In the spotlight: relief in Nigeria
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More than 300 Nigerian high school students kidnapped Friday December 11, 2020 at the Kankara boarding school have been released.
(Illustrative photo) REUTERS - AFOLABI SOTUNDE
By: Norbert Navarro
9 min
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On the front page of the African press, relief in Nigeria, where more than 300 students have been released by their captors in the north-west of the country.
And at the top of the state, the Nigerian head of state "
expresses his joy
", points out the newspaper
The Sun
, photo in support of President Buhari, all smiles, hand in hand with a collaborator, sharing, in indeed, the visible relief of his compatriots after this liberation.
A week ago, armed men kidnapped several hundred minors, middle and high school students, in this northern region of Nigeria.
This mass kidnapping had twice been claimed by the jihadist group Boko Haram in France.
The daily
Le Monde Afrique
recounts: “
Crammed into the backs of Nigerian security forces trucks, ragged teenagers smile in the night.
(This Thursday evening) At around 10 p.m., their faces lit by the headlights are photographed on the Rediscovered Road, somewhere in northwest Nigeria.
(…) The governor of Katsina State (…) for his part indicated that 344 students had been torn from the hands of highwaymen who scour the region
”.
Implementation of a curfew in the DRC
This is a first in the DRC: a national curfew this Friday evening from 9 p.m. (and until 5 a.m. this Saturday) to try to contain a second wave of coronavirus
.
"
It is not a galéjade
", launches
La Prospérité
, and (perhaps) carried away by its enthusiasm, this Congolese newspaper even mentions a curfew of up to, not 5:00 am, but “
5:30 am
”.
But nonetheless, the curfew from this evening in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a "
flagship measure
", which is far from the only one, underlines
Radio Okapi
, "
several other measures, including the entry in force also comes into effect on the same date, were taken among which: the anticipation of the Christmas holidays (at school), the ban on public marches, artistic productions and fairs as well as festive ceremonies and meetings more than ten people, (or even) the pursuit of sporting competitions behind closed doors
”.
In Côte d'Ivoire, the former prefect of Abidjan fears violence during legislative elections
Vincent Toh Bi warns.
According to him, "
the debates which prevailed during the presidential election will resurface
".
And part of the Ivorian press is moved by it.
"
Fears for violence during the legislative elections,
" thus launches "the headline" of the independent Ivorian daily
L'Inter.
On the front page of
last hour
, this former prefect of Abidjan declares: "
We must have the courage to carry out reforms on the general framework of the elections
", reports this newspaper close to the PDCI, the historic party created by Félix Houphouët- Boigny and chaired today by the former head of state Henri Konan Bédié.
But beyond these fears, anyway, "
the conditions are not met for transparent legislative elections
", bid
L'Héritage
, another newspaper close to the PDCI.
Moreover, the former prefect of Abidjan calls for "
reforms
"
of the general framework of elections
"
before the legislative
",
points
Today
.
Close to former President Laurent Gbagbo, this Ivorian daily reports Vincent Toh Bi's warning: "
If there are no reforms, no consensus, we must be sure that we will return to violence. .
"
For its part,
L'Intelligent d'Abidjan
evokes “
the social bill”
in
“certain localities of Côte d'Ivoire”
(and we will suppose that this daily paper rather close to the Ivorian power perhaps wanted to write “the fracture social ').
However, notes
L'Intelligent d'Abidjan,
the former prefect did say that
“life between communities in Côte d'Ivoire is still possible”
as long as
“actions”
are undertaken to strengthen
“
community cohesion
”.
Actions " ?
Close to the former president Laurent Gbagbo, the daily newspaper
Le Temps
notably notes two in the mouth of Vincent Toh Bi: "
To facilitate the return of the exiles, following the crisis of 2010 (and) to continue the release of the detainees
".
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