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En stage à Abidjan dans le cadre des 5e et 6e journées des éliminatoires de la Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, les Guépards ont officiellement démarré les travaux ce lundi 11 novembre 2024. Pour rappel, le Bénin affronte le Nigéria jeudi prochain avant de se déplacer en Libye.

Découvrez quelques images de la première séance :

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Les abonnés au réseau électrique qui ont encore des factures d'électricité impayées sont tenus de régulariser leur situation avant le 2 décembre 2024.

Une vaste campagne de recouvrement des créances sur consommation d'énergie électrique dénommée « Recouvrement Commando » démarre sur toute l'étendue du territoire.

L'opération de recouvrement forcé, selon un communiqué de la Société Béninoise d'Energie Electrique (SBEE), débutera le lundi 02 décembre 2024. Elle concerne notamment les clients Basse Tension (BT).

La SBEE invite ses clients en situation irrégulière à s'acquitter de leurs dus dans les délais afin d'éviter tout désagrément. Les factures du mois d'octobre 2024 en cours de distribution sont accompagnées d'avis de passage notifiant les impayés, a précisé le communiqué.
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Le Code Général des Impôts de 2024 est désormais accessible en Anglais pour les opérateurs économiques internationaux. Voici la version anglaise officielle publiée par la Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI).

L'homme d'affaires Olivier Boko et l'ex ministre Oswald Homeky ont été conduits, lundi 11 novembre 2024, à la Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (CRIET) pour une nouvelle audition.

Poursuivis dans une affaire de tentative de coup d'Etat, Oswald Homeky et Olivier Boko sont à nouveau à la Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (CRIET). C'est une nouvelle audition devant la commission d'instruction de la CRIET. Complot d'atteinte à la sûreté de l'Etat, blanchiment de capitaux et corruption d'agent public sont les chefs d'accusation retenus contre l'homme d'affaires Olivier Boko et l'ex-ministre Oswald Homeky après leur audience à la CRIET mardi 1er octobre 2024.

C'est un coup d'Etat déjoué qui a conduit à l'arrestation des mis en cause mardi 24 septembre, selon les premières investigations. Selon le procureur, le Commandant de la Garde Républicaine ayant en charge la sécurité du Chef de l'État a été entrepris par le ministre Oswald Homeky pour son compte et celui de Olivier Boko à l'effet d'opérer par la force un coup d'État dans la journée du 27 septembre 2024. L'ancien ministre a été interpellé au moment où il transmettait six sacs remplis de billets de banque au Commandant de la Garde Républicaine. Il s'agit d'une somme de 1 500 000 000 de FCFA. La Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (Criet) a rejeté, jeudi 31 octobre 2024, la demande de mise en liberté provisoire formulée par les avocats de Oswald Homéky et Olivier Boko.

Die Anhörungen der designierten EU-Kommissare im EU-Parlament gehen in die heiße Phase. Am Dienstag stehen nicht nur die mächtigsten Posten – die Vizepräsident:innen – auf dem Programm, sondern auch eine kontroverse Personalie.

Spanish socialist Teresa Ribera is set to become the next European competition commissioner. European telecom operators count on her.

Dawit Isaak has been held without trial in an Eritrean prison for 23 years.

Finland’s Henna Virkkunen will be leading European tech policy for the next five years – expect a change in direction.

L’homme écope de 23 mois de prison avec sursis pour viol, harcèlement sexuel et menaces sur une ancienne stagiaire.

Der designierte französische EU-Kommissar Stéphane Séjourné steht am Dienstag (12. November) vor einer kritischen Anhörung im Europäischen Parlament. Abgeordnete werden seine Nähe zu Präsident Macron und die Details seines umfangreichen Aufgabenbereichs prüfen.

Boyko Borissov, Vorsitzender der größten bulgarischen Partei GERB und Gewinner der jüngsten Wahlen, betonte, dass er die neue bulgarische Regierung leiten sollte. Als Argument führte er seine guten Beziehungen zum neu gewählten US-Präsidenten Donald Trump an.

Internally displaced children at a displacement shelter in Léogâne. Credit: UNICEF/Maxime Le Lijour

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12 2024 (IPS)

Gang violence has ravaged Haiti, causing thousands of civilian deaths, displacements, and violations of international humanitarian law. Turmoil is expected to escalate following the removal of Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille from office on November 11.

