In the spotlight: a tense social climate in Mali

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The president of the Malian transition Bah N'Daw.

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The banking, tax, treasury and customs services have been paralyzed since yesterday.

The UNTM, the National Union of Workers of Mali, a union of civil servants and employees of the private sector, has indeed launched a five-day strike movement, after the failure of negotiations with the government on wages, bonuses and allowances.

The UNTM brandished the threat of unlimited movement.

The Maliweb site wonders

 : " 

Why have we come to this?

Why is the government in a bit of anticipation?

How could the authorities have allowed the situation to deteriorate to such an extent?

 "

Indeed, “

 the demands of the largest trade union center in Mali are added to a climate of discontent and socio-political and economic difficulties which further weaken social peace, stability and tranquility. 

"

And Maliweb warns: "

The high cost of living, injustice in remuneration and salary, disappointments and socio-political frustrations can constitute a fertile ground for disastrous explosion that can seal the fate of living together and national cohesion.

It is now up to the President of the Transition and the Prime Minister to do everything possible to mend the social fabric.

 "

After IBKOne… N'DawOne?

“ 

Mali is in the midst of a crisis and Bah N'Daw is leaving! 

», Indignant for its part the online newspaper Malikilé. " 

Like his predecessor IBK, the President of the Transition, Bah N'Daw, would he also be struck by an

acute

" voyages "

crisis

?

 », Asks Malikilé. " 

Has he already contracted the virus from Air IBKone which suddenly became N'Daw One?" Anyway, nothing can justify the absence of Bah N'Daw from Mali in these particularly difficult times when the boat Mali needs its captain to hold the rudder firmly.

(…)

Does Colonel-Major Bah N'Daw realize that with this trip, he is giving the worst images to his people? 

», Insists Malikilé. " 

That of a President of the Transition who cares little about the current strike and its consequences and even less concerned about the rapid establishment of a new government. 

"

The African economy hard hit by the pandemic

Bah N'Daw is therefore in Paris, like many African heads of state ... For a summit focused on "

 the economic revival of a continent which, last year, experienced its first recession for twenty-five years

,

points out

Le Monde Afriqu

e

,

and which should register slower growth than the developed countries over the next three years.

"The public finances of African states are in a critical situation, one explains at the Elysee. The emergency aid from the IMF and the World Bank have worked well, but we must go much further." 

In its last report from April, the IMF estimates that sub-Saharan Africa will need 350 billion euros by 2025 to get out of the crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Élysée pleads for

"massive international aid from the international community and multilateral institutions".

"

Cut the rope ?

Today in Ouagadougou wonders

 : "

What are the niches that this new summit will offer to

" review "

the issue of debt and even a related problem, such as the disappearance of the CFA Franc?

Will we be able to offer viable solutions to breathe new life into African economies?

Africans, will they speak with one voice, because it is often a Tower of Babel that is heard…

 ”

WakatSéra, still in Burkina

, is annoyed: “

Isn't it time to cut the umbilical cord?

(…)

When will African solutions be found to African problems by Africans in Africa? Are African leaders really so short of solutions to turn to a France that they pillory as soon as their peoples grumble against the West's stranglehold on national wealth? If they are as capable of responding to the tocsin sounded from the Elysee Palace, why do they not favor endogenous solutions, united under the African palaver tree, where unity should be strength against adversities, as they do? are economical or sanitary? No

, WakatSéra sighs again,

each one prefers to put on his 31st to be received by the French president and to impress people who are floundering in the mud of obscurantism, insecurity

, (...)

bad governance, corruption, and nepotism.

 "

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