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World Press Freedom Day 2025

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 09:37

By External Source
May 2 2025 (IPS-Partners)

 
Freedom of the press is facing growing threats across the world.

Authoritarian regimes still imprison, silence, and kill journalists.

But today, elected governments are doing the same.

In 2024, over 550 journalists were imprisoned worldwide. 124 of them in China alone.

Since October 2023, at least 155 journalists have been killed in Gaza, Lebanon, and Israel.

Many were clearly identifiable as journalists – and targeted.

Sudan has become a death trap for reporters caught in civil war.

In Pakistan, Mexico and Bangladesh journalists were assassinated for their work.

Independent media face financial and political attacks.

This year, the U.S. gutted funding for Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and Radio Free Asia.

Autocratic leaders applauded.

Meanwhile, trust in traditional media is collapsing.

In the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer, China scored 75% trust in media. The UK scored 36%.

Yet China ranks 172nd out of 180 on the Press Freedom Index.

AI is adding new risks: Amplifying disinformation, censorship, and surveillance.

Recent studies show 51% of AI-generated news responses have major factual issues.

Misinformation spreads faster and easier than ever.

UNESCO warns that AI, without safeguards, could crush free expression.

This year, World Press Freedom Day focuses on “Reporting in the Brave New World: The Impact of
Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media.”

AI offers powerful new tools for journalism – but without ethical safeguards, it threatens press freedom itself.

And without journalism, democracy stands on shifting sand.

 


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Categories: Africa

Le principal centre de recherche en France lance un programme pour attirer les chercheurs étrangers menacés

Euractiv.fr - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 09:21

Vaisseau amiral de la recherche française, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) lance un programme pour attirer des scientifiques étrangers dont le travail est menacé, notamment aux États-Unis — un mouvement encouragé par l'exécutif.

The post Le principal centre de recherche en France lance un programme pour attirer les chercheurs étrangers menacés appeared first on Euractiv FR.

Categories: Union européenne

Riffs, rage and racers: Africa's top shots

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 09:19
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond.
Categories: Africa

Riffs, rage and racers: Africa's top shots

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 09:19
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond.
Categories: Africa

Riffs, rage and racers: Africa's top shots

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 09:19
A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond.
Categories: Africa

Humanitarian Aid is Stretched Following Surges in Violence in Sudan

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 07:32

The United Nations Security Council Hears Reports on Developments in Sudan and South Sudan Credit: UN Photo/Manuel Elías

By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, May 2 2025 (IPS)

After over two years of extended warfare in Sudan, humanitarian organizations have expressed fears of an imminent collapse as widespread hunger, displacement, and insecurity ravages the population. With tensions between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) having reached a new peak in 2025, it is imperative that Sudanese communities in the most crisis-affected areas have unfettered access to life-saving aid.

Earlier in April, local sources had confirmed instances of renewed violence in the Zamzam and Abu Shouk displacement camps, both of which have been conflict hotspots since the beginning of the Sudanese Civil War. According to statements from The General Coordination of Displaced Persons and Refugees advocacy group, due to indiscriminate shootings, arson, and shellings from the RSF, hundreds were left “dead or wounded”, with the majority of the victims being women and young children.

The United Nations (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan Clementine Nkweta-Salami informed reporters that there were over 100 civilian deaths across both displacement camps, with over 20 children and 9 aid workers having been killed. According to Relief International, the assaults also led to the destruction of hundreds of residential structures, medical facilities, and the Zamzam marketplace. Additionally, many residents remain trapped in the besieged camps with no way of escaping.

“This represents yet another deadly and unacceptable escalation in a series of brutal attacks on displaced people and aid workers in Sudan since the onset of this conflict nearly two years ago,” said Nkweta-Salami. “Zamzam and Abu Shouk are some of the largest displacement camps in Darfur, sheltering more than 700,000 people who have fled cycles of violence over the years. These families — many of whom have already been displaced multiple times — are once again caught in the crossfire, with nowhere safe to go.”

Local sources also confirmed that the RSF-allied militia abducted nearly 50 Zamzam camp residents and about 40 aid personnel. The UN estimates that nearly 400,000 civilians have fled the two El Fasher camps in the later half of April, with the Zamzam camp having been almost emptied. According to the Office of the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, many of these displaced civilians are moving toward remote, secluded areas with little access to clean food, water, or healthcare services, such as Tawila and Jebel Marra.

