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La Vice-présidente de la République du Bénin, Mariam Chabi Talata Zimé, qui conduit la délégation béninoise pour le 3e Sommet Russie-Afrique, est arrivée ce mercredi matin à Moscou.

La Vice-présidente de la République du Bénin a été accueillie ce mercredi matin à l'aéroport international Domodedova de Moscou par les autorités russes et l'ambassadeur du Bénin près la Russie, André Okounlola.

Mariam Chabi Talata Zimé représente le Chef de l'État, le Président Romuald Wadagni, au 3e Sommet Russie-Afrique, qui se déroule à Moscou les 28 et 29 octobre 2026.

Cette rencontre réunit des chefs d'État, de gouvernement et des représentants de près de 50 pays africains ainsi que d'organisations régionales.

La journée de ce mercredi sera consacrée au Forum économique et humanitaire Russie-Afrique. Il sera suivi jeudi du 3e Sommet Russie-Afrique, qui va réunir les Chefs d'Etat et de Gouvernement et autres personnalités.

Les discussions de ce sommet portent sur le bilan du plan d'action russo-africain (2023-2026), le commerce, les investissements, la sécurité alimentaire et énergétique, ainsi que les volets industriels, technologiques et humanitaires (santé et éducation).

La délégation conduite par la Vice-Présidente à ce sommet est composée entre autres de Corinne Amori Brunet, Ministre des Affaires étrangères, chargée de l'intégration des afrodescendants ; de Akambi André Okounlola-Biaou, Ambassadeur du Bénin près la Russie et de Carmen Albine Morgean, Directrice du Département Europe du Ministère des Affaires étrangères.

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Un incident survenu sur le départ Togba, au poste de Maria-Gléta, perturbe la fourniture de l'énergie électrique dans plusieurs localités de la commune d'Abomey-Calavi.

Dans un communiqué en date du mercredi 28 octobre 2026, la Société béninoise d'énergie électrique (SBEE) indique que les populations de Kansoukpa, Drabo, Awakè et des environs sont privées d'électricité. C'est suite à un incident survenu sur le départ de Togba.

Les équipes techniques de la société sont mobilisées pour rétablir la situation. La SBEE assure qu'elles sont à pied d'œuvre pour un retour à la normale.

Yahaya Masussuka avait publié des vidéos dans lesquelles il rejetait certains éléments de l'islam traditionnel.

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Why Iran and the Houthis keep winning the waterways.

How military partnerships make Washington vulnerable to its adversaries.

Les deux principaux blocs semblent disposer d'un nombre de sièges insuffisant pour former le prochain gouvernement sans dépendre des partis arabes.

The bill would allow authorities to demand the rapid removal of social media content calling for "insurrection or taking up arms against the state"

Tatsächliche Einkommen stiegen 2002 bis 2022 stärker als die zum Zurechtkommen benötigten Einkommen – Anteil der Befragten mit subjektiver Einkommenslücke sinkt auf rund 20 Prozent – Arbeitslose Sozialleistungsbeziehende bleiben aber unverändert häufig betroffen Die Einkommen in Deutschland sind ...

À l'occasion de la troisième édition du forum économique Russie-Afrique, qui s'ouvre à Moscou ce mercredi 28 octobre, le nucléaire civil figure parmi les sujets au cœur des discussions. Pour les pays africains, confrontés à des besoins croissants d'électricité, l'atome représente une piste pour soutenir leur développement industriel. Pour Moscou, ces projets constituent aussi un marché de long terme et un moyen de renforcer son influence sur le continent.

The development of new cities has become a defining feature of contemporary global urbanisation. More than 150 new cities are currently in planning worldwide, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries. While new city projects often claim to address pressing urban challenges, many such initiatives fail to achieve their stated urban development goals. A significant number of new city developments, for example, remain underpopulated or entirely abandoned. Yet despite this mixed record, over 40 governments continue to promote their construction. In this policy brief, we argue that shadow interests – hidden political economic interests pursued by powerful elites – explain why certain governments continue to promote new city developments even when they fail. New cities can significantly underperform regarding their stated urban development objectives and nevertheless serve hidden political agendas very effectively. Urban failures must therefore not preclude political gains. Three examples illustrate our argument: new town planning in Egypt between the 1970s and 1990s, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Forest City in Malaysia. In all three cases, political goals complemented urban development objectives, and some of these political goals were realised even after the projects themselves fell short of their declared urban development goals. We recommend that international development actors, including donor governments, multilateral development banks and bilateral development agencies, exercise particular caution when invited to participate in new city developments. Even though many of these projects claim to tackle pressing urban challenges, their stated urban objectives must not necessarily reflect their underlying political economic motivations. Any technical or financial support ideally builds upon two complementary analyses: first, a political economy analysis of the interests motivating the project, including potential shadow interests; and second, an alternatives analysis comparing the proposed project with more limited and incremental interventions in existing cities. Incorporating such analyses into project approval processes will help discipline public and private investment in urban development and thereby reduce the risk that new city developments serve the interests of political elites rather than the needs of urban residents.

