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TOPIC: niger
Ethiopia Violence Escalates, COVID Surge In Europe, Space Tacos
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Welcome to Friday, where the risk of an all-out war grows in Ethiopia, Europe is once again at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic and chiles are grown in space for the first time. French daily Les Echos also explores the often very different reasons that people change their name.
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🌎 7 THINGS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW
• Calls for ceasefire as violence escalates in Ethiopia: African and Western nations called for an immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia after Tigrayan forces from the country's north made advances towards the capital. It has now been a year since the conflict between the Ethiopian military and rebels of the Tigray Popular Liberation Front (TPLF) began, which has left thousands dead and displaced, with reports of widespread human rights violations.
• Niger: At least 69 killed in gun attack: Niger has declared two days of national mourning after at least 69 people were killed, including a mayor, in an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents. The attack happened in the country's southwest, near the border with Mali — the latest killing in a wave of violence against civilians that has swept the country this year.
• Major U.S. sales deal to Saudi Arabia: The U.S. State Department approved its first major arms sale to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia under President Joe Biden with the sale of 280 air-to-air missiles valued at up to $650 million. Pentagon says enabling the kingdom to buy U.S.-made, air-to-air missiles would "improve the security of a friendly country."
• COVID update: Europe is once again at the "epicentre" of the pandemic, the WHO warned, with potentially 500,000 additional deaths before February, following the relaxation of prevention measures and low vaccination rates in some countries. Meanwhile, France's lawmakers approved the continued use of the COVID health pass until July 2022. In China, an independent journalist who has been sentenced to four years in prison for reporting on the initial Wuhan outbreak in early 2020 is in urgent need of medical care after she went on hunger strike.
• Youth climate march at COP26: Youth activists are taking to the streets of Glasgow, UK, to demand action on climate change from leaders and politicians as the COP26 talks continue. Greta Thunberg, fellow activist Vanessa Nakate and other young campaigners, will speak to crowds at the end of the march where the UN summit is being held.
• New Delhi air turns toxic after Diwali: The morning following the celebration of Diwali, the festival of lights, residents of New Delhi, which has the worst air quality of all world capitals, woke up to a blanket of toxic smog. Citizens inhaled the most dangerously polluted air so far this year, as people defied the government's ban on fireworks.
• One giant leap for tacos: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully grew and harvested chiles in space for the first time, enabling them to create the "best space tacos yet."
🗞 FRONT PAGE
South African weekly Mail & Guardian reports on the results of the country's municipal elections, which saw the ruling African National Congress party fail to secure a majority for the first time in its history, with 46% of the vote. The ANC opened the door to set up coalitions with other parties.
#⃣ BY THE NUMBERS
Home-sharing company Airbnb reported record earnings, reaching $834 million in the third quarter of 2021, with revenue rising up by 67% from a year ago and 36% from the same quarter in pre-pandemic 2019. The company said the huge jump in rentals could be explained by the acceleration of work flexibility, with the rising number of employees working remotely after offices closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
📰 STORY OF THE DAY
Why change your name? That which we call ourselves could sound sweeter
Each year thousands of French people ask to change their surname or first name or choose a pseudonym. It may be a question of pride or identity, but it is never a small thing for those who call themselves something new. Fanny Guyomard, writing for Paris-based Les Echos, shares some of their stories.
⭐ Nearly 4,300 requests for a change of name were registered by the state Civil Status registry in France in 2020 (2,900 in 2019). This can be an official change or in the form of a pseudonym, as was the case with many "celebrities": French singer Patrick Bruel, actress Sophie Marceau and even Marilyn Monroe — these stage nicknames sounded more glamorous than Benguigui, Maupu or Mortenson. Social media platforms have since facilitated the proliferation of nicknames and responded to the fantasy of many: "To invent alter egos, create a new side of ourselves. People need to dream," says Céline Masson, a psychologist and psychoanalyst.
😣 Our name is ingrained in all of us. Hence, when the metamorphosis is too brutal and forced, it may be traumatic, "especially when the change occurs during adolescence," says Céline Masson, author of Habiter son nom: une histoire française (Inhabiting One's Name: a French Story). Jewish children suffered when their parents Frenchified their Hebrew-sounding names after the trauma of the Holocaust. This made the names easier to pronounce and also provided a shield from anti-Semitism. It wasn't until 2012 that the French state allowed them to reclaim their real names.
❓ Sevan, 23, has been experimenting with this new name for a few months, "but I am not sure yet whether it suits me 100%. I must feel good about it." One of the criteria is that their sister likes it. Above all, it has to be gender-neutral, as Sevan has doubts about their gender, which prompted them to change their first name. First, they cut it before abandoning it completely. But Sevan doesn't see the new moniker as a break from their previous identity: "It's more of a continuity. Just because I have a different first name doesn't mean I changed."
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📣 VERBATIM
We don't sleep at night these days.
— Najrul Islam, a government employee in Panisagar, in the State of Tripura, India, told Al Jazeera, after a spate of anti-Muslim attacks triggered fears among the region's Muslim minority. Locals allege more than a dozen mosques have been vandalized in northeastern state in apparent retaliation to anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh.
❗❓ WHAT THE WORLD
Iconic Italian car's rusty license plate brings lottery gold
We humans have a thing for old cars. We also appreciate a prime parking spot. But what do you do if you find a nice old car occupying the same parking spot for 47 years? Well, you jot down its license plate number for good luck! Let us explain…
Last month in Conegliano, in northeast Italy, city officials decided it was finally time to resolve a question that had been gathering dust for decades. Back in 1974, Angelo Fregolent, who is now 94, had parked his 1962 Lancia Fulvia outside the newsstand he ran with his wife.
Fregolent never drove the sporty car, but he liked having it there because he could use the trunk to hold newspapers and magazines that were delivered each morning.
When he retired, as the regional daily Il Gazzettino reports, he simply left the aging Lancia in the same place, which was also right next to the apartment where he and his wife lived. Every year, he would pay the automobile registration and insurance fees, and have the luxury of seeing his "baby" as he passed by to run errands or go to the local bar. It also became something of a local (true) urban legend.
But as parking rules have changed, Conegliano's city authorities finally insisted that the car be removed. Fregolent agreed when he was told that the car would be restored, and turned into a tourist attraction. The small-town story made both national news, and even got some press abroad.
But here comes the final twist: The story of the legendary Lancia reached to the extreme south of Italy, in the Sicilian capital of Palermo. There, as Italian-language local daily TrevisoToday reports, a tobacco shop owner saw the number of the license plate (TV 202277), and decided to play it on the weekly lottery.
When 20, 22 and 77 were the first numbers drawn on the national wheel, the Sicilian shopkeeper won 4,500 euros. That kind of luck beats winning a brand new car!
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France Kills Top ISIS Leader In Sahel: Africa Is Not Afghanistan
The French military announces the killing of Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahrawi the head of the jihadist group Islamic State in the Great Sahara (ISIS-GS). In its long involvement in the northwest African region of the Sahel, France.
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The hastened withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan has effectively handed the country back to the Islamic regime of the Taliban. But elsewhere, the West's two-decades war on Islamic terrorism carries on.
One key place to watch is Africa's troubled northwestern Sahel region, where France announced overnight that it had killed the region's top ISIS leader, Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahrawi. He is just the latest in a series of high-ranking officials who have been taken out or captured by French forces in recent months, reports Jeune Afrique magazine.
France had announced in June that it was ending its longstanding Operation Barkhane, which has been criticized for not curbing extremists groups despite the significant military investment.
The French military is shifting to a smaller, more agile presence focused on anti-terrorism operations like those carried out in the months since.
Al-Sahraoui represented these intersecting interests.
Still, as Le Monde reports, the choices across the world's military map are interconnected. Macron doesn't want the end of Operation Barkhane to be considered a withdrawal from the region, and compared to Washington's pullout from Afghanistan. "We need to keep a robust operation in the region," one presidential advisor said.
Indeed, international coordination is also happening between the extremists. As Yvan Guichaoua, a researcher at the School of International Studies at the University of Kent in Brussels, told Le Monde earlier this month: "They [Taliban and Sahelian fighters] share on-the-ground insurgency know-how, which is a byproduct of the al-Qaeda matrix. They also have the same ultimate goal: the application of Sharia law."
France had announced in June that it was ending its longstanding Operation Barkhane — Photo: 35e RAP
Al-Sahrawi represented these intersecting interests. He was a former member of the Polisario Front — the liberation movement of the Sahrawi people laying claim to sovereignty of the Western Sahara — and later part of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. He created ISIS-GS in 2015 and was labeled a "priority enemy" by France for being in charge of the majority of attacks in the "three borders" region, which covers Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
This impoverished area is regularly subjected to attacks by ISIS-GS as well as the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda. These violent actions have targeted both civilians and military forces, including the October 2017 Tongo Tongo ambush, in which five Nigerian and four American soldiers were killed while returning to base. In 2020, al-Sahrawi personally ordered the assignation of six French aid workers and their Nigerien guide and driver.
Since 2013, France has combated anti-insurgent movements in the region through Operation Serval and its successor Operation Barkhane (named after the crescent-shaped dune in the Sahara desert). Operation Barkhane has faced criticism both in the Sahel and in France, particularly as a form of so-called "Françafrique", with France continuing an exploitative presence in its former African colonies.
Worldcrunch Today, Jan. 4: Assange Stays, Iran's Uranium, Where's Jack?
Welcome to Monday, where the UK blocks Assange's extradition, vaccinations are moving too slowly (almost) everywhere and the Asian business world is asking: Where's Jack? We also follow Le Monde to Casablanca where Moroccans are rethinking what it means to be a man.
SPOTLIGHT: DEMOCRACY HAS MORE GRIT THAN YOU MIGHT THINK
There are more and more elected leaders these days willing to ride roughshod over the rules of democracy. But that hardly means the system's doomed writes Pedro Viveros in Colombian daily El Espectador.
In Colombia and elsewhere, there are voices declaring that democracy is doomed. They point to the proliferation of erratic leaders and budding dictators, people like Trump, Maduro, Putin, Duterte in the Philippines, or Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, but without properly analyzing things in any of those countries.
Instead they argue that the presence of such leaders shows how weak the citizens of those nations are. And their conclusion is that the 21st century is destined to suffer another epidemic: a plague of autocrats.
The ideological references of the past century, namely fascism, Nazism and communism and their "charismatic" leaders, have led some to assume that history will repeat itself. They argue that the present crop of pestilential challenges will inevitably take us back to the foul prescriptions that produced the world wars. And here we thought things couldn't get any worse!
The deplorable events that left society fractured between three worlds — the Western and Eastern worlds, and we in the developing world — were based on extremist conceptions of nationalism that made jingoism a defensive response to anything external. Xenophobia became a rhetorical instrument amid unprecedented socio-economic crises. Voting, democracy's simple tool, was no longer enough to hold back the hordes of supporters running after the paradise promised by a Hitler, Mussolini or Lenin.
Today, too, the vote might not be enough to contain the pandemic of demagoguery. Fortunately, the many crises humanity has faced over the past century have raised the immunity of the democratic body. Its boosted defenses now include complementary mechanisms like the separation of powers, charters, multilateralism, independent bodies and human rights courts, the World Court at The Hague and the globalization of problems, but also solidarity, solutions, knowledge and education.
Voting has become the beginning and the end of a system designed to call out, criticize and control its own outrages. Donald Trump's desire to remain in the White House is, well, just that, a desire. And fortunately, the laws of the United States, forged to prevent entrenchment in power, will prevent his doing so — just as Colombia's Constitutional Court prevented former president Álvaro Uribe from seeking a third, unconstitutional term.
Likewise, multilateral coordination has guided scientific action against the coronavirus, creating a "live-and-direct" global response that has prevented the pandemic's already tragic impact from taking an even higher toll.
Democracies are behind the denunciations of corruption and of unnecessary wars. They have helped reduce poverty worldwide and forge sustainable development goals set out in the UN, itself a democratic consequence of the threats of intolerant elements mentioned above. All these efforts and tools will be crucial not only for keeping democracy alive, but also for protecting those of us who vote in this most beguiling and enduring of government systems.
— Pedro Viveros / El Espectador
THE SITUATION: 7 THINGS TO KNOW RIGHT NOW
• COVID-19 latest: Delays in vaccination programs hit Germany, France, the U.S. and other countries, with high infection rates continuing around the world as COVID-19 promises to weigh on the world for months to come. An 82-year-old British diabetes patient became the first person to get the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and Israel sets the pace for rapid vaccinations.
• UK blocks Assange extradition: A London court blocks extradition to the U.S. of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because of concerns over Assange's mental health. The 49-year-old is wanted over the publication of thousands of classified documents in 2010 and 2011.
• Iran uranium: Iran has resumed enriching uranium to 20% purity at an underground nuclear facility, the government has announced, breaching the 2015 nuclear pact with world powers.
• Trump's high stakes: All 10 living former U.S. defense secretaries sign a letter warning the military to not intervene on behalf of President Trump's continuing effort to overturn the Nov. 3 election he lost. A recording emerged of Trump pressuring a top Georgia election official to overturn his loss in that state, as a core group of Republican legislators say they'll try to undermine the official electoral college vote in Congress on Wednesday.
• Markets ring in 2021 in style: Asian and European stock markets start off the year with record highs over optimism about vaccines.
• Niger massacre: Terrorist attacks over the weekend have killed at least 100 people in two villages in western Niger, just after first-round presidential election results were announced.
• Where is Jack? Chinese billionaire and Alibaba founder Jack Ma has made no public appearances in more than two months, raising concerns about his whereabouts following Beijing's recent crackdown on his business activities.
Niger, Inside The 'Model' For Preventing Migration Into Europe
AGADEZ — Mahamane Ousmane is an unrepentant people smuggler. He makes no effort to deny having transported migrants "countless times' across the Sahara into Libya. When he is released from prison in Niger's desert city of Agadez, he intends to return to the same work.
The 32-year-old is even more adamant he has done nothing wrong. "I don't like criminals. I am no thief. I have killed no one," he says.
As Ousmane speaks, a small circle of fellow inmates in filthy football shirts and flip-flops murmur in agreement. The prison at Agadez, where the French once stabled their horses in colonial times, now houses an increasing number of people smugglers. These "passeurs," as they are known in French, have found themselves on the wrong side of a recent law criminalizing the movement of migrants north of Agadez.
Aji Dan Chef Halidou, the prison director who has gathered the group in his office, does his best to explain. "Driving migrants out into the Sahara is very dangerous, that's why it is now illegal," he says.
Ousmane, a member of the Tubu tribe, an ethnic group that straddles the border between Niger and Libya, is having none of it. "Nobody ever got hurt driving with me," he insists. "You just have to drive at night because in the day the sun can kill people."
A powerfully built man who speaks in emphatic bursts of English and Hausa, Ousmane worked in the informal gold mines of Djado in northern Niger until they were closed by the military. Then he borrowed money to buy a pickup truck and run the route from Agadez to Sebha in Libya. His confiscated truck is now sinking into the sand at the nearby military base, along with more than 100 others taken from people smugglers. Ousmane still owes nearly $9,000 on the Toyota Hilux and has a family to support. "There is no alternative so I will go back to work," he says.
"Didn't the Europeans think about what would happen after Gaddafi?"
While the temperature outside in the direct sun nears 120F (50C), the air conditioner in the warden's office declares its intention to get to 60F (16C). It will not succeed. As mosquitoes circle overhead, Halidou's earlier enthusiasm for the law evaporates. "Agadez has always been a crossroads where people live from migration," he says. "We need to implement this law gently as many people were living off migration and they were promised compensation by Europe for leaving it behind, but this hasn't happened yet."
Ali Diallo, the veteran among the inmates, blames Europe for his predicament. Originally from Senegal, he made his way across West Africa to Libya working in construction. His life there fell apart after the Western-backed overthrow of the Gaddafi regime. The steady supply of work became more dangerous and his last Libyan employer shot him in the leg instead of paying him at the end of a job.
"In Senegal there are no jobs, in Mali there are no jobs, but there were jobs in Libya and that was all right," he says. "Then the West killed Gaddafi and now they want to stop migration." Diallo retreated two years ago to Agadez and found a job as a tout or "coxeur" matching migrants with drivers. This was what he was arrested for. He has a question: "Didn't the Europeans think about what would happen after Gaddafi?"
Niamey by night — Photo: Roland
Niger is prevented from being the poorest country in the world only by the depth of misery in Central African Republic. It was second from bottom in last year's U.N. Human Development Index. Niamey, the country's humid capital on the banks of the River Niger, has a laid-back feeling and its population only recently passed the one million mark.
But the city's days as a forgotten backwater are coming to an end.
Along the Boulevard de la Republique, past the machine-gun nests that block approaches to the presidential palace, concrete harbingers of change are rising from the reddish Saharan dust. Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have vast new embassy complexes under construction that will soon overshadow those of Libya and France, the two traditional rivals for influence in Niger.
Niger is now the southern border of Europe.
Further north in the Plateau neighborhood, the development aid complex is spreading out, much of it funded by the European Union.
"What do all these foreigners want from our little red town?" a senior Niger government adviser asked.
In the case of the EU the answer is clear. Three-quarters of all African migrants arriving by boat in Italy in recent years transited Niger. As one European ambassador said, "Niger is now the southern border of Europe."
Federica Mogherini, the closest that the 28-member EU has to a foreign minister, chose Niger for her first trip to Africa in 2015. The visit was seen as a reward for the Niger government's passage of Law 36 in May that year that effectively made it illegal for foreign nationals to travel north of Agadez.
"We share an interest in managing migration in the best possible way, for both Europe and Africa," Mogherini said at the time.
Since then, she has referred to Niger as the "model" for how other transit countries should manage migration and the best performer of the five African nations who signed up to the EUPartnership Framework on Migration – the plan that made development aid conditional on cooperation in migration control. Niger is "an initial success story that we now want to replicate at regional level," she said in a recent speech.
Angela Merkel became the first German chancellor to visit the country in October 2016. Her trip followed a wave of arrests under Law 36 in the Agadez region. Merkel promised money and "opportunities' for those who had previously made their living out of migration.
One of the main recipients of EU funding is the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which now occupies most of one street in Plateau. In a little over two years the IOM headcount has gone from 22 to more than 300 staffers.
Giuseppe Loprete, the head of mission, says the crackdown in northern Niger is about more than Europe closing the door on African migrants. The new law was needed as networks connecting drug smuggling and militant groups were threatening the country, and the conditions in which migrants were forced to travel were criminal.
Loprete echoes Mogherini in saying that stopping "irregular migration" is about saving lives in the desert. The IOM has hired community officers to warn migrants of the dangers they face farther north.
"Libya is hell and people who go there healthy lose their minds," Loprete says.
A side effect of the crackdown has been a sharp increase in business for IOM, whose main activity is a voluntary returns program. Some 7,000 African migrants were sent home from Niger last year, up from 1,400 in 2014. More than 2,000 returns in the first three months of 2018 suggest another record year.
Loprete says European politicians must see that more legal routes are the only answer to containing irregular migration, but he concludes, "Europe is not asking for the moon, just for managed migration."
Not everyone agrees that European and Nigerien interests align.
