Le Président du Faso, le Capitaine Ibrahim Traoré, a reçu ce 1er décembre 2025 la toute première Carte d'identité biométrique de la Confédération des États du Sahel (CIB-AES), marquant le lancement officiel de ce document au Burkina Faso.
Adoptée lors du sommet des dirigeants de l'AES en décembre 2024, cette carte vise à renforcer l'intégration régionale, faciliter la libre circulation des citoyens et améliorer la sécurité collective. Elle constitue un outil stratégique dans la lutte contre le terrorisme et la modernisation de l'identification civile au sein de l'espace AES.
L'Office national d'identification débutera sa production en masse en janvier 2026. La CIB-AES, conçue en polycarbonate et dotée de dispositifs de sécurité avancés, sera accessible dès l'âge de 5 ans, exigible à partir de 13 ans, valable 10 ans et délivrée au coût de 3 500 FCFA.
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La grande famille KABORE à Sourgoubila, Ouagadougou, Bobo -Dioulasso, côte d'Ivoire, France, Canada
Le Naaba Kango chef de Sourgoubila,
Monsieur KABORE Lamoussa, KABORE K. Alain, KABORE Pierre, KABORE Fulgence KABORE Félix, KABORE Isidore
La grande famille YAMEOGO, à koudougou Burkina Naab-yiiri
La veuve KABORE née KONSIMBO Edith à Sourgoubila,
Les enfants : Hubert, Patricia, Evariste, Chérita, Reine, Thiéry, Anicet, Estelle, Doria, et Gaétan,
Les petits -enfants et arrières-petits enfants
Les familles alliées : SAWADOGO, DIALLO, ROUAMBA, ZIDA, TIHAO, SEONI, OUEDRAOGO, DAH, KABORE, AVERIBOU, DIATTO, TRAORE.
Très touché par les nombreuses marques de sympathie et de compassion expriment leur profonde gratitude à tous ceux qui leur ont apporté soutien moral, spirituel, matériel, financier, lors du rappel à Dieu le 07/11/2025 et de l'inhumation le 10/11/2025 à Sourgoubila de leur frère, père, beau-père oncle, grand-père et arrière-grand-père ; Monsieur KABORE Patinremanogo Daniel, Instituteur à la retraite ancien Maire de Sourgoubila, chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Burkinabè, Médaille d'honneur des collectivités locales
LEURS REMERCIEMENTS VONT :
Sa Majesté le Mogho Naaba Baongo
Monsieur le ministre de la communication de la culture des Arts et du Tourisme,
Monsieur le Directeur Général du Bureau Burkina du Droit d'Auteur (BBDA) et à Tous ces anciens collaborateurs du BBDA
A ses premiers élèves de la commune de Niou
Aux délégations Spéciales et anciens Maires des communes de Sourgoubila, Laye, Niou, Boussé et Toéghin
Aux autorités coutumières et religieuses de la commune de Sourgoubila
A la Directrice, aux enseignants et à ses anciens élèves de l'école Nongrmassem (ex Ouaga garde)
Aux forces de défense et de sécurité de Sourgoubila
Votre présence bienveillance à leur côté lors de cette douloureuse épreuve leur à apporter force consolation et réconfort.
Que le Seigneur dans sa miséricordieux vous bénisse et vous comble d'abondante grâce.
Que Dieu vous le rende aux centuples
UNION DE PRIERE
La famille de feu général BABA SY,
La famille SANFO,
LA FAMILLE BONKOUNGOU,
Les familles alliées et amies
Ont la profonde douleur de vous annoncer le décès survenu le 1er décembre 2025 de leur :
Epouse, mère, grand-mère, arrière-grand-mère, tante et fille
Mme SY née SANFO Fanta dans sa 91e année
Le programme des obsèques est arrêté ainsi qu'il suit :
Lecture du coran le jeudi 4 décembre à 19H00 au domicile de la défunte à Nemnin
Vendredi 05 décembre à 13h30 : Levée du corps à la Morgue de l'hôpital Bogodogo suivi du transfert au domicile de la défunte à Nemnin
Vendredi 05 décembre à 14h30 : Enterrement au cimetière Municipal de Gounghin
Union de Prière
Le Secrétaire général adjoint des Nations Unies aux opérations de maintien de la paix, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, est arrivé à Bangui pour réaffirmer le soutien des Nations unies au processus électoral en République centrafricaine.