On November 10, the Haitian government announced plans to replace incumbent prime minister Conille, with entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aimé. Conille responded by describing his termination as “illegal”, stating that the transition council of Haiti only has the power to appoint a prime minister, rather than dismissing one from office. Conille informed reporters that “this resolution, taken outside any legal and constitutional framework, raises serious concerns about its legitimacy.”

Since the beginning of Conille’s term, his efforts to eradicate gang violence, boost the nation’s economy, and eliminate hunger have been largely unsuccessful. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), Haiti remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with approximately half of the country facing acute food insecurity. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) states that approximately 5.5 million people require humanitarian assistance for survival. Basic services such as access to food, clean drinking water, healthcare, education, shelter, and psychosocial support are severely limited.

Shortly after the beginning of his term on June 3 of this year, Conille launched the Multinational Security Support (MSS) Mission in Haiti, a contingent mission backed by Kenya. However, following the deployment of 400 Kenyan officers in Haiti, nationwide gang violence surged and shifted to more vulnerable areas, like the Artibonite River region.

In an October 22 address to the United Nations (UN) Security Council, María Isabel Salvador, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of the U.N. Integrated Office in Haiti, remarked that the MSS mission is severely underfunded, leading to 700,000 Haitians to be internally displaced.

“The security situation remains extremely fragile, with renewed peaks of acute violence. The situation in Haiti has regrettably worsened,” said Salvador. She added that the violence was once relatively contained to the Port-Au-Prince region but has escalated and expanded throughout the nation. Murders, kidnappings and sexual violence of “unprecedented brutality” remain frequent occurrences.

Georges Fauriol, a Haiti specialist and senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., opined that efforts by Conille to soothe tensions and remove gang activity have only aggravated brutalities committed by gangs.

“So here we are nearly mid-November and the Kenyans are nowhere near what was promised earlier in the summer and the gangs appear to have in some cases mutated to cartel-like operational ambitions, with an increasingly worrisome stream of arms and financing,” said Fauriol.

The recent transition of power is predicted to further destabilize the political and social climate of Haiti. Due to increased political instability, humanitarian organizations fear that armed groups will exploit Haiti’s state of vulnerability. Currently, the Haitian government lacks a Parliament and has not had a democratic election in years, creating a significant political vacuum.

As Fils-Aimé was sworn into office on the morning of November 11, armed gangs targeted Haiti’s international airport in Port-Au-Prince. The flight was diverted to the Dominican Republic. However, in other areas of Haiti, fights between gangs and police engulfed the capital, with some gangs setting homes on fire.

According to the U.S. Embassy, the attacks were “gang-led efforts to block travel to and from Port-au-Prince which may include armed violence, and disruptions to roads, ports, and airports”. With Haiti facing a lack of proper governance and political structure, gang violence will continue to escalate.

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Nora fait des cauchemars depuis qu'elle pense à la possibilité d'être expulsée. Ses filles Christell et Leah sont prêtes à quitter les États-Unis pour préserver l'unité de leur famille.

Nora fait des cauchemars depuis qu'elle pense à la possibilité d'être expulsée. Ses filles Christell et Leah sont prêtes à quitter les États-Unis pour préserver l'unité de leur famille.

L’ancien patron de Credit Suisse a ordonné au personnel de sécurité de la banque de prendre en filature l’ex-mari de sa petite amie.

Aujourd'hui dans l'Expresso : Quel avenir pour l'OTAN après l'élection de Donald Trump ? Un tribunal de Rome bloque à nouveau le transfert de migrants vers un centre de retour en Albanie.

Written by Sebastian Clapp.

Russia’s war on Ukraine has laid bare the challenges facing the European defence industry as it tries to meet increased demand and ramp up production in the wake of a fundamentally changed security environment in Europe. Europe’s defence industry comprises a number of large multinational companies, mid-caps and over 2 000 small and medium-sized enterprises. It faces a multitude of challenges, such as decades of under-investment, fragmentation, insufficient critical raw material and semiconductor supplies, and a lack of manufacturing capability.

The EU and its Member States have taken several steps to reinforce the European defence industry, especially since the start of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Member States have boosted their defence budgets, with their combined total expected to reach €350 billion a year in 2024. The European Defence Fund is investing in research and capability development projects and has achieved very positive results so far. Permanent structured cooperation also provides the legal framework and binding commitments for progress in collaborative defence. The EU has also broken taboos, by agreeing a joint defence procurement instrument (the European Defence Industry Reinforcement through Common Procurement Act) and an initiative to build up ammunition production (Act in Support of Ammunition Production). These form part of a three-track proposal to support Ukraine’s needs for ammunition (deliver ammunition from existing stocks, jointly procure from industry, and support the ramping up of production). In March 2024, the European Commission proposed the first-ever European defence industrial strategy and a defence industry programme to implement it.

