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En juillet 2026 au Bénin, le niveau général des prix s'est établi à 102,8 contre 102,7 en juin, soit une progression de 0,1 % selon le bulletin mensuel de l'Indice harmonisé des prix à la consomation (IHPC) publié par l'Institut national de la statistique et de la démographie (INStaD).
Les prix à la consommation ont légèrement augmenté au Bénin en juillet 2026. Cette évolution est principalement portée par le secteur des transports. L'INStaD indique que « l'accroissement mensuel de l'indice est essentiellement imputable à l'augmentation des prix des “Transports” ». L'« Essence kpayo » constitue notamment le principal produit à l'origine de cette hausse, avec une progression de 2,0 % sur le mois.
À l'inverse, le recul des prix des « autres céréales », notamment le sorgho, le mil et le fonio, a contribué à contenir la progression de l'indice. Ces produits ont enregistré une baisse de 1,9 % en juillet.
Sur trois mois, entre avril et juillet 2026, les prix à la consommation ont augmenté de 0,4 %. Là encore, les transports arrivent en tête avec une hausse de 3,5 %. Ils sont suivis notamment par l'ameublement, l'équipement ménager et l'entretien courant du ménage (+1,2 %), ainsi que les boissons alcoolisées, le tabac et les stupéfiants (+1,3 %).
Sur douze mois, la progression du secteur des transports est encore plus marquée : +11,3 %. Dans le même temps, les prix des produits alimentaires et boissons non alcoolisées ont reculé de 2,8 %, tandis que ceux des restaurants et services d'hébergement ont diminué de 5,3 %.
Le poste consacré au fonctionnement des équipements de transport personnel affiche, lui, une hausse annuelle de 16,4 %. Les services de transport de passagers progressent de 4,4 % sur la même période.
Des produits alimentaires globalement moins chers
L'évolution des prix alimentaires demeure orientée à la baisse sur un an. L'indice des produits alimentaires et boissons non alcoolisées recule de 2,8 %, tandis que celui des produits frais diminue de 3,6 %.
Dans les grandes villes, les prix moyens relevés en juillet donnent toutefois des écarts importants selon les produits et les localités.
ACotonou, le kilogramme de riz en grains longs est affiché en moyenne à 591 FCFA, contre 595 FCFA à Porto-Novo et 654 FCFA à Parakou.
Le kilogramme de tomate fraîche coûte en moyenne 968 FCFA à Cotonou, contre 1012 FCFA à Parakou.
Pour l'essence « kpayo », le prix moyen relevé est de 763 FCFA le litre à Cotonou, 723 FCFA à Porto-Novo et 754 FCFA à Parakou. Le gaz domestique de 6 kg s'établit en moyenne à 4633 FCFA à Cotonou.
Malgré les variations observées dans plusieurs secteurs, le niveau général des prix est resté stable en juillet 2026 par rapport à juillet 2025.
L'inflation en glissement annuel ressort ainsi à 0,0 %. L'INStaD souligne que cette stabilité masque des évolutions contrastées entre les différentes catégories de biens et services.
Le taux d'inflation en moyenne annuelle s'établit pour sa part à 0,5 % à fin juillet, en baisse de 0,1 point par rapport au mois précédent. Cet indicateur, utilisé dans le cadre de la convergence au sein de l'UEMOA, repose sur l'évolution moyenne des prix sur 24 mois.
Du côté des produits, les prix des produits importés ont augmenté de 4,7 % sur un an, alors que ceux des produits locaux ont diminué de 1,9 %. Les produits énergétiques enregistrent également une hausse annuelle de 11,3 %.
M. M.
La fête de la Gaani, à Nikki, s'apprête à connaître une nouvelle organisation.
A compter de l'édition 2026 de la Gaani à Nikki, prévue à la fin du mois d'août, le gouvernement béninois prend officiellement en charge le pilotage de cette importante célébration traditionnelle.
L'annonce a été faite dimanche 9 août 2026 par le porte-parole du gouvernement, Wilfried Houngbédji.
Selon le ministee, cette édition servira de point de départ à une nouvelle approche, avec l'appui des structures déjà expérimentées dans l'organisation des grands rendez-vous culturels nationaux, dont Bénin Tourisme.
L'objectif est de renforcer la qualité de l'organisation et d'accroître la portée de la manifestation. À terme, la célébration pourrait également être étendue à cinq jours, contre deux ou trois actuellement, en tenant compte notamment du calendrier lunaire.
