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Can the EU be sustainable and continue to grow? Can Europe remain competitive without being sustainable? For the new president of Eurima, an upcoming EU Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) is a chance to show that competitiveness and decarbonisation work best together.

Saisie par requête en date à Cotonou du 23 octobre 2025, enregistrée à son secrétariat, le 25 octobre 2025, à dix (10) heuresvingt (20) minutes, sous le numéro 2196/450/REC-25, par laquelle monsieur Bonaventure Jude LODJOU, forme un recours en vue de la validation du parrainage du député Michel François OloutoyéSODJINOU au profit du parti politique « Les Démocrates » ;
Saisie par une deuxième requête en date à Cotonou du 25
octobre 2025, enregistrée à son secrétariat, à seize (16) heures trente-trois (33) minutes, à la même date, sous le numéro 2197/451/REC-25, par laquelle monsieur Habibou WOROUCOUBOU, député à l'Assemblée nationale, introduit un recours « aux fins de dénonciation du retrait abusif de la fiche deparrainage, obstruction à la vision et à la ligne du parti en vue de sa participation à l'élection présidentielle » ;

Saisie par une troisième requête en date à Cotonou du 24
octobre 2025, enregistrée à son secrétariat, le 25 octobre 2025, à dix- neuf (19) heures vingt-six (26) minutes, sous le numéro 2198/452/REC-25, par laquelle messieurs Vignilé Renaud Léandre N'doufou AGBODJO, avocat au barreau du Bénin, et Bonaventure Jude LODJOU, juriste, forment un recours en vue de la validation de lacandidature du duo du parti politique « Les Démocrates » à l'électionprésidentielle de 2026 ;

Sur plusieurs autres recours , La Cour a rendu le 27 Octobre 2025 la décision E P 2 5 - 0 0 7 dont la teneur suit :

EN CONSÉQUENCE,

Article 1er : Ordonne la jonction des recours enregistrés sous les numéros 2196/450/REC-25, 2197/451/REC-25, 2198/452/REC-25 et 2199/453/REC-25 sous le 2196/450/REC-25.

Article 2 : Se déclare compétente pour examiner le recours formé par monsieur Bonaventure Jude LODJOU.

Article 3 : Déclare irrecevable le recours formé par messieurs Vignilé Renaud Léandre N'doufou AGBODJO et Bonaventure Jude LODJOU.

Article 4 : Déclare irrecevable les recours de messieurs Habibou WOROUCOUBOU et Karim GOUNDI.

Article 5 : Dit que la Cour se saisit d'office.

Article 6 : Dit qu'il y a autorité de la chose jugée en ce qui concerne la violation de certains droits fondamentaux par l'ordonnance du président du tribunal de première instance de première classe de Cotonou.

Article 7 : Dit que la Commission Électorale Nationale Autonome n'as violé, ni le code électoral, ni la Constitution.

Article 8 : Arrête la liste définitive des duos de candidats à l'élection présidentielle du 12 avril 2026, sous réserve de l'examen médical, prescrit par la Constitution, comme suit :

D u o 1 :

– monsieur Kossi Mbueke Romuald WADAGNI, candidat à la présidence de la République.

– madame Mariam CHABI TALATA, candidate à la vice-présidence de la République.

Duo 2 :
– monsieur Paul HOUNKPE, candidat à la présidence de la
République.
– monsieur Rock Judicaël HOUNWANOU, candidat à la vice-
présidence de la République.

La présente décision sera notifiée à messieurs Vignilé Renaud
Leandre N'doufou AGBODJO, Bonaventure Jude LODJOU, Habibou WOROUCOUBOU, Karim GOUNDI, a maitre Francis DAKO, maitre Victorien FADE, maître Hermann YENONFAN, au président de la Commission Électorale Nationale Autonome et publiée au Journal officiel.

Ont siégé à Cotonou, le vingt-sept octobre deux mille vingt-cinq

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This UNICEF-supported nutrition site focuses on delivering lifesaving interventions for the prevention and treatment of acute malnutrition among children under five and pregnant and lactating women. Credit: UNICEF/Ahmed Mohamdeen Elfatih

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 2025 (IPS)

In recent weeks, Sudan’s humanitarian crisis has deteriorated considerably, as escalating hostilities, mass displacement, disease outbreaks, and a widespread lack of access to basic, essential services continue to endanger civilians across the country. The situation has been further compounded by a sharp increase in attacks on healthcare facilities throughout October, which has severely weakened the country’s already fragile health system and deprived thousands of people of lifesaving care.