The development of new cities has become a defining feature of contemporary global urbanisation. More than 150 new cities are currently in planning worldwide, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries. While new city projects often claim to address pressing urban challenges, many such initiatives fail to achieve their stated urban development goals. A significant number of new city developments, for example, remain underpopulated or entirely abandoned. Yet despite this mixed record, over 40 governments continue to promote their construction. In this policy brief, we argue that shadow interests – hidden political economic interests pursued by powerful elites – explain why certain governments continue to promote new city developments even when they fail. New cities can significantly underperform regarding their stated urban development objectives and nevertheless serve hidden political agendas very effectively. Urban failures must therefore not preclude political gains. Three examples illustrate our argument: new town planning in Egypt between the 1970s and 1990s, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Forest City in Malaysia. In all three cases, political goals complemented urban development objectives, and some of these political goals were realised even after the projects themselves fell short of their declared urban development goals. We recommend that international development actors, including donor governments, multilateral development banks and bilateral development agencies, exercise particular caution when invited to participate in new city developments. Even though many of these projects claim to tackle pressing urban challenges, their stated urban objectives must not necessarily reflect their underlying political economic motivations. Any technical or financial support ideally builds upon two complementary analyses: first, a political economy analysis of the interests motivating the project, including potential shadow interests; and second, an alternatives analysis comparing the proposed project with more limited and incremental interventions in existing cities. Incorporating such analyses into project approval processes will help discipline public and private investment in urban development and thereby reduce the risk that new city developments serve the interests of political elites rather than the needs of urban residents.

The development of new cities has become a defining feature of contemporary global urbanisation. More than 150 new cities are currently in planning worldwide, predominantly in low- and middle-income countries. While new city projects often claim to address pressing urban challenges, many such initiatives fail to achieve their stated urban development goals. A significant number of new city developments, for example, remain underpopulated or entirely abandoned. Yet despite this mixed record, over 40 governments continue to promote their construction. In this policy brief, we argue that shadow interests – hidden political economic interests pursued by powerful elites – explain why certain governments continue to promote new city developments even when they fail. New cities can significantly underperform regarding their stated urban development objectives and nevertheless serve hidden political agendas very effectively. Urban failures must therefore not preclude political gains. Three examples illustrate our argument: new town planning in Egypt between the 1970s and 1990s, Masdar City in Abu Dhabi and Forest City in Malaysia. In all three cases, political goals complemented urban development objectives, and some of these political goals were realised even after the projects themselves fell short of their declared urban development goals. We recommend that international development actors, including donor governments, multilateral development banks and bilateral development agencies, exercise particular caution when invited to participate in new city developments. Even though many of these projects claim to tackle pressing urban challenges, their stated urban objectives must not necessarily reflect their underlying political economic motivations. Any technical or financial support ideally builds upon two complementary analyses: first, a political economy analysis of the interests motivating the project, including potential shadow interests; and second, an alternatives analysis comparing the proposed project with more limited and incremental interventions in existing cities. Incorporating such analyses into project approval processes will help discipline public and private investment in urban development and thereby reduce the risk that new city developments serve the interests of political elites rather than the needs of urban residents.

Also, in Wednesday's edition: Finland briefs ambassadors on Putin call

Ils ne sont pas encore officiellement députés, puisque les résultats de l'élection ne sont pas encore officiels, mais les députés serbes de la liste étudiante ont, d'une certaine façon, commencé leur travail. Ils ont adressé, entre autres, une lettre ouverte aux médias de service public, à l'autorité de régulation des médias et au Parlement, au sujet de leurs priorités en matière de médias.

By Sheila Aggarwal-Khan
GENEVA, Oct 28 2026 (IPS)

Governments today face an extraordinarily difficult set of tasks: cutting emissions, protecting nature, reducing pollution, creating jobs, strengthening economies, and improving people’s health, all while public finances remain under pressure.

Sheila Aggarwal-Khan

Chemicals sit at the centre of many of those tasks. They are essential to almost every economy and embedded in more than 95 per cent of manufactured goods. An estimated 40,000 to 60,000 industrial chemicals are in commerce globally, moving through increasingly complex supply chains and into billions of products used every day.

For much of my career, I have worked at the intersection of industry, the economy, and the environment. One lesson has become increasingly clear to me over the decades: the greatest gains come when chemical safety is built into economic and industrial decisions from the outset, rather than addressed only after harm has occurred. The global construction sector makes this particularly clear; chemicals and materials selected today can remain in buildings for decades. Safer choices at the design stage can prevent risks that otherwise become costly and difficult to manage decades later.

At the first International Conference of the Global Framework on Chemicals, taking place in Geneva this November, this lesson will come to the fore as governments, industry, workers, scientists, and civil society, including NGOs, consider how to accelerate implementation across the full life cycle of chemicals and products through sectors where change can happen at scale.

