On the front page of the African press, the decision of Senegalese President Macky Sall to postpone the presidential election on February 25. The demonstration by his opponents yesterday in Dakar was repressed.

There is also concern in the Middle East, where the United States increased strikes over the weekend against their pro-Iranian enemies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. The Financial Times revealed this morning that Iran used two of the UK's biggest banks, Lloyds and Santander, to secretly transfer funds across the planet and thus evade sanctions.