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Pour une reprise du tourisme, barometre du Kenya
Posté le 23.03.2008 par lailasamburu
Suite aux violences consécutives à l’élection présidentielle du 27 décembre qui ont fait plus de 1.500 morts et 300.000 déplacés, dans un pays longtemps considéré comme l’un des plus stables de l’Afrique de l’Est, le tourisme au Kenya a chuté. Effectivement le secteur du tourisme, qui était l’un des atouts majeurs de ce pays, a vu ses réservations baisser de 90 % par endroits en janvier et février.
Les experts estiment que la diminution des recettes liées au tourisme peut altérer gravement les projets de conservation des espèces, en particulier ceux des programmes de protection des rhinocéros noirs (victimes du braconnage, pour qui le nombre s’est réduit, il n’en reste que 540) ou ceux concernant la protection des éléphants. Achim Steiner, directeur général du Programme des Nations unies pour l’environnement, explique que la chute du nombre de visiteurs depuis le mois de décembre dernier a eu un impact désastreux sur les ressources financières du pays, mais aussi sur les initiatives de conservation faites par le Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), l’agence publique qui a annoncé, l’année dernière, des revenus performants allant jusqu’à 28 millions de dollars.
RELANCER L’ÉCONOMIE ET L’EMPLOI AU TRAVERS DU TOURISME
Les professionnels du tourisme se veulent rassurants, c’est l’impression qu’ils donnent au salon du tourisme de Berlin. Même si le malaise semble s’éterniser au pays, sur le stand du Kenya à l’ITB, l’optimisme reprend. Les organisateurs de safaris et les agents de voyage vantent les mérites de la riche faune du pays et de ses plages de sable fin et vont jusqu’à offrir des réductions de séjour attractives. Le pays veut revivre et rétablir sa situation économique, le retour au tourisme écologique s’impose. Selon un rapport établi par la Kenya Association of Manufacturers du 19 janvier qui expose les données de 600 entreprises membres, estime que l’avenir du pays pourrait aller en s’appauvrissant de plus de 3 milliards de dollars, et d’environ 400.000 emplois, au premier semestre de 2008 si le conflit perdure. C’est pourquoi selon Achim Steiner, directeur exécutif du PNUE: « Le tourisme, basé sur la faune et les paysage légendaires du Kenya, a toujours été un élément important pour l’économie et la création d’emplois. La génération des revenus est également vitale pour les efforts de conservation du pays et pour le maintien du réseau important des parcs nationaux et autres aires protégées au Kenya ». Aider à rétablir la paix dans ce pays c’est lutter pour les espèces à protéger: « Le fait que les populations des éléphants au Kenya ont récemment augmenté de quatre pour cent après des années de succès de lutte contre le braconnage et d’autres méthodes de gestion montre le succès de KWS », a affirmé Achim Steiner.
AUCUNE PERTURBATION POUR LES TOURS OPERATORS
Les tours opérators affirment que « l’essentiel de ces émeutes tragiques et incontrôlées se sont essentiellement déroulées dans l’ouest du Kenya, dans une région totalement en dehors des circuits touristiques et ne représentant aucun intérêt pour les safaris ». Ils ajoutent : « Nous n’avons toutefois pas la prétention d’être d’incontournables et d’infaillibles analystes en matière de géopolitique, mais, objectivement, nous pouvons témoigner que tous nos clients présents au Kenya durant ces deux dernières semaines n’ont subi aucune perturbation pendant leur séjour et qu’aucun safari n’a du changer son itinéraire. »
PHOTOS JOINTES : Animaux du Samburu District, en toute liberte et en dehors des parcs nationaux
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Nostalgie du passe, espoir de l'avenir...(POESIE)
Posté le 21.03.2008 par lailasamburu
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THE BEAUTY OF YOUR LOVE
Posté le 20.03.2008 par lailasamburu
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LE KENYA CHANTE...
Posté le 18.03.2008 par lailasamburu
Vivre, c'est survivre au Samburu District...
