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Die Zürcher Nummer «ZH 11» kommt unter den Hammer! Nach nicht einmal einer Stunde ist bereits die 100'000-Franken-Marke geknackt. Noch ist «ZH 24» die tiefste und auch teuerste Nummer der Auktionsgeschichte. Bleibt das so? Oder stellt «ZH 11» einen neuen Rekord auf?

The panelists at the CIVICUS press briefing on the 2025 People Power Under Attack Report. Credit: Oritro Karim/IPS

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 2025 (IPS)

Over the course of 2025, global civic space conditions have deteriorated sharply, with most countries experiencing some degree of obstructed civil liberties. As authoritarian governments strengthen their hold and have even escalated the use of military force to suppress public dissent, civilians report facing increasing limitations of freedoms of association, peaceful assembly, petition and religion, as well as notable crackdowns on press freedoms.

On December 9, CIVICUS Global Alliance published its 2025 People Power Under Attack report, which details the current conditions of civic space worldwide. The findings show that residents of 83 countries and territories now live with routinely denied freedoms—a stark contrast from the 67 countries recorded in 2020. Additionally, 15 countries have recorded considerable downgrades in civic freedoms, including the United States, France, and Germany, which were once seen as global models of democracy.

“We see a continued trend of attacks on people’s right to speak up, come together as a collective, and protest for their rights around the world,” said CIVICUS Secretary General Mandeep Tiwana ahead of the report’s launch. “In a context of rising authoritarianism and populism, no country seems immune from this deeply worrying trend.”

Only an estimated seven percent of the global population now live in countries with free or relatively free civic space—a staggering 50 percent decline from last year’s figures. This has raised alarm among humanitarian organizations, which stress the urgent need to safeguard civic freedoms as a foundation for accountable governance and inclusive democratic participation. CIVICUS highlighted three primary areas of concern: the detention of protestors, journalists, and human rights defenders. These trends underscore the accelerating breakdown of accountability for government corruption and human rights violations.

The report notes that governments detained protestors at more than 200 peaceful demonstrations across 82 countries, with authorities also disrupting protests in 70 countries, with 67 instances involving the use of excessive force. These operations targeted protests calling for action on issues such as government corruption, inadequate access to basic services, rising living costs, the climate crisis, and allegations of electoral fraud.

“We see protests as a crucial space where people can challenge injustice and can hold power to account but we are also watching that space shrink at a rate that should alarm us all,” said Joyce Bukuru, the Representative to the United Nations at Amnesty International.

Amnesty International has recorded the increasing frequency in which authorities suppress public dissent through three key trends. The first of which is that the legal environment for protest is “tightening very fast”. “Across the region, governments are adopting overly broad and outright punitive laws that make it harder for people to protest easily,” Bukuru said.

The organization also reported the widespread use of excessive force. Unlawful and violent policing tactics are routinely used by the government to silence dissent, with instances of arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings, and the use of weapons such as rubber bullets and stun grenades.

Protestors have increasingly been subjected to increased levels of surveillance, digital repression, and tech-facilitated abuse. Bukuru noted that AI-generated abuse is routinely used against activists, with some stating that they feel like “intimidation follows them everywhere”.

In Uganda and Thailand, Amnesty International recorded the use of tech-facilitated gender-based violence, in which female activists experienced smear campaigns, sexualized doctored images, and threats. “These tactics fundamentally change the risk calculus for anyone considering to engage in activism,” said Bukuru.

In the report, CIVICUS noted that repression of journalists remains pervasive globally. Arrests and detentions of journalists have been documented across 73 countries, with attacks being recorded in 54. Additionally, CIVICUS noted the rise of violations surrounding online freedoms, with roughly 11 percent of all violations occurring online. This includes internet and social media shutdowns, online censorship, coordinated disinformation and misinformation campaigns, and online threats.

The detention of human rights defenders is especially common in Africa south of the Sahara, the Americas, the Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Female and LGBTQI+ activists are routinely subjected to threats of violence, attacks, and increased rates of detention.