“On April 12 and 13, our team in Tawila saw more than 10,000 people fleeing from Zamzam and nearby areas. They arrived in an advanced state of dehydration, exhaustion, and stress. They have nothing but the clothes they’re wearing, nothing to eat, nothing to drink. They sleep on the ground under the trees. Several people told us about family members left behind—lost during the escape, injured, or killed,” said Marion Ramstein, an emergency field coordinator in North Darfur who is working with Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Humanitarian organizations have described the displaced Sudanese people’s flow of movement as unpredictable, sudden, and massive. Due to the sheer scale of displaced persons, host communities and shelters have been overwhelmed, reporting strains on healthcare services, water infrastructures, and food availability.

According to the World Food Programme (WFP), famine has been declared in 10 areas across Sudan, with 17 other areas at risk of imminent famine. Hunger has also reached “catastrophic levels”, with more than half of the population, roughly 25 million people, dependent on humanitarian assistance.

“In the past, we had three to four meals per day. For the past two years, giving [my children] one meal a day is a miracle,” said Hawa, a displaced mother of three who resided in the Zamzam camp. Although the UN and its partners have been on the frontlines of the crisis in North Darfur, an immediate scale up of resources and services is essential to ensure that the hunger crisis isn’t exacerbated.

Following the escalation of hostilities in December 2024, MSF began distributing food parcels as a part of their malnutrition treatment program. Hoping to target families consisting of young children and breastfeeding mothers, MSF has been monitoring the hunger crisis as the economic downturns in Sudan continue to worsen food insecurity.

“In order to reduce instances where the child’s therapeutic food is divided amongst the hungry relatives, we provide a family ration for a duration of two months. This allows the child to receive the full course of their nutrition therapy while increasing the nutrition situation of the whole family,” said Hunter McGovern, MSF’s food distribution coordinator in South Darfur.

“During our distributions, we found that the average family size is much larger than what we had initially planned for—sometimes as many as ten people per household. This underscores just how critical the food shortage is and how much more assistance is required to meet the real needs of people.”

The current supply of humanitarian aid for displaced families in Sudan is overstretched due to rapidly growing needs and deteriorating security conditions. Additionally, as the rainy season approaches, humanitarian experts have projected that the crisis will compound significantly.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), alongside malnutrition, Sudanese people suffer from widespread levels of protracted disease and conflict-related injuries. More than two-thirds of Sudan’s states have reported 3 or more disease outbreaks at a single time, with cholera, dengue, measles, and malaria running rampant. Heavy rainfall is expected to disrupt vaccination campaigns and hamper aid deliveries.

“The humanitarian response is faltering as warring parties block aid, insecurity grows, and rain is expected to wash away critical roads,” said Samuel Sileshi, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency coordinator for Darfur. “Last year, floods destroyed roads around Mornei bridge, a vital link for aid from Chad. With the rainy season approaching, these roads will soon be impassable again.”

IPS UN Bureau Report

 


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Categories: Africa

Press Freedom Is Being Buried but How Many Really Know or Care?

Africa - INTER PRESS SERVICE - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 07:28

World Press Freedom Day 2025
 

By Farhana Haque Rahman
NEW YORK, May 2 2025 (IPS)

Pressures on the press are piling up. Like an avalanche gaining speed yet unnoticed by most people in the valley below, freedom of the press is being relentlessly trampled over – despite the valiant efforts of a few.

Farhana Haque Rahman

For as long as we can remember, authoritarian regimes have harassed, jailed, ‘disappeared’ and killed troubling journalists. The numbers keep rising. Now under the fog of war, media workers are losing their lives to the bombs and bullets dispatched by even elected leaders, while around the world journalists are intimidated through lawsuits, or silenced by government budget cuts.

On top of all this, marking World Press Freedom Day on May 3, UNESCO is aiming this year to focus thoughts on what it diplomatically calls the substantial ‘new risks’ as well as the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI), already widely deployed in newsrooms, and by fraudsters.

For incisive information on journalists targeted worldwide, organizations like Reporters Without Borders (RSF) not only collate the data and keep detailed records but also campaign on our behalf, as in lobbying the International Criminal Court to investigate crimes against journalists in Palestine.

In its 2024 roundup, RSF notes: “In Gaza, the scale of the tragedy is incomprehensible… In 2024, Gaza became the most dangerous region in the world for journalists, a place where journalism itself is threatened with extinction.”

