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What to Know About Djibouti’s Refugee Crisis

Foreign Policy - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 23:01
The widening Houthi campaign along the Red Sea is further destabilizing the region.

Nach Schweizer Diesel-Schock: Warum Benzin jetzt noch teurer werden könnte

Blick.ch - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:40
Jetzt geht das Spiel bei den Raffineriebetreibern los. Weil mit Diesel grad gross der Rubel rollt, könnten Kapazitäten beim Benzin verknappt werden – mit Folgen für die Preise an den Zapfsäulen.
Categories: Swiss News

L’Algérie présente sa loi réinstaurant la peine de mort contre les incendies volontaires et les enlèvements d’enfants

RFI /Afrique - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:26
Le projet de loi révisant le Code pénal algérien a été présenté lundi 21 septembre par le ministre de la Justice Lotfi Boudjemaâ devant la Commission des affaires juridiques et administratives, des libertés et des droits humains de l’Assemblée populaire nationale. Chargé par le président Abdelmadjid Tebboune de proposer rapidement des modifications, Lotfi Boudjemaâ a dévoilé les contours du projet, mais les associations s’insurgent contre le texte.
Categories: Afrique

R.Wadagni expose les grandes lignes de la réforme de pôles territoriaux

24 Heures au Bénin - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:23

La réforme portant sur le développement des six pôles territoriaux a été présentée ce mercredi 23 septembre 2026, au Palais de la Marina.

Le Bénin engage une nouvelle dynamique en matière de développement à la base à travers une réforme majeure. Il s'agit de le réforme de création de six pôles de développement territorial. Elle a été présentée au Palais de la Marina en présence des maires des 77 communes, des préfets, des membres du Conseil économique et social, du président de l'Assemblée nationale ainsi que des membres du Gouvernement.

À travers cette réforme, le Gouvernement entend donner une nouvelle orientation à l'action publique en mettant l'accent sur le développement à la base, la réduction de l'extrême pauvreté, la valorisation du capital humain et la création de richesse.

Le Président de la République, Romuald Wadagni, a présenté les grandes orientations de cette nouvelle approche devant les différents acteurs réunis. La proximité avec les populations, le suivi des résultats et la transformation des territoires figurent au cœur de cette réforme.

Categories: Afrique

La combinaison gagnante du tirage de 18 H

24 Heures au Bénin - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:22

LES RÉSULTATS LOTO STAR SONT LÀ !

TIRAGE N°114/26

Mercredi 23 septembre 2026 (18H)

67 • 06 • 15 • 09 • 51

Félicitations aux heureux gagnants !

Pas encore gagné ? Gardez le sourire !

Rendez-vous au prochain tirage de 20h pour une nouvelle chance.

Jouez dans les centres de jeux ou en ligne : Tapez 590# ou lnbloto.bj

Jouez avec modération et responsabilité. Le jeu doit rester un plaisir.

Categories: Afrique

La session budgétaire démarre le 19 octobre

24 Heures au Bénin - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:22

La deuxième session ordinaire de l'année 2026 de l'Assemblée nationale s'ouvre le lundi 19 octobre prochain.

Les députés sont attendus à l'hémicycle pour une nouvelle session le 19 octobre. Elle sera consacrée à l'examen du budget de l'État pour l'exercice 2027. Selon les informations, la date a été retenue mardi 22 septembre 2026, à l'issue de la Conférence des présidents de l'Assemblée nationale. Les travaux débuteront donc dans moins d'un mois, conformément au calendrier retenu.

Categories: Afrique

Les numéros gagnants du DIGITAL 20H

24 Heures au Bénin - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:22

DIGITAL 20H : Avez-vous tenté votre chance ?

Le tirage DIGITAL 20H N°203 a livré son verdict !

Mercredi 23 Septembre 2026

Avez-vous joué ?

Avez-vous misé sur vos numéros porte-bonheur ?

RÉSULTAT : 38 • 20 • 90 • 03 • 16

Félicitations aux heureux gagnants !
Pas encore cette fois ? Gardez le sourire.

Rendez-vous à 00H pour le prochain tirage.

Jouez dans les points de vente ou : Tapez *590# ou rendez-vous sur lnbloto.bj

Jouez avec modération et responsabilité. Le jeu doit rester un plaisir.