Au cours de son séjour, il doit rencontrer les autorités centrafricaines pour échanger sur plusieurs sujets, notamment les élections groupées prévues le 28 décembre prochain, auxquelles la MINUSCA apporte un appui dans le cadre de son mandat.
Sa visite a coïncidé avec l'arrivée, le jeudi 27 novembre, du troisième et dernier vol cargo en provenance de Chine, achevant ainsi l'opération logistique de grande envergure mise en œuvre pour fournir à la République centrafricaine le matériel électoral nécessaire à la tenue des quatre élections prévues le 28 décembre.
Dans les entrailles du gigantesque appareil, soigneusement arrimées, 160 palettes : 2 047 urnes,14 006 isoloirs, 8 552 kits complets de bureaux de vote.
La MINUSCA joue un rôle central dans la logistique, en assurant le transport et la distribution du matériel électoral dans tout le pays, y compris dans les régions reculées telles que Obo, Bangassou, Djema ou Amdafock.
Dans une déclaration faite à son arrivée à l'aéroport international Bangui-Mpoko, le responsable onusien s'est félicité des progrès enregistrés dans le pays ces derniers mois. « Je pense évidemment aux élections qui vont se tenir dans quelques semaines, avec du travail à faire pour s'assurer qu'elles se déroulent dans les meilleures conditions », a déclaré Jean-Pierre Lacroix.
D'autre part, le Président de l'Autorité Nationale des Élections (A.N.E.), Mathias Barthélémy MOROUBA, accompagné d'un certain nombre de commissaires électoraux et de partenaires techniques et financiers, s'est présenté pour réceptionner la dernière cargaison en provenance de Chine, affirmant ainsi que le pays disposerait des ressources nécessaires pour organiser les élections dans les délais prévus.
Le déchargement, qui a commencé dès l'ouverture des portes du cargo, s'est déroulé sous haute sécurité, chaque palette ayant été inventoriée avant d'être envoyée dans les entrepôts sécurisés de la Commission électorale nationale.
Les partenaires internationaux, également présents, ont salué la fluidité de la chaîne logistique et la coordination entre les autorités centrafricaines et leurs homologues chinoises.
Les autorités de la République centrafricaine continuent de travailler sans relâche pour préparer pleinement le prochain processus électoral dans le pays, et les partenaires internationaux jouent un rôle important en aidant les autorités à surmonter tous les défis qui pourraient entraver l'organisation des élections.
Le soutien des partenaires internationaux s'inscrit dans le cadre du programme de coopération visant à instaurer une stabilité durable en République centrafricaine.
Omar Diallo
Dans un communiqué adressé aux présidents d'institutions et aux membres du gouvernement, le Premier ministre Jean Emmanuel Ouédraogo donne de nouvelles directives relatives aux dons et financements émanant des partenaires. Il appelle à une évaluation rigoureuse des appuis proposés et à leur strict alignement sur les priorités nationales et la vision du chef de l'État. "Dans le dialogue continuel et les échanges que nous entretenons avec les partenaires bilatéraux et multilatéraux, nous avons toujours traduit cette vision et souligné la volonté nouvelle de construction commune des politiques publiques et des interventions des différents acteurs. Le gouvernement privilégie donc les coopérations et les appuis qui s'alignent sur nos priorités nationales et contribuent au progrès réel et endogène de notre pays", lit-on dans un premier temps.
Pour le chef du gouvernement, il n'est plus question d'accepter de subir le "diktat" des partenaires avec la vision à court terme que "mieux vaut peu que rien". "Dorénavant, il est impératif de se départir de cette vision, de recadrer et de recentrer les partenariats et les interventions en se focalisant sur les initiatives, les projets et les programmes structurants, conformes aux priorités nationales et qui renforcent la vision du Camarade Président. A cet effet, toute forme de don et de financement provenant des partenaires, qu'ils soient nationaux ou internationaux, doit étre examinée et évaluée avec rigueur avant acceptation. Je vous invite donc à décliner tout soutien qui serait de nature dégradante, contraire aux valeurs d'honneur et de dignité du peuple burkinabè, ou qui ne s'inscrirait pas dans la vision de la RPP", invite M. Ouedraogo.
