«Cette aventure est bien plus importante qu’une chanson. Elle est de l’ordre de l’indicible, profondément ancrée en moi», confie-t-elle à son retour. Pour cette expédition en Terre Inconnue, la chanteuse se jette à l’eau. Et envoie valser les préjugés. Zazie dans la jungle, un peu moins zen, mais toujours plus elle…

De son séjour chez les Korowai, aux confins de l’archipel indonésien, Zazie ne semble pas vraiment revenue. Un bout de son âme y est resté, comme suspendu aux pas rapides des étranges petits hommes nus…: «Les adieux avec eux ont été déchirants, Zazie n’arrivait pas à retenir ses larmes. Au retour, dans l’hélicoptère nous étions un peu hagards, on ne disait rien», confie Frédéric Lopez, animateur et scénariste de l’émission. Pourtant la rencontre semblait improbable.

D’un côté, Zazie la gracile chanteuse du vague à l’âme «homme sweet homme», qui débarque de son loft parisien en «crocs» indigo avec ses bons mots d’auteur en bandoulière «bonjour steak de fourmi!» De l’autre, les Korowai, des chasseurs-cueilleurs qui n’ont jamais vu de femme blanche et transportent le feu dans tous leurs déplacements. Petit détail qui ne manque pas de jeter un froid: jusqu’en 2002, ce peuple était encore désigné comme cannibale par le gouvernement indonésien!

Autant dire qu’entre la chanteuse et les Seigneurs du jardin, comme on les surnomme, il y a un monde. Il faudra d’ailleurs cinq journées de trajet à Zazie, dont une de pirogue pour accéder à leurs étranges cabanes construites à quinze mètres du sol. «Je me suis un peu surestimée», confie rétrospectivement la chanteuse, pourtant baroudeuse dans l’âme. Entre un sentiment de claustrophobie persistant, des piqûres d’insectes non identifiés, et surtout une terrible gastro qui la terrasse pendant quatre jours, elle plonge dans l’enfer vert. Sans jamais se plaindre. Car Zazie joue le jeu. Fumant le calumet de la paix à s’en étouffer, acceptant de goûter les vers vivants de l’arbre sagou (leur principale source de nourriture), satisfaisant la curiosité des femmes quand elles lui demandent de montrer ses seins, parvenant même à aborder avec la tribu le sujet tabou du cannibalisme (Ils auraient mangé leurs ennemis par peur, pour détruire ce qu’ils appellent « le swangi », une sorte de mauvais esprit).

Au fil des jours la chanteuse abandonne ses petites coquetteries de femme occidentale, et un dialogue aussi étonnant que touchant s’instaure. «Pour me nourrir, je chante et si les autres ne m’aiment pas, ils ne me donnent pas de quoi acheter ma nourriture», explique-t-elle aux Korowai. Etrange phrase qui d’un seul coup ramène l’être à sa fonctionnalité, même la plus grande des stars… Mais comment ne pas se remettre en cause et redescendre de son Olympe face au courage et à l’amour de ces petits hommes?

Pendant tout le séjour, Zazie a les yeux rivés sur Itolom et sa femme, Guido, qui ont perdu leur nourrisson il y a à peine trois semaines. «On parlait tout le temps d’eux avec Zazie, leurs gestes de tendresse nous bouleversaient, on était témoin de leur histoire d’amour envers et contre tout. Ils avaient perdu deux enfants, ç’aurait pu les détruire… », confie Frédéric Lopez. Le dernier soir, au moment où Zazie improvise devant le feu de camp Je suis un homme à la guitare, Itolom, le dur guerrier, fond en larmes. Les notes de musique, qu’il entend pour la première fois, lui font songer au nourrisson disparu. La scène est poignante, hors du temps. La voix de Zazie – qui n’a jamais été aussi belle – s’élève comme un chant originel. Et on repense aux paroles qu’elle prononçait au début de l’expédition: «Je n’aimerais pas tomber dans une tribu cannibale qui aime les grandes brunes!» Non seulement la grande brune a rencontré les horribles cannibales, mais elle les a aimés. Les dévorant des yeux et du cœur.

