Senegal, Niger, South Africa. This is the program of the first African tour started on Sunday May 22 by the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz. This occurs in the “extension of the visit interrupted in February by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier” due to the war in Ukraine, note Le Djely. For the Guinean site, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict remains present in this diplomatic exercise, even constituting the“background”.
The impact of this conflict is mixed on the African continent. On the one hand, it increases the risk of famine “with the increase in the price of cereals and fertilizers”, écrit Le Djely. “But on the other hand, states with plenty of energy potential should do well”. This is the case of Senegal, which “sharing with his neighbor Mauritanian gas field whose reserves are estimated at around 1,400 billion cubic meters and whose first deliveries are expected, on the Senegalese side, in 2023”recalls the Burkinabe daily The Paalga Observer. This makes Dakar “an alternative to Russian Bear blackmail”who “continues to use its gas pipelines as a weapon of economic destruction”. The title goes on to highlight the situation