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On the front page of the press, the electoral crisis in Senegal, where the government announces the holding of the first round of the presidential election on March 24 - but fixed for March 31, by the Constitutional Council.
"Electoral process: it's over", headlines
Walf Quotidien
this morning , thanking the Constitutional Council for "saving Senegal".
“The Seven Sages are blocking Macky,” confirms
Le Quotidien
, another Senegalese newspaper.
"Macky and the PDS with their backs to the wall", announces
L'Enquête
, indicating that the Constitutional Council "could settle on the date of March 24".
The latest developments in this crisis are causing numerous comments in the African press.
“Presi, now we can vote?”: Question from
Wakat Sera
to President Macky Sall, who therefore finally agrees to organize the vote before the end of his mandate.
The Burkinabe site judges that "the conditional remains (however) appropriate", "taking into account the missed appointment of February 25, the date initially set for the presidential election, but above all the subterfuges used by the outgoing president to extract a bonus" .
“Hats off to the Council”:
Le Pays
, a Burkinabe daily, salutes the way in which the highest Senegalese court “provides proof that (it) cannot be a “thing” in the hands of the powerful of the moment”.
“If Macky Sall loses, Senegal will gain points”: according to
Le Djély
, the Senegalese have managed to “impose respect” on their leaders.
“A lesson that Macky Sall’s successor, whoever he is, will have an interest in remembering,” warns the Guinean news site.
He had committed to leaving power before the start of February: Prime Minister Ariel Henry is still prevented from returning to Haiti, where gangs control entire sections of the territory.
Le Nouvelliste
indicates that the United States is asking Ariel Henry, not to resign, but to "move forward", "to achieve the creation of a Presidential Transitional Council which will lead to the elections".
The Haitian newspaper published a cartoon showing the Prime Minister begging Uncle Sam not to whistle the end of the match, to let him play overtime.
Haïti Liberté
, whose front page yesterday mentioned "an itinerant ex-Prime Minister, without a country", expresses its immense anger at Ariel Henry, whom it presents as a "faithful puppet of Western imperialism", who would not dream "than to remain in power to avoid any legal proceedings (in) the assassination of former President Jovenel Moïse".
In Florida, where a large Haitian diaspora lives,
The Miami Herald
explains that Washington is "reluctant to send police forces, because of the long history of American military interventions in Haiti, which has made many Haitians suspicious of American motivations.
The daily accuses "the major countries of South America of "doing nothing" to help Haiti, and asks them to support the United States to push Ariel Henry and the opposition to form a government of union, so that “more countries agree to send police forces to Haiti”.
Before saying see you tomorrow, take a look at the
South China Morning Post
, which announces that the city of Kyoto, Japan, has decided to "ban" tourists from the famous geisha district, these women whose job is to practicing traditional Japanese arts, to entertain their customers.
The Hong Kong newspaper reports that tourists have, for example, thrown cigarette ashes into the necks of geishas, or stolen ornaments from their hairstyles.
How do you say "without embarrassment" in Japanese?
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