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Maxine Esteban chooses Ivory Coast

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Maxine Esteban will now represent the Ivory Coast in all international competitions we heard two weeks ago.

Reports from neighborhood news sources in the Philipines broke out on Thursday, June 1 that Maxine Esteban is taking her abilities to West Africa’s Ivory Coast as she proceeds with her quest for contending in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.

The Philippine Fencing Affiliation (PFA) is completely supporting her choice to change ethnicities and recorded a request to the Worldwide Fencing League (FIE) to promptly forgo the three-year residency rule.

PFA President Richard Gomez, who is a neighborhood entertainer turned-legislator that addressed the Philippines in the 1995 and 2005 versions of the Southeast Asian (Ocean) Games, had the accompanying to say regarding her turn.

“We support her difference in identity portrayal to Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) where she is likewise a naturalized resident,” Gomez was said to have written in a letter to FIE Chief Nathalie Rodriguez as handed off by CNN Philippines.

“As we have faith in and support the Olympic soul that sports know no ethnicities, we are glad for Maxine for her choice, and as such we are mentioning for the FIE to defer the three-year holding up time of her portrayal in Côte d’Ivoire so she can proceed, without interference, all preparation and cooperation in all FIE contests.”

The previous College Sports Relationship of the Philippines Season 81 The latest phenom with Ateneo de Manila College has had incredible worldwide accomplishments all through her young vocation and, surprisingly, guaranteed a bronze and silver decoration at the 2019 and 2022 Ocean Games

As per her Instagram post at that point, her energy had to a stop in the wake of supporting an upper leg tendon and PCL tear at the 2022 World Closing Title in Cairo, Egypt in July, delivering her unfit to contend.

 

Nicolas Pepe Not Wanted At Arsenal

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Mikel Arteta told Nicolas Pepe he is not part of his plans and therefore not wanted anymore in the Arsenal dressing room.

Pepe arrived in the Premier League to much fanfare in a deal that cost a whopping £72 million from Lille in 2019. The huge price tag was followed by big expectations, but obviously, the Ivorian Attacker did not meet them.

Pepe was then sent back to France on loan with Nice where he did not impress either. The only option left for the Ivorian is to find a new club.

As it stands now, rumors say Nicolas Pepe is close to Fenerbache, Turkey. We follow the situation…

Anomalies related to the civil registry system need to be addressed (PDCI-RDA)

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In the process of the electoral list dispute in the Ivory Coast, the PDCI-RDA, had a second working session with the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) on Thursday, June 15, 2023, at the headquarters of the institution in Abidjan II-Plateaux.

In their statement following the discussions, the head of the PDCI delegation, Prof. Niamkey Koffi, pointed out the problems associated with the “civil registry system” in Côte d’Ivoire.

“(…) There are anomalies related to our entire civil registry system that need to be reviewed, overhauled, and around which awareness should be raised,” acknowledged Professor Niamkey Koffi.

Therefore, he continued, the PDCI would like to “contribute to the search for solutions so that ultimately the electoral list is a clean, credible, and reliable list.”

“We came, we discussed, we dialogued, we explained ourselves. And we reached agreements on a number of points that will lead to the correction of certain correctable anomalies. There are anomalies that are material errors that will also be addressed,” he added.

The day before, the PDCI-RDA was preceded by a delegation from the PPA-CI, Laurent Gbagbo’s party, which demands his inclusion on the electoral list, who came to present to the Independent Electoral Commission the “disputed cases” identified.

 

Conviction of Laurent Gbagbo in the case of the looting of the BCEAO

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According to the Spokesperson of Ouattara’s government, the charges against Laurent Gbagbo in the case of the looting of the BCEAO were served to him through his lawyers.

“Contrary to what Mr. Laurent Gbagbo wants to make people believe, the charges brought against him in the case of the looting of the BCEAO were served to him through his lawyers,” stated Touré Mamadou, Minister of Youth Promotion, Professional Integration, and Civic Service, and Deputy Government Spokesperson of the Ivorian government. He made this statement following the council of ministers presided over by the Head of State, Alassane Ouattara, on Thursday, June 15, 2023, at the presidential palace in Abidjan-Plateau.

“According to the information I have, at various stages of the legal process, lawyers representing Laurent Gbagbo came to serve him with decisions and summonses, to which they responded. The problem this poses is how they were able to represent the former Head of State and respond to legal summons and hearings. Either his lawyers engaged in forgery, and in that case, Laurent Gbagbo has the right to seek justice to ascertain their intentions, or it’s a way to delay the process,” questioned Mr. Touré.

