Headlines: cancellation of resumption of courses in Senegal

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By: Aurélien Devernoix

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"  The total cacophony  " headlines South after the late announcement Monday evening of President Macky Sall to postpone until further notice the return of students to class, while the resumption was to take place Tuesday morning.

"  The teachers who had traveled hundreds of kilometers to reach the schools, the administrators (and the state services) who were active for the recovery (…) therefore see their efforts reduced to zero  ", notes the daily.

And this was done in a hurry: Senego recalls that the presidential decision came just hours after the national education had confirmed the resumption.

However, this decision is "  a sign of wisdom and courage,  " says Senego . Faced with the detection of cases in teachers of Ziguinchor, Macky Sall made the right decision, judges the news site, recalling that "  more powerful countries have backed down after taking the decision to reopen classes  "

But the analysis is very different at Senenews

The site believes that this is the "  chronicle of an announced failure  ". "  The Ministry of Education has never ceased to underestimate a situation that was however eye-catching  ," launches the news site.

The Walf Quotidien wonders for its part if this decision was not influenced by the diocesan office of Catholic education in Dakar. A few hours before the presidential decision, the network of private schools had given up hosting its students, pointing in particular to the lack of sanitary equipment available ... and more precisely, according to the newspaper, "  the insufficient supply of detection kits of the Covid-19  ".

Reactions also shared in schools and on social networks

The Sun takes us to the Seydina Limamou Laye high school in Guédiawaye in the Dakar region. More than 3600 students had to return there yesterday and necessarily "  the postponement of the resumption of lessons divided  ", headlines the newspaper. The principal believes that "  the authorities had taken the necessary steps to restart the courts  ". "  Everything was ready  ", assures Mandaw Mbaye: tables spaced and staggered in the classrooms, masks and hydroalcoholic gel available ... the student president also judges that all "  were ready to play their score  "

But the journalist also notes the "  basic  " equipment of the infirmary, "  where a wall fan quarrels with two chairs, a table, a trash can and an empty cupboard  ".

On social networks, critics are more acerbic, notes the Walf Net, which headlines "  the credibility of Macky Sall collapses completely  ". The information site relays the spikes launched by Senegalese figures of the networks, most of them annoyed by the contradictions of the authorities. But there too some are flying to the aid of the Senegalese president, preferring to salute his prudence.

Also in the headlines, Guinea where a surprise change to the constitutional reform is under debate

Kaloum Presse publishes the press release from the Guinea bar where the lawyers denounce “  a fraudulent alteration  ” of the project, denouncing in particular the suppression of the possibility of independent candidacies of the existing political parties, which was not provided for by the text submitted to the referendum of the March 22.

The Djely for its part relays the indignation of the opposition: the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution denounces a rewriting going against the “  Additional Protocol of ECOWAS on Governance and Democracy revised in 2012  ”

"  Falsifications  ", "  tampering  ", critics flourish in Guinean newspapers. The satirical weekly Le Lynx laughs at the situation: “  They are not satisfied with the text that they themselves have concocted. They then carried out alterations to make the Constitution even more adaptable to their will.  "

As a result, an Alpha Condé "  embarrassed about the seams  " believes Today in Faso. This "  gross negligence  " highlights, according to the Burkinabe newspaper, the " fuzzy  " motivations  of the Guinean president: "  while giving himself every chance of winning a third mandate, Alpha Condé pretends not to want anything  ", believes everyday life.

"  We did not leave the hostel,  " judge Guinea News , who returned to the interview given by the Guinean president to Jeune Afrique . An interview in which he accuses the opposition of having wanted to overthrow power during the referendum. Charges "  serious  " according to the news site, "  which can not justify all the deaths recorded on March 22. In this artificial speech, observers regret to note that nowhere is there compassion for the victims of this electoral violence  ”.

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