Podcasts about Togo

Pour l'Envoyé spécial de l'ONU pour la région des Grands Lacs, Huang Xia, la Conférence de soutien à la paix et à la prospérité dans la région, organisée à Paris le 30 octobre par la France et le Togo, a été un succès à plusieurs égards.L'événement a réuni un large éventail d'acteurs — dirigeants africains, représentants régionaux et internationaux, ainsi que de nombreuses organisations humanitaires —, illustrant la mobilisation constante de la communauté internationale et rappelant que la crise dans l'est de la République démocratique du Congo n'est pas oubliée.La Conférence a mobilisé environ 1,5 milliard de dollars de promesses de dons pour l'aide humanitaire. Huang Xia exhorte désormais les partenaires à concrétiser ces engagements et à acheminer rapidement l'aide vers les populations les plus touchées. Il appelle également à renforcer les efforts conjoints afin de mettre fin une bonne fois pour toutes aux conflits récurrents dans la région des Grands Lacs.  (Extrait sonore : Huang Xia, Envoyé spécial spécial de l'ONU pour la région des Grands Lacs)

In diesem kurzen Impuls geht es darum, wie du mit Kritik umgehen kannst, wenn sie dich stärker trifft, als du möchtest. Vielleicht kennst du diesen Moment, in dem eine Bemerkung plötzlich etwas in dir auslöst, obwohl du dachtest, sie könne dir nichts anhaben. Kritik ist kein Zeichen von Schwäche, sondern ein Hinweis darauf, dass dir etwas wirklich wichtig ist. Dieser Impuls erinnert dich: „Ich bin offen für Wachstum, aber ich verliere mich nicht in der Meinung anderer.“ Ein Satz, der dich zurück zu dir bringt. Klar, ruhig und verbunden. Nimm ihn mit in deinen Tag.

En janvier 1925, l'Alaska fut le théâtre d'une épopée héroïque restée dans l'Histoire sous le nom de “course au sérum de Nome” (Serum Run to Nome). Tout commença dans le petit port de Nome, au bord de la mer de Béring, lorsqu'une épidémie de diphtérie frappa la population. Le médecin local, Curtis Welch, vit les premiers enfants mourir en quelques jours. Sans vaccin, c'était une condamnation certaine. Il savait qu'un antidote existait : un sérum antitoxique conservé à plus de 1600 kilomètres, à Anchorage. Mais en plein hiver, les tempêtes de neige rendaient les routes, la mer et le ciel impraticables.Le seul moyen d'acheminer le remède ? Par traîneaux à chiens. L'Alaska décida d'organiser une course contre la mort : une relais de mushers, ces conducteurs de traîneaux, traverserait les plaines glacées pour livrer le sérum à Nome. En tout, 20 équipes de chiens se relayèrent sur plus de 1 000 kilomètres, dans des conditions extrêmes : -50 °C, vents polaires, blizzards aveuglants.Le départ fut donné le 27 janvier 1925 à Nenana. Chaque équipe parcourait une trentaine de kilomètres avant de transmettre le précieux colis au relais suivant. Parmi ces héros, deux noms restèrent célèbres : Leonhard Seppala, le plus expérimenté, et son chef de meute Togo, qui franchirent près de 400 km à travers la tempête ; puis Gunnar Kaasen, guidé par le chien Balto, qui mena la dernière étape jusqu'à Nome, arrivant le 2 février au matin. Dans ses bras, le petit cylindre d'aluminium contenant le sérum gelé sauva des centaines de vies.Leur exploit, largement relayé par la presse, fit le tour du monde. Balto devint une icône nationale aux États-Unis : une statue à son effigie fut érigée à Central Park, à New York, “en l'honneur de l'endurance, de la fidélité et de l'intelligence des chiens de traîneau.”Cette aventure marqua un tournant : elle inspira la création de la course annuelle de traîneaux Iditarod, entre Anchorage et Nome, en mémoire de ces mushers. Mais elle symbolise surtout la force du courage collectif face à la nature impitoyable. Dans la nuit polaire de l'hiver 1925, l'humanité et les chiens de l'Arctique coururent côte à côte pour arracher un village à la mort. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Au moins 150 000 morts, 12 millions de réfugiés et 25 millions de personnes en proie à la famine… C'est le triste bilan après près de trois ans de conflit meurtrier entre l'armée soudanaise, héritière de l'ancien régime, avec à sa tête le général Abdel Fattah al-Burhan et les FSR, les Forces de soutien rapide, une unité paramilitaire dissidente dirigée par le général Hemedti. Avantage à ces derniers : dimanche, constate Libération à Paris, après 18 mois de siège, « la ville d'El-Fasher est tombée aux mains des Forces de soutien rapide, laissant présager de nouveaux massacres ethniques. Les paramilitaires contrôlent désormais la quasi-totalité de la région du Darfour ». Et le journal de s'interroger : « est-ce un tournant dans la guerre civile soudanaise ? » Oui, répond Alan Boswell, de l'International Crisis Group : « la chute d'El-Fasher est "le moment que beaucoup redoutaient, celui de la partition claire du Soudan. Le pays est désormais de facto divisé. Et plus la guerre durera, plus cette division deviendra concrète et sera difficile à inverser" ». Et « que fait la communauté internationale ? », s'interroge encore Libération. Réponse : « à peu près rien. En juin 2024, le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies a voté la résolution 2736 exigeant "que les FSR mettent fin au siège d'El-Fasher", demandant "l'arrêt immédiat des combats" et "que les parties au conflit autorisent et facilitent l'acheminement rapide, sûr, durable et sans entrave de l'aide humanitaire destinée aux civils qui en ont besoin". Aucune de ces "exigences" onusienne n'a été respectée. Après un an de siège, l'état de famine a été déclaré à Zamzam puis à El-Fasher même. Les bombardements et les assauts des FSR n'ont jamais cessé ». Deux prédateurs… Pour Le Temps à Genève, « le Soudan est (donc) plus que jamais divisé entre deux prédateurs ». Deux généraux, « deux anciens complices qui se battent entre eux, commente le chercheur Marc Lavergne, interrogé par le journal. Ce n'est pas une guerre civile, affirme-t-il. Car les Soudanais ne se détestent pas, ils subissent cette guerre. Il reste une conscience nationale et, malgré l'exil de millions d'habitants, le mouvement démocratique subsiste dans ce pays qui avait vu naître les premiers partis politiques en Afrique pendant la colonisation britannique ». Il n'empêche : le pays est plus que jamais coupé en deux, constate encore Marc Lavergne : « l'armée soudanaise aura de la peine à reprendre le contrôle du Darfour. Les FSR, quant à eux, pourront difficilement reprendre pied dans la capitale ». Pourtant, déplore-t-il, « une nouvelle partition n'est pas la solution. Il n'y a qu'à voir le destin du Soudan du Sud, lui aussi déchiré par les combats et les ambitions personnelles ». Du matériel militaire britannique Toujours à propos de ce conflit, cette révélation du Guardian à Londres : « du matériel militaire britannique a été retrouvé sur des champs de bataille au Soudan, du matériel utilisé par les FSR, groupe paramilitaire accusé de génocide », pointe le journal qui s'appuie sur « des documents consultés par le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU ». Il s'agit, précise le Guardian de « de systèmes de cibles pour armes légères et de moteurs de fabrication britannique pour véhicules blindés de transport de troupes ». Ces matériels « auraient transité par les Émirats arabes unis, accusés à plusieurs reprises de fournir des armes aux paramilitaires ». Commentaire du journal : ces fournitures de matériels militaires « posent questions concernant le gouvernement britannique et son rôle potentiel dans l'alimentation du conflit ». « Ces vieillards qui s'accrochent au pouvoir… » Enfin, on reste en Afrique avec cet éditorial du Washington Post sur ces « dirigeants africains vieillissants qui s'accrochent au pouvoir sur un continent jeune : l'Afrique a un problème encore pire que les États-Unis, pointe le journal, avec des politiciens vieillissants qui ne veulent pas lâcher prise ». On aura compris le sous-entendu… Le Post cible le Camerounais Paul Biya qui vient de se faire réélire pour un 8e mandat. « Le qualifier de "vainqueur" est une affirmation généreuse, relève le journal, car l'élection a très probablement été truquée. (…) L'Afrique reste dominée par des vieillards, déconnectés depuis longtemps des préoccupations populaires, déplore le Washington Post. Déjà chef d'État le plus âgé du monde, Biya aura presque 100 ans s'il termine son huitième mandat. Le président du Togo a 86 ans, celui du Malawi 85 et celui de la Côte d'Ivoire 83. Cette gérontocratie crée un climat explosif, conclut le quotidien américain, qui ne peut qu'entrainer de futurs conflits ».

Sie sind nicht nur des Menschen beste Freunde und tierische Familienmitglieder, sie dienen uns auch unaufhörlich. Jeden Tag machen sie zuverlässig ihren Job, sei es als Jagdhelfer, Herdenschützer, Drogenschnüffler, Blindenführer und noch vieles andere mehr. Meist arbeiten sie dabei im Stillen, von der Öffentlichkeit unbemerkt. Doch manchmal wachsen sie über sich hinaus. Dann werden sie zu Helden und retten Leben. So wie Swansea Jack, ein Mischling aus Neufundländer und Flat Coated Retriever, der als Rettungsschwimmer mindestens 27 Menschen aus dem Wasser zog. Oder wie Togo, ein Husky, der tagelang durch Schneestürme rannte, um eine Stadt in Alaska mit Medikamenten zu versorgen. Katharina Jakob erzählt in diesem Buch von 15 wahren Hundehelden-Taten – jede einzelne davon unglaublich und berührend. Wir haben mit Katharina Jakob über ihr Buch gesprochen. www.veggiepodcast.de und www.veggieradio.de

Chaque mois, le coach Didier Acouetey, président d'AfricSearch, conseille un jeune entrepreneur sur ses difficultés. En deuxième partie, débat avec des patrons de PME du continent. Cette semaine, financer les TPE, PME grâce aux diasporas.  Cette émission est une rediffusion du 21 juillet 2025.   Partie 1 : conseils à un jeune entrepreneur - Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch - Nelly Chaby, créatrice de Macajou entreprise de fabrication de macarons à base de produits locaux à Cotonou, Bénin.   Partie 2 : Financer les TPE, PME grâce aux diasporas - Felix Edoh Kossi Amenounve, directeur général de la Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) et président de l'Association des Bourses Africaines (ASEA) - Duplex Eric Kamgang, président et fondateur de Studely, société qui propose une solution complète à destination des étudiants afin de faciliter leur accès à l'enseignement supérieur français - Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch.   Programmation musicale :  ► Ghanaian Stallion – Finish Line (ft. Patrice) ► Abou Tall – Bats-toi (playlist).