According to Touré Mamadou, “Decisions are rendered according to the principles that govern our judicial system. The second thing is that beyond the decision itself, unfortunately, we observe a selective interpretation of the 2005 law regarding the status of former presidents of the republic. If Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, from whom this law originates, had a complete understanding of the law, he would know that the same law states that offenses committed during electoral processes are not subject to the exceptional procedures for heads of state or former presidents of institutions.” According to the government spokesperson, “this means that all offenses committed during the post-electoral crisis are subject to a process without considering the status of the head of state,” and he added, “it would have been desirable for this aspect to be revealed to the public.”

The former Head of State, Laurent Gbagbo, President of the Ivorian Popular Front (PPI-CI) party, visited the annex offices of the Independent Electoral Commission in Cocody Angré 8th tranche on Thursday, June 8, 2023, to file a complaint regarding his removal from the voter list. After addressing the electoral authority to assert the existence of one of his rights, the former Head of State (2000-2010) stated that he did not recognize the allegations of the looting of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO). “After a trial that judged me for allegedly robbing the BCEAO, I vehemently refute such an accusation. Throughout my life, I have always worked to ensure that I have no shame in my criminal record.”

Laurent Gbagbo supported his argument by stating that he was the President of the Republic from 2000 to April 2011 and that the trial of a former head of state follows specific procedures. “I am Laurent Gbagbo, President of the Republic from October 2000 to April 2011. You don’t just judge a former president in any way and before any jurisdiction. There is a procedure for implicating and trying a former president of the Republic and former presidents of institutions. It’s a law from 2005.” And he concluded, “I don’t know why I was judged; no one summoned me because for there to be a trial, the accused is contacted and handed a summons.”

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Weather Conditions Compromise Ivory Coast Cocoa Mid-crop

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Weather Conditions, meaning heavy rain and floods compromise Ivory Coast cocoa mid-crop, Farmers say

Heavy rain in a large portion of Ivory Coast’s principal cocoa districts overflowed a few ranches in swamps last week, undermining the April-to-September mid-crop, Some farmers told Reuters on Monday

Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa maker, is in its blustery season which runs formally from April to mid-November.

In the southern and western locales, ranchers said two continuous long stretches of precipitation had harmed admittance to manors, making it challenging to get beans out of the shrubbery.

Farmers added they dreaded purchasers would decline to purchase beans before long as the weather conditions were consistently cloudy and it was hard to appropriately dry beans.

“The rains were extremely weighty. We presently need sufficient daylight on the grounds that the manors in the swamps have been overflowed,” said Want Mea, whose homesteads close to the western area of Soubre, where 177.3 millimeters (6.98 inches) fell last week, 120.3 mm (4.74 inches) over the five-year normal.

In the southern locale of Agboville, where 157.7 mm (6.21 inches) fell last week, 95.7 mm (3.77 inches) over the normal, and in the eastern district of Abengourou, which recorded 125.8 mm (4.95 inches) last week, 70.3 mm (2.77 inches) over the normal, ranchers said they expected that beans would decay in the bramble as drying conditions have not been great for a considerable length of time.

Comparative perspectives came from the southern district of Agboville, where precipitation was well over the normal last week.

In the middle western locale of Daloa and in the focal district of Yamoussoukro, where downpours were sub-optimal, and in the focal locale of Bongouanou, where downpours were better than expected, ranchers invited a drier spell, which would work on developing and drying conditions.

“The rains have eased back and we’ve had sufficient daylight. This will help the cocoa,” said Aman Koffi, who homesteads close to Daloa, where 26.8 mm (1.06 inches) fell last week, 3.6 mm (0.14 inch) beneath the normal.

Normal temperatures went from 25.4 to 29.2 degrees Celsius (77.7 to 84.6 F) in Ivory Coast the week before.

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Cocoa Prices Surge amid Ivory Coast Supply Concerns

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Cocoa costs encountered a further surge last week, because of developing worries about the expected effect of an El Nino climate occasion on worldwide cocoa creation.

Last Friday, cocoa costs arrived at their most significant level in a month for closest fates contracts, expanding on the additions seen on Thursday because of stresses over the El Nino climate occasion. It is quite important that cocoa costs took off to a 12-year high in 2016 when a past El Nino occasion caused a dry spell that seriously impacted worldwide cocoa creation.

This is especially critical as the Ivory Coast, the world’s driving cocoa maker, is as of now confronting a decrease in supply.