The person who does most of the asking is Raul Mateus Paula, the EU's top diplomat in Niamey. This relatively unheralded country that connects West and North Africa is now the biggest per capita recipient of EU aid in the world. The European Development Fund awarded $731 million to Niger for the period 2014–20. A subsequent review boosted this by a further $108 million. Among the experiments this money bankrolls are the connection of remote border posts – where there was previously no electricity – to the internet under the German aid corporation, GIZ; a massive expansion of judges to hear smuggling and trafficking cases; and hundreds of flatbed trucks, off-road vehicles, motorcycles and satellite phones for Nigerien security forces.
Normally, when foreign aid is directed to countries with endemic corruption – Transparency International ranks Niger 112th out of 180 countries worldwide – it is channeled through non-governmental organizations. Until 2014 the EU gave only one-third of its aid to Niger in direct budget support; in this cycle, 75% of its aid goes straight into government coffers. Paula calls the EU Niger's "number one partner" and sees no divergence in their interests on security, development or migration.
But not everyone agrees that European and Nigerien interests align. Julien Brachet, an expert on the Sahel and Sahara, argues that the desire to stop Europe-bound migration as far upstream as possible has made Niger, and particularly Agadez, the "perfect target" for EUmigration policies. These policies, he argues, have taken decades-old informal migration routes and made them clandestine and more dangerous. A fellow at the French National Research Institute for Development, Brachet accuses the EU of "manufacturing smugglers' with the policies it has drafted to control them.
Niger, which has the fastest-growing population in the world, is a fragile setting for grand policy experiments. Since independence from France in 1960 it has witnessed four coups, the last of which was in 2010. The regular overthrow of governments has seen political parties proliferate, while the same cast of politicians remains. The current president, Mahamadou Issoufou, has run in every presidential election since 1993. Currently he heads the Party for Democracy and Socialism, one of more than 50 active political parties. The group's headquarters stands out from the landscape in Niamey thanks to giant streamers, in the party's signature pink, draped over the building.
The biggest office in the pink house belongs to Mohamed Bazoum, Niger's interior minister and its rising political star. When European diplomats mention who they deal with in the Nigerien government, his name is invariably heard.
"We are in a moment with a lot of international attention," Bazoum says. "We took measures to control migration and this has been appreciated especially by our European partners."
Since the crackdown, the number of migrants passing checkpoints between Niamey and Agadez has dropped from 350 per day, he claims, to 160 a week.
Niger's interior minister Mohamed Bazoum — Photo: Magharebia
"We took away many people's livelihoods," he says, "but we have to say that the economy was linked to banditry and connected to other criminal activities."
EU officials say privately that Bazoum has taken to issuing shopping lists, running to helicopters and vehicles, of goods he expects in return for continued cooperation.
By contrast, the World Food Programme, which supports the roughly one in ten of Niger's population who face borderline malnutrition, has received only 34% of the funding it needs for 2018.
At least three EU states – France, Italy and Germany – have troops on the ground in Niger. Their roles range from military advisers to medics and trainers. French forces and drone bases are present as part of the overlapping Barkhane and G5 Sahel counterinsurgency operations which includes forces from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Mauritania. The U.S., meanwhile, has both troops and drone bases for its own regional fight against Islamic militants, the latest of which is being built outside Agadez at a cost of more than $100 million.
"Since independence, we've never had a government that served so many foreign interests," says Hamadou Tcherno Boulama, a civil society activist. His organization, Alternative Espaces Citoyens, often has an armed police presence outside its gates these days to prevent people gathering. Four of Niger's main civil society leaders were jailed in late March after 35,000 people took to the streets in Niamey in the biggest demonstrations Niger has seen in a decade. Much of the public anger is directed against this year's budget, which hiked taxes on staples such as rice and sugar.
Foreign aid accounts for 45% of Niger's budget, so the austerity budget at a time of peak foreign interest has stoked local anger.
Boulama calls Bazoum "the minister of repression" and says Issoufou has grown fond of foreign travel and spends so little time in Niger that his nickname is "Rimbo" – Niger's best-known international bus company.
"Issoufou uses international support related to migration and security issues to fortify his power," Boulama says.
The EU and the International Monetary Fund have praised the government for this year's budget, saying it will ease dependence on donors. The most that European diplomats will concede is that the Nigerien government is "bloated" with 43 ministers, each with an expensive retinue.
"Ungoverned spaces' confuse some EU leaders.
European leaders' "focus on migration is 100%," says Kirsi Henriksson, the outgoing head of EUCAP Sahel, one of those EU agencies that few Europeans have ever heard of. When it was conceived, its brief was to deliver a coordinated strategy to meet the jihadi threat in Mali, but its mandate changed recently to prioritize migration. Since then its international staff has tripled.
Henriksson, whose term ended in April, compares the security and development push to a train where everything must move at the same speed: "If the carriages become too far apart the train will crash," she says.
As one of the few Europeans to have visited the border area between Libya and Niger, she is concerned that some European politicians have unrealistic expectations of what is achievable. The border post at Tummo is loosely controlled by ethnic Tubu militia from southern Libya and no Nigerien forces are present. "Ungoverned spaces' confuse some EU leaders, she says, who want to know how much it will cost to bring the border under control. These kinds of questions ignore both the conditions and scale of the Sahara.
On the wall of Henriksson's office is a large map of the region. It shows the emerald green of West Africa, veined with the blue of its great rivers, fading slowly to pale yellow as you look north. If you drew a line along the map where the Saharan yellow displaces all other colors, it would run right through Agadez. North of that line is a sea of sand nearly four times the size of the Mediterranean.
*This is an excerpt. Read the full version on News Deeply here.
Patrick Randall
Niger: 5 Stories Making Headlines At Home
This week, we shine the spotlight on Niger:
FRENCH AMBASSADOR SENT HOME
The French ambassador in Niger Antoine Anfré was discreetly removed from his position and sent back to Paris last Thursday. His forced departure — a first for a French ambassador in Niger — was demanded by Nigerien President Mahamadou Issoufou, according to Jeune Afrique. The French investigative website Mondafrique adds that the relations between Antoine Anfré and Nigerien authorities had recently deteriorated. Analysts say the 52-year-old, who became Niger's ambassador in March 2014, was "inflexible" in his demand for free and open elections in 2016.
Ouestaf reports that about 7.5 million people (out of a population of 17 million) are expected to vote in general elections next year. In June, President Issoufou said he also wanted transparent elections, as Jeune Afrique reported. But the opposition also accused the Constitutional Court, in charge of validating candidacies, of supporting the government in power.
BATTLING BOKO HARAM
Like several of its neighbors, Niger is in the middle of a simmering war with Islamist terror army Boko Haram. Nigerien armed forces killed at least 30 Boko Haram fighters and captured three last week, including one senior leader, along the Yobe River that marks the border between Niger and Nigeria, according to the website Afrik. This comes after an attack by the Islamist sect on July 15 in the village of Gangara, near the Nigerian border, in which up to 15 locals were killed and four others injured, Radio France Internationale Afrique reports.
Defense Minister Karidjo Mahamadou encouraged the Nigerien army to "relentlessly pursue their noble mission for the defense of the integrity of the national territory and the protection of people and their goods." Niger and its neighbors Nigeria, Cameroun and Chad have been facing a rise in violence by Boko Haram since the beginning of the year.
The humanitarian situation in the southeastern region of Diffa, an area that has been desperately poor for years, has significantly deteriorated these past few months as both floods and droughts are now combined with the threat of Boko Haram, StarAfrica reports. At least 150,000 people have currently been relocated in the region, according to RFI. The few NGOs onsite are starting to be overwhelmed and aid programs are crumbling due to the increasing number of refugees fleeing Boko Haram.
Charlotte Bozonnet
After Mali, Front Line In War With Islamist Militants Could Shift To Niger
NIAMEY – The small restaurant sits on the corner of two sandy streets in Niger's capital city, Niamey. It is here, at Le Toulousain, that two Frenchmen were kidnapped by AQIM (Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb) on Jan. 7, 2011.
The two young hostages – an aid worker and his friend – were killed during a failed rescue attempt, and their captors fled across the Mali border. In September 2011, the kidnapping of seven employees from French nuclear energy firm Areva working at the Arlit uranium mine in northern Niger, dealt another blow to the country.
Niger shares an 800-kilometer border with Mali. "The threats that exist in Mali constitute a domestic security problem for Niger," Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou recently said.
Elected in 2011, Issoufou was one of the first heads of state to call for an intervention to get rid of the Tuareg Islamic militants who had taken control of northern Mali. "Never has a foreign intervention in Africa been as popular as the French one in Mali," he declared.
Along with Togo, Niger was one of the first African countries to get involved in the UN's African-led International Support Mission to Mali (AFISMA) – 680 Nigerien soldiers are currently stationed in Mali, most of them in Gao. "There was this belief that if we didn't do anything, we'd be the next country on the list of narco-terrorist groups," said Olivier de Sardan, a researcher at the Niamey-based Laboratory for Studies and Research into Social Dynamics and Local Development (LASDEL).
Niger has a lot to lose in the Malian conflict. One out of 12 million people living in Niger are of Tuareg ethnicity and the country has been through several insurgencies in the past, the last one being the Tuareg Rebellion of 2007-2009. Niger's efforts to integrate the Tuareg into the political landscape while clamping down on armed groups has brought a somewhat fragile social peace. There is, however, still much discontent in the Tuareg strongholds of northern Niger, where the population – especially the younger generation – believes it is being cheated out of revenue from uranium mining. Northern Niger is home to one of the world's largest deposits of uranium.
The most immediate threat for the country, however, is the arrival of Jihadist groups who are being run out of Mali. Northern Niger, with its mountainous terrain and easy exit routes to Chad and Libya in the east is the perfect region for Jihadists to regroup. These last few months, Niger has deployed 5,000 men at the Mali border. "Until now, these groups' attempts to take refuge in the Aïr Mountains have failed," assures a western diplomat: "AQIM's goal is to get to south Libya where it has bases and contacts. Niger is worried its northern region will become a bridge to Libya."
"Securing the Sahel"
Niger is a poor country, and war is expensive. The nation's army only has 12,000 troops and the territory they have to cover is huge. President Issoufou has repeatedly asked his Western allies – foremost France – for support. Since the beginning of the Mali crisis, Niger has been used by western countries as a base for military operations in the region, with Niamey airport being used for troop and equipment transport. French military instructors and liaison officers are also based here. "We are in favour of anything that will help us secure the Sahel region. We are in talks with several countries, including the U.S. and France," said President Issoufou, when asked about plans for U.S. surveillance drone bases in Niger.
President Issoufou added: "I don't believe the French intervention will end with the liberation of the cities of northern Mali. … The object of this war should be not just to liberate Mali but to free the whole Sahel from this menace."
Niger's geographic situation puts it at the center of the Sahel conflict. In the south, the country shares a 1,500-kilometer border with Nigeria, which is currently in the middle of a conflict with the Boko Haram Islamist militant group. The north, where the uranium riches lie, is a drugs and weapons smuggling route. "What Niger is most worried about is retaliation from AQIM or its allies. A new attack would be devastating for this country," said an observer.
Jean-Paul Mari
In Mali, A Village Caught Between Independence And Sharia
MENAKA - In a land far from Mali's capital of Bamako, the houses are covered in rough cement, the streets in a reddish earth; the town is scattered with crumbling mosques and the dust sweeps through the sweltering heat. Opposite an enormous bazaar, there is another mosque, but this time, the men standing outside are all wearing the tagelmust –the turban of the Tuareg people.
Through a door made of stripped metal, we enter into a large courtyard, where small groups of women are sitting together on rugs. One woman, who is not wearing a headscarf, takes my hand. No Islamists here, for this is the villa of Chief Bajam, head of the Oulimeden tribe. He is the elected official of the region, appointed to the Malian National Assembly. Mostly though, he is the supreme authority of Menaka, an extremely strategic village of 100,000 people, close to the Niger border.
He appears, emerging out of the darkness, a huge figure in his shimmering, blue-grey, boubou robe and his dazzlingly bright tagelmust. In his large, powerful hands there is a strand of heavy, wooden prayer beads. He stands there, his black skin, darkened by the desert sun, his strong nose, his somber eyes and white beard.
In the vast hall, around 30 Tuareg men of all ages stare at the ground beneath them. My eyes become accustomed to the half-light, discovering the green, the blue, the dark red and the ochre of the boubous the men are wearing. The sad and rebellious eyes of the men pierce out from underneath their turbans. Bajam retells the story of the battle of Menaka and the disaster that took place there.
"Independence or Sharia"
On November 16, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) of the Tuareg people launched an offensive against the MOJWA Islamists (the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa) who have now seized control of Gao, a city in northeast Mali. The offensive was a complete failure. The MNLA separatists were ambushed, conceded defeat and retreated to the town of Menaka, a sanctuary.
However, the Islamists didn't back off, calling for reinforcements and rushing toward the town, heavily armed. The MNLA fled. Bajam seethes: "When they arrived in January, the Malian army had already left, but that did not prevent them from wreaking havoc in the town."
And then, everything was calm. However, once again, the MOJWA Islamists were approaching, and the people of Menaka decided to take a stand: "Independence or Sharia... no one has ever asked us our opinion!"
The Menaka tribe mobilized its troops: 70 men built a line of defense along the sand dunes at the entrance to the town, just before the camp's guards. They called in the MNLA army for reinforcements, hoping that they would bring the 60 armed-vehicles that were available in the area. The response: "We are coming." However, when the battle started, Monday Nov. 19, at around 7:00 A.M., the people of Menaka were alone on their sand dune. The MNLA was not coming. Later, by radio, their top general admits they backed out: "They are too powerful for us."
The Islamists pushed toward the sand dunes. One convoy came with 26 men and ammunition, then a second with 15 more. The first gunfire managed to engulf three MOJWA vehicles into flames. A shower of projectiles rained down on the dunes: "Shrapnel, rocket-launchers, machine guns... they crushed us." The battle raged on all day. And at around 10:00 P.M., in the dark, the Tuareg warriors of Menaka stood down.
"They're all my children"
Bajam stops, his throat constricted. From one of his robe pockets, he takes out a ringing cellphone. Calling is an advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to Bamako, who thoroughly extends his condolences to the people of Menaka. Bajam listens, thanks him, puts the phone down and sighs: "Out of the 70 warriors, 12 are dead, 33 injured and 15 have been taken prisoner. 12 deaths... they're all my children!" The men are defeated, their supplies exhausted. The attacks from the MOJWA seem to never end and the Tuareg unity is no longer active. The resistance is dead. Menaka has fallen to the hands of the Islamists.
Today, almost half of the population have fled– 45,000 people who have crossed the border into Niger and are now in refugee camps. Menaka is empty. The Oulimeden tribe is grief-stricken, the Tuareg people sickened and shocked by the brutality of the assault. They are angry at having been caught in the middle of the combat between MNLA separatists and the fanatic Islamists.
"We have to stop these events that are devastating the Sahel, we have to save the population," says Bajam, his voice a mixture of anger and despair. "If not, the Tuareg people will soon disappear."
When we ask him who he thinks should intervene in the conflict - be it the Malian army, Africans, Americans or the French - the old chief clenches his fists and says: "Only the Devil himself can stop this."
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About 10 years after Levi Kurlander discovered a love for bikes with the Durango Devo mountain biking program in Colorado, he returned to the program at the start of 2018. Now, the 23-year-old is executive director of one of Durango's largest youth sports programs with about 500 kids, from two-year-olds on push bikes to high school seniors vying for NICA glory. Kurlander is also a pro mountain bike racer for Orange Seal, and in 2018 he won stages 4 and 5 at the Breck Epic. He nearly made the final podium until a broken wheel spoiled his day on the final stage.
I caught up with Kurlander at the Carson City Off-Road back in June to hear about how he found his calling in giving back to the program that got him started as a cyclist.
VeloNews: Growing as a junior you rode with Durango Devo.
Levi Kurlander: Yeah, I kind of started mountain biking later than a lot of my friends did. I really didn't get into riding very seriously until high school. I got my introduction to racing and really started to progress with Durango Devo in the O.G. days of Devo with Chad Cheeney. I started with Devo in I think their second year of operation in Durango. I got the first taste of what Durango Devo was all about.
I was probably 13 at that point. I did one year with Devo in their U-14 program and then moved up to the U-19 team, which is their high school team. I got introduced to racing there, started as a Cat. 3. Honestly, I didn't have a result to speak of necessarily until I was a junior or senior in high school, but I learned to love riding with the team. Durango Devo has a unique way of making a super-individual sport into a team sport with a team atmosphere, and that sense of inclusion got me hooked on it. And yeah, here I am, I've come full circle, running Durango Devo now and racing for Orange Seal. It's a tough balance.
VN: What did you like about Durango Devo when you were a kid?
LK: It's just an awesome opportunity to hang out with your friends. There wasn't any pressure to race or ride hard, but every four days a week after school you got to hang out with your best friends and ride bikes. It was pretty sweet.
VN: Did you stay involved with the organization after you graduated?
LK: We kind of parted ways a little bit. I went on to Fort Lewis and started racing competitively there, and started "training" as much as an 18-year-old is able to train. Devo is about developing the fundamentals of that love of riding and then the racing comes later, depending on the person. Once I started getting into that competitive side of things we parted ways for a few years before I moved back to Durango [from Boulder in 2018] and got a job at the other end of things.
Then I had this opportunity with Orange Seal to bring my racing to the next level with a true professional team, and it just so happened that the opportunity with Devo coincided with that. It works out really well that I have a flexible enough schedule with Devo that I can work basically a full-time job but still have enough time to train and be out of town on the weekend for races.
I got lucky with good timing there to have it all fall into place at the right time.
VN: How did you come upon the opportunity to work for Durango Devo?
LK: It's pretty funny actually, I honestly just saw a tweet from Chad [Cheeney] that said, "We're looking for a new director, who wants it?" At first I thought no that's a lot of work, I won't have time for that. But the more I thought of it, man this could be cool. Be my own boss, I could make my own schedule, I could continue to race. It was a pretty cool opportunity to give back to the program that got me started on this path to begin with. I figured why not, give it a whirl. I didn't expect anything out of it. I figured there would be plenty of well-qualified candidates for that job. And next thing I know, I'm moving back to Durango and starting things up with Devo.
VN: How do you strike a balance between that job and training and racing as a pro?
LK: It's tough. There's a ton of guys out here that do it too. There's a ton of guys working full-time jobs still racing, training. They're just full days. I try to train during the prime time of the day, train in the mornings, and I end up working late into the night most days. I'm able to craft my own work schedule around my training schedule so I can get what I need done. In the spring especially I was working 50- to 60-hour weeks on top of a 20-hour training load. That was a little too much. I had to dial it back a bit. I had to learn how to delegate a little better. Every waking hour of the day was either Devo or training. That was burning me out pretty quickly. I learned how to adapt to the job, delegate, be efficient with my time. That's not to say that 90 percent of the pro field out there isn't doing the same thing with whatever job it is. It just so happens that I'm lucky enough to create my own schedule. That lets me do what I need.
VN: How much of your job has you out riding with the kids?
LK: I've been riding a little bit with the kids. Most of my job involves big picture stuff, what the vision of Devo is. What we're working toward, how we can support these kids. Our tagline is "creating lifelong cyclists." Like I said, it's a situation where you have a super-individual sport where you're trying to create this team atmosphere out of it, and that's where a lot of my work hits the ground, trying to craft a team atmosphere with the coaches and the kids to build that love of riding your bike and hanging out with your friends for the community aspect of it.
VN: How many coaches work for Durango Devo?
LK: This spring we had 93 coaches on our payroll. We had a little over 600 registrations in the spring — about 500 individual kids. It's one of the largest youth sports organizations in Durango. Youth soccer and mountain biking in Durango are where it's at.
And NICA too has a big impact in recruiting some of the high school-age kids who have never really ridden before and getting them involved in the sport. I think NICA is doing a lot to advance mountain biking in a really cool new direction that we haven't really seen before.
VN: You draw some of your participants from NICA?
LK: Durango Devo actually runs the NICA programs for both Animas High School and Durango High School. We're a huge supporter of NICA and vice-versa. That's another big place where we get a lot of our kids.