Chaque mois, le coach Didier Acouetey, président d'AfricSearch, conseille un jeune entrepreneur sur ses difficultés. En deuxième partie, débat avec des patrons de PME du continent. Cette semaine, financer les TPE, PME grâce aux diasporas.  Cette émission est une rediffusion du 21 juillet 2025.   Partie 1 : conseils à un jeune entrepreneur - Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch - Nelly Chaby, créatrice de Macajou entreprise de fabrication de macarons à base de produits locaux à Cotonou, Bénin.   Partie 2 : Financer les TPE, PME grâce aux diasporas - Felix Edoh Kossi Amenounve, directeur général de la Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM) et président de l'Association des Bourses Africaines (ASEA) - Duplex Eric Kamgang, président et fondateur de Studely, société qui propose une solution complète à destination des étudiants afin de faciliter leur accès à l'enseignement supérieur français - Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch.   Programmation musicale :  ► Ghanaian Stallion – Finish Line (ft. Patrice) ► Abou Tall – Bats-toi (playlist).

Broeder Venceslas Sassou werd tot priester gewijd in 2024 in België. Hij is echter afkomstig uit Togo en spreekt ons over zijn levens- en geloofsweg.

One of the many things that I am thankful to God for you is your compassion. I have seen this time and again when we have given you the opportunity to respond to global needs such as in Ukraine or caring for children through sponsoring 41 children in Togo through Compassion Canada or giving 97 gifts last Christmas through Slavic Gospel Association Immanuel's Star. I believe we are to be compassionate because our God is full of compassion (Psalm 112:4). Compassion literally means to "suffer with." Our God suffers with us and this is why the ultimate act of compassion toward us was Jesus dying on the cross. This weekend at our Global Outreach (GO) Conference we are going to learn more about compassion from the Fellowship Aid and International Relief Director Norton Lages as he preaches on 2 Corinthians 1:3-5. Don't forget to attend our International Supper on Saturday at 5 PM and our Missions Session on Sunday at 6 PM! Let's continue to grow in our compassion and show the love of Christ!

Nous sommes en compagnie de Charlotte Terrero pour compléter son enquête sur la colère qui gronde en Indonésie et avec Igor Strauss pour parler du changement climatique au Togo, en seconde partie d'émission. Indonésie: la frustration et la colère de la Génération Z  Du Maroc au Népal, une jeunesse identifiée Génération Z secoue plusieurs pays de ses cris de colère ces dernières semaines. À Djakarta, une première manifestation de cette Gen Z s'est tenue fin août, contre les élites, contre la corruption. Du jamais vu en Indonésie depuis vingt ans. Un mois plus tard, pas de réponse concrète. La répression a freiné le mouvement, mais la colère gronde toujours. Un Grand reportage de Charlotte Terrero qui s'entretient avec Jacques Allix.   Au Togo, la difficile adaptation au changement climatique  Le changement climatique se poursuit et les sommets internationaux tentent régulièrement une contre-offensive. Sommet de New York du 24 septembre. COP 30, de Belem en novembre. «Le changement climatique : la plus grande arnaque jamais menée contre le monde», a déclaré Donald Trump à la tribune des Nations unies. Nous nous plongeons aujourd'hui dans le quotidien de citoyens qui sont en prise avec ces bouleversements. Une question de survie. Direction le Togo du Nord et ses sécheresses à répétition ; le Sud frappé d'inondations et d'érosion côtière.  Nous voici dans un petit village de la région de Kara. Un Grand reportage d'Igor Strauss qui s'entretient avec Jacques Allix.

Elektronischer IdentitätsnachweisEin Standpunkt von Uwe Froschauer.Nicht gewählte Globalisten wie Bill Gates oder der Rockefeller-Clan wollen angeblich „für uns“ – in Wirklichkeit gegen uns – eine bequeme und schnelle digitale Welt – in Wirklichkeit ein digitales Freiluftgefängnis – aufbauen.Der elektronische Identitätsnachweis (eID) hat zweifellos auch Vorteile wie Bequemlichkeit, Schnelligkeit, Abbau der Bürokratie und deren Kosten. Die Nachteile überwiegen jedoch aus meiner Sicht bei weitem die vorhandenen Vorteile. Hierzu später.Weltweite Bestrebungen für eine digitale IdentitätGroßbritannien ist im Begriff, die Pflicht zur digitalen Identifizierung für alle britischen Bürger sowie für Einwohner, Studenten oder Arbeitnehmer aus der Europäischen Union einzuführen. SkyNews berichtete, dass der britische Premierminister Keir Starmer kürzlich angekündigt habe, alle Bürger Großbritanniens zu verpflichten, ein Ausweisdokument zu besitzen, um ihr Recht auf Aufenthalt und Arbeit im Land nachzuweisen, das in einem Portemonnaie ähnlich wie Apple Wallet oder Google Wallet aufbewahrt wird.Das ist jedoch nur der erste Schritt. Mittlerweile ist durchgesickert, dass die digitale Identität nicht nur Pflicht für alle Arbeitnehmer werden soll, sondern die Nutzung dieses Kontrollmechanismus darüber hinaus gehen wird. Junge Menschen müssen in Zukunft ihre digitale ID eventuell auch beim Alkoholkauf vorzeigen, das heißt: Ein System, das ursprünglich für den Arbeitsmarkt gedacht war, soll nun in den privaten Alltag vordringen. Für jeden Selbstdenker dürfte klar sein, dass Autokraten wie Keir Starmer mittels Salamitaktik die Kontrolle der Bürger auf alle Lebensbereiche ausdehnen wollen – und werden, wenn wir diesen Totalitaristen nicht Einhalt gebieten.Die im November 2023 von den Vereinten Nationen, der Bill-und-Melinda-Gates-Stiftung und ihrer Partner gestartete „50-in-5“-Kampagne zur Beschleunigung der Einführung digitaler IDs, schneller Zahlungssysteme und des Datenaustauschs in 50 Ländern bis 2028, hat mittlerweile 30 Länder für sich gewinnen können. Bis 2028 soll in 50 Ländern mindestens eine Komponente der Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) eingeführt werden. Die zivile Technologieplattform DPI besteht aus den Hauptkomponenten: digitale ID, schnelle Zahlungssysteme und massiver Datenaustausch zwischen öffentlichen und privaten Einrichtungen sowie digitaler Register.Die 30 Länder, deren Bürger mir jetzt schon leidtun, sind Bangladesch, Brasilien, Dominikanische Republik, Estland, Äthiopien, Frankreich, Guatemala, Jamaika, Kambodscha, Kasachstan, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexiko, Moldawien, Nigeria, Norwegen, Sambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapur, Sri Lanka, Südafrika, Südsudan, Somalia, Togo, Trinidad und Tobago, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay und Usbekistan.Die Minister für digitale Wirtschaft aus Nigeria und Togo forderten am 22. September 2025 während einer Nebenveranstaltung der UN-Generalversammlung in New York ein interoperables digitales Identitätssystem für den gesamten afrikanischen Kontinent....https://apolut.net/das-digitale-gefangnis-von-uwe-froschauer/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This special report zooms in on the smaller fashion houses that sparkled during Paris Fashion Week. Vincent Pressiat, like Victor Weinsanto, looked to the past, when the king's favourites ruled the roost. Alain Paul recalled his first auditions as a young dancer. Ukrainian Lilia Litkovska is still designing, despite the war. Last but not least, Afro-Caribbean designers were celebrated at the Paris edition of Togo's International Fashion Festival.

Le changement climatique se poursuit et les sommets internationaux tentent régulièrement une contre-offensive. Sommet de New York du 24 septembre. COP 30, de Belem en novembre. «Le changement climatique : la plus grande arnaque jamais menée contre le monde», a déclaré Donald Trump à la tribune des Nations unies. Nous nous plongeons aujourd'hui dans le quotidien de citoyens qui sont en prise avec ces bouleversements. Une question de survie. Direction le Togo du Nord et ses sécheresses à répétition ; le Sud frappé d'inondations et d'érosion côtière.  Nous voici dans un petit village de la région de Kara. «Au Togo, la difficile adaptation au changement climatique», un Grand reportage d'Igor Strauss. Réalisation : Stéphane Defossez.

Bienvenue dans notre rendez-vous hebdomadaire : le Club de C'est pas du vent. Des journalistes spécialistes de l'environnement, de RFI et d'ailleurs, reviennent sur les sujets environnementaux qui les ont marqués et partagent les coulisses de leur travail. L'occasion aussi de commenter les reportages produits par les vidéastes du réseau ePOP et les actions des Clubs RFI. Avec - Gabrielle Maréchaux de The Conversation sur la cécité botanique  - Vasile Damian de la rédaction roumaine : trottinettes électriques de Bucarest : les interdire, ou pas ? - Simon Rozé du service environnement de RFI  - Igor Strauss du service environnement de RFI nous parlera de son reportage réalisé au Togo qui subit des inondations récurrentes. Chronique ePOP / (RFI Planète Radio/IRD) de Caroline Filliette avec Aimée Akakpo Toulan du Togo pour le film « La planète plastiquée ». Chronique entrepreneur avec Célia Chabi, fondatrice de Kiel Bien-Être au Bénin : la production de baobab, la transformation du fruit en produits tels que des snacks et des cosmétiques et la commercialisation de l'arbre sous la marque Kiel. Opérant sur un site de 20 hectares, l'entreprise collabore avec les femmes locales pour produire et récolter le baobab tout en protégeant la biodiversité de la région. Engagée dans la durabilité, elle valorise tous ses sous-produits, notamment les engrais organiques, les aliments pour animaux, le charbon écologique et la production de biogaz. Musiques diffusées dans l'émission MEGA - My Bones  Trinix & Tayc - Ajé. 

Cameroon holds presidential elections this Sunday with Paul Biya, the world's oldest ruler, seeking another seven-year term. At 92 years old, there have been concerns about his health and ability to rule. The credibility of the election commission has also been questioned. And insecurity is rife in the English speaking parts of  the country.  So, can the polls on Sunday be free and fair?Also in the programme: should advertising boards be removed from football pitches to avoid accidents like the injury suffered by Togo's Samuel Asamoah during a game in ChinaAnd Somalia is to introduce Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, to its national curriculumPresenter: Nyasha Michelle Producers: Jospeh Keen, Mark Wilberforce and Tanya Hines Technical Producer: Craig Kingham Senior Journalist: Sunita Nahar Editors: Andre Lombard and Karnie Sharp

Les journalistes et experts de RFI répondent également à vos questions sur l'aide chinoise à la Russie dans la guerre et les pénuries d'essence en Russie. RDC : démantèlement d'un réseau clandestin d'exploitation d'or   Une vaste opération menée dans la province du Haut-Uélé, dans le nord-est de la RDC, a permis de démanteler un réseau d'exploitation illégale d'or impliquant des ressortissants chinois. Comment ce réseau a-t-il pu opérer en toute illégalité ? Quelles mesures les autorités mettent-elles en place pour mettre fin à la fraude minière ? Avec Patient Ligodi, journaliste au service Afrique de RFI.       Guerre en Ukraine : comment la Chine facilite les bombardements russes ?  Kiev accuse Pékin de jouer un rôle indirect dans les attaques russes en fournissant à Moscou des renseignements satellitaires pour lui permettre de mieux cibler les infrastructures ukrainiennes. Quel intérêt la Chine aurait-elle à coopérer avec la Russie alors qu'officiellement elle affiche une neutralité dans le conflit ? Quels sont les risques diplomatiques pour la Chine si ces soupçons se confirment ?    Avec Emmanuel Véron, géographe, spécialiste de la Chine contemporaine, chercheur associé à l'Inalco, membre de l'IFRAE.       Russie : des pénuries d'essence après des attaques ukrainiennes    Troisième producteur mondial de pétrole, la Russie se retrouve à court d'essence après une série d'attaques de drones ukrainiens sur de nombreuses raffineries. Cette pénurie peut-elle affecter la logistique militaire russe, notamment sur le front ukrainien ? Cette situation pourrait-elle perturber le marché mondial du pétrole ?  Avec Ulrich Bounat, analyste géopolitique, chercheur-associé chez Euro Créative.     Et en fin d'émission, la chronique « Un œil sur les réseaux » de Jessica Taieb. Au programme, une polémique au Togo alors que les internautes peuvent désormais être sanctionnés par la justice pour un commentaire, un « j'aime » ou un partage sur des publications jugées « illicites » par les autorités.

