In the press - 39 months of transition in Guinea: "Laugh or cry?"

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On the front page of the press, the acceleration of Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, where Russian forces are still trying to seize Donbass.

The international press is widely echoing, this morning, the promise of American President Joe Biden to deliver 20 billion dollars of offensive military equipment to kyiv.

A strategy defended in

by researcher Vincent Tourret, of the Foundation for Strategic Research, who explains that "diplomacy (being) indexed to results on the ground, (Westerners) are obliged to support Ukraine militarily, in order to reach negotiations and rediscover a dialogue".

is, on the other hand, much more skeptical.

According to him, "the United States (dismisses) any danger of a nuclear strike", "to the detriment of the search for peace negotiations".

The newspaper cites the US Secretary of Defense, who says he has made it his goal to “see Russia weakened to such a degree that it cannot do the same kind of thing as the invasion of Ukraine”.

A goal that could result in the continuation of the war for several months, at least, according to

.

Many reactions also, on the side of the African press, after the announcement, Saturday, of the head of the military junta in Guinea, who says he wants to set the duration of the transition at 39 months,

before returning power to civilians.

“39!

Not 36 or 42, no, 39!

It's a watchmaker's precision,” quips

.

The Burkinabé daily makes fun of the “chronogram” of the transition established by Mamady Doumbouya, the leader of the junta which overthrew Alpha Condé in September 2021. Three years and three months, a period neither “reasonable” nor “acceptable”, for the newspaper, which compares this delay to the 36 months of transition demanded by Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba, the head of the junta in power in Burkina Faso, who himself would at least have "the excuse of being at the head of a country, a good part of which is under the influence of terrorists", or even the 24 months of transition requested by Assimi Goita, the head of the junta in power in Mali.

“39 months of transition in Guinea: laughing or crying?”: the Burkinabé site

expresses his concern about the "Springtime of coups d'etat", "which is imposing itself on a West Africa where democracy is taking the lead in the wing", while its populations "are still looking for solutions to hunger and disease" and "live on land whose rich subsoil only benefits others".

The proliferation of coups in West Africa also threatens freedom of the press.

On the eve of World Press Freedom Day,

points out that the mission of journalists to "put the pen in the wound", their "obstinacy in wanting to check, cross-check and analyze the information before making it public", "is often not to the taste of the khaki regimes which show with great reluctance each time an objective criticism thwarts their dark plans to manipulate the people".

The Burkinabe newspaper, which cites the example of neighboring Mali, where RFI and France 24 have been definitively suspended by the transitional authorities, also warns President Damiba: "In this country of Norbert Zongo, the Burkinabe journalist murdered in 1998 , one would rather die at the gates of freedom than rot in the hells of servitude”.

In France, the traditional May Day demonstrations have taken a very political turn, a week after Emmanuel Macron's presidential victory.

“French unions warn Macron”:

reports on rallies “dominated by concerns about purchasing power, energy prices, and pension reform” announced by Emmanuel Macron, faced with his first “big challenge" of this second five-year term, with the legislative elections next month.

Elections that the left seeks to address in unity.

announces that the Federal Council of Europe Ecology The Greens voted widely, yesterday evening, the text concluded with La France insoumise by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the ecologists and the "insubordinates" now forming the "New Popular Ecologist and Social Union".

The two parties now hope to pave the way for other unions, with the Communist Party and the Socialist Party, whose boss, Olivier Faure, has agreed to negotiate with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, angering some of his own camp, which fears to dissolve in rebellious France.

Is it “the end of the PS?” Asks

, which sees the Socialists “on borrowed time”.

The prospect of a union of the left dominated by Jean-Luc Mélenchon gives cold sweats to

, who already predicts the “inexorable submission” of the left to the boss of the Insoumis.

We say see you tomorrow with a “goodbye”.

The queen of Parisian night owls is gone.

Régina Zylberberg, known as Régine, died yesterday at the age of 92.

A “feather eclipse”, nicely titled

, in reference to the famous song “Mon truc en plumes”.

Boa lovers are orphans.

Beautiful tribute, also, from the Swiss newspaper

: "Carried away by the night", ultimate title for the one Françoise Sagan had baptized "the black queen of our sleepless nights".

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