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Sunday schedule: Albany gets things going at Syracuse; Notre Dame, UMass, Ohio playing at Jacksonville event
It was quite a Saturday in the college lacrosse world.
Among the highlights: Marquette, in just its second year as a Division I program, won at Hofstra, which started its 66th season.
In other Saturday games, Duke pulled away to beat Denver, Georgetown edged Navy, Loyola prevailed over Penn State and Hopkins handled Towson. Get the full rundown of results and box scores here.
Now to Sunday's slate.
Headlining the action, top-ranked Syracuse hosts an Albany team many are expecting big things from in the unofficial "Battle of New York." You can read more about it here.
Also of note, North Carolina's game against Manhattan, originally set for Saturday, will now be played on Sunday at noon because of winter storms. T
The Villanova at Lehigh game, scheduled for 7 p.m. has been moved up to 2 p.m., also because of weather.
The Bucknell at Bryant game will now be played at 2 p.m. It had been down as a 1 p.m. start.
St. Joseph's at High Point has been moved from a noon to 1 p.m. start.
Binghamton at Sacred Heart has been moved from 1 p.m. to noon.
Army at VMI, originally a 4 p.m. start, will now be played at noon.
NBC Sports Network will provide live coverage of the Moe's Southwest Grill Classic. Fifth-ranked Notre Dame takes on host Jacksonsville at 7 p.m. UMass then meets Ohio State at 9:15 p.m.
Here's the complete rundown of Sunday action:
All times are EST
Virginia at Drexel, noon
Holy Cross at St. John's, noon
Manhattan at North Carolina, noon
Binghamton at Sacred Heart, noon
Army at VMI, noon
St. Joseph's at High Point, 1 p.m.
Hartford at Richmond, 1 p.m.
Bucknell at Bryant, 2 p.m.
Mercer at Detroit, 2 p.m.
Villanova at Lehigh, 2 p.m.
Albany at Syracuse, 4 p.m., Time Warner Sports Channel
Notre Dame at Jacksonville, 7 p.m., NBCSN
UMass at Ohio State, 9:15 p.m., NBCSN
Results/box scores for Saturday, Feb. 15
Air Force 15, Furman 6
Bellarmine 10, Robert Morris 7
Canisius 9, Boston University 3
Colgate 13, Vermont 3
Duke 14, Denver 10
Fairfield 18, Delaware 8
Georgetown 9, Navy 8
Johns Hopkins 15, Towson 8
Loyola 12, Penn State 11, OT
Maryland 14, UMBC 3
Marquette 11, Hofstra 9
Siena 12, Hobart 7
Lafayette at Wagner, ppd., weather
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Mortgage originations in the U.S. may total $2.03 trillion this year, 27 percent less than earlier forecast, as rising interest rates reduce home refinancings, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.
Today's forecast cuts $700 billion from the Washington- based group's March estimate, a change MBA Chief Economist Jay Brinkmann said came because the Federal Reserve's pledge to buy as much as $300 billion in U.S. Treasuries hasn't been enough to keep Treasury yields and mortgage rates down.
Rates for a 30-year fixed home loan rose to 5.47 percent on June 19, according to Bankrate.com.
The Fed's in a difficult spot, said Kenneth Rosen, chairman of the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. If I were the Fed, I would try very hard to do everything in my power to keep that long-end down.
The new estimate for 2009 mortgage originations includes about $737 billion for home purchases and $1.297 trillion in refinancings, the mortgage bankers said in a statement.
While home sales have been higher than expected, home prices have fallen more than expected, leading to smaller loans, Brinkmann said. Rising mortgage rates began to choke off the refinance wave in May, much earlier than anticipated.
MBA now projects existing home sales for 2009 of 4.8 million units, a drop of 1.2 percent from 2008. New home sales will be 352,000 units, a decline of 27 percent from 2008, MBA said.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is trying to lower consumer borrowing costs with a $1.25 trillion program to purchase mortgage-backed securities in addition to buying Treasuries.
After initially succeeding in cutting 30-year home loan rates to a record 4.78 percent in April, the program stalled in May. Mortgage rates rose in five of the last seven weeks, according to McLean, Virginia-based mortgage buyer Freddie Mac.
Mortgage rates and Treasury yields are climbing on investor concern that a greater supply of government debt being sold to fund federal spending will fuel inflation.
The average 30-year mortgage rate was 5.38 percent in the week ended June 18, down from 5.59 percent a week earlier, which was the highest since November, according to Freddie Mac.
Rising mortgage defaults and slumping prices have prompted government programs to stem foreclosures and spur demand for homes.
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director James Lockhart said June 18 that mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may soon get permission to purchase mortgages for loan amounts of more than a home is worth.
U.S. mortgage applications fell in the week ended June 12 to the lowest since November. The Mortgage Bankers Association's index of applications to purchase a home or refinance a loan dropped 16 percent to 514.4. Purchase applications fell 3.5 percent while requests to refinance fell 23 percent.