“When human rights are not part of the conversation, that sends a message to the rest of the world,” said Widad Franco, the UN Advocacy Officer at Human Rights Watch (HRW). “When you see some kind of excessive response [from governments], the lack of human rights makes it much harder to protect people on the ground.”

CIVICUS emphasized the urgent need for stronger protections of civic space within the United States, with Tiwana warning of the significant global ripple effects that the current administration’s actions could trigger. Efforts by the current administration to suppress dissent, undermine freedom of association, and slash funding for foreign assistance risk setting a dangerous precedent for other governments to follow.

“The U.S. plays an outsized role around the world. When the U.S. signals that it no longer cares about democracy or human rights, it sends a strong message to [authoritarian governments] that they can do whatever they like,” said Tiwana. “Secondly, the U.S.’s own dismantling of USAID has triggered a reduction of funding by other wealthy democracies that are now repurposing the resources they give to civil society or democracy support programs towards their own economic interests.”

Tiwana noted that the United States’ current approach increasingly mirrors China’s model of transactional diplomacy, a shift that risks deepening global economic inequalities. This approach enables the wealthy to exert a disproportionate grasp over governance, while marginalized and lower-income groups continue to struggle for access to essential services and remain considerably underrepresented.

“It is unfortunate that the U.S. is following China’s cue and disregarding its long history of ensuring that human rights are a pillar of foreign policy,” said Tiwana. “Wealthy individuals are basically gaming the system and that is what is leading us into 19th century levels of inequality. People are being denied the agency to call out high-level corruption and to call out the denial of basic services.”

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Human rights are positive, essential and attainable.
 
Photo: from left to right: UN/Harandane Dicko, © NurPhoto, © Betul Simsek, OHCHR Moldova Credit: United Nations

By Volker Türk
GENEVA, Dec 11 2025 (IPS)

Human rights are underfunded, undermined and under attack. And yet. Powerful. Undeterred. Mobilizing.

This year no doubt has been a difficult one. And one full of dangerous contradictions. Funding for human rights has been slashed, while anti-rights movements are increasingly well-funded.

Profits for the arms industry are soaring, while funding for humanitarian aid and grassroots civil society plummets. Those defending rights and justice are attacked, sanctioned and hauled before courts, even as those ordering the commission of atrocity crimes continue to enjoy impunity.

Diversity, equity and inclusion policies that were adopted to address historical and structural injustices are being vilified as unjust. The prognosis would be incredibly dire if these were the only trends. But the pushback on human rights is facing pushback from a groundswell of human rights activism.

In Nepal, Serbia, Madagascar, Kenya, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Paraguay, the Philippines, Indonesia, Tanzania, Morocco, Peru and beyond, mostly young people have taken to the streets and to social media against inequalities, against corruption or repression, in favour of freedom of expression, and for their everyday essential rights.

People across the world have also been protesting against war and injustice, and demanding climate action, in places far from home, expressing solidarity and pressuring their governments to take action.

I urge governments around the world to harness the energy of these social movements into opportunities for broader transformational reforms rather than rushing to suppress them or label them as extremist threats to national security. They are, in fact, the exact opposite of threats to national security.

On the challenges I had set out earlier, here is some data:

Funding: Our resources have been slashed, along with funding for human rights organisations – including at the grassroots level – around the world. We are in survival mode.

My Office has had about USD 90 million less than we needed this year, which means around 300 jobs have been lost, and essential work has had to be cut, including on Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Tunisia and other countries at a time when the needs are rising.

Special Rapporteur country visits and investigative missions by fact-finding bodies have also been reduced, sometimes drastically. Crucial dialogues with States on their compliance with UN human rights treaties have had to be postponed – last year there were 145 State party reviews, we are down to 103 this year.

We see that all this has extensive ripple effects on international and national efforts to protect human rights.

