05 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 world Brazil’s Amazon chief Raoni tapped for 2020 Nobel Peace Prize West African leaders nomination Reuters | Brasilia agree anti-jihadist plan group of Brazilian an - A thropologists and envi- ronmentalists has put forward Chief Raoni Metuktire of the The leaders of West African nations have announced a billion-dollar plan to Kayapó tribe as a candidate for combat the growing problem of Islamist violence in the region the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for a lifetime of work protecting Raoni Metuktire the Amazon rainforest. ination. Raoni met twice this Jihadist groups have Raoni, an unmistakable Am- year with Macron, who led • azon icon with his large lip criticism of Brazil’s environ- strengthened their plate, yellow macaw-feather mental practices at the recent presence across the arid headdress and ear rings, be- Group of Seven wealthy na- Sahel region this year KNOW WHAT came known internationally as tions summit in Biarritz. an environmental campaign- A spokesman for the foun- AFP | Ouagadougou er in the 1980s with musician dation, Toni Lotar, said on Sat- Sting at his side. urday that the nomination had Landlocked Burkina At 89, Raoni took to the road been initially accepted by the est African leaders on Faso, Mali and Niger again this year seeking help to committee, but the foundation Saturday announced are non-coastal states stop a surge in fires destroy- has yet to complete the full Wa billion-dollar plan ing the forest, which he has nomination process. to fight the rising problem of blamed on the plans of right- “Chief Raoni is a living sym- jihadist violence in the region, at But a lack of finance, training wing President Jair Bolsonaro bol of the fight to protect na- a summit in Burkina Faso. and equipment, limited their to develop the Amazon eco- ture and the rights of indige- The plan, to be funded from effectiveness and their num- nomically and assimilate its nous people in the Amazon,” 2020 to 2024, was announced Presidents Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria (L), Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana bers. For the moment, the force indigenous people. Lotar told Reuters. at end of the Economic Com- (C) and Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone were among the leaders meeting in numbers 4,000 troops, when The Darcy Ribeiro Foun- “He is respected worldwide munity Summit of West African Ouagadougou 5,000 were originally planned. dation, named after one of for a life dedicated to the sur- States in Ouagadougou, where ECOWAS -- the Econom- Brazil’s first anthropologists, vival of our planet that is so the ECOWAS nations were joined the military operations of the by a lack of funds. ic Community of West Afri - announced this week that it threatened by climate change,” by Mauritania and Chad. nations involved -- and those of The G5 Sahel, a joint task- can States -- brings together had formally proposed Raoni’s Lotar said. ECOWAS had decided to mo- the joint military operations in force, was created in 2014 to try 15 countries whose economies name to the Norwegian No- The Brazilian government bilise “the financial resources the region. to tackle the problem, backed by range from regional heavy - bel Committee, which decides has denied encouraging recent of up to a billion dollars for the Full details of the plan would former colonial power France. weights Nigeria and Ivory Coast who wins the annual award. fires allegedly set by farmers fight against terrorism”, said be presented to the next ECOW- From July 2017, it pooled to the impoverished Liberia and The foundation has also seeking to extend the agricul- Niger’s President Mahamadou AS summit in December. troops from Burkina Faso, Chad, Sierra Leone. written to French President tural frontier in the Amazon Issoufou. The fight against the rising Mali, Mauritania and Niger in Landlocked Burkina Faso, Emmanuel Macron to call for and blame the surge on the The money, paid into a com- tide of jihadist violence in the a bid to drive back the jihadist Mali and Niger are non-coastal his endorsement of the nom- dry season. mon fund, would help reinforce region has so far been hampered groups. states. 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