RSF counts over 155 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza and Lebanon and two killed in Israel since the Hamas attacks on Israel in October 2023. This number includes at least 35 who were “very likely” targeted or killed while working, many clearly identifiable as journalists but shot or killed in Israeli strikes. “This was compounded by a deliberate media blackout and a block on foreign journalists entering the Strip.”

Sudan is described as a “death trap” for journalists caught between military and paramilitary factions. And outside war zones, seven journalists were killed in Pakistan in 2024, five assassinated in Mexico, and five killed in a violent crackdown on the July/August 2024 protests in Bangladesh.

Of the 550 reporters behind bars around the world by the end of the year, 124 were in China (including 11 in Hong Kong), 61 in Myanmar, 41 in Israel and 40 in Belarus.

Of the 38 media professionals jailed in Russia, 18 are Ukrainian. RSF dedicated its report to Ukrainian freelance journalist Victoria Roshchyna, whose family were informed that she died in captivity in Russia on 19 September. No explanation was given.

Just last month (April), a Russian court sentenced four journalists to 5-1/2 years each in prison, accusing them of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died in captivity in February 2024.

What’s more, all these regimes are giving a thumbs-up to the March 15 gutting of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia, as well as the dismantling of USAid which, for example, helped support independent journalists in Myanmar.

China applauded, calling VOA “a dirty rag” and “lie factory”. Cambodian strongman Hun Sen cheered the cuts of “fake news” RFA.

RFS says press freedom deteriorated in the Asia-Pacific region, where 26 of the 32 countries and territories saw their scores fall in the 2024 World Press Freedom Index.

“The region’s dictatorial governments have been tightening their hold over news and information with increasing vigour,” RFS said, while commending regional democracies, such as Timor-Leste, Samoa and Taiwan, for retaining “their roles as press freedom models”.

But what is perhaps most alarming about the insidious deterioration of press freedom around the world is that autocratic regimes are very successfully mastering the dark arts of propaganda, while mainstream traditional media in more open societies are losing people’s trust.

The 2025 Trust Barometer compiled by Edelman, a big American PR firm, found of the 28 major countries it surveyed that China ranked highest in the “trust of media” category with a 75 percent rating, while the UK came next to last with 36 percent. This contrasts with RSF’s press freedom index which ranks China 172 out of 180 countries and territories, and the UK 23rd.

Reflecting on 25 years of surveys and referring broadly to the West, CEO Richard Edelman said media became the “least trusted” institution in 2020 as “information became a bitter and contested battleground used to manipulate, drive societal wedges, and fuel political polarization”.

Which brings us to Unesco’s words of warning over the AI revolution on World Press Freedom Day.

Yes it enhances access to and processing of information, enables journalists to handle vast amounts of data efficiently and create content, improves fact checking etc.

But, the UN agency adds: “AI also… can be used to reproduce misinformation, spread disinformation, amplify online hate speech, and enable new forms of censorship. Some actors use AI for mass surveillance of journalists and citizens, creating a chilling effect on freedom of expression.”

AI-generated fake videos posted on social media, such as images of firefighters rescuing animals in the recent Los Angeles wildfires, have already gained tens of millions of clicks.

Recent BBC research into four publically available AI assistants found 51percent of all AI answers to questions about the news were judged to have significant issues of some form. This included 19 percent of AI answers which cited BBC content introduced factual errors, while 13 percent of the quotes sourced from BBC articles were either altered or didn’t actually exist in that article.

We have been warned. And that is before the boffins perhaps succeed in birthing Artificial General Intelligence with the goal of creating machines as intelligent and versatile as humans. The very concept then of Press Freedom may no longer exist.

Farhana Haque Rahman is Senior Vice President of IPS Inter Press Service and Executive Director IPS Noram; she served as the elected Director General of IPS from 2015-2019. A journalist and communications expert, she is a former senior official of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

IPS UN Bureau

 


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Categories: Africa

Back door: How Huawei dodges EU lobby ban to get its way on energy

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 06:30
Changes to EU energy laws are often settled inside trade associations, where Huawei remains active.
Categories: European Union

Supermarkets cash in on Gen Z ditching the kitchen

Euractiv.com - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 06:00
Inspiration for cooking has also shifted, with young people largely replacing cookbooks with one-minute social media videos.
Categories: European Union

