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By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 26 2025 (IPS)
Recently, global conflicts have grown increasingly brutal, with deaths and injuries caused by explosive weapons now surpassing those from previous leading causes such as malnutrition, disease, and a lack of healthcare services. As these conflicts intensify, children continue to bear the brunt of the casualties while impunity for perpetrators persists and funding gaps exacerbate the lack of critical protection services.
On November 20, Save The Children issued a report titled Children and Blast Injuries: The Devastating Impact of Explosive Weapons on Children, 2020–2025, detailing the intensifying threat of explosive weapons to children across 11 contemporary world conflicts. Drawing on clinical studies and field research, the report examines the impact of pediatric blast injuries in healthcare settings and calls on the international community to prioritize investment in prevention and recovery efforts.
“Children are paying the highest price in today’s wars – not only at the hands of armed groups, but through the actions of governments that should be protecting them,” said Narmina Strishenets, the leading author of the report and the Senior Conflict and Humanitarian Advocacy Advisor at Save the Children UK. “Missiles are falling where children sleep, play, and learn – turning the very places that should be the safest, like their homes and schools, into death traps. Actions once condemned by the international community and met with global outrage are now brushed aside as the ‘cost of war.’ That moral surrender is one of the most dangerous shifts of our time.”
The report highlights the precarious conditions in which children in war zones live. Children are uniquely vulnerable to injuries from explosive weapons, as their bodies are far less developed and resilient than adults. Additionally, healthcare, rehabilitation, and psychosocial support services are underfunded and more commonly designed with adults in consideration, leaving children disproportionately left without access to tailor-made and adequate care.
Figures from Save The Children show that children are far more likely to succumb to blast injuries than adults, particularly from head, torso, and burn injuries. Compared to adults, children under seven are roughly two times as likely to suffer from “life-limiting brain trauma.” Furthermore, approximately 65 to 70 percent of injured children received severe burns to multiple parts of their body.
“Children are far more vulnerable to explosive weapons than adults. Their anatomy, physiology, behavior, and psychosocial needs make them disproportionately affected,” said Dr. Paul Reavley, a consultant pediatric emergency physician and the co-founder of the Pediatric Blast Injury Partnership, a collaborative effort between medical personnel and Save The Children UK.
Reavley added, “Many do not survive to reach hospital, and those who do face a higher risk of death than adult civilians in any health system. They often suffer multiple severe injuries that require complex treatment and lifelong care. Yet most health responses to conflict are designed for adults, overlooking children’s distinct needs. Survivors face chronic pain, disability, psychological trauma, and stigma that can last a lifetime.”
According to the report, explosive weapons are causing unprecedented levels of harm to children as wars increasingly move toward densely populated urban areas, with these weapons accounting for a record 70 percent of nearly 12,000 children killed or injured in conflict zones last year. More than 70 percent of child deaths and injuries in war zones in 2024 resulted from explosive weapons, marking a significant increase from the 59 percent recorded between 2020-2024.
These increases highlight a shift in how children are being targeted in modern conflicts. Save the Children identified five key factors driving this change: the rise of new technologies that amplify destruction, the normalization of civilian harm in military operations, the widespread lack of accountability, the unprecedented severity of child casualties, and the long-term social costs of explosive violence.
The deadliest conflicts for children in 2024, based on deaths and life-threatening injuries, occurred in the occupied Palestinian territory, where 2,917 children were affected, followed by Sudan with 1,739 children, Myanmar with 1,261 children, Ukraine with 671 children, and Syria with 670 children. The majority of these casualties were caused by explosive weapons. Additionally, children account for roughly 43 percent of all casualties from mines and other forms of unexploded ordnance, which have plagued farmland, schools, and homes across the world for decades.
In the last two years, Save The Children has recorded a “dangerous erosion of protection norms” for children in conflict zones, with funding shortfalls and the scaling back of civilian harm mitigation and response mechanisms endangering the lives of millions of children around the world. Of the USD 1 billion pledged to mine action in 2023, only half was directed toward clearance efforts while only 6 percent supported healthcare services of victims and only 1 percent went toward mine risk education.