Le dispositif imaginé ferait notamment coexister la Gaani à Nikki, les Vodun Days à Ouidah et le Festival des masques à Porto-Novo. L'objectif est de renforcer l'attractivité culturelle du Bénin et de faire de ces événements des rendez-vous susceptibles de mobiliser un public national et international.
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By James Alix Michel
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Aug 10 2026 (IPS)
I have spent my life on an island. From the granite hills of Mahé, one can watch the sun rise over an ocean that has fed, protected and defined the Seychellois people for centuries.
James Alix Michel
That same ocean is now warmer than at any point in recorded history, and this summer, watching the news from abroad, I have felt something I did not expect to feel again in my lifetime.The horizon no longer glows only with the soft light of dawn. Across Canada, Europe and the Americas, it has glimmered this year with the harsh, reddish hue of wildfire smoke. “The Earth is burning” is no longer a slogan. It is a description of an ordinary Tuesday in Ontario, or a July afternoon in Barcelona.
Consider what has actually happened these past months. Canada has watched more than three million hectares of forest burn this year — an area roughly the size of Belgium — prompting the government to declare its highest level of national fire preparedness and to deploy its armed forces alongside thousands of firefighters. In northwestern Ontario, a single blaze, the Thunder Bay 36 fire, has become the largest ever recorded in that province’s history. Researchers who studied the season found that nearly all of that destruction, some 94 percent of it, occurred in just five weeks, as heat and drought converged.
Across the Atlantic, the story repeats with a different accent. This past June was the hottest ever recorded in western Europe, and the world’s oceans registered their warmest June surface temperatures on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Spain’s Fabra Observatory in Barcelona logged 40.5°C on 8 July, its hottest reading in more than a century of measurements. Germany saw 252 weather stations break all-time records. France recorded its hottest day ever, with a national average temperature of 30°C, and declared a red heat alert across 58 of its departments — nearly the entire country.
I did not grow up believing a nation the size of France could be placed, almost in its entirety, under a single heat emergency. This year, it happened.
In the Middle East the temperature this year has exceeded 52 degrees.
None of this is accidental, and none of it is isolated. It is one planet, one atmosphere, one ocean, responding as any system does when energy keeps being added to it.
I am not a scientist. But I have spent decades in rooms with scientists, diplomats, fishermen and island elders, and I have learned to translate what they know into language anyone can use. Burning oil, coal and gas fills our atmosphere with gases that trap heat close to the Earth, much as a blanket traps warmth against the body. The thicker that blanket becomes, the more aggressively a hotter atmosphere pulls moisture from soil and vegetation — what scientists call rising vapor pressure deficit, and what the rest of us might simply call atmospheric thirst. A thirsty atmosphere turns living forests into dry tinder faster than rainfall can replace what has been lost. At the same time, this extra heat is disturbing the great rivers of wind that once reliably carried cooling weather across a region and moved on. Increasingly, they stall, and heat domes settle over a country for weeks rather than days. When millions of hectares then burn, they release carbon stored for decades, adding still more heat-trapping gas to the air. Fire feeds warming, and warming feeds fire.
It is a loop that does not correct itself. We must correct it.
Small island states are not spectators to this crisis; we are its early warning system. Seychelles does not burn as Ontario or Andalusia does, but our coral reefs bleach and die in ocean heat that barely registers as news elsewhere, and our fishing communities feel shifts in current and temperature years before those shifts appear in a headline.
This is why, a decade ago, my government joined nearly two hundred nations in Paris in agreeing to hold the rise in global temperature well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, and to pursue every effort to limit it to 1.5°C. That agreement entered into force in November 2016. It remains, imperfect as it is, the clearest promise the nations of the world have ever made to one another about the only atmosphere we share.
We are not keeping that promise quickly enough. Scientific trackers that once projected we would not cross 1.5°C of warming until the middle of this century now estimate, per Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, that we could cross that threshold as early as 2029.
That is not a distant date. Children born this year will not yet be teenagers when it arrives.
I refuse fatalism, because fatalism has never protected a single reef, forest or coastline. What the science asks of us is not mysterious: cut greenhouse gas emissions sharply and immediately, retire dependence on coal, oil and gas far faster than current pledges allow, and invest seriously in the resilience of communities already living through fire seasons, heatwaves and rising seas.
It also asks something specific of leadership. Every government that signed the Paris Agreement carries a responsibility to honor it not as rhetoric for a summit stage, but as a commitment kept in national budgets, energy policy and disaster preparedness. And it asks something of every citizen: to demand of our leaders the urgency the data requires, not merely the urgency that is politically convenient.
