The former South African president spent his first night behind bars. “Zuma fought against the law and the law won”, launches the South African newspaper’s website Sunday Times, by translating this form of a local proverb: “everything has an end”.
For its part, the information portal Mail & Guardian tells “how JZ was pressured into surrender” and reports “intense talks between the police chiefs, the ANC leadership in KwaZulu-Natal and members of the former president’s family (to get him) to capitulate”.
A former president in jail? Anything but a first in Africa, as before him the “latest” behind bars was Mauritanian General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who is still awaiting trial for “corruption, embezzlement and money laundering” (allegations that the former Mauretanian president denies), reminds the newspaper Burkinabè Wakat Sera.
For Jacob Zuma, “the carrots are starting to get well cooked”, launches his colleague Paalga Observer. Which Ouagalan daily emphasizes that “Jacob Zuma is not his first stay in prison, he who spent ten years in Robben Island prison” together with the “famous” Nelson Mandela, is reminiscent of L’Observateur Paalga.
A prison with comments as far as the Ivory Coast, where the daily Our way sees it as a sign that “South African democracy is doing well”.
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In Côte d’Ivoire, D-1 before the summit between Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bédié
The two former presidents will meet to consolidate the alliance between the PDCI and the FPI for Laurent Gbagbo. It is tomorrow that he barely returned from Kinshasa, where he was especially received by Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi, President of the Office of the African Union. Laurent Gbagbo will meet Henri Konan Bédié in the later fortress, in Daoukro, the southeastern Ivory Coast.
And this morning, the headline for this close newspaper among those close to the PDCI is that The New Awakening welcomes this high-level meeting expected of all and notes that everything is “ready to welcome Gbagbo” in Daoukro.
Daoukro “reserves a triumphant welcome to Gbagbo”, adds daily Heritage. With the same political sensitivity as Le Nouveau Réveil, this newspaper confirms that Bédié and Gbagbo are forming the “tandem that frightens Ouattara and the RHDP”.
Not even afraid, essentially answering yesterday Adama Bictogo, the RHDP is “the only party represented in the entire national territory”. Remarks made during a press conference by the Executive Director of the Rassemblement des Houphouëtistes pour la democrat et la paix, and reported by L’Intelligent d’Abidjan.
The daily Le Temps, on the other hand, sees the Daoukro summit as a “historic moment” and rejects the remark that the PDCI-FPI alliance is an “unnatural” approach. According to this daily close to Laurent Gbagbo, “there is today the country’s survival. And the country’s survival even requires the RHDP to join the reconciliation process. Because we cannot unite by excluding ”. In any case, Le Temps believes, “for leaders, managers, activists and sympathizers, Presidents Laurent Gbagbo and Henri Konan Bédié are responsible for saving the Ivory Coast.”
The tenth anniversary of South Sudan’s enormous independence
More than a year late, the new parliament must be sworn in this Friday, July 8, in Juba, the capital, ten years to the day after the birth of the youngest state in the world. In France, the Catholic daily newspaper The cross Emphasizes that in southern Sudan, Christian churches are engaged “in the mediation service”, starting with Pope Francis and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury.
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The moment of shame for Boris Boillon
Near Nicolas Sarkozy, the former French ambassador to Iraq and Tunisia abolished the Legion of Honor. Four years after his conviction, “Boris Boillon loses titles and gilding, reports Young AfricaSuspended and then removed from Quai d’Orsay 2019, 51 years old, this member of Nicolas Sarkozy’s seraglio was abolished Legion of Honor on July 6, 2021 (following a presidential decree of July 2), just like another close friend of the former French president , lawyer Arnaud Claude “, completes Jeune Afrique.
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