Africa press review
In the spotlight: the "Ivorian connection"
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More than two tons of cocaine seized in Abidjan and San Pedro in Côte d'Ivoire.
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By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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More than two tonnes of cocaine seized in Abidjan and San Pedro… The independent newspaper
Soir Info
points out in its headline that this affair “
continues to splash…
” in Côte d'Ivoire.
In total, 2,057 tons of cocaine were seized in Abidjan.
According to
Soir Info
, the presumed "capo" of this drug mafia, that is to say the "
brain
" of this gang, is a Spaniard named Miguel Angel Devesa Mera, a trader in medical oxygen and ice cream. , domiciled in San Pedro (west of the Ivory Coast), where he would have “
three opulent villas
”.
It is by making the suspect's mobile phone “
talk
” that the Ivorian police investigators would have highlighted his “
criminal links
” with the 22 people charged in this case, states
Soir Info
.
According to this newspaper, the investigations also proved that it was from Abidjan that cargoes (were) conveyed to the town of San Pedro, “
with the complicity of several local administration and security officials
”.
They were then "
redistributed in small batches before being transported to the Malian or Nigerian desert, with the support of jihadist groups, then recovered by air
", adds
Soir Info
.
Inevitably, this drug affair in Côte d'Ivoire alarms the press beyond the Ivorian borders.
In neighboring Burkina Faso, the daily Wakat Sera also looks into this traffic "which smokes the Ivory Coast", he formulates.
“With its ports bustling with activity (Côte d'Ivoire is a) crossing point that is growing.
Moreover, the country of Alassane Ouattara is far from being the only one on the continent which is on the international drug route.
And it is in this respect that the concerns are legitimate to see more establishment in the tropics, this hydra whose heads grow as soon as they are cut off”, mythologically states
Wakat Sera
, emphasizing that “
this traffic is also used to finance terrorism which African countries, and more specifically those of the Sahel, are trying with all the difficulty in the world to get rid of
”.
The mines of death in Burkina
Burkina Faso, precisely, with the industrial mine Riverstone Karma, located in Namissiguia, in the North region, which was targeted by a deadly attack yesterday morning.
Armed men launched an assault on the mine around 4:30 a.m. local time.
According to security sources, two people, including a civilian and a soldier were killed during the attack.
Several people injured and vehicles burned.
And as this attack comes after the deadly flood in the zinc mine of Perkoa, let's reopen Wakat Sera to see that this local daily deplores that the mining activity is "doing
gray mine in Burkina!"
".
This Ugandan newspaper wonders how much longer Burkina will “
leave these hens with the golden eggs left to their own devices and to the fury of predators with a well-hidden purpose, because they obviously have nothing to do with (…) jihadists?
For how much longer will Burkina watch helplessly as its mines are closed and only need a little more security around them?
», asks
Wakat Sera
again .
Macky Sall's Famine Alert
"
If local cereals are not produced, we will be in a situation of very serious famine
", warns, on the front page of the daily
EnQuête
, the President of Senegal.
But beyond this famine alert, this Dakar newspaper, Macky Sall “
did not go to Russia to try to convince his counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to stop bombing Ukraine.
He went there to save the interests
of the
Member
States
of
the
Union
”
. of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
The Senegalese President
has refuted an alignment in favor of Russia and recognizes that Ukraine is being attacked by Vladimir Putin
”, points out this Senegalese newspaper online.
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