Many colonies in Africa attained independence through negotiated settlements. However, several others engaged in armed liberation struggles, for example, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Newly independent states provided liberation movements with bases on their territories and political, military, intellectual, ideological, material, and moral support. In West Africa, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, a notable pan-Africanist, declared in his Independence Day speech in 1957, “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.” In East Africa, Julius Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta, the first presidents of independent Tanzania and Kenya respectively, showed similar commitment to Pan-Africanism and anticolonialism by hosting refugees fleeing armed struggles in Southern Africa. Tanzania hosted the Organization of African Unity Liberation Committee supported anticolonial resistance and liberation movements. President Nyerere supported them for “challenging injustices of empire and apartheid” and declared, “I train freedom fighters”. He encouraged Tanzanians living around liberation movement camps to welcome these movements and their freedom fighters and also protect them from agents of colonial governments. Support also came from many other countries on the continent including Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Algeria. The latter provided sanctuary to representatives of liberation movements such as Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.
Many colonies in Africa attained independence through negotiated settlements. However, several others engaged in armed liberation struggles, for example, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Newly independent states provided liberation movements with bases on their territories and political, military, intellectual, ideological, material, and moral support. In West Africa, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, a notable pan-Africanist, declared in his Independence Day speech in 1957, “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.” In East Africa, Julius Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta, the first presidents of independent Tanzania and Kenya respectively, showed similar commitment to Pan-Africanism and anticolonialism by hosting refugees fleeing armed struggles in Southern Africa. Tanzania hosted the Organization of African Unity Liberation Committee supported anticolonial resistance and liberation movements. President Nyerere supported them for “challenging injustices of empire and apartheid” and declared, “I train freedom fighters”. He encouraged Tanzanians living around liberation movement camps to welcome these movements and their freedom fighters and also protect them from agents of colonial governments. Support also came from many other countries on the continent including Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Algeria. The latter provided sanctuary to representatives of liberation movements such as Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.
Many colonies in Africa attained independence through negotiated settlements. However, several others engaged in armed liberation struggles, for example, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Newly independent states provided liberation movements with bases on their territories and political, military, intellectual, ideological, material, and moral support. In West Africa, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, a notable pan-Africanist, declared in his Independence Day speech in 1957, “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.” In East Africa, Julius Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta, the first presidents of independent Tanzania and Kenya respectively, showed similar commitment to Pan-Africanism and anticolonialism by hosting refugees fleeing armed struggles in Southern Africa. Tanzania hosted the Organization of African Unity Liberation Committee supported anticolonial resistance and liberation movements. President Nyerere supported them for “challenging injustices of empire and apartheid” and declared, “I train freedom fighters”. He encouraged Tanzanians living around liberation movement camps to welcome these movements and their freedom fighters and also protect them from agents of colonial governments. Support also came from many other countries on the continent including Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Algeria. The latter provided sanctuary to representatives of liberation movements such as Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.
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As glaciers shrink and vanish, changes in water flows pose a growing risk to the water, food and livelihood security of billions of people. Credit: FAO
By QU Dongyu
ROME, Feb 12 2026 (IPS)
Glaciers – the world’s hidden water banks – are a source of life for billions. The seasonal melt from mountains and glaciers sustains some of the world’s most important rivers, such as the Indus, the Nile, the Ganges and the Colorado. Those and other mountain-fed rivers irrigate crops, provide drinking water for nearly two billion people, and power electricity generation.
But, as glaciers shrink and vanish, changes in water flows pose a growing risk to the water, food and livelihood security of billions of people.
In the short term, accelerated melting can trigger environmental hazards: flash floods, glacial lake outburst floods, avalanches and landslides.
In the long term, the glaciers as water sources will simply disappear.
By century’s end, most glaciers will contribute far less water than they do today, undermining agriculture in both mountain villages and sprawling lowland breadbaskets downstream.
We need policies and collaboration that address glacier-fed water systems, cross-border cooperation, and risk-sharing and early warning mechanisms – especially as rivers fed by glaciers often span multiple countries
Mountains cover more than a quarter of the world’s land and are home to 1.2 billion people, but these regions are heating up more rapidly than the global average. Mountain communities are especially vulnerable to increasing climate variability and decreasing seasonal water availability for agriculture and irrigation. With often no viable alternative water supply, the loss of agricultural production can lead to climate displacement and greater instability.
Five of the past six years have seen the most rapid glacier retreat on record, and the impacts are already being felt.
