In the spotlight: hope in the fight against malaria

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Health center, in Ouagadougou, capital of Burkina Faso, August 2019. It is in this country that the Oxford malaria vaccine was tested in 2019. © AFP - OLYMPIA DE MAISMONT

By: Frédéric Couteau Follow

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In Africa, malaria kills more than AIDS or Covid-19: more than 400,000 deaths per year ... " 

So it is, exclaims

Le Pays,

 in Burkina Faso, an immense hope aroused by the exit of Professor Adrian Hill of the University of Oxford, last Friday, on the development of a vaccine.

Researchers from this prestigious British university and their partners at the Nanoro Clinical Research Unit in Burkina Faso have revealed that this new vaccine has reached a record 77% efficacy, following a clinical trial carried out in the Pays des men of integrity, before adding that its approval by the World Health Organization and its commercialization in the next two or three years could spell the end of the most common and deadly parasitic disease in Africa.

 "

How long it was ...

“ 

Bravo to our compatriot, Professor Halidou Tinto,

for his part

,

launches

L'Observateur Paalga

, still in Ouaga, as well as to all his collaborators from the Nanoro clinical research unit and the University of Oxford. (…) But how long was the time taken to clear the path of research leading to this miraculous molecule!

 », Notes the Ouagalan daily. “ 

For the Covid-19, things happened at top speed. And when we see the billions of dollars that have benefited the laboratories that have developed the vaccines against the Covid, we can say that research in the the fight against malaria is an orphan. (...) But whatever,

temper

Observer Paalga, Africans, and Burkinabè in particular, can be proud of this discovery by the Nanoro clinical research unit

.

Chad: the CMT wants to eradicate the rebellion

Also on the front page, the situation in Chad, a week after Idriss Déby's death. 

The CMT, the Transitional Military Council opposes a categorical refusal of dialogue with the FACT rebels

 ", points out the

Chad infos news site

. The new Chadian authorities announce their desire to put down the rebellion and ask Niger to help them capture the leader of FACT, Mahadi Ali. Reacting to the refusal of the military junta to negotiate, he declared: “ 

if they want to make war, we will wage war. If we are attacked, we will retaliate. 

"

" In its fight against the FACT, N'Djamena feels assured of international support, "said an African diplomatic source,

reports 

Le Monde Afrique

.

And to cite the presence on Friday at the funeral of President Déby of Emmanuel Macron, president of a long-time ally of France of the landlocked country among the poorest in the world and held with an iron fist for thirty years by the late Chadian president .

 "

Risky bet for Paris?

Many reactions this morning on French support for the new authorities in Ndjamena: certainly,

WalfQuotidien

points

out

in Dakar, “ 

the presidents of the sub-region, and the French president have legitimized the“ putsch ”of General Mahamat Idriss Deby. This is understandable for the stabilization role, through its armed forces, that Chad embodies in the Sahel and elsewhere. But,

believes the Senegalese daily

, Mahamat Idriss Deby should first see the interest of Chad and the Chadians, if he claims to allow his country to be stable, to include all the active forces of the Nation in the dialogue and to ensure the democratic transition.

 "

 By going so far in supporting his son Déby, France is making a risky bet,”

notes the

Mondafrique

news site for its part 

.

Slogans are already appearing on Chadian networks affirming that Macron has turned into "the new Chadian head of state".

Beyond their caricatural dimension, these messages reflect a certain exasperation of a large part of the Chadian opinion towards what it considers to be an interference against a background of neocolonialism of France in the internal affairs of the country. 

"

And now ?

What will be after Déby?"

 “, Asks

Today

 in Burkina. “ 

If France supports the Chadian junta with its arms length, it leaves a door ajar when it evokes an inclusive transition. It is politically correct but it is difficult to see how and with whom the CMT will do it? Would the creation of a post of prime minister devolved to a civilian be a step in this political relaxation? Will the triumvirate of Macron-Bazoum-Gazouani negotiators go so far as to speak out with the rebels? Are inclusive and free elections possible after the 18-month transition? A Sudanese scenario with a transitional civil-military government is it possible in Chad? We cannot, for the moment,

notice

Today, what to guess.

 "

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