Meanwhile, anti-rights and anti-gender movements are increasingly coordinated and well-funded, operating across borders. According to the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, for example, almost USD 1.2 billion was mobilized by anti-rights groups in Europe between 2019 and 2023.

There is significant money flowing into the anti-rights agenda from funders based in Europe, Russia and the United States of America. Such massive funding, coupled with media capture and disinformation strategies have made the anti-rights agenda a powerful cross-regional force.

Another distressing dataset is that from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). It says that arms and military services revenues for the 100 largest arms companies reached a record USD 679 billion in 2024. SIPRI has said demand was boosted by wars in Ukraine and Gaza, by global and regional geopolitical tensions, and ever-higher military expenditure.

There have been efforts this year to secure ceasefires and peace deals, which are certainly welcome. However, for peace to be sustainable, human rights must play a central role. There From prevention to negotiating to monitoring to accountability, recovery and peacebuilding.

And we need to do a reality check.

As we have seen in Gaza and in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, agreements have yet to translate into effective protection of civilians on the ground.

Gaza remains a place of unimaginable suffering, loss and fear. While the bloodshed has reduced, it has not stopped. Attacks by Israel continue, including on individuals approaching the so-called “yellow line”, residential buildings, and IDP tents and shelters as well as other civilian objects.

Access to essential services and goods remain severely inadequate. In the West Bank, we are seeing unprecedent levels of attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians, forcing them from their land. This is a time to intensify pressure and advocacy – not to sink into complacency – for Palestinians across the occupied territory.

Clashes between the DRC armed forces and the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group continue, alongside serious human rights violations and abuses. Civilians, again, are bearing the brunt. Overnight, you’ll have seen, there have been reports of thousands fleeing the densely populated South Kivu city of Uvira amid escalating clashes between the M23 and DRC armed forces, backed by Wazalendo militia.

This comes just days after the DRC and Rwanda reaffirmed their commitment to implement the June 2025 Washington Peace Agreement. Over the years, we have documented outrageous violations against civilians in Uvira, including rape and sexual and gender-based violence. The risk of a broader regional confrontation appears to be increasing.

In Sudan, the brutal conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces continues unabated. From Darfur and the Kordofans to Khartoum and Omdurman and beyond, no Sudanese civilian has been left untouched by the cruel and senseless violence. I am extremely that we might see a repeat of the atrocities committed in El Fasher in Kordofan.

In Ukraine, civilian harm has risen sharply. Civilian casualties so far this year are 24 per cent higher than the same period last year, largely due to Russia’s increased use of powerful long-range weapons in large numbers and its continuing efforts across broad front to capture further Ukrainian territory by armed force.

Large-scale attacks on Ukraine’s energy system have caused emergency outages and prolonged daily electricity cuts, disruptions to water and heating services in many areas. Urgent steps need to be taken to alleviate suffering, including the return of transferred children, the exchange of all prisoners of war, and the unconditional release of civilian detainees held by Russian authorities.

For any sustainable peace to be negotiated, it is important that confidence-building measures are taken, grounded in human rights, including steps to alleviate civilian suffering, promote accountability and preserve a basis for future dialogue. And, importantly, women need to be a part of this process.

It is imperative that peace deals and ceasefires are secured and implemented in good faith. And with full respect for international law, which can never be set aside for political convenience.

It is also critical to counter the demonization of and hatemongering rhetoric against migrants and refugees. In various countries, worryingly, we are seeing violent pushbacks, large-scale raids, arrest and returns without due process, criminalization of migrants and refugees and those who support them, as well as the outsourcing of responsibilities under international law.

I urge States to embark on an evidence-based policy debate on migration and refugee issues, anchored in international human rights and refugee law.

In the course of many electoral campaigns this year, we have also seen a pattern of democratic backsliding, restrictive civic space and electoral violence.

Myanmar’s upcoming military-imposed “election”, is accompanied by new waves of acute insecurity and violence, continued arrests and detentions of opponents, voter coercion, the use of extensive electronic surveillance tools and systemic discrimination. I fear this process will only further deepen insecurity, fear and polarization throughout the country.

