Disappeared eight months after his predecessor Amadou Gon Coulibaly, the Ivorian prime minister, was buried on Friday 19 March in Séguéla. It is in his hometown in the northwest Ivory Coast that Hamed Bakayoko’s remains after Friday prayers in the mosque will be buried.
“Goodbye Hambak!” Morning fraternity, government newspaper on the front page, which in an archive photo, Hamed Bakayoko, hands joined, walks on the red carpet in the Presidential Palace in Abidjan.
“The last goodbye!”, Improves the independent daily L’Inter, in a photo of the coffin covered by the Ivorian flag, taken this Thursday in Abidjan under the lift of Hamed Bakayoko’s body.
In the light of Evening info, the deceased’s eldest son confesses: “Father often spoke to us about death. He knew … ”, reports this second independent newspaper with a formula similar to another that is so dear to the Ivorians, the formula“ You yourself, you know! ”
Atmosphere of meditation and pain in Séguéla
In Seguela itself, the scenes of riots and anger succeeded last week when the announcement of Hamed Bakayoko’s death, an atmosphere of meditation and pain. “Séguéla welcomes her son with dignity and pain”, states the daily Patriot, in white on black characters. Grief for grief, thus appearing in this newspaper close to the RDR, a political party chaired by head of state Alassane Ouattara.
The special envoy of the daily L’Intelligent d’Abidjan reports that after the arrival of Hamed Bakayoko’s coffin on Thursday, “the funeral process crossed the main points of Séguéla, from Bakayoko junction to the neighborhood. Home where Golden Boy was treated with a walkabout ”. Which the audience shouted: “Hamed is not dead”, points out L’Intelligent d’Abidjan.
Exactly. “Is Hamed Bakayoko really dead?” Asking oneself Wakat Sera. Response from this Burkinabè newspaper: “No, because […] huge charities from this male Teresa mother, will survive him, ”he wants to believe.
But this Ugandan newspaper, this Friday morning, has a series of questions with, for example, this one: “What’s going on with this post?” [de la Primature] which once coveted has become so repulsive? To the point where a mother who wants to scare her prank child, according to social networks, predicts that he will become “Prime Minister of Alassane Dramane Ouattara!” “, Wakat Sera says reverently.
Another question from this newspaper asked: “Are these deaths of the Prime Minister slipping away, is it a simple case or a real curse?” […] Provided that the irreconcilable rule of “never two without three” is defeated once “, this Burkinabè newspaper sighs again.
Even newspapers close to the Ivorian opposition still this morning pay tribute to the prime minister who died at the age of 56
Close to the FPI, the newspaper Notre Voie thus greets the memory of Hamed Bakayoko, who “was the human face of the Ouattara regime”.
“We will never see the impressive figure of Hamed Bakayoko again,” sighs the newspaper Le Temps. As this daily close to former head of state Laurent Gbagbo reminds us with respect, Hamed Bakayoko “transcended political disagreements”, he was “a man of consensus, a man of openness, a man of compromise”.
As for the columnist in the newspaper Today, also close to Laurent Gbagbo, he piously wants to “join all those who trusted [l’âme d’Hamed Bakayoko] to the Lord, for in the end only he who knows, ”as the Ivorians say with love.
Another death in Mali, journalist Adam Thiam
It was even “one of the best journalists in Mali”, the website estimates Mali 24. This online newspaper greets this media man “who has doubled in total. Almost. A follower of the good codes of journalism and political communication [au] respectable pedigree ”.
And Mali 24 to pay tribute to the “real globetrotter [qui] traveled the world “and who was” well known in the Bamako media sphere […] but also in Landerneau by international NGOs ”. So grief goes in the African press this morning.
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