The Shomron Regional Council (Hebrew:מועצה אזורית שומרון, Mo'atza Azorit Shomron, English Samaria Regional Council) is an Israeliregional council in the northern West Bank. It provides municipal services for the 35 Jewish towns or Israeli settlements in the Samarian hills within its jurisdiction with a total population of about 23,600 people. The main offices are located in the Barkan Industrial Park.
The municipal area of the Council spreads across 2,800 square kilometers. Until the fall of 2005 when some of its municipal land was abandoned as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, the Shomron Regional Council had been the largest Israeli regional council in municipal area.
In August 2015 Yossi Dagan was elected to position of Chairman of Shomron Regional Council, with 62% of the vote.
Geography
The municipal area of the Council spreads across 2,800 square kilometers, which corresponds to about 10 percent of the area of the State of Israel within the Green Line. In municipal area, Shomron Regional Council is among the largest Israeli authorities.
Regional councils are, nominally, the governing bodies of the regions of Cameroon. As defined by the Constitution of Cameroon, the councils have control of cultural, economic, educational, health-related, social, and sport-related issues in the regions. The members of each council are delegates indirectly elected by the populace and traditional rulers selected by their peers. Each council is headed by a president, who is elected by the members from among their own ranks. Members serve five-year terms.
Each council is advised by members of parliament from the area and by an administrator appointed by the president of Cameroon. This individual acts at the president's personal representative and wields considerable power. The president of Cameroon reserves the right to disband any regional council he so chooses.
The regional councils were created by Cameroon's constitution of 1996 in response to agitation for a return to a federal system of government or increased decentralisation. However, the councils have yet to be established in reality, and the regions established by the constitution are still known as provinces and are headed by presidentially appointed governors.
A regional council (French:conseil régional) is the elected assembly of a region of France.
History
Regional councils were created by law on 5 July 1972. Originally they were simply consultative bodies consisting of the region's parliamentary representatives plus an equal number of members nominated by the departments and municipalities.
The decentralisation programme of 1982-1983 provided for direct election which began in 1986 and increased the powers of the councils.
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The Assemblies elect their own Presidents who preside over the meetings and head the Regional Executive.
Electoral system
Before 2004
Between 1986 and 2004, regional councils were elected by closed listproportional representation. The Front National was frequently left with the balance of power as a result and this led to a change in the electoral law.
Since 2004
Since 2004 three quarters of the seats continue to be elected by proportional representation with each list having an equal number of male and female candidates. The other quarter are given to the list that received the most votes. In order to gain these top up seats, a list must have gained an absolute majority of the votes in the first round. If this has not been achieved a second round is held with each party that gained at least ten percent of the votes competing. The party that wins a plurality in this round gains the bonus seats. It is common in this round for lower ranking parties to withdraw in favour of parties they have entered into an alliance with.
Jordan ceded its claim to the area to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in November 1988. In 1994, control of Areas 'A' (full civil and security control by the Palestinian Authority) and 'B' (Palestinian civil control and joint Israeli-Palestinian security control) were transferred by Israel to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority did not recognize the term "Samaria" within its domain.
Samaria (Hebrew:שומרוןShomron; Ancient Greek: Σαμάρεια; Arabic:السامرةas-Samira) was an ancient city in the Land of Israel. It was the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th and 8th centuries BC. The ruins of the city are located in the Samaria mountains of the West Bank and are under the jurisdiction of the Israel National Parks Authority; it is currently closed to visitors due to the security situation.
History
Israelite Shomron (lit. "watch-tower"; also written "Shomeron") was located in the heart of the mountains of Samaria, a few miles northwest of Shechem. The ruins of the Israelite town, as well the ruins of towns built at this same location later in history, are all adjacent or within the modern Palestinian village of Sebastia.
The "hill of Shomron" is an oblong hill, with steep but not inaccessible sides, and a long flat top. According to biblical tradition, Omri, the king of the northern kingdom of Israel (reigned c. 870s BC), purchased this hill from Shemer its owner for two talents of silver, and built on its broad summit the city to which he gave the name of "Shomron", i.e., Samaria, as the new capital of his kingdom instead of Tirzah (1Kings 16:24). As such it possessed many advantages. Omri resided here during the last six years of his reign.
