Dakar, June 27 (APS) – The daily newspapers were particularly interested in the stay of the President of the Republic in Tivaouane (west) and in the trial scheduled for Monday of opponents arrested on June 17.
Last Saturday, Macky Sall stayed in this city, on the occasion of the centenary of the call to God of the Muslim scholar El Hadji Malick Sy (1855-1922), who popularized Islam and the tidjaniya, a Sufi brotherhood, in Senegal and Mauritania.
In Tivaouane, the Head of State launched the work of a hospital which should cost 46 billion CFA francs and met the religious authorities of the city, including the Caliph General of the Tidjanes, Serigne Babacar Sy Mansour.
In Tivaouane, ”city where explicit or coded messages are delivered”, notes EnQuête, ”political declarations have also been made, in a context where the country is going through [des] tensions linked to the legislative elections of July 31, 2022”.
The caliph general of the tidjanes invited Macky Sall and the leaders of the opposition to ”agree (…) to fight our common enemies, poverty, disease and ignorance”, reports EnQuête.
”Serigne Babacar Sy Mansour advised the Head of State to rise above the fray and suffer criticism from the opposition. In this very tense political context, the religious leader alerted the Head of State to the actions of people who want to burn the country down,” reads Kritik.
L’info is of the opinion that ”if we are witnessing today (…) quarrels which plunge us into the abyss of ignominy, it is because the energy we need to apply to the letter the luminous visions of our guides as El Hadji Malick Sy is little or not deployed”.
”What an immense fortune! What untapped wealth!” exclaims the same newspaper, regarding the teachings of El Hadji Malick Sy and other Senegalese religious guides.
”I urge you to carefully consider your responsibilities”, recommended the Caliph General of the Tijanes to the President of the Republic. The advice is relayed by Vox Populi, according to which the religious guide insisted on indicating ”the way of peace” to the Head of State.
L’Observateur affirms that Serigne Babacar Sy Mansour ”pointed the finger at the ‘enemies’ of the country”, namely poverty, disease and ignorance, ”against which the power and the opposition must fight hand in the hand”.
”Silence and endurance”
”If you answer [tous], you lower yourself to their level. And in this case, you will no longer be worthy of leading them,” writes L’As, quoting the religious guide, who addresses this advice to the President of the Republic.
”Silence and endurance. It’s shock therapy [recommandée] by the caliph general of the tidjanes (…) to President Macky Sall in this troubled period”, notes Le Quotidien.
The mayor of Guédiawaye (west), the deputies Déthié Fall and Mame Diarra Fam will be tried on Monday, for the alleged offenses of participation in a prohibited demonstration and disturbance of public order, recalls Sud Quotidien.
”It will be a complicated verdict to condemn the opposition figures who were arrested during the banned demonstration of June 17”, comments Tribune.
”The rebellion is taking shape in the National Assembly”, headlines Kritik’, adding that ”a revolt is sounding internally”, deputies keen to ”save the image of the institution” after the arrest of three of their colleagues, including Cheikh Abdou Mbacké, accused of insulting the President of the Republic.
Benno Bokk Yaakaar (BBY), the coalition of presidential majority parties, argues, according to Le Soleil, that ”politicians are litigants like all citizens”. BBY thus responds to the human rights activist Alioune Tine, who is calling for the release of the deputies and the mayor of Guédiawaye.
They were arrested along with several opposition activists trying to protest publicly against the cancellation of one of the candidate lists of the Yewwi askan wi coalition in the legislative elections on 31st July next.
The daily newspapers also comment on the victory of Casa Sports in the final of the Senegal Cup.
”The coronation of a vision!”
”The historic double of Casa Sports”, Stades title following the victory of the Ziguinchor club (south) over Etoile Lusitana, 3-0, on Sunday.
”A trophy, the fourth in its history, which allows the [Casa Sports] to afford a historic double and to become the second club to succeed” in Senegalese professional football, underlines the same newspaper.
Le Soleil believes that ”the hegemony of Casa Sports (…) is no longer the subject of any doubt”, especially since the Ziguinchor club, also champion of Senegal, retains the Senegal Cup he won in 2021.
”The coronation of a vision!” exclaims InQuest.
”A real show of force!” notes Vox Populi, WalfQuotidien stressing, for its part, that no club had managed for eight years to win the championship and the Senegalese Cup in one season.