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In the spotlight: the national dialogue in Chad, hope or mirage
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Rebel leaders Timan Erdimi (L) and Mahamat Nouri (R) returned to Ndjamena after 16 years of exile on August 18, 2022. © AFP/Aurélie Bazzara-Kibangula / montage
By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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Rebel leaders Mahamat Nouri and Timan Erdimi returned on August 18 after many years in exile to participate in the national dialogue.
They had tried to take Ndjamena in 2008 and 2019 and overthrow President Idriss Déby.
Mahamat Nouri and Timan Erdimi returned to the country yesterday to participate in this national dialogue.
The result of an agreement signed last week in Doha, the national dialogue begins there on August 20, without however the presence of the Front pour l'alternance et la concorde au Tchad, Mahamat Mahdi Ali, and other military-civilian groups. who have not signed the Doha agreement.
General Mahamat Nouri "
says he is absolutely ready for dialogue
", notes
Alwihda
.
“
Everything shows that Chadians today have realized that they have a duty to rebuild the country
,” said the head of the Union of Forces for Democracy and Development yesterday on his arrival in Ndjamena. , reports this Chadian newspaper, evoking now a “
possible mutation
” of this movement into a political party.
The opening of political dialogue in Chad is of course a subject of interest for the sub-regional press.
Thus, in Burkina Faso, the daily newspaper
L'Observateur Paalga
wonders if Deby junior is “
about to succeed where Deby senior failed?
(…)
Provided that the mountain of national reconciliation does not give birth to a mouse
”, hopes L'Observateur Paalga, noting that “
the most difficult clause to respect in the Doha agreements is the one which stipulates that the actors of the transition should not be candidates in the upcoming elections
», and we understand that the gaze of this Ouagalais daily is implicitly turned towards the son of Idriss Déby, Mahamat Idriss Déby, today president of the Chadian transition.
“
Beware therefore of the eternal restarting
”, adds his colleague
WakatSera
.
Because the opening of this national dialogue in Chad poses questions “
whose answers, except for the tsunami, will prove right the haters of Mahamat Idriss Deby who will have set the national dialogue machine in motion
(…)
only to keep, at the end , the keys to the house!
“warns WakatSera.
Sonko launches in Senegal
In Senegal, the opponent Ousmane Sonko is a candidate for the 2024 presidential election. The mayor of Ziguinchor and leader of Pastef, the party of African patriots of Senegal for work, ethics and fraternity, "
disintegrates and recontextualizes
" , headlines the Senegalese daily
24 Hours.
Sonko "
is heading for 2024
", launches his colleague EnQuête more soberly.
“
Yesterday, the declared candidate presented himself as a favorite.
He took the opportunity to fire on France
, ”underlines this Dakar daily.
Denis Cristel Sassou N'Guesso, prodigal son
These revelations, finally, in the case of “
ill-gotten gains
”.
Denis Cristel Sassou N'Guesso, son of the president of Congo-Brazzaville, is suspected by French justice of having laundered 19 million euros in France.
According to
Mediapart
, at the end of last June, in this very chic adjoining suburb of Paris that is Neuilly-sur-Seine, French justice seized a private mansion.
According to this online newspaper, the judicial investigation has brought together enough evidence to show that the son of the Congolese president is the owner of this private mansion which is now occupied by Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso and his family, assures Mediapart.
The French justice investigation would also relate to two other properties: two apartments in the 16th arrondissement of Paris.
A lifestyle "
without common measures
" with the official income declared by Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso, reports Mediapart.
Which newspaper adds that the track advanced by the investigators is that of oil, on which the executive power has the upper hand.
Contacted by Mediapart, the lawyer for the son of the Congolese president affirms - that contrary to the judicial conclusions, Denis Christel Sassou Nguesso is not the owner of the real estate concerned.
And that the facts denounced by the investigation of justice are not actually established.
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