On October 23, several United Nations (UN) agencies—including the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the World Food Programme (WFP)—issued a joint statement highlighting the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in Sudan and calling for urgent, coordinated international action. According to the organizations, over 900 days of protracted conflict and the collapse of lifesaving services have “pushed millions to the brink of survival”, with women and children being disproportionately affected.

“This is one of the worst protection crises we’ve seen in decades,” said Kelly T. Clements, Deputy High Commissioner at UNHCR. “Millions are displaced inside and outside of the country and returning families have little support with the absence of other options. I spoke with families who recently fled El Fasher with horrific stories of being forced to leave everything behind, taking treacherous routes at great risk. It’s a dynamic environment and support is needed everywhere.”

An estimated 30 million people in Sudan are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, including nearly 15 million children. The conflict has forced more than 9.6 million people to flee their homes, making Sudan the largest internal displacement crisis in the world. At the same time, approximately 2.6 million people have returned to areas of active conflict—such as Khartoum, where around one million have returned—only to find their homes and livelihood destroyed and essential services virtually wiped out.

According to IOM, Khartoum currently hosts nearly 900,000 refugees, while Tawila shelters more than 600,000—many of whom lack adequate housing or access to protection services. Aid organizations have expressed growing concern over rising anti-foreigner sentiment, stressing that protection assistance remains “lifesaving for hundreds of thousands” of displaced individuals facing heightened risks of violence and discrimination.

“This scale of return to Khartoum is both a sign of resilience and a warning,” said Ugochi Daniels, IOM’s Deputy Director General for Operations. “I met people coming back to a city still scarred by conflict, where homes are damaged and basic services are barely functioning. Their determination to rebuild is remarkable, but life remains incredibly fragile.”

After three years of conflict, Sudan’s education system has been among the hardest hit, with an estimated 14 out of 17 million school-aged children without access to schooling. Additionally, hunger levels remain catastrophic, with famine having been confirmed in parts of Sudan last year. Children continue to face heightened risks of malnutrition and thousands are projected to be at an “imminent risk of death” if nutritional support is not secured soon.

“It was a really grave moment when famine was first confirmed in parts of Sudan, and given the scale and growing intensity of the crisis, we have all been investing significant effort in enhancing our operational capacity to meet the huge and growing needs,” said WFP Assistant Executive Director Valerie Guarnieri. About 25 million people in Sudan, or half its population, face acute food insecurity. WFP has been able to support 4 million people in recent months, including 85 percent of the population living in famine or famine-risk areas. Yet Guarnieri warned on Friday that they have “reached the limits, not of our capacity, but of our resources.”

For over 16 months, El Fasher has experienced heightened levels of insecurity, with over 260,000 civilians, including roughly 130,000 children, trapped under siege and cut off from food, water, and healthcare. On October 20, UN sources reported that a siege in one of the most densely populated areas of El Fasher led to intense shelling and the displacement of more than 109,000 people across 127 sites. The UN has also received numerous reports of extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, and forced recruitment.

October has been particularly volatile for Sudan’s already fragile healthcare system, with a surge in attacks targeting medical facilities in the Kordofan and Darfur states. On October 5, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out two drone strikes on hospitals in El Obeid City, North Kordofan.

Two days later, the RSF conducted an artillery shelling in the maternity ward of the Saudi Hospital for Women and Maternity in El Fasher’s Al Daraja neighborhood—the last functioning medical facility in the city. Thirteen civilians, including several children, were killed, and sixteen others were injured, among them a female doctor and a nurse. The hospital sustained significant damage to much of its medical equipment.

Additionally, Sudanese families continue to struggle with aggressive outbreaks of cholera, dengue, malaria, and measles, which have been exacerbated by non-functional healthcare systems and destroyed water systems. According to updated figures from UNHCR, the Darfur and Kordofan regions have been among the hardest hit by cholera. In North Darfur’s Tawila locality alone, more than 6,000 infections and 11 deaths have been recorded since May—most within displacement shelters. In South Darfur, UNHCR has documented 3,229 confirmed cases and 177 deaths since late August.

