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Monaco condemn racist abuse of defender Wilfried Singo after the collision that left PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma with a facial injury.

Voyagez léger en France avec Air Algérie ! La compagnie aérienne nationale propose des réductions exclusives sur ses billets de voyage sans bagages vers de […]

L’article Voyagez léger et économique vers la France : Air Algérie affiche ses billets à petits prix est apparu en premier sur .

Dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la phase 2 du projet d'inclusion numérique au Bénin, 30 nouveaux sites administratifs seront bientôt connectés.

La 2e phase du projet de déploiement d'infrastructures numériques destinées à connecter les sites administratifs démarre bientôt. Cette seconde phase prévoit la connexion de 30 sites administratifs répartis dans 20 communes et 8 départements. Les communes bénéficiaires selon La Marina, seront dotées de solutions de connectivité par satellite qui seront installées grâce à des systèmes d'alimentation électrique solaire. Chaque site bénéficiaire selon le site d'informations, aura une connexion internet haut débit à une capacité de 10 Mbps partagée. Ce qui permettra non seulement d'améliorer l'efficacité des administrations locales, mais aussi de fournir des services numériques essentiels aux populations environnantes. A travers cette seconde phase de projet d'inclusion numérique, le gouvernement entend moderniser les services administratifs et fournir un accès à l'internet haut débit dans les zones rurales restées jusque-là isolées. Sa réalisation s'inscrit dans une vision globale d'inclusion numérique, mettant un accent particulier sur les zones rurales.
Le budget prévisionnel de cette seconde phase est de 200 millions de de francs CFA. Les travaux démarrent au début de l'année 2025 dans les communes de Kandi, Segbana dans l'Alibori ; Kouandé, Cobly, Toucountouna dans l'Atacora ; Zè dans l'Atlantique ; Pèrèrè, Nikki, Tchaourou, Sinendé dans le Borgou ; Savè, Ouèssè, Dassa-Zounmè, et Savalou dans les Collines ; Bassila, Djougou,Ouaké dans la Donga ; Grand-Popo dans le Mono, et Adja-Ouèrè dans le Plateau.

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Présidentielle annulée en Roumanie sur fond de percée nationaliste et d'ingérence russe, poussée de l'extrême-droite aussi en Bulgarie, victoire sur le fil du « oui » à l'intégration à l'UE en Moldavie, dérive populiste en Croatie. Dans tout l'Est et le Sud-Est de l'Europe, les discours racistes et complotistes se banalisent, avec les réseaux sociaux comme caisse de résonance et l'ombre de la Russie qui plane. Mais au juste, de quoi se nourrit cette vague néoconservatrice ?

- Balkanophonie / Podcast, Croatie, Roumanie, Grand Bazar - Diaporama

Présidentielle annulée en Roumanie sur fond de percée nationaliste et d'ingérence russe, poussée de l'extrême-droite aussi en Bulgarie, victoire sur le fil du « oui » à l'intégration à l'UE en Moldavie, dérive populiste en Croatie. Dans tout l'Est et le Sud-Est de l'Europe, les discours racistes et complotistes se banalisent, avec les réseaux sociaux comme caisse de résonance et l'ombre de la Russie qui plane. Mais au juste, de quoi se nourrit cette vague néoconservatrice ?

- Balkanophonie / Podcast, Croatie, Roumanie, Grand Bazar - Diaporama

Admis à la retraite d'office, des policiers et militaires béninois sont invités au retrait de leur livret de pension à la Direction de l'Organisation du Personnel des Armées, rattachée à l'Etat-major général. Voici la liste des 99 personnes dont les livrets de pension sont disponibles.