The forests burning in Canada, the heat scorching Spain and France, and the reefs bleaching in the Indian Ocean are not separate stories. They are chapters of the same story, and we are the ones still writing its ending.
The Earth is burning. Whether it keeps burning, or whether we finally act as one species sharing one planet, remains, for now, our choice to make.
The author served as President of the Republic of Seychelles from 2004 to 2016 and is a longtime advocate for ocean conservation and the blue economy.
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Increased longevity presents both new opportunities and significant challenges for individuals, families, healthcare systems, and societies. Credit: Shutterstock
By Joseph Chamie
PORTLAND, USA, Aug 10 2026 (IPS)
Upon reaching the age of 80, men and women are living longer than ever before.
These gains in longevity among octogenarians represent a remarkable demographic achievement. The additional years of life provide new opportunities for older adults and their families while also presenting important social, economic, and healthcare challenges for societies.
In 1950, the global life expectancy at age 80 was 4.8 additional years for men and 5.3 additional years for women. Over the following decades, these figures increased steadily, reaching an estimated 7.7 years for men and 9.1 years for women in 2026. This upward trend is expected to continue, with life expectancy at age 80 projected to increase to 8.8 additional years for men and 10.1 additional years for women by 2050 (Figure 1).
Source: United Nations.
Behind these global averages, however, lies considerable variation among countries. More developed countries, such as Japan and France, have relatively high life expectancy at age 80, with men expected to live an additional 10 years and women approximately 12 years. In contrast, less developed countries, including Nigeria, Niger, and Mali, are at the lower end of the distribution, where both men and women who reach age 80 can expect to live about 5 additional years (Figure 2).
Source: United Nations.
The proportion of the world’s population surviving to age 80 and older has increased steadily over recent decades. In 1950, approximately 0.6% of the global population was 80 years or older. By 2026, that proportion had doubled to 1.2% and is projected to increase further to 2.1% by 2050 (Table 1).
Source: United Nations.
Although octogenarians continue to represent a relatively small share of the world’s population, their numbers and proportions are increasing rapidly, reflecting continued improvements in survival and the ongoing ageing of populations worldwide.
The proportion of octogenarians in a population varies widely across countries. The highest percentages are found in more developed countries, while the lowest are seen in less developed countries. In 2026, for example, 11% of Japan’s population and 8.1% of Italy’s population are aged 80 years and older. In contrast, the corresponding proportions are 1.1% in India and 0.3% in Nigeria.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), although genetics influence certain aspects of health among people aged 80 years and older, most differences in health outcomes are shaped by physical and social environments, as well as personal characteristics such as sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.
Reaching advanced age in good health depends to a great extent on maintaining healthy habits throughout life. These include eating a balanced diet, engaging in regular physical activity, avoiding tobacco and drug use, limiting alcohol consumption, and maintaining strong social connections.
The growing prevalence of chronic diseases and the increasing demand for long-term care have important implications for governments, healthcare systems, and families. Meeting the needs of a rapidly expanding population of octogenarians will require increased investments in healthcare, long-term care services, and age-friendly communities
Together, these health-promoting behaviors help reduce the risk of chronic diseases, preserve physical and cognitive functioning, and delay the need for long-term care, thereby improving both longevity and quality of life in old age.
However, many people in their 80s face significant challenges, including managing chronic health conditions, accessing long-term care, maintaining financial security, and coping with social isolation.
The proportion of adults aged 80 years or older living alone varies considerably across countries, reflecting differences in cultural norms, family structures, income levels, and public support systems. In many developing countries, fewer than 10% of octogenarians live alone, whereas in high-income countries the corresponding proportion typically ranges from 30% to 50%.
Older adults also frequently experience ageism, with stereotypes portraying them as frail, dependent, or a burden to society. Such attitudes can lead to discrimination and may influence public policies in ways that limit opportunities for healthy and active ageing.
Although some octogenarians remain physically and mentally capable well into their 80s, functioning at levels comparable to people decades younger, most experience some decline in physical and cognitive abilities and live with at least one chronic health condition.
The growing prevalence of chronic diseases and the increasing demand for long-term care have important implications for governments, healthcare systems, and families. Meeting the needs of a rapidly expanding population of octogenarians will require increased investments in healthcare, long-term care services, and age-friendly communities.
At the same time, caring for older adults raises important questions about the appropriate balance of responsibility between governments and families. As populations continue to age, determining how these responsibilities should be shared will become an increasingly important policy challenge.