Bell, Boeing to Deliver Final CV-22 To USAF | Maldives Unveils Ajban Vehicle | New Delhi Closed Airspace To Pakistani Airplanes

Defense Industry Daily - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 06:00
Americas Aerospace giants Bell and Boeing have announced that the final CV-22 Osprey military transport and cargo aircraft has entered production, with the project’s Program of Record (POR) completion coming in the next few months. The final CV-22 will be completed at Bell’s assembly center in Amarillo, Texas, where it will roll out for future special operations missions that require advanced speed and range capabilities deemed too complex for other military aircraft. Following the completion of the POR, the companies’ Team Osprey is scheduled to continue support for the army by implementing sustainment and upgrades for the variant. The US Air Force’s Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) has completed its Operational Assessment flight testing, according to Northrop Grumman. Flight tests for the IVEWS took place in Florida and Nevada, where two F-16 Block 50s installed with the suite demonstrated stable performance over more than 70 sorties. Simulations included in the test covered a wide range of environmental conditions and mission scenarios, including air-to-air, air-to-ground, and mixed threat engagements. Middle East & Africa The Maldives has unveiled its new Ajban 4×4 light armored vehicles to the public for the first time. The presentation, held during the military’s 133rd anniversary parade in Malé, involved […]
Categories: Defense`s Feeds

180,7 millions $ de la Banque Mondiale pour forêts et foncier au Bénin

24 Heures au Bénin - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 01:22

Le Bénin bénéficie de deux financements importants de la Banque Mondiale. Les financements d'un montant total de 180,7 millions de dollars ont été approuvés le 30 avril 2025. Ces fonds visent à améliorer la gestion foncière et à renforcer la gestion durable des forêts au Bénin.

Le premier financement de 100 millions de dollars soutient le programme Terra Benin. Ce programme vise à simplifier et accélérer l'enregistrement foncier dans 14 municipalités, couvrant 124 arrondissements dans 11 départements. L'objectif est de cartographier environ 1,5 million de parcelles et d'enregistrer 1 million de droits fonciers grâce à des technologies innovantes. Ce programme permettra également de garantir un accès sécurisé aux documents fonciers, un élément clé pour le développement économique, notamment dans le secteur agricole.

Marie-Chantal Uwanyiligira, directrice de la Banque mondiale pour le Bénin, la Côte d'Ivoire, la Guinée et le Togo, souligne que « Ce programme transformateur peut être répliqué dans d'autres pays ». A l'en croire, l'accès aux documents fonciers officiels est essentiel pour le développement de toute nation.

80,7 millions de dollars pour les forêts classées

Le deuxième financement de 80,7 millions de dollars soutient la phase 2 du projet forêts classées. Ce projet vise à renforcer la gestion durable des forêts au Bénin, avec des actions concrètes de reboisement et d'agroforesterie. Après avoir planté 26 000 ha lors de la première phase, la deuxième phase ajoutera 20 000 ha de reboisement dans des zones dégradées.

Ce projet contribue à la réduction de la déforestation, à l'amélioration de la séquestration du carbone et à la création de nouvelles opportunités économiques pour les communautés locales grâce à la production de bois d'œuvre et de bois énergie. Nestor Coffi, responsable des opérations pour le Bénin, précise : « Ce projet soutient le développement économique tout en préservant l'environnement. Il offre des revenus aux communautés par le biais de l'agroforesterie et du reboisement ».

La première phase du projet a déjà montré des résultats impressionnants : 26 000 ha de plantations ont été établies et 3 millions de tonnes de CO2 ont été séquestrées. Plus de 50 000 personnes, dont 32% de femmes, ont bénéficié d'un meilleur accès aux revenus grâce aux activités de reboisement et de valorisation des produits forestiers.
M. M.

Categories: Afrique

Tracking a smuggler behind deadly Atlantic migrant crossing

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 01:16
BBC Verify tracks a man accused of selling places on a migrant boat which left dozens dead after getting lost at sea.
Categories: Africa

Tracking a smuggler behind deadly Atlantic migrant crossing

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 01:16
BBC Verify tracks a man accused of selling places on a migrant boat which left dozens dead after getting lost at sea.
Categories: Africa

Tracking a smuggler behind deadly Atlantic migrant crossing

BBC Africa - Fri, 05/02/2025 - 01:16
BBC Verify tracks a man accused of selling places on a migrant boat which left dozens dead after getting lost at sea.
Categories: Africa

Recrutement : le test antidrogue obligatoire pour les candidats à l’emploi de ces secteurs

Algérie 360 - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 22:25

Le ministre de la Justice, Lotfi Boujemaa, a annoncé une nouvelle mesure visant à renforcer la lutte contre la consommation de drogues en Algérie. Désormais, […]

L’article Recrutement : le test antidrogue obligatoire pour les candidats à l’emploi de ces secteurs est apparu en premier sur .