1- ADAM TOURE Mohamed

2- ADAMOU Imorou

3- AGBEMADOKPONOU G. Édouard

4- ATTAANON Joël Marie

5- AKPO Thanosu Alfred

6- ALI BOURAIMA Yacoubou

7- ASSOGBA Crespin

8- ATAOU Seïdou Sanouvi

9- BARBOZA M Patrick Karim

10- BIO YERIMA Leonard Sabi

11- BONOU Noussèwa

12- BOURAIMA Oumane

13- BROUSSI Kani Méré

14- CAKPO Coffi Grégoire

15- COCOU William E. Dovo

16- COUTON Jérémie Senakpon

17- DAOUDA Djafarou

18- DJOSSOU Roger

19- DOHOU Léonard Setondji

20- DONTE A. R. Inès

21- DOSSOU-YOVO Anani Claude

22- EBOUE Ernest

23- EZIN Olivier Fulgence Adéossi

24- FOLLY Ekoué Farell Sergine Adéléyè

25- GRAGUIDI Habib

26- GNINTIDEMA Tèto Firmin

27- GONCALVES Willbred

28- HOUEZE Houssou Antoine

29- KASSATIN Luc Seidou

30- KIATTI Pascal

31- KOGBEYON Alphonse

32- KOUAGOUNDENTU Edgard

33- KOUANDI Dassibou Barthélémy

34- ΚΡΑΤΕNON Gabriel

35- ΚΡΕΥΙ Κouassi Sylvestre

36- MAMA KORA Kabirou

37- MEDESSOUKOUD K Felix

38- NAKA E François Paul

39- NATA MPO'N Stéphane

40- RADI Karim

41- SANDJOUGOUMA Marius

42- SARE Orou

43- SINDEDJI Denis

44- TEMPEKOU Orou Nam Marius

45- YATTE Kougou Philippe

46- YEDEMEY Elie Codjo

47- ZINHO A Marcel

48- SAMBO Modybo Sayidi

49- ZINSOU E. R. Bruno

50- SOGLOHOUN Fulbert

51- SOSSOU Gbénoukpo Mayeul

52- BAFOBANOMA Noël

53- MPO DARIKOUA Nestor

54- MITCHAIR Aristide

55- DEGBEY Bastle

56- MAHOUDO Gérard

57- HINNOU Jonas

58- GBEFFE Bernardin

59- HOUNDEFFO Hermes

60- ΚΑΝΤΙ ΜPO Maurice Franck

61- ΚΑΚΡΟ Yaovi Germain

62- SABIK Issa

63- SARE Richard

64- SANHONGOU N'Dah Denis

65- AGBESSI Coffi

66- GANDJETO Kossi Wilfried Pancrace

67- DAKODO Hervé

68- ABALLO Bienvenu

69- GOMEZ A Ghislain

70- AGAGNON L. A. Abiola

71- EHOU François

72- ALASSANE Djibril

73- KPEMA Santos

74- KOUVONOLI K. Bienvenu

75- GNANCADJA CH Pierre

76- KIKI TOUDJI G Martin

77- ASSANI Abdoulaye Paul

78- NTCHA NTCHA Didier

79- KPOMALEGNI M Jocelyne

80- KOUBALOU Salifon

81- SOUNOUVI M Joel Christian

82- TOGBE Sylvain

83- KOHOUNKO Claude

84- TOSSOU BOKO Bertin Luc

85- TOSSE D Hervé

86- DOSSA Mamoudou

87- KPANOU M Gertrude Laure

88- ADJADJI Dally Habib Mahugnon

89- HOUNDEGNON Sessi louis Philippe

90- KOTO SERO Bio Soumanou

91- HESSOU Agossou Joseph

92- NTCHA NDAH Modeste

93- KINSOU M William

94- ATCHI Abel

95- GABI Moumouni

96- AHISSOU Noudéhouénou Désiré

97- AHITONOU Hougnon Valentin

98- ADECHINA Euloge Adégbola

99- GOUDALO B Nicaise

Après adoption par l'Assemblée nationale en sa séance du 5 décembre, le Chef de l'État, Patrice Talon a promulgué la loi N˚2024-34 du 12 décembre 2024 portant loi de finances pour la gestion 2025. La loi précise entre autres les nouvelles mesures et celles reconduites, ainsi que les dispositions relatives aux collectivités territoriales et aux établissements publics.