Head of Shomron Regional Council supports Donald Trump
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published: 25 Oct 2020
A New Gem for the Shomron
The Shomron Regional Council has opened a new tourist site in the region at a nature preserve established by the British decades ago. As seen on Arutz Sheva.
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published: 23 Mar 2009
Israelkanalen #281 Shomron Regional Council
I dette programmet besøker vi Shomron Regional Council i Barkan i Samaria og hilser på regionrådets avdelingsdirektør for internasjonale relasjoner, Chen Ben Lulu og får høre hvordan livet arter seg i Samaria. Den politiske inndelingen i Israel består av lokale samfunn, byer og regionale råd. Samarias regionale råd er det største i Israel og består av 12% av Israels areal. Programmet er fra 2018 og er tekstet til norsk.
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published: 01 Feb 2021
Head of Shomron Regional Council at 50 Years of a United Jerusalem event
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published: 23 May 2017
David Ha'ivri Spokesman for Shomron Regional Council of Israel on CJHSLA Episode 13
www.CJHSLA.org Episode 13 Features David Ha'ivri Spokesman for the Shomron Regional Council of the Northern Samarian Hills in Israel www.yeshuv.org
published: 20 Jul 2009
Gershon Mesikha-Mayor of Shomron Regional Council / Israel
המחבלים עוצרים ליד הרכב של מאיר תמרי ויורה: תיעוד הפיגוע הקשה | קרדיט: גף בטחון מועצה אזורית שומרון
published: 30 May 2023
No to building freeze - Shomron Council head Gershon Mesika
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JERUSALEM — Israels defense minister Ehud Barak, instructed his staff on Sunday to recruit dozens of new building inspectors to supervise the governments temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements, while some settler leaders vowed to defy the building ban.
Mr. Baraks hurried efforts and the settler threats illustrated both the governments seriousness and the difficulty it could face in carrying out its decision to halt new housing starts in the West Bank settlements over the next 10 months.
The government announced the construction halt on Wednesday, under pressure from the Obama administration to take steps to help revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But Palestinian leaders said the temporary moratorium di...
published: 30 Nov 2009
Shomron regional council Yom Atzmmaut event at Nachal Kana
The Shomron Regional Council has opened a new tourist site in the region at a nature preserve established by the British decades ago. As seen on Arutz Sheva.
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The Shomron Regional Council has opened a new tourist site in the region at a nature preserve established by the British decades ago. As seen on Arutz Sheva.
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The Shomron Regional Council has opened a new tourist site in the region at a nature preserve established by the British decades ago. As seen on Arutz Sheva.
IsraelNationalNews.com
I dette programmet besøker vi Shomron Regional Council i Barkan i Samaria og hilser på regionrådets avdelingsdirektør for internasjonale relasjoner, Chen Ben Lu...
I dette programmet besøker vi Shomron Regional Council i Barkan i Samaria og hilser på regionrådets avdelingsdirektør for internasjonale relasjoner, Chen Ben Lulu og får høre hvordan livet arter seg i Samaria. Den politiske inndelingen i Israel består av lokale samfunn, byer og regionale råd. Samarias regionale råd er det største i Israel og består av 12% av Israels areal. Programmet er fra 2018 og er tekstet til norsk.
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I dette programmet besøker vi Shomron Regional Council i Barkan i Samaria og hilser på regionrådets avdelingsdirektør for internasjonale relasjoner, Chen Ben Lulu og får høre hvordan livet arter seg i Samaria. Den politiske inndelingen i Israel består av lokale samfunn, byer og regionale råd. Samarias regionale råd er det største i Israel og består av 12% av Israels areal. Programmet er fra 2018 og er tekstet til norsk.
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JERUSALEM — Israels defense minister Ehud Barak, instructed his staff on Sunday to recruit doz...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html
JERUSALEM — Israels defense minister Ehud Barak, instructed his staff on Sunday to recruit dozens of new building inspectors to supervise the governments temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements, while some settler leaders vowed to defy the building ban.
Mr. Baraks hurried efforts and the settler threats illustrated both the governments seriousness and the difficulty it could face in carrying out its decision to halt new housing starts in the West Bank settlements over the next 10 months.
The government announced the construction halt on Wednesday, under pressure from the Obama administration to take steps to help revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But Palestinian leaders said the temporary moratorium did not go far enough because it does not include East Jerusalem and allows for the completion of up to 3,000 housing units that are already being constructed.
