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2023-07-03 23:30:02

Dakar, July 3 (APS) – The President of the Republic, Macky Sall, pledged on Monday to ensure the “good organization” of the presidential election on February 25, 2024, in which he will not be a candidate.

“With regard to the presidential election of February 25, 2024, I want the government to take all the measures for a good organization of the ballot, as in the past,” said Mr. Sall.

The President of the Republic has announced that he will not be a candidate in this election, ”even if the Constitution [lui] gives the right.

“My long and well-considered decision is not to be a candidate in the next election on February 25, 2024,” he said.

”Contrary therefore to the rumors which attributed to me a new presidential ambition, I would like to say that I have a clear conscience and memory of what I have said, written and repeated here and elsewhere, that is to say that the 2019 term was my second and last term,” he said. ”That’s what I said and that’s what I reaffirm tonight.”

The Head of State claims to have ”a deep respect for the Senegalese men and women who [l]’have read and heard’, which leads him to respect, he says, his promise made not to be a candidate in the presidential election next year.

”I have a code of honor and a sense of historical responsibility, which commands me to preserve my dignity and my word. I pay tribute here to my predecessors, Presidents Léopold Sédar Senghor, Abdou Diouf and Abdoulaye Wade,” he added.

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2023-07-03 19:03:00

Investigators are looking for the shooters following a gunshot at an unauthorized neighborhood party in Baltimore left two dead and dozens injured. Those responsible for the city on the US east coast called on the population on Monday to report possible suspects. Police believe there are at least two shooters. Several weapons were found, said Commissioner Richard Worley.

Several hundred people were gathered at a party in a neighborhood in the south Brooklyn Homes neighborhood when gunfire rang out just following midnight on Sunday.

According to the police, an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old died in the incident and 28 other people were injured. 15 of the injured are between 13 and 17 years old. The questioning of the victims is still ongoing, Worley said. Only part of the video material available from the incident was also evaluated.

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2023-07-03 22:30:17

Biologist specializing in plants and genetics, doctor of the agricultural university of Wageningen in the Netherlands, considered one of the best European universities on the subject, Qu Dongyu had succeeded in 2019 to the Brazilian José Graziano da Silva.

Aged 59, the Chinese leader was deputy minister of agriculture in his country before taking over as head of the UN agency in 2019. At the time, his election in the first round was considered a mark of Chinese interest in food issues and in positions of responsibility in international bodies.

Opening of the World Food Forum, in October 2022Image: Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto/picture alliance

China’s Shadow

An interest from China that makes Westerners cringe: at the end of June, the German public service presented a television documentary entitled: “China. Might. Eat.which discusses Beijing’s grip on the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A documentary that suggests China has used the FAO for geopolitical purposes.

According to this research, there are particular indications that Chinese leaders made offers to other countries in exchange for their vote in Qu Dongyu’s first election.

FAO headquarters are located in Rome, Italy Image: Federica Roselli/NurPhoto/picture alliance

Controversial pesticides

Also according to the documentary, the Chinese leader then appointed directors who had worked for a long time within the Chinese state apparatus in the past. In particular, this would have made it possible to deliver controversial pesticides to Africa, Asia and Oceania, primarily pesticides from the Chinese agrochemical group Syngenta, but also from the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer.

For Christoph Heusgen, former German ambassador to the UN, “China is now stepping out of Russia’s wake and gaining confidence. The country wants to replace the United States as a world power. And China is trying to do this through the United Nations, among other things.“, assures the current director of the Munich Security Conference.

Contacted by the ARD, the FAO declined to comment.

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