de deux pêcheurs de Guet Ndar et la confiscation de
leurs embarcations par les autorités les gardes-côtes mauritaniens,
provoquent l'ire des habitants de la Langue de barbarie qui ont vivement
fustigé, mercredi, « la démission » de la marine mise en place par
l'État du Sénégal.
En a croire ces pêcheurs, la police marine mauritanienne poursuit les
pirogues jusque dans les eaux sénégalaises et inflige « des supplices
inhumains » aux équipages sénégalais, une fois arrêtés.
« Ils nous ligotent et nous couvrent avec des sacs », témoigne un piroguier.
« Nous voulons que cette situation cesse. Nous voulons que l'État
intervienne. Nous sommes des citoyens à part entière, nous avons besoin
d'être écoutés comme tout le monde. Nous ne voulons pas que certaines
situations se reproduisent à Saint-Louis », a avertit un des pêcheurs
qui s'est adressé à Ndarinfo.com ( vidéo). Un de ces pêcheurs dont les
deux fils sont présentement en détention à Nouakchott, rappelle à l’État
son engagement de pacifier la zone et invite les autorités locales à
réagir pour mettre fin à cette présumée «injustice ».
Ndarinfo.com
samedi 23 août 2014
Le Sénégal ferme ses frontières terrestres avec la Guinée
Dakar, 21 août (APS)
Le Sénégal a décidé de fermer à nouveau ses frontières terrestres avec la République de Guinée "compte tenu de l’évolution de la fièvre hémorragique à virus Ebola qui pose un problème de santé publique de portée mondiale’’, a annoncé jeudi soir le ministre de l’Intérieur et de la Sécurité publique."Cette mesure est étendue aux frontières aériennes et maritimes pour les aéronefs et navires en provenance de la République de Guinée, de la Sierra Léone et du Libéria’’, ajoute Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo dans un communiqué reçu à l’APS.
"En conséquence, signale t-il, les autorités administratives et les forces de Défense et de Sécurité veilleront à la mise en œuvre rigoureuse de la présente mesure’’.
Il précise toutefois que le Sénégal "reste solidaire avec tous les pays touchés par l’épidémie de la fièvre hémorragique à virus Ebola’’
Ebola crisis: The economic impact
Military road blocks are preventing the movement of goods and workers
With
more than 1,300 reported deaths from Ebola in West Africa, the virus
continues to be an urgent health crisis, but it is also having a
devastating impact on the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
"The economy has been deflated by 30% because of Ebola," Sierra Leone's Agriculture Minister Joseph Sam Sesay told the BBC. He said President Ernest Bai Koroma revealed this staggering and depressing news to ministers at a special cabinet meeting. "The agricultural sector is the most impacted in terms of Ebola because the majority of the people of Sierra Leone - about 66% - are farmers," he said.
Twelve out of 13 districts in Sierra Leone are now affected by Ebola, although the epicentres are in the Eastern Province near the borders with Liberia and Guinea.
Road blocks manned by police and military are preventing the movement of farmers and labourers as well as the supply of goods.
"We are definitely expecting a devastating effect not only on labour availability and capacity but we are also talking about farms being abandoned by people running away from the epicentres and going to areas that don't have the disease," Mr Sesay added.
Many shops have been forced to close as part of quarantine measures
"A robust response to quarantining epicentres of the disease is absolutely necessary," he told the BBC. But he admits agriculture in Sierra Leone has been brought to its knees.
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Dianna Games Africa@WorkThe stereotypes of Africa as a place of poverty and disease have started to re-emerge again”
"We are now coming into the
planting season which means a lot of agriculture is not happening, so
down the line that will create food shortages and pressures on food
prices. We are starting to see a rise in inflation and pressure on the
national currency as well as a shortage of foreign exchange," he said.
The UNDP has appealed for $18m (£11m) to bolster Sierra
Leone's health system while the World Food Programme says the total cost
of its emergency operations in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia is
$70m.In Guinea and Liberia the economic predictions may be less catastrophic but they are still worrying. The World Bank said it was expecting GDP growth in Guinea to fall from 4.5% to 3.5%.
