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Des accusations de corruption contre la vice-Première ministre Belinda Balluku causent le chaos au parlement et dans la rue. L'opposition réclame la démission du Premier ministre Edi Rama.

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Le Japon soutient les réformes économiques au Bénin avec un prêt d'environ 28 milliards de FCFA. L'accord de prêt a été signé, vendredi 19 décembre à Cotonou, par l'ambassadeur S.E.M. UEZONO Hideki et le ministre d'État, ministre de l'Économie et des Finances, Romuald Wadagni.

Un prêt d'environ 28 milliards de FCFA a été accordé pour soutenir la gouvernance économique et le développement du secteur privé.

La cérémonie de signature s'est tenue vendredi 19 décembre 2025 à Cotonou. Elle a porté sur l'« Échange de Notes relatif au Prêt de Politique de Développement pour le Programme d'Appui à la Gouvernance Économique et au Développement du Secteur Privé ».

Le document a été signé par S.E.M. UEZONO Hideki, ambassadeur extraordinaire et plénipotentiaire du Japon près la République du Bénin et le ministre d'État, ministre de l'Économie et des Finances, Romuald Wadagni. Étaient également présents à la cérémonie, le représentant résident de la JICA Bénin et plusieurs cadres ministériels.

Ce financement « vise à renforcer les bases de la gouvernance économique, à soutenir des réformes cruciales pour la gestion publique et à dynamiser un environnement favorable à la croissance du secteur privé », selon un communiqué de l'ambassade du Japon près le Bénin.

Le secteur privé est présenté comme « un moteur essentiel de l'économie béninoise ».

Ce nouveau prêt marque « une nouvelle avancée dans la coopération entre le Japon et le Bénin », souligne le communiqué.

Lors de son intervention, l'ambassadeur UEZONO Hideki a rappelé que « le Japon accompagne le Bénin depuis plusieurs décennies dans beaucoup de domaines ». Il a ajouté que ce projet « s'inscrit parfaitement dans cette dynamique de coopération ».

En réponse, le ministre d'État Romuald Wadagni a exprimé la reconnaissance du gouvernement béninois. Il a remercié le Japon pour « la qualité et la constance de la coopération entre les deux pays ». Le ministre a également formulé le souhait que « le Japon demeure un partenaire important du Bénin ».
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Le député Soumaïla Sounon Boké, élu de la 2ᵉ circonscription électorale et membre du parti d'opposition Les Démocrates, a été placé sous mandat de dépôt, ce mardi 23 décembre 2025, par la Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (CRIET).

Interpellé puis placé en garde à vue par la police judiciaire il y a quelques jours, le député Soumaïla Sounon Boké a été présenté ce mardi 23 décembre 2025, au procureur spécial de la CRIET à l'issue de laquelle il a été incarcéré.

Selon son conseil, Me Aboubacar Baparapé, le parlementaire est poursuivi pour harcèlement par le biais d'une communication électronique et incitation à la rébellion.

Le procès de Soumaïla Sounon Boké est prévu pour le mardi 30 décembre 2025 devant la chambre de jugement de la CRIET, où il devra répondre des faits qui lui sont reprochés.

De source proche du dossier, la procédure engagée ne nécessite pas la levée de l'immunité parlementaire. Le député est poursuivi dans le cadre d'une procédure de flagrant délit, qui permet à la justice de le juger sans autorisation préalable de l'Assemblée nationale.
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La création d'une banque confédérale constitue un objectif majeur pour le Mali, le Niger et le Burkina Faso qui ont définitivement quitté la CEDEAO (Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest).

La création d'une banque confédérale constitue un objectif majeur pour le Mali, le Niger et le Burkina Faso qui ont définitivement quitté la CEDEAO (Communauté économique des Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest).

Mozambique believe they can reach the knockout stage at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, according to former international Manuel Bucuane.

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Parliament has, on many occasions, supported the EU’s active role in ocean governance. the Commission adopted the European Ocean Pact in June 2025. It serves as a non-legislative framework for all ocean-related policies, covering a wide range of issues such as research, maritime security, ocean health, coastal communities, and more.

A proposal for an EU ocean act is expected by 2027.

Notably, throughout 2025, Parliament gave its consent to a number of fisheries agreements with third countries. An important example is the protocol with Greenland. Moreover, the approved EU-Côte d’Ivoire agreement is significant for the EU’s tuna fleet.

