Le commissariat du 13ᵉ arrondissement de Cotonou a démantelé un réseau spécialisé dans le vol, la transformation et la revente de motos munies de faux papiers. Trois suspects ont été interpellés et douze engins retrouvés, partiellement ou totalement maquillés..
Une intervention de routine de la Police dans la nuit du 25 septembre 2025 a abouti au démantèlement d'un réseau de réseau, transformation et recel de motos.
Une patrouille de police a repéré un homme au comportement suspect dans le quartier Agla Pylônes. Pris en chasse, il a été arrêté après une courte fuite. Ses aveux ont mis les enquêteurs sur la piste d'un système bien organisé.
Les policiers ont ainsi découvert un circuit complet allant du vol à la falsification des documents de propriété. Deux complices présumés, chargés de la transformation et de la revente, ont été arrêtés à Sainte-Cécile et à Cococodji.
Les perquisitions menées dans plusieurs quartiers de Cotonou et de Calavi ont permis la saisie d'une douzaine de motos rendues méconnaissables, de deux engins dépiécés et d'un stock important de pièces détachées. Plusieurs cartes grises et papiers d'achat falsifiés ont également été retrouvés.
L'enquête se poursuit pour retrouver d'autres membres du réseau et restituer les motos à leurs véritables propriétaires.
M. M.
On 26 September 2025, children stand outside a tent being used for medical services at Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip. Credit: UNICEF/James Elder
By Oritro Karim
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 3 2025 (IPS)
In recent months, the humanitarian situation in Gaza has sharply deteriorated, with escalating hostilities driving mass civilian displacement and overwhelming the already fragile healthcare system, pushing it to the brink of collapse. UN officials are warning that thousands of civilians have been left with life-altering injuries without treatment.
As the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) continues its ground offensive into Gaza City, a series of evacuation orders have forced civilians to flee from the north of the enclave to the south. As of October 1, all remaining health facilities in Gaza are operating at partially functional capacities, facing critical shortages of medical supplies, straining access to basic, emergency services. Thousands of patients are crowded into shelters with poor sanitation, left vulnerable to explosives, and face malnutrition and life-altering injuries.
“Families in southern Gaza are squeezed into these and other overcrowded shelters or makeshift tents along the coast,” said UN Deputy Spokesperson Farhan Haq. “Many others are sleeping out in the open, often amid rubble. New arrivals in the south face poor sanitation, no privacy or safety, and a high risk of children being separated from their families – all while being exposed to explosive ordnance.”
On October 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) released an update on its findings related to trauma and the scale of medical needs in Gaza. Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, WHO’s Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, gave a virtual briefing to reporters at UN Headquarters noting that trauma is widespread, with some 42,000 civilians sustaining life-changing injuries—about one-quarter of them children.
“These life changing injuries account for one quarter of all reported injuries, of a total of over 167,300 people injured since October 2023,” said Peeperkorn. “Survivors struggle with trauma, loss and daily survival where psychosocial referral services remain scarce.”
According to the report, the estimated number of civilians requiring long-term rehabilitation for conflict-related injuries has nearly doubled, rising from 22,500 in July 2024 to at least 41,844 by September. WHO has recorded high numbers of blast-related trauma, including amputations, burns, spinal cord injuries, maxillofacial and ocular damage, and traumatic brain injuries. These conditions often result in severe impairment and disfigurement, with many patients unable to access lifesaving care.
The report highlights a severe lack of access to reconstructive surgery and rehabilitation services, compounded by famine, unsanitary living conditions, disease outbreaks, and a critical shortage of psychosocial care—all of which disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations. People with disabilities and chronic health conditions bear the heaviest burden, lacking critical access to sustained, long-term support.
The recent surge in cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome—an autoimmune disorder that attacks peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord—has further intensified these challenges. Additionally, medical experts project that the long-term impacts of famine, disease, and displacement will be particularly challenging for Gazans to recover from in the foreseeable future.
Peeperkorn informed reporters that long-term recovery will be difficult for the vast majority of civilians due to rampant food insecurity. “If you talk to the physicians and medical specialists in hospitals, they said even the simple trauma wounds did not recover quickly because almost all of them had a level of malnutrition. The whole recovery process was very extended,” said Peeperkorn.
According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), humanitarian organizations delivered just over 14,400 metric tons of food to Gaza through the UN-coordinated aid system—less than 26 percent of what is needed to meet basic daily needs. More than 77 percent of this aid was lost in transit, severely limiting the amount that reached partner warehouses for distribution.
“There’s a bit more food, that’s definitely true,” said Peeperkorn. “Prices are still way too high for many of the families and the food is still not diverse enough if you have a number of specifically vulnerable groups.”
Currently, less than 14 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals remain partially functional, with 8 of them being in Gaza City. Between September 11-28, WHO recorded 44 health services points that went out of service. Peeperkorn noted that approximately 200,000 to 300,000 civilians fled from the north of the enclave to the south, while roughly 800,000 to 900,000 remained in the north, where access to basic services is particularly strained.
