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Jiu-Jitsu – Open Africa : Madagascar brille avec vingt médailles d’or

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Les jiujitsukas malgaches ont brillé de mille feux sur le tatami du National Sports Complex à Côte d’Or, à l’île Maurice, ce week-end. Comme lors des deux dernières éditions, ils n’ont pas laissé échapper l’Open Africa, remportant cette fois-ci 20 médailles d’or, 6 d’argent et 2 de bronze. Aucun des 20 combattants n’est rentré les mains vides, chacun ayant décroché une médaille ou acquis une précieuse expérience. P

armi eux, quatre ont réalisé un doublé. Nofy Mica Churk Shun Rakotobe, multiple championne nationale, a confirmé son talent en remportant l’or dans deux catégories, chez les femmes adultes ceinture blanche et les filles juvéniles. Même exploit pour Hajasoa Marie Lauren Rajemisa, qui a décroché une deuxième médaille en Gi. Voady Tanteraka Ratsivahiny et Jean Michel Rakotozandriny se sont également imposés dans les catégories No-Gi et Gi. L’étoile montante Tia Majuel Rabarijaona s’est distinguée avec deux médailles d’or en catégorie garçons Kids, tandis que Djamil, Tafita Toavina et Aiky Rajaonson ont chacun décroché une médaille d’or et une d’argent. Nomasintsoatiana Raharijaona et Adriano Bernicot Ranaivomanana ont quant à eux remporté une médaille d’or et une de bronze.

Parmi les autres médaillés d’or figurent Enoka Aintsara, Aintsara Itiela, Mahasoa Ranarivelo et Christian Niriniaina, alors que Zo Aina et Lucie ont décroché l’argent. Le président de la Fédération malgache de jiu-jitsu, Johary Rakotozafy, a félicité la délégation malgache et salué leurs performances exceptionnelles. « Ces résultats sont la preuve du travail acharné de chaque combattant, ainsi que du soutien indéfectible de leurs entraîneurs et accompagnateurs. Ils ont porté haut les couleurs de Madagascar et montré que notre pays mérite sa place parmi les grandes nations sportives africaines », a-t-il déclaré.

(source: Manjato Razafy – Midi M/kara)

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Donald Trump signs off UK’s handover of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

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No 10 says deal to cede UK’s last African colony now being finalised after months of doubt

Donald Trump has signed off the UK’s handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, Downing Street has indicated, paving the way for the UK to cede sovereignty over its last African colony after a six-month standoff.

Under the terms of the deal, the UK will give up control of the Chagos archipelago while paying to maintain control of a joint US-UK military base on the largest island, Diego Garcia, under a 99-year lease.

The agreement came under fire from senior Republicans in the US last year, and more recently some inside the UK government who questioned why the UK was spending billions on it amid cost pressures.

The prime minister’s spokesperson said on Tuesday that the deal was being finalised after receiving the green light from Trump. “My understanding is it’s now between us and the Mauritian government to finalise the deal, following the discussions with the US,” he said.

Trump told Keir Starmer during his visit to the White House in February that he was “inclined to go with your country” over the Chagos deal and that he had “a feeling it’s going to work out very well”.

The plan to cede control over the islands was announced in October, before a change of administration in Mauritius and Trump’s return to the White House threw it in doubt.

Senior figures in Trump’s administration including Marco Rubio, his secretary of state, criticised the proposals, and Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, spent months openly lobbying the president and his advisers to reject the deal, creating embarrassment for the Labour government.

Critics have argued that the handover will compromise the security of the joint military base because of Mauritius’s relationship with China.

UK officials claim the links between Mauritius and China are overstated, however, and that India is the more influential regional power. Mauritius is one of the few countries in the region that has refused to take part in China’s belt and road initiative.

Ministers have also argued that the UK has to give up the territory due to international legal rulings in favour of Mauritius, and that legal uncertainty over the legitimacy of the military base could compromise its security.

The UK government revealed it would spare China from facing stronger rules as part of its register of foreign lobbyists coming into force on 1 July.

Russia and Iran would both be included in the enhanced tier of the foreign influence registration scheme once it was launched this summer, Dan Jarvis, the security minister, told the Commons.

