In the spotlight: where is Africa heading in 2022?

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Question to which the daily

Today

in Burkina Faso

tries to answer

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While 2022 is pushing its first wails, Africa is moving politically and securely despite the Covid-19 pandemic (...), with hysterics that have become commonplace as in Somalia, or in the CAR, where the host of rebels are fighting over this proto-state, or in DR Congo, where at 1 year of the presidential election, Félix Tshisekedi is working out his weapons to be able to re-stack. (…) Obviously, there is Senegal,

continues

Today, which will vote this January 23 for locals, on a national scale, since it is a gauge for 2024, but also, for the opponents, a firewall against the inclinations for a third term ascribed to Macky Sall. 

"

Moreover,

WalfQuotidien

in Dakar points out that legislative elections are scheduled for June of this year… “ 

This at a time when the country is experiencing a difficult economic situation.

 "And

Walf

wonders:" 

Shouldn't the two elections have been combined to reduce spending?

 "

Mali: a transition that will go on forever?

We come back to

Today

which points to other countries to watch: “

 Mali, under Transition, with 3 coups d'état… The latest

, affirms the Ouagalan daily,

being the chronogram submitted this weekend by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, Abdoulaye Diop, to ECOWAS. Five years no less, of interim power that the Kati putschists demanded to lead the Transition train to port. A five-year term, therefore, in addition to the 18 months already elapsed: Goïta happily grants himself a seven-year term which does not speak its name. (…) In this best of countries to be observed with a magnifying glass also appears Burkina, neighbor of Mali, also caught up in the security turmoil and governance problems.

 "

Finally, point

Today

, there is “

 Sudan (…), with this adrenaline rush at the start of 2022, and the resurgence of anti-putsch demonstrations and the increase in repression.

And with the resignation of Prime Minister Abdellah Hamdok yesterday, the worst is sure.

The Sudanese feel cheated by their revolution and no longer want this misguided Transition. 

"

Western Sahara and Libya: mined lands

As for the Maghreb at present,

Le Point Afrique

evokes “ 

two perils for 2022: Western Sahara and Libya. Unknown to the general globalized public, Western Sahara is a formidable issue that mixes territory, nationalism, pride, and patent hardliners. A land that Morocco and Algeria have fought for for decades. Mediators and diplomats have used their patience on this conflict which has for half a century locked the future of the region, paralyzing any hope of economic or political union. (…) ”.

And then " 

another country, another minefield."

The international community will not have spared Libya.

For ten years, a swarm of foreign countries has been blowing on this blaze, on purpose or out of foolishness.

Gulf petrodollars, Western barbouzes, Russian mercenaries, Turkish braid: a veritable Tower of Babel of interference. 

Upcoming elections: dates and vagueness ...

Finally, what elections for this year 2022?

Jeune Afrique  

has done the accounts: “ 

Senegal will open the ball (at the end of January, as we have seen). The campaign is already in full swing for municipal elections that have the value of full-scale rehearsal before the presidential election of 2024. Three other states are preparing for important elections: Kenya will choose a new president, Angola should in all likelihood re-elect the president. his, João Lourenço, and Congo Brazza will renew its deputies. (...) In many other countries there is a total vagueness,

again notes

Young Africa.

Will there be a presidential election in Chad, one year after the death of Idriss Déby Itno and the accession to power of his son, Mahamat?

How long will the transition last in Mali?

Theoretically scheduled for next February, the presidential election could take place ... in five years.

And in Conakry, what are the intentions of Mamadi Doumbouya, the killer of Alpha Condé?

(...) Not to mention Sudan, where the military has taken over all power, Somalia, where elections are constantly postponed, or Libya, where the presidential election last December, which was to see Khalifa Haftar face off against each other. Seif el-Islam, has been postponed. 

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