Save the Children is urging world leaders to stop using explosive weapons in populated areas, strengthen policies to protect children in conflict, and invest in support, research, and recovery for children affected by blast injuries.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners are working on the frontlines to provide essential, basic services that focus on promoting and protecting children’s health, survival and development, such as access to food, shelter, healthcare, and social support. UNICEF is also rehabilitating water and sanitation systems while distributing cash transfers to displaced families and mental health support and educational services for children in conflict zones.
UNICEF also supports survivors of explosive weapons-related violence by providing medical treatment, prosthetics, and psychosocial support services. Furthermore, the agency is collaborating with governments and civil society groups to strengthen protection services, particularly for children living with disabilities.
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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Nov 26 2025 (IPS)
Although inequality among countries still accounts for a far greater share of income inequality worldwide than national-level inequalities, discussions of inequality continue to focus on the latter.
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South African initiativeSouth Africa (SA) and Brazil, the previous G20 host, have long had the world’s highest national-level inequalities. However, their current governments have led progressive initiatives for the Global South.
Although due to take over the G20 presidency next year, US President Trump refused to participate in this year’s summit, inter alia, because of alleged SA oppression of its White minority.
Inequality growing faster
The G20 report utilises various measures to show the widening gap between the rich and the poor.
National-level inequality is widespread: 83% of countries, with 90% of the world’s population, have high Gini coefficients of income inequality above 40%.
While income inequality worldwide is very high, with a Gini coefficient of 61%, it has declined slightly since 2000, primarily due to China’s economic growth.
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Meanwhile, wealth concentration has continued. Wealth inequality is even greater than income inequality, with the richest 10% owning 74% of the world’s assets.
The average wealth of the richest 1% grew by $1.3 million from 2000, accounting for 41% of new wealth by 2024! Private wealth has risen sharply since 2000, while public assets have declined.
Besides income and wealth, the report reviews other inequalities, including health, education, employment, housing, environmental vulnerability, and even political voice.
Such inequalities, involving class, gender, ethnicity, and geography, often ‘intersect’. The promise of equal opportunity is rarely meaningful, as most enjoy limited social mobility options.
The report thus serves as the most comprehensive and accessible review of various dimensions of economic inequality available.
Harmful effects
The G20 report condemns ‘extreme inequality’ for its adverse economic, political, and social consequences.
Inadequate income typically means hunger, poor nutrition and healthcare. Economies underperform, unable to realise their actual potential.
Inequality, including power imbalances, influences resource allocation. Such disparities enhance the incomes of the rich, often at the expense of working people.
Natural resources typically enrich owners while undermining environmental sustainability and social well-being.
The report argues that economic inequality inevitably involves political disparities, as the rich are better able to buy influence.
New rules and policies favour the rich and powerful, increasing inequalities and undermining national and worldwide economic performance.
High inequality, due to rules favouring the wealthy, also undermines public trust in institutions. The declining influence of the middle class threatens both economic and political stability, especially in the West.
Drivers of inequality
The report argues that public policy can address inequalities by influencing how market incomes are initially distributed and how taxes and transfers redistribute them.
Market income distribution is determined by asset distribution (mediated by finance, skills, and social networks) and among labour, capital, and rents. Returns to shareholders are prioritised over other claims.
Increased inequality in recent decades is attributed to weakened equalising policies, or ‘equilibrating forces’, and stronger ‘disequilibrating forces’, including wealth inheritance.
New economic policies over recent decades have favoured the wealthy by weakening labour via market deregulation and restricting trade unions.
Tax systems have become less progressive with the shift from direct to indirect taxes, lowering taxes paid by large corporations and the wealthy. Fiscal austerity has exacerbated the situation, especially for the vulnerable.