The government decision also allows for limited public buildings, and Mr. Barak has given approval for 28 new educational and other public institutions to be built during the moratorium.
In order to enforce the construction freeze, Mr. Barak called for the recruitment and training of 40 new inspectors within two weeks, with dozens more to be recruited later. There are currently only 14 building inspectors working in the West Bank, where some 300,000 Israelis live in about 120 official settlements and scores of unauthorized outposts among a population of some 2.5 million Palestinians.
According to Mr. Baraks office, enforcement of the construction freeze will be carried out jointly by the police, border police and the militarys Civil Administration in the West Bank.
But when a Civil Administration representative went Sunday to present the freeze order to Gershon Mesika, the leader of the Shomron Regional Council for settlements in the northern West Bank, Mr. Mesika symbolically tore up the papers he received, according to David Haivri, a spokesman for the Shomron Council. Moshe Rosenbaum, the leader of another regional council, the Beit El Council, tore up the orders he received on Friday, according to Israeli Radio.
Mr. Mesika called the orders racist, because they apply only to Jewish building in the area, and declared that he does not intend to respect them, Mr. Haivri said.
It was not clear whether defiant settler leaders will turn to illegal building or try to find some other way around the ban.
But despite the settlers outrage at the building freeze, there has already been a positive aspect, according to Mr. Haivri.
The government has stated that buildings already approved and whose foundations have been laid may be completed. The settlers, who have been wary of a possible building freeze for months, have been laying as many foundations as they could, both Mr. Haivri and critics who monitor settlement construction have said.
The Shomron Council is said to have signed many more permits so far this year than it did in 2008. Mr. Haivri said the threat of a freeze had motivated many people here to take advantage of those permits and to start building homes before it is too late.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html
JERUSALEM — Israels defense minister Ehud Barak, instructed his staff on Sunday to recruit dozens of new building inspectors to supervise the governments temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements, while some settler leaders vowed to defy the building ban.
Mr. Baraks hurried efforts and the settler threats illustrated both the governments seriousness and the difficulty it could face in carrying out its decision to halt new housing starts in the West Bank settlements over the next 10 months.
The government announced the construction halt on Wednesday, under pressure from the Obama administration to take steps to help revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But Palestinian leaders said the temporary moratorium did not go far enough because it does not include East Jerusalem and allows for the completion of up to 3,000 housing units that are already being constructed.
The government decision also allows for limited public buildings, and Mr. Barak has given approval for 28 new educational and other public institutions to be built during the moratorium.
In order to enforce the construction freeze, Mr. Barak called for the recruitment and training of 40 new inspectors within two weeks, with dozens more to be recruited later. There are currently only 14 building inspectors working in the West Bank, where some 300,000 Israelis live in about 120 official settlements and scores of unauthorized outposts among a population of some 2.5 million Palestinians.
According to Mr. Baraks office, enforcement of the construction freeze will be carried out jointly by the police, border police and the militarys Civil Administration in the West Bank.
But when a Civil Administration representative went Sunday to present the freeze order to Gershon Mesika, the leader of the Shomron Regional Council for settlements in the northern West Bank, Mr. Mesika symbolically tore up the papers he received, according to David Haivri, a spokesman for the Shomron Council. Moshe Rosenbaum, the leader of another regional council, the Beit El Council, tore up the orders he received on Friday, according to Israeli Radio.
Mr. Mesika called the orders racist, because they apply only to Jewish building in the area, and declared that he does not intend to respect them, Mr. Haivri said.
It was not clear whether defiant settler leaders will turn to illegal building or try to find some other way around the ban.
But despite the settlers outrage at the building freeze, there has already been a positive aspect, according to Mr. Haivri.
The government has stated that buildings already approved and whose foundations have been laid may be completed. The settlers, who have been wary of a possible building freeze for months, have been laying as many foundations as they could, both Mr. Haivri and critics who monitor settlement construction have said.
The Shomron Council is said to have signed many more permits so far this year than it did in 2008. Mr. Haivri said the threat of a freeze had motivated many people here to take advantage of those permits and to start building homes before it is too late.
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Ordinary Council Meeting 27 November 2024
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Celebrating 30 Years of Hawke's Bay Regional Council
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2024-11-28 - LIVESTREAM: Waikato Regional Council Meeting - 28 November 2024
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Greater Wellington Regional Council looks to take back control of city’s troubled bus network
Councillor Daran Porter is lobbying to have more sway over its services, wanting a rev up of current rules.