While governments often expect families to provide the primary care for their ageing relatives, families believe that governments should provide the financial resources, services, and the support needed to meet those care needs. This continuing debate underscores the importance of developing sustainable policies that strike an appropriate balance between public responsibility with family caregiving.
A comprehensive public health response must address the diverse experiences and needs of people aged 80 years and older. Supportive physical and social environments enable octogenarians to continue engaging in activities that are meaningful to them despite age-related declines in physical and cognitive functioning. Such environments include safe and accessible public buildings, age-friendly transportation systems, affordable housing, and community-based health and social care services.
When adults aged 80 years and older are able to spend their later years in good health and within supportive environments, they can maintain independence, participate actively in family and community life, and enjoy a quality of life comparable to that of younger adults. In contrast, when these additional years are marked by physical frailty, cognitive impairment, and mental health challenges, the consequences extend beyond the individual to affect families, healthcare systems, and society as a whole.
Many octogenarians face complex health and lifestyle challenges arising from multiple chronic conditions, functional decline, and age-related impairments.
Globally, many adults aged 80 years and older live with a combination of chronic physical illnesses, cognitive impairment, geriatric syndromes, and psychological changes. These often overlapping and interrelated challenges require coordinated, person-centered health and social care that emphasizes disease prevention, continuity of care, multidisciplinary collaboration, and sustained support for both older adults and their caregivers.
At age 80, the major global health challenges for both men and women include heart disease (such as heart attacks and heart failure), dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease), and geriatric syndromes. These syndromes encompass a range of age-related conditions, including frailty, osteoporosis, hearing and vision impairment, urinary incontinence, and an increased risk of falls.
Falls are among the leading causes of injury, disability, hospitalization, loss of independence, and injury-related death among older adults. Age-related loss of muscle strength and balance, vision impairment, medication side effects, cognitive decline, and neurological disorders all contribute to an elevated risk of falling.
Although many medical conditions affect both sexes, biological differences, lifestyle factors, and women’s longer life expectancy contribute to distinct health profiles for men and women at age 80.
For women, the principal challenges at age 80 often involve maintaining mobility, preventing fractures resulting from osteoporosis and bone fragility, and coping with social isolation. Because women generally outlive men, they are more likely to be widowed, live alone, and experience loneliness, financial insecurity, and the need for long-term support.
In addition, women account for a larger share of dementia cases, including Alzheimer’s disease, owing in part to their greater longevity, making cognitive decline an especially important health concern in advanced age.
Despite these serious challenges, many older adults maintain a positive outlook and a sense of humor. One observation, often attributed to various older speakers, captures that spirit: “People tell you that you’ll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don’t tell you is that you won’t miss it very much.”
For male octogenarians, the leading health risks often include fatal acute cardiovascular events, metabolic diseases, and serious psychological crises. In many populations, men in this age group also experience higher rates of certain cancers and type 2 diabetes than women of the same age. Among the cancers most commonly diagnosed in older men are prostate and bladder cancer.
Although depression is diagnosed more frequently in women, men aged 80 years and older have substantially higher suicide rates. These deaths often occur in the context of bereavement following the loss of a spouse, declining physical health, social isolation, chronic pain, or a diminished sense of identity and purpose associated with major life transitions.
Another important issue facing many people aged 80 years and older is their ability to continue driving. Most countries do not impose a mandatory upper age limit for driving. Instead, they require periodic medical evaluations, vision testing, and more frequent driver’s license renewals to determine whether older adults remain fit to drive safely. These measures seek to balance the independence and mobility that driving provides with the need to protect public safety.
A notable exception to this global practice is Peru, where individuals aged 80 years and older are no longer permitted to renew a driver’s license. The policy was introduced as part of the government’s efforts to reduce traffic accidents, reflecting concerns about age-related declines in vision, hearing, reaction time, cognitive function, and physical mobility.
Reaching the age of 80 and living longer than previous generations is a remarkable demographic achievement. It reflects substantial advances in medicine, public health, nutrition, education, and living standards.
At the same time, increased longevity presents both new opportunities and significant challenges for individuals, families, healthcare systems, and societies.
Meeting those challenges will require policies and programs that promote healthy ageing, support independence, expand access to high-quality health and long-term care, and enhance the quality of life for the growing population of octogenarians.
