A LA UNE
SENEGAL-LEGISLATIVE: These results are only shameful because false.
Abdoul Mbaye, president of the Alliance for Citizenship and Labor, head of the coalition Joyyanti, denounces the results of the legislative elections of 30 July 2017.
My dear Companions,
Nine months after the start of our party’s activities, our bodies had decided to participate in the legislative elections scheduled in 2017 although soon came.
The latter took place. They will remain as the poorest organized in Senegal for 50 years. Their results will soon be official. They will impose themselves on us. They are particularly unfavorable to us.
We know, however, that they do not reflect the will of the people, but we choose not to be in the shoes of the bad loser since our two main objectives have been achieved.
We wanted to experience the first election and better prepare the future ones. We know today the organizer of the election untrustworthy, at the same time that we have observed a particularly regrettable democratic retreat mixing incompetence and concern to refuse transparency. Rejecting any audit of the electoral register was already an admission before the time. Senegalese citizens absent from the lists despite the possession of their biometric identity cards or their receipts now know why this audit was refused by the Senegalese authorities.
Everything has gone by. Everything was cheating, mixing gravity and comedy: the purchase of consciences, those of the candidates and those of the electors; Buses allowing voters to travel to voting centers abroad only for APR activists for the first time; The fights organized in several of them; The bulletin of the outgoing majority that “the wind moved to cover the lot of bulletins of the coalition Joyyanti” to Cambérène; The blue bulletin of our coalition turned violet and thus hardly recognizable by the voters; The votes that reduced the votes in favor of our coalition when we did not have representatives in the offices without fear of final totally aberrant counts (example: 1495 votes in Dakar …), etc.
Above all, we have achieved the goal of broadly disseminating our political message through the electoral campaign. We have carried it with other coalitions of patriots and enlightened the voters on the role of the deputy and the importance in a democracy of a parliament that is not totally subject to the executive power.
These results were possible only through the remarkable commitment of our companions and militants of the Allied parties. I would like to express my deep gratitude for their commitment and congratulations on the results achieved.
It remains for us to engage the future. These results are only shameful because false. Our people did not refuse the call for a policy putting their interests before those of a political class, certainly in power, but already condemned. It’s a question of time.
Companions, let’s go back to the book where it had been interrupted: the validation of the basic committees of the ACT party which had been suspended and the setting up of its structures in place of the provisional ones that had started our project. Let us continue our effort to explain “politics differently” and awaken consciences, by giving ethics the place it must find in our society and politics. Let us continue to call unceasingly to transform Senegal into a true democracy by the balance of its institutions.
Companions remain standing! Tomorrow is near, “it will be new and it will depend on us” (Gaston Berger).
Abdoul Mbaye
President of the Alliance for Citizenship and Labor
Joyyanti coalition list head
Yamoussoukro, December 26, 2023- After an impregnation visit of the Charles Konan-Banny stadium in Yamoussoukro, Tuesday, December 26, 2023, the Prime Minister, Minister of Sport and Living Environment, Robert Beugré Mambé, said reassured. The stadium, he said, is ready to host Group C matches from Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea and The Gambia.
‘What we have seen is reassuring. Technically, from the equipment point of view, we are ready at the Yamoussoukro stadium. But we will remain vigilant until the end,” said Robert Beugré Mambé.
The Prime Minister called for on-call teams to be set up in all sectors. We will have specialists permanently because Côte d’Ivoire wants to be up to date, in all circumstances, with the expected benefits of this great country. We have given indications that vigilance is needed,’ insisted the Head of Government.
For this visit, which is part of the visits of infrastructure related to the CAN 2023, the Vice-President of the Republic, Tiémoko Meyliet Koné, accompanied by the Prime Minister and other members of the government, visited the host infrastructure, in particular the President’s Hotel where official delegations will stay.
CAN 2023 is scheduled from January 13 to February 11, 2024 in Côte d’Ivoire with 24 teams.
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The Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), received the Innovative Deal of the Year Award from the AFIS AWARDS 2023, in conjunction with the SGI EDC Investment Corporation. It was on the occasion of the African Financial Industry Summit (AFIS), held in Lomé (Togo), on November 15 and 16, 2023.
A statement from the Brvm informs that this prize is awarded relative to the success of the introduction to the BRVM of Orange Côte d’Ivoire, on December 30, 2022, with a record capitalization at the introduction of 1538.19 billion Cfa francs.
The document reports that the distinction made to the BRVM through the «Innovative Deal of the Year» Award reflects the recognition of the African financial industry to a rare transaction in recent times on the markets (partial privatization by IPO) which raised the WAEMU stock market to fifth place on African stock exchanges in terms of capitalisation in September 2023.
Dr Edoh Kossi AMENOUNVE expressed the gratitude of the BRVM, its Board of Directors, its General Management and all its staff who are honoured to receive this distinction. It is the culmination of the efforts undertaken over several years in terms of promoting the regional financial market and innovation.
Dr AMENOUNVE took the opportunity to express his deep gratitude to the Ivorian Government and its Privatization Committee whose vision and leadership he praised. He thanked them for their ongoing concern for the BRVM. The public offer to sell the shares of Orange Côte d’Ivoire was arranged and conducted by SGI EDC Investment Corporation (Ecobank Group) co-winner of the prize.
Initiated by Jeune Afrique Media Groupe (JAMG) in partnership with Mazars, the AFIS Awards annually reward five categories of companies and individuals who have contributed significantly to the growth of the African financial sector.
Burkina Faso is not “enemy” of the “French people”, said Captain Ibrahim Traoré, transitional president, following a coup d’état, in an interview broadcast Wednesday, September 06, 2023 by Radio television of Burkina (RTB, public.
“We are not enemies with the French people, it is the policy of those who lead France that poses a problem in Africa, so as long as a state is not in an imperialist spirit (…) there is no problem,” he said in the interview recorded on 31 August.
Burkina has been looking for new cooperation ever since. We have new partners who support us in terms of equipment and so on,’ he added, without naming them.
Burkina Faso’s Foreign Minister, Olivia Rouamba, on Monday expressed her country’s desire to “strengthen bilateral cooperation” with Iran, during a meeting in Tehran with President Ebrahim Raïssi.
A Russian delegation exchanged with Mr. Traoré last week in Ouagadougou, on issues of development and military cooperation and Captain Traoré went to Saint Petersburg in July for the Russia-Africa summit.
He reaffirmed his country’s support for Niger, the scene of a coup d’état on 26 July, with which Burkina shares the so-called “three-border” zone between Mali, Niger and Burkina, considered a hideout of jihadist groups.
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