“What I witnessed in Darfur and elsewhere this week is a stark reminder of what is at stake: children facing hunger, disease, and the collapse of essential services,” said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director. “Entire communities are surviving in conditions that defy dignity. Children are malnourished, exposed to violence, and at risk of dying from preventable diseases. Families are doing everything they can to survive, showing extraordinary resolve in the face of unimaginable hardship.”

The 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan for Sudan calls for USD 4.2 billion, but remains severely underfunded, with only 25 percent of the required amount secured so far. Despite these gaps, aid groups have been able to reach over 13.5 million people this year, including those in the most crisis-afflicted regions, such as Darfur, Khartoum, and Al Jazira. The UN stresses the need for continued humanitarian cooperation and increased donor support, as funding shortfalls are projected to force several key humanitarian agencies to scale back or suspend critical operations, putting millions of lives at risk.

UN officials also made the call for development investment to rebuild critical infrastructure and services in health, sanitation and energy. “Sudan urgently needs to rebuild and rehabilitate its key infrastructure, restore access to public services, and provide direct support to vulnerable returnees, IDPs, and the communities that host them,” Daniels said on October 24.

“We can’t wait for longstanding peace to take hold. Development actors are needed now to come in for bigger rehabilitation and construction and investment, so that people can rebuild their lives with dignity,” Clements said. She remarked that development actors would be critical in devastated areas like Khartoum where at present, more than a million people have returned and require basic services. “It’s that kind of reconstruction, rehabilitation, bringing back basic services, where development actors have a much larger role to play than humanitarian actors like ourselves.”

IPS UN Bureau Report

 

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By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Kuhaneetha Bai Kalaicelvan
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Oct 28 2025 (IPS)

Opposition to data centres (DCs) has been rapidly spreading internationally due to their fast-growing resource demands. DCs have been proliferating quickly, driven by the popularity of artificial intelligence (AI).

Jomo Kwame Sundaram

Who are data centres for?
Already, the AI boom has overwhelmed other ‘cloud’ uses and drives the rapid growth of DCs, imposing fast-expanding resource demands. This has triggered a bipartisan public backlash in the US due to higher energy, water, and land use, as well as rising prices.

In October 2024, McKinsey projected that global energy demand by DCs would rise between 19% and 22% annually through 2030, reaching an annual demand between 171 and 219 gigawatts.

This greatly exceeds the “current demand of 60 GW”. “To avoid a [supply] deficit, at least twice the [DC] capacity built since 2000 would have to be built in less than a quarter of the time”!

As tech companies are not paying for the additional energy generation capacity, consumers and host governments are, whether they benefit from AI or not.

As DCs increasingly faced growing pushback in the North, developers have turned to developing countries, outsourcing problems to poorer nations with limited resources.

Understanding these energy- and water-guzzling facilities is necessary to better protect economies, societies, communities, and their environments.

Energy needs
With growing corporate and consumer demand for AI, DC growth will continue, and even occasionally accelerate.

K Kuhaneetha Bai

Increased AI usage will significantly increase energy and water consumption, accelerating planetary heating both directly and indirectly.

As demand for AI and DCs increases, supporting computers will require significantly more electricity. This will generate heat, needing the use of water and energy for cooling. Much energy used by DCs, from 38% to 50%, is for cooling.

Electricity generation, whether from fossil fuels or nuclear fission, requires more cooling than renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic solar panels or wind turbines.

A small-scale DC with 500 to 2,000 servers consumes one to five megawatts (MW). For tech giants, a ‘hyperscale’ DC, hosting tens of thousands of servers, consumes 20 to over 100MW, like a small city!

Data centres not cool
As the popular focus is on DCs’ enormous energy requirements, their massive water needs to cool equipment tend to be ignored, understated and overlooked.

Locating new DCs in developing countries will further heat local microclimates and the planetary atmosphere. Worse still, heat is more environmentally threatening in the tropics, where ambient temperatures are higher.

Establishing more DCs will inevitably crowd out existing and other possible uses of freshwater supplies, besides reducing local groundwater aquifers.

Unsurprisingly, DC investors rarely warn host governments about the amount of locally supplied energy and water required.

DCs require much freshwater to cool servers and routers. In 2023, Google alone used almost 23 billion litres to cool DCs. In cooling systems using evaporation, cold water is used to absorb severe heat, releasing steam into the atmosphere.

