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Soulagement pour une partie des familles : au moins 50 des plus de 300 élèves kidnappées vendredi dans une école catholique du Nigeria ont réussi à s'échapper. Le président nigérian a également fait savoir que 38 fidèles enlevés dans une église ont également été sauvés. Pour la fondatrice du mouvement #BringBackOurGirls, la répétition de ces faits traduit une faillite des autorités. Ces attaques, non-revendiquées, ont ému jusqu'au Vatican.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, le chef de l'armée soudanaise, a dénoncé dimanche la "partialité" du "Quad", le groupe de pays médiateurs cherchant à mettre fin à la guerre entre l'armée et les paramilitaires. "Le monde entier a été témoin du soutien des Émirats aux rebelles (FSR) contre l'État soudanais", déplore-t-il.

BBC Africa Eye uncovers two so-called "juju" practitioners, who offer to obtain body parts for ritual purposes.

Pour sa seconde édition à Paris, le Festival du Film Slovène fait son grand retour au cinéma L'Entrepôt du 20 au 23 novembre 2025, dans le 14e arrondissement.
Cette année encore, la programmation met en lumière l'originalité des voix slovènes et en particulier la nouvelle vague de réalisatrices slovènes. Les curieux et les férus de cinéma du monde vont pouvoir découvrir 7 longs-métrages, dont cinq réalisés par des réalisatrices.
Ces dernières années, une nouvelle génération de (…)

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Le sommet du G20 s’est tenu pour la première fois de son histoire sur le continent africain. Une occasion historique pour redéfinir les relations entre l’Afrique et les grandes puissances économiques mondiales face aux changements politiques et économiques. Pour décrypter le poids de l’Afrique dans le concert des nations, Daouda Sembene PDG d’Africatalyst, membre du panel d’experts africains pour le G20 était avec nous.

Les bureaux de vote sont désormais fermés en Guinée-Bissau, où quelques 860 000 personnes étaient appelées à élire leur président et leurs députés ce dimanche. Le président Umaru Sissoko Embalo fait face à 11 candidats. Face à lui notamment Fernando Dias, soutenu par le PAIGC, exclu de la course pour la première fois dans l'histoire du pays ainsi qu'un ancien président, Jose Mario Vaz et un ancien premier ministre Baciru Dja. Comment s'est déroulé cette journée de vote ?

Boualem Sansal s'est exprimé pour la première fois depuis sa libération, dimanche soir, au journal de 20 h de France 2. "Je contrôle chacun de mes mots", a notamment déclaré l'écrivain franco-algérien après un an de prison en Algérie. Il a aussi affirmé se dire "depuis toujours pour la réconciliation" entre Paris et Alger.

Fixtures, results and scorecards from Sri Lanka's ODI tour of Pakistan, and the Twenty20 tri-series that follows which also involves Zimbabwe.

Quelque 50 élèves ont échappé à leurs ravisseurs au Nigeria, a annoncé dimanche une organisation chrétienne. Plus de 300 élèves avaient été enlevés vendredi dans une école catholique de l'ouest du pays.

Le sommet du G20 s'est achevé, dimanche, à Johannesburg, en Afrique du Sud. Les dirigeants présents ont vanté les bienfaits du multilatéralisme, tout en reconnaissant qu'il doit s'adapter à un monde toujours plus divisé que ce soit par les guerres, les rivalités géopolitiques et le protectionnisme.

Following the end of the 2025 climate negotiations, the MEPs leading Parliament’s delegation reacted to the outcome of the COP30.
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L'écrivain franco-algérien Boualem Sansal, gracié le 12 novembre par le président algérien Abdelmadjid Tebboune, après un an de prison, s'exprimera pour la première fois depuis sa libération, dimanche soir, dans le journal de 20 h de France 2.

Les Bissau-Guinéens ont commencé à voter dimanche pour élire leur prochain président et leur parlement, avec l'espoir de tourner la page des turbulences politiques mais en l'absence du principal parti d'opposition et de son candidat.

Des hommes armés ont enlevé 315 élèves et enseignants dans une école catholique de l'ouest du Nigeria, a annoncé samedi une association chrétienne au lendemain de ce qui est l'un des plus importants kidnappings de masse dans le pays le plus peuplé d'Afrique.