A sleeping bag is a voluminous piece of gear that requires large swaths of polyester or nylon. If it contains synthetic insulation as well, you're talking about snuggling in a substantial amount of man-made material. Which is fine, but better if it comes from recycled sources. That can really narrow your search if you're looking for a new cocoon of warmth, as few companies feature much in the way of recycled sleeping bags. However, here are a few good options for synthetic-fill bags to focus on first.
Known for its distinctive sleeping bag designs that feature no insulation underneath (provided instead by a sleeping pad that slips into a sleeve built into the bag), Big Agnes offers several bags made from a large percentage of recycled material.
The Encampment 15—long one of the company's core offerings—is made from 100 percent recycled materials. It comes in at a reasonable price point ($150 to $180, depending on size) though at a rather hefty weight (3 pounds, 4 ounces to 3 pounds, 9 ounces). Tall and wide sleepers should take note of this one—its largest size (wide long) runs 80.5 inches long with a remarkable 75-inch girth around the middle.
For a more traditional mummy fit (with less weight), you can also check out the Upper Slide 20 ($200 to $210; 2 pounds, 13 ounces to 3 pounds). For insulation, it features the new Primaloft Black Hi-Loft Ultra, 80 percent of which comes from post-consumer recycled materials.
For colder conditions, you can consider the 100 percent recycled Farwell 0, which is basically a slightly more insulated version of the Encampment ($170 to $180, 3 pounds, 15 ounces to 4 pounds, 7 ounces).
Marmot makes some of the most drool-worthy sleeping bags of any manufacturer out there, including a couple of recycled options.
The Trestles 15 TL is a deal at $139 to $149 for its men's regular and long size, respectively (women's versions are also available and run $129 for regular and $139 for long). The lining is made from 100 percent recycled polyester while the insulation is a 75/25 mix of recycled and non-recycled polyester. The men's weighs in at 3 pounds, 5 ounces or 3 pounds, 9 ounces. A lighter weight version of the bag—the Trestles 30 TL—is also available for warmer conditions.
While REI doesn't make a recycled sleeping bag itself, its website does offer the ability to sort its current sleeping bag offerings by recycled materials. You can find the option at the very bottom of its filter choices, the long column you'll find on the left side of the screen when you're browsing on a desktop.
It's also worth noting that another sustainability trend—the use of recycled down—is starting to appear in sleeping bags as well. Watch for more on this in a future post!