Economic growth in Liberia has been revised down due to the outbreak
Mining impact The world's largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal has seen work disrupted on its iron ore mine expansion project in Yekepa in Liberia, after contractors declared "force majeure" and moved people out of the country.
Simandou, in the forests of eastern Guinea, is Africa's largest iron ore mine and infrastructure project. Vale, the world's biggest iron ore producer, was involved in Simandou until April. It evacuated six international members of staff and put the rest of the workforce in the area on leave.
Rio Tinto, the world's third largest mining company, which owns a share in Simandou, has donated $100,000 to the World Health Organization's work in the area and is also making sanitation equipment available to local people there.
Steelmakers and miners have been hit by the outbreak
A smaller British company, London Mining, has moved out some
its non-essential expatriate staff from Sierra Leone, where mining has
accounted for much of the country's recent growth. According to the International Monetary Fund, Sierra Leone's output grew by 20% last year; excluding iron ore mining, it grew by 5.5%.But like Rio Tinto, London Mining has also donated money towards tackling the spread of Ebola, and educating local communities about the virus.
Borders closed In Sierra Leone, commercial banks have reduced their hours of business by two hours to reduce contact with clients and the country's tourism industry has taken a severe knock - some hotels are empty and are laying off staff.
The closure of borders in West Africa and the suspension of flights are also having a detrimental effect on trade, severely limiting the ability of countries to export and import goods.
Recent examples are the closure of Cameroon's lengthy border with Nigeria and the announcement by Kenya Airways that it is suspending flights to and from Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The outbreak has caused a number of countries to close their borders
All three West African nations are already poor countries, but
the Ebola outbreak could make them even poorer. Sierra Leone and Liberia
have both emerged from horrific civil wars and managed to rebuild their
economies. Liberia has been trying to revive its mining sector which before the civil war accounted for more than half its export earnings. But now there are fears that all the good work that has been achieved since those conflicts could be destroyed. There are also concerns that widespread poverty could force people to resort to criminality.
'Fundamentals' Meanwhile some international investors are nervously watching the Ebola outbreak unfold. Dianna Games, chief executive of Johannesburg-based consultants Africa@Work, says fears about the virus could damage Africa's economic revival of recent years.
"Ebola has made a dent in the Africa Rising narrative," she told the BBC. "The stereotypes of Africa as a place of poverty and disease have started to re-emerge again."
She thinks Nigeria is the only affected country that has the health system and infrastructure to deal with Ebola. At the moment there have only been 12 confirmed cases, all of which were linked to the death of one man from Liberia in July.
In the long run, Ms Games believes history will view the 2014 Ebola outbreak as a temporary blip rather than a permanent U-turn in the continent's fortunes.
"The fundamentals pushing this Africa Renaissance are still there," she said.
jeudi 21 août 2014
En bande organisée, ils ponctionnaient frauduleusement de l'argent sur le compte de clients ORANGE MONEY : Comment des agents véreux de PCCI sont tombés
C'est connu, Orange Money est une alléchante offre de la Sonatel. Une trouvaille qui permet aux clients de s'acquitter de leur facture d'eau, d'électricité, de téléphone, ou transférer de l'argent. Qui plus est, Orange Money permet aussi de recharger des cartes de crédit. En somme, c'est un portefeuille ambulant...
Depuis plusieurs mois, la société de téléphonie Orange reçoit des plaintes et complaintes de ses usagers pour des malversations dans leurs comptes. C'est ainsi que la Sonatel (maison mère) mit à contribution son service technique aux fins de déceler les failles, non sans procéder à des remboursements de sommes d'argent volés sur des comptes Orang Money. De fil en aiguille, 5 individus, qui se trouvent être des employés de la société PCCI -assurant une partie du service de la Sonatel- ont été identifié comme les auteurs de ces irrégularités. C'est ainsi qu'une plainte a été déposée au niveau de la Section Recherches de la gendarmerie nationale, qui ne tardera pas à cueillir Aminata Dia -et son mari Jean Kalaya Loua-, Mariétou Ba, Ahmadou Bamba Mbacké et Salimata Ndiaye, tous agents de PCCI.
il ressort de l'enquête rondement menée par les pandores de la SR
qu'ils reçoivent des appels de clients Orange pour des réclamations,
profitaient de leur statut leur permettant d'accéder dans les comptes-
clients pour y procéder à des ponctions frauduleuses en réinstallant les
codes secrets. Pour exécuter leur forfait, ils empruntent le téléphone
mobile d'une tierce personne où ils insèrent une puce et le tour est
joué.