Financial deregulation has also generated more instability, triggering crises, with ‘resolution’ usually favouring the influential.
Privatisation of public services has also favoured the well-connected, at the expense of the public, consumers, and labour.
International governance
International economic and legal institutions have also shaped inequality.
More international trade and capital mobility have lowered wages, increased income disparities and job insecurity, and weakened workers’ bargaining power.
Liberalising financial flows has favoured wealthy creditors over debtors, worsening financial volatility and sovereign debt crises.
International inequalities have adverse cross-border effects, especially for the environment and public health. Overconsumption and higher greenhouse gas emissions by the rich significantly worsen planetary heating.
International health inequalities have been worsened by stronger transnational intellectual property rights and increased profits at the expense of poorer countries.
International tax agreements have enabled the wealthy, including transnational corporations, to pay less than those less fortunate. Meanwhile, Oxfam reported that the top one per cent in the Global North drained the South at a rate of $30 million per hour.
Inaction despite consensus?
The report claims a new analytical consensus that inequality is detrimental to economic progress, and reducing inequality is better for the economy.
Inequality is attributed to policy choices reflecting moral choices and economic trade-offs. It argues that combating inequality is both desirable and feasible.
Recent research from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has criticised growing national inequalities.
However, there is no evidence of serious efforts by the G20, IMF, and OECD to reduce inequalities, especially inter-country, particularly between North and South.
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By James Alix Michel
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Nov 25 2025 (IPS)
When the world gathered in Glasgow for COP26, the mantra was “building back better.” Two years later, in Sharm El Sheikh, COP27 promised “implementation.” This year, in Belém, Brazil, COP30 arrived with a heavier burden: to finally bridge the chasm between lofty rhetoric and the urgent, measurable steps needed to keep 1.5 °C alive.
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What Was Expected of COP30 was modest yet critical. After the disappointments of Copenhagen (2009) and the optimism sparked by Paris (2015), developing nations, small island states, Indigenous groups and a swelling youth movement demanded three things:
However, the negotiations evolved into a tug-of-war between ambition and inertia. Wealthier nations, still reeling from economic shocks, offered incremental increases in adaptation funding and a new Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) worth $125 billion, with 20 percent earmarked for Indigenous stewardship. The Global Implementation Accelerator—a two-year bridge to align Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) with 1.5 °C—was launched, alongside a Just Transition Mechanism to share technology and financing.
However, the text on fossil fuel phase-out remained voluntary; the Loss and Damage Fund was referenced but not capitalized; and the $120 billion adaptation pledge fell short of the $310 billion annual need.
But there were Voices That Could Not Be Ignored.
Developing Nations (the G77+China) reminded the plenary that climate justice is not a charity—it is a legal obligation under the UNFCCC. They demanded that historic emitters honor their “common but differentiated responsibilities.”
Island States (AOSIS) warned that sea level rise is no longer a future scenario; it is eroding coastlines and displacing entire cultures. Their plea: “1.5 °C is our survival, not a bargaining chip.”
Indigenous Peoples highlighted the destruction of Amazon and Boreal forests, urging that 30 percent of all climate finance flow directly to communities that protect 80 percent of biodiversity.
Youth — The Gen Z generation—marched outside the venue, chanting, “We will not be diluted,” demanding binding commitments and accountability mechanisms.
The Legacy of Copenhagen, Paris, and the Empty COPs
I attended COP15 in Copenhagen (2009), where the “Danish draft” was rejected, and the summit collapsed amid accusations of exclusion. The disappointment lingered until Paris (2015), where the 1.5 °C aspiration was enshrined, sparking hope that multilateralism could still work. Since then, COPs have been a carousel of promises: the Green Climate Fund fell $20 billion short; the 2022 Glasgow Climate Pact promised “phasing out coal” but left loopholes. Each iteration has chipped away at trust.
COP30 was billed as the moment to reverse that trend.
And the result? Partial progress, but far from the transformational shift required.