Join us at Refuel as we celebrate world missions! Tonight's guest speaker is Adam Drake, missionary to Togo, West Africa.

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Une blessure à la tête peut causer des lésions au cerveau plus ou moins graves, pouvant se manifester par des symptômes variables, comme des troubles de la vision, des pertes d'équilibre, des vertiges, mais aussi une perte de connaissance ou des troubles de la mémoire... On parle alors de traumatisme crânien léger ou sévère.  (Rediffusion) Comment détecter les signes d'un traumatisme crânien ? Comment le prendre en charge en fonction de son degré de sévérité ? Quelles peuvent être les séquelles ?  Pr Nozar Aghakhani, neurochirurgien et enseignant chercheur à l'Université Paris-Saclay, coordonnateur du Centre d'évaluation et de prise en charge des traumatismes crâniens légers au sein de l'Hôpital Bicêtre APHP, au Kremlin-Bicêtre Dr Jean-François Chermann, neurologue, spécialiste en France des commotions cérébrales chez les sportifs, à l'origine de la 1ère consultation «Commotion cérébrale et sport» à l'hôpital en France en 2010   Pr Essossinam Kpelao, neurochirurgien, chef du service de Neurochirurgie du CHU Sylvanus Olympio à Lomé et professeur à la Faculté des sciences de santé de l'Université de Lomé au Togo.  ► En fin d'émission, nous parlerons de l'ouverture de la 5è Maison des femmes de l'APHP, au sein de l'Hôpital Antoine-Béclère, à Clamart, un lieu d'accueil pour les femmes victimes de violences. Interview de Marine Muscat-Orbach, sage-femme, chargée de la coordination du parcours de soins de la Maison des femmes.  Programmation musicale : ► Alabama Shakes – Don't wanna fight ► James BKS – On my way.

Une blessure à la tête peut causer des lésions au cerveau plus ou moins graves, pouvant se manifester par des symptômes variables, comme des troubles de la vision, des pertes d'équilibre, des vertiges, mais aussi une perte de connaissance ou des troubles de la mémoire... On parle alors de traumatisme crânien léger ou sévère.  (Rediffusion) Comment détecter les signes d'un traumatisme crânien ? Comment le prendre en charge en fonction de son degré de sévérité ? Quelles peuvent être les séquelles ?  Pr Nozar Aghakhani, neurochirurgien et enseignant chercheur à l'Université Paris-Saclay, coordonnateur du Centre d'évaluation et de prise en charge des traumatismes crâniens légers au sein de l'Hôpital Bicêtre APHP, au Kremlin-Bicêtre Dr Jean-François Chermann, neurologue, spécialiste en France des commotions cérébrales chez les sportifs, à l'origine de la 1ère consultation «Commotion cérébrale et sport» à l'hôpital en France en 2010   Pr Essossinam Kpelao, neurochirurgien, chef du service de Neurochirurgie du CHU Sylvanus Olympio à Lomé et professeur à la Faculté des sciences de santé de l'Université de Lomé au Togo.  ► En fin d'émission, nous parlerons de l'ouverture de la 5è Maison des femmes de l'APHP, au sein de l'Hôpital Antoine-Béclère, à Clamart, un lieu d'accueil pour les femmes victimes de violences. Interview de Marine Muscat-Orbach, sage-femme, chargée de la coordination du parcours de soins de la Maison des femmes.  Programmation musicale : ► Alabama Shakes – Don't wanna fight ► James BKS – On my way.

October 5, 2025 [Speaker: Missionary Gloria Biffert] – This week we have the privilege to have Gloria Biffert as our guest speaker.  She is a missionary to Togo, West Africa. She preached the message talking about the five benefits of suffering. Suffering in Jesus always brings hope. (John 16:33)    In our suffering we are never alone. (2 Cor 4:10)

Chaque mois, le coach Didier Acouetey, président d'AfricSearch, conseille un jeune entrepreneur sur ses difficultés. En deuxième partie, débat avec des patrons de PME du continent. Cette semaine, comment faire face à la fraude numérique. Partie 1 : conseils à un jeune entrepreneur • Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch • Linda Elobo Elomo, créatrice de Mandy Tea, Une entreprise qui fabrique et commercialise du thé à base de cacao à Douala au Cameroun.   Partie 2 : faire face aux défis de la fraude numérique  • Franck Kie, fondateur du Cyber Africa forum • Ezekiel Ocansey, ingénieur télécom, directeur d'exploitation chez Neurotech, opérateur panafricain de services informatiques spécialisé dans les solutions de transformation numérique, la cybersécurité et l'infrastructure réseau • Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch.   Programmation musicale :  ► Pas Contente - Vaudou Game  ► Disco Life - Say She She.

Chaque mois, le coach Didier Acouetey, président d'AfricSearch, conseille un jeune entrepreneur sur ses difficultés. En deuxième partie, débat avec des patrons de PME du continent. Cette semaine, comment faire face à la fraude numérique. Partie 1 : conseils à un jeune entrepreneur • Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch • Linda Elobo Elomo, créatrice de Mandy Tea, Une entreprise qui fabrique et commercialise du thé à base de cacao à Douala au Cameroun.   Partie 2 : faire face aux défis de la fraude numérique  • Franck Kie, fondateur du Cyber Africa forum • Ezekiel Ocansey, ingénieur télécom, directeur d'exploitation chez Neurotech, opérateur panafricain de services informatiques spécialisé dans les solutions de transformation numérique, la cybersécurité et l'infrastructure réseau • Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch.   Programmation musicale :  ► Pas Contente - Vaudou Game  ► Disco Life - Say She She.

Do Kamerunu zabierze nas Anita Pogorzelska, podróżniczka, której celem wypraw są często mało znane plemiona, dotarcie do ludzi żyjących na uboczu cywilizacji - tak było w Papui, w Nepalu, tak jest i teraz w Kamerunie. Anita Pogorzelska opowie o spotkaniu z plemieniem Baka, blaskach i cieniach ich codzienności. Skoro wybierzemy się tak daleko, do Afryki środkowo-zachodniej, to dzięki opowieściom Anity zajrzymy do Beninu i Togo, a na końcu - na kawę do Etiopii.Będzie o polskich misjach w Afryce, edukacji, problemie alkoholowym i o voodoo.Agnieszka Krawiec, zapraszam.

Écrasé par des cours mondiaux trop bas, et une concurrence acharnée imposée par le coton brésilien, le coton africain a du mal à se vendre, et s'accumule dans les entrepôts portuaires, à Cotonou, Lomé, Dakar ou encore Abidjan. Une situation qui pénalise tous les maillons de la filière. Il y aurait, a minima 200 000 tonnes de coton africain invendues, selon Kassoum Koné, le président de l'Association cotonnière africaine, mais peut-être 250 000, voire 300 000 tonnes, à en croire des négociants rencontrés le 30 septembre lors du rendez-vous annuel de l'Association française cotonnière (Afcot) à Deauville, dans le nord de la France. Selon leurs estimations, il resterait notamment 100 000 tonnes de coton malien invendues. Quels que soient les chiffres, les volumes dépassent, de loin, ce qui reste à commercialiser d'habitude à cette époque. En cause, le coût de revient élevé du coton ouest-africain qui le rend peu compétitif. « La concurrence est rude, car il y a aussi du coton brésilien et américain sur le marché », explique Boubacar Salia Daou. Ce négociant, président de Millenium Mali, confirme que fin septembre, il n'y a en général plus de stock. La baisse des cours mondiaux a un impact sur ses marges, précise-t-il, mais aussi sur les finances de la CMDT, la société d'État malienne qui gère le secteur. Le secteur logistique au ralenti Ces invendus pèsent sur la plupart des sociétés cotonnières qui ne peuvent pas rembourser leurs crédits, mais vont devoir bientôt négocier de nouveaux prêts pour la prochaine campagne. Elles sont touchées à double titre, car elles doivent aussi supporter le coût d'un stockage plus long dans les entrepôts portuaires, des entrepôts où l'activité a ralenti. « Les entrepôts sont vidés fin juin d'habitude, mais cette année tous nos magasins à Lomé sont pleins », explique Blaise Agbozo, représentant du groupe R-Logistic au Togo.  L'expert en logistique a vu ses prévisions tomber à l'eau : « Plus vous rentrez du coton, plus vous en sortez, plus le tonnage augmente, et plus vous générez de la marge, mais si les entrepôts sont pleins et qu'il n'y a plus d'expéditions, nous y perdons forcément ». Risque de décote En bout de chaîne, ceux qui vérifient le poids et la qualité du coton avant qu'il soit embarqué n'ont qu'une hâte, que l'activité reprenne. « Nous avons certifié 65 % des volumes que nous traitons d'habitude à cette époque, nous attendons maintenant que les 35% qui restent soient embarqués d'ici décembre », témoigne Abderamane Adoum Hassan, directeur régional de Wakefield Inspection, basé à Abidjan, qui assure que le ralentissement de l'activité cotonnière n'épargne aucune société du secteur. Le risque, c'est qu'une fois la nouvelle récolte disponible, courant novembre, l'ancienne se vende avec une décote. Ce n'est pas tant le stock qui effraie le président de l'Association cotonnière africaine, que le manque de visibilité pour l'exporter. « Tout va vite dans le coton, s'il y a un appel d'air, tout ce qu'on qualifie de grand stock pourra être vendu rapidement, mais notre souci, c'est qu'on ne sait pas à quel moment on va sortir la tête de l'eau » résume le président de l'ACA qui espère que cette période difficile sera « la plus courte possible ». À lire aussiL'association des producteurs de coton africains élaborent leur feuille de route à Garoua

