POLITICS
COMOROS: End of Ramadhwani: President Azali Assoumani addressed the Nation
It is the end of the holy month of Ramadhwani, the head of state, Azali Assoumani, addressed the nation. An opportunity for him to express his good health and happiness:
Comorians, Comorians, My dear compatriots,
I would like to address to you all, my dear compatriots, in the country and in the Diaspora, my warm congratulations and my best wishes for good health and happiness for yourselves, your families and your loved ones, on the occasion of the end of the month of Ramadan and the celebration of Eid-Al-Fitr.
I join my prayers to yours, that Allah the Merciful may grant to our country, as well as to the brother countries of the Islamic Umma and to all friendly countries, peace, security, harmony, progress and prosperity.
I give thanks to Allah for all he does to our country and, in particular, throughout this holy month that we lived in peace and in which the products of primary necessity were available.
My dear compatriots,
It is an exceptional month of Ramadan that has just ended and a special Eid-Al-Fitr feast that we are about to celebrate.
We have just spent our first month of Ramadan, without the Darsat and the presence of our very regrouping Mufti Said Toihir Ben Ahmed Maoulana.
It is therefore today a new opportunity to pray that Allah the Merciful will grant His great mercy and eternal paradise to him who for decades has taught us moral education, knowledge of the Holy Quran and Islamic sciences and served our country and its people.
This year, we also had an extraordinary Ramadan for all Muslims, which took place in the context of the Coronavirus.
Thus, in this month of Ramadan, one of the five pillars of Islam, marked by fasting and prayer and , which is traditionally a period of sharing, gatherings, conviviality and large gatherings in mosques, and night prayers of the Tarawih and Witr, we had to adapt the rites of this month, to the measures taken and the gestures barriers, the suspension of collective prayers and curfew, dictated by the need to protect ourselves against the spread of COVID-19.
I would like to thank you for the discipline, respect for the measures taken and the practice of the barrier gestures you have adopted throughout this period and I ask you to continue to observe them with even more rigour, in the days, weeks and months to come.
It is this health context that also dictates the same caution on the occasion of Eid-El-Fitr.
So we must avoid, as far as possible, physical contacts and gatherings during this feast, as recommended by the Mufti of the Republic, in the Fatwa he issued on this subject.
o let’s pray and celebrate Eid-El-Fitr at home, as a family.
My dear compatriots,
In the war we declared to COVID-19, we must remain lucid and not lose sight of the fragility of our country and our health system.
We must remain united, in reflection and action, in the interest of our country.
Discipline, solidarity in action, responsible behaviour, respect for decisions taken, instructions given and gestures barriers, must be our watchwords.
It is in this context that I will address you very shortly.
We must and we can come out of it, stronger and even more determined to move our country forward, as we have claimed, on the path of emergence, and to build a more just, democratic and supportive society.
May this day of Eid-Al-Fitr be for us and the whole of the Islamic Umma, a day of invocations for Allah Almighty, in His great Mercy, assist us in our common action, committed to fighting, overcoming and overcoming the serious crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic and with God’s help, reconnecting with hope.
Let us pray that Allah will make us return to His house, the mosque and so that we can Insha-Allah, Insha-Allah, celebrate the next Ide el Kabir, in normality and conviviality.
Thank you very much.
POLITICS
SENEGAL – Harassment, food tampering, communication ban: the Diomaye Coalition President alert on the conditions of detention of his candidate
The Diomaye Coalition President warns about the conditions of detention of candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye. The members of the said coalition inform that his visiting days have been changed and he can only receive visits on Tuesdays and Wednesdays within the Court. He is also prohibited from telephone communications. The Diomaye Président coalition denounces this relentlessness against its candidate and holds the regime responsible for any attack on the physical or moral integrity of their candidate.
“Following the official launch of the Diomaye President Coalition and the massive adhesions of opposition leaders, it was expected that the government in power would reinstate the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye in his rights, particularly in the context of a presidential election of which he is undoubtedly the favourite,” reads a statement.
However, the Coalition announces that the Prison Administration, under the responsibility of the Minister of Justice, has decided to unilaterally and without justification tighten the conditions of detention of candidate Bassirou Diomaye FAYE by:
“A unilateral modification of his visiting days now, the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye can only receive visits on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and this within the Court itself. A ban on telephone communications under the pretext that the favorite candidate in the presidential election whose campaign begins in two days has conversations whose purpose is political. A continuous harassment of the room of the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye is now searched at every turn.”
Moreover, she notes a «lack of security measures despite her status as a candidate in the presidential election of February 25, 2024 and multiple alerts on probable alterations of the food served to her. Candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye no longer has breakfast.”
The Diomaye President coalition denounces this relentlessness against its candidate. “We strongly denounce this umpteenth violation of the principle of equality between candidates in the presidential election of February 25, 2024. We call for the immediate release of Bassirou Diomaye Faye to actively participate in the election campaign.”
In any case, she stresses, «the State of Senegal has the responsibility to ensure its protection if it unjustly decides to maintain it in the bonds of detention».
In short, the Diomaye Coalition President indicates that «Macky Sall, Aissata Tall Sall and Amadou Ba will be held responsible for any attack on the physical or moral integrity of the candidate Bassirou Diomaye Faye».
Source : PressAfrik
POLITICS
SENEGAL – 100.000 Housing: Ismaila Madior Fall á Bambilor for the inauguration
This Friday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Senegalese from outside, Ismaila Madior Fall, accompanied by Minister Annette Ndiaye Seck, will inaugurate the “City of the Diaspora” in Bambilor. This project aims to prevent the creation of new slums and encourage the mass production of accessible housing.
According to the Observer, the aim is to boost and diversify the supply of housing for low-income and/or irregular households, while facilitating access to adapted bank financing. With a clear vision of strengthening the construction ecosystem, this initiative demonstrates the commitment of the Senegalese government to its diaspora.
The 100,000 units planned in this project were developed in partnership with the Senegalese government and its collaborators, seeking to meet the specific housing needs and concerns of Senegalese living abroad.
Source: PressAfrik
POLITICS
SENEGAL – Thione Niang “I have no program, I have a vision”
Social entrepreneur Thione Niang is a candidate in the February 2024 election. In this exclusive interview, he reveals his vision, his projects in particular, “Give One project”, “JeufZone” which includes an agricultural component, training but also women’s empowerment.
It was an opportunity for the social entrepreneur to look back on his beginnings, on the process of returning to his country of origin, Senegal. He addressed the political question: his involvement in the political ring while giving his opinion on the Senegalese political landscape.
African politics is another aspect of this interview. The urgency of the industrialization of the continent, the urgency of helping African youth so that they have the same opportunities for development as other young people in the world, is close to his heart.
On the question of the African school, Thione Niang proposes a redesign of it, starting with a paradigm shift and especially the content of the teachings. According to him, we must return to our fundamentals, namely our own models of identity representations, notably Cheikh Anta Diop or Nkrumah.
Thione Niang, also told us about vision, his vision and not a program, to give each Senegalese what he deserves both in terms of education, health, but also on the development of infrastructure, which, according to him, necessarily passes first and foremost through food self-sufficiency, hence his return to the land for an assertive agricultural progress.
He ended up sending a strong message to all Senegalese.
The rest of the interview on this link:
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