In the news: the death of Cardinal Monsengwo
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Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo, in November 2010, in the Vatican.
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By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow
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Cardinal Laurent Monsengwo died in France
" soberly headlines the
Radio Okapi site
.
The Archbishop Emeritus of Kinshasa died this Sunday at the age of 81.
“
The Catholic prelate was seriously ill and his state of health was deteriorating in Kinshasa.
He was evacuated last Monday to France to receive appropriate care,
”said
Radio Okapi.
"
The Congolese Church is in mourning,
" writes
Vatican News
.
You can read the interview and the homage of Laurent Monsengwo's successor, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo.
He salutes the commitment of a "
man of God who believed in man, in the value of the human person
" and who has led all his life in "a
fight for a more just world, a more fraternal world
".
A man of the church, but also a voice heard on the political scene
It is a "
prince of the Church who disappears
", estimates the magazine
Enjeux Africans
. But "
under the cassock,
we can read,
undoubtedly hid the costume of a real politician
". For
African issues
, Laurent Monsengwo "
had the advantage of being a counter-power, a voice that carries
", and "
he never had his tongue in his pocket
". “
Didn't he call the Kabbalists mediocre?
", Recalls the magazine and, more recently,"
did he not reproach the current president for having "made a pact" with his predecessor, to the detriment of the interests of the population?
" For
African stakes
, it is certain: "
His homilies were awaited by the faithful but the capacity apprehended them
".
The late cardinal "
will be missed by both
," the article concludes.
In Mali, commemorations and a desire for justice
“
The M5-RFP Strategic Committee remembers!
“
Maliweb
poster
. "
On July 10, 11, 12, 2020, a year ago,
the website explains
, the whole world was amazed to see the bloody repression
" against the pacifist demonstrators in Bamako. It had caused "
several deaths and many wounded" and "these people gave their blood for change
" writes
MaliWeb
, citing "
the duty to remember
" mentioned by the M5-RFP, the movement which helped push Ibrahim Boubacar Keita towards the exit.
Malijet
returns for its part on the exit of the influential Imam Mahmoud Dicko.
He demanded justice for the victims yesterday, during a speech in front of his mosque in the Badalabougou district of Bamako, where the police intervened against a gathering of the faithful.
Justice that will be essential,
Maliweb
analyzes
.
The site also welcomes the start of the prosecution of the alleged perpetrators and accomplices of the killings during these demonstrations, and for him, no doubt: "
To lay the groundwork for the re-foundation of the Malian state, it will undoubtedly be necessary for those in power to give a strong signal by working to end impunity.
"
The Sahel, and the security situation in the French press
"
The perilous reorganization of Operation Barkhane
", analysis to read in the newspaper
Le Monde
, while "
President Emmanuel Macron presented on Friday the lines of the plan for the partial withdrawal of some 5,100 French soldiers
". Partial withdrawal which should start "
in the next few weeks
" and
Le Monde
today
gives
us a report in Burkina Faso. On the spot "
entire municipalities are surrounded by jihadists who threaten the inhabitants and cut off the populations of the rest of the country
", as in Madjoari, in the east, in the heart of the Arly park, 400 kilometers from the capital Ouagadougou. Hundreds of people are just trying to survive it. "
Despair of the populations, cracked army, apathetic governance: it is an explosive cocktail
”, tells us a political scientist. And this is what makes this reorganization of Barkhane for
Le Monde
perilous today
.
In neighboring Mali, still in
Le Monde
, we learn - or we find confirmation - that the refusal to negotiate with the jihadists thwarts the power of Bamako and local opinion. "
If we Malians want to negotiate, it is our choice
", testifies a resident of the Koro circle. In any case, the solutions are to be found elsewhere than on the only military ground, and it is none other than the General Didier Castres who affirms it today in
Liberation
. He who was the boss of the operations of the French army during the first years of Serval then Barkhane, he is categorical: Alone on the ground, "
the soldiers do not settle anything
".
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