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Somalia power succession crisis deepens

They need pace and a peaceful transfer of power via new elections.

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The Somalia opposition alliance said they would reject any attempt to extend the term of President Mohamed Abdullahi and stepped forward with a project of the election a transitional leader to govern until a new president can be chosen by lawmakers.

“We are against time extension, suppression, violence and further delay to the election,” the alliance said in a statement. “An election schedule should immediately without delay be displayed with agreed upon specified time.”

There was no immediate comment from the presidency. Aides had previously privately floated the idea of extending his term.

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Tome cuidado com aquilo que você pensa — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Cuidado com aquilo que pensa. Pensamentos podem virar atitudes; e atitudes quando não bem administradas, podem virar ações desastrosas. Pode não parecer, mas se nós, não tivermos a capacidade de ser pessoas sensatas diante de situações que exigem muito da nossa capacidade de raciocínio, se faltar a destreza necessária, acredite: somos capazes de cometer atrocidades,…

Tome cuidado com aquilo que você pensa — Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Be careful what you think. Thoughts can become attitudes; and attitudes when not well managed, can turn into disastrous actions.

Mid-pandemic, Lebanon medicine shortages sow panic – France 24

With Lebanon’s economy in a tailspin and the coronavirus pandemic wreaking chaos, panic-buying has gripped pharmacies, creating shortages and a flourishing black market.

All manner of pharmaceutical products have started disappearing from the shelves in recent weeks, including some of the most widely needed.

Mostly imported, they include any medicine thought to fight symptoms of Covid-19, pills for patients with chronic diseases, baby formula and even vitamin supplements.

One customer, Abbas, 37, said he was giving up as he stepped out of a large Beirut pharmacy.

“I asked for two things,” he said — aspirin and an antibiotic. “I found neither.”

Source: Mid-pandemic, Lebanon medicine shortages sow panic – France 24

« I cercatori d’oro si affollavano sugli altopiani della nostra foresta. Innumerevoli bianchi hanno scavato febbrilmente nel suolo della foresta, che puzzava di fumi xawara epidemici dai motori. »

“Gold miners flocked to the highlands of our forest. Countless whites feverishly dug into the forest floor, which reeked of epidemic xawara fumes from engines. “

Barbara Crane Navarro

Territorio degli Yanomami, Alto Orinoco, Amazonas, Venezuela

Come afferma il portavoce y sciamano degli Yanomami Davi Kopenawa nel suo libro La caduta del cielo: « Hanno liberato le piste di atterraggio ovunque per i loro aerei ed elicotteri, che vagavano costantemente nei cieli. Passarono davanti alle case della gente della foresta in fitte colonne, numerose come formiche koyo. Le donne avevano paura di uscire, anche di attingere acqua! La foresta è stata svuotata della selvaggina e gli uomini hanno smesso di cacciare. Rimasero tutti distesi sulle amache, schiacciati da febbri implacabili. … Gli anziani che parlavano saggiamente furono uccisi perché si opposero coraggiosamente ai cercatori d’oro o morirono di malaria o polmonite. … Tutti i sentieri nella foresta erano diventati sporchi sguazzi di pecari, ei fiumi erano ridotti a stagni fangosi. »

Miniera d’oro che distrugge la foresta

Migliaia di alberi della foresta pluviale devono essere sradicati, centinaia di tonnellate…

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Protests Against Military Coup Swell Across Cities in Myanmar

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of Myanmar’s major cities, chanting slogans against the military junta and demanding the release of deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other detained politicians on Sunday, as a two-day internet blackout was lifted.

In five of Myanmar’s seven largest cities, car horns honked and protesters waved the red peacock flag of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy and been adopted as the main symbol of defiance to the now week-old coup.

There have been no reports of violence after two days of swelling street protests, in response to the coup by military leaders who justified their takeover with the unsubstantiated claim that the landslide victory by Aung San Suu Kyi’s party in a Nov. 8 election was fraudulent.

In Yangon, the biggest city in the country of 54 million people, tens of thousands of protestors marched on city hall and thronged around Sule Pagoda, the center of 2007 monk-lead protests and other pro-democracy movements against five decades of direct military rule.

“There are more protesters on street today than yesterday,” Phyu Sin Thu, a Yangon resident who participated in the protest, told RFA’s Myanmar Service.

“So far, there has been no violence. As the protests went on, more and more people joined in to the marching crowd. The security forces were present but they didn’t stop us from marching. They didn’t try to disperse us either,” she added.

In Mandalay, the country’s second largest city, demonstrators marched around the moat of Mandalay palace, where by midday the crowd grew to thousands marching on foot and motorbikes.

Internet access was restored in most parts of the country by mid-day Sunday. In a move that rights groups warned would leave millions vulnerable to abuses and cut off from coronavirus information, authorities suspended telephone and internet service Saturday, following the suspension of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram,

“They always use measures like cutting internet access or electricity to suppress us,” said a resident of Mandalay, who requested anonymity for security reasons.

“The more they suppress us, the more we will resist them.  We are going to protest more in coming days,” the citizen told RFA.

Motorcycle Rally

Sunday’s protests in Yangon were the largest in a week of growing outrage at the military’s ouster of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the biggest since 2007 Buddhist monk-led protests that were put down by the previous junta with an estimated 13–31 deaths and hundreds of arrests.

In the capital Naypyitaw, government employees and others staged a motorcycle rally as government offices, parliament, and other key locations were under heavy security.

Protesting crowds of thousands also turned out to chant slogans and sing songs in Lashio in northern Shan State, Pathein in Irrawaddy region, and Mawlamyine in Mon state,

In Myawaddy on the Thai-Myanmar border city in Kayin state, brawls erupted when the authorities tied to arrest protestors in front of city hall and security forces tried to disperse the crowd by firing some gun shots into the air. The police detained six people who led the protests in the border town, RFA has learned.

Min Thu, a NLD member, told RFA that Aung San Suu Kyi and president Win Myint were in good health. They remain in detention in the capital.

On Feb. 1, the military dissolved parliament, declared a one-year state of emergency, and took over all branches of government, citing unproven allegations of voter fraud in national elections last November.

Aung San Suu Kyi, 75 and set to start a second five-year term, was arrested in the bloodless coup along with other ruling party leaders and cabinet ministers, and army chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing was installed as leader of a junta council of mostly military officers with some civilians.

Across the country, supporters of the embattled Nobel laureate said they would carry on.

“We will keep marching to show the world about what the military regime did. We will have more protests,” said Yangon protester Phyu Sin Thu.

Reported by RFA’s Myanmar Service. Translated by Ye Kaung Myint Maung. Written in English by Paul Eckert.