Hey guys, what you are about to listen to is an extremely graphic episode that will contain many scenes of gore, rape, human experimentation, honestly it will run the gambit. If you got a weak stomach, this episode might not be for you. You have been warned.  I just want to take a chance to say a big thanks to all of you guys who decided to join the patreon, you guys are awesome! Please leave a comment on this episode to let me know what more you want to hear about in the future. With all of that said and done lets jump right into it.   Where to begin with this one? Let start off with one of the major figures of Unit 731, Shiro Ishii. Born June 25th, 1892 in the village of Chiyoda Mura in Kamo District of Chiba Prefecture, Ishii was the product of his era. He came from a landowning class, had a very privileged childhood. His primary and secondary schoolmates described him to be brash, abrasive and arrogant. He was a teacher's pet, extremely intelligent, known to have excellent memory. He grew up during Japans ultra militarism/nationalism age, thus like any of his schoolmates was drawn towards the military. Less than a month after graduating from the Medical department of Kyoto Imperial University at the age of 28, he began military training as a probation officer in the 3rd regiment of the Imperial Guards division. Within 6 months he became a surgeon 1st Lt. During his postgraduate studies at Kyoto Imperial university he networked successfully to climb the career ladder. As a researcher he was sent out to help cure an epidemic that broke out in Japan. It was then he invented a water filter that could be carried alongside the troops.   He eventually came across a report of the Geneva Protocol and conference reports of Harada Toyoji as well as other military doctors. He became impressed with the potential of chemical and biological warfare. During WW1 chemical warfare had been highly explored, leading 44 nations to pass the Geneva Protocol or more specifically  “Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare”. Representatives from Japan were present at this conference and were involving in the drafting and signing of the Geneva Protocol, but it was not ratified in Japan at the time. Ishii's university mentor, Kiyano Kenji suggested he travel western countries and he did so for 2 years. Many nations were secretive about their research, but some places such as MIT were quite open. After his visit Ishii came to believe Japan was far behind everyone else in biological warfare research. After returning to Japan Ishii became an instructor at the Imperial Japanese Army Medical School. Japan of course lacked significant natural resources, thus it was a perfect nation to pursue biological weapons research. Ishii began lobbying the IJA, proposing to establish a military agency to develop biological weapons. One of his most compelling arguments was “that biological warfare must possess distinct possibilities, otherwise, it would not have been outlawed by the League of Nations.”   Ishii networked his way into good favor with the Minister of Health, Koizumi Chikahiko who lended his support in August of 1932 to allow Ishii to head an Epidemic Prevention Laboratory. Ishii secured a 1795 square meter complex at the Army Medical College. Yet this did not satisfy Ishii, it simply was not the type of work he wanted to do. The location of Tokyo allowed too many eyes on his work, he could not perform human experimentation. For what he wanted to do, he had to leave Japan, and in the 1930's Japan had a few colonies or sphere's of influence, the most appetizing one being Manchuria. In 1932 alongside his childhood friend Masuda Tomosada, Ishii took a tour of Harbin and he fell in love with the location.   During the 1930's Harbin was quite a cosmopolitan city, it was a major trading port and diverse in ethnicities and religions. Here there were Mongols, Russians, Chinese, Japanese, various other western groups in lesser numbers. Just about every religion was represented, it was a researcher's paradise for subjects. Ishii sought human experimentation and needed to find somewhere covert with maximum secrecy. He chose a place in the Nan Gang District of Beiyinhe village, roughly 70 kms southeast of Harbin. It was here and then he began human experimentation. One day in 1932, Ishii and the IJA entered the village and evacuated an entire block where Xuan Hua and Wu Miao intersected. They began occupying a multi-use structure that had been supporting 100 Chinese vendors who sold clothes and food to the locals. They then began drafting Chinese laborers to construct the Zhong Ma complex to house the “Togo Unit” named after the legendary admiral, Togo Heihachiro. The Chinese laborers were underpaid and under constant watch from Japanese guards, limiting their movement and preventing them from understanding what they were building, or what was occurring within the complex. The complex was built in under a year, it held 100 rooms, 3 meter high brick walls and had an electric fence surrounding the perimeter. One thousand captives at any given time could be imprisoned within the complex. To ensure absolute secrecy, security guards patrolled the complex 24/7. Saburo Endo, director of Operations for the Kwantung Army once inspected the Togo Unit and described it in his book “The Fifteen Years' Sino-Japanese War and Me”, as such:   [It was] converted from a rather large soy sauce workshop, surrounded by high rammed earth wall. All the attending military doctors had pseudonyms, and they were strictly regulated and were not allowed to communicate with the outsiders. The name of the unit was “Tōgō Unit.” One by one, the subjects of the experiments were imprisoned in a sturdy iron lattice and inoculated with various pathogenic bacteria to observe changes in their conditions. They used prisoners on death row in the prisons of Harbin for these experiments. It was said that it was for national defense purposes, but the experiments were performed with appalling brutality.The dead were burned in high-voltage electric furnaces, leaving no trace.    A local from the region added this about the complex “We heard rumors of people having blood drawn in there but we never went near the place. We were too afraid. When the construction started, there were about forty houses in our village, and a lot of people were driven out. About one person from each home was taken to work on the construction. People were gathered from villages from all around here, maybe about a thousand people in all. The only things we worked on were the surrounding wall and the earthen walls. The Chinese that worked on the buildings were brought in from somewhere, but we didn't know where. After everything was finished, those people were killed.”    Despite all the secrecy, it was soon discovered prisoners were being taken, primarily from the CCP and bandits who were being subjected to tests. One such test was to gradually drain a victim of blood to see at what point they would die. The unit drew 500 cc of blood from each prisoner every 3-5 days. As their bodies drew weaker, they were dissected for further research, the average prisoner lasted a maximum of a month. Due to the climate of Manchuria, it was soon established that finding methods to treat frostbite would benefit the Kwantung army. Ishii's team gathered human subjects and began freezing and unfreezing them. Sometimes these experiments included observing test subjects whose limbs had been frozen and severed. The Togo team reported to General Okamura Yasuji, the deputy commander in chief of the Kwantung army from 1933-1934 that the best way to treat frostbite was to soak a limb in 37 degree water. According to the testimony of a witness named Furuichi at trial done in Khabarovsk , “Experiments in freezing human beings were performed every year in the detachment, in the coldest months of the year—November, December, January and February. The experimental technique was as follows: the test subjects were taken out into the frost at about 11 o'clock at night, compelled to dip their hands into a barrel of cold water and forced to stand with wet hands in the frost for a long time. Alternatively, some were taken out dressed, but with bare feet and compelled to stand at night in the frost during the coldest period of the year. When frostbite had developed, the subjects were taken to a room and forced to put their feet in water of 5 degrees Celsius, after which the temperature was gradually increased.”   Sergeant Major Kurakazu who was with Unit 731 later on in 1940 and taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1945 stated during the Khabarovsk trial , “I saw experiments performed on living people for the first time in December 1940. I was shown these experiments by researcher Yoshimura, a member of the 1st Division. These experiments were performed in the prison laboratory. When I walked into the prison laboratory, ve Chinese experimentees were sitting there; two of these Chinese had no fingers at all, their hands were black; in those of three others the bones were visible. They had fingers, but they were only bones. Yoshimura told me that this was the result of freezing experiments.”   According to Major Karasawa during the same trial Ishii became curious about using plague as a weapon of war and captured plague infected mice to test on subjects in the Zhong Ma Complex “Ishii told me that he had experimented with cholera and plague on the mounted bandits of Manchuria during 1933-1934 and discovered that the plague was effective.”   According to Lt General Endo Saburo's diary entry on November 16th of 1933, at the Zhong Ma complex “The second squad which was responsible for poison gas, liquid poison; and the First Squad which was responsible for electrical experiments. Two bandits were used by each squad for the experiments.  Phosgene gas—5-minute injection of gas into a brick-lined room; the subject was still alive one day aer inhalation of gas; critically ill with pneumonia.  Potassium cyanide—the subject was injected with 15 mg.; subject lost consciousness approximately 20 minutes later.  20,000 volts—several jolts were not enough to kill the subject; injection of poison required to kill the subject.  5000 volts—several jolts were not enough; aer several minutes of continuous current, subject was burned to death.”    The Togo Unit established a strict security system to keep its research highly confidential. Yet in 1934, 16 Chinese prisoners escaped, compromising the Zhong Ma location. One of the guards had gotten drunk and a prisoner named Li smashed a bottle over his head and stole his keys. He freed 15 other prisoners and of them 4 died of cold, hunger and other ailments incurred by the Togo unit. 12 managed to flee to the 3rd route army of the Northeast Anti Japanese united Army. Upon hearing the horrifying report, the 3rd route army attacked the Togo unit at Beiyinhe and within a year, the Zhong Ma complex was exploded.    After the destruction of the Zhong Ma complex, Ishii needed a better structure. The Togo unit had impressed their superior and received a large budget. Then on May 30th of 1936 Emperor Hirohito authorized the creation of Unit 731. Thus Ishii and his colleagues were no longer part of the Epidemic Prevention Institute of the Army Medical School, now they were officially under the Kwantung Army as the Central Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department. Their new HQ was located in Pingfan, closer to Harbin. Their initial budget was 3 million yen for the personnel, 200-300 thousand yen per autonomous unit and 6 million yen for experimentation and research. Thus their new annual budget was over 10 million yen.    Pingfan was evacuated by the Kwantung army. Hundreds of families were forced to move out and sell their land at cheap prices. To increase security this time, people required a special pass to enter Pingfan. Then the airspace over the area became off-limits, excluding IJA aircraft, all violators would be shot down. The new Pingfan complex was within a walled city with more than 70 buildings over a 6 km tract of land. The complex's huge size drew some international attention, and when asked what the structure was, the scientists replied it was a lumber mill. Rather grotesquely, prisoners would be referred to as “maruta” or “logs” to keep up the charade. Suzuki, a Japanese construction company back then, worked day and night to construct the complex.    Now many of you probably know a bit about Unit 731, but did you know it's one of countless units?  The Army's Noborito Laboratory was established (1937) The Central Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the North China Army/ Unit 1855 was established (1938)  The Central Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of Central China/ Unit 1644 (1939)  Thee Guangzhou Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of South China Army/ Unit 8604 (1942)  The Central Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Southern Expeditionary Army/ Unit 9620 (1942).    There were countless others, detachments included Unit 1855 in Beijing, Unit Ei 1644 in Nanjing, Unit 8604 in Guangzhou, and later Unit 9420 in Singapore. All of these units comprised Ishii's network, which, at its height in 1939, oversaw over 10,000 personnel.   Victims were normally brought to Pingfan during the dead of night within crammed freight cars with number logs on top. They were brought into the building via a secret tunnel. According to a witness named Fang Shen Yu, technicians in white lab coats handled the victims who were tied in bags. The victims included anyone charge with a crime, could be anti-japanese activity, opium smoking, espionage, being a communist, homelessness, being mentally handicap, etc. Victims included chinese, Mongolians, Koreans, White Russians, Harbin's jewish population and any Europeans accused of espionage. During the Khabarovsk trial, Major Iijima Yoshia admitted to personally subjecting 40 Soviet citizens to human experimentation. Harbin's diversity provided great research data. Each prisoner was assigned a number starting with 101 and ending at 1500. Onec 1500 was reached, they began again at 101, making it nearly impossible to estimate the total number of victims. Since the complex had been labeled a lumber mill to the locals, most did not worry about it or were too afraid to do so. The prison's warden was Ishii's brother Mitsuo who made sure to keep it all a secret.    Ethics did not exist within Ishii's network of horrors. Everything was done efficiently in the name of science. Pingfang was equipped for disposing the evidence of their work in 3 large incinerators. As a former member who worked with the incinerators recalled “the bodies always burned up fast because all the organ were gone; the bodies were empty”. Human experimentation allowed the researchers their first chance to actually examine the organs of a living person at will to see the progress of a disease. Yeah you heard me right, living person, a lot of the vivisections were done on live people. As one former researcher explained "the results of the effects of infection cannot be obtained accurately once the person dies because putrefactive bacteria set in. Putrefactive bacteria are stronger than plague germs. So, for obtaining accurate results, it is important whether the subject is alive or not." Another former researcher said this “"As soon as the symptoms were observed, the prisoner was taken from his cell and into the dissection room. He was stripped and placed on the table, screaming, trying to fight back. He was strapped down, still screaming frightfully. One of the doctors stuffed a towel into his mouth, then with one quick slice of the scalpel he was opened up." Witnesses of some of these vivisections reported that victims usually let out a horrible scream when the initial cuts were made, but that the voice stops soon after. The researchers often removed the organ of interest, leaving others in the body and the victims usually died of blood loss or because of the removed organ. There are accounts of experiments benign carried out on mothers and children, because yes children were in fact born in the facilities. Many human specimens were placed in jars to be viewed by Tokyo's army medical college. Sometimes these jars were filled with limbs or organs but some giant ones had entire bodies.   Vivisection was conducted on human beings to observe how disease affected each organ once a human dies. According to testimony given by a technician named Ogawa Fukumatsu “I participated in vivisections. I did them every day. I cannot remember the amount of people dissected. At first, I refused to do it. But then, they would not allow me to eat because it was an order; gradually I changed.” Another technician Masakuni Kuri testified  “I did vivisection at the time. Experiments were conducted on a Chinese woman with syphilis. Because she was alive, the blood poured out like water from a tap.”   A report done by Shozo Kondo studied the effects of bubonic plague on humans. The number of subjects was 57 with age ranging from toddlers to 80 years old with mixed gender. The study used fleas carrying plague that were dispersed upon the local population in June of 1940 at Changchun. 7 plague victims were Japanese residents. The report stated the plague spread because of lack of immunity by the townspeople. Subjects' survival time ranged from 2-5 days, with only 3 surviving 12, 18 and 21 days. The subjects were infected with Glandular, Cutaneous or Septicemic plague, but most had the Glandular variety.     In addition to the central units of Pingfang were others set up in Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Singapore. The total number of personnel was 20,000. These satellite facilities all had their own unique horror stories. One was located in Anda, 100km from Pingfang where outdoor tests for plague, cholera and other pathogens were down. They would expose human subjects to biological bombs, typically by putting 10-40 people in the path of a biological bomb. A lot of the research was done to see the effective radius of the bombs, so victims were placed at different distances. At Xinjing was Unit 100 and its research was done against domesticated animals, horses particularly. Unit 100 was a bacteria factory producing glanders, anthrax and other pathogens. They often ran tests by mixing poisons with food and studied its effects on animals, but they also researched chemical warfare against crops. At Guangzhou was unit 8604 with its HQ at Zhongshan medical university. It is believed starvation tests ran there, such as the water test I mentioned. They also performed typhoid tests and bred rats to spread plague. Witness testimony from a Chinese volunteer states they often dissolved the bodies of victims in acid. In Beijing was Unit 1855 which was a combination of a prison and experiment center. They ran plague, cholera and typhus tests. Prisoners were forced to ingest mixtures of germs and some were vaccinated against the ailments. In Singapore after its capture in February of 1942 there was a secret laboratory. One Mr. Othman Wok gave testimony in the 1990s that when he was 17 years old he was employed to work at this secret lab. He states 7 Chinese, Indian and Malay boys worked in the lab, picking fleas from rats and placing them in containers. Some 40 rat catchers, would haul rats to the lab for the boys to do their work. The containers with fleas went to Japanese researchers and Othman says he saw rats being injected with plague pathogens. The fleas were transferred to kerosene cans which contained dried horse blood and an unidentified chemical left to breed for weeks. Once they had plague infected fleas in large quantity Othman said "A driver who drove the trucks which transported the fleas to the railway station said that these bottles of fleas were sent off to Thailand." If this is true, it gives evidence to claims Unit 731 had a branch in Thailand as well. Othman stated he never understood or knew what was really going on at the lab, but when he read in 1944 about biological attacks on Chongqing using fleas, he decided to leave the lab. Othman states the unit was called Unit 9240.  As you can imagine rats and insects played a large role in all of this. They harvested Manchuria rat population and enlisted schoolchildren to raise them. In the 1990s the Asahi Broadcasting company made a documentary titled “the mystery of the rats that went to the continent”. It involved a small group of high school children in Saitama prefecture asked local farmers if they knew anything about rat farming during the war years. Many stated everybody back then was raising rats, it was a major source of income. One family said they had rat cages piled up in a shed, each cage built to carry 6 rat, but they had no idea what the rats were being used for. Now hear this, after the war, the US military kept these same families in business. The US army unit 406 which was established in Tokyo to research viruses wink wink, would often drive out to these farms in their american jeeps collecting rats.  Getting fleas was a much tricker task. One method was taking older Chinese prisoners and quarantining them with clothes carrying flea or flea eggs and allowing them to live in isolated rooms to cultivate more fleas. These poor guys had to live in filth and not shave for weeks to produce around 100 fleas a day. Now Unit 731 dealt with numerous diseases such as Cholera.  Some experiments used dogs to spread cholera to villages. They would steal dogs from villages, feed them pork laced with cholera germs and return them to the villages. When the disease finished incubating the dogs would vomit and other dogs would come and eat the vomit spread it more and more. The dogs were also stricken with diarrhea and the feces spread it to other dogs as well. 20% of the people in villages hit by this died of the disease. Former army captain Kojima Takeo was a unit member involved in a Cholera campaign and added this testimony "We were told that we were going out on a cholera campaign, and we were all given inoculations against cholera ten days before starting out. Our objective was to infect all the people in the area. The disease had already developed before we got there, and as we moved into the village everyone scattered. The only ones left were those who were too sick to move. The number of people coming down with the disease kept increasing. Cholera produces a face like a skeleton, vomiting, and diarrhea. And the vomiting and defecating of the people lying sick brought flies swarming around. One after the other, people died." I've mentioned it a lot, Plague was a staple of Unit 731. The IJA wanted a disease that was fast and fatal, Cholera for instance took about 20 days, plague on the other hand starts killing in 3 days. Plague also has a very long history of use going back to the medieval times. It was one of the very first diseases Ishii focused on. In october of 1940 a plague attack was conducted against the Kaimingjie area in the port city of Ningbo. This was a joint operation with Unit 731 and the Nanjing based Unit 1644. During this operation plague germs were mixed with wheat, corn, cloth scraps and cotton and dropped from the air. More than 100 people died within a few days of the attack and the affected area was sealed off from the public until the 1960s.  Another horrifying test was the frostbite experiments. Army Engineer Hisato Yoshimura conducted these types of experiments by taking prisoners outside, dipping various appendages into water of varying temperatures and allowing the limbs to freeze. Once frozen, Yoshimura would strike their affected limbs with a short stick and in his words “they would emit a sound resembling that which a board gives when it is struck”. Ice was then chipping away with the affected area being subjected to various treatments, such as being doused in water, exposed to heat and so on. I have to mentioned here, that to my shock there is film of these specific frostbite experiments and one of our animators at Kings and Generals found it, I have seen a lot of things in my day, but seeing this was absolute nightmare fuel. If you have seen the movie or series Snowpiercer, they pretty much nail what it looked like.  Members of Unit 731 referred to Yoshimura as a “scientific devil” and a “cold blooded animal” because he would conduct his work with strictness. Naoji Uezono another member of Unit 731, described in a 1980s interview a disgusting scene where Yoshimura had "two naked men put in an area 40–50 degrees below zero and researchers filmed the whole process until [the subjects] died. [The subjects] suffered such agony they were digging their nails into each other's flesh". Yoshimuras lack of any remorse was evident in an article he wrote for the Journal of Japanese Physiology in 1950 where he admitted to using 20 children and 3 day old infant in experiments which exposed them to zero degree celsius ice and salt water. The article drew criticism and no shit, but Yoshimura denied any guilt when contacted by a reporter from the Mainichi Shimbun. Yoshimura developed a “resistance index of frostbite” based on the mean temperature of 5 - 30 minutes after immersion in freezing water, the temperature of the first rise after immersion and the time until the temperature first rises after immersion. In a number of separate experiments he determined how these parameters depended on the time of day a victim's body part was immersed in freezing water, the surrounding temperature and humidity during immersion, how the victim had been treated before the immersion ("after keeping awake for a night", "after hunger for 24 hours", "after hunger for 48 hours", "immediately after heavy meal", "immediately after hot meal", "immediately after muscular exercise", "immediately after cold bath", "immediately after hot bath"), what type of food the victim had been fed over the five days preceding the immersions with regard to dietary nutrient intake ("high protein (of animal nature)", "high protein (of vegetable nature)", "low protein intake", and "standard diet"), and salt intake. Members of Unit 731 also worked with Syphilis, where they orchestrated forced sex acts between infected and noninfected prisoners to transmit the disease. One testimony given by a prisoner guard was as follows “Infection of venereal disease by injection was abandoned, and the researchers started forcing the prisoners into sexual acts with each other. Four or five unit members, dressed in white laboratory clothing completely covering the body with only eyes and mouth visible, rest covered, handled the tests. A male and female, one infected with syphilis, would be brought together in a cell and forced into sex with each other. It was made clear that anyone resisting would be shot.” After victims were infected, they would be vivisected at differing stages of infection so that the internal and external organs could be observed as the disease progressed. Testimony from multiple guards blamed the female victims as being hosts of the diseases, even as they were forcibly infected. Genitals of female prisoners were infected with syphilis and the guards would call them “jam filled buns”. Even some children were born or grew up in the walls of Unit 731, infected with syphilis. One researcher recalled “one was a Chinese women holding an infant, one was a white russian woman with a daughter of 4 or 5 years of age, and the last was a white russian women with a boy of about 6 or 7”. The children of these women were tested in ways similar to the adults.  There was also of course rape and forced pregnancies as you could guess. Female prisoners were forced to become pregnant for use in experiments. The hypothetical possibility of transmission from mother to child of diseases, particularly syphilis was the rationale for the experiments. Fetal survival and damage to the womans reproductive organs were objects of interest. A large number of babies were born in captivity and there had been no accounts of any survivor of Unit 731, children included. It is suspected that the children of the female prisoners were killed after birth or aborted. One guard gave a testimony “One of the former researchers I located told me that one day he had a human experiment scheduled, but there was still time to kill. So he and another unit member took the keys to the cells and opened one that housed a Chinese woman. One of the unit members raped her; the other member took the keys and opened another cell. There was a Chinese woman in there who had been used in a frostbite experiment. She had several fingers missing and her bones were black, with gangrene set in. He was about to rape her anyway, then he saw that her sex organ was festering, with pus oozing to the surface. He gave up the idea, left and locked the door, then later went on to his experimental work.” In a testimony given on December 28 by witness Furuichi during the Khabarovsk Trial, he described how “a Russian woman was infected with syphilis to allow the scientists to and out how to prevent the spread of the disease.  Many babies were born to women who had been captured and become experimental subjects. Some women were kidnapped while pregnant; others became pregnant aer forced sex acts in the prisons, enabling researchers to study the transmission of venereal disease   Initially Unit 731 and Unit 100 were going to support Japan's Kantokuen plan. The Kantokuen plan an operation plan to be carried out by the Kwantung army to invade the USSR far east, capitalizing on the success of operation barbarossa. Unit 731 and 100 were to prepare bacteriological weapons to help the invasion. The plan was created by the IJA general staff and approved by Emperor Hirohito. It would have involved three-steps to isolate and destroy the Soviet Army and occupy the eastern soviet cities over the course of 6 months. It would have involved heavy use of chemical and biological weapons. The Japanese planned to spread disease using three methods; direct spraying from aircraft, bacteria bombs and saboteurs on the ground. This would have included plague, cholera, typhus and other diseases against troops, civilian populations, livestocks, crops and water supplies. The main targets were Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Voroshilov, and Chita. If successful the Soviet Far East would be incorporated into Japan's greater east asia co-prosperity sphere. Within Kantokuen documents, Emperor Hirohtio instructed Ishii to increase production rate at the units, for those not convinced Hirohito was deeply involved in some of the worst actions of the war. Yet in the end both Emperor Hirohito and Hideki Tojo pulled their support for the invasion of the USSR and opted for the Nanshin-ron strategy instead.    On August 9th of 1945 the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and invaded Manchuria. In response, the Japanese government ordered all research facilities in Manchuria to be destroyed and to erase all incriminating materials. A skeleton crew began the liquidation of unit 731 on August 9th or 10th, while the rest of the unit evacuated. All test subjects were killed and cremated so no remains would be found. The design of the facilities however, made them hard to destroy via bombing, several parts of the buildings left standing when the Soviets arrived. While most of the unit's staff managed to escape, including Ishii, some were captured by the soviets. Some of these prisoners told the Soviets about the atrocities committed at Pingfang and Changchun. At first the claims seemed so outrageous, the Soviets sent their own Biological Weapons specialists to examine the ruins of Ping Fang. After a thorough investigation, the Soviet experts confirmed the experiments had been done there. The real soviet investigation into the secrets of Unit 731 and 100 began in early 1946, thus information was not readily available during the Tokyo Tribunal. Both the Americans and SOviets had collected evidence during the war that indicated the Japanese were in possession of bacteriological weapons though. Amongst the 600,000 Japanese prisoners of war in the USSR, Major General Kiyoshi Kawashima and Major Tomoio Karasawa would become essential to uncovering the Japanese bacteriological warfare secrets and opening the path to hold the Khabarovsk trial. The Soviets and Americans spent quite a few years performing investigations, many of which led to no arrests. The major reason for this was similar to Operation Paperclip. For those unaware, paperclip was a American secret intelligence program where 1600 German scientists were taken after the war and employed, many of whom were nazi party officials. The most famous of course was Wernher von Braun. When the Americans looked into the Japanese bacteriological work, they were surprised to find the Japanese were ahead of them in some specific areas, notably ones involving human experimentation. General Charles Willoughby of G-2 american intelligence called to attention that all the data extracted from live human testing was out of the reach of the USA. By the end of 1947, with the CCP looking like they might defeat Chiang Kai-Shek and the Soviet Union proving to be their new enemy, the US sought to form an alliance with Japan, and this included their Bacteriological specialists. From October to December, Drs Edwin Hill and Joseph Victor from Camp Detrick were sent to Tokyo to gather information from Ishii and his colleagues. Their final conclusion laid out the importance of continuing to learn from the Japanese teams, and grant them immunity. The British were also receiving some reports from the Americans about the Japanese Bacteriological research and human experimentation. The British agreed with the Americans that the information was invaluable due to the live human beings used in the tests. The UK and US formed some arrangements to retain the information and keep it secret. By late 1948 the Tokyo War Crimes Trial was coming to an end as the cold war tension was heating up in Korea, pushing the US more and more to want to retain the information and keep it all under wraps.  With formal acceptance, final steps were undertaken, much of which was overseen by General Douglas MacArthur. On May 6, 1947, Douglas MacArthur wrote to Washington that "additional data, possibly some statements from Ishii probably can be obtained by informing Japanese involved that information will be retained in intelligence channels and will not be employed as 'War Crimes' evidence.” Ishii and his colleagues received full immunity from the Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Ishii was hired by the US government to lecture American officers at Fort Detrick on bioweapons and the findings made by Unit 731. During the Korean War Ishii reportedly traveled to Korea to take part in alleged American biological warfare activities. On February 22nd of 1952, Ishiiwas explicitly named in a statement made by the North Korean FOreign Minister, claiming he along with other "Japanese bacteriological war criminals had been involved in systematically spreading large quantities of bacteria-carrying insects by aircraft in order to disseminate contagious diseases over our frontline positions and our rear". Ishii would eventually return to Japan, where he opened a clinic, performing examinations and treatments for free. He would die from laryngeal cancer in 1959 and according to his daughter became a Roman Catholic shortly before his death.  According to an investigation by The Guardian, after the war, former members of Unit 731 conducted human experiments on Japanese prisoners, babies, and mental patients under the guise of vaccine development, with covert funding from the U.S. government. Masami Kitaoka, a graduate of Unit 1644, continued performing experiments on unwilling Japanese subjects from 1947 to 1956 while working at Japan's National Institute of Health Sciences. He infected prisoners with rickettsia and mentally ill patients with typhus. Shiro Ishii, the chief of the unit, was granted immunity from prosecution for war crimes by American occupation authorities in exchange for providing them with human experimentation research materials. From 1948 to 1958, less than five percent of these documents were transferred to microfilm and stored in the U.S. National Archives before being shipped back to Japan.

