2024-04-17 08:36:39
Dakar, April 17 (APS) – The daily newspapers do not miss anything about the first steps of the new power, which is gradually trying to make its mark, including internationally, a dynamic which is accompanied by a new political reconfiguration.
“Sonko 1 takes action”, displays for example Sud Quotidien, about the new government team led by Ousmane Sonko, Prime Minister appointed by the new president Bassirou Diomaye Faye.
“After 72 hours of waiting which led to the formation of a government of 25 ministers and 5 secretaries of state, Sonko 1, named after the government team set up under the leadership of Ousmane Sonko, will enter the heart of the matter at the end of the Council of Ministers scheduled for Wednesday […]”, we read in the columns of this newspaper.
“Between cabinet formations and other promotions in the various national directorates, things should accelerate for the materialization of President Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye’s project entitled +For a sovereign, just and prosperous Senegal+”, writes Sud Quotidien.
Two weeks after his installation at the head of the country and the State, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye “is making his mark. Without fanfare, he is gradually rolling out his work plan,” notes the newspaper Le Quotidien, according to which sobriety “remains the watchword of the new authorities.”
The swearing-in of the new president, the commemoration of Independence Day and the local visits he has just made to Touba and Tivaouane “are moments marked with the seal of sobriety”, while awaiting the first measures scrutinized by all observers.
“People will report on their management”
In the columns of Vox Populi, financial economist Alassane known as Abdou Kama, however, warns not to “dream too much”, the reality of power being “different from the rhetoric of the opposition which only manages concepts”. “They must move quickly before the jubilation and energy which accompanied the rupture fade,” he said of the new holders of power.
But we must remain hopeful by listening to Alla Kane, “member and brain of Magui Pastef”, named after the structure bringing together former members of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s party. “Now we are going to bury the system,” he assures on the front page of the daily Bès Bi Le jour.
“People will report on their management,” promises this former tax and property inspector, 88 years old, who “whispers in Sonko’s ear in his political office”. “Senegal can mint its own currency before 2029,” he also maintains, to talk about the exit of the CFA franc, one of the important points of the new regime’s program.
As the new power continues to make its mark, several dailies, including Le Soleil, announce that President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is expected in Nouakchott, in Mauritania, this Wednesday, for his first trip abroad since his installation at the beginning of April.
“A visit of friendship and cooperation with multiple challenges for these two countries united by culture, history and geography,” underlines Le Soleil. “Beyond good neighborliness, this trip has a strategic character in view of the oil destiny shared by Senegal and Mauritania,” notes the daily Kritik’.
With this visit to Mauritania, President Faye will have “the opportunity to immerse himself” in the GTA project sites, for Grande Tortue Ahmeyim, the name given to the operating blocks which extend on both sides of the border. maritime of the two countries, according to Kritik’.
Other dailies report on this first outing abroad by the President of the Republic, including L’As. “Gas and oil on the menu” of discussions between President Diomaye Faye with his Mauritanian counterpart, this newspaper bets. The two heads of state “will discuss various subjects of common interest, but especially economic cooperation and the exploitation of the Grand Tortue Ahmeyin (GTA) gas field”, he understands.
Le Quotidien and Enquête also discuss this first presidential trip, but from a broader perspective. “After Nouakchott today”, on Wednesday, “President Diomaye Faye is also going to Banjul on Saturday to strengthen these two diplomatic axes where relations are further densified by sustained economic policies that nothing can now deconstruct”, advances Le Quotidien.
There is the gas to be exploited in concert with Mauritania, but there are also “the bridges erected to ensure territorial continuity with the neighbors”, adds the same newspaper, while Enquête underlines that this regional tour of President Faye, “rich in issues, aims to strengthen ties with Senegal’s direct neighbors […]”.
It also aims “to promote a series of bilateral initiatives in key areas such as security and the management of natural resources”, an approach which “is part of a context of increased collaboration and common challenges”, taking into account “ the strategic importance of relations between these two West African nations,” explains Enquête.
Kritik’ judges that it is necessary, at the same time, to “warm up the Paris-Dakar axis to get out of a looming diplomatic impasse” between these two countries, given the “intransigent, non-negotiable position of the new authorities in Dakar for symmetrical relations” between France and Senegal, “on the basis of the +principles of equity and mutual dignity+”.
“Diomaye Faye and Amadou Mame Diop talk to each other”
Walfquotidien brings us back to domestic subjects, talking about the general policy declaration that Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko will soon make to the National Assembly. “Big risk for Sonko”, displays the newspaper on its front page, to say that the parliamentary group to which the new executive belongs being in the minority, a “risk of a motion of censure hangs over it”.
This forgets that the dialogue between institutions has already begun. The daily Les Echos reports that the Head of State received the President of the National Assembly yesterday, Tuesday. “Diomaye Faye and Amadou Mame Diop speak to each other”, headlines the newspaper, insisting on the “necessary collaboration between the two institutions to avoid any blockage”.
The news opens with “The new faces of the opposition”, based on the observation that the presidential election of March 24 “caused a redistribution of political cards”. The Alliance for the Republic (APR) and its allies Benno Bokk Yaakaar (BBY) now embody “the new opposition”, according to this newspaper.
L’Observateur announces changes at the head of the police, with Mame Seydou Ndour being considered for the general direction of the national police with Hamady Lam as deputy.
Many daily newspapers also report a seizure of counterfeit banknotes in Goudomp, in the southern zone of the country, where customs officers got their hands on “more than 5 billion FCFA in black banknotes”. These are “4 million in denominations of 50, 10 and 200 dollars, 4 million in denominations of 500, 200 and 100 euros and 200 million CFA francs”, details for example Vox Populi.
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