Witnessing once again that there is an abyss between those who move like windmills on certain social networks and those who work effectively, the government meeting held on Monday August 10th at the Sports Ministry of Benin on the initiative of CASB President, Mr. Ibrahima Idrissou, with the presence of the FIPJP President, endorsed the creation of a covered pétanquodrome in Cotonou for the Men's World Championships which will take place in December 2022...

After participation with the managers of an architectural firm in Paris in a long working session with the Minister of Sports of Benin enthusiastic about the project and its purpose, I accompanied the FIPJP, Claude Azéma, to a three-day trip on site to meet the sporting and political authorities of the country and to work with Beninese technicians on the construction of the future indoor petanque court...

Following the terrible accident which knocked the city of Beirut, the FIPJP wishes to join in the pain of its inhabitants, in particular of our Petanque players friends in the Lebanese capital, some having been severely affected. Present last October for the first Beirut International, President Azéma was also invited by the leaders of the young national Petanque federation to go and plant the FIPJP cedar in the ancestral forest of Barouk, at a hundred kilometers far from the city. Traditional and symbolic gesture in this mountain range where many specimens of this tree, a true symbol of Lebanon, are several hundred years old. It is therefore natural that the friendship thus sealed on the ground, should manifest concretely in such dramatic circumstances.