“Health services in the north Gaza governorate are only provided through one particularly functioning medical point. We see fast declining shortages for essential items such as dressing kits, particularly gauze, but also essential post-operative wound care materials critically impact the ability for trauma cases.”
Peeperkorn noted that WHO has positioned a range of medical supplies for delivery to Gaza, widespread insecurity and access restrictions continue to impede their distribution. As a result, health facilities in Gaza remain unable to provide specialized care beyond basic emergency treatment.
WHO has emphasized the urgent need for medical evacuations, particularly for severe cases such as brain injuries, as many patients are suffering from multiple forms of trauma. It is estimated that over 15,000 people, including 3,800 children, urgently require specialized care outside of Gaza. “We need many more countries to accept patients, and the restoration of the West Bank and East Jerusalem referral pathway,” Peeperkorn said.
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Les députés de l'Assemblée nationale, 9è législature feront leur rentrée parlementaire le 31 octobre prochain. La session budgétaire s'ouvrira également ce même jour au palais des Gouverneurs à Porto-Novo.
La session budgétaire de l'Assemblée nationale, traditionnellement consacrée à l'examen du budget général de l'Etat, s'ouvrira le vendredi 31 octobre prochain. Elle se déroulera conformément aux dispositions de la Constitution et du Règlement intérieur, qui prévoient deux sessions ordinaires par an.
La Conférence des présidents, réunie le 25 septembre sous la direction de Louis Vlavonou, a validé cette date.
Les travaux de cette rentrée parlementaire s'étendront jusqu'au 31 janvier 2026.
Cette rentrée est particulière. Elle marque la dernière session de la 9e législature, installée en février 2023 pour un mandat transitoire de trois ans. Le passage de témoin est déjà prévu.
Les 109 députés de la 10e législature seront installés le 12 février 2026, au lendemain des élections législatives programmées pour le 11 janvier.
M. M.
Le parti d'opposition Les Démocrates (LD) a fixé son Conseil national au 11 octobre prochain.
Réunis le 11 octobre 2025, les militants du parti d'opposition Les Démocrates (LD) désigneront officiellement leur duo candidat à l'élection présidentielle de 2026.
L'annonce a été faite par Dr. Dossou Guy Mitokpè, secrétaire à la communication du parti.
Les regards sont tournés vers Les Démocrates, principale force d'opposition au Bénin, depuis la désignation du duo candidat de la mouvance présidentielle.
M. M.
Les alliés de l’OTAN, principalement les États-Unis et la France, feraient pression sur Athènes pour qu’elle revende une partie de sa flotte d’avions de combat Mirage 2000-5 afin de les transférer à l’Ukraine.
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Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict – including more than 10,000 children – as the health system collapses under relentless strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned October 2025. Credit: UN News
Concrete Action by Governments Is Urgently Needed, Human Rights Watch
By Louis Charbonneau and Bénédicte Jeannerod
NEW YORK, Oct 3 2025 (IPS)
The calamitous situation in Gaza, with Palestinian civilians facing extermination and ethnic cleansing by Israeli forces, was a major focus of the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) high-level week. Along with recognition of the state of Palestine by France, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, among others, states made key commitments on human rights and accountability that were overwhelmingly adopted by the UNGA and now need to be fulfilled.
On September 29, US President Donald Trump released his 20-point “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” which makes no mention of either human rights or justice. But states should not wait for the adoption of a peace plan to fulfill their commitments on rights. They should take immediate action, using their leverage as required as parties to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, to stop Israel’s escalating atrocities against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
Governments should suspend arms transfers to Israel and their preferential trade deals, ban trade with illegal settlements, and impose targeted sanctions on Israeli officials responsible for ongoing crimes against Palestinian civilians.
All governments should support accountability for Israeli authorities’ war crimes, crimes against humanity, including extermination, apartheid, and persecution, and acts of genocide. They should also pursue accountability for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder and unlawful imprisonment, committed by Palestinian armed groups against Israelis during the October 7, 2023, attacks and the holding of hostages.
They should rally behind the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is combating impunity for atrocity crimes globally, and condemn and act to counter US sanctions against ICC judges and officials, prominent Palestinian rights organizations, and a UN expert.
States approved the UNGA resolution ahead of a high-level conference that marked the passing of the September 2025 deadline for states to comply with a landmark July 2024 advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of Israel’s policies and practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
The vote this year should not be an empty gesture as Israeli authorities expand illegal settlements and further displace and exterminate Palestinians. Respect for Palestinians’ basic rights is not dependent on reaching agreement on a peace plan. Countries should move ahead quickly with steps that advance justice and accountability.
Louis Charbonneau is UN director, Human Rights Watch and Bénédicte Jeannerod is Director, HRW, France.
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