Categories: Afrique

Reallocating fossil subsidies via social assistance reduces poverty and preserves emissions cuts

Fossil fuel subsidies are widespread, regressive, and environmentally costly, yet abrupt removal can raise poverty. To identify a practical reform pathway, we evaluate the effectiveness of compensatory policies grounded in existing national social protection systems. We develop a high-resolution global social accounting matrix to quantify how reallocating subsidies through actual social assistance impacts poverty, inequality, and CO2 emissions. Without compensation, reform lowers emissions but increases poverty, especially for low-income households in emerging economies. Redirecting funds via social assistance disproportionately benefits the bottom half and reduces national poverty, particularly under targeted cash transfers or expanded programs where savings are large. However, full revenue recycling is not always desirable: Once vulnerable households are adequately protected, additional recycling can weaken both fiscal and climate gains. We therefore treat full recycling through social assistance as an analytical benchmark rather than a policy prescription and show that partial, targeted recycling, as illustrated by retaining roughly 20% of savings while channeling the remainder through social protection, can still reduce poverty while preserving emissions cuts. Overall, fossil fuel subsidy reform is most effective when social assistance is used to compensate low-income households, not to absorb all fiscal savings, leaving residual revenues available for other public priorities.

 

Reallocating fossil subsidies via social assistance reduces poverty and preserves emissions cuts

Fossil fuel subsidies are widespread, regressive, and environmentally costly, yet abrupt removal can raise poverty. To identify a practical reform pathway, we evaluate the effectiveness of compensatory policies grounded in existing national social protection systems. We develop a high-resolution global social accounting matrix to quantify how reallocating subsidies through actual social assistance impacts poverty, inequality, and CO2 emissions. Without compensation, reform lowers emissions but increases poverty, especially for low-income households in emerging economies. Redirecting funds via social assistance disproportionately benefits the bottom half and reduces national poverty, particularly under targeted cash transfers or expanded programs where savings are large. However, full revenue recycling is not always desirable: Once vulnerable households are adequately protected, additional recycling can weaken both fiscal and climate gains. We therefore treat full recycling through social assistance as an analytical benchmark rather than a policy prescription and show that partial, targeted recycling, as illustrated by retaining roughly 20% of savings while channeling the remainder through social protection, can still reduce poverty while preserving emissions cuts. Overall, fossil fuel subsidy reform is most effective when social assistance is used to compensate low-income households, not to absorb all fiscal savings, leaving residual revenues available for other public priorities.

 

Reallocating fossil subsidies via social assistance reduces poverty and preserves emissions cuts

Fossil fuel subsidies are widespread, regressive, and environmentally costly, yet abrupt removal can raise poverty. To identify a practical reform pathway, we evaluate the effectiveness of compensatory policies grounded in existing national social protection systems. We develop a high-resolution global social accounting matrix to quantify how reallocating subsidies through actual social assistance impacts poverty, inequality, and CO2 emissions. Without compensation, reform lowers emissions but increases poverty, especially for low-income households in emerging economies. Redirecting funds via social assistance disproportionately benefits the bottom half and reduces national poverty, particularly under targeted cash transfers or expanded programs where savings are large. However, full revenue recycling is not always desirable: Once vulnerable households are adequately protected, additional recycling can weaken both fiscal and climate gains. We therefore treat full recycling through social assistance as an analytical benchmark rather than a policy prescription and show that partial, targeted recycling, as illustrated by retaining roughly 20% of savings while channeling the remainder through social protection, can still reduce poverty while preserving emissions cuts. Overall, fossil fuel subsidy reform is most effective when social assistance is used to compensate low-income households, not to absorb all fiscal savings, leaving residual revenues available for other public priorities.

 

«Artificial klingt fake»: Trump benennt AI in «Super Intelligence» um

Blick.ch - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:10
Nach Berg, Golf und See hat der US-Präsident wieder mal einen neuen Namen für etwas gefunden: Dieses Mal gehts um die künstliche Intelligenz, die auf Englisch «Artificial Intelligence» heisst. Jedenfalls bis jetzt.
Categories: Swiss News

9th Annual Women, Peace and Leadership Symposium

European Peace Institute / News - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:06

During UN General Assembly High-Level Week, IPI convened the 9th Annual Women, Peace and Leadership Symposium, co-hosted by the Permanent Mission of Spain to the United Nations, the Permanent Mission, of Portugal to the United Nations, the Federal Republic of Somalia, the Republic of Mozambique, the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the United Nations, the Permanent Mission of Denmark to the United Nations, and Global Affairs Canada, and in partnership with Our Secure Future, the Nobel Women’s Initiative, and The Elders. The WPL Symposium brought together policymakers, practitioners, and advocates to examine how the WPS agenda can continue to move forward in an increasingly challenging geopolitical environment.   