There is, unfortunately, never a shortage of human rights challenges to face, issues to resolve, and values to defend. What is heartening is that there are so many of us, around the world, attached to the same universal human rights values – no matter the noise, the gaslighting, and the persistent injustices.

I am energized by the social movements – particularly those led by young people. They are writing the latest chapters in the time-honoured struggle for our collective humanity and dignity. Journalists, activists, and human rights defenders have been at the forefront of the global movement for freedom, equality and justice.

Such perseverance has achieved landmark victories for the rights of women, migrants, people discriminated against on the basis of descent, minorities, our environment, and so much more.

And we will continue to persevere.

IPS UN Bureau

 

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The Security Council in session. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider

By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 11 2025 (IPS)

When there was widespread speculation that a UN Under-Secretary-General (USG), a product of two prestigious universities– Oxford and Cambridge– was planning to run for the post of Secretary-General back in the 1980s, I pointedly asked him to confirm or deny the rumor during an interview in the UN delegate’s lounge.

“I don’t think”, he declared, “anyone in his right mind will ever want that job”.

Fast forward to 2026.

As a financially-stricken UN is looking for a new Secretary-General, who will take office beginning January 2027, the USG’s remark in a bygone era was a reflection of a disaster waiting to happen.

The current Secretary-General is facing a daunting task battling for the very survival of the UN, with a hostile White House forcing the world body to sharply reduce its staff, slash funding and relocate several UN agencies moving them out of New York.

The bottom line: the incoming Secretary-General will inherit a virtually devastated United Nations.

Addressing the General Assembly last September, President Trump remarked: “What is the purpose of the United Nations? It’s not even coming close to living up to [its] potential.”

Dismissing the U.N. as an outdated, ineffective organization, he boasted: “I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never a phone call from the United Nations offering to help in finalizing the deal.”

Whoever is elected, the new UN chief will have to faithfully abide by the ground rules of the Trump administration virtually abandoning what the UN stands for, including racial equality and gender empowerment (DEI)

“Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies that were adopted to address historical and structural injustices are being vilified as unjust”, says Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

In his 345-page book titled “Unvanquished: A US-UN Saga,” released in 1999, Boutros Boutros-Ghali, a former Secretary-General, points out that although he was accused by Washington of being “too independent” of the US, he eventually did everything in his power to please the Americans.

But when he ran for a second term, the US, which preaches the Western concept of majority rule, exercised its veto even though Boutros-Ghali received 14 of the 15 votes in the Security Council including the votes of the other four permanent members of the Council, namely the UK, France, Russia and China.

In such circumstances, tradition would demand the dissenting US abstain on the vote and respect the wishes of the overwhelming majority in the Security Council. But the US did not.

Unlike most of his predecessors and successors, Boutros-Ghali refused to blindly play ball with the US despite the fact that he occasionally caved into US pressure at a time when Washington had gained a notoriety for trying to manipulate the world body to protect its own national interests.

Jesselina Rana, UN Advisor at CIVICUS’ UN Hub in New York and the steering committee of the 1 for 8 Billion campaign, told IPS when key international norms are being openly flouted by certain member states and the veto is used to undermine the very principles the UN was built on, will structural reforms alone be enough to restore trust in the institution?

Can the UN80 process genuinely rebuild trust in multilateralism, she asked, when the process itself has been opaque and has lacked meaningful civil society participation?

“An accountable and transparent Secretary-General selection process requires stronger and more explicit support from member states”.

A process that is open and inclusive of civil society and grounded in feminist leadership will strengthen the UN’s ability to navigate today’s difficult geopolitical conditions and help rebuild trust in multilateralism, she argued.

After 80 years of male leadership, the next Secretary-General should be a woman with a proven record on gender equality, human rights, peace, sustainable development, and multilateralism, declared Rana.