Posté le 18.03.2008 par lailasamburu
Aux dires de certains autres habitants du Kenya, "UN KENYA HORS DU KENYA"
Kenya: Samburu's Pastoralists Reel From Acute Water Shortages
Beatrice Leparkulei, 32, takes a rest next to her hut in the village of Ledero, after trekking for more than 10 kilometres from Maralal Town carrying a jerrican of water.
She stares at Napirai, one of her seven children. The little girl runs to hug her exhausted mother, shedding tears and clutching her swollen belly.
But once Beatrice gives her little daughter a cupful of water, Napirai stops crying and continues with her game of sticks. However, Beatrice does not like what she sees.
Ethnic conflict
The old man of the house, Mr Julius Leparkulei, lies under a tree to shelter himself from the hot sun. He is equally worn out after walking for three days from Lolkujuta, where his elder son had earlier taken the family's livestock in search of water and pasture.
Leparkulei tries to converse with me, but his voice betrays the fact that he is tired and hungry.
"Lolkujuta is quite a long distance from here. We have dug deep wells there to quench our thirst. I have just returned after walking for three days," he said, holding out his fingers to show three days.
Like hundreds of pastoralists in Samburu District, who face shortages of water and food due to a severe drought that has hit the area recently, Mzee Leparkulei plans to move with his family to Lolkujuta, where he can find water and pasture for his animals with ease.
The entire Samburu District is experiencing difficult times as many residents face acute food and water shortages.
Difficult times
This has been occasioned by failed rains and lack of pasture. There are also fears that the situation, which is the prime cause of the ongoing ethnic conflict between the Samburu and the Pokot communities in Poro, may get worse if help is not forthcoming soon.
For now, most residents, mainly in remote parts of the district, rely on relief food meant for primary school children.
The little rains that fell in early November last year, only softened the earth, with a little foliage sprouting for animals to graze on. But in the middle of the month, the rain clouds disappeared, leaving the sky clear.
Children, who are always the first casualties in such difficult times, now eat porridge without milk.
"Water is in short supply. Clean water is even more unlikely. Most families have to do with only a little of it, in this case, a 20-litre jerrican of water that has to last for three days or more," says James Lolochum, a public health officer based in Marti village.
The nearest water point is a borehole located in Kirisia Secondary School, near Maralal Town.
And the majority of the people, who live in villages far from the town, trek for tens of kilometres to fetch water from the school.
"Most of the time lessons are disrupted since the students find it difficult to draw water for their daily use because many villagers crowd the borehole to get water. And we can't send them away since they have nowhere else to get water," explains Simon Kahuthu, a teacher at Kirisia Secondary School.
Highly treasured
Much of Samburu District has not had any rain since the beginning of the year. Many families have responded to the calamity by moving to where they can get water and pasture for their treasured livestock.
The animals are seen by the pastoralists as a sign of wealth and health - providing them with meat and milk. The shifting from one area to another mostly affects the school-going children, who are forced to drop out of school to be with their families.
"Many parents in Samburu District depend on livestock for their daily upkeep and also to pay fees for their children. A good number of children are now out of school, taking care of the cows and goats. I think the Government should intervene to ensure that these children stay in school," says Sammy Loldos, a Loruko villager.
Aids sufferers are also hit hard by the drought. There is an acute shortage of anti-retrovirals (ARVs) and because the transport network is poor, it becomes difficult for members of the Samburu Aids Control Committee to visit victims.
Mr John Lesepe, the coordinator of the Committee says the prevalence of Aids in the district, which stands at 6.8 per cent, may shoot up if the Ministry of Health and other concerned organisations do not step up efforts to alleviate the situation.
A visit to most Samburu villages reveals that in almost every homestead, there is a child or an adult who is either too weak to walk or too hungry to talk.
Women and children sit next to their huts contemplating their plight, while the old men sit under the cactus trees, clutching their walking sticks and stroking their beards, wondering when the rains will come to save them and their animals from certain starvation.
