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THANK GOD IT’S FRIDAY: A Chronicle by Peps Guèye
The Friday columns of Peps Guèye. It will be every weekend. Observation, reflection, analysis, opinion, deciphering social, economic and especially political facts, this is what our analyst Peps Guèye, will try to do in this way. A lucid, direct gaze that sometimes pours into the derision of a search for truth to the questions posed, will be delivered to you through this production.
Thank God It’s Friday (T.G.I.F.): The curse of a nation: Always the doctor after death. This is the nth time that the President of the Republic says that changes are needed in the Senegal system. Now it is the system of financing European projects against illegal immigration that he wants to clarify by asking for a report. Do not tell me that he was unaware of the astronomical amounts wasted on spurious projects and the unbearable number of deaths of individuals who could have benefited from these sums. Note that the president carefully avoids the word audit in his request. This is the nth time he has received citizens in distress due to informal and tortuous practices in his administration. It is a nth confession of failure and a confirmation of his inability to lead the Senegal boat to port.
At each Council of Ministers, we feel like we are at the beginning of a mandate. Normally the Council of Ministers must consult the progress of the government roadmap and study the evolution and results of the proposed society defined at the beginning of the legislature. But each time, in an energy of despair, we see incantations of a president on the actions to be carried out in this or that sector and measures to be taken following certain components of the population such as the recurrent cases of house destruction and the tragedies that follow. Whole sections of our society, of our economy, are in a state of advanced decay. These are proven findings. It is not a spokesman who has sold his soul to the devil who will give us lessons of reflection.We are witnessing yet another confirmation of true visual piloting.
The Senegalese are ready to change but may not have the credible and courageous leader who can lead them into a new challenge.When the people choose an individual to preside over their destiny, it is a major change, as when two people marry, divorce, have their first child or lose a loved one.Change is a permanent fact in the existence of an individual or organization such as an enterprise or a nation. In any change, there is a certain perception of risk (would I be up to my new position as President?), of Perte (Will I not lose the next elections?) and of Stress (How to manage states of tension in the country?). A credible and courageous leader will peacefully face this change and see it as an opportunity to positively transform society and the lives of citizens. Predators will see change as a threat to their privileges (from party leader, to serve and serve their biological and political families). While leaders will set society in motion and adopt value-creating strategies for citizens, predators, for their part, will opt for the status quo, put the country into a permanent electoral campaign and proceed by on-sight pilotage and sealing without convincing results. Senegalese are not ready to change, it is because the first of them is not ready to change. Mr President of the Republic, since you took your oath, you could have given a strong signal of change by putting yourself on leave from your party and show that you will govern for all Senegalese.
You could also have returned to the public purse the funds you claim to have enjoyed as privileges granted by your mentor (I point out these facts since your election). You had 65% of the population in 2012 (a comfortable presidential majority) to support you in courageous reforms to change mentalities (indiscipline, laziness, idleness, easy money, gratuitous wickedness, clumsy jealousy, mystical practices of mass destruction, larbinism, tapalé ak tiakhane) and eliminate informal practices in public and private organizations (corruption, concussion, influence peddling, illegal taking of interest) that plague our social body. You preferred not to saw the branch you are sitting on (this is your conception of power) So you see change as a threat to your personal and clan privileges and not as an opportunity to restore Senegal to its rightful place. You remain a prisoner of your political apparatus (APR) and the coalition that supports you (BBY), your family and friendly circles, religious, sectarian, masonic and financial political lobbies (the presence of some activists and business people in your team is very edifying). The comfortable presidential majority has now broken down and Senegal is still a banana republic where scandals are stifled as during the mandates of your predecessors.Benchmarks are lost, values are broken and the social bond is broken.
The education system is in tatters and a minister puts a whole country in a psychodrama for the whims of a single student who is supposed to be the best in Senegal (hallucinating). When one destroys houses, one avoids touching those that belong to relatives of the power (Scandalous) The Republic rolls under the seal of rancour, vengeance and the limitation of any “nuisance capacity” of the opponents. Muzzling everyone seems to be the credo of power in place,” says a friend on Facebook. How do you want to develop a country whose foundations are in ruins? The curse falls on this valiant people who do not deserve this situation.Every individual has some form of natural resistance to change, it is human.However, the responsibility of the leadership of a nation is large and important enough to ensure that this change is managed effectively and efficiently and lightly. It is fundamental to mourn an obsolete and inoperative system and to have the courage to thoroughly reform society to set it in motion.