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Indiana's Johnson training to become bigger contributor on DL
College Football: Alabama wins National Championship
He's played football on national television and on the field in front of several thousand fans. That's nothing out of the ordinary for Jerome Johnson.
But there's one stage in Johnson's Indiana University experience that has filled him with nerves — the one inside the IU Auditorium.
During April's Spirit of Indiana Showcase, an annual award show for IU athletes, Johnson grabbed a microphone and surprised his Indiana teammates and the rest of IU's community of athletes by singing John Legend's song "This Time."
Not only did Johnson sing it, he sang it quite well.
"Everybody was shocked," Johnson said, "but all of them gave me good feedback."
This fall, in the realm of Big Ten football, Johnson would like to keep the surprises coming.
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— Indiana Football (@IndianaFootball) August 3, 2018
The redshirt sophomore defensive tackle earned his way into IU's defensive line rotation last season, and is training to be an even bigger contributor during the upcoming campaign.
Johnson's position coach, Mark Hagen, believes he can get there.
"I think he's got a chance to be a special player," Hagen said. "I really do. He's come a long way."
Soon...#iufb pic.twitter.com/RdcQKi5jN1
— Mark Hagen (@CoachHagenIU) June 28, 2018
Johnson, who was ranked as one of the top 100 defensive tackles in the 2016 recruiting class, committed to Indiana on the eve of National Signing Day in February 2016.
After a redshirt season that fall, Johnson found a niche on Indiana's defensive line from the very beginning last year. The 6-3, 293-pound Mississippi native played in all 12 games, finishing with 18 tackles, including 10 solo stops, with one sack and 3.5 tackles for loss.
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"I was second-string and I got a lot of playing time," Johnson said. "I got to learn the game more and see how it is and get used to it (at the college level)."
The next step is getting Johnson to play harder for longer stretches. When he does, Hagen believes Johnson can be a difference-maker up front.
Johnson has shown he can be an explosive player, particularly at his size. IU just wants to see more of that explosive play — and in larger doses.
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"When Jerome gets tired and drained out there, he's got to continue to work through that grind. I think that's the next step for him," Hagen said. "I think sometimes he leans on the fact that Coach Hagen's gonna get me a blow here and there. Sometimes, the situation may not dictate that.
"You can't just assume that after four snaps I'm coming off the field. I try to get them to think that way so they give me everything they've got for four snaps, but he's got to take that next step. He's a tough guy, but he's got to continue to build on that."
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Building on last season could go a long way for Johnson, who was recognized with Big Ten All-Freshman honorable mention recognition for his work in 2017.
With Hagen's coaching, Johnson is in tune with what's expected of him.
"I just need to get stronger, faster and work on my footwork," Johnson said. "And work on getting more reps to end the games."
That could lead to more showstopping performances on the football field. Johnson is already used to them elsewhere.
"He's a talented guy," Hagen said.
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Take identical twins Jalynne April Crawford and Janelle Ann Leopoldo's story, for example. The sisters gave birth to sons on the same day, in the same Arizona hospital and both by C-section. If that doesn't make you believe in a special twin bond, then we don't know what will.
Jalynne's newborn is her fourth and the second for Janelle. Growing up, the two sisters, who are extremely close, say they always hoped to have babies together.
Jalynne recalled when she got a text message from Janelle, saying that she was expecting. Just four days before, she found out that she was pregnant, so you could imagine how surprised she was when she heard the good news from her sister.
What makes the story even more beautiful is that Janelle had previously struggled with fertility and had been diagnosed with the polycystic ovarian syndrome, a hormonal disorder that makes it more challenging to get pregnant, and had an ectopic pregnancy. Jalynne herself had suffered two miscarriages in that time as well.
The sisters live in separate cities, one in Arizona and one in California, so they decided they wanted to give birth on the same day so that their families could be there for both.