Communities from the Andes to the Himalayas are experiencing shorter snow seasons, erratic runoff, and the loss of reliable water. In Peru, dwindling glaciers have slashed crop yields. In Pakistan, reduced snowmelt threatens seasonal planting cycles. Many glaciers have already reached or are expected to reach “peak water” – the point at which meltwater runoff is at its maximum, after which flows will gradually decline – in the coming two or three decades. This means everyone who depends on glacier-fed rivers faces increasing scarcity when population growth will push water demand even higher.
Beyond science and survival, the disappearance of glaciers erases something less tangible but equally profound. For Indigenous Peoples and mountain communities across Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Pacific, glaciers are sacred. Their melting erodes traditions, rituals, identity and cultural heritage bound to mountain landscapes for centuries.
While there is still time to act, global responses remain fragmented and inadequate. That’s why the United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation – a clear reminder that preserving these frozen ecosystems means protecting our future.
To ensure food and water security from the peaks to the plains, a bold shift in policy, investment and governance is urgently needed.
Broadly speaking, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, improving water management, and strengthening early warning systems, adaptative agriculture and sustainable agrifood systems are necessary.
We need to turn the challenges posed by melting glaciers into opportunities to the benefit of all.
Agriculture, both a major water user and a key sector for adaptation, can itself be a solution when developed sustainably. Techniques like terrace farming, agroecology, agroforestry and crop diversification – practiced by mountain communities for centuries – help preserve soil and water, reduce disaster risk and support livelihoods. Such adaptation efforts should be inclusive, drawing on Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and addressing root vulnerabilities like poverty and gender inequality.
We must also mobilize investments in water and agricultural infrastructure. This includes more climate finance to support vulnerable mountain communities that struggle to access training, funding and innovation.
In addition, governments need to align strategies, policies and plans to address this critical nexus between water, agriculture and climate resilience. Mountains are often absent from national climate policies and global adaptation frameworks. We need policies and collaboration that address glacier-fed water systems, cross-border cooperation, and risk-sharing and early warning mechanisms – especially as rivers fed by glaciers often span multiple countries. This also includes reviewing basin-wide water allocation strategies, plans and investment in infrastructure to improve water use efficiency, and step up glacier monitoring and research.
Preparing for a world with fewer glaciers and less of their precious water requires innovation and coordination. In Kyrgyzstan, FAO has been helping experts construct artificial glaciers – ice towers created by spraying mountain water and that gradually melt in summer. In the region of Batken alone, this initiative has helped store over 1.5 million cubic meters of ice, enough to irrigate up to 1,750 hectares.
In Ladakh, India, the social enterprise Acres of Ice has developed automated ice reservoirs to capture unused water in autumn and winter and freeze it until spring. In the Peruvian Andes, a community-based initiative is addressing the deterioration of water quality from minerals exposed by receding glaciers through a natural filtration system using native plants.
But far more needs to be done, together. Glaciers matter because water matters. To ignore their rapid retreat is to gamble with global food and water security.
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FAO is mandated to lead the global observance of International Mountain Day, coordinated through the Mountain Partnership Secretariat, which is financially supported by the governments of Italy, Andorra and Switzerland. The Secretariat collaborated closely with UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization, co-facilitators of the International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025.
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QU Dongyu is Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsLes dirigeants français et italien tentent de démontrer que leurs propositions pour relancer l’économie européenne bénéficient du soutien du chancelier allemand Friedrich Merz, à la tête de la principale puissance industrielle du bloc.
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Le président de la Fédération béninoise de wushu (FBW), Patrice Dossou-Yovo Komenan, est élu vice-président de la Confédération africaine de wushu (CAW), lors d'une Assemblée générale élective tenue au Caire en Egypte, ce mercredi 11 février 2026.
Un Béninois au sein de l'équipe dirigeante de la Confédération africaine de wushu. Le président de la FBW, Patrice Dossou-Yovo Komenan, a bénéficié de la confiance de ses collègues des autres fédérations lors de l'Assemblée générale élective de ce mercredi 11 février 2026. Il a obtenu 17 voix sur 20 suffrages exprimés. Son élection au sein du bureau exécutif de la CAW marque une étape importante pour le wushu béninois désormais représenté au plus haut niveau de gouvernance en Afrique.
Le nouveau bureau exécutif de la CAW, composé de neuf membres, sera dirigé par l'Egyptien Shérif Mostafa, élu président.
Au total, 20 pays ont participé aux travaux de cette Assemblée générale élective.
F. A. A.
La confrontation autour du droit à l’avortement s’intensifie au Parlement européen, alors que la Commission européenne doit décider d’ici mars si elle donnera suite à l’initiative citoyenne « My Voice, My Choice ».
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Le ministre allemand de la Défense, Boris Pistorius, a relativisé mercredi 11 février les conséquences d’un possible abandon du projet franco-allemand d’avion de combat de nouvelle génération, estimant qu’un tel scénario ne serait pas catastrophique.