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Armidale Regional Council meetings are scheduled to start at 4pm (NSW Time) and are held in the Armidale Regional Council Chambers. The Public are welcome to at...
Armidale Regional Council meetings are scheduled to start at 4pm (NSW Time) and are held in the Armidale Regional Council Chambers. The Public are welcome to attend in person or watch the live stream on YouTube.
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Tamworth Regional Council's Water and Waste directorate employs more than 100 people.
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Tamworth Regional Council's Water and Waste directorate employs more than 100 people.
Our work ethic is strong – the services we deliver are essential for our community.
Our staff work 365 days a year to bring our community of over 65,000 people high quality services – Under our management we operate 6 water supplies, 4 wastewater systems and 9 waste management facilities.
Tamworth Regional Council's Water and Waste directorate employs more than 100 people.
Our work ethic is strong – the services we deliver are essential for our community.
Our staff work 365 days a year to bring our community of over 65,000 people high quality services – Under our management we operate 6 water supplies, 4 wastewater systems and 9 waste management facilities.
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Cameroon holds first regional election amid opposition boycott
Cameroon is holding its first-ever regional election, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but the opposition boycotts as a sham.
In Sunday’s indirect polls, a 24,000-strong electoral college made up of regional delegates and traditional chiefs will vote to fill the posts of 900 regional councillors – 90 for each of the country’s 10 regions – putting into action a 1996 law that promised a decentralised government but was never enacted.
The municipal councils will have a say over development, including infrastructure such as roads, but they will not be able to alter laws enacted by the national assembly and the senate in the country’s capital, Yaounde.
President Paul Biya’s government sees the polls as a step towards greater regional autonomy, hoping they will appe...
published: 06 Dec 2020
First ever regional election holds in Cameroon
Regional elections hold in Cameroon with residents voting for the first time for members of the country’s upper House of legislature.
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What difference have regional council and assemblies made since creation in Cameroon?
What difference have regional council and assemblies made since creation in Cameroon?
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Cameroon Political Crisis: A critical look at the NW Regional Council.
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What difference have regional council and assemblies made since creation in Cameroon?
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Cameroon is holding its first-ever regional election, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but the opposition boycotts as a sham.
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Cameroon is holding its first-ever regional election, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but the opposition boycotts as a sham.
In Sunday’s indirect polls, a 24,000-strong electoral college made up of regional delegates and traditional chiefs will vote to fill the posts of 900 regional councillors – 90 for each of the country’s 10 regions – putting into action a 1996 law that promised a decentralised government but was never enacted.
The municipal councils will have a say over development, including infrastructure such as roads, but they will not be able to alter laws enacted by the national assembly and the senate in the country’s capital, Yaounde.
President Paul Biya’s government sees the polls as a step towards greater regional autonomy, hoping they will appease critics who say he has long neglected the country’s regions and help end a four-year separatist conflict in the English-speaking western region.
Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports.
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Cameroon is holding its first-ever regional election, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but the opposition boycotts as a sham.
In Sunday’s indirect polls, a 24,000-strong electoral college made up of regional delegates and traditional chiefs will vote to fill the posts of 900 regional councillors – 90 for each of the country’s 10 regions – putting into action a 1996 law that promised a decentralised government but was never enacted.
The municipal councils will have a say over development, including infrastructure such as roads, but they will not be able to alter laws enacted by the national assembly and the senate in the country’s capital, Yaounde.
President Paul Biya’s government sees the polls as a step towards greater regional autonomy, hoping they will appease critics who say he has long neglected the country’s regions and help end a four-year separatist conflict in the English-speaking western region.
Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports.
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Regional elections hold in Cameroon with residents voting for the first time for members of the country’s upper House of legislature.
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Regional elections hold in Cameroon with residents voting for the first time for members of the country’s upper House of legislature.
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Prime Hour: Monday 3rd July 2023. Live on My Media Prime TV.
Topic: What difference have regional council and assemblies made since creation in Cameroon?
Pr...
Prime Hour: Monday 3rd July 2023. Live on My Media Prime TV.
Topic: What difference have regional council and assemblies made since creation in Cameroon?
Presenter: Kum Leanard
Panelist:
Producer: Eli Nolinga Ewane
Broadcast technician: Awudu Brandon
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Prime Hour: Monday 3rd July 2023. Live on My Media Prime TV.