H.E. José Manuel Albares, Minister for Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, Kingdom of Spain and H.E. Lucrecia Peinado, First Lady of the Republic of Guatemala, provided opening remarks. The panel was moderated by IPI’s President and CEO, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. Panelists included H.E. Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and Representative from The Elders; Ana Isabel Xavier, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Portugal; Sahana Dharmapuri, Vice President of Our Secure Future and Vice President of the PAX sapiens Foundation; Negina Yari, Founder and Executive Director of Window for Hope (Afghanistan) and Representative from the Nobel Women’s Initiative; and Sarah Hendriks, Director of the Policy, Programme and Intergovernmental Division, UN Women. Following the panel, H.E. Katsuhiko Takahashi, Ambassador for Women, Peace and Security for Japan; Karen Grønlund Rogne, Director for Multilateral Cooperation and Policy, Denmark; Kaavya Asoka, Executive Director of the NGO Working Group on WPS; and Irene Fellin, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for WPS, provided interventions from the floor. To conclude the event, H.E. Michael Gort, Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations and Phoebe Donnelly, Senior Fellow and Head of WPS, IPI provided closing remarks.  

Zeid Al Hussein described the current moment as an “upside-down world” in which conflicts are multiplying, women’s participation in peace processes is shrinking, and funding for women’s organizations is dire. While the data is sobering, speakers highlighted that it is more important than ever to continue pushing forward by increasing coordination and supporting local ownership.  

Key themes which emerged from the discussion:  

  • The pushback against women’s rights and gender equality is organized and well financed – The backlash is coordinated and increasingly cross-border, and therefore, the response from WPS advocates should be equally coordinated. 
  • Local ownership is non-negotiable – peace cannot only be driven from the top down. It is essential to prioritize, support, and fund grassroots women and civil society actors who are the key drivers of peace.  
  • Women’s participation in peace negotiations is falling – Across 55 peace negotiations tracked in the latest UN data, only 5% of participants were women, down from 7% the year before. None of the 13 ceasefires agreed last year named sexual violence as a prohibited act, and none had a substantive reference to women. 
  • The international community should stand together with the women and girls of Afghanistan – Negina Yari described the systematic exclusion of Afghan women and girls to be gender apartheid and called for it to be established as a crime under international law. Many speakers emphasized the grave situation in Afghanistan and called for solidarity within the international community to stand with Afghan women and girls so that the Taliban’s actions do not become normalized. 
  • The next Secretary General of the UN should be a woman – Many speakers declared that after 80 years, it is past time for the UN to have a woman in the highest position of leadership. Furthermore, it is crucial that the next SG be a champion of human rights and gender equality.  

Sarah Hendriks reminded us that though the most recent data paints a picture which is sobering, it is not one without hope. Similarly, H.E. Robinson described herself as a “prisoner of hope,” reaffirming the central message of the conversation: now is not the time to retreat. Sustaining the WPS agenda will require not only defending past achievements but also building new alliances and approaches capable of responding to today’s political realities. 

The post 9th Annual Women, Peace and Leadership Symposium appeared first on International Peace Institute.

Adidas zeigt letztes Shirt: Mit diesem DFB-Trikot endet eine legendäre Ära

Blick.ch - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 22:04
Adidas hat das letzte Nationaltrikot Deutschlands präsentiert. Ab dem nächsten Jahr wird Nike der Ausrüster des DFB-Teams.
Categories: Swiss News

A l’ONU, Évariste Ndayishimiye appelle à des « solutions africaines » aux crises du continent

Radio Okapi / RD Congo - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 21:58


Le président burundais Évariste Ndayishimiye a plaidé mercredi 23 septembre, à la tribune de l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies à New York, pour le renforcement des capacités africaines à répondre aux conflits et aux crises qui touchent le continent.


Le chef de l’État burundais s’exprimait lors de la deuxième journée du débat général de la 81e session de l’Assemblée générale de l’ONU, qui se tient du 22 au 26 septembre et le 28 septembre. 

Categories: Afrique

Beleidigte Hacker üben Rache: Cyberbande klaut FBI-Daten – und erpresst Behörde

Blick.ch - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 21:58
Nach eigenen Angaben hat die Hackergruppe ShinyHunters bei einem Cyberangriff zwei bis drei Terabyte Daten beim FBI erbeutet. Geld wollen sie keines. Die Hacker wollen, dass der Geheimdienst einen Bericht aus dem Frühling zurücknimmt.
Categories: Swiss News

Larissa B. (†25) soll von Ex-Partner in Nizza (F) erstochen worden sein: «Was ist mit meiner Tochter passiert?»

Blick.ch - Wed, 23/09/2026 - 21:47
Eine Brasilianerin wurde am Montag an einer Raststätte tot im Auto ihres Ex-Freundes gefunden. Die Polizei ermittelt gegen den 29-Jährigen wegen Mordes. Die verstümmelte Leiche war unter Plastiktüten versteckt.
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