This week we talk about how Power-Rangers-meets-isekai in The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, where the MC Togo “dies” but wakes in a fantasy world, we laugh about the stat sheet and how his lists punch and kick separately and some subtle gags and the classic Power Ranger trope where enemies randomly explode on defeat. We note a teased “silver” ranger, bandage/bond visual puns like “adhesion squad” and “bond breakers” with a late-season tone shift that suddenly goes dark.The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World mashes heroics and isekai comedy. Togo, the red leader of the Kizuna Five, dies(?) during a last stand against his nemesis and wakes up in a fantasy world where magic users can't make sense of his techy ranger gear. In the new world he keeps doing hero work as Kizuna Red, while he eventually teams up with the headstrong mage Yihdra Arvoln, princess Teltina, and knightly bodyguard Lowji to take on the forces of “evil”.Next Week's Pick: "Chivalry of a Failed Knight"Have you had the chance to watch Red Ranger becomes an adventure in another world or any of our previous selections? We'd love to hear your thoughts and recommendations for future picks!Check out CJ's PodcastAnime AnonymousDeals for You:Supporting your anime binge sessions is what we do best! Here are some exclusive deals that'll make your anime-watching experience even better.Crunchyroll Affiliate Offers: Get 15% off your first anime merch order here. Stream your favorite anime with Crunchyroll. Start Your Free TrialTokyoTreat Special: Use code "FEATUREDANIME" for $5 off your first box through this TokyoTreat link.Looking for some podcast merch? We've got you covered: Main Store Alternative ShopSupport Our PodcastLove what we do? Support the podcast through Patreon! You can get access to ad-free episodes, bonus content, and more.Support us on PatreonStay Connected With UsDon't miss out on our latest episodes or discussions! Join us across our social channels and be part of the community: Contact Us Anime List: Check out our anime list on MyAnimeList. Twitch: Watch us live on twitch.tv/featuredanimepodcast Email: info@featuredanimepodcast.com X (Twitter): @ThoseAnimeGuys Facebook: Featured Anime Podcast Discord: Join our DiscordAnime Info and Our Ratings: Producers: Square Enix, Nippon Columbia, AT-X, Tokyo MX, SUN TV, BS11, TV Aichi, KBS Kyoto Studio: Satelight Source: Manga Genres: Comedy, Isekai, Action, Fantasy Aired: January 2025 - March 2025 Number of Episodes: 12Our Scores: Jack's Score: 8 / 10 Rick's Score: 8 / 10