Le groupe malaisien « Lion » a manifesté un intérêt marqué pour investir en Algérie dans divers secteurs, notamment l’industrie de l’aluminium, l’agriculture et les […]

L’article 6 Md $ pour l’Algérie : De l’aluminium à l’agriculture, le Lion Groupe Malaysia débarque est apparu en premier sur .

Das Europäische Zentrum für digitale Rechte (noyb) hat am Donnerstag (19. Dezember) Beschwerde gegen Ryanair eingereicht. Grund ist der Einsatz von Gesichtserkennung im Verifizierungsprozess der irischen Billigfluggesellschaft, wie die italienische Datenschutzbehörde (DPA) bestätigte.

The port of Manzanillo, with the largest cargo movement in Mexico, is expanding its facilities without an environmental impact study. Credit: Colima Sostenible

By Emilio Godoy
MEXICO, Dec 19 2024 (IPS)

The expansion of the port of Manzanillo, Mexico’s most important port in terms of cargo movement and located on the central Pacific coast, has major environmental impacts, as well as presenting climatic risks.

Work began on 23 November without the required environmental impact study, and includes the extension of the port, the construction of a gasoline storage terminal and a gas and steam power plant in the western state of Colima.“There is significant social damage that has never been resolved. For example, they dredged the lagoon to install the gas plant. When there is dredging, marine sediments are moved, more pollution is caused and when they mix, new pollutants are caused. The damage is irremediable”: Hugo Smith.

For independent expert Hugo Smith, the impact is “tremendous”, as the area hosts significant economic activity, such as agriculture, livestock, salt flats and artisanal fisheries.

“There is significant social damage that has never been resolved. For example, they dredged the lagoon to install the gas plant. When there is dredging, marine sediments are moved, more pollution is caused and when they mix, new pollutants are caused. The damage is irremediable”, he told IPS from the port city of Tampico, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas.

The specialist stressed the lack of adequate planning, because “in other places they ask for climate forecasts, in this case there has to be very well-planned works, they have to be monitored. There is talk of sustainability as a political slogan, but there are no indicators.”

The expansion includes a storage and distribution facility of the state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) with a capacity for 3.7 million barrels of fuel, another maritime terminal with a capacity to move five million containers, and roadways.

The port site currently covers 437 hectares, housing 19 docks and warehouses.

With the work, due to be completed in 2030, the port area will be extended to 1,800 hectares in the second basin of the Cuyutlán lagoon. There are four regulating basins which capture the rain and separate the lagoon by roads and sluice gates.

With a public-private investment of US$3,480 million, the Mexican government is seeking to turn the port of the coastal city of Manzanillo into the largest in Latin America and the 15th largest globally, by doubling its total capacity.

The expansion is part of a scheme to modernise 10 Mexican federal ports.

The area of Manzanillo, a city in the western Mexican state of Colima, will be impacted in the long term by sea level rise, including the port area that is being expanded and is on the left side of the map depicted. Credit: Climate Central

Important habitat

President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office on 1 October, has maintained the plans of her predecessor and political mentor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), to revive old projects. The expansion of Manzanillo dates back to the Felipe Calderón administration (2006-2012) and López Obrador formally took it up again in 2019, but without advancing its development.

The city of Manzanillo, with 159,000 people and more than 800 kilometres west of Mexico City, is surrounded by the lagoons of Valle de las Garzas and Cuyutlán, which are vital to the area’s environment because of the animal and plant species they shelter.

The governmental National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Conabio) lists as ecosystem values the presence of salt cultivation, artisanal fishing, mangroves, native and migratory birds, as well as crocodiles and turtles, in the 7,200-hectare Cuyutlán lagoon, located parallel to the Pacific coast.

The ecosystem holds 90% of the wetlands in the state of Colima and is registered by Conabio as a priority marine and hydrological region.

In fact, in the last decade the agency warned that the port expansion could “potentially increase water levels and alter important habitats for nesting and feeding of organisms such as birds.”

The works will require, it said, “the opening of new channels of communication with the sea, as well as deeper navigation channels, which could provoke more severe changes in water levels and circulation.”

