“Macky is playing his game!” Announces the Daily Inquiry in Dakar. “The conquest of young people continues. The President of the Republic does not miss an opportunity to wink at the youth, massively out (on the streets) in early March, to proclaim his tiredness after the arrest of his opponent Ousmane Sonko. Since then, Macky has continued to multiply initiatives aimed at these vacancies, which are victims of many failures. His latest discovery, according to the Enquête, is the recruitment of 65,000 young people in the very short term. (…) And this, throughout the national territory, including in education, reforestation, reforestation, general hygiene, safety, road maintenance and paving. “Daily continues:” for the head of state, Independence Day 2021 (which took place the day before yesterday) must mark a new starting point, new answers to young people’s needs in education, training, employment, project financing and support for entrepreneurship. In this context, he points out, the government will set up an emergency program for employment and socio-economic integration of young people emerging from the presidency, scheduled for 22 April. “
Nothing about justice!
Comment from the Quotidien: this is a first step but an important element is missing, a reform of the judiciary … “Nothing for justice, condemns Senegalese daily, justice which, however, was the trigger for the anger of the population in early March. But this is the key Quotidien points out that, on the basis of several diseases that Senegalese society suffers from, because justice is not independent, Ousmane Sonko’s call for resistance or revolt has been heard and implemented, and because justice is not independent, Senegalese have the feeling that magistrates obey the executive “Because justice is not independent, some leaders believe they can do anything. Because justice is not independent, protection and maladministration are established as a way of governing most decision-making bodies.”
Choice: young people can tip the scales …
Daily 24 Hours, still in Dakar, launches this warning: watch out for the next election … “Since 2012, President Macky Sall has not listened to the” knock knock “of young people in the presidential gates, Dakar estimates daily. Their last “knock knock” sounded his brutal awakening and that of his government, with the riots in early March. “
So be careful, warns 24 Heures, “the country is heading for election competitions of great importance to the presidential movement as well as to the opposition, of which the party Ousmane Sonko, the pastef / patriots, is the locomotive. He is also credited as a candidate for youth and hope. The political struggle is mainly played around young people where the opposition today works much better than Macky Sall and his flock. And the discredit that affects Benno Bokk Yakaar, the presidential coalition, gives the opposition a significant advantage. ”
Benin: justice under orders?
Also on the front page, the Reckya Madougou affair … Named after this Beninese opponent, accused of financing terrorism and imprisoned since March 5. Yesterday morning, drama: Benin Judge Essowe Batamoussi, who resigned from CRIET, the court for the repression of economic crimes and terrorism, and who went into exile, questioned whether RFI, the institution’s independence, claimed that the court had received political orders to place the opponent in custody.
“Confidence that has the effect of a bomb, states Paalga Observer in Burkina. And as expected, Justice Minister Sévérin Quenum swept everything aside, accusing the magistrate of “political manipulation” and “statements aroused and oriented”. “Anyway,” asks L’Observateur Paalga, “will this return, which comes six days before the Beninese presidential election, affect the outcome of the vote? Nothing is less certain, the newspaper answers, when we know that Patrice Talon, a candidate for his own legacy, has a boulevard to pile up, as he faces two candidates of a weak character. “
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