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Article paru dans Gala, juin 2009

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Le soleil ne s’est pas encore levé sur le lac Nokoué, que déjà les pirogues circulent à grande allure. Tout le monde converge vers Ganvié et son marché flottant. Ici, les femmes tiennent leur boutique sur leur bateau. Ganvié est une cité lacustre du Bénin, avec ses maisons sur pilotis et la vie qui va avec. Une cliente est venue acheter le repas du matin pour elle et sa famille. “Mon mari est à la pêche, je ne vais pas le laisser le ventre vide“, explique-t-elle.Pêcheurs de père en filsLes journées commencent tôt à Ganvié. Le marché de la ville est un rendez-vous quotidien, incontournable. Tous les villages autour du lac viennent s’approvisionner ici, auprès de ces dizaines de commerçantes sur leur pirogue. Joachim part au travail comme tant d’autres ici, pêcheurs de père en fils. Il faut dire qu’à Ganvié, il n’y a pas tellement le choix : le poisson est la seule ressource disponible. Alors, les pêcheurs ont développé des techniques de pêche bien à eux. Joachim dispose ici un filet en forme d’entonnoir pour piéger les poissons. Et pour finir le travail, il faut sauter à l’eau.Le JT

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Players and coaches from the Premier League club will match donations to women’s charity Refuge for the next six weeks during the Covid-19 pandemic

Chelsea players have taken part in an online campaign alongside women’s charity Refuge to raise money and awareness for sufferers of domestic abuse during the coronavirus pandemic.

The players, along with Chelsea Women’s manager Emma Hayes, have pledged to match all donations to the charity during the next six weeks.

According to Refuge, last year 1.6 million women in the UK suffered from domestic abuse, and many face being trapped with their abusers because of the isolation measures recommended by governments around the world to contain the spread of coronavirus.

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Hayes said: ‘I am proud to lead the club’s support of this worthy cause during such a difficult time for so many.
 
‘There are many things for people to deal with in the present climate but it is important we support the vulnerable and those who may feel alone or without a voice. I hope this campaign can do that and make a difference to those who need support.’
 
Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta added: ‘Domestic violence is such a serious issue in society and we must double our efforts to look after those in danger during this ongoing pandemic. I am so proud of my club for supporting Refuge in their vital work protecting vulnerable women and children.’
 
Sandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said: ‘Domestic abuse is the biggest issue affecting women and children in this country.  Almost one in three women experience domestic abuse in their lifetimes and two women are killed in England and Wales every week. 
 
‘Thanks to Chelsea FC and its supporters we hope to raise much needed funds and reach many more women experiencing abuse. Together we can save and change lives.’
 
Refuge provides support for around 6,500 women and children every day, including emergency accommodation, community outreach and a team of child support workers.
 
Refuge also runs the free 24-hour National Domestic Violence Helpline, 0808 2000 247, which receives over 270 calls and contacts every day, and a the www.nationaldahelpline.org.uk website which provides additional information and an online form where women can request a safe time to be called back.
 
Women can also receive automated guidance via Refuge’s techbot on how to secure their devices https://www.refuge.org.uk/our-work/our-services/tech-abuse-empowerment-service/
 
To donate to the campaign, please click here.

News in brief

EU energy regulator

Energy ministers from the EU’s member states agreed on Sunday (6 December) that the EU’s energy regulator – the Agency for Co-operation of Energy Regulators (ACER) – should be located in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. The decision will have to be endorsed by EU leaders, a move that could happen at their summit in Brussels today and tomorrow (10-11 December). ACER will be operational from 3 March 2011, when new energy-market legislation comes into force.

Croatia accession treaty

EU member states agreed on Monday (7 December) to set up a working group to draft a treaty for Croatia’s accession to the Union. They also took note of a financial package for Croatia’s accession drafted by the European Commission that foresees €3.5 billion in support to the country in 2012-13 – €2.4bn in structural funds and €681 million for agriculture. Croatia hopes to enter the EU in January 2012.

EU-Norway fish

Talks between the EU and Norway on fishing quotas for 2010 broke down on Tuesday (8 December). The main obstacle was the EU’s refusal to allow Norwegian boats into EU waters to catch mackerel, but the question of discards and quotas for other fish were also contentious. A deal is now unlikely to be reached before next year.

Energy projects

The Commission on Wednesday (9 December) approved 15 energy projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions. The Commission granted €1bn for six carbon capture and storage projects and €565m for nine offshore wind energy projects across Europe.

A new year, a new treaty, but the same old problems?

The shocks of December and a new foreign-policy system should be used to establish a G77 alliance.

The EU woke up this year to a new world – not just because it now has the Lisbon treaty, but also because in December it was given two rude awakenings to its inadequacies as an international player.

Firstly, at Copenhagen it found itself marginalised when the US took over the initiative, striking a deal directly with China, India, South Africa and Ethiopia. Its semi-official strategy – to set ambitious targets, bring the G77 group of developing countries on board and force a response from the US and China – failed on all fronts.