This matters because managing chemicals one substance at a time – while essential in some cases – cannot be the full strategy.

Agriculture offers a clear example. Under the Framework, stakeholders have committed to take effective measures by 2035 to phase out highly hazardous pesticides where risks remain unmanaged, and where safer and affordable alternatives are available. A new Global Alliance on Highly Hazardous Pesticides aims to turn that commitment into coordinated action, while projects supported by the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund are already helping farmers in East and West Africa move towards safer approaches.

Textiles offer another example. Argentina is testing a digital product information system that allows chemical information to move with products through the value chain. That kind of transparency can help businesses identify hazardous inputs, exposure risks, the liability that can come with that, and then choose safer alternatives and determine whether fabrics can be safely used, reused or recycled.

Exposure risks cannot be separated from the economic systems in which chemicals are used. This is also why chemicals policy cannot be driven by single ministries. Agriculture, environment, industry, health, labour, trade, and fiscal policies all influence which chemicals are used, how products are made, traded, and whether safer alternatives can compete.

The objective is not more bureaucracy. It is greater coherence in which multiple, often competing objectives across sectors, can be discussed together to find solutions that work.

Governments have a particularly important role to play in creating the conditions in which better solutions can compete and scale. Clear regulation can give businesses confidence to invest in safer alternatives. Better information can move through supply chains. Industrial and fiscal policies can support cleaner production, while chemical safety and the safety of the sectors in which chemicals are used—from agriculture, to construction, to electronics, and textiles-can be considered alongside circularity, competitiveness, jobs, and health from the outset.

The economic case for doing so is strong. The global chemicals market was valued at roughly US$5 trillion in 2017 and projected to double by 2030. A 2023 study estimated that lead exposure alone was associated with trillions of dollars in global economic losses in 2019.

Countries building industries today also have an opportunity to avoid the costly legacies inherited by economies that industrialized first as they can leapfrog to clean, prosperous economies without having to go through an era comprising pollution, health and environment impacts, and clean up. Strong institutions, modern chemicals legislation, safer technologies, and green and sustainable chemistry can help countries build competitive industries without locking in the same liabilities.

Finance, of course, is the engine of implementation. Incentivizing industries towards safer chemicals, safer products and production practices, strengthening national chemicals management systems, and scaling safer alternatives all require investment. The way in which public finances can leverage private investment, the type of fiscal policy that incentivizes these investments, and the right enabling regulatory environment, can make this journey viable. Unlocking domestic resources in this way, coupled with funding from financing mechanisms such as the Global Environment Facility and the Global Framework on Chemicals Fund and private investment all have a role.

The challenge is therefore bigger than only managing a longer and longer list of harmful chemicals. It is to make chemical and product safety part of how whole sectors grow, innovate, and compete.

If we can get that right, safer chemistry can become part of how stronger economies are built, with safety built in from the start for people and planet.

Sheila Aggarwal-Khan is Director of the UNEP Industry & Economy Division

IPS UN Bureau

 

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Une affaire de disparition présumée d'organes sur le corps d'une femme décédée suscite l'émoi à Gbannavé, une localité de l'arrondissement d'Ayomi, dans la commune de Dogbo, département du Couffo.

Insolite à Dogbo, dans le département du Couffo. La disparition d'organes d'une femme décédée au petit matin du mardi 20 octobre 2026, à la suite d'un malaise, suscite l'émoi. Agée de la quarantaine et mère de trois enfants, les familles organisaient ses obsèques lorsqu'elles ont remarqué que ses yeux n'étaient plus en place.
Alertés le vendredi 23 octobre 2026, les éléments du commissariat de Dévé ont interpellé deux personnes suspectées, dont le mari de la défunte. Une enquête a été ouverte pour élucider les circonstances des faits.
Pour le mari, les yeux de son épouse défunte auraient été rongés par des souris. Cette déclaration reste toutefois à confronter aux éléments que permettra de recueillir l'enquête. Trois autres suspects seraient actuellement en fuite.
Une enquête policière est ouverte afin de déterminer les circonstances exactes de la disparition présumée des yeux de la défunte et de situer les responsabilités.
En attendant les conclusions des investigations, le corps a été déposé à la morgue de Dogbo. Les deux personnes interpellées devraient être présentées au procureur de la République dans les prochains jours, selon les informations.

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À la une ce matin, la démarche de la Coalition Article 64 (C64) retient l’attention de plusieurs médias de la capitale. Réunie en conclave à Rome du 25 au 27 octobre, la plateforme d’opposition annonce vouloir rencontrer séparément le président Félix Tshisekedi et son prédécesseur Joseph Kabila, avec pour objectif de favoriser un dialogue national inclusif et de rechercher une issue politique à la crise en RDC.

« Rome : la C64 met Tshisekedi et Kabila au banc des accusés », titre Congo Nouveau