Topic: What difference have regional council and assemblies made since creation in Cameroon?
Presenter: Kum Leanard
Panelist:
Producer: Eli Nolinga Ewane
Broadcast technician: Awudu Brandon
#OnlyOnTheAfricanEye
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Chief Executives Board
- Cameroon
- Ocha
- Syria
- West Bank D...
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Chief Executives Board
- Cameroon
- Ocha
- Syria
- West Bank Demolitions
- Security Council
- COVID-19/U.N. Sustainable Development Group
- COVID-19/Africa
- Food Coalition
- Global Food Prices
- World Tsunami Awareness Day
- Noon Briefing Guests Tomorrow
CHIEF EXECUTIVES BOARD
Tomorrow, the Secretary-General will bring together the heads of the UN system organizations in a virtual meeting of the Chief Executives Board. They will reflect on the main characteristics of a post-pandemic world and brainstorm on possible key elements of a Common Agenda report the Secretary-General has been asked to submit to the General Assembly. This follows the adoption of the 21st September 2020 Declaration on the Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the United Nations.
The Chief Executives Board members will discuss common approaches to an inclusive, networked multilateralism. They will also deliberate on salient emerging trends, opportunities and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the risks for human rights, global economic prospects, deepening inequalities and climate action.
CAMEROON
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by reports of violence against schools, students and teachers in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon. This took place earlier this week on the 3rd and 4th of November. These reported attacks deprive children of their right to an education. These reports come on the heels of the horrific attack on a school in Kumba, in the South-West Region on October 24th, in which many children were killed and several others wounded.
The Secretary-General stresses the need for accountability of all these acts of violence against children and education facilities and reiterates his call on all armed actors to refrain from attacks against schools and to respect international humanitarian and international human rights law. He further urges the Cameroonian authorities to swiftly investigate all attacks on schools and bring the perpetrators to justice. Attacks on education facilities are a grave violation of children’s rights.
He strongly urges the parties to answer his call for a global ceasefire and reiterates the availability of the UN to support an inclusive dialogue process leading to a resolution of the crisis in the North-West and South West areas of Cameroon.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Cameroon, Matthias Naab, also issued a statement condemning the attacks.
He said these incidents are part of a pattern of violence against education facilities and personnel, as well as kidnapping for ransom of children and teachers in the North-West and South-West.
OCHA
The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, says this week we have lost six humanitarian workers in targeted violent attacks in Somalia, in two separate incidents in South Sudan, and in Northwest Syria.
This cannot be tolerated, he said in the statement. Attacks directed against humanitarians are a violation of international humanitarian law and an obscene act against people working hard, often in extraordinarily difficult circumstances, to help vulnerable people.
Mr. Lowcock said that those who commit these atrocities must be held to account. Governments must investigate these killings and prosecute the suspects where appropriate. International humanitarian law must be upheld.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=05%20November%202020
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Chief Executives Board
- Cameroon
- Ocha
- Syria
- West Bank Demolitions
- Security Council
- COVID-19/U.N. Sustainable Development Group
- COVID-19/Africa
- Food Coalition
- Global Food Prices
- World Tsunami Awareness Day
- Noon Briefing Guests Tomorrow
CHIEF EXECUTIVES BOARD
Tomorrow, the Secretary-General will bring together the heads of the UN system organizations in a virtual meeting of the Chief Executives Board. They will reflect on the main characteristics of a post-pandemic world and brainstorm on possible key elements of a Common Agenda report the Secretary-General has been asked to submit to the General Assembly. This follows the adoption of the 21st September 2020 Declaration on the Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the United Nations.
The Chief Executives Board members will discuss common approaches to an inclusive, networked multilateralism. They will also deliberate on salient emerging trends, opportunities and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the risks for human rights, global economic prospects, deepening inequalities and climate action.
CAMEROON
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by reports of violence against schools, students and teachers in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon. This took place earlier this week on the 3rd and 4th of November. These reported attacks deprive children of their right to an education. These reports come on the heels of the horrific attack on a school in Kumba, in the South-West Region on October 24th, in which many children were killed and several others wounded.
The Secretary-General stresses the need for accountability of all these acts of violence against children and education facilities and reiterates his call on all armed actors to refrain from attacks against schools and to respect international humanitarian and international human rights law. He further urges the Cameroonian authorities to swiftly investigate all attacks on schools and bring the perpetrators to justice. Attacks on education facilities are a grave violation of children’s rights.