Additionally, the European Peace Facility, best known for facilitating lethal weapon supply to Ukraine, is being used to procure defence materiel from Europe’s defence industry, further boosting its capacity. The European Chips Act and Critical Raw Materials Act are also expected to benefit the European defence industry by ensuring it has the necessary supplies to tackle the substantially increased demand for its products. These signals have led the industry to take the first steps to increase production capacity.

This updates a previous edition, published in 2023.

Read the complete briefing on ‘Reinforcing Europe’s defence industry‘ in the Think Tank pages of the European Parliament.

A group of female farmers are working in the field in Habra, India. In Asia and the Pacific, 2 out of 5 of agriculture workers are women.
 
Gender-responsive climate actions will take center stage at the COP29 this week as world leaders gather in Azerbaijan to raise collective ambitions. Credit: Pexels/ Dibakar Roy

By Xinyi Qu, Kareff Rafisura and Gomer Padong
BANGKOK, Thailand, Nov 12 2024 (IPS)

When the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, orbited the Earth in 1963, there were only three active Earth observation satellites. Today, the number is 114 times greater.

With more and better satellites, the impacts of advances in the space sector are particularly evident in agriculture, where space data improves insights into the individual components of these landscapes (land, water and forests), as well as their interconnections.

Sixty years since Valentina Tereshkova, women continue to play crucial roles in food production worldwide. In the Asia-Pacific region, two out of five agriculture workers are women. While they face disproportionate impacts from climate change, they are also driving climate solutions. How are they benefitting from the growing capability of the space sector to support agriculture?

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The importance of promoting and enhancing women’s participation in using space applications for sustainable development and disaster risk reduction was underscored in the 2018 Ministerial Declaration on Space Applications for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific.

Guided by this aspiration, the United Nations’ regional commission, ESCAP, is actively working to help countries in the region advance gender inclusivity by ensuring that at least 30 per cent of participants in its capacity building activities on space applications are women.

While these gender inclusivity efforts are an important step, more needs to be done to make available space data accessible, affordable, and actionable.

Accessible: The percentage of women using the Internet in Asia and the Pacific stands at 63 per cent compared to 69 per cent of men. Closing this gender digital divide is indispensable towards enhancing women’s access to new information, skills and knowledge that could help them manage the impacts of climate on their livelihood resources (land, water, forest).

Targeted support to community-centered connectivity projects can complement broader policy actions and infrastructure development.

Affordable: Making space data affordable for women-led micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) can unleash product innovation and create opportunities for growth. One example is the Australia Space Data Analysis Facility which enhances the ability of SMEs to use Earth observation data by facilitating access to analysis-ready data and uptake of space data analytics, along with training, tools, and access to expertise.

Actionable: Geolocation can aid in developing locally relevant solutions. However, it is seldom sufficient considering that men and women experience the impacts of climate change differently and have unequal capacities to adapt. Engaging local women’s networks in tailoring solutions to the specific needs and contexts of women in different communities is key to making space data actionable.

The experience of the space agency of Thailand in promoting Dragonfly amongst its community of users demonstrates that women farmers are more likely to use space data when it is integrated with socio-economic information that provides multi-dimensional perspectives for farm-level decision-making.

The 2024 edition of ESCAP’s Compendium of Geospatial Practices for Sustainable Development contains examples of how space applications are used to boost crop monitoring and forecasting capabilities, increase precision and production efficiency, and enable adaptation to climate change.

CropWatch, a cloud-based platform developed by Chinese scientists integrates time-series remote-sensing data from multiple sources to monitor crop production and forecast trends. In Japan, a cloud-based service uses satellite and drone imagery to monitor crop growth and determine optimal harvest times allowing farmers to monitor crop health, increase yields, improve food quality, and reduce waste. In Mongolia, Earth observation data are used to provide crop productivity information throughout the growing season using cloud platform technology.

In terms of land management, the UralGIS agro-monitoring system in the Russian Federation uses satellite imagery to optimize agricultural land use. This system forms part of the unified federal information system and aids in determining plot boundaries and their agricultural suitability, enhancing land management through cadastral registration and 3D mapping for landscape analysis.

