La Commission européenne propose un cadre d’urgence qui permettrait pour une durée d’un an maximum de réduire les autorisations nationales et de permettre aux convois militaires de traverser le continent en cas de crise, selon une présentation de l’exécutif européen obtenue par Euractiv.
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Kumi Naidoo with Brazilian First Lady Janja Lula da Silva and Brazilian Cultural Minister Margareth Menezes and others at a panel called “Narratives and Storytelling to Face the Climate Crisis” during the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30). Credit: Aline Massuda/COP30
By Joyce Chimbi
BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 18 2025 (IPS)
Decades ago, a little girl was born in a place called Cleveland, Ohio, in the heart of the United States of America. Born to a woman from the deep South, the place of Martin Luther King, her mother left her ancestral lands for the economic opportunities in the north.
“Off she went, making it all the way to the east side of Cleveland,” says Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker-Smith. “To the place where most people who look like me lived, and still live, and are subjected to policies of injustice, race and gender.”
Here, she found a more pressing issue.
“I couldn’t breathe, my mother couldn’t breathe, and we all couldn’t breathe,” she narrates.
This urbanization, driven by fossil fuels, occurred in Cleveland, Ohio, where her mother relocated and where her relatives still live today. During the Great Migration, over six million people of African descent traveled from the South, believing that economic opportunities would be better in the North.
Rev. Dr Angelique Walker-Smith, regional president of the World Council of Churches, speaks at an event titled ‘Faith for Fossil Free Future.’ Credit: IPS
“Upon our arrival, we discovered that we just couldn’t breathe.”
As one of eight regional presidents representing the World Council of Churches, Walker-Smith says for the World Council of Churches in over 105 countries, over 350 million adherents, and over 350 national churches all over the world, supporting the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty “is all about the issue of injustice, life and life more abundantly.”
“We are saying yes to the transition from fossil fuels to renewable life-giving energy.”
Kumi Naidoo, a prominent South African human rights and environmental justice activist and the President of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, says if the goal is renewable life-giving energy, the world has been going the wrong way for the past 30 years.
“If you come home from work and see water coming from the bathroom, you pick up the mop. But then you realized you left the tap running and the sink stopper on. What will you do first? Of course! You’ll turn off the water and pull the stopper. You will not start mopping the floor first.”
“For 30 years since the time science told us we need to change our energy system and many of our other systems, what we’ve been doing is mopping up the floor. If fossil fuels—oil, coal, and gas—account for 86 percent of what drives climate change, then we must turn off the tap.”
Masahiro Yokoyama was speaking at an event titled Faith for a Fossil-Free Future co-sponsored by Soka Gakkai International. Credit: Joyce Chimbi/IPS
Naidoo was speaking at an event titled ‘Faith for Fossil Free Future’ co-sponsored by several organizations, including Soka Gakkai International (SGI), Laudato Si’ Movement, GreenFaith—a global interfaith environmental coalition and EcoJudaism, a Jewish charity leading the UK Jewish Community’s response to the climate and nature crisis.
He spoke about the contradiction of the climate talks at the doorsteps of the Amazon, while licensing for drilling is still ongoing in the Amazon even as the people in the Amazon protest, calling for a fossil-free Amazon.
Continuing with the thread of contradictions, Naidoo said, “Some of you might be shocked that even though fossil fuels are 86 percent of the cause of climate change, it took 28 years before the words ‘fossil fuels’ could even be mentioned in the COP document. It is as absurd as Alcoholics Anonymous holding 28 years of conferences before they get the backbone to mention alcohol in an outcome document. If we continue on this path, we'll warm up the planet to the point where we destroy our soil and water, and it becomes so hot we can't plant food. The end result is that we'll be gone. The planet will still be here. And the good news is, once we become extinct as a species, the forests will grow back, and the oceans will recover.
“And actually, staying with that analogy, can you imagine how absurd it is that the largest delegation to this COP this year, last year, and every year is not even the host country?
“It’s not even Brazil—for every 25 delegates that are attending the COP, one of them is from the fossil fuel industry. That’s the equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous having the largest delegation to its conference annually from the alcohol industry.”
People, groups and movements of different faiths and consciousness are increasingly raising their voices in robust support of a rapid fossil fuel phase-out, a massive and equitable upsurge in renewable energy, and the resources to make it happen—in the form of a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Naidoo says the treaty is “a critical success ingredient for us not (only) to save the planet, but to secure our children and their children’s future, reminding ourselves that the planet does not need any saving.
“If we continue on this path, we warm up the planet to the point where we destroy our soil and water, and it becomes so hot we can’t plant food. The end result is that we’ll be gone. The planet will still be here. And the good news is, once we become extinct as a species, the forests will grow back, and the oceans will recover.”
This treaty is a proposed global agreement to halt the expansion of new fossil fuel exploration and production and to phase out existing sources like coal, oil, and gas in a just and equitable manner.
The initiative seeks to provide a legal framework to complement the Paris Agreement by directly addressing the supply side of fossil fuels.
Its ultimate goal is to support a global transition to renewable energy and is supported by a growing coalition of countries, cities, organizations, scientists, and activists. More importantly, it has multi-faith support.
Masahiro Yokoyama of the SGI, which is a diverse global community of individuals in 192 countries and territories who practice Nichiren Buddhism, spoke about the intersection between faith and energy transition and why the fossil fuel phase-out cannot wait.
“The just transition is also about how young people in faith can be the driving force to transformations.”
“So, a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, in my view, is not only about phasing out other fossil fuels but it also represents an ethical framework.”
