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  • the timetable for the transition presented to the Council

    the timetable for the transition presented to the Council

    According to the roadmap, adopted on Thursday, July 29, 2021, by the Council of Ministers, the inclusive national dialogue is planned for the end of the year. But to make the transition to fear, the government needs the money.

    More than 840 billion CFA francs, that is the cost of the measures to be implemented at the end of the transition. The roadmap, adopted on Thursday by the Council of Ministers, indicates that the Government’s objectives during this transition will be to strengthen security, organize a national dialogue, consolidate peace and national unity, and finally strengthen the rule of law and good governance.

    The roadmap will be financed by the state budget and grants from development partners with whom the government has already spoken. According to the government’s agenda, the inclusive national dialogue will take place between November and December this year and the election will take place between June and September 2022, the deadline for the transition.

    Maize President of the Transitional Military Council, Mahamat Idriss Deby has warned from the outset that in order for the deadlines to be met, the Chadians must have agreed on the implementation of the transition and that the international community has given its full support to the transition process. What has not yet been acquired.

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  • a timetable and respect for deadlines

    a timetable and respect for deadlines

    Twenty parties called yesterday, Tuesday 27 July, for a successful transition. In a statement issued, they say they are ready to support the authorities to avoid pitfalls during this transition. This grouping, in which there are formations of ex-majority and ex-opposition, requires in particular respect for the date set for the conduct of the election and the publication of a detailed chronogram of the information leading to the election.

    with our correspondent in Bamako, Serge Daniel

    Among the signatories of the declaration we find heavyweights from the Malian political class such as the Alliance for Democracy in Mali (Adéma), formations or movements of former prime ministers, political groups and associations.

    They all want a successful political transition. And to achieve this, they demand respect for the transition period, not a day longer, like Moussa Mara, former Prime Minister and spokesman for the coalition. “We unequivocally confirm our connection to strict respect for the period. the date chosen for the next general, presidential and legislative elections, namely 27 February 2022. We ask the transitional authorities to reaffirm their commitment to respect these deadlines’.

    By pressing a little more pressure, the signatories ask the Malian authorities to publish a chronogram of the tasks to be performed until election day.

    This withdrawal from a large edge of the Malian political class comes at a time when respect for the transition period is becoming more and more an inevitable debate.

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  • ICJ releases timetable for maritime border case

    ICJ releases timetable for maritime border case

    ICJ releases timetable for maritime border case between Kenya and Somalia

    HAGUE – The International Court of Justice [ICJ] has released a timetable for the hearing of the maritime border case at the Indian Ocean involving Kenya and Somalia, which is expected to begin on Monday 15 May 2021 in The Hague in the Netherlands after months of postponement.

    According to the schedule, the case will run for six days until Wednesday, March 24, when each party will have ample time to argue their position. Somalia will be the first to argue the case two days in a row as it is the complainant in the case.

    Then Kenya gets a chance to defend itself for two more consecutive days. In the final processes, both countries are given final submissions every day if relations between the two nations are strained.

    “The International Court of Justice, the main judicial body of the United Nations, is holding public hearings in the case of maritime delimitation in the Indian Ocean [Somalia v. Kenya] from Monday 15 to Wednesday 24 March 2021 in the Peace Palace in The Hague, the seat of the court, “reads the dispatch from ICJ.

    In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, the hearings will be held in hybrid format. The COVID-19 pandemic informed Kenya of its decision to call for a postponement, but the ICJ refused to grant the search early this year after postponing the case three times before.

    “Some members of the Court will participate personally in the oral proceedings in the Great Hall of Justice, while others will participate externally via video link. Representatives of the parties to the case will participate either in person or via video link,” the ICJ said.

    Guidelines for the parties on the organization of hearings via video link can be found on the Court’s website. Members of the diplomatic corps, the media and the public will be able to follow the hearings through a live webcast on the Court’s website, as well as on UN web TV. United Nations online television, ”it added.

    Somalia and Kenya are fighting over the oil-rich maritime border, but efforts to get the case settled out of court could not be realized. Both countries are optimistic about possible victories at the International Court of Justice.

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