Dakar, Jul 6 (APS) – Newspapers received by APS on Wednesday highlighted political news, the murder in Touba Khaira of a pregnant woman and the validation of the new agricultural policy for food self-sufficiency, including the cost is estimated at 1021 billion CFA francs.
In politics, Sud Quotidien discusses the ban on awareness-raising and mobilization activities of the opposition in this context of pre-election campaign for the legislative elections of July 31st.
”Prohibition of awareness-raising and mobilization activities of the opposition in the pre-electoral campaign: when the prefects truncate the Law!”, poster on its front page in the South.
According to the publication, ”the administrative authorities are camped on their lack of understanding of the provisions of article L61 of the electoral code which prohibit the media from disseminating political propaganda during this period of pre-electoral campaign for the legislative elections of July 31′ ‘.
”Last example following the coup once morest Yewwi Askan Wi, the determination of the Territorial Administration to thwart any attempt to raise awareness and mobilize the AAR-Senegal coalition”, specifies the newspaper.
WalfQuotidien notes the desire of certain senior officials of the Alliance for the Republic (APR, power), to activate the machine to give a third term to the President of the Republic, Macky Sall, elected head of the country in 2012, re-elected in 2019.
”Third mandate for Macky: the APR clears the way”, headlines the newspaper which adds: ”The masks are beginning to fall”.
”A taboo subject at the level of the presidential movement, the debate on the third term of President Macky Sall was revived by Thérèse Faye Diouf. The APR manager gives the full measure of the presidential camp’s desire to renew Macky Sall in 2024,” writes Walf.
Le Quotidien returns to the repression of demonstrators during opposition rallies in particular, giving the floor to the former mayor of Dakar, Khalifa Sall, one of the leaders of the Yewwi Askan Wi coalition. ”Repression of demonstrators: Khalifa flexes his muscles”, reads the front page of the newspaper.
“We will no longer accept that peaceful demonstrators are killed,” says Khalifa Sall.
L’Observateur focuses on Ousmane Sonko, the leader of the opposition and titles: ”The other side of the coin: Ousmane Sonko: a politician in the open”. L’Obs evokes ”the belated awareness and the massification of everything” of his political training.
Le Soleil highlights the government’s new agricultural policy and displays on the front page: ”Exit the PRACAS, make way for the PASAD”.
The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Equipment chaired yesterday in Diamniadio the validation workshop of the agricultural policy for sustainable agricultural sovereignty (PASAD) whose cost is estimated at 1021 billion CFA francs.
This new program takes over from the program to accelerate the pace of Senegalese agriculture (PRACAS).
Other newspapers have taken an interest in social facts, in particular the tragedy that occurred in Touba Khaira (Touba), where the lifeless body of a pregnant woman was found in a building.
”Ndèye Diop killed by her boyfriend: deadly passion”, poster on her Une Bës Bi Le Jour.
”Ndeye Diop, who was allegedly killed by her boyfriend, had been missing since Saturday. The alleged murderer, who had taken to their heels, was finally arrested by the police,” writes the newspaper.
On the same subject, Liberation delivers ”the terrible revelations of the investigation”.
”We know a little more regarding the crime that is making headlines in Touba. Aged 15 and pregnant according to the latest confidences given to her alleged executioner, Ndèye Diop was killed by her ex-boyfriend (…)”, informs Liberation.
The publication states: “It was yesterday around 1 p.m. that the Police were informed of a fight followed by death at the Serigne Abdou Lahat shopping center located in the Khaira district. Since then, Abdourahmane Mbacké, a student in CM1 class at the Ablaye Sy school in Darou Khoudoss has been in police custody.
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