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An eight-year-old boy killed a one-year-old newborn and injured a girl in Florida while playing with his father’s gun. The 45-year-old was arrested and charged with culpable negligence, unlawful possession of firearms and concealment of evidence.

The scene took place last weekend in a motel, where the 40-year-old with a heavy criminal record had found his girlfriend, the sheriff of Escambia said on Tuesday. He had come with his son, she with her two-year-old twins and her one-year-old daughter.

At one point, the man went away leaving his weapon “in a closet”, said the sheriff. “His son grabbed it and started playing with it.”

“He shot the one-year-old newborn and killed him. After crossing it, the bullet injured one of the twins who should be fine, ”continued the sheriff, noting that the mother of the victims was then asleep.

40,000 deaths per year

When the father returned, he took the gun and some substances, probably drugs, out of the bedroom before the police arrived.

This death is part of a staggering series of comparable accidents. The organization Everytown For Gun Safety, which campaigns for better supervision of firearms, estimates that these “unintentional shootings” of minors cause an average of 350 deaths each year.

More generally, firearms cause around 40,000 deaths a year in the United States, including suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive website.

To ensure effective and professional independent governance, the FAGACE Board of Governors decided in 2018 to provide its Board of Directors with three (3) independent Directors.

The FAGACE Board of Directors is thus composed of independent Directors alongside the States with more structured committees in accordance with the required standards.

In this context, following a selection process by international call for applications, the following are appointed as Independent Directors at FAGACE for a term of three (3) years from 2022:

• Mrs. DO REGO Laurence: Expert in Banking and Finance, she has more than 30 years of experience, particularly within the Ecobank Group where she has contributed in various positions to the growth and expansion of the group. As part of the exercise of her mandate as an independent director at FAGACE, she chairs the Guarantee Committee;

• Mr MENSAH-DZRAKU Credo is an International Expert in Strategy and Finance. A specialist in the private sector, he has thirty years of sustained and diversified experience in sector studies and support for institutions and companies in several ECOWAS countries. Within this Board, he will bring his expertise to the Governance and Remuneration Committee.

.Mr. PANDJA POLLA Guibert is a Chartered Accountant and Chairman of the Fund’s Audit Committee. He has spent his entire career at the International Audit Firm Afrique Audit & Consulting in Togo of the GHA-EXCO network and has extensive experience in financial auditing, evaluation, accounting expertise, implementation place of procedures and training.

The arrival of these skills at FAGACE should contribute to strengthening the achievements of the profound transformations carried out by the Fund in order to respond more effectively to the needs of the States and the requirements of the constantly changing market.

Russia manages to defeat Ukraine militarily. Logically, the Russian president will then have 2 political options: install puppet governments in the independent republics or purely and simply annex the Donbass provinces and attach them to Russia, as he did with Crimea. ” In this last casespecifies Julien Pomarède, the Russians will also try to continue their operations towards Odessa as far as the Moldavian border in order to attach the coast of the Sea of ​​Azov there. ” Either way, however, Russia will need to mobilize significant military resources to retain power. Because it will in all likelihood oppose a strong resistance of long duration similar to a guerrilla. The victory would be military but peace would certainly not reign in Ukraine.

Realistic?

Absolutely, confirms Julien Pomarède, political science researcher at the ULB. ” Everything can be decided between now and autumn. The next few months will be decisive. Ukrainian forces have just ceded Severodonetsk, worn down by Russian firepower and lack of arms supply”. A strategic retreat, a setback for kyiv which allows Vladimir Putin to move forward with his plan for the total reconquest of the Donbass but which does not call into question the Ukrainian defensive strategy.