Did We Achieve What We Hoped For?
In blunt terms: No. The pledges secured are insufficient to limit warming to 1.5 °C, and critical gaps—binding fossil fuel timelines, robust loss and damage funding, and true equity in finance—remain unfilled.
Yet, there are glimmers. The tripling of adaptation finance, the first concrete allocation for Indigenous led forest protection, and the creation of an Implementation Accelerator signal that the architecture for change exists. The challenge now is to fill it with real money and accountability.
Let us look at ‘What Must Happen Next
But for all this to become reality, there must be a determined effort to achieve Future Actions.
We have watched promises fade after every COP, yet the physics of climate change remain unforgiving. The urgency is not new; the window to act is shrinking. But hope endures – in the solar panels lighting remote villages, in mangroves being restored to buffer storms, and in the relentless energy of young activists demanding a livable planet.
Humanity has the knowledge, technology, and resources. What we need now is the collective political will to use them. Let COP30 be remembered not as another empty summit, but as the turning point where the world chose survival over complacency.
The future is not written; we write it with every decision we make today.
James Alix Michel, Former President Republic of Seychelles, Member Club de Madrid.
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Le Professeur James Robinson, co-lauréat du Prix Nobel d'économie 2024 est à Cotonou. Les 27 et 28 novembre 2025, il prendra part aux Journées Scientifiques de l'Economie Béninoise (JSEB) dont le thème de l'édition 2025 est
« Institutions et Prospérité des Nations ». L'évènement aura lieu à l'hôtel Golden Tulip – Le Diplomate.
Les Journées Scientifiques de l'Economie Béninoise (JSEB) s'imposent progressivement comme un cadre de référence pour les échanges entre chercheurs, étudiants, décideurs et partenaires techniques autour des enjeux économiques contemporains. L'édition 2025 bénéficie du soutien du Programme des Nations Unies pour le Développement (PNUD), partenaire officiel de l'événement.
Le thème des JSEB 2025 met l'accent sur les institutions comme socle de développement durable. À ce titre, la venue du Professeur Robinson prend tout son sens, tant ses travaux ont contribué à renouveler la compréhension des dynamiques économiques à travers le prisme institutionnel.
Une sommité mondiale de l'économie politique
Économiste et politologue, James Robinson est professeur à l'Université de Chicago, où il dirige l'Institut Pearson et occupe la chaire Richard L. Pearson. Il est reconnu pour ses recherches interdisciplinaires qui croisent économie, science politique et histoire. Sa notoriété s'est renforcée avec la parution de plusieurs ouvrages marquants, coécrits avec Daron Acemoglu, dont le célèbre Why Nations Fail (Pourquoi les nations échouent), traduit en plus de 40 langues.
Ses recherches portent sur les relations entre les institutions politiques, le pouvoir et la prospérité des sociétés. En 2024, ses travaux ont été récompensés par le Prix Nobel d'économie, partagé avec Acemoglu et Simon Johnson, pour leur contribution à la compréhension des mécanismes institutionnels du développement économique.
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Un présumé escroc spécialisé dans la vente d'objets mystiques destinés à la multiplication de l'argent a été interpellé par la police, dimanche 23 novembre 2025, à Allada.
Après plusieurs semaines d'enquête, un homme appartenant à un réseau d'escroquerie a été interpellé par la police dimanche dernier à Allada.
Les faits remontent à octobre 2025. Un habitant de Porto-Novo dépose une plainte, affirmant avoir été abusé par un groupe d'individus qui l'auraient attiré, sous divers stratagèmes, dans le village de Tokpota, arrondissement de Dessah Ahouannonzoun. Profitant de mises en scène soigneusement préparées, les mis en cause lui proposent une supposée « bouteille magique » capable de démultiplier des billets de banque. Séduit par les promesses de richesse et les démonstrations mystiques, il finit par verser la somme de 850 000 francs CFA. Une fois l'argent encaissé, les escrocs disparaissent, laissant la victime face à la supercherie.
