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SENEGAL – Ousmane Sonko Delivered To The Majority Vote

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The ad hoc committee of the National Assembly set up to decide on the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of MP Ousmane Sonko, sent the question to the plenary. After refusing to respond to the summons of the said committee, the leader of Pastef now sees his immunity at the mercy of the majority deputies. By Senegalactu / EnquetesPlus

Disarmed, disillusioned, resigned. Very clever is the one who can guess how Ousmane Sonko can feel before the accelerated procedure that must lead to the lifting of his parliamentary immunity. In one week, an ad hoc commission was set up and it decided to seal the fate of the leader of Pastef-Les Patriotes in plenary. And in the face of the majority that has been guiding the choices of the National Assembly since the beginning of this affair, we can consider that it is only a matter of time, before its immunity explodes.

Of the three members of the minority parliamentary groups included in the ad hoc committee, only Sheikh Bara Doly Mbacké participated in the session held yesterday. In fact, it was the chairman of the Freedom and Democracy parliamentary group who, when he left the plenary session, learned that “the ad hoc committee had finished its work and had transferred Ousmane Sonko’s case to the plenary”. Not without specifying that he is against it. “ We are against that. For us, we must not waive Ousmane Sonko’s parliamentary immunity. We will defend this line in plenary’.

If Sheikh Bara Doly Mbacké was the only non-affiliated deputy to take part in the work of the commission, it is because Moustapha Guirassy and Sheikh Bamba Dièye resigned during the weekend. The other representative of the Freedom and Democracy Group and the non-aligned group sent a letter to the chairman of the ad ho c committee on Saturday in which they regretted the functioning of the committee. According to them, it “shows to sufficiency that the National Assembly is strengthening and devoting its inferiority to the executive power through the public prosecutor’s office which dictates its conduct”.

Taking part yesterday in the plenary session of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Cooperation, Sheikh Abdou Bara Doly advised the president of the Freedom and Democracy Group to imitate his colleagues opposed to the lifting of the parliamentary immunity of the leader of Pastef. For Bokk Guiss Guiss (opposition), “Ousmane Sonko refuses to answer the commission, so he does not recognize it. All members who support it should resign. To participate in the work of this commission is to give the discharge for the condemnation of Ousmane Sonko’’.

The Chairman of the Freedom and Democracy Parliamentary Group will not resign from the ad hoc committee

A field on which Sheikh Bara Doly Mbacké will not follow him. The chairman of the Freedom and Democracy parliamentary group wants to be clear: “We will not do the politics of the empty chair. Party leaders put me in charge of this group. They are Abdoulaye Wade, Pape Diop, Mamadou Diop Decroix and Mamadou Lamine Diallo. They have a great deal of experience in the National Assembly and have not asked me to resign from the ad hoc commission.”

For the parliamentarian, the most important “is to stay together, to fight for it to be remembered that the opposition had mobilized against the holding of this plenary”. If the date of his dress was not revealed, Sheikh Bara Doly Mbacké informed that Aida Mbodj did not appear before the commission which met in camera. The member on the non-aligned list was designated to defend Ousmane Sonko. The latter, accused of rape and death threats, had dismissed last Friday, the gendarme came to hand him the convocation of the ad hoc commission.

Among his many supporters in the political opposition, the leader of Pastef can count on the mayor of Mermoz/Sacré-Cœur. For Barthélémy Dias, faced with a “conspiracy” that tends towards a political trial, we must turn to the people. When he was the victim of the same procedure for waiving parliamentary immunity in 2016, the socialist knew that he had “already won the battle of opinion”. Citing the former president of Senegal, Me Abdoulaye Wade, he advises: “We do not win a political trial before magistrates. We win a political trial before national opinion.”

If Ousmane Sonko seems to be on the right side of this line of defence, the facts tend to prove him right, according to the words of the socialist mayor of Mermoz/Sacré-Cœur, who recalls “that all the immunities that have been lifted have been lifted in relation to political conflicts”.

Source : Senegalactu / EnquetesPlus

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SENEGAL – Harassment, food tampering, communication ban: the Diomaye Coalition President alert on the conditions of detention of his candidate

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Bassirou Diomay Faye

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

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SENEGAL – 100.000 Housing: Ismaila Madior Fall á Bambilor for the inauguration

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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

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SENEGAL – Thione Niang “I have no program, I have a vision”

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Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews

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:

Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews
Thione Niang ©Ze-Africanews
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