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Led by Italy and Greece, the group argues that revising the EU Tobacco Products Directive could go too far

Klaver is a 39-year-old MP from the Green Left side of the party

Le débat autour de l’accord franco-algérien de 1968 s’intensifie. Après l’adoption d’une résolution du RN le dénonçant et la déclaration de Laurent Nuñez, ministre français […]

L’article Colonisation française de l’Algérie: Zemmour dérape dans un échange musclé avec un imam marseillais est apparu en premier sur .

With cases surging in the Czech capital, authorities are leaning on European vaccine stockpiles and adopting flexible dosing

Des milliers d'enfants adoptés aux États-Unis n'ont pas la citoyenneté américaine, bien qu'ils aient été amenés dans ce pays alors qu'ils étaient bébés, il y a plusieurs décennies. Aujourd'hui, beaucoup craignent d'être expulsés.

Une nouvelle ère s'ouvre pour le monde des affaires et de la tech en Afrique avec le lancement de Ewaji.com.

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Pensé pour un écosystème entrepreneurial moderne, Ewaji.com contribue à faire briller en visibilité les entreprises en comptant sur les expériences clients partagées sous forme d'avis avec d'autres consommateurs sur sa plateforme. Au final, la note attribuée à l'entreprise sert à augmenter l'indice de confiance de celle-ci pour une relation équilibrée entre la marque et le consommateur.

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Ewaji.com se positionne comme un véritable levier de croissance pour les commerces, petites et moyennes entreprises La plateforme aide les marques à prouver leur fiabilité auprès de nouveaux clients, améliorer leur service grâce aux retours collectés, augmenter leurs conversions grâce à la preuve sociale et se distinguer dans un marché de plus en plus digitalisé.

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Ewaji.com est une plateforme indépendante d'avis clients dédiée au marché africain. Elle permet aux consommateurs de partager leurs expériences en toute transparence et aux entreprises de développer leur réputation grâce à des avis vérifiés et publics. Ewaji.com ambitionne de devenir la référence de la confiance numérique en Afrique.

Ireland’s cancer services were once ‘the jewel in the crown’ of the health service, but delayed diagnoses and staff shortages have diminished patient care

Sally Ncube, Equality Now, addresses the Standing Committee of the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF). Credit: Equality Now

By Cecilia Russell
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 3 2025 (IPS)

Closing the chapter on child marriages is still a distant ambition in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, and despite great strides at developing and passing legislation to eradicate it, existing and emerging drivers are still at play, making youngsters vulnerable to the practice.

These were key messages from Equality Now at the Standing Committee Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC-PF) held in Kempton Park, South Africa, from October 24 to November 1, with the theme of Enhancing the Role of Parliamentarians in Advocating for the Signing, Ratification, Accession, Domestication, and Implementation of SADC Protocols.

Equality Now, in partnership with SADC-PF, launched two policy briefs—Protection measures for children already in marriage in Eastern and Southern Africa and Addressing emerging drivers of child marriages in Eastern and Southern Africa—for Parliamentarians’ consideration during a session aimed at sensitizing and increasing their knowledge on child marriage legislation and trends.

SADC countries adopted the Model Law on Eradicating Child Marriage and Protecting Children in Marriage in 2016; however, its domestication is uneven, children already in marriages need protection, and emergent drivers of child marriage need to be factored into the legal frameworks and policies.

Equality Now’s Divya Srinivasan addresses the Standing Committee of the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF). Credit: Equality Now

Equality Now’s Divya Srinivasan elaborated on the context of the domestication of the SADC model law on child marriage, noting that seven out of 16 countries (or about 45 percent) set the minimum age of 18 without exceptions. Five out of the 16 SADC countries set the age of 18 with some exceptions, with, for example, Botswana specifically excluding customary and religious marriages from the protection.

“Four countries, or around 25 percent, including Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa, and Tanzania, provide for the minimum age of between 15 and 18. In these countries, the minimum age of marriage is different for boys and girls, with boys invariably having a higher age limit. In addition to these differences, all four countries allow for traditional and parental consent to lower the age of marriage,” Srinivasan noted.

Bevis Kapaso from Plan International said that since 2016, child marriage has dropped by 5 percentage points, going from 40 percent of all marriages to 35 percent in 2025, making it unlikely that the region will achieve SDG target 5.3, which aims to “eliminate all harmful practices, such as child marriage, early and forced marriage, and female genital mutilation” by 2030.

Most concerning was that the decrease was mainly urban, with the practice remaining fairly entrenched in rural areas.

This meant that children in marriages should be protected, and parliamentarians sensitized the drivers that were halting progress toward ending the practice.

Lawmakers should strive to ensure that married children have the right to void their marriages, retain their rights, access the property acquired during marriage, and not have their citizenship revoked, said Nkatha Murungi, an Equality Now Consultant.