The authorities in landlocked Ethiopia have ratcheted up rhetoric over access to an Eritrean port.

André Corrêa do Lago, COP30 President of Brazil, during a highly charged closing plenary. Credit: UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth

By Joyce Chimbi
BELÉM, Brazil, Nov 23 2025 (IPS)

Following tense, nightlong negotiations and bitter rows between more than 190 country delegations, a “politically charged Belém package” was finally forged at COP30—so named because of the highly contentious and difficult-to-negotiate issues within the climate talks. Belém was supposed to be ‘a how’ climate conference. Decisions made at the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change would shape how the Paris Agreement moves from word to action and to what extent global climate actions can be reached. In this COP of “implementation and multilateralism in action,” politics carried the day in more ways than one.

Observers, such as Wesley Githaiga from the Civil Society, told IPS that issues touching on trade, climate finance, and fossil fuels are politically charged because of competing and conflicting national interests.

Gavel came out without a roadmap for ending fossil fuels. Credit: UN Climate Change/Kiara Worth

“Some countries bear more responsibility for the climate crises than others and have a higher financial responsibility to address climate change,” Githaiga said. “Striking a balance between the needs of vulnerable developing nations and the economic priorities of developed wealthy countries is difficult.”

Conflicting national interests escalated when COP30 was suspended for additional side consultations just one hour before the final outcome on Saturday, following an argument that broke out over procedural issues.

The Elephant in the Room: Fossil Fuels

On one hand, a few highly organized petrostates from the Arab Group of nations, including Saudi Arabia, were opposed to Colombia, which was supported by the European Union and other Latin American countries like Panama and Uruguay regarding fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are by far the largest contributors to global warming. Scientists have warned of catastrophic temperature rises of up to 2.5°C by mid-century.

Githaiga says the issue was procedural because Colombia was objecting to an already-approved text. The main point of contention was the transition away from fossil fuels. COP28 achieved a historic breakthrough by advocating for a global shift away from fossil fuels. How to transition had been the most highly contentious issue at Belém.

So contentious that COP30 ultimately decided to sidestep ‘fossil fuels’ altogether.

Despite nearly 80 developed and developing countries standing firm demanding an end to the use of planet-warming fossil fuels, there is no mention of fossil fuels in the final COP30 agreement, only an oblique reference to the ‘UAE consensus.’ Despite the demands of Brazil’s neighbors Colombia, Panama, and Uruguay for stronger language, the announcement of a voluntary roadmap outside the UN process went ahead.

Throughout the tense climate talks, observers speculated that the COP30 outcome would include text on either “phasing away” from fossil fuels or “phasing down.” The end result did not include a roadmap for abandoning oil, gas, and coal. Recognizing that the world expected more ambition, Brazilian COP30 President André Aranha Corrêa do Lago told delegates, “We know some of you had greater ambitions for some of the issues at hand.”

Despite the lack of consensus, the COP30 President announced on Saturday that the presidency would publish a “side text” on fossil fuels and forest protection due to the lack of agreement. There will be two roadmaps on these two issues. The work will be done outside of the formal negotiations headed by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the Brazilian COP Presidency.

Climate Finance

Nevertheless, all was not lost. According to Mohamed Adow, the Director of Power Shift Africa, the creation of a Just Transition Action Mechanism emerged as a positive development, acknowledging that the global shift away from fossil fuels will not abandon workers and frontline communities.

Adow nonetheless stressed that “developed countries have betrayed vulnerable nations by both failing to deliver science-aligned national emission reduction plans and also blocked talks on finance to help poor countries adapt to climate change caused by the global north.”

“Rich countries cannot make a genuine call for a roadmap if they continue to drive in the opposite direction themselves and refuse to pay up for the vehicles they stole from the rest of the convoy.”

Disagreements are not about climate finance in itself but about how funds will flow from the wealthy to the vulnerable, poor states. But the lack of ambition did not cut across the eight-page declaration developed at the mouth of the world largest rainforest—the Amazon.

The negotiations did succeed in their determination to deliver an economic transition, even though there are concerns that some of the climate finance agreements, such as those on adaptation, are too sweeping, too general, and lacking in specifics. COP 29 raised the annual climate finance target of developing nations from USD 100 billion to USD 300 billion. COP30 agreed to scale finance and to specifically mobilize USD 1.3 trillion annually by 2035 for climate action.