En somme de par leur pratique frauduleuse, ils réinstallent le mot de passe des comptes Orange Money. Après cette réinstallation, ils modifient l'identité du détenteur, c'est ainsi qu'ils vident complètement le compte avant même que le vrai titulaire ne s'en rende compte.
mardi 19 août 2014
Décès de Momar Thiam, réalisateur de Bakks Yamba
Momar Thiam est décédé ce jour et sera inhumé dans l'après-midi. La radio Rfm donne la triste nouvelle, en précisant que la levée du corps est prévue à la Patte D'oie. Doyen des cinéastes sénégalais, Momar Thiam avait 85 ans et s'est fait connaître grâce à une filmographie très riche. On connaît beaucoup plus Bakks Yamba sorti en 1974. Il a aussi réalisé Sarzan (1963), Diabel le pêcheur (1965), La Lutte casamançaise (1968), La Malle de Mala Kouli et Simb, le jeu du faux lion (1969).
Nat Nakasa reburial: South African writer's remains return
A memorial service was held for Nat Nakasa in New York on Saturday
The remains of renowned anti-apartheid journalist Nat Nakasa have been returned to South Africa from the US.
He was awarded a year's fellowship to study journalism at
Harvard University in 1964 and took his own life a year later in New
York at the age of 28.The apartheid government had refused to give him a passport so he had left on an exit permit, which meant he was unable to go home.
"Nat would be very happy," his sister Gladys Maphumulo said.
Hero's welcome She attended the memorial service for Nakasa on Saturday in New York, a day after his remains were exhumed.
Nat Nakasa is expected to be reburied in his birthplace of Chesterville in KwaZulu-Natal province next month
Further tributes were paid to Nat Nakasa after his coffin arrived at Durban's King Shaka International Airport
He once wrote: "I may shut up for some time because of fear. Yet even this will not make me feel ashamed. For I know that as long as the ideas remain unchanged within me, there will always be the possibility that, one day, I shall burst out and say everything that I wish to say - in a loud and thunderous voice."
The return of his remains is also a reminder of the many men and women who died in exile during apartheid, far from their families.
I imagine he would be as critical of today's social ills as he was of those in the 1960s. But I also imagine he would call on South Africans to celebrate the achievement that black people are now free to live where they want, work where they want and love who they want. South Africans hold him in high regard because he is a reminder of how far black people have come.
A guard of honour made up of veterans from Umkhonto we Sizwe, the former military wing of the African National Congress, led the flag-draped coffin into a marquee, where further tributes were paid.
A campaign to have Nakasa's remains returned home began not long after the end of white minority rule in 1994.
"This is a proud moment for South African journalism and the nation as a whole that we have been able to give Nat his last wish, returning to the land of his birth and to rest eternally with his ancestors,'' the South African National Editors Forum said in a statement.
Nat Nakasa died in New York after jumping off a high rise building
The late Nadine Gordimer knew Nakasa during his time in Johannesburg, and said he was a good talker and through his columns revealed a "a highly personal kind" of journalism which showed the daily reality of apartheid "for one man living through it".
His writing reflected the "gaiety of a serious man", said the Nobel Prize-winning author, who died in July.
"The truth is that he was a new kind of man in South Africa," she wrote in an essay published in a collection of her writing, Telling Times.
"He accepted without question and with easy dignity and natural pride his Africanness, and he took equally for granted that his identity as a man among men, a human among fellow humans, could not be legislated out of existence."
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