The Forest Geospatial Information System of the Republic of Korea is an example of how a spatial data infrastructure can underpin a forest management approach that balances environmental, economic, and social considerations.

These space applications have a remarkable potential for empowering women to thrive amidst a changing climate. Gender-responsive climate actions will take center stage at the COP29 this November as world leaders gather in Azerbaijan to raise collective ambitions.

Sixty years since the first woman went to space, it is time to double down efforts and ensure that women farmers also benefit from space-driven innovations – empowering them to play an active role in shaping climate solutions.

Xinyi Qu, Intern, ESCAP; Kareff Rafisura, Economic Affairs Officer, ESCAP; Gomer Padong, Institute for Social Entrepreneurship in Asia

Relevant SDGS:

• SDG 2: Zero Hunger
• SDG 5: Gender Equality
• SDG 13: Climate Action

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Die Bestätigungsanhörungen im EU-Parlament geraten ins Stocken, da politische Spannungen und strategische Abwägungen die Kandidatur von Raffaele Fitto belasten. Die Sozialdemokraten drängen auf eine Herabstufung seiner Position, während sich die Fraktionen auf eine harte Befragung vorbereiten.

Donald Trump megválasztott amerikai elnök csapata egyértelműen elhatárolódott Bryan Lanza republikánus stratégától, aki azt állította, hogy egy jövőbeli Trump-adminisztráció nem helyezné előtérbe az Ukrajnától elcsatolt területek visszaszerzését. Lanza, aki korábban Trump kampánycsapatában dolgozott, a BBC-nek adott interjúban azt mondta, hogy a béketárgyalások fókuszában az Ukrajnával való megegyezés állna, nem pedig az elvesztett területek visszaszerzése.

Lanza kijelentései szerint, ha Volodimir Zelenszkij ukrán elnök „csak a Krím visszaszerzésével hajlandó tárgyalni,” akkor szerinte „nem gondolja komolyan a békét.” Trump hivatalos csapata azonban gyorsan reagált: közölték, hogy Lanza már nem tagja a kampánystábnak és nem képviseli Trump hivatalos álláspontját.

A kampányidőszakban Trump többször ígéretet tett arra, hogy „egy napon belül” véget vetne az ukrajnai konfliktusnak, bár részleteket nem közölt arról, hogyan érné ezt el.

A csatolt területek kérdése Oroszország 2014-ben csatolta el a Krím félszigetet, majd 2022-ben négy további ukrajnai régió – Donyeck, Luhanszk, Herszon és Zaporizzsja – annektálását is bejelentette, bár ezek felett a teljes katonai irányítást sosem gyakorolta. Zelenszkij álláspontja világos: az orosz csapatok teljes kivonulása és az elcsatolt területek visszaadása nélkül nem lehet valódi béke.

Moszkva részéről nyitottság mutatkozik a Trump által felvetett béketerv hallgatólagos tárgyalására, melyet Szergej Rjabkov külügyminiszter-helyettes is megerősített, mondván, hogy „zárt csatornákon keresztül” folytatnak egyeztetéseket Washingtonnal. Rjabkov ugyanakkor megjegyezte, hogy Moszkva kizárólag olyan javaslatokra kíváncsi, amelyek elősegíthetik a konfliktus megoldását, és nem támogatják további segélyek küldését Kijev számára.

Andrij Szibiha ukrán külügyminiszter szintén kész együttműködni egy esetleges Trump-adminisztrációval. „Ukrajna nyitott a tárgyalásra” – jelentette ki Szibiha, emlékeztetve arra, hogy Zelenszkij volt az elsők között, aki üdvözölte Trump megválasztását.

Trump bírálja Ukrajna katonai támogatását Trump régóta bírálja az Ukrajnának nyújtott amerikai katonai segélyeket, és kijelentette: ha visszatér a Fehér Házba, akár le is állíthatja a támogatást. Egy korábbi kampányeseményen azt mondta, hogy Washington túl sok pénzt áldoz az ukrán háborús erőfeszítésekre, és megígérte, hogy „rendet tesz” ebben az ügyben.

A Biden-kormányzat ugyanakkor megerősítette, hogy Trump hivatalba lépése előtt még megérkezik Kijevbe egy 6 milliárd dolláros, már beígért katonai támogatási csomag. Az amerikai külügyminisztérium adatai szerint a háború kezdete óta az Egyesült Államok 64 milliárd dollár értékben biztosított katonai segítséget Ukrajnának.

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