He strongly urges the parties to answer his call for a global ceasefire and reiterates the availability of the UN to support an inclusive dialogue process leading to a resolution of the crisis in the North-West and South West areas of Cameroon.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Cameroon, Matthias Naab, also issued a statement condemning the attacks.
He said these incidents are part of a pattern of violence against education facilities and personnel, as well as kidnapping for ransom of children and teachers in the North-West and South-West.
OCHA
The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, says this week we have lost six humanitarian workers in targeted violent attacks in Somalia, in two separate incidents in South Sudan, and in Northwest Syria.
This cannot be tolerated, he said in the statement. Attacks directed against humanitarians are a violation of international humanitarian law and an obscene act against people working hard, often in extraordinarily difficult circumstances, to help vulnerable people.
Mr. Lowcock said that those who commit these atrocities must be held to account. Governments must investigate these killings and prosecute the suspects where appropriate. International humanitarian law must be upheld.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=05%20November%202020
The Shomron Regional Council has opened a new tourist site in the region at a nature preserve established by the British decades ago. As seen on Arutz Sheva.
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I dette programmet besøker vi Shomron Regional Council i Barkan i Samaria og hilser på regionrådets avdelingsdirektør for internasjonale relasjoner, Chen Ben Lulu og får høre hvordan livet arter seg i Samaria. Den politiske inndelingen i Israel består av lokale samfunn, byer og regionale råd. Samarias regionale råd er det største i Israel og består av 12% av Israels areal. Programmet er fra 2018 og er tekstet til norsk.
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JERUSALEM — Israels defense minister Ehud Barak, instructed his staff on Sunday to recruit dozens of new building inspectors to supervise the governments temporary construction freeze in West Bank settlements, while some settler leaders vowed to defy the building ban.
Mr. Baraks hurried efforts and the settler threats illustrated both the governments seriousness and the difficulty it could face in carrying out its decision to halt new housing starts in the West Bank settlements over the next 10 months.
The government announced the construction halt on Wednesday, under pressure from the Obama administration to take steps to help revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. But Palestinian leaders said the temporary moratorium did not go far enough because it does not include East Jerusalem and allows for the completion of up to 3,000 housing units that are already being constructed.
The government decision also allows for limited public buildings, and Mr. Barak has given approval for 28 new educational and other public institutions to be built during the moratorium.
In order to enforce the construction freeze, Mr. Barak called for the recruitment and training of 40 new inspectors within two weeks, with dozens more to be recruited later. There are currently only 14 building inspectors working in the West Bank, where some 300,000 Israelis live in about 120 official settlements and scores of unauthorized outposts among a population of some 2.5 million Palestinians.
According to Mr. Baraks office, enforcement of the construction freeze will be carried out jointly by the police, border police and the militarys Civil Administration in the West Bank.
But when a Civil Administration representative went Sunday to present the freeze order to Gershon Mesika, the leader of the Shomron Regional Council for settlements in the northern West Bank, Mr. Mesika symbolically tore up the papers he received, according to David Haivri, a spokesman for the Shomron Council. Moshe Rosenbaum, the leader of another regional council, the Beit El Council, tore up the orders he received on Friday, according to Israeli Radio.
Mr. Mesika called the orders racist, because they apply only to Jewish building in the area, and declared that he does not intend to respect them, Mr. Haivri said.
It was not clear whether defiant settler leaders will turn to illegal building or try to find some other way around the ban.
But despite the settlers outrage at the building freeze, there has already been a positive aspect, according to Mr. Haivri.
The government has stated that buildings already approved and whose foundations have been laid may be completed. The settlers, who have been wary of a possible building freeze for months, have been laying as many foundations as they could, both Mr. Haivri and critics who monitor settlement construction have said.
The Shomron Council is said to have signed many more permits so far this year than it did in 2008. Mr. Haivri said the threat of a freeze had motivated many people here to take advantage of those permits and to start building homes before it is too late.
The Shomron Regional Council (Hebrew:מועצה אזורית שומרון, Mo'atza Azorit Shomron, English Samaria Regional Council) is an Israeliregional council in the northern West Bank. It provides municipal services for the 35 Jewish towns or Israeli settlements in the Samarian hills within its jurisdiction with a total population of about 23,600 people. The main offices are located in the Barkan Industrial Park.