Secondly, on 24 December, Eritrea was sanctioned by the UN Security Council and its EU members – a decision that highlighted that the European Commission is out of line with its own members as well as the international community. This very small country is the world’s second-largest source of asylum-seekers, most of whom head for the EU. Reporters Without Borders ranks its press as the world’s least free, Human Rights Watch calls it an “open-air prison”, others have called it “the North Korea of Africa”, and few (if any) EU member states still co-operate with it. Yet, in 2009, the Commission initialled a €120 million programme for the next three years and the then development commissioner, Louis Michel, received its dictatorial president, Isaias Afwerki, as warmly as any other statesman. This when MEPs were being refused visas.

What December showed, in short, is that the EU acts incoherently, overestimates its own power, underestimates others’ and – as a result – too frequently fails to deliver. It has been transfixed while the world order has moved on.

The shock of Copenhagen should help correct the EU’s overestimation of itself. But will it correct its underestimation of others’ power? If it forges an alliance with the G77 on climate change, we can perhaps say ‘Yes’. At Copenhagen, the EU’s problem was that its semi-official strategy was undermined by a strategy that proved a higher priority: to keep a position to which the US could agree.

As for the third problem evident recently, internal inconsistency, that challenge should be eased by the Lisbon treaty and resulting structural changes. In late 2009 there was a risk that commissioners’ responsibilities would continue to be split by region rather than by policy area. While there remain areas of uncertainty about the post-Lisbon administrative set-up, at least the portfolios of commissioners are now aligned with the Commission’s administrative responsibilities. For a start, Andris Piebalgs’s responsibilities as development commissioner(-designate) include EuropeAid. That was not the case under Michel, effectively rendering EuropeAid a lame duck.

The combination of a more logically organised Commission and a single foreign policy chief – Catherine Ashton – increases the chances of forging more coherent EU policies and also of establishing a strong alliance with developing countries on climate change. Whether that will happen depends on Ashton’s ability to put together a strong diplomatic service and on Piebalgs’s ability to create space for development co-operation and to convince the G77 that the EU could be an ally.

Piebalgs is a man well-suited for that challenge. His background as a former energy commissioner will come in handy in climate-mitigation co-operation with developing countries. And, as a Latvian expert on energy, he could emerge as a persuasive force in efforts to convince the EU’s new and less economically advanced member states of the value of a broad alliance with the G77. Since he managed to establish a constructive relationship with Russia in his previous post, Piebalgs may even be able to persuade Russia. But are such hopes too influenced by the start of a new year, a new treaty and a new Commission?

Mirjam Van Reisen is the director of the Europe External Policy Advisors and author of “Window of opportunity” on EU development co-operation policy.

MYAKKA CITY, FL — Not far from some of Florida’s popular beach destinations, a group of conservationists and scientists have been quietly working in a private forest to promote the survival of the most endangered mammal on the planet.

“Lemurs are the most delightful little creatures you’ve ever met in your life,” shared Katie Virun, education manager and part-time keeper with the Lemur Conservation Foundation, which is about 22 miles from Sarasota and 27 miles from Bradenton in Manatee County.

“They all have such unique personalities,” she said. “They’re all completely different. You have anyone from that lazy Sunday strolling lemur and then we have the very fidgety excited-to-work lemurs. You’ve got a broad range of personalities.”

The foundation was started 23 years ago by Penelope Bodry-Sanders, a former Adrian Dominican nun in Chicago who pursued a career as an actress and singer in New York before becoming an education coordinator with New York’s American Museum of Natural History.

“She had learned about the challenges that lemurs face in the wild during trips to Madagascar,” said Tora Buttaro, director of development with the foundation. “They really spoke to her. She was able to found the organization and purchase the land that we’re on now — a piece of it. It has grown since then.”

The property now consists of 130 acres and is home to 48 cuddly lemurs, who come inside twice a day for meals and at night to sleep, though they sometimes sleep outdoors.

“They have protected forests where they can free range and that is one of the things that makes this a real special place for researchers and field schools because they can study lemurs’ natural behavior which is something they couldn’t otherwise do unless they took a trip to Madagascar,” Buttaro said.

Next Friday is World Lemur Day, a day designated by conservationists to promote awareness of the plight of the 107 known species of lemurs.

The foundation’s lemurs represent six different species, including two critically endangered species, Buttaro said.

“Our reserve in Florida serves as a conservation breeding facility and site for visiting scientists studying lemur behavior,” she said.