LE DESSOUS DES CARTES...!!!???...
Posté le 17.03.2008 par lailasamburu
La violence postélectorale au Kénya a été orchestrée : c'est ce qu'affirme l'organisation de défense des droits de l'Homme, Human Rights Watch.
Elle publie aujourd'hui un rapport contenant 200 récits de témoins, mais aussi de personnes qui avouent avoir participé aux affrontements.
Pour Human Rights Watch, si les nouveaux dirigeants kényans veulent être crédibles, ils doivent obliger les responsables politiques, les anciens et les hommes d'affaires qui ont fomenté les troubles à s'expliquer.
Le rapport de Human Rights Watch contient des récits détaillés, tant de témoins que d'auteurs de violences.
Il en ressort que les partisans du président Kibaki et de l'opposition sont responsables de ces affrontements que Human Rights Watch qualifie de "soigneusement préparés".
Dans la vallée du Rift - au coeur des troubles - des anciens ont tenu des réunions pour décider qui il fallait attaquer et où.
Ils auraient même obligé des enfants à participer à ces attaques.
Concernant les représailles qui s'en sont suivies - représailles menées par les milices kikuyus soutenant le gouvernement, des témoins affirment que des listes de noms et d'adresses ont circulé - désignant les victimes de ces violences qui, selon Human Rights Watch, ont pris avec le temps un caractère ethnique de plus en plus marqué.
Le rapport de l'organisation ne donne pas les noms des coupables, mais affirme qu'ils sont bien connus dans leurs communautés et appartiennent aux milieux économique et politique.
Human Rights Watch espère qu'avec la création d'une commission Vérité et Réconciliation, les auteurs des troubles actuels, mais aussi dans un passé récent, seront poursuivis.
Le Kénya est sur le point de se doter d'un gouvernement de coalition, mais bien que le calme soit revenu, des milliers de personnes ayant fui les violences sont toujours sans abri.
The Samburu People
Posté le 15.03.2008 par lailasamburu
The Samburu: Struggling to Maintain Tradition
The Samburu live in northern Kenya in the rather barren landscape of the Rift Valley Province. Similar to the Maasai, the Samburu are traditionally nomadic pastoralists and move with their cattle, goats and camels from one grazing area to the next. The Samburu are obviously strikingly beautiful, their neighboring tribes named them "samburu" which means "butterfly". But underneath the beautiful exterior, the harsh reality is that this is a tribe struggling to maintain its traditions. Tourists can't get enough of the photo opportunities a visit brings, but a more valuable way to help this tribe would be to stay at a community owned lodge.
The Samburu have remained more isolated than their Maasai neighbors and are trying their hardest to hold on to their traditional lifestyle. This isn't easy when they're under pressure to settle down into permanent settlements and grow crops, something no self respecting Samburu warrior would consider doing voluntarily. Organizations are working towards a compromise whereby the Samburu get more access to clean water, education for their children, but remain independent as pastoralists on their own land. The modern world is a very tricky place for any African tribe trying to hold on to its traditions.
The Samburu of Kenya
The Samburu live just north of the equator in the Rift Valley province of Northern Kenya. The Samburu are closely related to the Maasai of East Africa. They speak a similar language, derived from Maa, which is called Samburu.
The Samburu are semi-nomadic pastoralists. Cattle, as well as sheep, goats and camels, are of utmost importance to the Samburu culture and way of life. The Samburu are extremely dependent on their animals for survival. Their diet consists mostly of milk and sometimes blood from their cows. The blood is collected by making a tiny nick in the jugular of the cow, and draining the blood into a cup. The wound is then quickly sealed with hot ash. Meat is only consumed on special occasions. The Samburu diet is also supplemented with roots, vegetables and tubers dug up and made into a soup.