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Author: Philip Ryan recently defended his PhD – Bureaucracy Mapping: Inclusive Design for Institutional Navigation – at University College Dublin. His research interests include inclusive design, bureaucracy, sociology, technology, user experience, trust, privacy, and migration.
Regulating technology can be difficult, and the current explosion of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has left even the companies producing the technologies struggling to keep up. Healthcare applications powered by general purpose Large Langauge Models (LLMs) are increasingly promising to completely change the provision of care. In medicine and in law expecting one tool to be a solution for everything has similar issues. AI as a panacea can be a poison as much as a cure, especially as it removes protection and agency for users and adds workarounds for necessary regulations. While the lack of service and capacity in healthcare could be addressed by products like “AI agents”, their implementation should not be allowed to escape the regulations already in place.
Should these technologies be subjected to regulation such as the Medical Devices Directives when used for diagnosis? Regulation must engage with technologies that engage with health no matter how their providers try to categorise themselves. When every major AI providers’ chatbot gives health related advice, the fig leaf of “not for medical or diagnostic usage” cannot be allowed to frustrate legitimate attempts to regulate healthcare. Technologies powered by AI are part of the tradition of promising a doctor in your pocket (Lupton and Jutel 2015). In 2025, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) is still taking effect against a world economy that is increasingly reliant on the unrealised promise of these technologies. The uncertainty of the Act’s interaction with healthcare still stands (Gilbert 2024). The horizontal approach of the Act makes it “necessary to adopt further guidelines to address the unique needs of the healthcare sector” (Van Kolfschooten and Gross 2025).
Health information online is increasingly provided through AI summaries, obfuscating the origin of the information, inventing falsehoods through hallucinations, and pushing action through confident sounding statements. In replacing web search results, which had become the go to information resource over the previous two decades, they create a dangerous new environment where previously somewhat reliable sources have been replaced by superior looking interactions (Gross et al. 2025). While there has been attention paid to the ability of these LLM’s to encourage self-harm (Yousif 2025), it will be harder to find obituaries attributed to AI’s good intentions and hallucinations, such as dangerous diets, as in a recently reported case of a man poisoning himself after replacing sodium chloride salt with sodium bromide (Burgard 2025).
While precise healthcare regulations may be required, many of the general rules could be used to protect from the excises of big tech. The Digital Omnibus will consider the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), e-Privacy Directive, the Free Flow of Non-Personal Data Regulation, the NIS 2 Directive, the AI Act, the Data Act, the Data Governance Act (DGA), and the eIDAS Regulation (European Commission 2025), and while not primarily concerned with healthcare they all affect healthcare provision. In some cases, healthcare uses provide exceptions to rules. How can clinicians provide care when they do not understand the ramifications of agreements between the user and companies who own the technologies used for diagnoses, that could follow them through their entire life? As new versions of healthcare become more reliant on their services, how can GDPR consent be meaningfully provided, if the technology is so encompassing that there is no meaningful option for healthcare outside of the technology itself.
Correcting the Duck
The European UACES 55th EUHealthGov panels in Liverpool gave me some great insight into the vibrant research into EU health policy. As quipped by a participant of panel, health policies are often like throwing the duck, taking their own path after their initial toss. Iterative bases of regulations such as consultation periods and full engagement with implementation and standardization phase of regulations are extremely important when controlling the development of healthcare. AI is not sustainable or desirable when it is attempting to turn patients into users.
The regression from health policy since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, feels like a missed opportunity, and the realities of an ever-ageing population and more complex healthcare requirements must not be taken over by false promises of innovative technologies. Visibility and public engagement with regulator processes is difficult but vital. The importance of the patient role must be correctly identified and developed into something beneficial within the evolving spaces changed and developed by technologies. Infrastructure path dependency of AI cannot be allowed to decide what best practise is in healthcare. As these technologies become more all-consuming, healthcare cannot just be a pile of money and data to give AI more power.
