20 DEATH DURING A HOUTHI MARRIAGE
OR THE HUMANITARIAN DISASTER IN YEMEN
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| As a reminder of the evidence of war and famine in Yemen: An air raid killed at least 20 people at a wedding, according to the rescuers. The Houthi rebels, who control the region, attributed the strikes to the Saudi-led coalition operating in Yemen. The injured were admitted to a hospital in the provincial capital, said in a tweet Doctors Without Borders that supports this institution.
 The conflict, entering its fourth year, provoked "the most serious humanitarian crisis in the world" NGOs in the field mainly accuse Riyadh of the ongoing massacre. Why this deafening silence of the international community?
MBS of war of Saudi Arabia.
"More than twenty-two million Yemenis now need some form of humanitarian aid, of which sixteen million do not have access to safe drinking water, while 8.4 million are in danger of starvation." Three figures intolerable United Nations.
Since March 2015, the country has been in a merciless war between the Houthi rebels, backed by Tehran and the central authority, backed by a military coalition led by Riyadh in Operation Saudi Arabia's "Storm of Firmness".
In early April, ten human rights and humanitarian organizations, including Human Rights Watch, Action Against Hunger and Amnesty International, sounded the alarm: they called in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron for him. ask to put pressure on the prince inherit Saudi Mohammed ben Salmane visiting Paris from 8 to 10 April.
"Put an end to the illegal attacks against civilians in Yemen and lift the blockade that hinders the delivery of humanitarian aid" is a request that can not be more humanitarian.
"Often portrayed as a reformer, King Salman's son plays a major role as Defense Minister in the war in Yemen," the NGOs said;
According to the NGO consortium, citing the Yemen Data Project, "Yemen has suffered more than 16,000 air strikes since March 2015 - the equivalent of a bombing every ninety minutes - while more than a third these attacks targeted non-military positions. "
"For three years, 6,100 civilians have been killed and 9,683 wounded"
Humanitarian disaster and famine
Diphtheria is back and the country suffered in 2017 the worst cholera epidemic in modern history. The humanitarian catastrophe is even worse since the blockade of ports and airports imposed by Saudi Arabia
A report by the NGO International Rescue Committee (IRC), "They die of Boms, We die of need: impact of collapsing public health systems in Yemen", points out that "more Yemenis have died from deprivation of health products and services. basis only because of the fighting. The de facto blockade imposed since last November by Riyadh has further stifled a country of which 85% of health needs are imported.
Nearly one million cases of cholera according to the organization.
According to the IRC, a Yemeni child under the age of five dies "every ten minutes because of the lack of preventive treatment," while "520,000 pregnant women do not have access to health services and 462,000 children suffer from acute malnutrition, a figure that has increased by 200% since the beginning of the war, "says the report.
NGOs work in extremely precarious conditions, with drug and food supplies facing administrative and logistical problems despite the two billion aid pledged by the UN this year ...
A International Rescue Committee in its report to directly accuse the United States and the United Kingdom of supporting Saudi Arabia in its "devastating war" against the country
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| Joanne Courbet for DayNewsWorld |
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OF DEATHERS IN MADAGASCAR
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Opposition to the Malagasy government called for demonstrations against the new electoral law on 21 April. In Madagascar, the opposition MPs tried to defy a ban on demonstrations this Saturday, April 21, 2018 in Antananarivo against the new electoral laws.
The police chief of the capital and the head of the region considered that it was an illegal act.
 The rally quickly swung into violent clashes with the police. The protest was banned by local authorities on Tuesday, and police fired tear gas at protesters who responded by throwing stones. Nearly a thousand men had been deployed to contain several thousand demonstrators. There was a lot of stone throwing in response to tear gas and sound grenades but also to rubber bullets.
It was not until around noon that the security forces used their weapons to fire in the air with live ammunition. Exceeded by the situation about forty soldiers found refuge between the walls of the town hall before being exfiltrés.
The police are armed for some of them with firearms. They move through the streets of the Malagasy capital in pick-ups and motorbikes to keep the crowd angry. This morning, the clashes between the police lasted more than three hours.
According to a provisional assessment given by the head of the HJRA hospital in Antananarivo, the clashes have so far killed four demonstrators, including two children, and about 20 wounded evacuated on one side as well as on the other. 'other.
The opposition, for its part, considers that it has the authorization issued by the Urban Commune of Antananarivo, led by the wife of the former president Ravalomanana.
"We will not stop there," warned the party MP TIM Hanitra Razasmanantsoa, considered in recent days as the spokesman for the opposition.
The MP has also arrested the President of the Republic, currently outside the country. Hanitra Razasmanantsoa asked Hery Rajaonarimampianina to stay where he is and not to return for the good of the country and its people.
Opposition protests against "scandalous adoption of three election laws" in early April by Parliament.