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Q: Caching google maps in Windows Phone? Can I caching google maps in Windows Phone? I use GoogleTileSource:
<my:MapTileLayer Name="street" Margin="0,0,0,32" Height="800" Width="433">
     <my:MapTileLayer.TileSources>
           <GoogleTileSource:GoogleTile TileTypes="Street"/>
     </my:MapTileLayer.TileSources>
</my:MapTileLayer>

It's possible?
Thank in advance.
UPDATE
XAML code:
<Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
            <my:Map Height="756" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,6,0,0" Name="googlemap"
                   CredentialsProvider="AqayajnZU8FSfDGL8jpK5zMKAHmUL27Uqxv_OnpQzJQOI2PoQyxcG7dlR6_g4WWo"
                   CopyrightVisibility="Collapsed" LogoVisibility="Collapsed"
                   ScaleVisibility="Visible"  VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="438" >
                <my:Map.Mode>
                    <MSPCMCore:MercatorMode/>
                </my:Map.Mode>
                <my:MapTileLayer Name="street" Margin="0,0,0,32" Height="800" Width="433">
                    <my:MapTileLayer.TileSources>
                        <GoogleTileSource:GoogleTile TileTypes="Street"/>
                    </my:MapTileLayer.TileSources>
                </my:MapTileLayer>
                <my:MapLayer x:Name="PopupLayer">
                    <Canvas x:Name="ContentPopup" Visibility="Collapsed">
                        <Rectangle x:Name="ContentPopupRectangle" Fill="Black"
                                   Opacity="0.6" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="0"
                                   Height="100" Width="200"/>
                        <StackPanel Canvas.Left="20" Canvas.Top="10">
                            <TextBlock x:Name="ContentPopupNickname" FontSize="24" FontWeight="Bold" TextWrapping="Wrap" Width="200"/>
                            <TextBlock x:Name="ContentPopupLocation" FontSize="16" FontWeight="Bold" TextWrapping="Wrap" Width="200"/>
                            <TextBlock x:Name="ContentPopupAge" FontSize="16" FontWeight="Bold" TextWrapping="Wrap" Width="200"/>
                        </StackPanel>
                    </Canvas>
                </my:MapLayer>
            </my:Map>
        </Grid>