Since July 2025, citizens have written to the President of the European Parliament to call for higher standards and stronger regulation of EU fishing practices outside the Union. In response, EPRS highlighted that the EU’s agreements with third countries promote local sustainability, conservation and development.

For instance, in the agreement with Guinea-Bissau, €4.5 million is allocated to the country’s fishing sector – namely towards control and surveillance capacities, as well as for communities in the region. Moreover, the agreement with Cabo Verde is viewed by the Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries as balanced; due to the fact that the EU’s financial contributions are higher than the cost of the access rights.

In July 2025, Parliament adopted a text agreed with the Council on improving the EU’s measures tackling third countries’ unsustainable practices concerning shared fish stocks. These are stocks that are not limited to the waters of a single country. This means that there is now clarity on exactly what actions are subject to EU penalties.

Beyond fisheries, in 2025, the Parliament also adopted its position on the Commission’s proposed directive on the high seas.

This directive integrates the UN’s High Seas Treaty into EU legislation. The treaty protects marine biodiversity beyond country’s borders. No nation has jurisdiction over nearly two thirds of the ocean, and the high seas make up a large part of this.

Parliament’s report amends the proposal by suggesting that Member States need to publish their actions in the high seas (related to biodiversity). The objective of this is to improve transparency. However, MEPs also called for greater flexibility in reporting.

In the same week, Parliament also adopted a provisional agreement on expanding the European Maritime Safety Agency’s (EMSA) mandate. The aim of the proposed regulation is to strengthen EMSA’s ability to tackle security risks by broadening its remit. For example. the agreement introduces a flexibility mechanism so that the agency can undertake additional tasks for the Commission and Member States.

Post-2027, there is no separate fund outlined for the common fisheries policy (CFP). Currently, there is a European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) for the 2021-2027 period – but in July 2025, the Commission proposed merging this with other policies, such as agriculture. This means that there would be no specific, allocated sum of money for this sector. The CFP encompasses ‘conservation of marine biological resources’ – one of only five areas in which the EU has exclusive competence.

Links to EPRS publications

• Plenary round-up – November I 2025
• Protecting marine biodiversity in the high seas
• Revision of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) founding regulation
• Conditions for EU support to the CFP (2028-2034 programming period)
• Sustainable fishing outside the European Union – answering citizens’ concerns
• EU-Côte d’Ivoire fisheries agreement
• EU fisheries agreement with Greenland: Conclusion of a new protocol (2025-2030)
• Measures against countries that do not cooperate on shared fish stocks
• The European ocean pact
• EU fisheries agreement with Guinea-Bissau
• EU fisheries agreement with Cabo Verde: Conclusion of a new protocol (2024-2029)

Efforts to protect the pig sector from reputational damage come as the origin of the outbreak remains unresolved

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Ein 29-jähriger Ukrainer aus dem Thurgau wurde nach Deutschland ausgeliefert. Er soll im Auftrag Russlands Sabotage auf Gütertransporte geplant haben. Die Ermittler sehen Verbindungen zu Moskau, Familie und Bekannte sprechen von einem friedlichen Flüchtling.

Allegations of graft and political interference in the police have been aired at public hearings.

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In Gaza's Middle Area, State of Palestine, 4-year-old Abd Al Kareem eats from a sachet of Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplements (LNS) during a UNICEF malnutrition screening. Credit: UNICEF/Rawan Eleyan

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 2025 (IPS)

Despite notable improvements in the humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip following the October 10 ceasefire, progress remains critically fragile. With the enclave having averted famine across multiple regions, the United Nations (UN) and its partners warn that sustained humanitarian access, a steady flow of resources, and the restoration of critical civilian infrastructure are essential in preventing further deterioration, which could have long-lasting consequences for an already deeply traumatized population.

According to the latest figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), food security in Gaza saw significant improvement during the October-November period, with famine eradicated across all areas. This marks a major shift from August, when famine was recorded and confirmed. This is largely attributed to the expansion of humanitarian access since then.

“Famine has been pushed back. Far more people are able to access the food they need to survive,” said UN Secretary-General António Guterres. “Gains are fragile, perilously so. And in more than half of Gaza, where Israeli troops remain deployed, farmland and entire neighborhoods are out of reach. Strikes and hostilities continue, pushing the civilian toll of this war even higher and exposing our teams to grave danger. We need more crossings, the lifting of restrictions on critical items, the removal of red tape, safe routes inside Gaza, sustained funding, and unimpeded access, including for nonprofit organizations (NGOs).”