“It’s a way to move forward while protecting people’s livelihoods and dignity within the context of the environment and also the local business and economies. So, a just transition is not merely a technical issue but a question of ethics, inclusion and solidarity,” Masahiro Yokoyama said.
The most pressing issue at hand is how to implement the treaty in the current environmental context.
“The pathway that we are following is a pathway that has been followed before. We are not going to negotiate this treaty within the COP or within the United Nations system. We’re going to do what the Landmine Treaty did.
“The landmine treaty was negotiated by 44 countries outside of the UN system and then brought to the UN General Assembly for ratification. The second question that people ask, justifiably, is, what about the powerful exporting countries, for example?” Naidoo asked.
“They’re not going to sign it. And to that we find answers in the landmine treaty. Up to today, the United States, Russia and China have not signed the Landmine treaty. But once the treaty was signed, the social license to continue as business as usual was taken away. And you saw a drastic change.”
Note: This article is brought to you by IPS Noram in collaboration with INPS Japan and Soka Gakkai International in consultative status with ECOSOC.
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À quelques jours du Sommet UE-UA, l'Africa-Europe Foundation (AEF) publie le rapport The State of Africa-Europe 2025.
Le rapport souligne la nécessité d'un véritable changement de paradigme : un nouveau pacte financier capable d'accélérer le co-investissement, le partage des risques et la création de valeur durable, tout en offrant à l'Afrique et à l'Europe l'occasion de se positionner conjointement comme un axe stabilisateur dans un paysage mondial de plus en plus fragmenté.
Le Bénin figure parmi les cinq pays impliqués dans le corridor Abidjan-Lagos. Le rapport souligne son rôle dans l'amélioration de la facilitation du commerce, la modernisation des infrastructures et la création de liens logistiques régionaux, soutenus par des investissements européens.
Le rapport 2025 de l'Africa-Europe Foundation est disponible ici : https://back.africaeuropefoundation.org/uploads/AEF_State_of_Africa_Europe_Report_November_2025_2cab991eac.pdf
Vous trouverez le résumé exécutif ici : https://back.africaeuropefoundation.org/uploads/AEF_State_of_Africa_Europe_Report_Executive_Overview_November_2025_0d0db65e53.pdf
Un enseignant de Sciences de vie et de la terre (SVT) a été interpellé à Lobogo, une localité de la commune de Bopa, dans le département du Mono. Il est mis en cause dans une affaire d'abus sexuel sur l'une de ses apprenantes.
Enseignant de SVT, marié et père de famille, il entretient une relation amoureuse avec l'une de ses apprenantes, et enceinte celle-ci. Craignant les représailles, il tente un avortement clandestin et conduit la jeune fille dans un centre de santé. La Police débarque sur les lieux et procède à son interpellation. Il sera présenté au Procureur de la République pour répondre de ses actes.
Il risque gros selon la loi N°2021-11 du 20 décembre 2021 portant répression des infractions commises à raison du sexe des personnes et de protection de la femme en République du Bénin, qui interdit les relations amoureuses entre enseignants et apprenants.
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Le verdict de la Chambre des appels de la CRIET sur la décision d'incompétence rendue par la chambre correctionnelle dans le procès de l'ex-Directeur général de la police nationale (DGPN) Louis Philippe Sessi Houndégnon est tombée ce lundi 17 novembre 2025.
Le dossier de l'ex-Dgpn Houndégnon et de son coprévenu Coffi Camille Amoussou sera à nouveau examiner devant la Chambre correctionnelle de la Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (CRIET). Dans ce dossier, la chambre correctionnelle de la CRIET s'est déclarée incompétente le lundi 19 mai 2025 au motif que les faits reprochés aux deux prévenus sont de nature criminelle. Elle a ensuite confirmé le mandat de dépôt et a renvoyé le ministère public à mieux se pourvoir. Les deux prévenus Louis Philippe Sessi Houndégnon ainsi que le ministère public ont alors fait appel de cette décision du premier juge.
Après plusieurs semaines de procès, la chambre des appels de la CRIET a indiqué dans une décision rendue le lundi 17 novembre 2025 que les faits reprochés aux deux mis en cause relèvent bien de la compétence de la CRIET. En conséquence, elle a affirmé dans sa décision que la chambre correctionnelle de la CRIET est compétente et a ordonné le retour du dossier pour examen, rapporte l'envoyé spécial de Libre Express.
En attendant un nouveau procès devant la chambre correctionnelle de la CRIET, les mandats de dépôt de Louis Philippe Sessi Houndégnon et de Coffi Camille Amoussou ont été confirmés. Les deux prévenus restent en prison. Toutes les demandes de remise en liberté provisoire introduites par les prévenus ont été rejetées par la chambre des appels de la CRIET.
Retour sur les faits
En novembre 2024, Louis Philippe Houndégnon, a été interpellé par la police à la suite de plusieurs interviews accordées à la presse dans lesquelles il déclarait avoir reçu des propositions de coup d'État contre le président Patrice Talon. Le parquet spécial l'accusait alors d'avoir remis en cause la Constitution béninoise et d'avoir appelé la population au soulèvement à travers son "Mouvement 11/12".
Lors des audiences devant la chambre de jugement, le ministère public, représenté par le premier substitut du procureur spécial Armand Donald Reagan Hounguè, avait fait ses réquisitions. Selon le procureur, Houndégnon aurait "manqué de réserve même étant à la retraite" et aurait travaillé à "recenser les personnalités clés de l'État" dans le but de fomenter un coup d'État. Le parquet avait donc demandé à la CRIET de retenir Houndégnon pour des faits présumés d'incitation à la rébellion et de harcèlement par le biais d'un système électronique et de le condamner à deux ans de prison.
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