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On the front page of the African press, the decision of Senegalese President Macky Sall to postpone the presidential election on February 25. The demonstration by his opponents yesterday in Dakar was repressed.
Perceived as a "political maneuver" by his opponents, who believe that Macky Sall is trying to "play the extensions to bring order to (his) camp", whose candidate, Amadou Ba, "is neither unanimous nor the weight to achieve victory", this report worries
Le Pays
. The Burkinabé newspaper, which recalls that the head of state has promised not to run for a third term, evokes the "risky bet" of the president, accused of plunging Senegal "into a zone of turbulence".
L'Observateur Paalga
, another Burkinabe daily, wonders if Macky Sall is not looking for a "lenga", an expression in Moore, a language of Burkina Faso, which can be translated as a "bonus" . "If Macky Sall successfully locks and deals with his 'lenga' lease at the Palace of the Republic, between third undue mandate, civil coups, military coups, and calculated postponements of elections, the people will will rightly ask: which democracy should we devote ourselves to?" The question also haunts
Wakat Sera
. The Burkinabé news site notes that Senegal "was already under tension" before the announcement of this postponement, in particular since the denunciation of irregularities linked to the electoral process, the accusations of corruption against certain judges of the Constitutional Council and the updating the gap, in particular, of the opponent Ousmane Sonko.
There is also concern in the Middle East, where the United States increased strikes over the weekend against their pro-Iranian enemies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. The Emirati newspaper
The National
reports a "high alert" in the region, while the United States announces that these strikes are only "the beginning" of retaliation for the death of three American soldiers in an attack claimed by a pro-Iranian militia. In addition to these strikes, Washington announces new sanctions against Tehran, the question however being for what result and with what effectiveness?
The
Financial Times
revealed this morning that Iran used two of the UK's biggest banks, Lloyds and Santander, to secretly transfer funds across the planet and thus evade sanctions.
In France, the last roadblocks for farmers were lifted at the end of last week, following the announcement, in particular, by the government of the "pausing" of the plan aimed at reducing the use of pesticides by 50%. by 2030.
La Croix
relays the criticism, throughout the weekend, from defenders of ecology, who judge that the executive has “given in” to Fnsea, the majority union. For the Confédération Paysanne, the third agricultural union, classified on the left, the battle is however far from over. In an interview with the
Huffington Post
, its spokesperson, Laurence Marandola, regrets the proposals for ending the crisis deemed "insufficient", even "scandalous". “We, the climate emergency, want to take it head on: we must work with living things,” she declares.
Elsewhere in Europe, farmers remain mobilized. In Spain, where farmers are preparing to demonstrate to demand less "European bureaucracy",
El Pais
is also calling for a policy "reconciling economy and ecology". The daily considers it "essential" that the EU reforms the CAP, the Common Agricultural Policy, to "correct the unequal distribution of subsidies", 80% of which are allocated to only 20% of farmers. In Germany,
the Tagesschau news site
specifies that the "resentment" of farmers across the Rhine was also caused by the planned reduction in agricultural subsidies, because of the budgetary crisis.
Germany, where farmers are not the only ones to demonstrate in recent days. According to
Libération
, "hundreds of thousands of people" marched again this weekend across the country to protest against the progression of the AfD, the far-right party and its "remigration" project of foreigners. A mobilization "unprecedented since the fall of the Wall", according to Libé - hence the headline: "Historisch" (History).
The French press also returns this morning to the vote, yesterday, of 54% of Parisians, in favor of a "specific rate for parking" for heavy vehicles such as SUVs.
Le Parisien
announces "a mixed success" for the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, at the origin of this proposal, which only mobilized 78,000 voters, or 5% of the capital's voters. Participation down compared to the referendum on the equally thorny issue of electric scooters, which brought together more than 100,000 residents. If the question does not obviously excite Parisians, it is, however, of great interest to the foreign press, Anglo-Saxon in particular.
The Financial Times
presents the French capital as "a pioneer in terms of mobility", with a vote presented as a test of tolerance towards "monsters on wheels". According to the British daily, hostile reactions to large vehicles are "gaining ground across Europe", at the same time as SUVs are becoming "increasingly popular", in France and elsewhere. In the United States, motherland of the SUV,
The Washington Post
, which speaks of a vote "closely monitored by the automobile industry and municipal authorities" across the continent, confirms Europeans' taste for this type of vehicle - almost half of the cars sold last year in the EU.
Before saying see you tomorrow, I suggest you leave the congested city centers. In Uganda, authorities have decided to reintroduce silverbacks, mountain gorillas, a species threatened with extinction only a few years ago. But would gorillas breed like rabbits? Today, their population is estimated to reach nearly a thousand individuals, according to
The Times
, and their cohabitation with the surrounding villagers poses a problem. At the moment, no compensation is offered if the gorillas steal people's food or damage their property and crops. But avenues so that critters and humans can coexist in harmony are being studied.
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