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allAfrica.com: Ethiopie: Assez d'eau dans le Nil pour partager, mais pas assez pour gaspiller (Page 1 of 3)

Addis Abeba — Alors que le projet de construction d'un gigantesque barrage en Éthiopie continue de susciter des inquiétudes en Égypte, qui se situe en aval du bassin du Nil, une nouvelle étude suggère que le débit du Nil est suffisant pour alimenter les dix pays qu'il traverse et que la pauvreté pourrait nettement y reculer si les petits agriculteurs avaient un meilleur accès au fleuve.

« Nous dirions qu'il y a physiquement assez d'eau dans le Nil pour tous les pays riverains », a dit Simon Langan, directeur du Bureau Afrique de l'Est et Bassin du Nil de l'Institut international de gestion des ressources en eau (International Water Management Institute, IWMI), lors du lancement à Addis Abeba de The Nile River Basin : Water, Agriculture, Governance and Livelihoods (Bassin du Nil : eau, agriculture, gouvernance et moyens de subsistance), publié par le Programme sur les défis en matière d'eau et d'alimentation du Groupe consultatif pour la recherche agricole internationale (GCRAI).

« Ce que nous devons réellement faire, c'est nous assurer que cette eau est accessible [...] Le taux de pauvreté est d'environ 17 pour cent en Égypte, mais il atteint près de 50 pour cent dans cinq des pays riverains plus en amont. L'accès à l'eau est donc très important », a ajouté M. Langan.

Selon un avis aux médias informant de la sortie du livre, le Nil a un débit « suffisant pour alimenter les barrages et irriguer les terres agricoles arides des dix pays riverains, mais les décideurs risquent de déposséder les pauvres de leur accès à l'eau s'ils n'adoptent pas des mesures de gestion de l'eau qui ne laissent personne de côté. »

Selon Seleshi Bekele, coéditeur du livre et spécialiste des ressources en eau et du climat à la Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique, si de meilleurs semences et outils sont essentiels pour améliorer la productivité agricole, l'eau est encore plus importante.
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The Woman Who Would Be King

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Ancient civilization rarely suffered a woman to rule. Historians can find almost no evidence of successful, long-term female leadership from antiquity—not from the Mediterranean nor the Near East, not from Africa, Central Asia, East Asia, nor the New World. In the ancient world, a woman only came to power when crisis descended on her land—a civil war that set brother against husband against cousin, leaving a vacuum of power—or when a dynasty was at its end and all the men in a royal family were dead. Boudicca led her Britons against the aggressions of Rome around 60, but only after that relentless imperial force had all but swallowed up her fiercest kinsmen. A few decades later, Cleopatra used her great wealth and sexuality to tie herself to not one but two of Rome’s greatest generals, just as Egypt was on the brink of provincial servitude to the empire’s insatiable imperial machine. It wasn’t until the development of the modern nation-state that women took on long-lasting mantles of power. After the fall of Rome, the Continent was held in a balance by a delicate web of bloodlines. In an ethnically and linguistically divided Europe when no man could be found to continue a ruling house, finding a female family member was generally preferred to handing the kingdom over to a foreigner.

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In all antiquity, history records only one woman who successfully calculated a systematic rise to power during a time of peace: Hatshepsut, meaning “the Foremost of Noble Women,” an Egyptian king of the Eighteenth Dynasty who ruled during the fifteenth century BC and negotiated a path from the royal nursery to the very pinnacle of authority. It is not precise to call Hatshepsut a queen, despite the English understanding of the word; once she took the throne, Hatshepsut could only be called a king. In the ancient Egyptian language, the word queen only existed in relation to a man, as the “king’s woman.” Once crowned, Hatshepsut served no man; her husband had been dead some seven years by the time she ascended the throne. (...)

Perhaps the removal of her names and images from Egypt’s monuments some twenty years after her death is an indicator of her success as king, because even after death she could threaten her successors, but that is perhaps wishful thinking. The Egyptian system of political and religious power simply continued to work for the benefit of male dynasty. Hatshepsut’s kingship was a fantastic and unbelievable aberration. Ancient civilization didn’t suffer a woman to rule, no matter how much she conformed to religious and political systems; no matter how much she ascribed her rule to the will of the gods themselves; no matter how much she changed her womanly form into masculine ideals. Her rule was perceived as a complication by later rulers—praiseworthy yet blameworthy, conservatively pious and yet audaciously innovative—nuances that the two kings who ruled after her reconciled only through the destruction of her public monuments.


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