Felix Dodds, Adjunct Professor at the Water Institute, University of North Carolina and Associate Fellow, Tellus Institute, Boston, who has written extensively on the UN, told IPS the UN is experiencing challenging times, living through what are probably the most difficult times since the Cold War.

It may not be a bad idea to move some UN bodies. UNDP did a lot of that under Helen Clarke – being closer to the people you are working to help, maybe it is a cost-cutting issue, but it may also be something that should have been considered before.

“The new SG will need to be someone Trump allows, as he has a veto,” he pointed out.

“If the candidates we looked at before, the only one that is realistic is Rebeca Grynspan from UNCTAD. She has shown herself to be a good bureaucrat and has led UNCTAD well, as she did for Costa Rica when she was the Deputy President, said Dodds, City of Bonn International Ambassador.

“We may be looking at a man again,” he said.

Clearly, the new secretary-general taking over in 2027 has a daunting task ahead. Whoever it is will have had to make concessions to the P5 on the size and reach of the UN. The present cuts may be just the first set to come down.

“A UN with a clearer mandate on what it will do may be a result. Stakeholders need to of course defend the UN as a critical body for multilateral affairs BUT they must at the same time be putting forward reforms that are simple and strengthen the area they are working on”.

There is no way we can get security reform through – it doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be proposed, but what is realistic in the areas being reformed that stakeholders and governments can work together on.

Ultimately, the driving forces should be a more effective UN delivering on the ground. Do reform proposals do that? he asked.

“The organization has always worked in a world of political pressures. I agree the body should be a place for dialogue and protection of the most vulnerable. UN80 offers an opportunity for dialogue on realistic proposals. The question is what are they in the different areas?” he said.

Dr. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he serves as coordinator of the program in Middle Eastern Studies, told IPS following the Napoleonic Wars, the Council of Europe largely kept the peace until the Central Powers decided it no longer worked for them. The result was World War I.

The League of Nations then set up a framework to keep the peace until the Axis powers decided it no longer worked for them. The result of World War II, he said.

“We are now at a similar crossroads, where the United Nations system is being challenged by both Russia and the United States which–as demonstrated through the invasions of Iraq and Ukraine–no longer feel constrained by the prohibition against aggressive war.”

“The more recent U.S. assaults on the UN are particularly damaging, given the importance of U.S. financial contributions to the UN’s functioning and Washington’s ability in recent weeks to push through resolutions in the UN Security Council seemingly legitimizing illegal Israeli and Moroccan military occupations of their neighbors.”

UN members must be willing to risk the wrath of the Trump administration by standing up for the UN Charter and basic principles of international law. Nothing less than the future of the world body and international peace and security is at stake, declared Dr Zunes.

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Early morning on Thursday, co-legislators reached a provisional agreement on revamping the EU’s pharmaceutical policy framework, to boost competitiveness, innovation and security of supply.
Committee on Public Health

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Le chef de l'Etat Patrice Talon a reçu ce mercredi 10 décembre 2025, une délégation de l'armée nigériane conduite par le général Ib Shériff.

Des hauts gradés de l'armée nigériane au cabinet du chef de l'Etat ce mercredi 10 décembre. Au cœur des échanges, le coup de force perpétré par un groupe de mutins contre le Bénin dimanche 07 décembre 2025.
Le président de la République selon des sources proches de la Présidence de la République, a exprimé à cette occasion, sa reconnaissance aux soldats nigérians venus en renfort aux Forces de défense et de sécurité (FDS).
L'appui opérationnel de l'armée nigériane, dans le cadre de la coopération sous régionale a été déterminant pour enrayer les assauts des putschistes et de rétablir l'ordre dans le pays.

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Dans le cadre de la campagne médiatique pour les élections législatives et communales de janvier 2026, la Haute Autorité de l'audiovisuel et de la communication (HAAC) a procédé, mercredi 10 décembre, à un tirage au sort déterminant l'ordre de passage des partis politiques dans les médias.