Hence the importance of the environmental impact assessment, in order to know the repercussions and the mitigation measures envisaged.

In 2017, then president Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) issued a call for an environmental assessment, but it is ignored if it was carried out. In any case, the works were never undertaken.

Panoramic view of the Cuyutlán Lagoon, which has four basins. The expansion of the port of Manzanillo began in basin 2, with serious environmental impacts. Basins 3 and 4 are considered wetlands of international importance for their natural diversity. Credit: Conabio / Semar

Two lagoons in danger

The lagoon consists of four lagoon basins, the last two of which are adjacent to the area of the expansion.

These are sites of international importance since 2011 under the Convention on Wetlands, as they support vulnerable endangered species and threatened ecological communities; populations of plant and animal species important for maintaining the biological diversity of the region.

It is also home to some 20,000 waterfowl and migratory birds, as well as providing food for fish and a nesting ground for turtles.

To the north of the port is the 268-hectare Valle de las Garzas lagoon, which suffers from high levels of sediment due to soil loss from the watershed and urban activities, and has high levels of nutrients due to discharges from nearby treatment plants and human activities. It is therefore in worse condition than the Cuyutlán lagoon.

Despite its condition, the local environmental authorities have not yet declared it a protected area. Meanwhile, the fourth basin of the Cuyutlán lagoon is about to receive this status, although it does not seem that this protection will impede the already initiated port expansion project.

The area also faces climate threats. Between 2030 and 2050, the coastal areas around Manzanillo and inside the Cuyutlán lagoon will be flooded by rising sea levels, according to forecasts by the international scientific platform Climate Central.

In addition, the port area is exposed to increased flooding from rainfall, according to climate studies by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Dead mangroves on the shore of the Cuyutlán lagoon, the most important wetland in Mexico’s western Pacific. Credit: Conabio / Semar

Inconsistency

Since 2023, the Ministry of the Navy, which manages the federal ports, has been implementing the Port Decarbonisation Strategy, which aims to reduce emissions in operations.

In what is the second-largest economy of Latin America, 227.75 million tonnes were handled between January and October in the 103 ports of the National Port System (SPN). A figure 7.5% lower than that of the same period in 2023.

Manzanillo handled 30.77 million tonnes – almost 1% less than in the same period of 2023 – up to last November.

In 2022, the 36 ports of the 18 SPN administrations emitted 1.33 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent, almost double the level of 2021, according to the national strategy. Carbon equivalent measures pollution in reference to CO2. Manzanillo released 30% more emissions into the atmosphere than in 2022.

Measurements involve the activity of cargo ships, vessels parked in port, cargo handling equipment, locomotives and cargo trucks, as well as the operation of terminals, operators, service providers, shipping lines, shipping agents, customs, land transport and rail companies.

The Decarbonisation Strategy stipulates emission reductions of 25 % by 2030 and 45 % by 2050, but only sets out general measures, such as planning resilient infrastructure, harmonising management and planning instruments, such as concession titles, master development programmes and operating rules.

It also sets out how to identify, describe and programme the implementation of low-emission energy policies.

Port sustainability includes the consideration of environmental, economic and social aspects, such as pollution, dredging of nearby areas, return on investment and job creation.

But the installation of more hydrocarbon terminals, fuel storage facilities and a gas-fired power plant contradict the strategy’s goals. Official publicity presents it as sustainable because of its gas consumption, despite the fact that it is a highly polluting fossil fuel.

Moreover, the 2021-2026 master programme for port development does not address environmental considerations.

As is the case in the rest of Latin America, no Mexican port appears on the project map of the World Ports Sustainability Programme, an association that brings together the world’s largest environmentally friendly facilities.

Expert Smith pointed to a greater focus on ship operations to improve port sustainability.

“Ships are increasingly environmentally constrained. Ports do not provide renewable energy. Decarbonisation must focus on ships and the biggest polluters are container ships,” he said.

BBC Africa Correspondent Mayeni Jones reports from cyclone-hit Mayotte, as French President Emmanuel Macron visits to assess the damage.

