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In the spotlight: the contours of the transition in Burkina Faso
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Lieutenant-Colonel Paul Henri Sandaogo Damiba, leader of the military junta in Burkina Faso on national television, January 27, 2022. © RTB via AP
By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow
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"
3-25-71
", three figures given straight away by
L'Observateur Paalga
, because "
if we had to summarize in figures the national meetings on the transition which were held on Monday and yesterday, it would undoubtedly be those- there
”, explains the Burkinabè daily.
“
Three years for the duration of the transition, 25 ministers at most and 71 members for the future transitional assembly.
This is what the living forces of the Nation have decided
,” writes
L'Observateur Paalga
.
But, like the newspaper
Le Pays
also, he specifies that the living forces have therefore "
challenged the initial proposals made by the technical committee for drafting the Charter and the transition agenda which submitted its report on February 23 to President Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba
”.
The commission had notably proposed a transition of 30 months and not 36, underlines
L'Observateur
.
The fears of observers
The Burkinabè press evokes other problems,
Le Pays
in particular.
The newspaper first congratulates all the actors in this process […], "
for having spared no effort to achieve these results
".
However, this “
should not hide the underlying problems”,
he writes
.
“The greatest disappointment of some Burkinabè
” comes, according to him, from the fact that the free mandate initially proposed for the members of the National Council of the Transition has been replaced by “
paid work
”.
The Country
thus fears that this body "
which was to be a real space for democratic and constructive debate, will ultimately become a simple sounding board for the Executive
".
So for
Le Pays
, "
the impression that emerges from all these amendments […] is that the Technical Commission, although made up of personalities, was used to carry out a forced passage by the putschists and the organizations of civil society who are affiliated with them, for the benefit of their initial agenda”
.
What reaction from ECOWAS?
And the Burkinabè media are now thinking about what to do next, in particular the response from the partners.
“
36-month transition awaits reaction from ECOWAS!
“, title to read on the front page of
Wakat Sera
.
The media also believes that "
Burkina Faso is more to accompany than to punish, if its new leaders do not try to settle for good in the house they have swept away
".
And then, notes
Wakat Sera
again , “
without serving the blank check in the khaki power of Ouagadougou, we can grant him good faith, given the speed he has put in for the elaboration of the Charter.
[…] Conversely, in Mali, it was after 18 months in power that Colonel Assimi Goïta and his followers used subterfuge to feign elections scheduled for last February and ask for five years of transition
”.
The evacuation of Moroccans from Ukraine
Also in the continental press this Wednesday, March 2: those who are still trying to flee the war in Ukraine.
Among the countries with many nationals concerned, there is Morocco: Nearly 12,000 Moroccans lived in Ukraine before the fighting began.
The Desk
follows their journey, they would already be more than 2000 to have fled Ukraine according to official figures.
Mainly in Poland, but also in Romania, Hungary or Slovakia...
On the site of the magazine
Telquel
, we learn that solidarity is organized.
An association of Franco-Moroccan lawyers thus traveled to the border between Ukraine and Poland “
to provide legal assistance to Moroccan nationals
”.
They have set themselves the task of enforcing the 1951 convention relating to the status of refugees, particularly its article 33, which provides that a person whose life is threatened cannot be returned "because of their race, religion or her nationality ".
“The most hated woman in Senegal”
Cornered, it is a personal fight that she delivers in Senegal.
Adji Sarr “
the most hated woman in Senegal
”, “
the pariah of Dakar
”, as
Le Monde Afrique
presents it .
"
Since she accused the opponent Ousmane Sonko of having raped her
", almost a year ago, she has been living "
under police protection
", "
in a secret place
".
“
On probation
”, “
like a prisoner in her own country”
, writes
Le Monde.
“Her detractors consider her to be the agent of a plot in the service of the Senegalese power
”.
Adji Sarr wants to give her version of the facts again when she is considered by many to be responsible for the deaths that occurred in the demonstrations which followed the arrest of Ousmane Sonko.
He has always proclaimed his innocence, the investigation is trampling on
Le Monde
but "
the young woman says she suffers from post-traumatic stress following the alleged rapes and claims to have made several suicide attempts
".
She claims to live "
recluse with a maternal aunt"
, in a daily life punctuated by "
short restless naps, writing a book and prayer
".
“God is my only hope”, says Adji Sarr and she now wants to leave Senegal, where she can no longer even “
go out on her balcony
".
She wants to "
become a feminist committed to defending victims like [her] whom we do not believe
", she finally confides to
World Africa.
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