Closed-loop cooling systems absorb heat using piped-in water, while air-cooled chillers cool down hot water. Cooled water recirculated for cooling requires less water but more energy to chill hot water.

Investors expect subsidies
Like other prospective investors, DCs have relocated to areas where host governments have been more generous and less demanding.

Led by US President Trump’s powerful ‘tech bros’, many foreign investors have profited from subsidised energy, cheap land and water, and other special incentives.

Prospective host governments compete to offer tax and other incentives, such as subsidised energy and water, to attract foreign direct investment in DCs.

The US pressured Malaysia and Thailand to stop Chinese firms from using them as an “export-control backdoor” for its AI chips. Washington alleges that DCs outside China buy chips to train its AI for military purposes. So far, only Malaysia has complied.

This limits Chinese firms’ access to such chips. Washington claims that Chinese substitutes for US-made chips are inferior and seeks to protect US technology from China.

High-tech DC jobs?
Data centres are emerging everywhere, but not many jobs will be created. Advocates claim DCs will provide high-tech jobs.

DCs are largely self-operating, requiring minimal human intervention, except for maintenance, which they determine independently. Thus, job creation is minimised.

Construction and installation work will be temporary, with most managerial functions being performed remotely from headquarters. A Georgetown University report estimates only 27% of DC jobs are ‘technical’.

While the DC discourse mainly focuses on foreign investments, there is little discussion on growing national desires for data sovereignty.

Acceding to so many foreign requests will inevitably block national capacity ambitions to develop end-to-end DC capabilities and not just host them.

Thus far, there is limited interest in the ‘afterlife’ of DCs, such as what happens after they have outlived their purpose, or the disposal of waste materials.

Higher energy and water costs, subsidies, tax incentives and other problems caused by DCs are hardly offset by their modest employment and other benefits.

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Informé du décès de Son Excellence Mgr Barthélémy ADOUKONOU, le gouvernement à travers le ministère du tourisme, de la culture et des arts, a présenté ses condoléances à la Conférence épiscopale du Bénin (CEB). A travers un communiqué de presse en date de ce lundi 27 octobre 2025, et signé du ministre du tourisme, de la culture et des arts, l'Exécutif béninois a salué la mémoire d'un « apôtre du dialogue entre la foi et la culture ». L'évêque regretté selon le gouvernement, est un « bâtisseur infatigable de ponts entre les peuples et les croyances » qui aura marqué de son empreinte indélébile le siècle des idées et des consciences.

Le communiqué du Gouvernement

Communiqué de presse

Cotonou, le 27 octobre 2025

Le Ministre du Tourisme, de la Culture et des Arts rend hommage à Son Excellence Monseigneur Barthélemy ADOUKONOU

C'est avec une émotion profonde et une grande tristesse que j'ai appris le décès de Son Excellence Monseigneur Barthélemy ADOUKONOU, l'un des plus illustres fils du Bénin, théologien érudit, apôtre du dialogue entre la foi et la culture, et bâtisseur infatigable de ponts entre les peuples et les croyances.

Homme de lumière et de conviction, Monseigneur ADOUKONOU aura marqué de son empreinte indélébile le siècle des idées et des consciences. Sa pensée, nourrie de la sève africaine et de la rigueur chrétienne, a ouvert les voies à l'enracinement, là où la spiritualité s'incarne dans les symboles, les langues et les imaginaires du continent. Il a su montrer, avec la force tranquille des sages, que la valorisation de l'identité africaine et béninoise est une arme incontournable dans la maitrise du continuum historique et du patrimoine culturel de nos peuples.

En défenseur passionné de la mémoire collective, il s'est également engagé pour le retour des biens culturels africains et la restitution des trésors royaux du Bénin, convaincu que la renaissance du continent passe par la réappropriation de son histoire et de ses symboles.

En cette douloureuse circonstance, je présente, au nom du Gouvernement du Bénin et en mon nom propre, mes condoléances les plus attristées à la Conférence épiscopale du Bénin, à sa famille biologique et spirituelle, ainsi qu'à tous ceux qui ont été nourris par sa parole, éclairés par sa sagesse, et inspirés par son humilité.

Paix à son âme.

Babalola Jean Michel Hervé Abimbola

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