Many octogenarians worry about losing their independence, developing a chronic illness, becoming a burden to their families, or dying alone. Concerns about the dying process can often be eased when individuals receive compassionate care, remain as comfortable as possible, and have their preferences for medical treatment and end-of-life care respected.
For many octogenarians, however, death gradually becomes less frightening as it draws nearer. Having experienced the loss of spouses, relatives, friends, and contemporaries, many come to view death not as an unfathomable mystery but as a natural and inevitable part of life.
This perspective often fosters a deeper acceptance of mortality. Rather than dwelling on fear, many choose to focus on the present, cherish meaningful relationships, and appreciate the time that remains. For some, this acceptance brings a greater sense of gratitude, purpose and peace as they approach life’s natural conclusion.
Joseph Chamie is a consulting demographer, a former director of the United Nations Population Division, and author of many publications on population issues.
Une nouvelle formule d'assurance destinée aux propriétaires de motos et d'engins à trois roues a été présentée vendredi 7 août 2026 à Cotonou par UBA Bénin et l'Association des Sociétés d'Assurances du Bénin (ASA Bénin). L'offre prévoit notamment la prise en charge de frais médicaux et des indemnisations pouvant atteindre 500.000 FCFA.
Les propriétaires de motos et de tricycles disposent désormais d'une nouvelle option pour couvrir certains risques liés à l'utilisation de leurs engins. UBA Bénin, en partenariat avec ASA Bénin (Association des Sociétés d'Assurances du Bénin), a présenté cette offre le 7 août 2026 lors d'un déjeuner de presse organisé à Cotonou.
La formule couvre d'abord la responsabilité civile, avec une prise en charge annoncée comme illimitée pour les dommages matériels et corporels causés à des tiers. Elle prévoit également des garanties au bénéfice du propriétaire ou du conducteur.
En cas d'accident, les frais médicaux peuvent être couverts jusqu'à 200.000 FCFA.
Une invalidité permanente consécutive à un accident ouvre droit à une indemnisation de 500.000 FCFA.
En cas de décès par accident, les ayants droit peuvent également bénéficier d'un capital de 500.000 FCFA.
Une garantie distincte prévoit le même montant en cas de décès, quelle qu'en soit la cause, au profit des ayants droit du propriétaire.
Des primes selon la catégorie de l'engin
Le coût annuel varie selon la catégorie de la moto. L'offre prévoit trois niveaux de prime, allant de 14.772 FCFA à 30.841 FCFA selon la puissance du moteur.
Pour les motos utilisées à titre professionnel, le dispositif distingue notamment les engins appartenant à l'employeur de ceux appartenant personnellement à un employé.
Dans le premier cas, l'employeur prend en charge l'assurance. Pour une moto personnelle utilisée dans le cadre professionnel, l'employeur peut recommander la souscription par le biais d'une note de service.
Selon Carole Tossou Bokpè, directrice de la Banque de détail à UBA-Bénin, le lancement de cette offre répond notamment au poids des motos et tricycles dans les accidents de circulation. Citant des données du Centre National de Sécurité Routière (CNSR), elle affirme que « 50 à 80% des accidents impliquent les tricycles et les motos ».
UBA entend ainsi faciliter l'accès à l'assurance pour les utilisateurs de deux et trois roues, en s'appuyant sur son réseau de distribution et sur le partenariat avec ASA Bénin.
M. M.
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LES RÉSULTATS DOUBLE CHANCE 14 H
LOTO FORTUNE Tirage N° 127/26 du Lundi 10 Août 2026 (14H)
– Zone A (5 premiers numéros) :
24 • 17 • 84 • 49 • 45
– Zone B (5 derniers numéros) :
69 • 90 • 89 • 65 • 19
Félicitations aux heureux gagnants.
Rendez-vous à 18H pour le prochain tirage.
Jouez avec modération et responsabilité. Le jeu doit rester un plaisir.
Les nouveaux bacheliers peuvent désormais préparer leur orientation vers les universités publiques du Bénin.
La plateforme de choix des filières est accessible sur apresmonbac.bj pour les nouveaux bacheliers.
Elle sera ouverte du 14 au 24 août 2026 pour les Bacheliers classiques boursiers.
L'opération se poursuivra ainsi :
Bacheliers non-boursiers : du 11 au 22 septembre 2026 ;
Bacheliers issus de l'enseignement technique
(DEAT/DT) : du 30 septembre au 6 octobre 2026.
Les candidats sont invités à effectuer leur choix dans les délais prévus afin de ne pas manquer cette étape de leur orientation universitaire.
M. M.
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