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Le gouvernement a adopté, ce mercredi 3 septembre 2025, le Plan national de développement sanitaire pour la période 2026-2030.

Un nouveau Plan national de développement sanitaire adopté au Bénin. Il s'agit selon le gouvernement, d'un document de référence pour l'ensemble des acteurs du secteur de la Santé, en lien avec l'atteinte des objectifs de la Politique nationale de Santé sur la période 2018-2030. Sa finalité est de favoriser l'amélioration de l'état de santé et le bien-être des populations et s'inscrit dans les perspectives des Objectifs de Développement durable (ODD). Le contenu dudit plan tient compte des faiblesses de la précédente édition conformément à l'évaluation qui en a été faite et intègre les nouveaux défis du secteur.
D'un coût estimatif de 996.391.637.000 FCFA, sa mise en œuvre permettra, entre autres, de renforcer la gouvernance du secteur de la Santé, d'améliorer les prestations de service et la qualité des soins, dans un environnement où la disponibilité des produits de santé ainsi que des infrastructures et des équipements traduisent les avancées notables du secteur.

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La commune de Parakou, à travers sa première autorité, a annoncé son soutien à la candidature de Romuald Wadagni pour la présidentielle de 2026.

Membre du Bloc Républicain, le maire de Parakou, Inoussa Zimé Chabi, a annoncé au candidat désigné par la mouvance à la présidentielle de 2026.

L'édile voit dans le choix de Romuald Wadagni une continuité.

Selon lui, l'alliance entre le Bloc Républicain et l'Union Progressiste le Renouveau s'inscrit dans la logique des réformes engagées par Patrice Talon. « Là où certains promettaient, il a agi ».

Le maire a salué la rigueur et la transparence de Wadagni. Il a rappelé son rôle dans la crédibilité internationale du Bénin. Inoussa Zimé Chabi a mis en avant les réalisations concrètes du président Talon à Parakou et dans tout le Bénin. Routes, énergie, climat des affaires : les acquis sont visibles, a-t-il insisté.

Un appel à l'unité autour de Parakou

« Là où certains promettaient, il a agi », a déclaré le maire.

Dans sa déclaration, le maire a appelé les forces vives de Parakou à se rassembler. Il invite la région septentrionale à s'unir derrière Wadagni. Pour lui, il s'agit d'un choix d'évidence et non d'un pari.

La désignation du ministre Romuald Wadagni comme candidat à la présidentielle de 2026 continue de susciter des soutiens.

À Bopa, dans le département du Mono, les jeunes et plusieurs acteurs ont annoncé ce 3 septembre 2025, leur soutien dans les circonscriptions, communes et villages au candidat Romuald Wadagni.

Le professeur Kakpo Mahougnon salue l'élan d'unité qui se forme autour du ministre. Pour lui, cette candidature fédère les énergies et ouvre « la grande porte de l'unité » dans la commune.

Ensemble nous pouvons, affirme le professeur Kakpo, convaincu que la mobilisation autour de Romuald Wadagni dépasse le cadre local pour toucher toute la 18e circonscription, le Mono-Couffo et, plus largement le territoire national.

Selon lui, l'échéance de 2026 doit être celle de la victoire et de l'unité nationale.
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La Cour constitutionnelle annonce le recrutement de délégués pour l'observation des différentes phases des élections législatives du 11 janvier 2026. Les dossiers de candidatures doivent être envoyés sur la plateforme erecrutement.courconstitutionnelle.bj du 15 septembre au 14 octobre 2025. Lire les pièces à fournir.

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During the first years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, brave Afghan women in Kabul and several other provinces rose up in protest. Credit: Learning Together.

By External Source
KABUL, Sep 3 2025 (IPS)

This year marks the fourth anniversary of the Taliban retaking power in Afghanistan. All these years have been one long nightmare for  the women of Afghanistan, the ones who have borne the brunt of oppression – arguably the worst of its kind anywhere in the world.

To mark the occasion we find it appropriate to take a short trip in history back into the last four years to recollect how it all unfolded and how Afghan women have endured it this far.

On August 15, 2021, Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. The event marked the end of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, led by Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, and the return of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” under Taliban rule. This political change started a new chapter of suffering, systemic bans, and harsh restrictions reserved mainly for women and girls.

Within a very short time, the Taliban introduced strict rules affecting education, work, public life, and even travel. Girls were banned from school; women were ejected from government work and the public sector; they were compelled to wear full covering and not allowed to travel without a male guardian.