On adaptation, Adow said, “Belém restored some integrity to the Global Goal on Adaptation, removing dangerous indicators that would have penalized poorer countries simply for being poor.”

“The slow pace of finance negotiations is worrying. The promise to triple adaptation lacks clarity on a base year and has now been delayed to 2035, leaving vulnerable countries without support to match the escalating needs frontline communities are facing. As it stands, this outcome does nothing to narrow the adaptation finance gap.”

Adow continues, “COP30 was intended to focus significantly on raising funds to assist vulnerable nations in adapting to climate change; however, European nations have undermined these discussions and removed the protections that poorer countries were seeking in Belem.”

“Europe, which colonized much of the global south and then imperiled it further through its industrialized carbon emissions, now works against even efforts to help it adapt to the climate crisis.”

Many of the countries that have submitted their National Adaptation Plans lack funding. The agreement moving forward is to double adaptation finance by 2025 and triple it by 2035. But it is not clear where this money will come from—public financing, private or wealthy nations.

On the frontlines of the climate crises, Sierra Leone challenged the emphasis on private capital to fund climate adaptation efforts, stating that the private sector is not known for its robust support of adaptation. Observers like Githaiga say instead, there is a need to triple public funding for adaptation.

“If you read the text carefully, you actually realize there is no agreement requiring countries to contribute more funds for climate activities,” he says.

Loss and Damage

On the Loss and Damage Fund, operationalization and replenishment cycles are now confirmed. A first in the history of COPs, trade was and will be discussed within the UNFCCC rather than just the World Trade Organization, in recognition of the intersection between trade and climate change.

The UN climate summit also delivered new initiatives such as the launch of the Global Implementation Accelerator and the Belém Mission to 1.5°C to drive ambition and implementation. This is about meeting the ambition gap by cutting emissions. The ‘Belem Package’ seeks to raise ambition by setting a new 1.5°C warming target to match the pace of the climate crisis. There was also a commitment to promote information integrity and counter false narratives.

Ultimately, COP30 will be remembered for increased climate activism and, more so, the visibility of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition of Afro-descendants. Importantly, it’s the recognition of the cross section between climate change and action and racial justice—although the reaction from some Indigenous peoples is that they would like to have a formal seat at the table.

Belém also raised ambitions for protecting the world’s forests, as the Forest Finance Roadmap is already backed by 36 governments, accounting for 45 percent of global forest cover and 65 percent of GDP. This roadmap seeks to close a USD 66.8 billion annual gap for tropical forest protection and restoration.

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell summed up the positives.

“So COP30 showed that climate cooperation is alive and kicking. Keeping humanity in the fight for a livable planet. And that’s despite roaring political headwinds. That while one country stepped back. 194 countries have stood firm in solidarity. Rock-solid in support of climate cooperation.

“With or without Navigation Aids, the direction of travel is clear: the shift from fossil fuels to renewables and resilience is unstoppable, and it’s gathering pace,” Stiell said at a press conference at the end of the COP.

However, many others will also remember COP30 for its lack of ambition to deliver on a 2023 promise made to the world to phase out fossil fuels. The lack of a science-based pathway to facilitate a fast, fair and funded phaseout of fossil fuels is a blemish on Belém’s climate deal.

IPS UN Bureau Report

 

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Despite nearly 80 developed and developing countries standing firm demanding an end to the use of planet-warming fossil fuels, there is no mention of fossil fuels in the final COP30 agreement, only an oblique reference to the 'UAE consensus.'

Les Bissau-Guinéens ont commencé à voter, dimanche, pour élire leur prochain président et leur parlement, dans le cadre d'un double scrutin marqué par l'absence inédite du principal parti d'opposition. Ils sont appelés à choisir entre 12 candidats, dont le chef d'État sortant Umaro Sissoco Embalo, qui brigue un second mandat.

Mis en cause dans l'enquête italienne sur les « snipers du week-end » durant le siège de Sarajevo, le président serbe Aleksandar Vučić dément toute implication et promet des poursuites contre plusieurs médias internationaux.

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