In a few weeks, the holy month of Ramadan will begin,

in a context marked by the economic and financial sanctions of ECOWAS and UEMOA.

Already the prices of products have risen and continue to rise despite the government's promise to keep them at a reasonable ceiling.

ECOWAS conditions the gradual lifting of sanctions on the presentation by the authorities of the transition of a reasonable electoral timetable according to it.

Which is not yet the case.

Le Pouce

Does this mean that Malians are going to have to enter Lent in extremely difficult conditions?

It urges the Malian transition authorities to find a solution not only to avoid a price increase during Ramadan but also for a gradual lifting of sanctions in order to relieve the populations who are already living in difficult conditions.

as a reminder, Mali has been under sanctions from ECOWAS and UEMOA since January 9.

And the blockade of the two sub-regional organizations is beginning to be untenable.

The sanctions, although illegitimate and illegal, weigh on households and on the whole country without really disturbing the government, believes the newspaper, which has found no other alternative than to put in place a mechanism to study all the possibilities of proposing a chronogram.

L'Alternance

should we still be at this level when time is far from being our best ally?

Malians are beginning to be fed up with fine speeches that are not followed by action.

A people does not only live from history, it also needs bread and water;

therefore, speeches with a historical and populist flavor must give way to more pragmatic ones that go in the direction of alleviating the suffering of Malians.

Mali: payment defaults pass the 80 million euro mark

In addition to the impossibility of reimbursing its debts, Mali cannot issue new debt securities to finance the functioning of the State.

On January 12, says Jeune Afrique, the country had to give up the issue of 30 billion CFA francs in debt.

A year earlier, in the first quarter of 2021, Mali's financing needs on the regional market represented no less than CFAF 235 billion in debt issues.

how to continue to pay the debt, the salaries of the soldiers and the rest under these conditions?

the indefinite horizon of Colonel Assimi Goïta.

Le Monde Afrique

The light ?

He leaves it to his Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, always ready to unleash a new verbal salvo in the direction of France, and to his head of diplomacy, Abdoulaye Diop, responsible for weaving new strategic alliances and loosening the noose. on Mali since ECOWAS put the country under economic blockade.

He, from the hill of the Koulouba palace which overlooks the capital, hardly says a word, cultivates his image as a soldier president, on a mission to reconquer the lost territories of Mali.

Le Monde Afrique,

Assimi Goïta finds the four colonels who placed him at the head of the country.

Surely the opportunity to evoke the still undefined political horizon of the first of them and perhaps even to wonder about the incredible maneuver they have just carried out: that of having in barely eighteen months transformed a perfect stranger that everyone was waiting for in the fight against the jihadists into the first responsible for an imminent withdrawal of French troops from Mali and into the embodiment of this new time of the praetorians in West Africa.