Parution Web - DIGITALJOURNALIST - Afghanistan: On the Edge of a Precipice de Philip Poupin
Une parution pas comme les autres car dans un magazine de photojournalisme en ligne DIGITAL JOURNALIST avec le reportage de Philip Poupin:
Among the Afghans, an unstable daily life.
Zimagol is 37 years old; she has four children but no work. This afghan lady has brought up her children all by herself since the death of her husband. The mother has to manage with her one leg. During a bombing, her house was destroyed by the blast from the bombs. She has had her leg amputated above her knee by doctors. The woman has an expressionless face. Her eyes were hit by the bombings.
Zimagol is one of those prostrate people, overcome by war, bent over by their fate. One encounters these kinds of broken lives in Afghanistan often. After twenty five years of war the reconstruction of Afghanistan is collapsing and on the brink of an impossible precipice. Five years after the fall of the Taliban, the Islamic republic of Afghanistan looks like the life of Zimagol: chaotic; an unsettled, unstable daily life; a life from day to day.
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Darfour, une guerre oubliée
Darfour, une guerre oubliée
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Niger : "slavery hasn’t been abolished".
A kind of slavery is still widespread in Niger, hovering in the background. Slavery still prevails in nomadic Arab and Tuareg communities. (Tuaregs with white or brown skin are called “redskins”). The whole Niger is concerned, along with the bordering countries - Mauritania, Nigeria, Benin, Mali, Chad and as well Sudan, where wars are increasingly common. It takes place hidden in desert, rural zones where hunger is a part of daily life. Men and women - black Africans called “Bouzou”, historically not considered human beings - continue to work hard labours for their Arab or Tuareg masters.
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Afghanistan: la guerre au quotidien.
Cinq ans après l’envoi de troupes occidentales sous mandat de l’ONU en Afghanistan, la liste des morts civils et militaires continue de s’allonger. Les Afghans déchantent et donnent un nouveau crédit aux Talibans. Les différents mouvements insurgés revendiquent depuis début 2006 plus d’un attentat mortel par semaine. Presqu’un par jour à certaine période. Chaque attaque tue quelques soldats de la coalition de l’Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique-Nord (OTAN), des policiers afghans, ou plusieurs civils, parfois tous à la fois. Le terme Taliban n’est cependant plus adapté pour désigner ces militants armés car les groupes se sont diversifiés. Le fondement de leur lutte reste le rejet d’un occupant étranger et infidèle à l’Islam. Ces nouveaux visages de l’insurrection armée sont qualifiés par quelques chercheurs de « néo-Talibans ».
Mahajirines: yesterday, Allah’s migrants, today, with chains on feet.
It fell to them the role to islamise the people. Too many in a country in crisis, their future is uncertain. The word “mahajirine” means « emigrating », from “mahajir”, the emigrant. At first, these emigrants were pious people living Meqqah for Medina in Saudi Arabia. The Mahajirines went there to study the Quran. So, the “mahajir” is a student in theology and a preacher of Islam. The word has another meaning, more recent: beggar. The students of these Quranic schools at Sudanese and Saudi instigations are more and more numerous. This has been occurring for some years in Chad. These two countries with their unbending Islam finance these madrassa. The families pay at the morst two bags of millet for the whole year (about 60 ? or 80$). One must pay for chadian public school and it cost much more than two bags of food. The center that I visited is known under the name of “mabrooka”. The boarders are about 400. It is situated at the beginning of the desert, outside of the city of Abeche, east of Chad close to the border of Darfur.
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