The U.S. Environment Forecast Center declared last Thursday that ocean surface temperatures in the central Pacific Sea were 0.5 degrees Celsius higher than expected, and wind designs demonstrated the presence of El Nino conditions. In the earlier month, the Environment Community raised the probability of an El Nino weather condition happening between August and October to 94 percent, up from 74% in April.

Discounted supply from the Ivory Coast is one more element supporting cocoa costs, as revealed by Barchart – a stage that screens the Cocoa Fates Market. In the initial fourteen days of May, the Ivory Coast government uncovered that ranchers had conveyed a sum of 2.09 million metric tons (MMT) of cocoa to the nation’s ports during the 2022/23 promoting year, addressing a 3.0 percent year-on-year decline.

As per an assertion from the Ivory Coast farming clergyman on Walk 31, the mid-crop – which is the more modest of the country’s two yearly gathers and started on April 1 – is supposed to diminish by 25% contrasted with the earlier year, arriving at 450,000 metric tons (MT).

Quality worries about the Ivory Coast mid-crop prompted a convention in cocoa costs last month, with costs arriving at their most elevated level in 6-3/4 years. Barchart remarked that ranchers had revealed unfortunate cocoa quality, with a typical bean count of 120 for every 100 grams. Exporters for the most part favor a count going from 80 to 100 for each 100 grams, with lower bean counts demonstrating better cocoa quality.

The reduction in cocoa supplies from Nigeria has additionally added to the cost climbs. The Cocoa Relationship of Nigeria wrote on May 24 that the country’s cocoa trades in April declined by 46% contrasted with the earlier month – and 20.6 percent contrasted with the earlier year, adding up to 9,924 metric tons (MT). Nigeria positions as the world’s fifth-biggest cocoa bean maker.

Cocoa costs have gotten extra help from projections made by the Global Cocoa Association (ICCO) last month. The ICCO anticipated that worldwide cocoa stores for the 2022/23 period would diminish by 3.5 percent year-on-year to 1.653 MMT. The association likewise featured the effect of climate varieties, especially in West Africa, which has intensified the assumption of a stock shortfall. Then again, the ICCO anticipated that worldwide cocoa creation for 2022/23 would increment by 4.1 percent year-on-year to 5.017 MMT, while worldwide cocoa grindings would decline by 0.6 percent year-on-year to 5.027 MMT.

The quarterly report delivered by the ICCO on December 1 gave a bullish viewpoint to cocoa costs. The report demonstrated that worldwide cocoa creation for the 2021/22 period had declined by 8.0 percent year-on-year to 4.823 MMT because of ominous weather patterns and illnesses influencing cocoa yields.

Moreover, the ICCO modified its past gauge for worldwide cocoa creation descending by 419,000mt since September. The association additionally raised the projected worldwide cocoa shortage for the 2021/22 period to 306,000mt, up from the September figure of 230,000mt. In the past season, worldwide cocoa creation arrived at a record high of 5.242 MMT, bringing about an overflow of 209,000mt in the worldwide cocoa market.

By the by, an expansion in cocoa inventories is adversely affecting costs. Observed cocoa inventories held in U.S. port distribution centers arrived at an 8-year-3/multi month high of 5,730,012 sacks on May 22. Additionally, cocoa inventories held in European port distribution centers arrived at an 8-3/multi month high of 147,440mt on May 15, as per ICE observing information.

More grounded worldwide cocoa interest

Developing worldwide cocoa requests is driving bullish cost patterns on the lookout. As per late reports, there are positive pointers supporting this vertical direction. The Public Confectioners Affiliation revealed on April 21 that cocoa grindings in North America during Q1 rose by 2.4 percent contrasted with the earlier month, despite the fact that there was a year-on-year decline of 4.4 percent totaling 109,666 metric tons (MT). Additionally, the Cocoa Relationship of Asia covered April 20 when Q1 cocoa grindings in Asia expanded by 4.09 percent year-on-year, coming to 222,028mt.

The European Cocoa Affiliation shared its discoveries on April 13, uncovering those cocoa grindings in Europe during Q1 encountered a 0.5 percent year-on-year development, adding up to 375,375mt. This figure addresses the most elevated Q1 grindings beginning around 1999. Furthermore, a cocoa exporter bunch, comprising six significant cocoa processors, provided details regarding April 19 that its Q1 cocoa handling flooded by 22% year-on-year, adding up to 189,405mt.