Traditional Samburu Culture
The Rift Valley province in Kenya is a dry, somewhat barren land, and the Samburu have to relocate to ensure their cattle can feed. Every 5-6 weeks the group will move to find fresh grazing grounds. Their huts are built from mud, hide and grass mats strung over poles. A thorny fence is built around the huts for protection from wild animals. These settlements are called manyattas . The huts are constructed so they are easily dismantled and portable when the Samburu move to a new location.
The Samburu usually live in groups of five to ten families. Traditionally men look after the cattle and they are also responsible for the safety of the tribe. As warriors they defend the tribe from attack by both man and animals. They also go on raiding parties to try and take cattle from rival Samburu clans. Samburu boys learn to tend cattle from a young age and are also taught to hunt. An initiation ceremony to mark their entry into manhood is accompanied by circumcision.
Samburu women are in charge of gathering roots and vegetables, tending to children and collecting water. They are also in charge of maintaining their homes. Samburu girls generally help their mothers with their domestic chores. Entry into womanhood is also marked with a circumcision ceremony.
Samburu traditional dress is a striking red cloth wrapped around like a skirt (called Shukkas) and a white sash. This is enhanced with many colorful beaded necklaces, earrings and bracelets. Both men and women wear jewelry although only the women make it. The Samburu also paint their faces using striking patterns to accentuate their facial features. Neighboring tribes, admiring the beauty of the Samburu people, called them samburu which in fact means "butterfly". The Samburu referred to themselves as the Loikop.
Dancing is very important in the Samburu culture. Dances are similar to that of the Maasai with men dancing in a circle and jumping very high from a standing position. The Samburu have traditionally not used any instruments to accompany their singing and dancing. Men and women do not dance in the same circles, but they do coordinate their dances. Likewise for village meetings, men will sit in an inner circle to discuss matters and make decisions. Women sit around the outside and interject with their opinions.
The Samburu Today
As with many traditional tribes, the Samburu are under pressure from their government to settle into permanent villages. They have been extremely reluctant to do so since obviously permanent settlement would disrupt their entire way of life. The area they live in is very arid and it's difficult to grow crops to sustain a permanent site. This basically means the Samburu will become dependent on others for their survival. Since status and wealth in Samburu culture is synonymous with the amount of cattle one owns, a sedentary agricultural lifestyle is not in the least attractive. Samburu families who have been forced to settle will often send their adult men to the cities to work as guards. This is a form of employment that has evolved naturally because of their strong reputation as warriors.
Visiting the Samburu
The Samburu live in a very beautiful, sparsely populated part of Kenya with abundant wildlife. Much of the land is now protected and community development initiatives have extended to eco-friendly lodges jointly run by the Samburu. As a visitor, the best way to get to know the Samburu is to stay at a community run lodge, or enjoy a walking or camel safari with Samburu guides. While many safaris offer the option of visiting a Samburu village, the experience is often less than authentic. The links below attempt to give the visitor (and the Samburu) a more meaningful exchange.
MIMI NA WEWE - Musique en langue kiswahili
Posté le 14.03.2008 par lailasamburu
Espoir au feminin...?...
Posté le 13.03.2008 par lailasamburu
As the world marked the International Women’s Day last Saturday, there was little to celebrate for our country’s lot.
Most of the women are now barely trying to regain their shattered lives destroyed by the post-election violence. They and the children were the worst affected.
Despite still being in trauma, the recent power-sharing deal, brokered by former UN chief Kofi Annan, has brought hope back into their lives.
The most ideal gift that the grand coalition can give to women now is to raise their numbers in the Cabinet. Their number in Parliament has already risen to 21, the highest since independence, which is a positive step towards bringing gender balance in the House.
We have competent women MPs in the 10th Parliament, who are capable of running our ministries efficiently.
President Kibaki and Mr Raila Odinga should consider gender equity while constructing the new Cabinet.
The number of women Cabinet ministers, which currently stands at only two, should definitely increase.
Women should also be considered for more ambassadorial posts as well as senior posts in the civil service.
In your words...
Posté le 12.03.2008 par lailasamburu
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