An entire country mourns its prime minister, Hamed Bakayoko, who died at the age of 56. In the kiosks, tribute continues and grows.
Just one number that takes measurements of grief and sorrow in Ivory Coast: the number eleven. It is the sides, nothing less, that the daily L’Intelligent d’Abidjan dedicates to Hamed Bakayoko this morning, who has a total of twelve!
As pointed out in an independent newspaper Inter, Ivorians are “in shock”. Close to power, the daily Le Patriote publishes a black-and-white portrait of Hamed Bakayoko, with his hands clasped, emphasizing that “Côte d’Ivoire and Africa mourn the golden boy”.
Le Patriote does not think he writes as well then, as the magazine points out African issues, “Congolese music loses a great patron”.
Revelations about the last two months of Hamed Bakayoko’s life
And then these revelations about the last two months of Hamed Bakayoko’s life. Where we take the measurements of the incredible speed of the progression of evil that finally won.
These last moments in the deceased, the Ivorian Prime Minister, it is his friend Marwane Ben Yamed who tells them in The young Africa. In a long and emotional story, the director of this Pan-African publication testifies both of his grief, but also of his astonishment and his conviction, no doubt. “dived into the sea every morning, swallowed in grilled fish, which he devoured in his own way and swallowed large portions,” says Jeune Afrique. So that was exactly ten weeks ago!
In January, his health deteriorated with “these annoying bar streaks,” reads this newspaper, which Hamed Bakayoko confides in late January: “What is strange is that Nestor became ill at the same time as me, we were thinking of a malaria crisis. He lost more than ten kilos ”.
Nestor is his butler. “The two are eating the same foods,” Jeune Afrique said, wondering if the prime minister “could have been poisoned”. But even if he mentions it, Marwane Ben Yamed, when he reads it, clearly does not believe this rumor. And rather admit that it is a “metastatic liver cancer, in terminal phase”, which so quickly made a profit by his friend Hamed, for whom the “experts” at his bedside said he “could no longer be operated, but still less transportable” .
Last Saturday, March 6, however, Hamed Bakayoko will be “transferred to Germany for experimental treatment,” sober Jeune Afrique concludes.
Revelations that go wrong on the spot in Abobo and Séguela, the two Ivorian communities in Hamed Bakayoko
Two municipalities, the first of which was mayor, the second his hometown, of which he had just been elected deputy, which is now “in-con-so-la-bles!”, Launches the government’s headline newspaper Fraternité Morning.
Inconsolable? Certainly, but not only … According to the newspaper Notre Voie, close to the FPI for Pascal Affi N’Guessan, “the angry people are raging everything in Séguela”.
Close to former president Laurent Gbagbo, the daily Le Temps writes nothing else. As soon as the news of HamBak’s death, Séguéla “started to boil”, reports this newspaper, the streets of La town were “invaded” and we could hear “small eloquent remarks against the head of state. And even t-shirts with the image of Alassane Ouattara have been fired publicly by the inhabitants of Séguéla, ”states Le Temps.
New president of CAF
Finally, the African Football Association. Today, the new president is appointed by acclamation in Rabat, Morocco, during the CAF General Assembly.
Apart from the coup de Théâtre, we know who it is:Patrice Motsepe. Surprise candidate four months ago, the South African billionaire is alone in the race, his three competitors, the Senegalese Augustin Senghor, the Mauritanian Ahmed Yahya and the Ivorian Jacques Anouma have announced that their candidacies are being withdrawn.
“The carrots are cooked,” he says African football, and this menu leaves this site on hunger because it is “tasteless”, insofar as the only South African declared candidate, “will be crowned by acclamation”. All under the watchful eye of the president of the International Football Association, Gianni Infantino, “who has made Africa with a covered face his home” to lumberjack Foot Afrique.
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