“Children (in these circumstances) often end up stateless,” she said. While child marriage was a “symptom and a driver of entrenched inequality, poverty, and rights violations,” parliamentarians had a role to play in ensuring immediate, targeted measures to protect and empower children already in marriage, including the right to custody of their offspring and access to sexual and reproductive services.

Nkatha Murungi, an Equality Now Consultant, addresses the Standing Committee of the SADC Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF). Credit: Equality Now

Murungi suggested that lawmakers should also become aware of emerging issues, such as climate change. She said that after the 2019 floods in Malawi, which affected more than 868,900 people and displaced 86,980 individuals, child marriage spiked. Parliamentarians, according to Equality Now, should integrate child marriage prevention into national climate change adaptation and disaster risk management strategies.

It also suggested a gender-sensitive approach to economic empowerment by “supporting climate-resilient economic opportunities and programs for women and girls in affected communities.”

Other concerning emergent and persistent drivers include conflict and insecurity and increased migration and displacement, which often remove children from protective oversight while persistent poverty and inequality drive children into marriage.

The policy brief also warned about the rapid growth of technology, which, “while enabling advocacy and awareness, also facilitates misinformation that normalizes harmful practices, including child marriage.”

Sylvia Elizabeth Lucas, a South African parliamentarian and Vice President of the SADC parliamentary forum, on the sidelines of the meeting, stated that protecting children is non-negotiable; she emphasized that practical legislation and implementation, guided by the “spirit of ubuntu” (compassion and humanity), can effectively protect girl children.

On the sidelines of the meeting, Murungi elaborated that it was important to look at why the traditional approaches were not resulting in the ending of child marriages. Poverty has always been considered a driver, but traditional efforts to end child marriage have not benefited those living in poverty. Education was key to empowerment, not only for keeping children in school and out of marriage but also for giving them options for their futures.

The forum was reminded that it was imperative that the SADC Model Law be updated in their countries to reflect some of these emerging drivers.

“It is also necessary for Parliament and the Executive at the national level to work together to promote anti-child marriage policies and laws and ensure that targeted policy responses fill all prevailing gaps,” the policy brief on emergent drivers concluded.

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La Commission électorale nationale autonome (CENA) a délivré, ce lundi 3 novembre 2025, le récépissé provisoire au parti Union Progressiste le Renouveau (UP-R) dans le cadre des élections communales de janvier 2026.

L'Union Progressiste le Renouveau entre en possession de son récépissé provisoire de déclaration de candidatures pour les communales 2026, suite à l'examen des dossiers déposés à la CENA.

Le document a été remis par le Directeur général des élections, Abou Adam Soulé, au Secrétaire général de l'UP-R, Gérard Gbénonchi, en présence de la Directrice de la Communication Anique Djimadja et de Paul Douakoutche, membre du Bureau Politique.

Le Secrétaire général du parti a assuré que les informations complémentaires demandées seront fournies dans les plus brefs délais.

La CENA poursuit l'examen des dossiers des autres partis (FCBE, Moele Bénin, ‘'Les Démocrates'', BR). La campagne électorale est fixée du 26 décembre au 9 janvier 2026. Le scrutin est prévu pour le 11 janvier 2025.

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Chaque année, la Caisse nationale des retraites (CNR) rappelle aux bénéficiaires de pensions directes ou transférées qu’ils doivent actualiser leurs documents au cours du mois […]

L’article Retraite et pensions transférées : la CNR adresse un message important aux bénéficiaires est apparu en premier sur .

Le nouveau gouvernement d’extrême droite tchèque va opérer un virage politique majeur sur plusieurs questions européennes, notamment en matière de climat et de migration.

The post Climat, migrations… Le nouveau gouvernement tchèque annonce un revirement sur les politiques de l’UE appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Linke EU-Abgeordnete verlangen eine Prüfung des Mercosur-Abkommens durch den Europäischen Gerichtshof.

In Deutschland entscheidet nicht das Einkommen darüber, wer ein Haus besitzt – sondern die Eltern. So wird Wohnen zu einer Frage der sozialen Herkunft., Wer heute in Deutschland ein Eigenheim besitzt, verdankt das häufig nicht der eigenen Arbeit, sondern den Eltern. Das zeigt eine neue Studie des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin: Kinder von Immobilieneigentümern haben eine höhere Chance, selbst einmal Eigentum zu haben. Wer ...

The 2020s, so far, have been a decade of awakening in Europe. A real debate has emerged about the energy strategy and the protection of European values, people, and the future. It is important to accept that we may think differently, but now we must focus on the goals we can agree on, and priorities must be calmly but quickly re-evaluated. We must accept that the path to a sustainable, prosperous and energy-independent Europe is now different from what we imagined a few years ago.

One year after the fatal collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad railway station, tens of thousands of Serbs gathered there on Saturday to commemorate the 16 victims. At 11:52 a.m., the time of the accident, participants observed 16 minutes of silence. The tragedy on 1 November 2024 triggered a wave of mass protests against the Vučić government.