In the spotlight: what can Africa expect from Glasgow?
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The opening ceremony of COP26 was held in Glasgow on October 31, 2021. © AFP / DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS
By: Johanne Burgell
3 min
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This is the question posed by the
Wakat Séra
news site
, when around twenty African heads of state are participating in the COP26 in the Scottish city.
A new summit dedicated to climate issues.
Wakat Séra does not mince his words: "
Once again, these so-called most developed countries will occupy the whole stage, to pour out promises that will resonate as hollow as the cavities of the hundred-year-old baobabs of Africa, dying or dead, under the relentless pressure of climate change
”.
Africa
: the continent most to be pitied
This is what
Le Pays
affirms
, for whom Africa “
is far from having the means of its policy to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Forced to endure and adapt, it also sees its fate practically linked to international solidarity
”.
And
Le Pays
continues: "In
other words, because of its poverty, Africa is an exposed continent which is among the first to feel the impacts of climate change which are reflected, among other things, by floods, droughts and waves. heat leading to crop losses
”.
Climate change worsens inequalities between men and women
In
Le Monde Afrique
, we can read an interview with Malian ecologist Mariam Diallo Drame.
“
There is an urgent need to establish climate justice that takes gender into account
,” she says.
Why ?
Well, because women, with children, are fourteen times more likely to die than men in a natural disaster, according to the UN.
“
In the Sahel, for example, it is the women who go to fetch wood and draw water.
But repeated droughts make their task even more grueling, water points are drying up and wood is scarce.
They must therefore go even further.
"
A commitment from rich countries
According to
Jeune Afrique
, "
pay to pollute, be" rewarded "if we do not pollute or little, finance the transition of those who have the least resources.
So many requirements that sum up the expectations of the African continent
”.
“
It is because Africa only plays a minor role in global climate change that the issue of adaptation measures to limit its impact is central for the continent.
This represents 20
% of the world's population, but is responsible for only 3
% of CO2 emissions.
"
In Sudan, the noose tightens on General al-Burhan
The day before yesterday, Saturday, Sudan experienced its biggest day of demonstration since Monday's coup, recalls
Le Point Afrique
.
Khartoum, but also Kessala, and many other cities in the country: they were tens of thousands of Sudanese to have taken to the streets to protest against the coup, comments Africa Point.
The Sudanese entered in "
civil disobedience
", perched on barricades facing live bullets, rubber and tear gas from the security forces.
"
We want a civilian regime and we will not accept, this time, sharing with the military,
" said a protester in Khartoum.
And
Le Point Afrique
deplores: "
The putsch cut short hopes for free elections at the end of 2023 and plunged the country into the unknown
".
Elections under scrutiny in South Africa
More than 26 million voters are called to the polls for the municipal elections on Monday. Additional police have been deployed, especially in KwaZulu-Natal, writes the South African site
The Star
. Of the approximately 4,000 polling stations in the province, 128 are classified as high risk by the authorities.
For the first time since 1994, the ANC, the historic party of Nelson Mandela, could drop below 50%
.
Undermined by the catastrophic management and corruption that marked the mandate of Jacob Zuma from 2009 to 2018, "
South Africa is naked
" laments a South African in the columns of the
World
.
With the pandemic, power finds itself without the slightest financial leeway at a time when unemployment peaks at nearly 45%.
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