2023-08-06 19:29:14
In Niger, the ECOWAS ultimatum is coming to an end but the putschists show no desire to comply
Supporters of the military junta gathered in a stadium in Niamey on August 6, 2023, a few hours before the expiry of the ECOWAS ultimatum. – /AFP
The situation in Niger was not about to calm down on Sunday August 6, a few hours before the expiry of the ultimatum of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Four days after the overthrow of elected President Mohamed Bazoum, ECOWAS had given seven days to the putschists to restore him to office, under penalty of using ” strength “.
But Sunday evening, nearly 30,000 supporters of the military coup were gathered in a stadium in Niamey. General Mohamed Toumba, one of the leaders of the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP, which took power), spoke out to denounce those “who lurk in the shadows” and that “are plotting subversion” against “Niger’s march forward”. “We are aware of their Machiavellian plan”, he said. For the time being, the generals who took power on July 26 in Niamey have shown no desire to give way.
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The putschists are supported by Mali and Burkina Faso, which have also been the scene of military coups. If the other Western and African countries support the deposed president, in Nigeria, voices have been heard against an intervention by ECOWAS. “We categorically refuse any military intervention”also reacted Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, assuring that a military intervention in Niger would be “a direct threat to Algeria”.
Academician Hélène Carrère d’Encausse is dead
The historian Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, February 21, 2022, in Paris. JOEL SAGET / AFP
Historian of Tsarist and Soviet Russia, third woman member of the French Academy, where she was the first elected to the post of perpetual secretary in 1999, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse died at the age of 94, her family announced. , Saturday, August 5.
Recognized in the circle of Kremlinologists and regularly consulted by the journalistic world, until recently on the invasion of Ukraine, she made a sensational entry into publishing in 1978 with The Shattered Empire (Flammarion). She predicted, before many others, the breakup of the USSR faced with the problem of minorities.
Hélène Carrère d’Encausse also had a political career and was notably elected to the European Parliament in June 1994.
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“Sunday Journal”: a reappearance despite around sixty departures announced
The offices of the “Journal du Dimanche” (JDD), in Paris. MARTIN LELIEVRE / AFP
After the signing of the agreement ending a historic forty-day strike, the great crossover began in Sunday newspaper (JDD). The announcements of departure follow one another among the hundred employees who protested, without success, against the appointment of Geoffroy Lejeune, the former director of Current values, at the head of the editorial staff of the title (owned by the Lagardère group, in the process of being taken over by Vivendi, controlled by the billionaire Vincent Bolloré). Not having won their case, around sixty journalists expressed their wish to leave the company with a conventional break.
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As for the recruitments carried out by Mr. Lejeune, several of his relatives in Current values have arrived, while dozens of applications are pouring in by email “of people wishing to talk about mass immigration, Islamism or even abortion”laments an editor of the leaving team.
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On Sunday, shortly before 1 a.m., the PDF version of this 3,989th issue of JDD- the first under the direction of Mr. Lejeune – was available online. Its “one” is devoted to the death of a 15-year-old adolescent stabbed on July 22 in Eure. “Why aren’t we talking about my son? Because he does not come from a city, but from a small town of 1,400 inhabitants? »wondered his mother in Le Figaro.
Several left-wing leaders have also deplored the interview granted by the Secretary of State for the City, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache, to the first edition of the newspaper under the leadership of Geoffroy Lejeune. “The Macron government endorses the coup de force of the JDD »commented in particular the first secretary of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure.
Pope Francis closes WYD in Lisbon by announcing that the 2027 edition will take place in Seoul
Pope Francis greets South Korean pilgrims during the WYD closing mass in Lisbon, August 6, 2023. THOMAS COEX / AFP
Pope Francis presided, Sunday August 6 in the morning, the final mass of World Youth Day (WYD), the culmination of a week of festive, cultural and spiritual meetings in Lisbon. He announced that the next WYD, scheduled for 2027, will be held in Seoul, South Korea. About 11% of South Korea’s population of 52 million is Catholic, a figure that has been rising in recent years.
During a vigil on Saturday evening, the world’s biggest Catholic event gathered a human tide of 1.5 million believers in a park in the Portuguese capital. Evoking in turn football, exams or moments of fatigue, the Argentinian Jorge Bergoglio called on young people to ” to walk “ et “get up” in case of failure.
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Juan Branco arrested at the border between Senegal and Mauritania
Juan Branco, during a press conference regarding a criminal complaint in France for alleged “crimes against humanity” against Senegalese President Macky Sall, June 22, 2023, in Paris. STEFANO RELLANDINI / AFP
The Franco-Spanish lawyer Juan Branco, who was actively sought in Senegal, was imprisoned, Sunday August 6 in the morning, in Dakar, after being arrested in neighboring Mauritania the day before, announced lawyers. The judge charged him with attack, conspiracy, spreading false news and acts and maneuvers likely to compromise public security or cause serious political unrest. Acts of attack are punishable by penalties of up to life imprisonment.
Mr. Branco made a name for himself in Senegal by taking part in the defense of Ousmane Sonko, an opponent engaged since 2021 in a standoff with power and justice which has given rise to several episodes of deadly violence.
After his client was sentenced to two years in prison for “youth corruption” in a sex scandal, Mr. Branco announced on June 22 that he had filed a complaint in France and a request for an investigation at the Criminal Court. (ICC) in The Hague against the Senegalese President, Macky Sall, for “crimes against humanity”. On July 14, the Senegalese justice responded by announcing its intention to issue an international arrest warrant against the French lawyer for “crimes and misdemeanors”in connection with the riots that shook Senegal in June after the conviction of Ousmane Sonko.
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