Categories: Afrique

Le Néerlandais Tom Wijfje remporte la 4è étape

24 Heures au Bénin - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 22:10

Le Néerlandais Tom Wijfje a remporté, ce jeudi 1er mai 2025, la 4è étape du 20è Tour Cycliste International du Bénin. Longue de 110,90 Km, entre Bohicon et Athiémé, ils étaient 76 coureurs sur la ligne de départ ce matin. Deux sprints intermédiaires ont animé cette course qui s'est soldée par la victoire du Néerlandais Tom Wijfje. Le sociétaire de Universe Cycling Team a dominé cette 4è étape en 2h30'15''. Il est suivi par le Sud-africain Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg et le Marocain Essabahy Ibrahim (Agadir Vélo Propulsion).

Au classement général, le Sud-africain Reinardt Janse Rensburg conserve le maillot jaune. Vainqueur de la première étape, Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg a occupé la deuxième place sur les 3 étapes suivantes.
La 5è étape longue de 107,50 Km entre Ouinhi et Porto-Novo est prévue pour ce vendredi 2 mai 2025.

Categories: Afrique

L'Affaire 17 millions FCFA volés à un cybercriminel jugée en appel,

24 Heures au Bénin - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 22:09

La chambre des appels a annulé lundi 28 avril 2025 le jugement rendu par la chambre correctionnelle de la CRIET dans l'affaire de l'ex-commissaire adjoint d'Abomey-Calavi poursuivi pour avoir pris dix-sept (17) millions FCFA chez un cybercriminel. Selon le verdict en appel, la peine de l'ex-commissaire adjoint a été réduite à cinq (5) ans de prison ferme et à deux (2) millions FCFA. La peine du militaire condamné à deux ans ferme est confirmé, mais sans amende en appel

Bonne nouvelle pour l'ex-commissaire adjoint de police d'Abomey-Calavi. Après plusieurs mois d'audience devant la chambre des appels de la Cour de répression des infractions économiques et du terrorisme (CRIET), le verdict est tombé lundi 28 avril 2025. La chambre d'appel a décidé d'annuler le verdict rendu le jeudi 2 mai 2024 par la chambre correctionnelle de la CRIET.

Selon la décision en appel, la peine de prison de l'ex-commissaire de police adjoint ainsi que l'amende ont été réduites. Contrairement à la chambre de jugement qui l'avait condamné à 7 ans de prison ferme et à cinq millions FCFA d'amendes, l'ex-commissaire adjoint d'Abomey-Calavi Gouroubera est désormais condamné en appel à cinq (5) ans de prison et à deux millions FCFA d'amendes pour abus de fonction et extorsion de fonds.

Un autre militaire au nom de Batossi qui avait été reconnu coupable de tentative d'extorsion de fonds et condamné à 2 ans de prison ferme et un million FCFA par la chambre correctionnelle de la CRIET a vu sa peine réduite. Selon le verdict de la chambre des appels, sa condamnation est réduite à deux ans ferme. Il n'y a à présent plus de peines d'amendes pour ce militaire. Les deux autres policiers poursuivis dans le dossier restent relaxés, rapporte l'envoyé spécial de Libre Express.

Dans ce dossier, quatre hommes en uniforme dont trois policiers et un militaire ont été arrêtés et placés en détention préventive par le parquet spécial de la CRIET en mars 2023 pour des faits d'abus de fonction. Selon l'accusation, les quatre hommes en uniforme auraient pris 17 millions FCFA chez un présumé gayman après son interpellation avant de le relâcher. Un militaire également prévenu dans le dossier a été le principal informateur. Ce dernier a participé à l'opération de la police ayant conduit à l'interpellation du présumé cybercriminel. Mais l'opération ne s'est pas déroulée dans les conditions régulières. Car, une fois le présumé cybercriminel interpellé, ces hommes en uniforme lui auraient soutiré 17 millions FCFA avant de le laisser dans la nature.