The municipal area of the Council spreads across 2,800 square kilometers. Until the fall of 2005 when some of its municipal land was abandoned as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, the Shomron Regional Council had been the largest Israeli regional council in municipal area.
In August 2015 Yossi Dagan was elected to position of Chairman of Shomron Regional Council, with 62% of the vote.
Geography
The municipal area of the Council spreads across 2,800 square kilometers, which corresponds to about 10 percent of the area of the State of Israel within the Green Line. In municipal area, Shomron Regional Council is among the largest Israeli authorities.
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Cameroon is holding its first-ever regional election, which the government says hands more power to the provinces but the opposition boycotts as a sham.
In Sunday’s indirect polls, a 24,000-strong electoral college made up of regional delegates and traditional chiefs will vote to fill the posts of 900 regional councillors – 90 for each of the country’s 10 regions – putting into action a 1996 law that promised a decentralised government but was never enacted.
The municipal councils will have a say over development, including infrastructure such as roads, but they will not be able to alter laws enacted by the national assembly and the senate in the country’s capital, Yaounde.
President Paul Biya’s government sees the polls as a step towards greater regional autonomy, hoping they will appease critics who say he has long neglected the country’s regions and help end a four-year separatist conflict in the English-speaking western region.
Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports.
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Regional elections hold in Cameroon with residents voting for the first time for members of the country’s upper House of legislature.
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Prime Hour: Monday 3rd July 2023. Live on My Media Prime TV.
Topic: What difference have regional council and assemblies made since creation in Cameroon?
Presenter: Kum Leanard
Panelist:
Producer: Eli Nolinga Ewane
Broadcast technician: Awudu Brandon
#OnlyOnTheAfricanEye
Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
- Chief Executives Board
- Cameroon
- Ocha
- Syria
- West Bank Demolitions
- Security Council
- COVID-19/U.N. Sustainable Development Group
- COVID-19/Africa
- Food Coalition
- Global Food Prices
- World Tsunami Awareness Day
- Noon Briefing Guests Tomorrow
CHIEF EXECUTIVES BOARD
Tomorrow, the Secretary-General will bring together the heads of the UN system organizations in a virtual meeting of the Chief Executives Board. They will reflect on the main characteristics of a post-pandemic world and brainstorm on possible key elements of a Common Agenda report the Secretary-General has been asked to submit to the General Assembly. This follows the adoption of the 21st September 2020 Declaration on the Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the United Nations.
The Chief Executives Board members will discuss common approaches to an inclusive, networked multilateralism. They will also deliberate on salient emerging trends, opportunities and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the risks for human rights, global economic prospects, deepening inequalities and climate action.
CAMEROON
The Secretary-General is deeply concerned by reports of violence against schools, students and teachers in the North-West and South-West regions of Cameroon. This took place earlier this week on the 3rd and 4th of November. These reported attacks deprive children of their right to an education. These reports come on the heels of the horrific attack on a school in Kumba, in the South-West Region on October 24th, in which many children were killed and several others wounded.
The Secretary-General stresses the need for accountability of all these acts of violence against children and education facilities and reiterates his call on all armed actors to refrain from attacks against schools and to respect international humanitarian and international human rights law. He further urges the Cameroonian authorities to swiftly investigate all attacks on schools and bring the perpetrators to justice. Attacks on education facilities are a grave violation of children’s rights.
He strongly urges the parties to answer his call for a global ceasefire and reiterates the availability of the UN to support an inclusive dialogue process leading to a resolution of the crisis in the North-West and South West areas of Cameroon.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Cameroon, Matthias Naab, also issued a statement condemning the attacks.
He said these incidents are part of a pattern of violence against education facilities and personnel, as well as kidnapping for ransom of children and teachers in the North-West and South-West.
OCHA
The Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock, says this week we have lost six humanitarian workers in targeted violent attacks in Somalia, in two separate incidents in South Sudan, and in Northwest Syria.
This cannot be tolerated, he said in the statement. Attacks directed against humanitarians are a violation of international humanitarian law and an obscene act against people working hard, often in extraordinarily difficult circumstances, to help vulnerable people.
Mr. Lowcock said that those who commit these atrocities must be held to account. Governments must investigate these killings and prosecute the suspects where appropriate. International humanitarian law must be upheld.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=05%20November%202020