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The arrival of a UN regional force in South Sudan will enable the UN Mission in the country, UNMISS to free up additional peacekeepers to mount more “patrols along insecure roads,” the head of the Mission, David Shearer has said.
Mr Shearer, who is also the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in South Sudan was speaking in Juba following the arrival, over the weekend, of the first 120 soldiers of the Rwandan battalion of the Regional Protection Force (RPF).
The RPF was mandated by the UN Security Council with a maximum troop strength of 4000 and will bolster the Mission’s capacity to deter violence and protect civilians in the South Sudanese capital, Juba.
The 15-member Council authorized the force in the wake of the violence in Juba in July 2016.
A Nepalese High Readiness company and over 100 Bangladeshi engineers have already arrived in the Mission area as part of the force.
Mr Shearer said the arrival of these contingents “marks the beginning of the phased deployment of the RPF” in Juba.
Some 600 additional Rwandan peacekeepers will arrive in next few weeks while the “arrival of Ethiopian troops is imminent,” Mr Shearer added.
RPF troops will be based in Juba and will operate if necessary, in surrounding areas.
UN Photo: Isaac Billy
A member of the Mali Red Cross visiting a community.
Sub-Saharan Africa is not on track to achieve a single Millennium Development Goal. It is the only region in the world where malnutrition, a product of food insecurity, is on the rise. Food insecurity in Africa has many complex causes, including HIV/AIDS, climate change, environmental degradation, conflict, a huge increase in population size, and debt. Photo: International Federation (p17437)
More information: www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/recovering/food-security.asp
April 18, 2013 - Washington DC., 2013 World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings. Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: A Threat to Development. Photo: Roxana Bravo / World Bank
The Grade I Listed Lincoln Castle which was constructed by William the Conqueror in the 11th Century. In Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
Lincoln Castle was during the late 11th century by William the Conqueror on the site of a pre-existing Roman fortress. The castle is unusual in that it has two mottes. It is only one of two such castles in the country, the other being at Lewes in Sussex.
When William the Conqueror defeated Harold Godwinson and the English at The Battle of Hastings on 14 October 1066, he continued to face resistance to his rule in the north of England. For a number of years, William's position was very insecure. In order to project his influence northwards to control the people of the Danelaw (an area traditionally under the control of Scandinavian settlers), he constructed a number of major castles in the north and midlands of England. It was at this time that the new king built major castles at Warwick, Nottingham and York. After gaining control of York, the Conqueror turned southwards and arrived at the Roman and Viking city of Lincoln.
When William reached Lincoln (one of the country's major settlements), he found a Viking commercial and trading centre with a population of 6,000 to 8,000. The remains of the old Roman walled fortress located 60 metres (200 ft) above the countryside to the south and west, proved an ideal strategic position to construct a new castle. Also, Lincoln represented a vital strategic crossroads of the following routes (largely the same routes which influenced the siting of the Roman fort):
Ermine Street - a major Roman road and the Kingdom's principal north-south route connecting London and York.
Fosse Way - another important Roman route connecting Lincoln with the city of Leicester and the south-west of England
The Valley of the River Trent (to the west and southwest) - a major river affording access to the River Ouse, and thus the major city of York.
The River Witham - a waterway that afforded access to both the Rivers Trent (via the Fossdyke Roman canal at Torksey) and the North Sea via The Wash.
The Lincolnshire Wolds - an upland area to the northeast of Lincoln, which overlooks the Lincolnshire Marsh beyond.
A castle here could guard several of the main strategic routes and form part of a network of strongholds of the Norman kingdom, in Danish Mercia, roughly the area of the country that is today referred to as the East Midlands, to control the country internally. Also (in the case of the Wolds) it could form a center from which troops could be sent to repel Scandinavian landings anywhere on the coast from the Trent to the Welland, to a large extent, by using the roads which the Romans had constructed for the same purpose.
The Domesday Survey of 1086 directly records 48 castles in England, with two in Lincolnshire including one in the county town. Building a castle within an existing settlement sometimes meant existing structures had to be removed, and of the castles noted in the Domesday Book, thirteen included references to property being destroyed to make way for the castle. In Lincoln's case 166 "unoccupied residences" were pulled down to clear the area on which the castle would be built.
Work on the new fortification was completed in 1068. It is probable that at first a wooden keep was constructed which was later replaced with a much stronger stone one. Lincoln Castle is very unusual in having two mottes, the only other surviving example of such a design being at Lewes. To the south, where the Roman wall stands on the edge of a steep slope, it was retained partially as a curtain wall and partially as a revetment retaining the mottes. In the west, where the ground is more level, the Roman wall was buried within an earth rampart and extended upward to form the Norman castle wall. The Roman west gate (on the same site as the castle's westgate) was excavated in the 19th century but began to collapse on exposure, and so was re-buried.
The castle was the focus of attention during the First Battle of Lincoln which occurred on 2 February 1141, during the struggle between King Stephen and Empress Matilda over who should be monarch in England. It was held but damaged, and a new tower, called the Lucy Tower, was built.
Lincoln Castle was again the site of a siege followed by the Second Battle of Lincoln, on 20 May 1217, during the reign of King John in the course of the First Barons' War. This was the period of political struggle which led to the signing of Magna Carta on 15 June 1215. After this, a new barbican was built onto the west and east gates.