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Lemurs are native to Madagascar and not found in the United States except in zoos and other private settings like the foundation’s preserve. The Duke Lemur Center operates a similar preserve on the campus of Duke University in North Carolina.

“We are also working to protect lemurs and habitats in Madagascar, primarily in and around Marojejy National Park and Anjanaharibe-Sud Special Reserve,” Buttaro said.

Those areas of Madagascar are home to 11 species of lemur, including the rare and beautiful silky sifaka lemur.

Lemurs are prosimians, a type of primate. Unlike monkeys, lemurs have a moist nose and rely more heavily on their sense of smell, according to the foundation.

Many have pointed snouts and all but the largest lemur, the indri, have long tails.

Animal Facts Encyclopedia said Lemurs can easily jump six times their body length with powerful, frog-like legs that unfold like springs.

Virun said one study conducted by the foundation confirmed the extent to which lemurs use tools to solve problems.

“They’re the most distantly related (primates) to humans, and so a lot of people thought that meant they were not as intelligent,” Virun said. “Here was this researcher who came out here and did this study about tool use in lemurs, and found they do use tools and quite effectively too.”

The researcher showed lemurs could use a cane-like object to pull food through a gap.

Virun said one of her duties is to speak to elementary school children about lemurs. “We’re a whole world away from Madagascar but there are still things you can do to help the Earth as a whole,” she said. “We don’t want to focus on the doom and gloom even though 95 percent of all lemur species are at risk for extinction.”

The foundation is not equipped to take in former pets or injured animals but it does serve as an important breeding resource.

“We have a very successful breeding program here on site and we are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums,” she said. “We work with zoos all throughout the country and throughout the world where we monitor the genetics of our lemurs and they get matched based upon a species survival plan. Somebody’s job is to basically be a lemur matchmaker.”

If lemurs go extinct in the wild, the foundation will be one of the organizations that can help them make a comeback.

“The overarching goal of this program is if these animals go extinct in the wild we have that last-ditch genetically viable population that we can potentially reintroduce,” she said. “Really, we’re the safety net to extinction.”

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Members of a prominent Mormon family were full of anticipation about an upcoming wedding of a relative when they traveled in a caravan Monday in northern Mexico. In an instant, nine of them were brutally slaughtered — including twin babies who will never see their first birthday — in a flash of gunfire by drug cartel gunmen. Now, those who survived the attack are consumed by both grief as they plan funerals for their murdered family members and worry about the safety of others.

One woman and four of her children were burned alive when one of the vehicles exploded in flames when bullets hit the gas tank, and another child was gunned down while running away. A dozen children believed to have been kidnapped remained missing Tuesday after the attack, which relatives think was the result of a case of mistaken identity.

The nine members of the LeBarón family who were killed were dual U.S.-Mexican residents who divided their time between Utah and Rancho La Mora, a decades-old settlement founded as an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is located about 70 miles south of Douglas, Arizona, between the borders of the Sonora and Chihuahua states.

“It’s devastating,” Leah Langford-Staddon, a relative of the ambushed family who grew up in the same Mormon community before she moved to Arizona, told the Arizona Republic. “It’s incomprehensible, the evil. I don’t understand how someone could do that.”

Langford-Staddon, whose brother discovered the smoldering, bullet-ridden automobile, said the victims included her nephew’s wife, 33-year-old Rhonita Miller, and her four children, ages 8, 10 and twin 8-month-old babies.

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Relatives have said those dead include 33-year-old Rhonita Miller and her children, 12-year-old Howard Miller, 10-year-old Krystal Miller, and the twins, Titus and Tiana Miller; 43-year-old Dawna Langford and her two children, 11-year-old Trevor Langford and 2-year-old Rogan Langford; and 29-year-old Christina Marie Langford Johnson.

Johnson’s 4-month-old baby was later found alive in one of the vehicles.

Frantic relatives in the United States took to social media to voice their outrage about the ambush, to ask for prayers for their families and to share stories of bravery by children who survived and protected others.

In North Dakota, Kenny LeBarón, a cousin of the women killed, waited in fear.

“We don’t know how many of the kids made it,” he wrote on Facebook. “They were ambushed.”

“When you know there are babies tied in a car seat that are burning because of some twisted evil that’s in this world,” LeBarón told The New York Times. “it’s just hard to cope with that.”

Kendra Lee Miller wrote on Facebook about how families across Sonora, Chihuahua and the Midwestern United States “waited in fear and horror” for news of possible survivors. Devin Langford, who saw his mother and brothers gunned down, hid his six other siblings in the bushes, covering them with branches to keep them safe while he went for help.