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Categories: Afrique

Cotonou accueille la 2e édition du FARI dès le 5 mai

24 Heures au Bénin - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 22:02

Le Bénin accueille du 5 au 9 mai 2025 à Cotonou, la 2e édition du Forum Africain sur la Recherche et l'Innovation (FARI 2025). C'est dans le cadre de la célébration des 50 ans de la Communauté économique des États de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (CEDEAO).

Tous les États membres de la CEDEAO se réuniront à Cotonou à partir du 5 mai pour la 2e édition du Forum Africain sur la Recherche et l'Innovation (FARI 2025. Cette rencontre placée sous le thème : « Jeunesse africaine, innovation et entrepreneuriat : Bâtir un avenir durable, aura lieu à la Place de l'Amazone. Il y aura entre autres un concours startup, la conférence des Chefs d'Etat, panels et ateliers de formation, masterclass, exposition, découverte touristique du Bénin etc

Categories: Afrique

Le message de reconnaissance du Gouvernement aux travailleurs béninois

24 Heures au Bénin - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 21:59

A l'occasion de la fête du travail ce 1er mai 2025, le Gouvernement du Bénin envoie un message de reconnaissance à tous ceux qui se lèvent tôt et qui affrontent les défis du quotidien avec persévérance.Voici le message de reconnaissance aux travailleurs béninois.

La Fête du Travail est plus qu'un symbole. C'est une journée où l'on célèbre la force tranquille de millions de femmes et d'hommes qui, souvent loin des projecteurs, bâtissent notre société avec courage, patience et abnégation.

À toutes celles et tous ceux qui se lèvent tôt, qui travaillent dur, qui tiennent bon malgré les défis, le Gouvernement adresse aujourd'hui un message de profonde gratitude. Vous incarnez la résilience béninoise. Vous donnez sens à notre idéal collectif de progrès et de dignité pour toutes et tous.

Dans les champs, les marchés, les bureaux, les écoles, les ateliers, les hôpitaux, ...etc., votre engagement quotidien mérite non seulement d'être reconnu, mais aussi pleinement soutenu.

Le Gouvernement du Bénin réaffirme son engagement à créer les conditions d'un travail plus sûr, plus valorisant, et plus juste pour chaque citoyenne, pour chaque citoyen, quel que soit son secteur.
Bonne fête du Travail à toutes et à tous.

Ensemble, poursuivons la marche vers un Bénin plus digne, plus fort et plus solidaire.

Categories: Afrique

World Association for Development et AF-CNSS en partenariat

24 Heures au Bénin - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 21:59

La Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (CNSS), par le biais de son Amicale des Femmes (AF-CNSS), a signé une convention de partenariat avec la World Association for Development. C'est en marge de la célébration de la Journée Internationale des droits des Femmes (JIF), le 25 avril 2025 à Cotonou.

Un accord de partenariat a été scellé entre l'Amicale des Femmes de la Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (AF-CNSS), la Direction Générale de la CNSS et World Association for Development (Association internationale pour le Développement) le vendredi 25 avril 2025 à Cotonou. « Il y a des choses qu'on n'apprend pas à l'Université », a souligné le Directeur exécutif de l'Association internationale pour le Développement à la signature de la convention.

« Ce programme est un pas vers une CNSS plus inclusive et performante », a reconnu le Directeur général de la CNSS. Appolinaire Cadété Tchintchin a exhorté les femmes bénéficiaires à s'engager pour ce renforcement sur des « compétences transversales ». Il a réitéré l'engagement de la Direction générale à accompagner l'initiative.

Le programme entend : « développer le leadership féminin, renforcer le management opérationnel, favoriser l'autonomie professionnelle, améliorer les compétences dans les rôles sociaux et familiaux ». Il est prévu « des sessions de formation, des ateliers thématiques, des séances de coaching et d'orientation », selon la Raïssa Ami-Touré, la présidente de l'Amicale des Femmes de la Caisse Nationale de Sécurité Sociale (AF-CNSS). A terme, les femmes de la CNSS seront mieux armées pour affronter les défis professionnels. Dotées d'un capital humain renforcé, elles deviendront des actrices influentes dans leur environnement de travail.

World Association for Development est engagée dans la justice sociale l'égalité des chances et la dignité humaine.
M. M.

Categories: Afrique

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