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Sur Hautes Instructions Royales, le gouvernement du Maroc déploie un vaste programme d'aide et de soutien d'un budget prévisionnel de 03 milliards de dirhams en faveur des familles et populations sinistrées suite aux intempéries.
Suite aux intempéries d'intensité exceptionnelle qu'a connues le Royaume du Maroc au cours des deux derniers mois, et plus particulièrement dans la plaine du Gharb et le Loukkos, Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI, que Dieu L'assiste, fidèle à Sa Constante Sollicitude envers Ses sujets et Soucieux de la préservation de leur sécurité et de l'amélioration de leurs conditions de vie, a donné Ses Hautes Instructions au gouvernement afin de déployer un vaste programme d'aide et de soutien en faveur des familles et des populations sinistrées et d'arrêter les mesures nécessaires.
Le Gouvernement a déclaré ces intempéries comme événement catastrophique et les communes des quatre provinces (Larache, Kénitra, Sidi Kacem et Sidi Slimane), les plus impactées, zones sinistrées.
Dans ce cadre, les autorités ont mis en place un programme d'aide et de soutien, doté d'un budget prévisionnel de trois milliards de dirhams, élaboré sur la base d'un diagnostic rigoureux et approfondi de la situation sur le terrain, ainsi que d'une évaluation précise des répercussions économiques et sociales de ces intempéries.
Ce programme comprend des aides pour le relogement, la perte de revenu, la réhabilitation des logements et des petits commerces impactés, ainsi que pour la reconstruction des logements effondrés, pour un montant global de 775 millions de dirhams. Il est prévu des aides en nature et pour le renforcement des interventions d'urgence sur le terrain, à hauteur de 225 millions de dirhams. D'autres aides sont destinées aux agriculteurs et aux éleveurs pour un montant de 300 millions de dirhams. Par ailleurs, des investissements de 1,7 milliard de dirhams sont prévus pour la réhabilitation des infrastructures routières et hydroagricoles et pour la réhabilitation des réseaux de base.
Sa Majesté le Roi Mohammed VI a donné également Ses Hautes Instructions afin que ce programme soit exécuté avec exemplarité, célérité et sens de responsabilité permettant aux citoyens des zones sinistrées de retrouver, dans les meilleurs délais, des conditions de vie normales.
Ces catastrophes naturelles qu'a connues le Royaume ont provoqué l'inondation de plus de 110.000 hectares et entraîné le déplacement de près de 188.000 personnes dans les provinces de Larache, Kénitra, Sidi Kacem et Sidi Slimane.
Après les élections communales, la Préfecture du Plateau a rendu public le calendrier d'installation des nouveaux conseils communaux.
Les cérémonies d'installation des nouveaux conseillers communaux du Plateau se tiendront vendredi 13 février 2026 dans les cinq communes du département.
Selon la programmation officielle, Ifangni ouvrira le bal à 13h00, suivie de Sakété à 14h00, Adja-Ouèrè à 15h00, Pobè à 16h00, avant la clôture à Kétou à 17h00.
Ces installations marquent l'entrée en fonction des élus locaux issus des élections communales du 11 janvier dernier.
M. M.
L’avocate générale de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne (CJUE) r, l’avocate générale Tamara Ćapeta a estimé jeudi 12 février que la Commission européenne aurait dû « annuler » sa décision de 2023 autorisant le déblocage de 10,2 milliards d’euros de fonds européens en faveur de la Hongrie. Selon lui, Budapest n’avait pas pleinement respecté les conditions liées au respect de l’État de droit associées à ces financements.
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Elus au terme du scrutin du 11 janvier 2026, les nouveaux conseils communaux du département de l'Ouémé seront installés à partir de ce vendredi 13 février.
L'installation des conseils communaux démarre ce vendredi 13 février dans le département de l'Ouémé. Le coup d'envoi selon la programmation, sera donné à Adjarra à 14h00, suivie d'Avrankou à 16h00.
Le lendemain samedi 14 février, ce sera le tour des communes de Bonou (10h00), Adjohoun (12h00), Aguégués (14h00), et Sèmè-Podji (16h00).
Le processus d'installation de conseils communaux va s'achever dans l'Ouémé dimanche 15 février 2026, avec l'installation des conseils d'Akpro-Missérété (10h00), de Dangbo (12h00), et de Porto-Novo (14h00).
Ces cérémonies d'installation officialisent l'entrée en fonction des élus qui conduiront les affaires au niveau des municipalités dans le cadre de cette 5e mandature qui va durer 7 ans.
F. A. A.