Weather pattern

The Pacific Sea typically encounters ordinary circumstances when exchange winds blow toward the west along the equator, conveying warm water from South America to Asia. Subsequently, chilly water ascends from the profundities through an interaction known as upwelling, renewing the water cycle. In any case, this regular example can be upset by two contradicting environment peculiarities called El Niño and La Niña, the whole known as the El Niño-Southern Wavering (ENSO) cycle.

These occasions have huge worldwide ramifications, influencing weather conditions, fierce blazes, biological systems, and economies. Normally, El Niño and La Niña episodes endure for around nine to a year; however, there are examples when they can continue for a long time. In spite of the fact that El Niño and La Niña occasions happen on normally each two to seven years, there is no set timetable for their recurrence. For the most part, El Niño occasions will generally happen more habitually than La Niña occasions.

Kangaroo care in the Ivory Coast

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Kangaroo care got ringing support in a review distributed in the British Medical Journal this week.

It’s the most recent certification of skin-to-healthy skin for little and preterm children to lessen the gamble of disease and mortality.

Surveying 31 preliminaries that elaborate north of 15,000 babies, the new review noticed a decrease in youth mortality by roughly a third among the people who experienced kangaroo care beginning in no less than 24 hours of birth.

The World Health Organization offered a comparable point of view last November, exhorting “prompt skin to healthy skin for the endurance of little and preterm children.”

At the end of the day: When a child is conceived rashly, an effective method for aiding the child to make due and flourish is just to hold it near a parent’s stripped chest.

The name evokes the way that kangaroo mothers hold their posterity in their pockets.

The method is particularly important in low-asset regions of the world that might be lacking in clinical innovation, including hatcheries. Kangaroo care, as a result, transforms guardians into pseudo-hatcheries. No innovation is required!

In 1978, doctor scientists Edgar Rey Sanabria and Héctor Martínez-Gómez presented the strategy at the maternity ward of the San Juan de Dios Clinic in Bogota, Colombia. They were wanting to figure out how to diminish the country’s high passing rate for untimely babies — roughly 70% at that point.

Previously, these untimely children were put in hatcheries — when they were free — to control the babies’ temperatures, give an ideal measure of oxygen and get them far from upsetting clearly commotion and splendid lights. Be that as it may, asset unfortunate nations do have not very many hatcheries, and children were kicking the bucket for the absence of innovation.

Colombian scientists found that parent-youngster cuddling had benefits like hatcheries.

Kangaroo care works, analysts accept, on the grounds that the babies get heartbeat and breathing rhythms from the guardians’ bodies, assisting with balancing out their own pulse and relaxing. The body warmth of a parent likewise helps control the child’s temperature.

The scientists distributed their outcomes in the 1983 Spanish language diary Curso de Medicina Fetal. They introduced their outcomes that year at a UNICEF gathering: The children in kangaroo care rest more, and cry less, than those in hatcheries.

UNICEF, perceiving the capability of kangaroo care, started appropriating data on the strategy around the world.

As per a concentrate by the World Wellbeing Association, beginning kangaroo parental consideration following the birth can possibly set aside to 150,000 newborn child experiences every year.

Starting around 1983, the training has gradually spread all over the planet – for low-weight full-term children as well as preemies and in affluent countries as well as asset unfortunate nations. Fathers are being selected also – infants don’t have the slightest care about which parent is the kangaroo.

One of the nations that has begun to support this training is Ivory Coast, where in 2019 the baby death rate for kids under a year was 59 passings for each 1,000 births. By examination, the typical newborn child death rate in industrialized nations was 4 passings for every 1,000 births; the U.S. rate was 6 passings for every 1,000 births.

In 2019 with the assistance of UNICEF, the College Emergency Clinic Clinical Center at Treichville in Abidjan, the biggest city in the nation, opened its most memorable kangaroo care ward. In the ward, alluded to by the World Wellbeing Association as a mother-newborn child ICU, the mother is accessible to the child nonstop. This emergency unit is under the direction of pediatrician Dr. Some Chantière. It’s an experimental run program to teach moms and fathers a procedure not well known in the country.

“There was a ton of death and absence of information on the most proficient method to deal with untimely children among the guardians we were releasing, so we needed to begin this,” says Chantière. “We had some awareness of the program from its foundations in Colombia. Before the program, 60 to 70% of the relative multitude of untimely youngsters that would emerge from the NICU boxes [or incubators] would pass on. Presently we are saving more than 90%.”

The new program is “of basic significance in decreasing the mortality of untimely children and can impact medical clinics from people in general to private areas in Cote d’Ivoire,” says Dr. Berthe Evelyne Lasme-Guillao, a partner teacher of pediatrics at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny and top of the neonatology division at the CHU medical clinic in Yopougon.

