Niger's junta issued a statement on Friday accusing the EU ambassador in the West African country of dividing a 1.3 million euro fund to assist flood victims between several international NGOs in an non-transparent manner, and without collaborating with the authorities. It ordered an audit into the fund's management as a result.

"The European Union expresses its profound disagreement with the allegations and justifications put forward by the transitional authorities," the EEAS said in a statement. "Consequently, the EU has decided to recall its ambassador from Niamey for consultations in Brussels."

Niger has been under military rule since the junta seized power in a coup in July 2023. Since taking power, the Sahel nation's military rulers have turned their backs on former colonial ruler France and have grown increasingly frosty towards the European Union.

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It was supposed to rain, but we pressed on, and it ended up being beautiful. Chilly but pleasant. Just cold enough to make you appreciate the warm fire. Plus the sound of the river to lull you to sleep.

Hard to beat!

Participants, including landmine victims and deminers, repeatedly chanted for "a mine-free world" during the four-kilometre (2.5-mile) walk around the famed temple complex in Siem Reap. The march was held a day before an anti-landmine conference convenes in Cambodia, which is awash in unexploded ordnance as a legacy of civil war.

Hundreds of delegates are expected in Siem Reap to assess progress on the 1997 Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Treaty, which neither Russia nor the United States are party to.

The march and conference come after Washington announced this week that it would send anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine in a major policy shift that was immediately criticised by human rights campaigners.

In Cambodia, where the relics of civil war continue to claim lives and maim people, landmine victims told AFP they fear the casualties that could come of the decision. "There will be more victims like me," said Horl Pros, a former soldier who lost his right leg to a landmine in 1984. "I am sad and feel shocked."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the mines "very important" to halting Russian attacks.

When asked about the supply of US mines to Ukraine, Vice President of the Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority Ly Thuch said: "We regret that any countries, any people continue to use landmines. Anti-personnel mines are not good for our humanity."

After nearly three decades of civil war from the 1960s, Cambodia was left one of the most heavily bombed and mined countries in the world. Around 20,000 people have been killed there by landmines and unexploded ordnance since 1979, and twice as many have been injured.

"I feel it is fundamentally wrong to have a weapon that has a long-term effect on the civilian population," Chris Moon, a former British Army officer who lost an arm and a leg in 1995 while clearing landmines in Mozambique, told AFP in Siem Reap.

Manifestation féministe à #Tours demain à 18h devant le CCOD : #25novembre journée internationale #ContreLesVSS ! L'#UnionCommunisteLibertaire sera présente et alerte sur une possible présence de l'#ExtremeDroite : remontez toute présence suspecte aux organisatrices !

It’s a slight modification to my existing design which can be found here: https://www.printables.com/model/261466-apple-pencil-gen-1-case-mkii

The two tone was originally created by accident as we were running out of light blue and I decided to go all out on the top side.

She is very happy with the results.

https://t.me/exilenova_plus/3636

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I dunno why but I’m worried that casaos is holding me back from doing greater things I guess? I’m pretty new to self hosting and I discovered casaos from a Minecraft server setup tutorial of all things and it’s been great for me so far and does pretty much everything I need it to do, but I feel like I don’t really have a full understanding of what I can do outside of it, and I don’t really hear many people talk about casaos so I’m like worried it’s just not very good I guess? I’m just looking for ways to improve really.

For reference I just use my server for Minecraft on the occasion, a self hosted obsidian live sync, adguard, and in the future plan on hosting nextcloud. Casaos seems great for that and maybe it’s perfectly fine but I’d just be interested in being more knowledgeable I guess, and aware of any ways to improve.

Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning adoption of Russian children by citizens of countries where gender transition is legal, targeting at least 15 nations.

Additional legislation prohibits promoting child-free lifestyles, with fines up to $50,000, framing such views as part of Western efforts to weaken Russia.

These measures align with Putin’s push for “traditional values” amid population decline, including past bans on LGBTQ+ information and gender-transition procedures.

Critics view these moves as part of a broader crackdown on liberal ideologies and dissent, intensified since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The federal government has been accused of politicising the Future Fund by changing its mandate, but its investments have always been tangled up in politics.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22837629

November 21, 2024

The 49ers won't have quarterback Brock Purdy in Green Bay on Sunday, but they hope to have left tackle Trent Williams available to block for Brandon Allen.

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On November 20 a nationwide general strike was called in Greece, public and private sector unions joined the call. The demands were various: wage increases, labor rights, increase funding for several social services, repeal ongoing privatizations. Additionally the Communist Party of Greece (Marxist-Leninist) [KKE (m-l)] was present in many cities of the country, issuing local calls and presenting its contingents in the mobilizations, as well as they made a statement: https://kkeml.gr/20-noemvrh-oloi-sthn-apergia-oloi-sto-dromo-enantia-sthn-eksathliwsh-kai-thn-tromokratia

In this statement the KKE (m-l) joined the demands by the workers as well as presented other demands such as the expel of the NATO and Yankee military bases, the end of the EU policies and the necessity to raise the solidarity for Palestine and to demand its freedom.

Didn't see this reported here.