Headlines: Paris calls on Mali to respect the organization of a poll in February 2022
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In "Le Journal du Dimanche", this December 19, 2021, Florence Parly, the Minister of the French Armies, calls "for the pure and simple respect of this commitment to organize elections in February 2022" in Mali (photo illustration).
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By: Norbert Navarro
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It is the French Minister of the Armed Forces who said it this morning in
Le Journal du Dimanche
: “
the Malian population is facing the authorities resulting from two coups d'état. These are transitional authorities which must hand over power to elected civilian authorities according to a timetable that is known to all,
”Florence Parly told the
JDD.
And indeed, the Minister of the Armed Forces calls
"for the pure and simple respect of this commitment to organize elections in February 2022
".
Florence Parly who also declares this to the
Journal du Dimanche: "claiming that France is leaving the Sahel is not correct
". These statements come two days after the
cancellation (officially for health reasons) of Emmanuel Macron's visit to Mali
. Initially scheduled for tomorrow, this visit canceled the day before yesterday by Paris would have taken place in a region where "
anti-French sentiment continues to swell
", states
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
To take the measure, and well before this incident, the weekly
Marianne
had gone there to illustrate "the
thirst for change, the need for oxygen and the future (which) blow hard from Dakar to Ouagadougou
”, France by paying“
the costs
”, already noted this magazine.
Evoking both the president of the Malian transition Assimi Goïta and his Guinean counterpart Mamadi Doumbouya,
Marianne
notes that
"people of very diverse origins say they want to try the bet of alternation with these men in fatigues that they do not qualify ( only) of factious, but (also) of patriots
”.
Being reminded that the Malian soldiers have until December 27, 2021 to announce the date of the elections to end the transition, a former M5-RFP executive told
Marianne
that "
hardly anyone wants this election in the coming months. whereas the problems of security and quite simply of survival remain crucial.
And, first of all, with which voters?
“, Asks in
Marianne
this ex-leader of the protest movement at the origin of the fall of ex-president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta.
The situation in Ukraine and NATO which says "no" to Russia
In an interview with the
Journal du Dimanche
, the secretary general of the Atlantic Alliance explains why NATO refuses to neutralize Ukraine.
Which "
has the right to ask for help
" to defend themselves, Jens Stoltenberg told the
JDD
, "
and I do not see how that threatens Russia, which is the aggressor in this conflict (...) If so Russia , once again, decides to use military force against Ukraine, it will have to pay the price and it will be high,
”he adds.
Literature: an unprecedented collection of literary prizes collected this year by African writers
This was indeed a first in Europe, underlines
L'Express. “What a harvest!
», Launches this weekly, taking stock of it: the
Nobel Prize for Literature to the Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah
; the
Goncourt to the Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
, for his novel
The most secret memory of men
; the Booker Prize to South African Damon Galgut for
The Promise
; the International Booker Prize to Senegalese David Diop for the English version of
Frère d'âme
; the Camões Prize, the most important literary distinction in the Portuguese-speaking world, awarded unanimously to the Mozambican Paulina Chiziane, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature to the Senegalese Boubacar Boris Diop.
For
L'Express
, "this finally testifies on the part of the juries of the Old Continent of an openness to African imaginaries in all their variety and a recognition of what this literature has of universal
".
And this magazine hopes that “
the shock wave of the exceptional African harvest of 2021
”
will push those in charge of book fairs and literary festivals in France to “
finally
”
consider
French-speaking African writers for what they are: “
French-speaking novelists
”.
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