The enhanced tier of the scheme is reserved for countries that pose a risk to UK national security. Anyone who is directed by Russia or Iran to carry out activities in the UK must declare it or face five years in prison.

(source: theguardian.com)

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Britain to return Chagos Islands to Mauritius ending years of dispute

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La Grande Bretagne restitue les îles Chagos à l’île Maurice, mettant fin à des années de dispute et une dizaine de rounds de négociations

Après plus d’un demi-siècle de litige, le Royaume-Uni dit reconnaître la souveraineté de Maurice sur l’archipel des Chagos, un accord qui permet tout de même à Londres de conserver sa base militaire commune avec les Etats-Unis sur l’île de Diego Garcia

.Agreement to hand back UK’s last African colony follows 13 rounds of negotiations and international pressure

Diego Garcia, one of the Chagos islands, has been a UK and US airbase since the 1960s and is thought to be excluded from the right to return. Photograph: Universal Images/Getty Images

The UK has agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, ending years of bitter dispute over Britain’s last African colony.

The agreement will allow a right of return for Chagossians, who the UK expelled from their homes in the 1960s and 1970s, in what has been described as a crime against humanity and one of the most shameful episodes of postwar colonialism.

However, there will be an exception for the key island of Diego Garcia, which is home to a joint UK-US military base, and which will remain under UK control. Plans for the base were the reason the UK severed the Chagos Islands from the rest of Mauritius when it granted the latter independence in 1968 and forcibly displaced up to 2,000 people.

There was a mixed reaction to the announcement from Chagossians, not all of whom are happy that sovereignty has been handed to Mauritius.

But Olivier Bancoult, chair of the Chagos Refugee Group, who was four years old when his family was deported to Mauritius, welcomed it, describing it as “a big day”.

“This has been a long struggle lasting more than 40 years and many of our people have passed away,” said Bancoult, who had mounted a series of legal challenges over the sovereignty of the islands in the UK courts since 2000. “But today is a sign of recognition of the injustice done against Chagossians who were forced to leave their homes.”

He said it was not yet clear how many Chagossians would like to return to the islands, many of which are uninhabitable. While acknowledging that those born on the largest island – Diego Garcia – would not be able to return, he expressed hope that Chagossians could be prioritised for jobs there.

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U.N. Asks International Court to Weigh In on Britain-Mauritius Dispute

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Ady tany Nosy Chagos (Diego Garcia): Manohana an’i Maorisy ny ONU manoloana an’i Britain.

Femme de superstar, l’avocate Amal Clooney défend l’Ile Maurice contre le Royaume Uni

Diego Garcia is the site of a British-American military base. It is one of the islands at the heart of a dispute between Britain and Mauritius, a former British colony that gained independence in 1968. Credit U.S. Navy

UNITED NATIONS — Britain suffered a diplomatic blow on Thursday as the United Nations General Assembly voted to refer London’s territorial claim to one of its last colonial outposts to an international tribunal for its opinion on the dispute.

Notably, in the wake of Britain’s decision to exit the European Union, many countries of the bloc did not side with Britain. The United States did.

At issue is whether Britain has a claim to a strategically important Indian Ocean archipelago, known as the Chagos Islands. One of the islands, Diego Garcia, is the site of a British-American military base.

Mauritius, a former British colony that gained independence in 1968, says the islands are part of its territory and wants the International Court of Justice to offer its opinion. It casts the British claim as part of an unfinished struggle to free Mauritius from colonial rule.

Britain says its claim to the Chagos Islands is enshrined in an agreement it made with Mauritians in 1965, and it contends that such a bilateral dispute has no business being adjudicated by the tribunal, which operates in The Hague.

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As for the military base, Mr. Jugnauth, currently the defense minister, took pains to say that Mauritius had no problem with it operating on Diego Garcia. “Mauritius is also very much concerned about security in the world and that is why we have repeatedly said that we do not have any problem with the military base, but that our decolonization process should be completed,” he said. “We want to assure the United Kingdom and the United States of America that the exercise of effective control by Mauritius over the Chagos Archipelago would not, in any way, pose any threat to the military base.

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