In the news: in Chad, “between the ballot box and the cannons”
“Idriss Déby between the ballot box and the rebels’ cannon,” says Walfau Senegal. “While the first tendencies in the presidential election in Chad are largely favorable to him, we read, Idriss Déby sees the country he claims to lead for a sixth term being attacked in the north.”
Attacked by the rebels from the facts, the front of the alternation and Chad’s concorde. They say they want to end what they see as a “relentless dictatorship”, warns Walf. The fighting was registered on Saturday against the interior of the country and in the face of the situation, the British ordered the Americans to “leave for non-essential staff at their embassy in N’Djamena. France has urged its citizens not to travel outside the Chadian capital.”
Paris’ position challenges the continent’s pressure
France has so far defended Chad’s president “against all odds”, Walf recalls. And there are precedents. As early as 2008, “a rebel attack reached the doors of the presidential palace before it was rejected thanks to French support”. Ditto in 2019 when “Mirage 2000 intervened to counter the intrusion of a rebel column in the northeast”. So the Senegalese newspaper wonders: “More and more people are being criticized, through its Barkhane force in the Sahel, will France fly, this time, to the aid of its strategic ally?”
Question divided in Burkina Faso, byPaalga Observer. For him, if the rebels arrived at the gates of the capital again, “there is no reason that the same causes do not lead to the same effects, because it is difficult to see Emmanuel Macron release his most valuable ally at this time … in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel According to the Observer Paalga, “Unfortunately, Déby is important today, when everyone is aware of one thing: after Libya, if the Chadian canal also gave way, the whole region, already immersed in terrorism, would be completely swallowed up”.
France was also confronted with terrorism in northern Mozambique
The world Dedicates its first page to it: “In Mozambique, dreams of the gas empire are threatened by the chabab”. The magazine looks back on this international mega-project, stopped by the latest coup by the jihadists in the city of Palma. Project intended to produce liquefied natural gas, the French group Total has a participation of 26.5%. Chinese and Indian companies are involved. “The United States is contributing $ 5 billion. There is also Japan, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands and others, “Le Monde recalls. Le Mondepour as a new attack” should not be ruled out “against the Afungi Peninsula. One of his apparently” well-informed “sources tells us:” in step with things going, they will take one, it hangs in the face. “
The words are clear. While the newspaper simultaneously points to the “shortcomings” in the reaction of the Mozambican government, as well as another factor “underestimated” and which “undermines the confidence of oil companies”. It’s drug dealing. Every year, “between 10 and 40 tons of heroin” would pass here, on their way to South Africa. According to Le Monde, this reveals “the real political context of the country, which has become a hub for the world heroine”.
New violence on the front pages of the Guinean press
“It’s time to take stock”, poster Djely on one of its websites. “At least two dead and ten wounded” Saturdays, “murderous days” in Kouroussa. The newspaper here evokes a “bloody repression” of intervention in the face of “violent demonstrations”. Originally, popular anger provoked “the ban on gold panning in certain gold-rich areas, while this craft activity provides livelihoods for thousands of people,” Le Djely said.
Result: the prefect and the city’s mayor’s residence were “attacked” and “ransacked”. “Even the pots were taken home,” says Head of Department Souleymane Keita on the websiteAfricaGuinea. SureGuinea7he calls for calm. Opposite, reaction from the opposition to read onGuinea tomorrow. In particular, the leader of the UFDG, Cellou Dalein Diallo, condemns “murders committed by the defense and security forces”. No official response from the authorities at the moment, but Le Djely says that a delegation sent by President Alpha Condé has already visited the website.
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