The imagined future capacities of generative AI must be questioned, and related benefits and dangers be considered as they are inserted in more and more vital services. For example, the increasing environmental effect of using resource intensive AI in healthcare must also come into play. As per the concept of One Health, the health of the planet feeds into the health of its inhabitants. On the nose examples are coming out of the noise and air pollution caused by data centre developments (Tao and Gao 2025). Changes like the EU Commission’s Digital Omnibus exercise process could bring about deregulation and weakening of the Union’s protections, while inclusivity may seem disconnected from regulatory structures, the complexity of any agreement must be assessed, and comprehension by those affected by it should have some level of consideration within regulatory processes are to be imposed. Simplification and coherence should serve the EU’s long-term strategic vision for a competitive, secure, and rights-based digital economy rather than short-sighted deregulatory moves in favour of technologies that may not work.
Innovation and other techno-optimistic concepts are not solely positive. As Correy Doctorow (2025) highlights, the degradation of services can be seen as strongly linked to the ability to avoid regulations through shifting the activity to an application. It’s legal because they did it “with an app”, especially in the case of Uber (unregulated taxi company), Airbnb (unregulated holiday accommodation), and anything calling itself fintech (unregulated banking). Unregulated health is and will be as lucrative as it is harmful. Will Europe function as a fortress for its citizens, or vassal to new extractive practices of global corporations? While protections are designed into projects, deregulation and other forms of degradation could make initiatives like the European Health Data Space Regulation (EHDS) a pre-collection of sensitive information for legitimate or illegitimate actions. Information provided for a service years ago could be used in manners practically unimaginable at the time of consent to the data being stored, or sold on at the end of business (Church and Smith 2025). In the new realities brought about by these technologies, regulations will have to answer more scenarios and hopefully protect ever more marginalized users/citizens.
While it is possible for technologies to simplify healthcare delivery, reducing the power of related laws should be reviewed with caution. The deregulation agenda of technology companies, which can treat many of the harms caused by their actions as externalities and justifiable costs, should be viewed with suspicion, especially in healthcare. The incursion of companies like surveillance data broker Palantir, offers them unprecedented access to healthcare information (Osborne 2024) highlighting the value of such assets and the protean nature of business interests. The EU’s ability and appetite to create and enforce digital policy and data protection rules is currently singular, and adapting to more aggressive regulatory regimes, and the related race to the bottom should be part of the discourse, especially around healthcare.
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A Yemeni mother and her child receiving nutritional assistance at a clinic in the Abyan governorate. Credit: UNICEF/Saleh Hayyan
By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 1 2025 (IPS)
For the past decade, Yemen has been at the center of a severe and multifaceted humanitarian crisis, marked by widespread violence between various Middle Eastern actors, widespread civilian displacement, economic decline, and the collapse of essential services that serve as lifelines for displaced communities.
As the crisis has intensified in recent months, humanitarian agencies face increasing challenges in providing lifesaving care to civilians, who are experiencing record levels of hunger in a country that has become more reliant on remittances as self-sufficiency continues to slip further out of reach.
On November 25, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) released a joint report detailing the food security situations in areas of highest concern that require urgent humanitarian intervention. According to the report, Yemen’s food crisis is primarily driven by economic deterioration, escalating armed conflict, climate shocks, displacement, disrupted supply chains, limited humanitarian access, and the collapse of safety nets.
The report highlights that food production in Yemen was severely impacted by the main Kharif season in August 2025, which was marked by early-season dryness followed by extended rainfall. Between August and the end of September, widespread flooding damaged water infrastructure across the country, particularly in the Lahij, Ta’iz, and Ma’rib governorates, which not only reduced economic output but also increased the risk of waterborne illnesses, such as cholera. Together, these factors contributed to a below-average 2025 cereal harvest, which serves as a critical food source for millions of Yemeni civilians.
Ongoing conflict remains a key driver of widespread food insecurity in Yemen, with attacks in areas controlled by the Sana’a-based authorities and along the Red Sea contributing to continued economic decline and triggering new waves of displacement. These attacks have damaged critical infrastructure, resulting in a decrease in fuel imports and a rise in food prices. Humanitarian access constraints, funding cuts, and economic sanctions also hinder the effectiveness of responses.
