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In the press, the death yesterday, at the age of 41, of the American basketball player Kobe Bryant, in a helicopter accident, in the United States.

His disappearance has been featured on the headlines of many daily newspapers around the world, including the British newspaper The Independent , which reports that one of Kobe Bryant's daughters, Gianna, 13, also died in the crash, as well than 7 other people. Retired from the floors since 2015, the five-time NBA champion and double Olympic gold medalist, had become a basketball legend. "The star Bryant": the French sports daily L'Equipe salutes the memory of the former number 24 of the Los Angeles Lakers, a "child of the ball, raised in Italy and in France", a "rear (who) was the technical equal (of the mythical) Michael Jordan, of which he (had) married the prize list, the elegance ball in hands and the expressions "," one of the most brilliant attackers in the history "of basketball. On social networks, tens of thousands of messages have been paying homage since yesterday to the man who called himself "Black Mamba" - because "Black Mamba can strike, repeatedly, very quickly, with 99% of success". We have selected for you a drawing, published on Twitter , which uses and diverts the logo of the NBA, the North American basketball league: a basketball player is crying. "Rest in peace," simply says the legend.

Also in the press, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in southern Poland by troops of the Red Army. "75 years ago, Auschwitz, never forget": the local newspaper Ouest-France announces that more than 200 survivors are expected today on the spot, "to honor the victims of Auschwitz, but also to issue a warning ". "We want the next generation to know what we have been through, and it will never happen again," said David Marks, 93, yesterday. Knowing what happened is a mission that the survivors have set for themselves. It was also the concern of those who knew their near death, recalls L'Humanité , which delivers these words from beyond the grave, written by a prisoner who had buried this testimony, exhumed forty years later: “Dear discoverer of this story ! I have a prayer to say to you, it is in truth my essential reason to write. Let my life condemned to death at least make sense. May my hellish days, may my hopeless tomorrow reach their goal in the future ”.

A word, too, from this historic invasion of locusts, which have been devastating large areas of East Africa for several weeks. "East Africa eaten by billions of locusts," headlines Le Temps , with the spectacular image of a man disappearing under a cloud of insects. According to the Swiss newspaper, the region, already devastated by droughts and then by floods, risks finding itself quickly confronted with "a major food security problem". According to Jeune Afrique , which quotes FAO, the United Nations Agency for Agriculture and Food, Ethiopia and Somalia had not seen swarms of locusts of such magnitude in 25 years, and Kenya for 70 years. And if nothing is done, the number of insect pests "could be multiplied by 500 by the month of June" and then invade South Sudan and Uganda, devastating the cultures that are in its path , in areas already very vulnerable.

Finally, the press is still widely reporting on the continued spread of the coronavirus, which left from China, where more than 2,700 people were infected, and 80 people died. While the Chinese city of Wuhan and its region, where the first cases appeared, were placed in quarantine, the virus could have already infected nearly 100,000 people in the world, according to an expert quoted by The Guardian , who evokes the difficulties encountered by the United Kingdom in evacuating the 200 or so British citizens present in confined areas - evacuation to which France and the United States will also proceed this week, for their own nationals. "Faced with the coronavirus, the world is getting organized: according to the French daily La Croix , experts are worried about a possible" mutation of the coronavirus ", but refuse" any alarmism ", the virus being, according to them," more contagious that dangerous at this stage. " The coronavirus, which inspires a drawing by Ben Jennings, published by The Guardian . The British will leave the European Union next Friday. "Apparently, the UK is imposing its own quarantine this week," said a Chinese reader.

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