In the News: Brexit, with or without an agreement?
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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"
This way, the way out,
" says
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
The exit ?
Yes, but which one?
Exit with or without agreement?
"
We are not there for the moment,
" said
Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune
yesterday to the
JDD
.
For the moment ?
well the least than yesterday, one could say ... Because this Saturday, on the side of the British government, one considered "
unacceptable
" the offer of the European Union, completes this weekly.
So, yes,
Hitchcockian
suspense
, making this Sunday a possible final turning point in the Brexit soap opera ...
News in the case of the alleged Libyan financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's election campaign in 2007. A month ago, his main accuser, Ziad Takieddine, through the press, recently retracted. Well the French justice counter-attack:
According to
Le Point
magazine
, the National Financial Prosecutor's Office "
opened a preliminary investigation for witness tampering
", suspecting Ziad Takieddine of having "
cashed
" his turnaround, being reminded by this weekly that, since his exclusive interviews at Paris-Match and BFMTV, on November 11, this sulphurous Lebanese businessman, "no
longer overwhelms the ex-head of state and claims to have never given Libyan money to his campaign team
".
To support this new preliminary investigation, justice would rely on "
the profile of one of the protagonists who obtained the exclusivity of the confidences
" from Ziad Takieddine,
states Le Point
, noting that the protagonist in question "
is already doing the subject to an investigation within the framework of one of the components
(…)
of the Benjamin Griveaux affair
”.
Former Macronist candidate in the last municipal election in Paris, the latter had to give up the race "
after the broadcast of an intimate video
", this weekly recalls.
Today is Sunday, and since in France, we can't go there, you take us to the cinema, Norbert, via a detour through Nollywood, home of the film industry in Lagos, where the film was produced.
African apocalypse
:
Nollywood is already making Nigeria the third largest cinema industry in the world, producing between two and three thousand films per year.
And indeed, a recent film which was produced there convinced the magazine
L'Obs
to make this detour.
Directed by Rob Lemkin and available on the British Film Institute platform,
African apocalypse
awakens the story of the village of May Jirgui, in Niger.
This is where Captain Paul Voulet is buried, presented by this weekly as the “
massacorer of indigenous populations in the name of France, in 1899. This film is heartbreaking
, according to
L'Obs
:
more one hundred and twenty years after the brutal raid of the Voulet-Chanoine mission, memory still speaks.
Several generations have passed, but
(the main actor of this film),
Femi Nylander still hears the echoes of this expedition, during which Voulet
"pacified"
entire villages with the cannon of 80, with his 600 soldiers and 100 spahis.
The town of Birni N'Konni was razed from the map, its 15,000 inhabitants simply bled,
”states
L'Obs
.
According to this weekly, “
African Apocalypse
” marks “
the appearance on the international scene of African cinema of a high standard.
"
The cinema produced in Nollywood is more of the B series. But its ambitions are now vast:
“
For a long time, the thousands of Nollywood films
(…)
remained confined, intended for local audiences or for immigrant communities from New York or Pretoria.
It's over
, reports
L'Obs
(…)
Nollywood takes the opposite view of American production
(…)
Stars are born
(…)
Quick shoots, immediate consumption
(…)
With success helping, a whole generation of technicians has appeared,
(…)
And, from 2015, the banks took an interest in the film industry
”(…) Avowed goal:“ To
conquer the smartphone market.
(…)
In Nigeria: 30 million smartphones.
In Africa, 800 million.
Everything is said,
”
summarizes
L'Obs
.
Already stricken, as we saw this week, by the coronavirus crisis, the cinema sector, in Africa, France or elsewhere, had better watch out ...
Another sector in pain, that of the written press ... All the more reason to wish a happy birthday to a magazine which is resisting the crisis oh how much since it is celebrating its ... one hundred years! the arts and crafts magazine:
Ah, the quat'zarts!
His hazing, his former students of the École nationale supérieure des Arts & Métiers, the great school of technology in France founded two hundred and forty years ago in France.
But also its magazine, Arts & Métiers Mag.
One hundred years old… you don't have to be an arts and crafts engineer to do the math: this monthly was created in 1920!
For technology enthusiasts, a last "
tip
", a "
thuysse
", as the quat'zarts say:
read AMMag
!
And happy birthday to our centenary colleague!
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