African leaders are on average 40 years older than their fellow citizens ... At the end of 2021, the youngest continent in the world has in its palaces the three most elected heads of state. alumni of the planet: Teodoro Obiang Nguema (in power since 1979), Paul Biya (1982) and Yoweri Museveni (1986). Among the oldest also, respectively 79, 88 and 77 years. When we know that the over 70s represent barely 3% of the overall African population, we can measure better,

, what this large gap implies in terms of representativeness and governance.

Even if this phenomenon also concerns part of the Maghreb (President Tebboune is 75 years old, while the median age of Algerians is 29), it is above all sub-Saharan and more specifically in Central Africa. 

Jeune Afrique

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die in power, die minister, die leader of an opposition party are the expression in the political field of societies where patriarchy, birthright and seniority crush the aspirations of cadets. If the three heads of state just mentioned have clearly no intention of unhitching, the same is true of Laurent Gbagbo, Henri Konan Bédié, John Fru Ndi or even 'an Abdoulaye Wade. In countries where the word retirement is for a politician synonymous with loss of recognition, honors rendered and perceived advantages, in short of living burial in the eyes of his own community, no one is surprised to see octogenarian senators and sixty-year-old youth ministers. It is not so much money or power that motivates these veterans

small social death.

Jeune Afrique

President Macky Sall does not rule out engaging in discussions on the cases of leaders such as Khalifa Sall and Karim Wade who have lost their civil and political rights after convictions by Justice.

He even said he was open to discussing on a schedule.

WalfQuotidien,

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strategy hides a desire to dynamite an opposition which, day by day, takes the bottle. In the sense that this announcement consecrates the move upmarket of the two former prisoners who, although pardoned, continue to live under the sword of Damocles of a conviction

WalfQuotidien, “

if they regain their civic rights, Khalifa and Karim get back into the game. This disadvantages an Ousmane Sonko who, benefiting from the vacuum left by them, had imposed himself as the sole opponent of power. .

This Machiavellian way of installing competition in the opposition allows Macky Sall, heckled since the events of last March, to kill two birds with one stone.

First, put the two "K's" back in the saddle, whose exclusion from the political game is a nasty scar on the face of Senegalese democracy.

Then, it allows him to create look-alikes (competitors) to the leader of Pastef who will have to compete in the arena with the two rehabilitated

In Africa, the Covid-19 must not make people forget this other pandemic

This is why, on this December 1, we need a reminder on the existence of AIDS, on its virulence and its contagiousness.

(…) And screening, the use of condoms, access of vulnerable populations to drugs, who are in the North, are all "barrier gestures", to borrow Covid jargon, to contain and reduce AIDS.