Les représentants des partis politiques engagés dans les législatives et communales de janvier 2026 ont tiré, mercredi 10 décembre 2025, l'ordre de passage respectif de leur formation lors de la campagne médiatique. La cérémonie s'est déroulée au siège de la Haute Autorité de l'audiovisuel et de la communication (HAAC), en présence du président de l'institution Edouard Cocou Loko.

Le tirage au sort a attribué l'ordre suivant pour les interventions médiatiques :

Législatives 2026 :

1- Forces Cauris pour un Bénin Émergent (FCBE)

2- Union Progressiste le Renouveau (UP-R)

3- Mouvement des Élites Engagées pour l'Émancipation du Bénin (MOELE-Bénin)

4- Les Démocrates (LD)

5- Bloc Républicain (BR)

Communales 2026 : ordre de passage

1- Bloc Républicain (BR)

2- Forces Cauris pour un Bénin Émergent (FCBE)

3- Union Progressiste le Renouveau (UP-R)

Une mutinerie a failli renversé dimanche 7 décembre dernier le régime du président Patrice Talon et de remettre en cause l'ordre constitutionnel au Bénin. Le chef de la bande, le Lt-Col Pascal Éloge Tigri, qui apparaissait aux yeux de sa hiérarchie comme un bon leader est désormais considéré comme un homme très dangereux.

Il a fallu la tentative de coup d'Etat avorté de dimanche dernier pour connaître le vrai visage de Pascal Éloge Tigri, ce militaire qui est devenu aujourd'hui l'homme le plus recherché par les Forces de défense et de sécurité du Bénin.
Même si sa tête n'est pas officiellement mise à prix, des sources proches des autorités n'excluent pas l'émission d'un mandat d'arrêt international contre ce putschiste qui serait réfugié dans un pays voisin avec quelques complices.

Avant les événements tragiques de ce dimanche noir, cet officier de l'armée béninoise était considéré par sa hiérarchie comme un élément exemplaire en qui on pouvait avoir confiance.

"Je sais qu'il est le commandant des forces spéciales de la Garde nationale et jusqu'à présent, il n'a pas montré des signes qui pouvaient nous laisser le soupçonner de quoi que ce soit. Donc, ça a été une surprise pour nous.", a témoigné le commandant de la Garde républicaine, Colonel Dieudonné Tévoédjrè dans une interview mercredi dernier sur RFI.

Ange ou démon ?

Mais derrière ce masque d'ange se cachait un autre plus redoutable. Il a fallu les événements tragiques du dimanche 7 décembre 2025 pour faire découvrir à la face du monde ce lieutenant-colonel à la tête du Comité Militaire de la Refondation (CMR), le groupe ayant revendiqué la tentative de coup d'État contre le président Patrice Talon.

Le bilan de l'opération n'est pas encore établi officiellement. Mais plusieurs morts et de nombreux blessés ont été déplorés dans les deux camps.

Bien que les revendications des mutins ne soient légitimes, la méthode utilisée par les mutins ne fait pas l'unanimité au sein de l'opinion publique.

Aujourd'hui, l'homme qui apparaissait aux yeux de certains comme un ange, est devenu depuis ce dimanche noir pour d'autres, un démon.

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Le Bénin et le Département français de la Vendée viennent de signer une nouvelle Convention-cadre dédiée au développement de la lecture publique.

Un « nouveau chapitre » pour une coopération vieille de plus de trente ans. Le Bénin et le Département français de la Vendée ont signé, une Convention-cadre consacrée au développement de la lecture publique.

L'accord ouvre un partenariat direct entre la Bibliothèque départementale de la Vendée et la Bibliothèque nationale du Bénin. Il vise à partager les expériences, outils de gouvernance et ingénierie afin de renforcer l'organisation, la gestion et l'animation des réseaux de bibliothèques et centres de lecture du pays.