His uncles “armed themselves with guns and returned to try and find the hidden children, knowing many of them were injured,” Miller wrote. “They didn’t get far before realizing they would be risking death, since there had been continual shooting for hours, all over the mountains near LaMora. The group of men waited a while for reinforcements, and around 7:30, found the hidden children. They found Christina’s baby Faith with the vehicle around her riddled with bullet holes. Somehow she had remained untouched, and alive. She was in her car seat, which looked to have been hurriedly placed on the floor of the vehicle by her mother for protection.”

She said those who were “shot, burned and murdered in cold blood” were “innocent civilians, American citizens simply trying to live peaceful lives.”

Some of the children who were injured in the ambush were flown to Phoenix, Arizona, for medical treatment.

“What an unbelievable day of shock and tears,” Willie Jessup, who posted the video of the medical airlift, wrote.

The attack highlights the ominous danger posed by organized-crime groups that have controlled the area for years. Mormon sects in Mexico have battled for years with drug cartels, attracted not only by their wealth, but anti-crime activism.

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“This is how we live under the government of @lopezobrader,” Alex LeBarón, one of the relatives of those killed in the attack wrote on Twitter, referring to Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “Mexican Mormons, innocent women and children were ambushed in the Chihuahua sierra, shot and burned alive by the Cartels that rule in Mexico!”

Langford-Staddon wrote on Facebook that Americans should not travel in Mexico because “the mafia over Sonora and the mafia over Chihuahua are in all-out war right now.”

“They are doing all they can in Mexico and we need America’s help,” she wrote, adding, “We need to get them all back home safe.”

President Trump tweeted that “a wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing.”

He went on to say that if Mexico needs “help in cleaning out these monsters, the United States stands ready, willing & able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively. The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!”

Claudia Pavlovich Arellano, the governor of Sonora, said on Twitter, that as a mother she felt “deep pain” for the victims and vowed that the “cowards” would not go unpunished.

“As a mother I feel rage, repudiation and deep pain for what cowards did in the mountains between Sonora and Chihuahua,” she wrote. “I don’t know what kind of monsters dare to hurt women and children. As Governor, I will do everything to make sure this does not go unpunished and those responsible pay.”

A new penalty system for an unnecessary delay in starting or resuming play in high school volleyball was approved by the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) Volleyball Rules Committee at its January 5-7 meeting in Indianapolis.

This significant rules change, along with three others recommended by the committee for the 2015-16 season, were subsequently approved by the NFHS Board of Directors.

The new penalty system addresses concerns that the previous penalties were too severe. Before, an unnecessary delay would result in the loss of a time-out. If a team had exhausted its time-outs when the delay occurred, then it would lose possession of the ball, and the opponent would receive a point. An unnecessary delay, as specified in Rule 9-9-1, will now be met with a warning (administrative yellow card) on the first offense. Any subsequent delay during the same set results in an administrative red card with a loss of rally/point awarded to the opponent.

“The committee wanted the penalty to match the violation occurring,” said Becky Oakes, NFHS director of sports and liaison to the Volleyball Rules Committee.  “The previous penalty was viewed as too severe for rally scoring.”

Another rule change alters the substitution procedure following a time-out. Under Rule 10-2-5, teams will now be required to return to the court following a time-out. A team wanting to make a substitution will do so at the end of the time-out, and that change will follow normal exchange procedures. Oakes said the rule will help officials, coaches and fans better follow the on-court proceedings.

The other two changes update rules regarding incorrect lineup cards and the length of time between sets when using an intermission. With regard to the lineup card ruling, Rules 7-1-5 and 7-1-6 dictate if a player is wearing a number not listed on the roster, or is wearing a duplicate number, then the offending team will be charged with a substitution to correct the error. The change aims to maintain consistency with similar rules, and to further encourage coaches to submit correct lineup cards.

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The final change to Rules 11-5-1 and 11-5-2 simply allows schools the option to take an intermission between the second and third sets. The intermission, including the required three-minute interval between sets, can last as long as five minutes total, and gives schools more time for promotional or ceremonial events.  

“The committee’s aim with these rules was to make the contests run smoother,” Oakes said. “It gives schools the opportunity to use intermissions for special recognition, while keeping consistency from match to match.”

A complete listing of all rules changes is available on the NFHS website at www.nfhs.org. Click on “Activities & Sports” at the top of the home page, and select “Volleyball.”

According to the 2013-14 NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey, volleyball is the third-most popular girls program with 429,634 participants nationwide. There were also 52,149 boys participants nationwide.