As in Norwich and other places, the castle was used as a secure site in which to establish a prison. At Lincoln, the prison Gaol was built in 1787 and extended in 1847. Imprisoned debtors were allowed some social contact but the regime for criminals was designed to be one of isolation, according to the separate system. Consequently, the seating in the prison chapel is designed to enclose each prisoner individually so that the preacher could see everyone but each could see only him. By 1878 the system was discredited and the inmates were transferred to the new jail in the eastern outskirts of Lincoln. The prison in the castle was left without a use until the Lincolnshire Archives were housed in its cells.
The castle is now owned by Lincolnshire County Council and is a scheduled ancient monument. In 2012, a three-year programme of renovation began at the castle. Work involved creating a new exhibition centre in which to display Magna Carta, building visitor facilities, and opening sections of the prison within the castle to the public. The scheme was completed in April 2015, to coincide with the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta.
April 18, 2013 - Washington DC., 2013 World Bank / IMF Spring Meetings. Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: A Threat to Development. Photo: Roxana Bravo / World Bank
Unexploded weapons in Somalia pose a great danger to beneficiaries and aid workers. These mortars were removed from a water well during a rehabilitation exercise. EC/ECHO/Phillipe Royan
A deep sense of fear, instilled in many people after the violence, makes women anxious to venture out of the camps. But lack of toilets means they are forced to go to the nearby sugarcane fields, exposing them to potential harassment by men from nearby villages. Photo credit: Arjun Claire EU/ECHO |
Une peur profondément ancrée chez de nombreuses personnes après les violences rend les femmes anxieuses à l’idée de s’aventurer à l'extérieur des camps. Pourtant, le manque de toilettes les oblige à aller dans les champs de canne à sucre des environs, les exposant à un éventuel harcèlement de la part des hommes des villages voisins. Photo: Arjun Claire UE/ECHO
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Granada was bombarded with graffiti everywhere. But if you stopped to read, the people have something to say.
"Inseguridad es la policia en la calle." = "Insecurity is police in the street."
Rachael Merten, an anthropology major, hold a box of romanesco broccoli during the food harvest for food insecurity on January 28, 2016 at UC Davis. The harvesters have to follow guidelines as they harvest to ensure food safety. The surplus vegetables from Plant Sciences 5 course will go to the Yolo County Food Bank.
Commissioner Georgieva notes that: ‘In camps like this we provide food and basic services. But we worry about the people in those areas across Darfur which are difficult to reach because of insecurity.’ EC/ECHO/Daniel Dickinson
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turbulence. A year back, we saw state sponsored communal genocide In Gujarat -and the horror continues today ay .
witnesses to the violence are being threatened and silenced. Young people like us, all over the country, are being mobilize~ .
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In communal mobs. Discrimination and violence based on caste and gender are areality faced by many_ including those .
who make it to the capital city. Our university education will equip us to unde~stand and analyse our society and its contradictions. As students, Is It not our role to translate this education Into socially sensltrve action? .
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movements have historically spearheaded struggles for social and political transformation. All overIndifferent, cynical or angry? AISA appeals to y~u -Don'tjust get angry: GET ACTIVEI Student .
the world today, young people are on the streets opposing anti-people policies of globalization and .
Imperialist wars with the slogan 'Another World Is Possible'. In India, AISA Is the name of students' collective, radical resistance committed to a struggle for 'Another India and Another World'. ·The AISA Movement .
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upsurge after the demolition of the Sabri Masijld In 1992, AISA won victories In the Student Union elections of BHU, .
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In several campuses, AISA led movements that pushed back feehik~sRSS-BJP.'s communal politics of 'Mandir' AISA challenged the Sangh brigade in its own 'stronghold' of Ayodhya. Students from all over India marched to Ayodhya on 1O" may' 02, honoring the martyrs of the 1857 war of Independence on its .
anniversary. We asserted that Ayodhya did not 'belong' to the saffron goons, but was, In fact,·a historic center of united Hindu-Muslim resistance to the British in 1857. Thousands of AISA activists were arrested at Ayodhya, and were jailed for a week in UP jails. .
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encounter by Bihar police. InUP,AISA Isspearheading anongoing movement against state-wide fee hikes and crackdowns .
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Campus Committee to deal with complaints of Sexaal Harassment. This demand became a central campus issue, leading .
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finally gave up his life to the struggles of landless poor In Bihar. He was shot dead by mafia don and RJD MPShahabuddin.
this Ideal, AISA leader Chandrashekhar Prasad, who, as JNUSU President for two terms, led several campus struggles, .
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of young people, by passing off Its communal agenda of 'Hindutva' as 'nationalism'. Their Hlndutvs, which is communal hatred and violence, goes against our own legacy of progressive secular nationality The BJP government fs busy Injecting communal polson by rewriting history textbooks and Introducing un-scientific, obscurantist courses like .
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Cover of CCAFS-ILRI 2011 report 'Mapping Hotspots of Climate Change and Food Insecurity in the Global Tropics', by Polly Ericksen, Philip Thornton, An Notenbaert, Laura Cramer, Peter Jones and Mario Herrero (picture credit: CCAFS).
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