Infrastructures et réseaux hydrauliques : une nouvelle carte de l’Égypte

Un aride désert et une campagne magnifique entre deux remparts de montagnes, voilà l’Égypte.Amr Ibn al-À’as au Calife ’Umar L’espace hydropolitique constitué par le Nil est l’exemple type de l’espace « créateur créé ». Sans lui, l’Égypte ne serait probablement qu’un vaste désert avec quelques points de peuplement, les côtes n’étant pas beaucoup plus habitées. C’est sur un tel espace que se sont succédés civilisations et conquérants, c’est un tel espace qui a donné à l’Égypte son aspect géogra..

Les inondations de novembre 1994 en Égypte

Le 12 octobre 1994, il a plu à Assouan pendant plus de dix heures sans interruption. Le 2 novembre, en deux heures, le Caire a reçu 25 mm de pluie, dépassant de loin le dernier record (18 mm en 24 heures) enregistré le 29 novembre 1957. En septembre 1994, avant d'atteindre l'Égypte, les inondations ont dévasté le nord du Soudan, provoquant des dégâts considérables. Ces pluies ont largement dépassé, par leur intensité, celles de 1988 et celles de 1946. Les inondations de novembre ont marqué le..

Securing land and resource rights in Africa: Pan-African perspectives

Across the African continent the land and resource rights of the rural poor are threatened by inappropriate policies and institutions (including global treaties); unequal social, political and economic relations; the actions of powerful vested interests (wealthy national or local elites, international aid organisations, multinational corporations); and the weakness of grassroots organisations. It is against this background that the Pan-African Programme on Land and Resource Rights (PAPLRR) Network’s initiative to analyse, understand and engage with these issues was conceptualised by four African centres of excellence that subsequently developed the programme in 2001. The unique contributions Africa can make are seldom taken seriously in international natural resource policymaking debates. One reason could be that the African voice on land and resource rights is perhaps not as strong in international forums as it should be. By coming together in forums such as PAPLRR, Africans are able to share their concerns and develop capacity to articulate their opinions and influence outcomes in the international arena. Defining an agenda for advocacy and strategic engagement with governments, and building links across divides between scholars, practitioners and advocacy groups, is an emphasis of PAPLRR into the future. A key focus of the programme is the role of land and resource rights in the struggle against poverty, exploitation and oppression as well as their contribution in solving real world problems of African people, not as academic objects to be studied, but as key components of the struggle

ﺍﺑﻦ ﺍﻟﺼﺤﺮﺍﺀ ﻳﺘﺬﻛﺮ / A Desert Son Remembers

[بعد الإطاحة بالأنظمة الديكتاتورية في مصر وتونس، تعددت النقاشات حول الكثير من المسائل المجتمعية، ومنها الهوية والانتماء، وإن كانت هذه تهم أساساً نخبة أو شريحة اجتماعية بعينها وتحجب العديد من المسائل المحورية الأخرى مثل الحقوق الاجتماعية والاقتصادية والبيئية، ومسألة التنمية وأهدافها، والحق في الموارد والخدمات الاجتماعية، والسيادة الغذائية، والكرامة، وكلها من مطالب الثورات. أغلب هذه الإشكاليات قديمة ومعروفة، وكانت من بين أسباب الثورات العربية. مسائل جوهرية يستعرض بعضها كاتب المقالة من خلال سرده لمشواره الشخصي الذي يبدأ من قرية دِمَّرْ بالجنوب الشرقي التونسي . After the fall of dictatorships in Egypt and Tunisia, many societal debates arose around multiple crucial topics and issues, including identity and belonging which relate more particularly to specific classes and strata of society. However, these debates have overshadowed other key issues, including social, economic, and environmental rights. More precisely, they have obscured the question of models and goals of development; the right to resources and social services; food sovereignty; social justice; and dignity, which were the demands of the recent Arab revolutions. All are vital issues tackled by the author of the article through his own trajectory, which begins in the village of Demmer in southeast Tunisia.

Marginality and marginalization in Tunisia; Saida Manoubia in Tunis and Zrig in Gabes

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La nécessaire révolution hydraulique en Égypte

Ayeb Habib. La nécessaire révolution hydraulique en Égypte. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 31, n°121, 1990. Égypte : années 80. Éléments pour un bilan de l' « ouverture », sous la direction de Mahmoud Abdel-Fadil et Alain Roussillon. pp. 73-90