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Emmanuel Macron begins his African tour by Cameroon
He leaves far from the negotiations of the National Assembly. French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Monday evening in Yaoundé for his first visit to Cameroon and Central Africa, with the aim of reviving the political and economic relations between the two countries, which are in decline. The Head of State was welcomed around 10:40 p.m. local time at the airport by Cameroonian Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute before a short official ceremony.
This trip, which will also take him to Benin and Guinea Bissau, should allow him to reaffirm his “commitment to the process of renewing France’s relationship with the African continent” at the start of his second five-year term, explained the Elysee. . Emmanuel Macron is expected Tuesday morning at the presidential palace for an interview with his counterpart Paul Biya, 89, who has ruled Cameroon with an iron fist for nearly 40 years.
Covid-19: The health bill will be definitively adopted on Tuesday, after a final vote in the Senate
Parliament will definitively adopt on Tuesday, by a final vote of the Senate, a bill rewritten by the right, which explicitly puts an end to the health pass and other exceptional measures against Covid-19 on August 1, but provides for a possible test. mandatory at borders.
The first bill thus validated under the new legislature, this text bears the mark of the new parliamentary configuration which obliges the government to seek agreements beyond the presidential majority, in particular with Les Républicains, the first group in the Senate. It was voted on for the last time on Monday by the National Assembly, in its version from the Senate then approved by a joint committee of deputies and senators.
Canada: Pope asks for “pardon for the evil” done to indigenous peoples
“A devastating mistake”: Pope Francis on Monday issued a historic apology to the Native American people of Canada, asking “forgiveness for the wrong” done for decades in residential schools for natives. “I am distressed. I ask forgiveness,” the pope said in Maskwacis, Alberta, in western Canada.
Referring to the “wounds still open”, he recognized the responsibility of certain members of the Church in this system where “the children suffered physical and verbal, psychological and spiritual abuse”. These apologies are “a first step” but “there is still a lot of work to do”, reacted George Arcand Jr., Grand Chief of the Confederation of First Nations of Treaty No. 6.