Saisie de l'affaire, la Police républicaine ouvre immédiatement une enquête. Les investigations permettent d'identifier un réseau organisé spécialisé dans ce type d'escroquerie exploitant la crédulité de leurs victimes.
Ainsi, deux membres du groupe sont repérés à Allada dans l'après-midi du 23 novembre. Une équipe d'enquêteurs est dépêchée sur place. L'opération permet l'interpellation de l'un des suspects, tandis que son complice parvient à s'échapper et reste activement recherché.
Le mis en cause arrêté a été placé en garde à vue dans les locaux du Commissariat d'Attogon. L'enquête se poursuit afin de démanteler tout le réseau et mettre la main sur les complices encore en fuite.
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L'édition 2025 du projet « Top citoyen top sécurité » de la Centrale des syndicats des conducteurs de taxi-moto (CESYCOTAM), a été lancée ce vendredi 21 novembre 2025, à la Maison du peuple d'Agla dans le 13e arrondissement de Cotonou. Cette édition placée sous le thème « Sécurité routière et civisme », est soutenue par la Société de gestion des déchets et de la salubrité (SGDS).
La SGDS en campagne pour un changement de comportement des conducteurs de taxi-moto communément appelés ‘'zémidjans'' sur les axes routiers. A travers l'initiative « Top citoyen top sécurité » de la CESYCOTAM, la structure en charge de la collecte et de la gestion des déchets dans le Grand Nokoué, a organisé une grande séance de sensibilisation en leur intention à la Maison du peuple d'Agla ce vendredi 21 novembre 2025, sur des thématiques telles que :
– Vers zéro accident de circulation : les conséquences de la consommation des produits dopants sur la santé et sur la route ;
– Civisme et collaboration avec la Police pour une paix durable ; et
– Bonnes pratiques à adopter sur les routes pour protéger les agents de la SGDS.
Armand Aïtcheou, superviseur HSE, représentant le directeur général de la SGDS, a rappelé dans son intervention, l'importance de la route en tant « qu'espace partagé entre les autres usagers et les agents de la SGDS, chargés de son entretien et de la collecte des déchets.
Les questions de sécurité étant au cœur des activités de la SGDS, les initiatives telles que « Top citoyen top sécurité », selon le représentant du DG, constituent « une occasion propice de réflexion et d'action ». La SGDS en soutenant « fortement l'initiative, espère qu'à la fin, les participants soient mieux informés, mieux sensibilisés et mieux outillés pour un changement de comportement et l'instauration du civisme verbal, de la patience et de l'éco-citoyenneté sur les routes, a-t-il indiqué.
Zénabou Moustapha, responsable des soins infirmiers Cotonou 6, représentant le médecin coordonnateur, a entretenu les participants sur la lutte contre le tabagisme et les bons comportements à adopter pour être en bonne santé.
Gervais Ayenikafo et Gilbert Koukpo, respectivement 1er et 2e adjoint au commissaire du 13e arrondissement, ont exprimé leur remerciement à la SGDS pour l'initiative. Pour ces officiers de Police, les zémidjans constituent une couche très utile pour la sécurité, et la collaboration avec eux participe à la réussite de beaucoup de missions. Ils les ont exhortés à l'occasion, au respect des règles de sécurité routière, et à éviter la consommation de produits dopants, pour leur bien-être personnel.
Le secrétaire général de la CESYCOTAM, Damas Djehounkpete après avoir salué le programme asphaltage du gouvernement, a déploré la recrudescence des accidents de route sur les voies asphaltées du fait de la consommation de l'alcool, et des produits dopants. Une situation qui expose les agents de la SGDS chargés de l'entretien des voies.
Les zémidjans présents à cette séance d'échanges et de sensibilisation, se sont engagés à porter l'information à leurs collègues absents pour un changement de comportement et l'instauration du civisme verbal, la patience et l'éco-citoyenneté sur les routes.
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