Deux figures de la « green Tech » s'affichent au menu de la sélection de cette semaine. La Tunisienne Khouloud Ayachi, ingénieure environnementaliste, a créé Meps, une start-up destinée à aider les agriculteurs et éleveurs à préserver leurs activités en créant de la valeur ajoutée à partir des biodéchets. La Togolaise Nadine Couao Zotti est titulaire d'un master en villes durables. Elle a également suivi une spécialisation dans les technologies de la biomasse et des bioénergies. Sa start up Africa Ecoworld produit du charbon écologique à base de déchets agricoles et organiques.

Des chili mexicains, aux falafels, ou autres riz sauce pois haïtien : les légumineuses sont de toutes les cuisines du monde. Bonnes pour la planète, pour la santé, savoureuses, belles, malines, alliées des petits budgets, les légumineuses sont des trésors injustement snobés au Nord. Haricots, lentilles, fèves, pois cassés, chiches, pois d'Angole ou lentilles beluga, leur inventaire est local et infini, et les manières de les préparer multiples et variées, en friture, en purée, en galettes ! Elles sont aussi vectrices de symboles, de rites : prenez, par exemple, ces lentilles cuisinées et partagées au Nouvel an en se souhaitant santé et prospérité, pour dons, par vœux, pour les mariages. Elles ont un caractère sacré, identitaire, elles se préparent à plusieurs, réunissent et sèment dans les plats de la couleur. Il est même dit des fèves qu'elles sont l'âme des Égyptiens… Avec Zohra Levacher, cheffe et fondatrice de SONAT, rue 5, rue Bourdaloue à Paris, autrice de Chiche, osez les légumineuses aux éditions Ülmer, et «So nat, des légumes et du goût», toujours chez Ulmer Zohra est sur instagram. Les gourmandes et très belles photos de Chiche !, sont de Franck Juery Emma Anquez fait fermenter ses pois chiches et haricots rouges avant de les transformer en pâtes à tartiner. La fermentation les rend plus digestes et leur donne ce petit goût inimitable :  elle a créé les frimeuses, et remporté le Prix innovation nutrition à Écotrophélia en 2022. Sur instagram. Dans l'émission, on s'assied chez Jabiru café, le restaurant africain de Gilles Dolatabadi, à Strasbourg, dans le quartier de Krütenau. C'est Marie, sa mère qui est en cuisine. Chaque mois, au menu, une suggestion : un plat en lien avec un événement ayant eu lieu, le mois en cours. Une suggestion fouillée, réfléchie et expliquée par le fondateur passionné du Jabiru. Pour ce mois de septembre 2025, la suggestion est le yêke-yêke, un plat de festival Guin et Mina célébré au Togo.   Pour vous léguminer : - Cuisine végétarienne, d'Estérelle Payany, aux éditions Flammarion - La cuisine libanaise de Beyrouth à Paris, d'Andrée Maalouf et Karim Haïdar, aux éditions Albin Michel - Les épices Shira - Les pois chiches Desi découverts par Zohra, lors de la rédaction de son livre - Je mange pour le futur, la page instagram est le reflet des travaux de la chaire Anca Agroparitech pour sensibiliser à l'alimentation durable. En images Programmation musicale : El Juego, de Lorenda Blume et Lido Pimienta.