So, cs code:
    public enum GoogleTileTypes
    {
        Hybrid,
        Physical,
        Street,
        Satellite,
        WaterOverlay
    }

    public class GoogleTile : Microsoft.Phone.Controls.Maps.TileSource
    {
        private int _server;
        private char _mapmode;
        private GoogleTileTypes _tiletypes;

        public GoogleTileTypes TileTypes
        {
            get { return _tiletypes; }
            set
            {
                _tiletypes = value;
                MapMode = MapModeConverter(value);
            }
        }

        public char MapMode
        {
            get { return _mapmode; }
            set { _mapmode = value; }
        }

        public int Server
        {
            get { return _server; }
            set { _server = value; }
        }

        public GoogleTile()
        {
            UriFormat = @"http://mt{0}.google.com/vt/lyrs={1}&z={2}&x={3}&y={4}";
            Server = 0;
        }

        public override Uri GetUri(int x, int y, int zoomLevel)
        {
            if (zoomLevel > 0)
            {
                var Url = string.Format(UriFormat, Server, MapMode, zoomLevel, x, y);
                return new Uri(Url);
            }
            return null;
        }

        private char MapModeConverter(GoogleTileTypes tiletype)
        {
            switch (tiletype)
            {
                case GoogleTileTypes.Hybrid:
                    {
                        return 'y';
                    }
                case GoogleTileTypes.Physical:
                    {
                        return 't';
                    }
                case GoogleTileTypes.Satellite:
                    {
                        return 's';
                    }
                case GoogleTileTypes.Street:
                    {
                        return 'm';
                    }
                case GoogleTileTypes.WaterOverlay:
                    {
                        return 'r';
                    }
            }
            return ' ';
        }
    }

A: The standard TileSource doesn't allow you any control over the downloading of the tile images.
If you want to add your own caching you'll have to add another Layer to the map and then download the images and load them into the extra layer in the correct position yourself. It's not fun but it can be done.

