Headlines: ECOWAS at the top 2.0
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By: Norbert Navarro
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It was a first in the history of the ECOWAS: a summit by videoconference. The Economic Community of West African States instructs the West African Health Agency, based in Burkina Faso, to coordinate the response to the coronavirus pandemic:
It was indeed a first. The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States proceeded to " reunion 2.0 ", formulates precisely in Ouagadougou the newspaper L'Observateur Paalga . Covid-19 " express " meeting which had the main objective of " pooling the means to overcome the pandemic ".
Mandate having been given to the Nigerian president, Mahamadu Buhari, to supervise the implementation of a response plan, The Observer Paalga wants to hope that this cyber-summit will not be reduced to “ a simple action of communication. to get a good conscience . "
No to " corona-moral " !
As for the economic consequences of the pandemic in Africa, they continue to be of great concern to the world's major financiers. In France, a voice is raised this morning to dismiss any idea of conditionality of aid to Africa in the face of the health emergency.
" No " corona-moral " in Africa, above all ! ", Rémy Rioux launched in the daily L'Opinion . For the director general of the French Development Agency, " this is not the time to condition the aid ". Rémy Rioux calls for " an additional effort by canceling debts, while African finance ministers have assessed their needs at $ 100 billion ," he told L'Opinion .
Embalo, weary of war president of Guinea Bissau
The new president of Guinea-Bissau participated in this ECOWAS cyber-summit. And this president is Umaro Sissoko Embalô. Again, this was a first. Four months after the second round of the presidential election in Guinea Bissau, the ECOWAS finally recognizes Umaro Sissoco Embalo as president-elect.
In Senegal, where the President of Guinea-Bissau, now recognized by his peers in the sub-region, counts on the support in particular of the Head of State Macky Sall, the online newspaper Tract drives the point home, stressing that recognizing Embalo as president, the ECOWAS " finally goes to the evidence on Guinea Bissau ". And this site wishes " good luck to Guinea Bissau, which is turning the page on the historic party of the liberation war ".
For its part, rather than a long speech, the La Vie Sénégalaise site has favored an image by putting an archive photo online between President Macky Sall and his protégé Umaro Sissoco Embalo. A real " mano a mano ".
Soro 1 - Ouattara 0 before the African Court of Human Rights
Also on the front page, the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, which orders the State of Côte d'Ivoire to stay the execution of the arrest warrant issued against Guillaume Soro, while demanding the release pro-Soro prisoners detained in Côte d'Ivoire.
And this morning, in Ivory Coast, in the newspaper L'Intelligent d'Abidjan , the Ivorian magistrate "in exile" Olivier Grah Ange affirms that " the proceedings opened against (Guillaume Soro and his relatives) are riddled with irregularities and of incongruities ”. For his part, the spokesman for the Ivorian government, also quoted by L'Intelligent d'Abidjan , indicated via a press release that the said procedures " remain in progress ".
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights " has just laid a pavement in the Ebrié lagoon ", formulates Wakat Sera in Ouagadougou . Being reminded that Guillaume Soro and his relatives are being prosecuted for embezzlement of public funds, concealment of public property and conspiracy against the authority of the national territory, this Ouagadougou newspaper believes that " the primary and ultimate goal of these proceedings was to put out -game, a potential candidate and weight in the presidential Ivorian "? Because by wanting to become “ caliph instead of the caliph ”, Guillaume Soro was “ the enemy to be cut down. The Soro grinding machine then started up . ” For Wakat Sera, in any case, this decision of the ACHPR " may sound like a stage victory for Guillaume Soro and his family ".
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