The year 2021 was painful, suffocating, and deeply traumatizing for Afghan women and girls. In late August 2021, schools remained open up to grade 12 only in a few provinces of Balkh, Kunduz, Jawzjan, Sar-e Pol, Faryab, and Daikund – where local officials ignored the Taliban leadership’s orders. In most other provinces, girls were stopped from going to school.

 

A “Temporary” Suspension That Still Stands

The Taliban’s Ministry of Education officially announced that only primary schools – up to grade 6 – would stay open for girls. Secondary and high schools were, however, suspended “until further notice”. They would only reopen if “Islamic rules were followed, such as wearing the proper religious clothing.” Four years on, the so-called temporary suspension in still place.

In September 2021, the Taliban shut down the Ministry of women’s Affairs and handed over its building to the Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Thus, a ministry notorious for its harsh and oppressive treatment of women and girls, was preferred to the one meant to raise awareness, promote gender equality and support women’s participation in national development.

By December 2021, the Taliban moved to make a black full-body covering that shows only the eyes or a burqa, mandatory for women. At universities, female and male classes were completely separated.

 

Women Protest—Despite Crackdowns

But Afghan women did not take these oppressive rules on the chin. On the contrary, they took to the streets of Kabul and protested vigorously, with slogans such as, “Work, education, freedom, and political participation are our rights.”

The Taliban predictably responded with brutal force, including even firing live rounds into crowds to break up the protests, but the women remained undeterred. The protests inspired similar actions in other provinces such as Herat, Balkh, Badakhshan, Daikundi, Bamyan, and Nangarhar.

Amidst the protests and brutalities, the women still held onto hope. “Brighter days will come”, they used to say, but in 2022, the Taliban escalated the bans on women’s social life, once again, beginning with education. That year, Afghan girls were officially banned from entering universities and barred from registering for the national university entrance exams.

Media restrictions and mandatory dress codes, which started in November 2021, intensified in 2022. The sight of women was banished from television and cinema screens, and female journalists were compelled to cover their entire faces. In May 2022, wearing the full-body abaya with a niqab became mandatory. Failure to comply was punished by fines, job loss, and even imprisonment.

In April 2022, restrictions began with new rules assigning specific days for women to visit public parks. By November of the same year, women were entirely forbidden to visit public parks, gyms, and bathhouses. Severe travel restrictions were also placed on women. They were forbidden to travel more than 72 kilometres without a male guardian. This rule was enforced regardless of whether the woman had a husband at home or not, or whether the guardian was able to accompany her. Transportation companies and airlines were ordered to enforce this rule, violators would have their vehicles seized or imprisoned.

Eventually, women were pushed out of government jobs altogether. The largest wave of dismissals happened in September 2022. By December, women’s participation in NGOs, international organizations, and UN offices was completely banned. This also affected thousands of women, many of them nurses and midwives working in the health sector, severely jeopardizing an already creaky health services of people in a war-torn country.

As the years progressed, the banning decrees kept flying out like snowflakes, with increasing violence. In Logar, Kabul, Herat, Faryab, Jawzjan, and Ghor provinces, public floggings, stoning and executions were carried out against women accused of moral crimes.

In spite of that, brave Afghan women in Kabul and several other provinces rose up in protest. They chanted slogans like “Bread, Work, Education It’s Our Right,” “We Will Not Back Down”.

Undeterred by serious threats and dangers, these courageous women raised their voices louder than ever before. They showed unprecedented resilience against oppression, hoping their protests would become a symbol of civil resistance for Afghan women everywhere.

We spent the last three years like the living dead, silent, breathless, merely surviving hoping each day that the next decree would not bring more loss. As we stepped into 2025, we carried with us a fragile hope that the injustice, oppression, and inequality would end. But this year, too, has mirrored the years before.

The voices of young girls have been replaced by locked doors, forced silence, and tired, defeated gazes.

The very women who are meant to save lives in the future are now imprisoned behind the walls of their own homes. Beauty salons have been shut down as if femininity itself were a crime. Learning centers are silent, universities are forgotten and even dreams once bold and vibrant have been exorcised from the mind.

The year 2025 continues to mark a series of systematic and oppressive steps by the Taliban aimed at gradually erasing women from public life. Afghan women remain trapped under oppression, yet with an unbreakable spirit, we hold onto hope for a day when freedom, education, and justice will return to our land.

 

A Call to the International Community

This hope, however, would only become reality when the international community and the European Union listen to the demands of Afghan women and respond with tangible and effective actions.

We are not just asking for sympathy or words of condemnation, we are calling for real action. We are standing firm and we will not surrender. Now it is the turn of the international community to stand with us.

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The author is an Afghanistan-based female journalist, trained with Finnish support before the Taliban take-over. Her identity is withheld for security reasons

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