Figures from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) show that following the ceasefire, obstructions to aid deliveries have declined to roughly 20 percent—down from 30 to 35 percent prior to the ceasefire. Between October 10 and December 16, more than 119,000 metric tons of UN-coordinated aid were offloaded, with over 111,000 metric tons successfully collected.

Despite this, severe levels of hunger and malnutrition persist, particularly among displaced communities. The vast majority of the enclave’s population faces emergency levels (IPC Phase 4) of hunger, with hundreds of thousands facing acute malnutrition. Between October and November, approximately 1.6 million people, or over 75 percent of the population studied, were found to face crisis levels of hunger (Phase 3) or worse, including 500,000 people in emergency levels (Phase 4) and over 100,000 in catastrophic levels (Phase 5).

Women and children —especially those from displaced communities— are expected to bear the heaviest burdens. An estimated 101,000 children aged six to 59 months are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition through October of next year, with 31,000 of those cases expected to be life-threatening. In addition, roughly 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women are projected to require urgent treatment.

In a joint statement, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Food Programme (WFP), warn that without sustained humanitarian support, increased financial assistance, and a definitive end to the hostilities, hundreds of thousands of Gazans could quickly fall back into famine conditions.

OCHA noted that approximately 1.6 million Gazans are projected to face high levels of acute food insecurity through mid-April of 2026, with the agency recording aid deliveries being hampered as a result of continued airstrikes, procedural constraints, and the lingering effects of Storm Byron, which caused considerable levels of flooding. In December, the agency recorded reduced food rations from WFP in an attempt to maximize coverage. Other sectors of the humanitarian response have been deprioritized to address the most urgent food security needs.

IPC’s latest report identifies the collapse of agri-food systems as a major driver of food insecurity in Gaza, noting that over 96 percent of the enclave’s cropland has been decimated or rendered inaccessible. With livelihoods shattered and local production severely strained, families are increasingly unable to afford nutritious and diverse foods.

Approximately 70 percent of households cannot afford to buy food or secure clean water. Protein has become particularly scarce, and no children are meeting adequate dietary diversity standards, with two-thirds consuming only one to two food groups.

“Gaza’s farmers, herders and fishers are ready to restart food production, but they cannot do so without immediate access to basic supplies and funding,” said Rein Paulsen, Director of FAO’s Office of Emergencies and Resilience. “The ceasefire has opened a narrow window to allow life-sustaining agricultural supplies to reach the hands of vulnerable farmers. Only funding and expanded and sustained access will allow local food production to resume and reduce dependence on external aid.”

The latest figures from OCHA indicate that at least 2,407 children received treatment for acute malnutrition in the first two weeks of December. Additionally, as of December 16, more than 172,000 metric tons of aid positioned by 56 humanitarian partners are ready for transfer into Gaza, with food supplies accounting for 72 percent of the total.

Even in the face of these consistent needs, some humanitarian deliveries carried out by the UN and its partners continue to be routinely denied by Israeli authorities. Between December 10 and 16, humanitarian agencies coordinated 47 missions with Israeli authorities, 30 of which were conducted, 10 were impeded, four were denied, and three were cancelled.

According to Kate Newton, Deputy Country Director for WFP in Palestine, missions requiring prior coordination with Israeli authorities—including winterization efforts, assessment and clearance missions, and cargo uplifts—are particularly uncertain. “We still have all the issues that we’ve been talking about for months and months – the logistical challenges, the fact we’re very limited in terms of the number of roads we can use, that we still have a very high level of insecurity, that bureaucratic processes are still impeding humanitarian delivery,” said Newton.

On December 17, a coalition of UN agencies and more than 200 international and local NGOs called for urgent measures pressuring Israeli authorities to lift all impediments to humanitarian aid, warning that current restrictions severely undermine relief efforts and threaten the collapse of an effective humanitarian response. The joint statement underscores that humanitarian action is now more critical than ever and stresses that Gaza cannot afford to slip back into pre-ceasefire conditions.

“UN agencies and NGOs reiterate that humanitarian access is not optional, conditional or political. It is a legal obligation under international humanitarian law, particularly in Gaza where Israel has failed to ensure that the population is adequately supplied,” the statement reads. “Israeli authorities must allow and facilitate rapid, unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief. They must immediately reverse policies that obstruct humanitarian operations and ensure that humanitarian organizations are able to operate without compromising humanitarian principles. Lifesaving assistance must be allowed to reach Palestinians without further delay.”

IPS UN Bureau

 

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