You can fool a people once, but not all the time. Let us continue the citizen struggle with Ousmane SONKO and the patriots who accompany him, to have, in 2024, leadership, credibility and courage to positively change our country. Let us continue this fight to bring about a new citizenship in a new Republic that is more united, more just, more united and where progress will be shared by all.Jummah Mubarak
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MALI – Musician Salif Keita appointed Councilor Head of the Junta
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.
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SENEGAL – Investigative journalist arrested!
Senegalese investigative journalist Pape Alé Niang was arrested on 6 November at his home and taken into police custody. He is the director of the news site Dakar Matin critique du pouvoir in Senegal. Pape Alé Niang is a journalist famous for his regular chronicles of the news that Senegalese listen to.
Collateral damage on collateral damage! The «Sweat Beauty» case has not finished creating surprises. For this umpteenth arrest, it is around investigative journalist Pape Alé Niang to pay the costs, he was arrested on Sunday, November 6 and detained at the central police station of Dakar. He is accused of having an investigation report from the gendarmerie on the file between the pastef leader Ousmane Sonko and masseuse Adji Sarr. According to one of his lawyers, Mr Ciré Clédor Ly, the police arrested him on the orders of the Public Prosecutor.
In addition, a videographer from the Buur News website on behalf of Fatou Dione was the victim of “police violence” on Saturday, 5 November during a banned demonstration in Dakar. She “fainted when the police came to evacuate her with unprecedented brutality”. This demonstration was the initiative of a collective formed especially of activists. They demanded the release of “political detainees” most of whom are close to the opposition.
About 20 arrests took place during the demonstration and the arrested persons are still detained according to the local press.
Senegal is ranked 73rd out of 180 countries in the 2022 World Press Freedom Index compiled by the NGO Reporters Without Borders.
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IVORY COAST – Alpha Blondy supports Nathalie Yamb: “Nathalie Yamb is for us a calming factor that helps us rebuild”
It is through a video of more than five minutes that the international reggae artist Alpha Blondy spoke on his facebook page this Saturday, November 4, 2022. He ruled on France’s decision to ban Nathalie Yam on its territory because of her hostile ideas towards the metropolis, according to the French authorities. The Ivorian singer did not go there with half words: “In France there are people who despise us, who speak ill of Africans, who insult us with their insolence, their arrogance… They have the right, but why not Nathalie Yamb. It’s not fair! It’s worse than FrançAfrique. Get your act together, let’s get our act together; let’s not push people to make decisions like the Algerians do: “the suitcase or the coffin”. For us, Nathalie Yamb is a sedative that helps us rebuild! Africa needs it! This economic slavery, this slavery, has only lasted too long, it must stop! Mr. Macron, please correct the tire, please! Thank you. I’m Alpha Blondy.”
The transcript of his full message can be read here:
I would like to speak today about the sanction taken by the French government against my sister Nathalie Yamb. I find that unfair and illegal for a country like France where there is freedom of expression. Nathalie Yamb has the right as an African to defend her continent and her people, a people that needs to be rebuilt. Nathalie Yamb is among those who are rebuilding the African mentality that has been deconstructed for more than 5 centuries, I am not talking about Arab-Muslim slavery, so we are going towards 1200 years.
When Charlie Hebdo was a victim of what we all saw, you took steps to defend freedom of expression, so why doesn’t Nathalie have the right to defend her people, to help her people regain confidence in themselves, to have a little dignity, To call the heads of state to raise their heads even if they are victims of false blackmail.
She is right that Mali has the right to choose its friends. It is not up to France to dictate to French-speaking African countries which ones they must attend or not. Your history with Russia is none of our business, we don’t have to follow your lead. Mali is an African country and Nathalie Yamb is an African who speaks to Africans. When she criticizes Alassane Ouattara, it is her right as an African to speak to her African brother. When she criticizes Mr. Macky Sall, she also has the right to criticize…. Nathalie Yamb has the right to say what she says and you don’t have the right to forbid her to go to France, don’t push too hard. We need her words, it heals us! It heals our wounds. We must not gag her. She did not say to attack the embassies of France, she told the Africans that to take dignity, to take a thickness, she has the right to say that.
In France there are people who despise us, who speak ill of Africans, who insult us with their insolence, their arrogance… They have the right, but why not Nathalie Yamb. It’s not fair! I would like to ask Mr. Macron, you said that FrançAfrique is over, but what is this story about bagging Nathalie Yamb? It’s worse than FrançAfrique. Get your act together, get our act together! Let us not push people to make decisions like Algerians do: “the suitcase or the coffin”. For us, Nathalie Yamb is a sedative that helps us rebuild! Africa needs it! This economic slavery, this slavery, has only lasted too long, it must stop! Mr. Macron, please correct the tire, please! Thank you. I’m Alpha Blondy.
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