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SENEGAL: Petro-Tim Affair and Aliou Sall brother of the President. New revelations…
This could go unnoticed if the accusations of the British channel BBC had not raised questions about the company AGRITRANS, a company that was closely linked to the management of the country’s oil resources, whose owner is Aliou Sall, the small President’s brother the Republic Macky Sall.
Thunderclap! We now know the person who managed this company during transactions between BP (British Protolum) and the businessman Franck Timis, this person who is none other than Abdoulaye Timbo, the paternal uncle of Aliou Sall. He is currently mayor of the city of Pikine, the great suburb of the capital of Dakar.
Indeed, according to the investigations that the British journalist Mayeni Jones through its survey program “Africa Eyes” entitled “A corruption of 10 trillion”, the Senegalese population discovers through this report the nebulous and disturbing management that involves the trio Aliou Sall, Franck Timis and the British company BP. According to the English channel, the way to manage the natural resources discovered in Senegal, namely oil and gas, is made under a background of corruption
Following a prime broadcast of this program that incriminates the little brother of the president, the latter goes up to the crenel, a press conference is immediately organized. Aliou Sall sweeps aside all the allegations of the channel. He categorically refuses to acknowledge that the company BP had paid him $ 250,000 or 148 million CFA for the company AGRITRANS, sum that was to be the base for the State of Senegal.
However, everything is complicated for Aliou Sall at the time when El Hadji Hamidou Kasse now ex spokesman of the President of the Republic persists and signs on the TV5 antennas that the said sum was actually paid to the company AGRITRANS for a consultancy mission agricultural. Paradoxically, he will be fired a few days later by President Macky Sall.
In reality, these new revelations were given by the platform “Aar li ñu bokk” through a press conference on July 12, 2019. This platform, which partly fights against corruption, aims to ensure the proper management of our public funds but especially to clarify and demand transparency in all cases related to oil and gas contracts in Senegal.
Therefore, the call to witness launched by the Serigne Bassirou Guèye public prosecutor, very controversial indeed, leaves a gap to some personalities involved in this scandal unique in the socio-political history of the country whose Pikine who has since died, substantially ignoring his involvement in this case. So business to follow, wait and see …
Sixty-four people including 49 civilians and 15 soldiers were killed Thursday, September 07, 2023 in two “terrorist attacks claimed” by Al Qaeda and targeting a passenger transport boat and an army base in northern Mali, where a three-day national mourning was decreed from Friday, the military-dominated government announced.
The two separate attacks targeted “the boat Timbuktu” on the Niger River and “the position of the army” in Bamba, in the region of Gao (north), with “a provisional toll of 49 civilians and 15 soldiers killed”, according to a government statement that does not specify how many people died on the ship and in the camp, assaults “claimed” by an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group.
Malian music star Salif Keïta has been appointed advisor to the head of the junta, Colonel Assimi Goïta, says a decree issued Monday, August 14, 2023.
The artist is part of a list of five people named “special advisers” to the Malian head of state, says the decree dated August 11. The text does not specify the role of Salif Keïta.
The great name of afropop and World Music, Salif Keïta, 73, also stands out for his political commitment and, since the advent of the colonels following a putsch in 2020, for his support of the junta.
He was appointed one week after the announcement of his resignation from an assembly set up by the military as a legislative body.
“I will always remain the undisputed friend of the military of my country,” he said in his letter of resignation read in the gallery.
Mr. Keïta publicly expressed his support for the sovereignty discourse of the authorities. He openly called a few months ago for the departure of the UN peacekeeping mission (MINUSMA), since officially announced by the UN Security Council.
Since 2012, Mali has been plagued by jihadist expansion and a deep multidimensional crisis. Violence from the north has spread to central Burkina Faso and neighbouring Niger.
The Senegalese head of state left Dakar for Abuja on Sunday, May 28, 2023. President Macky SALL will attend the inauguration of Nigerian President-elect Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Upon his departure, the President of the Republic was greeted by the Prime Minister and other civil and military authorities. The head of state will return to Dakar tomorrow Monday.
Born in Lagos eight years before independence, Bola Tinubu is a veteran of the capital. An influential politician, he was notably a senator and governor of the State of Lagos. Considered a unifying force within his party, but controversial outside because sometimes cited in corruption cases, Tinubu will have a major challenge, that of recovering the national economy.
With a population of more than 219.4 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and sixth in the world. The continent’s largest economy, however, is facing a slowdown exacerbated by recent global crises. Here inflation has risen above 20% in the second half of 2022, youth unemployment, recurrent shortages of nairas and fuel are all evils to be solved in a sustainable way.
Although Nigeria can count on a dynamic private sector with a large number of billionaires and millionaires, Bola Tinubu -whose inauguration will take place next May- will have to set the macroeconomic record straight.
Source : Ze-Africanews.com
