Just over two tons of cocaine were seized on April 15 and 21 in the Ivorian port cities of Abidjan and San Pedro, and nine people were arrested, the Interior Ministry announced on Saturday.
“A large seizure of cocaine was made by the police on Friday April 15 and Thursday April 21, 2022 in Abidjan and San Pedro”, indicates a press release from the ministry which specifies that “two tons fifty seven kilos and 259 grams” were seized.
The market value is estimated at 41 billion CFA francs or nearly 62 million euros.
The origin and destination of the goods was not specified.
“Nine people, including Ivorians and non-nationals were arrested,” the statement added.
In 2021, the gendarmes got their hands on 1.56 tons of cocaine from Latin America.
A year earlier, more than 400 kg of cocaine had been seized in Ivorian territorial waters, on board a merchant ship, coming from Brazil.
Côte d’Ivoire has become one of the privileged countries for the transit of cocaine between Latin America and Europe.
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The Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, was received on Sunday at the Palace of the Republic by the Senegalese President, Macky Sall, a press release announced on Monday. UN institution.
The bilateral meeting was devoted to the collaboration between FAO and Senegal and between the organization and the African Union, of which Sall is current president.
“They discussed mutual ambitions to leverage science, innovation, information, communication, technology and partnerships to transform Senegal’s agricultural sector, to improve nutrition and livelihoods,” said the statement from the FAO office in Senegal.
Dongyu and Sall, according to the paper, discussed the need to improve access to nutritious food in Africa, where almost a billion people currently cannot afford nutritious food.
“Better nutrition is one of the four best of FAO’s Strategic Framework 2022-2031, along with better production, better environment and better life for all, leaving no one behind,” the statement insisted. .
“At the same time, the African Union has declared 2022 the year of building nutrition resilience on the African continent: accelerating human, social and human capital development,” the document added.
The two leaders agreed that transforming agri-food systems is an urgent priority to boost nutrition in Africa, to improve production and increase resilience, according to the same source.
The visit is Qu Dongyu’s first-ever visit to Africa since taking over as head of the FAO in August 2019, according to the statement.
The FAO Director-General arrived in Senegal for a brief visit following attending the 32nd session of the FAO Regional Conference for Africa in Equatorial Guinea (April 11-14).
On the occasion of his meeting with the President of Equatorial Guinea, Téodoro Obiang Nguema, on the sidelines of the Conference, the FAO Secretary-General stressed the importance of youth empowerment and the need to address it through the innovation and digitization of agri-food systems, reported the website of the UN institution.
“The two leaders spoke of the need to transform Africa’s agri-food system to be more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable,” it added.
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The project management unit presents its partial portfolio guarantee mechanism
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The Management Unit of the project to promote access to financing, entrepreneurship and employment in Mali (Pafeem) organized from 28 to 29 March 2022 a workshop to present its partial portfolio guarantee mechanism (Gpp) with a view to its operationalization, the opening ceremony of which was chaired by the coordinator of Pafeem, Ms. Touré Fatoumata Coulibaly, in the presence of the general manager Fgsp SA, Moustapha Adrien Sarr.
According to a press release, this two-day workshop, which involved Decentralized Financial Systems (Sfd) and banks, made it possible to present the Gpp, the selection process for beneficiary Financial Institutions (FIs), the selection criteria including the provisional timetable for the call for expressions of interest with a view to operationalizing the GPP. It also made it possible to collect any observations and proposals from financial institutions for better management of the concerns raised.
“The Partial Portfolio Guarantee (PPG) mechanism is a set of appropriate risk-sharing instruments with the aim of incentivizing banks and Decentralized Financial Systems (Sfds) to lend to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in order to promote their access to credit while limiting the risk of non-repayment, through three windows: the ordinary MSME window, the special MSME window and the Covid-19 window”, specifies the same source.
As such, Pafeem will provide the Private Sector Guarantee Fund (Fgsp SA) with 14 million US dollars (regarding 7.7 billion CFA francs) to support the issuance of partial loan portfolio guarantees to financial institutions. (Ifp) to guarantee a loan or line of credit to 1,000 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
During the opening ceremony of the workshop, the Pafeem coordinator welcomed the choice of Fgsp SA to manage the Gpp fund. Mrs. Touré Fatoumata Coulibaly assured the availability of the project management unit to support the Fgsp SA in the implementation of the Gpp guarantee mechanism; This with a view to achieving the overall objectives of improving access to financing for MSMEs and strengthening the financial, technical and operational capacities of the Fgsp SA, a guarantee of its sustainability.
Mr. Moustapha Adrien Sarr specified that the Gpp has two essential advantages; namely the development of the portfolio of companies in complete safety and the reduction of file processing times.
Pafeem is an initiative of the Government of Mali and the World Bank which aims to support the government’s efforts to meet the challenges of financial inclusion, financing of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and the creation of income-generating activities, particularly for the benefit of young people and women.
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Oumou Sangaré, artist and businesswoman, will repeat it several times during our interview, she does not like to venture into the political arena. However, when she approaches these questions, it is with a clear-cut opinion, without concession. Democracy, she no longer believes in it. If she does not hide her fear of seeing her homeland disappear under the yoke of the jihadists, it is in civil society that she has the most hope.
What is your view of the security and political crisis that Mali is currently going through?
Oumou Sangaré: I am worried. For me, the biggest crisis is identity. We are moving away from our traditions, our culture, our greatness. We are influenced by foreign powers and cultures, which have been imposed on us. As a result, we move away from ourselves. We no longer know who we are.
Do the sanctions imposed by ECOWAS following the two coups led by Assimi Goïta seem justified to you?
Justified or not, I condemn them. The economic embargo weakens the poorest. The Malian people do not deserve this. It is not fair. ECOWAS must act when a country needs support, not to stifle it further. This organization is there to protect the Heads of State, but certainly not the people, whereas it is the people who must be listened to. It’s a sorry system.
Does the seizure of power by the military herald a democratic decline?
We’ve been in a democracy for more than twenty years, it doesn’t work. The political system we experienced got us nowhere. It is up to the people to really take their destiny into their own hands, to wake up, as they are doing now, by saying no to these corrupt leaders. We have seen enough of these leaders. We have seen their limits. I don’t like to go into the political arena, because everything there is false. To remain under this regime was to condemn oneself.
As an artist, you have to perform in France. Does the deterioration of relations between the two nations affect you?
We arrive at absurd situations. To get to Paris and meet the press, I had to go through Istanbul. These are the consequences of this useless war, which deprives the population of its fundamental rights, such as those of free movement.
Interview conducted by Jeune Afrique
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