Headlines: the war in Ethiopia ...
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on November 30, 2020 in Addís Ababa.
(Illustration) Amanuel Sileshi AFP / Archivos
By: Mehdi Meddeb
4 min
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He had promised to go, and he is. The Prime Minister on the front line. According to the Ethiopian government spokesperson quoted by the
Sudan Post
, Abiy Ahmed is in charge on the ground. And it is
"a tradition to see the Ethiopian leaders go to the battlefield
" adds the Sudanese newspaper.
“From the Emperor Hailé Selassie or to the Emperor Yohannes IV killed on the battlefield in 1889
”…
“Abiy Ahmed at the front in the name of Cleopatra, Menelik and Selassie”
, title
Today in Faso
ironically returning to this
“ great patriotic enthusiasm ”.
Abiy Ahmed joined in his "
call to the martyr
»By a number of Ethiopian personalities, tells us
the Ethiopian Reporter
.
"Senior leaders of the Amhara party, but especially the double Olympic champion Haile Gebreselassié, the marathon runner Feyisa Lelisa, the singer Mesfin Bekele, the mayor of Addis Ababa confirmed that they joined this campaign"
, affirms the Ethiopian newspaper. And
"the number of new civilian recruits against the advance of the rebels
[more than 180 km from Addis]
should increase in the coming days"
, continues
Wakat Sera
.
But the Burkinabé newspaper wonders:
"Can the very unfavorable situation for the loyalist forces know a change with the rise to the front of this Prime Minister stripped of his Nobel Peace suit to put on his combat gear?"
".
"It is urgent to save Ethiopia from chaos by calling on the sons of the country not to the front but to dialogue,
"
Wakat Sera
still
denounces
.
The African press also stops on the return of the post of Prime Minister in Senegal ...
The day after his re-election, Macky Sall had decided to abolish the post, recalls
Walf
for “
more fluidity”.
Two years later, the reinstatement of the function sounds like "an admission of failure", comments the Senegalese newspaper. Because
"to bring back the Prime Minister, it will be necessary to go through the revision of the constitution from which the post had been redacted"
.
"For Macky Sall, the constitution is a rag,
" launches anger Guy Marius Sagna in
Seneweb
. At the time, the activist was among those demonstrating in front of the parliament against the abolition of this post. He had even been arrested recalls
Seneweb
.
The leader of the Strike movement drives the point home:
"This decision of the president and his regime reveal their drift
[...]
they do not know where they are going".
"The author of neither yes nor no no longer knows what to do"
judges Thierno Diop in
Senebo
.
"The head of state is thus seeking to pass the hot potato through the appointment of a fusible Prime Minister
,"
Senego
said
.
And thus offers a bone to chew on to those who urge him to propose an air plan of transition towards 2024 ”.
This Thursday, International Day to End Violence Against Women, which is again reacting in Senegal
Breaking the law of silence,
"put an end now to violence against women"
launches
the Daily
.
The Senegalese newspaper takes up an unprecedented study by researchers from Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis on domestic violence, even within families. In one in two families in Senegal, there is violence, advance the Geste.
“An average rate of 55%
”.
"And Senegalese news has unfortunately come to remind us of the urgency of tackling this violence".
From the rape case followed by the pregnancy of Miss Senegal 2020 to the rape of a 13-year-old minor by a wrestler, the Senegalese daily also recalls the number of feminicides in Senegal:
"137 women killed by a member of their family
".
"The challenge
, recalls
the Daily
,
is to overcome the social codes that push victims not to denounce their torturers."
Finally, the visit to Morocco of the Israeli Minister of Defense gives rise to comments.
“Historical visit”
for
Le Pays
au Burkina after the first official visit of a Minister of Defense of the Hebrew State to the Shereefian kingdom. Morocco and Israel have signed important defense agreements. Spyware, combat drones, even Iron Dome.
"Morocco seals an unprecedented security agreement that shakes Algeria"
promises
H24 info
.
"Algeria is targeted,"
asserts a member of the FLN in an interview with
Tout sur l'Algerie
. And this, even as speculations are rife on the construction of a Moroccan base with the Israelis near the Algerian border.
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