2023-06-20 08:26:03
Sunday’s referendum in Mali: a success, welcomes a good part of the Malian press.
« Will the transition succeed where democratically elected presidents have failed? » : well, yes, answer Work-study in Bamako. « No democratically elected president, starting with Alpha Oumar Konaré until the late Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, passing by the late Amadou Toumani Touré, has succeeded in revising the fundamental law. Three unsuccessful constitutional revision attempts and the fourth, which goes beyond the revision to be a new constitution, is on the way to success, exclaims the Bamako daily. Although the crowds were not large in some voting centers, the ballot went smoothly. This time would therefore be the right time to provide the country with a new constitution, despite the opposition of some. »
Rather low turnout
For the moment, still no results… As for the participation, it would be rather low. According to the Election Observation Mission in Mali (the MODEL), which deployed 3,075 national observers from civil society, the turnout was 28% in the offices where it was present. This is reported in particular The witness in Bamako. The witness who also affirms that little or no voting was done in the Kidal region in the North. Which, according to the newspaper, would bring it even closer to a total break with Bamako: “ disconnected from the rest of the territory for about twelve years, under the control of former rebel movements with the symbolic presence of the Malian administration, this region of Kidal will never have come so close to formalizing its definitive detachment, in the regard to the opportunity offered to him to evade the fundamental law of Mali. »
Will the debate continue?
In any case, note The country in Burkina Faso, a low turnout would not be a surprise. And that could have the consequence of bringing up to date the debate on the legitimacy of an election which did not succeed, upstream, in reaching a consensus, if not for arguments or pretexts, it is according to, to the despisers of the junta, to continue to rush into the stretchers. In any case, specifies the Burkinabe daily, between the question of the secularism of the State, the reinforcement of the powers of the president, the amnesty for the putschists and their eligibility for the ballots at the end of the transition, which are all provisions of the new law, these are not the subjects discussion that are missing. Will the result of the referendum make it possible to put an end to the controversy and definitively turn the page of the debates? We are waiting to see. »
Central Africa: Islamic terrorism is setting in…
Also on the front page is the Mpondwe massacre in Uganda…
The Ugandan press headline this morning on the arrest of around twenty people who allegedly collaborated with the assailants. This attack attributed to the Islamists of the ADF, the Allied Democratic Forces, left, it should be remembered, at least 42 dead, mostly high school students caught in their sleep.
« How can we call ourselves the Allied Democratic Forces and perpetrate this horror? exclaims Ledjely in Guinea. ” This martyr high school joins the long list of tragic symbols of Islamist terrorism. (…) According to the testimonies, the boys were burned alive inside their dormitory, using grenades and petrol. As for the girls, they were executed with machetes in particular. The planetary emotion aroused by the massacre is therefore equal to the horror, sighs the Guinean site. But as appalling as this massacre is, it is perhaps indicative of an even bleaker outlook.pointe Ledjely. Indeed, the extent of this tragedy could mean a more marked anchoring of Islamic terrorism in this region of Central Africa. DR Congo, Uganda, Tanzania, Mozambique… Cancer is starting to gain ground. »
Et Ledjely to wonder again: after the eastern zone where the Shebab group is raging and the Sahel where whole swathes of territory are beyond the control of the States, must we resolve to see Central Africa, too, fall into the hands of these fighters with the aims of obscurantists? Unfortunately, the answer is yes! »
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