Les journalistes et experts de RFI répondent également à vos questions sur des migrants ouest-africains expulsés du Ghana vers le Togo et la mission multinationale en Haïti. Danemark : la Russie est-elle derrière les drones non-identifiés ?  Pour la troisième fois depuis le début de la semaine, des drones ont fait des incursions dans l'espace aérien du Danemark, au-dessus de plusieurs aéroports. Après des incidents similaires en Norvège, Pologne, Roumanie et Estonie, la responsabilité du Kremlin est pointée du doigt. Que sait-on de l'implication russe ? Comment les pays européens visés comptent-ils riposter ? Avec Franck Alexandre, journaliste spécialiste des questions de défense et de sécurité à RFI.    Ghana : que sait-on des migrants ouest-africains envoyés au Togo ?   À peine accueillis par le Ghana, six des quatorze migrants expulsés des États-Unis ont été renvoyés vers le Togo. Comment le gouvernement justifie-t-il cette décision ? L'avocat représentant ces ressortissants dénonce une «détention illégale». Comment expliquer de telles accusations ?   Avec Victor Cariou, correspondant de RFI à Accra.     Haïti : pourquoi le Kenya tape sur la table ?   En marge de l'Assemblée générale des Nations unies, le président kényan William Ruto a exprimé son exaspération face au manque de soutien international à la mission dirigée par son pays pour lutter contre les gangs en Haïti. Quel rôle joue le Kenya sur le terrain ? Dans ce contexte, les autorités kényanes pourraient-elles finir par se désengager ? Avec Wiener Kerns Fleurimond, journaliste et écrivain. Auteur de l'ouvrage « Haïti : de l'opposition à l'assassinat d'un chef d'État » (éditions L'Harmattan).   Et en fin d'émission, la chronique « Un œil sur les réseaux » de Jessica Taieb. Aujourd'hui, elle revient sur les réactions des internautes après l'annonce puis l'annulation d'un concert du chanteur malien Sidiki Diabaté au stade Félix Houphouët-Boigny d'Abidjan en soutien à Alassane Ouattara.

From the Williams Broadcasting Studio join John, Dr. Matt, and Cyndi Robbins of Poland Spring talking about Togo the Maine State Dog!!!!

“You're supposed to represent power!”This episode about Egyptian mythology also includes history about The Great Race for Mercy, during which Darien mistakenly refers to an important sled dog as “Fox” when his name was actually Togo. Deepest apologies. Those responsible have been sacked. Other topics include many Horus Variants, a Peregrine Falcon PSA, Young Horus as a symbol of hope, a very cool-sounding festival tradition that was probably pretty meh actually, strategic connections to godly iconography, a side tangent about sixth grade social studies, and Horus being a big, fat cheater. Content Warning: This episode contains mentions of and conversations about gun violence, death, and the afterlife. Spoilers for SMITE, Aladdin: King of Thieves, The Mummy Returns, and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Learn more about Sandy Hook Promise: https://www.sandyhookpromise.org/DJ and the Plucky Squire bonus episode available NOW on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/musesofmythologyAbout UsMuses of Mythology was created and co-hosted by Darien and DJ Smartt.Our music is Athens Festival by Martin Haene. Our cover art is by Ranpakoka. Find him on Instagram @Ranpakoka Love the podcast? Support us on Patreon and get instant access to bloopers, outtakes, and bonus episodes! Patreon.com/musesofmythologyGet you hands on podcast merch at Musesofmythology.com/merchFind us @MusesOfMyth on Instagram. Find all of our episodes and episode transcripts at MusesOfMythology.com----------------------- Support the showNo portion of this episode may be used for AI training purposes or to create derivative works without express written permission from the creators and co-hosts Darien Smartt or Davis Smartt.

Togolese Prime Minister Faure Gnassingbe's sister-in-law, who's also the ex Defence Minister, has been arrested after calling for end to family rule.How aid cuts and crocodile attacks are contributing to malnutrition in northern Kenya.And why do Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso apparently want to leave the International Criminal Court?Presenter: Charles Gitonga Producers : Mark Wilberforce, Bella Hassan, Nyasha Michelle and Sunita Nahar in London. Jewel Kiriungi in Nairobi. Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Technical producer: Jack Graysmark. Editors: Andre Lombard, Samuel Murunga, Maryam Abdalla and Alice Muthengi

Chegou o momento do já tradicional episódio duplo sobre o IgNobel, que tem como missão "honrar estudos e experiências que primeiro fazem as pessoas rir e depois pensar", com as descobertas científicas mais estranhas do ano.Esta é a primeira de duas partes sobre a edição 2025 do prêmio, com as categorias Literatura, Psicologia, Nutrição, Biologia e Química.Confira no papo entre o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.> OUÇA (52min 22s)*Naruhodo! é o podcast pra quem tem fome de aprender. Ciência, senso comum, curiosidades, desafios e muito mais. Com o leigo curioso, Ken Fujioka, e o cientista PhD, Altay de Souza.Edição: Reginaldo Cursino.http://naruhodo.b9.com.br*APOIO: INSIDERIlustríssima ouvinte, ilustríssimo ouvinte do Naruhodo,sabe qual a minha peça coringa no guarda-roupas?É a Camiseta Oversized T-Shirt da INSIDER.Trampo? Ela cai bem.Lazer? Ela cai muito bem.É macia.É elástica.É anti-odor.Não desbota com o tempo.Não precisa passar.Regula a temperatura corporal.Entendeu por que ela é minha peça coringa?E, em Setembro, o Mês do Cliente, você tem a melhor oportunidade para começar a comprar INSIDER: combinando o cupom NARUHODO com os descontos do site, o seu desconto total pode chegar a até 50%!Isso mesmo: sua compra pode sair até pela metade do preço.Mas tem que acessar pela URL especial:creators.insiderstore.com.br/NARUHODOOu clicar no link da descrição deste episódio:o cupom será aplicado automaticamente no carrinho.INSIDER: inteligência em cada escolha.#InsiderStore*REFERÊNCIASThe 35th First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony (2025)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1cP4xKd_L4PRÊMIO DE LITERATURA [EUA]O falecido Dr. William B. Bean, por registrar e analisar persistentemente, durante 35 anos, a taxa de crescimento de uma de suas unhas. “A Note on Fingernail Growth,” William B. Bean, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, vol. 20, no. 1, January 1953, pp. 27-31. “A Discourse on Nail Growth and Unusual Fingernails,” William B. Bean, Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association, vol. 74, 1962; pp. 152-67. “Nail Growth. Twenty-Five Years' Observation,” William B. Bean, Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 122, no. 4, October 1968, pp. 359-61. “Nail Growth: 30 Years of Observation,” William B. Bean, Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 134, no. 3, September 1974, pp. 497-502. “Some Notes of an Aging Nail Watcher,” William B. Bean, International Journal of Dermatology, vol. 15, no. 3, April 1976, pp. 225-30. “Nail Growth. Thirty-Five Years of Observation,” William B. Bean, Archives of Internal Medicine, vol. 140, no. 1, January 1980, pp. 73-6.  Vreeman, R. C; Carroll, A. E (2007). "Medical myths". BMJ. 335 (7633): 1288–9. doi:10.1136/bmj.39420.420370.25PRÊMIO DE PSICOLOGIA [POLÔNIA, AUSTRÁLIA, CANADÁ]Marcin Zajenkowski e Gilles Gignac, por investigarem o que acontece quando você diz a pessoas narcisistas — ou a qualquer outra pessoa — que elas são inteligentes. “Telling People They Are Intelligent Correlates with the Feeling of Narcissistic Uniqueness: The Influence of IQ Feedback on Temporary State Narcissism,” Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles E. Gignac, Intelligence, vol. 89, November–December 2021, 101595.  PRÊMIO DE NUTRIÇÃO [NIGÉRIA, TOGO, ITÁLIA, FRANÇA]Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek e Luca Luiselli, por estudarem em que medida um certo tipo de lagarto escolhe comer certos tipos de pizza. “Opportunistic Foraging Strategy of Rainbow Lizards at a Seaside Resort in Togo,” Daniele Dendi, Gabriel H. Segniagbeto, Roger Meek, and Luca Luiselli, African Journal of Ecology, vol. 61, no. 1, 2023, pp. 226-227.  PRÊMIO DE BIOLOGIA [JAPÃO]Tomoki Kojima, Kazato Oishi, Yasushi Matsubara, Yuki Uchiyama, Yoshihiko Fukushima, Naoto Aoki, Say Sato, Tatsuaki Masuda, Junichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Hirooka e Katsutoshi Kino, por seus experimentos para descobrir se vacas pintadas com listras semelhantes às de zebras podem evitar ser picadas por moscas. “Cows Painted with Zebra-Like Striping Can Avoid Biting Fly Attack,” Tomoki Kojima, Kazato Oishi, Yasushi Matsubara, Yuki Uchiyama, Yoshihiko Fukushima, Naoto Aoki, Say Sato, Tatsuaki Masuda, Junichi Ueda, Hiroyuki Hirooka, and Katsutoshi Kino, PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 10, 2019, e0223447.  PRÊMIO DE QUÍMICA [EUA, ISRAEL]Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich e Frank Greenway, por experimentos para testar se comer Teflon [uma forma de plástico mais formalmente chamada “politetrafluoretileno”] é uma boa maneira de aumentar o volume do alimento e, portanto, a saciedade sem aumentar o conteúdo calórico. “Polytetrafluoroethylene Ingestion as a Way to Increase Food Volume and Hence Satiety Without Increasing Calorie Content,” Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich, and Frank L. Greenway, Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology, vol. 10, no. 4, July 2016, pp. 971–976. “Use of Nondigestible Nonfibrous Volumizer of Meal Content as a Method for Increasing Feeling of Satiety,” Rotem Naftalovich  and Daniel Naftalovich, U.S. Patent 9,924,736, issued March 27, 2018.  *APOIE O NARUHODO!O Altay e eu temos duas mensagens pra você.A primeira é: muito, muito obrigado pela sua audiência. Sem ela, o Naruhodo sequer teria sentido de existir. Você nos ajuda demais não só quando ouve, mas também quando espalha episódios para familiares, amigos - e, por que não?, inimigos.A segunda mensagem é: existe uma outra forma de apoiar o Naruhodo, a ciência e o pensamento científico - apoiando financeiramente o nosso projeto de podcast semanal independente, que só descansa no recesso do fim de ano.Manter o Naruhodo tem custos e despesas: servidores, domínio, pesquisa, produção, edição, atendimento, tempo... Enfim, muitas coisas para cobrir - e, algumas delas, em dólar.A gente sabe que nem todo mundo pode apoiar financeiramente. E tá tudo bem. Tente mandar um episódio para alguém que você conhece e acha que vai gostar.A gente sabe que alguns podem, mas não mensalmente. E tá tudo bem também. Você pode apoiar quando puder e cancelar quando quiser. O apoio mínimo é de 15 reais e pode ser feito pela plataforma ORELO ou pela plataforma APOIA-SE. Para quem está fora do Brasil, temos até a plataforma PATREON.É isso, gente. Estamos enfrentando um momento importante e você pode ajudar a combater o negacionismo e manter a chama da ciência acesa. Então, fica aqui o nosso convite: apóie o Naruhodo como puder.bit.ly/naruhodo-no-orelo