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Q: For loop in protractor is giving error at the last number in that loop "No element found using locator: By(css selector, span.ng-binding)" I have been starting with the AngularJS Application testing .
I need to give multiple Answer to an Questionnaire that come after selecting some Symptoms.
Questions are having text or radio button as input fields their are question with 2 radio buttons or 3 radio buttons

//First method Code Giving the same error
// Questionnaire
obj.questionnaire_row.each(function(question) {
  question.element(by.model("data.answer")).click().sendKeys(d.Easycirmmail.answers);
});

//Second method for answering the questions
function questions(index) {
  obj.questionnaire_row.get(index).element(by.css("span.ng-binding")).getText().then(function(value) {
    console.log(value);
  });
  obj.questionnaire_row.get(index).element(by.model("data.answer")).click().sendKeys(d.Easycirmmail.answers);
}
obj.questionnaire_row.count().then(function(qcount) {
  console.log("Question " + qcount);
  for (var i = 0; i <= qcount; i++) {
    console.log(i);
    questions(i);
    if (i == qcount - 1) {
      break;
    }
  }
});

These are the question asked in the ng-repeater

//this is the Console output:
Started
Count 14
Master 2
Master 1
Master 11
Master 0
Master 4
Count 15
Symptoms 7
Symptoms 1
Symptoms 6
Symptoms 1
Symptoms 14
Symptoms 3
Symptoms 7
Symptoms 8
Symptoms 12
Symptoms 3
Symptoms 8
Symptoms 11
Symptoms 3
Symptoms 10
Symptoms 10
Question 45
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Q) How long has it been since the pain started?
Q) Did he suffer a traumatism?
[10:55:48] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:49] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Did the patient have alcoholic drinks?
[10:55:49] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:49] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Did he stay too long in the sun or in a very hot place?
[10:55:49] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:49] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Did the patient have any sexual intercourse?
[10:55:50] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:50] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Did he suffer from it in the past?
[10:55:50] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:50] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Is there nausea or vomit?
[10:55:50] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:50] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Is he shivering?
[10:55:50] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:51] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Are there spots, blisters or other lesions on the genitals?
[10:55:51] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:51] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Is there any penis secretion?
[10:55:51] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:51] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Is there any swelling of the glands or pain in the groins region?
[10:55:52] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:52] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Are the internal organs suspected of having been damaged?
[10:55:53] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:53] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Describe the traumatism: bruise, contusion, abrasion, excoriation, superficial wound, deep penetrating wound
Q) Is the patient constipated
[10:55:54] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:54] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Does he have diarrhoea?
[10:55:54] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:54] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Is the urine red?
[10:55:54] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:55] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Is there any blood in the urine?
[10:55:55] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:55] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Does the patient have any trouble passing water?
[10:55:55] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:55] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Is any blood coming from the patient's mouth?
[10:55:56] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:56] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Was there a loss of consciousness or a feeling of fainting?
[10:55:56] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:56] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Does the patient have acclereted heartbeats and cold perspiration?
[10:55:56] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:56] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Does he have a feeling of nausea or vomit?
[10:55:56] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:57] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Has he got breathing difficulties, a lack of air?
[10:55:57] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:57] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
Q) Take a picture
Q) Are the faeces black (like coffee grounds)?
[10:55:57] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
[10:55:58] W/element - more than one element found for locator by.model("data.answer") - the first result will be used
F

//And the error is as follows:
Failures:
1) Easy Cirm Testing  4.Actions Easy Cirm Mail
  Message:
    Failed: No element found using locator: By(css selector, span.ng-binding)
  Stack:
    NoSuchElementError: No element found using locator: By(css selector, span.ng-binding)
        at elementArrayFinder.getWebElements.then (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\element.js:814:27)
        at ManagedPromise.invokeCallback_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:1376:14)
        at TaskQueue.execute_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:3084:14)
        at TaskQueue.executeNext_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:3067:27)
        at asyncRun (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2927:27)
        at C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:668:7
        at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)Error
        at ElementArrayFinder.applyAction_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\element.js:459:27)
        at ElementArrayFinder.(anonymous function).args [as getText] (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\element.js:91:29)
        at ElementFinder.(anonymous function).args [as getText] (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\built\element.js:831:22)
        at questions (C:\Users\3 Cube\Easy-Cirm-Automation\ListCrewPage.js:257:93)
        at C:\Users\3 Cube\Easy-Cirm-Automation\ListCrewPage.js:266:29
        at ManagedPromise.invokeCallback_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:1376:14)
        at TaskQueue.execute_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:3084:14)
        at TaskQueue.executeNext_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:3067:27)
        at asyncRun (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2927:27)
        at C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:668:7
    From: Task: Run it("4.Actions Easy Cirm Mail") in control flow
        at UserContext.<anonymous> (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\jasminewd2\index.js:94:19)
        at C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\jasminewd2\index.js:64:48
        at ControlFlow.emit (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\events.js:62:21)
        at ControlFlow.shutdown_ (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2674:10)
        at shutdownTask_.MicroTask (C:\Users\3 Cube\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\protractor\node_modules\selenium-webdriver\lib\promise.js:2599:53)
    From asynchronous test:
    Error
        at Suite.<anonymous> (C:\Users\3 Cube\Easy-Cirm-Automation\ListCrewPage.js:150:5)
        at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Users\3 Cube\Easy-Cirm-Automation\ListCrewPage.js:132:1)
        at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:688:30)
        at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:699:10)
        at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:598:32)
        at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:537:12)

A:

// Questionnaire
async function questionsfunction(index) { //async and awaits keyword is used to complete the function as called in the loop and then after i must be increased.
  await obj.questionnaire_row.get(index).element(by.css("span.ng-binding")).getText().then(function(value) {
    console.log(value);
  });
  console.log("Index: " + index);
  await obj.questionnaire_row.get(index).element(by.model("data.answer")).click().sendKeys(d.GenerateEvent.answers);
}

obj.questionnaire_row.count().then(function(qcount) {
  console.log("total Question " + qcount);
  console.log("Question " + (qcount - 1));
  for (let i = 0; i <= qcount - 2; i++) { //Used "-2" for the loop, Reason as the Last object in the ng-repeat is not having any question and answer
    console.log(i);
    questionsfunction(i);
  }
});


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From early age Ella dreamed to start her own business
From early age Ella dreamed to start her own business. EU4Youth project helped…
In order to help herself and her family, Ella was looking for an opportunity for part-time work ever since she was 14. At first, she worked on a flower farm, pulling weeds and planting flowers, then she earned money by sticking advertisements, worked as a promoter and as a barista in a coffeeshop. But she always wanted more – to become independent, to start her own business, to develop her creative potential.
In June 2019, Ella enrolled in a course on entrepreneurship, organised in the framework of the EU4Youth: Employability and stability in Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine project.
Having completed the course, Ella wrote a business plan. Her idea was to create thematic travel tours with a personal photographer. Unfortunately, her business idea was not selected for funding. But Ella never gives up: she kept working hard, meeting mentors, studying in a coworking space, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of her business plan in order to improve it.
So, Ella submitted her new business idea – this time for a photography studio – with the next group in February 2020. And this time all her hard work paid off and Ella received a grant of €3,500.
Ella received EU4Youth grant from the second attempt
As of today, Ella has already registered as an individual entrepreneur. The young woman organises different kinds of photo shoots: in the studio, wedding, 'Love story', family and individual. She also retouches the photographs and provides the customer with a finished product.
During the photo shoots Ella tries to help people express themselves so that they not only get good quality photos, but also beautiful, unique pictures, highlighting their individuality.
"The truth is that nowadays, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of customers has fallen… but I hope that everything will return to normal soon and that my success story will not end," said Ella, admitting it had not been the best time to launch a business.
However, Ella does not give up in difficult situations. She is keen to share her anti-crisis business plans in the current conditions: she plans to take pictures of nature in order to sell them to image banks.
In March 2020, Ella also took classes in web-design in order to improve her photo processing skills. "It turns out that not only could I acquire experience and new knowledge, but also improve my reputation and develop my client network thanks to the practical classes."
Undoubtedly Ella's success story will not stop here. Local project coordinator Tatiana Babeikina says Ella's story highlights the importance of never giving up, and always to search for a solution or an alternative plan: "Whatever challenge life brings (be it COVID-19, crisis or any other difficult life situation), the most important is to take them not as a setback, but as an opportunity for a better understanding of oneself, comprehension and reappraisal of values, changing one's attitude to life and to other people."
The "EU4Youth: Employability and stability in Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine" project aims at developing the employment and self-employment skills of young people, as well as at expanding the opportunities for active participation of youth in the job market.
Since 2018 when the project started, a lot of young people from Belarus took training courses in Life Skills and Employability, improved their competencies and professional skills through VET, received relevant work experience through internships and work-based learning, and got jobs at the end of it. Those who were trained on entrepreneurship got an opportunity to develop their business-ideas and to compete for mini-grants. Thanks to the project, 17 business-plans have received financing and the new start-ups will be launched by the project participants.
Author: Tatsiana Babeikina
EU4Youth: Employability and stability in Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine
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