New electoral laws in question
It is a fight against the electoral laws passed last April 4 which is at the origin of these movements of anger. One of them provides for the ineligibility of candidates already sentenced. The parties of the two former presidents, the TIM of Ravalomanana and the Mapar of Rajoelina and their 73 deputies contest this vote which would exclude their leader.
Corrupt acts to buy the votes of parliamentarians were reported by the opposition. The High Court must validate in the coming weeks these new provisions.
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| Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld |
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THE FUNERALS OF WINNIE MANDELA
REMPARING AGAINST APARTHEID UNTIL ITS DEATH
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The coffin of "Mama Winnie" , covered with the South African flag, left his home in Soweto on Saturday morning.
Thousands paid tribute on Saturday in the South African township of Soweto to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the popular heroine in the struggle against apartheid. 
After ten days of national mourning in memory of "Mama Winnie", "the Mother of the Nation" , passed away on April 2 at age 81, held the ceremony held in the Orlando stadium.
"It's my mother who kept alive the memory of my father" Nelson Mandela during his 27 years of detention before he became president in 1994, recalled his eldest daughter, Zenani Mandela-Dlamini. 
She's the one who "kept her name on people's lips, who kept her memory in people's hearts ," she added as many wrestling songs were sung in the black-and-white stage.
Her daughter did not fail to "violently" attack those who wanted to "demonize" her mother's image as she fought and "triumphed" over " one of the most powerful and cruel regimes of the century. latest".
"Why not do the same for her male counterparts and remind the world of the many crimes they committed before being called saints," she rightly denounced. The path of Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela, known as "Winnie" , is inseparable from the first black president of South Africa.
While Winnie Mandela has been implicated in the abuses by her "Mandela United Football Club" , and sentenced to two years in prison suspended and fined for kidnapping four young men in 1988, she It remains a "bulwark" against apartheid and has "shown the way in the most difficult times," recalled South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
She remained "revolutionary" until her death, "she was never bought," said in turn Julius Malema, leader of the party of the radical left of the Fighters for Economic Freedom (EFF).
"Rock" unshakable, "a heroine".
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| Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld |
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REELECTION WITHOUT SURPRISE OF AL-SISSI
TO THE EGYPTIAN PRESIDENCY
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| Some 60 million Egyptian voters, out of nearly 100 million inhabitants of the most populous country in the Arab world, were called to ballot on 26, 27 and 28 March.
And it is no surprise, with over 90% of the votes, that incumbent President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, 63, won the presidential election, according to preliminary estimates released on Thursday (March 29th) by the state press. . The only other candidate, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, won about 3% of the vote.
 An expected victory since he faced only one opponent, Moussa Mostafa Moussa, unknown to the general public and supporter of the head of state! The other potential candidates had been imprisoned or strongly dissuaded from reporting. The re-election of Al-Sissi in this new poll held from Monday to Wednesday does not surprise any observer.
Even though Moussa Mostafa Moussa defended himself from being in the running to avoid a plebiscite of the incumbent president, the fact remains that the serious candidates had been ousted from the race. What in a TV interview, the president had felt regrettable !! .
"I would have liked to have one, two, three or 10 of the best candidates," he said.
However, the turnout around 40% shows the lack of interest in the election among the population despite the threat of fines for non-voters. Millions of very active young people during the 2011 revolution were disappointed by the authoritarian drift of power and did not go to the polls. NGOs blatantly accused the authorities of human rights violations, such as enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and unlawful detentions.
Abdel Fattah al-Sissi already felt in 2014 that "talking about freedoms" should not take precedence over "national security". Terrorism remains a great threat in the country. Attacks have increased in recent years and ISIS is fiercely opposed to regime forces in Sinai. Not only were many policemen and soldiers killed in these attacks, but ISIS also targeted civilians, including the Coptic religious minority, who paid a heavy price in 2017.
On February 9, Operation "Sinai 2018" was launched to eradicate jihadist strongholds that have raged for five years. To date, the campaign, which has killed more than 100 of the jihadists but also at least 20 in the army, continues. But the IS cells in the rest of the country have not all been dissolved far from it ..
In addition to the terrorist threat still present in Egypt, the economic crisis persists. Despite the introduction of a reform program, initiated with $ 12 billion in assistance from the International Monetary Fund, Egypt is still facing the economic crisis it has suffered since the 2011 uprisings. a slight improvement compared to 2014, the standard of living of the population remains at the lowest with prices that have tripled affecting the Egyptian households hard. Moreover, the economy can not absorb the 700,000 more and more educated young people who arrive every year on the job market.
Only positive note: the country has recently enjoyed the improvement of tourism after years of slump. In 2017, 8.3 million visitors visited the country.
Faced with economic difficulties and the persistence of security troubles Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, who has ruled with an iron fist since the dismissal in 2013 of his Islamist predecessor Mohamed Morsi, must overcome two challenges: get out of the economic impasse and curb the terrorist threat.
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| Joanne Courbet for DayNewsWorld |
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