The report notes that over half of Yemen’s population is projected to experience high levels of acute food insecurity between September 2025 and February 2026, with approximately 63 percent of surveyed households reporting a lack of adequate food and 35 percent reporting severe food deprivation. Food security conditions are especially severe in four districts across the Amran, Al Hodeidah, and Hajjah governorates, where populations are experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger—defined by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) as the highest possible level.
Approximately 18.1 million people are projected to face ‘Crisis’ or worse levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above), including 5.5 million in ‘Emergency’ (IPC Phase 4) across the country. In 2025, 24 districts are expected to experience very high levels of acute malnutrition, particularly in the Ta’iz and Al Jawf governorates. Of the districts classified in Emergency (IPC/CH Phase 4), 72 percent also have a Nutrition Severity Level of 4 or higher.
It is estimated that the average Yemeni household spends more than 70 percent of its income on food, leaving very little for other critical necessities. These households predominantly rely on unhealthy foods for survival, such as cereals, sugar, and fats, while essential items for a balanced diet like meat, fruit, and dairy, are almost entirely absent.
These challenges are even more pronounced among displaced communities, with approximately 24 percent of internally displaced civilians reporting that at least one family member goes an entire day and night without food—nearly double the rate seen in resident communities.
To effectively address the food security crisis in Yemen, it is crucial to confront the underlying economic challenges, which are threatening millions of livelihoods and restricting access to essential needs. According to the report, Yemen’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to contract by 0.5 percent in 2025, with inflation likely to remain elevated.
Public finances are under severe strain due to fuel shortages and the Houthi blockade on oil exports in areas controlled by the Internationally Recognized Government (IRG). Meanwhile, regions governed by the Sana’a-Based Authorities are grappling with severe liquidity shortages, and external shocks, such as ongoing conflict, reduced aid, and economic sanctions, are expected to exacerbate the already fragile economic situation.
“Economic stabilization in Yemen depends on strengthening the systems that keep services running and livelihoods protected,” said Dina Abu-Ghaida, World Bank Group Country Manager for Yemen.
“Restoring confidence requires effective institutions, predictable financing, and progress toward peace to allow economic activity to resume and recovery to take hold.”
Yemen’s economy is currently unable to adapt to external shocks due stringent economic sanctions, flailing external funding, and its historic over-reliance on remittances for survival. According to a joint analysis from Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED), the Cash Consortium of Yemen (CCY), the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), and more, remittances in 2024 made up over 38 percent of Yemen’s GDP, making it the third-most remittance-dependent nation in the world.
The report also highlights that a significant decline in remittances would lead to currency destabilization, a collapse in import financing, and the widespread use of negative coping strategies, such as asset liquidation and severe dietary restrictions.
According to WFP, funding for the 2025 Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan urgently requires USD $1.1 billion for investments in food security measures and livelihood interventions and roughly $237.9 million for nutritional assistance. However, lifesaving humanitarian programs have been forced to suspend or halt certain operations as funding is at its lowest level since the beginning of the crisis in 2015, with contributions at only 24 percent. Beginning in January 2026, WFP will reduce the number of people receiving food assistance in IRG areas from 3.4 million to 1.6 million due to funding shortfalls. In Sana’a Based Authorities, all WFP operations will remain paused.
The United Nations (UN) and its partners continue to call for increased donor contributions as the evolving economic situation reshapes the food security landscape, which remains subject to change.
Through its operations, WFP will provide targeted emergency and nutrition assistance, such as distributing agricultural inputs like seeds, tools, and fertilizers, as well as fishing and livestock production packages, such as fishing gear, small ruminants, and poultry.
Cash assistance will also be paired with these efforts to protect the livelihoods of households dependent on livestock. The organization will also strengthen its operational readiness for potential conflict escalation, ensuring rapid and second-line food security responses.
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Plus de cinquante agents et cadres du ministère des Droits humains participent, du 1er au 3 décembre à Kinshasa, à une session de sensibilisation sur le respect des droits de l’homme.