Imagine if you took a trip abroad and in an effort to extend your stay, you unknowingly sign a piece of paperwork that makes you a front line soldier. That's what Evans Kibet, a 36 year old runner from Kenya claims happened to him in Russia. He's now a prisoner of war in Ukraine. BBC journalist Akisa Wandera tells us what we know about his case currently.Citizens of Somalia, Togo, Cuba and Sierra Leone have also been documented as prisoners of war by Ukrainian forces. But how are they recruited in to fighting for the Russian army? BBC's Vitaliy Shevchenko from Ukrainecast tells us more about the methods Russia is using to get people all over the world to fight for them in the Russia-Ukraine War.Instagram: @bbcwhatintheworld Email: whatintheworld@bbc.co.uk WhatsApp: +44 330 12 33 22 6 Presenter: Hannah Gelbart Producers: Julia Ross-Roy and Maria Clara Montoya Editor: Harriet Oliver

Why I Have Chosen Jesus over My Father's Voodoo by Adolph Dagan https://www.amazon.com/Have-Chosen-Jesus-Fathers-Voodoo/dp/B0DSGPLZWP Adolphdagan.com Do you think your situation cannot change? Come closer to God; He is able to do something for you that you never imagined. Adolph Dagan was born in a little village called Daganhoé in Togo, West Africa, where his father was a voodoo priest. Almost every day he would go to the voodoo temple/shrine to worship, and Adolph was always with him. As the youngest boy, his father decided Adolph would replace him someday, but God had other plans. Instead, God brought Adolph to the United States, where he went through financial issues and sicknesses, but because of his unshakable belief in God and his faithfulness, God brought him through it all and gave him a powerful testimony.About the author Adolph A. Dagan was born in Daganhoé, Moyen-Mono Prefecture, in Togo, West Africa on July 20, 1974. He was raised in Daganhoé and went to elementary school in Ahassomé; middle school in Kpékpléme and Nyékonakpoè Atakpamé; and high school in Aplahoué in the Republic of Bénin, Atakpamé (LYATA), and Notsé (LYNO) in Togo. Adolph graduated with a bachelor's degree at American Military University (AMU) and a master's degree at Austin Peay State University (APSU) in the United States of America.

Chaque mois, le coach Didier Acouetey, président d'AfricSearch, conseille un jeune entrepreneur sur ses difficultés. En deuxième partie, débat avec des patrons de PME du continent. Cette semaine, comment se relancer après un échec ? Partie 1 : conseils à un jeune entrepreneur - Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch - Pierrick Mboukou, en cours de création d'Imm'online, une application mobile qui facilite la mise en relation entre les personnes proposant des biens immobiliers et celles en recherche, à Brazzaville, en République du Congo.   Partie 2 : Comment se relancer après un échec ? - Edem d'Almeida, entrepreneur, expert en économie sociale et circulaire, fondateur d'Africa Global Recycling et de l'ONG Moi Jeu Tri - Idrissa Diabira, ancien directeur général de l'Agence pour le développement et l'encadrement des PME (ADEPME) du Sénégal. Fondateur de SherpAfrica, cabinet de conseils - Didier Acouetey, président du cabinet AfricSearch.   Programmation musicale :  ► DKR – BOOBA ► GO – Theodora ft Luidji.

French-Togolese architect and co-founder of Studio Neida, Jeanne Autran-Edorh, talks about the future of design in Togo and how her work is making an impact internationally.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jimmy Mellado leads Compassion International, a global, church-driven ministry serving children in poverty across 29 countries. Born in El Salvador (full name: Santiago “Jimmy” Mellado), he grew up across Latin America and Asia, ran decathlon at SMU, and later represented El Salvador in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. His life and leadership are anchored in faith, family, and a deep conviction that true impact starts with who we're becoming—then flows into what we do. In this episode, Brad sits down with Jimmy at Compassion's global ministry center in Colorado Springs for a candid conversation about identity, calling, technology, and the local church. Jimmy shares formative stories from his childhood and athletic journey, the moment he sensed a calling to serve the church after the Olympics, and the identity wake-up that led him to embrace his heritage.  He talks about following Wess Stafford as CEO, why Compassion is first a church-equipping child discipleship organization (sponsorship is the funding mechanism, not the identity), and how the ministry is modernizing—moving to the cloud, piloting secure, real-time communication, and using AI to protect children online. Along the way, Jimmy offers grounded wisdom on leadership burdens, character, and doing God's work without sacrificing God's work in you. “Let's not do God's work in ways that hurt His work in us.” – Jimmy Mellado “His yoke is easy and His burden is light—so if it's heavy, who made it heavy?” – Jimmy Mellado “Special gifts can take a leader places where the absence of character won't let them stay.” – Jimmy Mellado This Week on The Wow Factor: Jimmy's upbringing: born in El Salvador, moving 40+ times as his engineer father built infrastructure across the developing world Early faith formation: parents as his “first pastors,” family as his first church while on the move Track to the Olympics: SMU scholarship and competing for El Salvador at the 1988 Seoul Olympics A calling in Seoul: witnessing church revival in South Korea and returning with a mission to serve the church Identity moment: embracing “Santiago” and his Latino heritage after being told “you don't count”—and how God used it to realign his calling Friendship with Wess Stafford and the path to leading Compassion What Compassion is: a church-equipping, child-discipleship ministry (sponsorship fuels the work but doesn't define it) The need right now: millions registered, hundreds of thousands awaiting sponsors—why the gap matters at the child level Modernizing at scale: retiring custom code, moving to cloud platforms, and building for quality, security, and growth Pilots in Peru and Ghana: secure, real-time communication among sponsors, children, and local church leaders Safety by design: using AI to flag inappropriate content and grooming language to protect kids A pastor's six-hour drive in Togo to make the plea: “Let me thank our sponsors and tell the story of impact.” Leadership and soul care: trading anxiety for gratitude, resisting the urge to carry what only God can carry Being vs. doing: why who you're becoming is the most important contribution you'll ever make Jimmy Mellado's Word of Wisdom: Become first, then do. Stay rooted in Christ, invite trusted voices to speak truth, and steward your assignment without making it heavy. The most enduring impact isn't what you accomplish—it's the person you're becoming as you walk with God. Connect With Compassion Compassion's Website Compassion's YouTube Compassion's Facebook Compassion's Instagram Compassion's LinkedIn Jimmy's LinkedIn Connect with The Wow Factor:   WOW Factor Website   Brad Formsma on LinkedIn    Brad Formsma on Instagram    Brad Formsma on Facebook    X (formerly Twitter)   

Selon l'OMS, plus de 720 000 personnes mettent fin à leurs jours, chaque année, au niveau mondial et 73% de ces suicides surviennent dans des pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire. Derrière chaque suicide, c'est une famille, un entourage endeuillé. Comment se remettre de cette tragédie ? Quelle prise en charge existe pour les proches en deuil ?   Alain Chardon, psychologue à l'association PHARE animant les groupes de parole des parents endeuillés Dr Sonia Kanekatoua, psychiatre au CHU Campus de Lomé au Togo et au CEPIAK, le Centre de Prise en charge intégrée des Addictions de Kodjoviakopé   Louis Fréchette, membre de l'association de prévention du suicide au Québec « Défi - On roule pour toi ». ►En fin d'émission, nous parlons de la précarité alimentaire dont souffrent les enfants haïtiens. L'ONG Solidarités International a installé des cantines scolaires dans six écoles de Port-au-Prince afin d'assurer aux enfants de la capitale un repas chaud tous les midis, cuisiné à partir de produits locaux, et ce, durant toute l'année scolaire. Interview de Guillaume Haegel, directeur pays de Solidarités International à Haïti. Programmation musicale :  ► Mika – Happy ending  ► Fatima Altieri – Toute sam vle.

Episode Description:  Max, Molly, and Rufus are pulled into one of Alaska's most legendary true stories: the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, Alaska. Teaming up with mushers like Wild Bill Shannon, Leonhard Seppala, and famous sled-dogs Togo and Balto, they brave blizzards, ice, and exhaustion to help deliver life-saving medicine. Along the way, they use Math, stamina, and teamwork with furry friends to help save a community. Math Concepts: Division and averages (150 ÷ 20 = 7.5 dogs per team) Distance, rate, and time calculations; Multiplication with decimals; Ratios and comparisons. History/Geography Concepts: History: The 1925 Serum Run to Nome (also called The Great Race of Mercy); Geography: Alaska, Nenana, Nome, Norton Sound, Arctic conditions; Biology: Dogs' olfactory system (300 million receptors vs. 6 million in humans)

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  7/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  1/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 1918 GERMANY IN UKRSINE At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  2/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 1940 At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  3/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 1942 UKRAINE At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  4/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 1941 KYIV At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  5/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  6/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.

WAR ENDINGS NEITHER SWIFT NOR MERCIFUL:  8/8  Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II by  Evan Thomas  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Road-Surrender-Three-Countdown-World/dp/0399589252 2945 TOKYO At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America's decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan's decision to surrender. They are Henry Stimson, the American Secretary of War, who had overall responsibility for decisions about the atom bomb; Gen. Carl “Tooey” Spaatz, head of strategic bombing in the Pacific, who supervised the planes that dropped the bombs; and Japanese Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo, the only one in Emperor Hirohito's Supreme War Council who believed even before the bombs were dropped that Japan should surrender. Henry Stimson had served in the administrations of five presidents, but as the U.S. nuclear program progressed, he found himself tasked with the unimaginable decision of determining whether to deploy the bomb. The new president, Harry S. Truman, thus far a peripheral figure in the momentous decision, accepted Stimson's recommendation to drop the bomb. Army Air Force Commander Gen. Spaatz ordered the planes to take off. Like Stimson, Spaatz agonized over the command even as he recognized it would end the war. After the bombs were dropped, Foreign Minister Togo was finally able to convince the emperor to surrender. To bring these critical events to vivid life, bestselling author Evan Thomas draws on the diaries of Stimson, Togo and Spaatz, contemplating the immense weight of their historic decision. In Road to Surrender, an immersive, surprising, moving account, Thomas lays out the behind-the-scenes thoughts, feelings, motivations, and decision-making of three people who changed history.