karim wade

2023-09-08 02:01:11

On November 5, 2024, the country of Uncle Sam will choose its 47th president. It is then just a little over a year. But on the side of the Democrats. Indeed, Vice President Kamala Harris says she is ready to assume the role of president in succession to Joe Biden.

Abroad to represent the Biden administration at Southeast Asia summits, Vice President Kamala Harris told CBS News she would be ready to take on the presidency if needed, while dismissing concerns regarding the age of President Joe Biden.

“The work our administration has done under the leadership of Joe Biden is transformative. I think the American people want above all a leader who actually gets things done,” Vice President Harris said in an interview with moderator Margaret. of “Face the Nation” of CBS News while specifying that its president “will be fine” in this dynamic. After declaring she was ready to become commander-in-chief “if necessary,” the vice president added that Biden “will be fine.” “We will be re-elected,” she said.

Similarly, in an interview with the Associated Press this week, amid a recent poll, Kamala Harris also pointed out that the incumbent Democratic president’s age is “a major concern for voters on both sides of the aisle.”

Biden, 80, is the oldest sitting US president and would be 86 when his second term ends. The polls for his re-election for an additional term in view of his age exceed 56% of the population. Moreover, this might impact governance and the management of fundamental issues in an intelligent way. “I don’t see how his ability to understand problems and come out of them like no one else, to make smart and important decisions on behalf of the American people, played into it,” Harris told The Associated Press on the subject.

What needs to be remembered is that Kamala Harris has been a key voice for the Biden administration on burning issues such as abortion and gun rights. It is therefore at the heart of Biden’s policy despite attacks from Republicans, it has remained constant.

A member of the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris served as California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017, during Governor Jerry Brown’s tenure. From 2017 to 2021, she is a senator for California in the United States Congress. Candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 2020 presidential election, she achieved remarkable performances during the first debates, but saw the voting intentions in her favor decline and withdrew before the official start of the primaries.

Joe Biden then chose her to be his running mate as the Democratic vice-presidential candidate.

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2023-08-26 23:11:05

After rescuing 170 migrants from a canoe off Mauritania, the Civil Guard, in particular its patrol boat Río Tajo fired shots into the air to quell an attempted mutiny aboard the Tagus patrol boat. According to sources from the Armed Institute, Mauritania refused to allow the survivors to disembark in Nouadhibou and the Civil Guard headed for the Canary Islands, the newspaper “El Mundo” reported.

Reporting information from sources of the Armed Institute, said newspaper informs that “twenty agents of the Civil Guard on board the Tagus rescued in Mauritanian waters 170 men who were traveling on board a cayuco and who risked drifting. These sources emphasize that all the survivors were men, “strong”, and that there were no women or children on board the boat”.

Their attempt to disembark at the Mauritanian port to repatriate the survivors having failed, given the refusal of the Mauritanian gendarmes. Frontex officials “were not very generous or that the Mauritanian commanders demanded a lot” when agreeing to disembark”, it was said, referring to unofficial payments.

Eventually, the Río Tajo ship decided to take the 170 migrants to the Canary Islands. Between communication difficulties and hunger, the survivors would have made themselves heard by wanting, it is said, to face the patrol, with regarding twenty agents, informed the same sources. This is what would have provoked shots in the air with their service weapons to “stop” the advance of the rescued who were protesting once morest the situation in which they were traveling.

The same sources add that “the agents sometimes had to take refuge inside the boat to avoid new attempts at mutiny”…

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2023-08-20 18:02:20

Five Burkinabè police officers, on a reconnaissance mission, were killed on Saturday during an attack in the center-east of Burkina Faso, the general staff announced in a press release on Sunday, indicating that at least forty “terrorists” died. in the response of law enforcement.

In the followingnoon of Saturday, “the 7th Grouping of Mobile Intervention Units (GUMI) of the national police was hooked by a group of terrorists near the locality of Diougo-Yourga”, in the province of Koulpelogo, close to the border of Togo, according to the staff.

“The incident, which occurred while the unit was carrying out a reconnaissance mission, claimed the lives of five police officers. Four others, injured, were evacuated and taken care of,” the statement said.

“In the response, at least forty terrorists were neutralized (killed) and equipment seized,” says the army, which adds that “mopping operations have been undertaken to secure the area”.

The province of Koulpelogo is located in the Center-East region which was already targeted earlier this month by a jihadist attack.

On August 7, around twenty people were killed in Nohao, near the town of Bittou, according to security and local sources.

In mid-July, the transitional president, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, who came to power in September 2022 by a coup d’etat, had deplored “increasingly recurrent attacks once morest civilians”, considering that the jihadists were showing ” cowardice”.

Since 2015, Burkina has been caught in a spiral of violence perpetrated by jihadist groups affiliated with the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda.

They have killed more than 16,000 civilians and soldiers since 2015, according to the NGO Armed conflict location action (Acled), including more than 5,000 since the beginning of 2023.

This violence has also led to the displacement of more than two million people inside the country.

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2023-08-19 19:11:40

Gambian President Adama Barrow has suspended foreign travel for him and all ministries until the end of the year to reduce public spending, the government spokesman said in a statement on Saturday.

“President Barrow has signed the Executive Order suspending all foreign travel of the President, Vice President, Ministers, senior officials, officials and employees of all government institutions and agencies,” the document reads.

Meetings where The Gambia’s participation is mandatory and overseas travel fully funded by external sources are exempt from this ruling, subject to authorization by the President or an authorized official, it said.

The Gambia, the smallest country in continental Africa with just over two million inhabitants, is 174th out of 191 on the UN’s human development index, which aggregates criteria of health, education and level of life.

More than a fifth of the population lives on less than two dollars a day according to the World Bank. Annual inflation reached 11.6% in 2022.

The budget deficit widened to 4.8% in 2022, in particular because tax revenues fell due to lower taxes and increased subsidies for fuel, fertilizers and cereals, a consequence of the war in Ukraine.

According to a joint World Bank and IMF analysis completed in November 2022, the risk of debt distress is high. Public debt stood at 83.9% of GDP in 2022.

Mr Barrow won a second term by a large margin in December 2021, in a presidential election constituting the first open transition at the head of this former British colony since the dictatorship in 2017

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