Du 1ᵉʳ au 5 décembre 2025, une délégation béninoise a séjourné en Vendée. Elle était composée de Prudence Dahodekou, conseiller technique juridique représentant le ministre du Tourisme, de la Culture et des Arts, et de Koffi Attede, directeur général de la Bibliothèque nationale. La mission a donné lieu à des visites de médiathèques, des séances de travail et des échanges techniques. Les membres de la délégation ont également participé au jury de l'opération Première Page, qui « offre un livre aux nouveau-nés » pour encourager la lecture dès le plus jeune âge.

La Convention-cadre couvrira une période de cinq ans. Elle prévoit des sessions annuelles de formation, un accompagnement technique et un appui à la structuration du réseau public de lecture béninois. Les deux partenaires affirment ainsi leur volonté de faire de la lecture publique « un levier essentiel de développement culturel et social ».

Éclairage complémentaire

Le partenariat inclut un appui large de la Direction des Bibliothèques départementales de la Vendée. Il portera sur l'analyse du réseau national et communal des bibliothèques béninoises, l'accompagnement dans la constitution et la gestion des fonds documentaires, ainsi que sur le choix des supports adaptés aux publics.

L'accord prévoit aussi un soutien scientifique et technique pour les projets d'ingénierie culturelle, de construction ou d'aménagement des espaces de lecture, ainsi que pour le suivi des réseaux existants. Des formations annuelles seront organisées au profit des bibliothécaires, archivistes, médiateurs et animateurs afin de renforcer leurs compétences et d'améliorer la qualité du service public de lecture.
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Le Barreau du Bénin a dit condamner toute « tentative de remise en cause de l'ordre constitutionnel, des acquis démocratiques et des libertés fondamentales qui en sont le fruit » après le putsch déjoué le 7 décembre 2025 au Bénin.

L'Ordre des avocats « s'incline devant la mémoire des personnes décédées » et traduit sa « profonde compassion » aux « blessés » et « familles éprouvées », selon la déclaration publiée le 9 décembre.

Angelo Hounkpatin, le président de l'Ordre, invite les populations à « demeurer fermement attaché à la paix civile, à la responsabilité républicaine et à la préservation scrupuleuse des principes qui fondent notre vivre-ensemble ».

Le Barreau du Bénin invite également « les institutions de la République, chacune dans sa sphère de compétence, à œuvrer pour raffermir l'autorité de l'Etat et la cohésion nationale ».
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Le nombre de mutins ayant orchestré le coup de force du dimanche 07 décembre 2025 contre le Bénin, n'est pas moins important. Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji, porte-parole du gouvernement estime leur effectif à plus d'une centaine.

Les affrontements au domicile du chef de l'Etat ont été rudes à l'occasion du putsch déjoué dimanche 07 décembre dernier. Le secrétaire général adjoint, porte-parole du gouvernement a donné des précisions lors d'une conférence de presse ce mercredi 10 décembre 2025. Un agent des forces de défense et de sécurité y a trouvé la mort, et un blessé grave a été également enregistré et pris en charge.
« Je confirme que lors des affrontements violents autour du domicile du chef de l'État, l'objectif des mutins étant de se saisir de la personne du chef de l'État, il leur fallait neutraliser sa garde, laquelle heureusement informée et mobilisée par son chef, assisté du chef de l'État lui-même, a fait front à temps et s'est préparé pour les accueillir. Donc, je réitère que les combats ont été rudes, violents. Nous avons à l'occasion, perdu un agent », a affirmé le porte-parole du gouvernement. Du côté des mutins, a-t-il poursuivi, « il y a eu des blessés et des morts, mais ils sont partis avec les corps et on ne peut pas dire à l'heure où je vous parle, en attendant que l'armée fasse le point des effectifs et qu'ils rendent éventuellement les corps aux familles, on ne peut pas dire exactement le nombre de morts qu'il y a dans leur rang », a clarifié le secrétaire général adjoint du gouvernement.
Au sujet du nombre de mutins engagés dans le coup d'Etat déjoué, il a estimé leur effectif entre 100 et 200 au plus. Mais le gros lot, a précisé Wilfried Léandre Houngbédji, ne savait pas dans quoi ils étaient engagés.

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