An African giant, a country with a population like no other on the continent, a bubbling, convulsive country currently plagued by shortages that could influence the ballot, Nigeria is today choosing its new president and parliamentarians.
Hence this question, posed by Release : “ Nigerians, who are about to appoint their new president and (their) parliamentarians (…), will they only be able to move around, access their polling stations, vote without fear? “. Because in Nigeria, the election season is “ an accelerator of violence », warns Freed.
Wide panorama of Nigeria covered this morning by this newspaper. To the multifaceted terrorist threat, Release decrypts, is added ” the old rivalry between breeders and farmers », poisoned by « the proliferation of automatic weapons “.
To which are added the organizations, still active in southern Nigeria ” and the ” criminal gangs “, point Freed.
Leak on an alleged Paris-Bangui reconciliation attempt
Info or intox about the Central African Republic? This country, in which the Russian paramilitary group Wagner is now present, would he attempt a rapprochement with France? Anyway, that’s what it says Young Africa. According to this newspaper, the Central African President Faustin-Archange Touadéra ” delegated to Paris, at the beginning of 2023, one of his close collaborators, an intelligence specialist with the rank of minister. The aim of this was to convey to the French authorities the message that Bangui would be ready to reconnect with Paris and to distance itself somewhat from Moscow. “.
Young Africa also asserts that President Touadera ” is due to travel to Libreville, Gabon, where he hopes to meet Emmanuel Macron on March 2 “.
Judicial review for Damana Pickass, charged with penalty payments
In Côte d’Ivoire, the secretary general of the PPA-CI, the African People’s Party – Côte d’Ivoire, Damana Pickass, was charged yesterday as part of an investigation relating to the attack on a barracks , two years ago, in Abidjan.
Heard yesterday morning by an investigating judge, Damana Adia Pickass was placed under judicial control. And this morning, in Côte d’Ivoire, this close friend of the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo appears on the front page of the daily Inter. Which independent newspaper reports that around the place of his hearing, yesterday morning, “ there was a strong mobilization of the police “. Inter there describes an atmosphere so ” tense “, while reporting a count made by the management of the Ppa-Ci, the party of Laurent Gbagbo, and according to which “ 31 people would have been arrested among the activists who came to support the presumed innocent Damana Pickass.
Macron on the farm
In France, today, Emmanuel Macron will visit the Salon de l’agriculture. The Head of State goes to meet an agricultural world that never stops having the blues. Marathon visit in perspective for Emmanuel Macron. ” It might be a 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. », anticipates, in The Parisian, a former Renaissance deputy. According to this newspaper, the Élysée has been preparing this meeting meticulously since January “but Emmanuel Macron” risk of being jostled on pensions “, said to the Parisian close to the president.
The Parisian also points out that the Head of State ” could drop an ad on the water as it wanders “.
Peasant Blues
Exactly. French agriculture which is challenged by drought and ecological constraints. Special Agricultural Show booklet inserted in Le Figaro of this morning. This supplement focuses on the drought from which France is suffering, presented as ” on the front line in the face of climate change “.
For the rest, laments this daily, the Salon de l’agriculture “ is just a deceptive facade “, because in the countryside, “ short discomfort », the fields are « deserted “and agricultural trades” no longer attract. In forty years, the number of farmers has fallen from 1.6 million to less than 400,000, nearly half of whom will no longer be in practice in 2030. “, underline Le Figaro.
And even the organic sector is suffering, underlines Release. Because, for more than a year, the said sector “ is facing an unprecedented crisis. According to a note commissioned by the Agence bio from an independent design office, and that revealed Freed, sales of organic products fell by 4% in 2022. This is the first time that we have seen such a sharp decline, while the market was used to double-digit growth until 2020 “. Beware of chaos… for organic!