Dans un entretien accordé à Euractiv, le Premier ministre estonien Kristen Michal estime que les partenaires occidentaux de l’Ukraine doivent oeuvrer pour placer le pays en position de force avant toute négociation pour un cessez-le-feu, et que l’Europe ne peut pas en être exclue.

Dans les années qui ont précédé le procès des viols collectifs qui a bouleversé la France, Gisèle a failli attraper Dominique Pelicot.

Dans les années qui ont précédé le procès des viols collectifs qui a bouleversé la France, Gisèle a failli attraper Dominique Pelicot.

"Instead of talking about a postponement, EU countries should finally get down to work and offer their citizens targeted support," Liese said.

The post Czech-led push to delay CO2 price on diesel, petrol ‘won’t solve problems’ appeared first on Euractiv.

Laut einem Bericht der Nichtregierungsorganisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) blockieren die israelischen Behörden seit Oktober 2023 „absichtlich“ den Zugang der Palästinenser zu ausreichend Wasser. Damit behindern sie die Gesundheitsversorgung und die Prävention von Infektionskrankheiten in Gaza.

Un amendement adopté par la chambre basse du parlement tchèque mercredi 18 décembre rendra plus difficile l’obtention de la nationalité tchèque pour les ressortissants russes. Une mesure qui suscite des accusations de discrimination.

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19 December 2024, SARAJEVO – Recognizing the critical role of K9 units in detecting and preventing crime, law enforcement teams from across Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) showcased their expertise in a competition organized by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina (Mission). A total of 14 teams competed in four key disciplines: obedience, drug detection, firearms and explosive detection.

“It is our intention to continue strengthening BiH's law enforcement operations through engagement and co-operation. In doing so, we will maintain our focus on promoting K9 collaboration throughout the region,” said Ambassador Brian Aggeler, Head of the OSCE Mission to BiH. “The professionalism and dedication demonstrated by these teams today reflect the significant contribution they make to public safety and security, both nationally and regionally.”

The event brought together representatives from the BiH Ministry of Security, the BiH Border Police, entity and cantonal ministries of interior, police administrations, the Brčko District Police, as well as international organizations. During the event, the Guidelines, Training Manual, and Training Program Curriculum for K9 Units in BiH were presented. These comprehensive documents provide dog handlers, instructors, supervisors, and other stakeholders with structured guidance on the effective use, maintenance, and responsibilities associated with K9 operations in law enforcement.

“This training, along with the earlier delivery of specialist equipment to police K9 units in Bosnia and Herzegovina, represents a significant step forward in strengthening security. It serves as a model for how this vital segment of law enforcement should develop,” said Ivica Bošnjak, Deputy Minister of the BiH Ministry of Security. “Unfortunately, this issue has not yet been resolved systematically, and greater attention must be given to it in the coming period. Establishing a police dog training center, serving all police agencies in BiH and meeting the needs of the entire Western Balkan region, is essential.”

He emphasized that police dogs are indispensable for detecting threats such as narcotics, weapons, and explosives. He however also stressed the need for improved recognition and career advancement opportunities for their handlers to secure greater investment in these critical units.

This competition forms part of a broader effort by the OSCE Mission to BiH to assist police agencies in addressing public and physical security challenges posed by the illicit possession, misuse, and trafficking of small arms, light weapons, and their ammunition. The project received financial support from Austria, the Czech Republic, the European Union, Germany, France, Liechtenstein, Norway, Slovakia, Türkiye, and the United States.

L'organisation noyb a déposé le 19 décembre une plainte auprès de l’autorité italienne de protection des données contre Ryanair en raison de son processus de vérification des comptes clients qui utilise la reconnaissance faciale biométrique.

Lors d’un débat sur le bien-être des agriculteurs le 18 décembre, le commissaire européen à l’Agriculture, Christophe Hansen, a déclaré que lier les subventions agricoles aux normes de travail était un pas en avant, tout en reconnaissant les limites du mécanisme.