She accepts kangaroo care is an ideal fit for Cote d’Ivoire in view of the great baby demise rate and the shortage of clinical innovation, including hatcheries. “Programs like this can be adjusted anyplace with committed and prepared individuals,” says Lasme-Guillao.

Fathers are being prepared in the method, as well, as per Imprint Vincent, UNICEF agent in Cote d’Ivoire. “The dads see the significance of the nearness of the children to the mother’s body,” he says. “They understand they can do it also.”

In April 2022, I had the option to meet with and photograph various couples who have partaken in the Ivory Coast’s experimental run program of kangaroo care at the Treichville medical clinic. These are the narratives of the mothers and fathers – and children – I met.

Pastor Kubyes Abuwaka who lives in Yopougon said: “I saw the benefit, and I have been doing kangaroo care with my wife for a month and a half,” says Abuwaka. “We both do it. It creates a link to my child and brings me closer to my wife. I want other fathers to take part in this. I know fathers have time issues with work, but it is important to get more involved in helping mothers.”

“My wife has been doing it for three weeks, and now my son is healthy, and gaining weight. My daughter gained all her lost weight back, and more,” says Pako. “I started taking part myself to give the love of a father to my children.”

For Day Adeline, 40, “The kangaroo experience has been good. I love it because I can walk with them and have them with me, and it encourages growth.”

Aluneumua Kalmel, 40, says “When one person wakes up, we all wake up to help each other. We eat together, and we make sure we are all looking out for each other. We have formed a village. We like it so much, even if we didn’t need to be here, we would want to stay. It’s safer and healthier for the child. If we were home alone, we would not have this knowledge. When I am out of here, I want to be an advocate for the program in my community. I have seen how it has saved children.”

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Les communes d’abidjan

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Propos sur les 10 communes d’abidjan/ Abidjan est la plus grande ville de Côte d’Ivoire et le centre économique du pays. Elle est divisée en 10 communes qui ont chacune leur propre personnalité et leur propre dynamique. Dans cet article, nous allons explorer quelques-unes des communes d’Abidjan et découvrir ce qui les rend uniques.

La commune de Cocody est l’une des plus riches et des plus exclusives d’Abidjan. Elle abrite de nombreuses ambassades, des boutiques haut de gamme et des restaurants raffinés. Cocody est également connue pour son université, l’Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, qui est l’une des plus prestigieuses de la région. Malgré son statut de quartier chic, Cocody abrite également des quartiers populaires où vivent les classes moyennes et inférieures.

La commune de Yopougon est l’une des plus grandes et des plus peuplées d’Abidjan. Elle est également connue sous le nom de “Yop City” et est célèbre pour ses marchés animés et ses bars en plein air. Yopougon est souvent considérée comme l’un des quartiers les plus dynamiques et les plus vivants d’Abidjan, avec une scène musicale et culturelle animée. Cependant, la commune est également connue pour son taux de criminalité élevé et sa pauvreté.

La commune d’Abobo est l’une des plus grandes et des plus densément peuplées d’Abidjan. Elle est considérée comme l’un des quartiers les plus pauvres et les plus défavorisés de la ville. Abobo est également connue pour être un bastion politique du parti au pouvoir, le Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la Démocratie et la Paix (RHDP).

La commune d’Adjamé est considérée comme le centre commercial d’Abidjan. Elle abrite de nombreux marchés, centres commerciaux et boutiques, ainsi que des hôtels et des restaurants. Adjamé est également célèbre pour son architecture coloniale et ses nombreux bâtiments historiques.

La commune du Plateau est le cœur administratif et financier d’Abidjan. Elle abrite de nombreux bâtiments gouvernementaux, des banques et des sièges sociaux d’entreprises. Le Plateau est également célèbre pour son architecture moderne, notamment la Tour de la Bourse, qui est l’un des bâtiments les plus emblématiques de la ville.

La commune de Treichville est souvent considérée comme le berceau de la culture ivoirienne. Elle abrite de nombreux centres culturels et artistiques, ainsi que des clubs de football populaires. Treichville est également connue pour son architecture coloniale et ses nombreux bâtiments historiques.

En conclusion, chaque commune d’Abidjan a sa propre personnalité et sa propre histoire. Certaines sont riches et exclusives, tandis que d’autres sont pauvres et défavorisées. Cependant, toutes ces communes ont une chose en commun : elles contribuent toutes à la richesse culturelle et économique d’Abidjan.

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