Africa press review
In the spotlight: the mystery of the missing Mauritanians
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Village of Ouad Initi in southeastern Mauritania.
The population lives from livestock.
(Illustrative image) Olivier Fourt/RFI
By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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To try to pierce it, the Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in a large crew, will lead an embassy today and tomorrow in Nouakchott.
Bearing in mind that the Mauritanian authorities have accused the Malian army of "
recurrent crimes
" against their nationals, following the disappearance of several dozen Mauritanian herders on Malian soil over the past two months, Bamako is not sparing to elucidate this enigma of breeders who disappeared from the borders of Mauritania and Mali.
And for good reason !
in these times of ECOWAS sanctions against him, Mauritania is a real umbilical cord for Mali.
In Bamako, several newspapers, such as
L'Essor
, for example, report that Colonel Assimi Goïta, President of the Transition, exchanged with his Mauritanian counterpart, Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, and this newspaper limits itself to reporting the press release from the presidency stating of Mali's desire
"
to take vigorous action to further strengthen fraternity and cooperation (with Mauritania), particularly in the area of management (of the common border), defense and the security of persons and property
”.
In this press release, the Malian transitional authorities "
vigorously condemn these criminal acts
" and find, "
once again, disturbing the occurrence of this kind of unfortunate incident
“, points
out L’Essor
.
The Bamako-Nouakchott lifeline
This affair, in any case, also disturbs part of the press… in the sub-region as in France.
On his paper, in Burkina Faso,
Wakat Séra
layers “
the mystery of the missing from the border
”.
Because the stakes are high, points out this Ouagadougou daily, "
with Guinea, Mauritania and its port, has become a real breath of fresh air for Mali, a landlocked landlocked country, whose leaders have engaged in a -fer with the international community
”.
So
?
So "
the sooner the light will be shed on these disappearances of Mauritanian breeders, the better it will be for Mali, which cries out at the machination hatched by pharmacies which would view its relations with Mauritania with a dim view
", explains
Wakat Sera
.
Attention, warns, in France, the
Mondafrique
site , "
a falling out with Mauritania would be for the military junta (Malian) a real way of shooting itself in the foot
".
As this online journal points out, “
These tensions come at the worst possible time.
Mauritania, whose army is one of the most efficient in the Sahel, is a country bordering Mali, without ever having been a member of ECOWAS, the regional organization which condemned the coup d'etat in Bamako.
Mauritania is therefore not applying the sanctions implemented by ECOWAS last January.
The port of Nouakchott, under these conditions, now constitutes an essential access route for Mali
”, underlines
Mondafrique
.
Ivorian collapse murderers
Two buildings collapsed in Côte d'Ivoire, two more, thirteen dead in two weeks.
At the very least... And this astonishing article from
L'Observateur Paalga
.
Choosing to laugh about it, this Burkinabè daily newspaper is ironic about (I quote) “
our ancestors the Gauls (who) had a great fear: that the sky would fall on their heads.
It is true that in their time, they did not think of the roofs of their houses, the constructions on several levels were moreover not legion, not to say that they were non-existent.
For us Africans, in these times, the great fear is that a building will collapse on us
”
.
The Paalga Observer
, however, points to "
the quicksands of corruption
" in that case…
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