Presse Afrique - 11/07/2023
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Transcript
00:00 [Music]
00:05 Welcome to the news of the African news of today.
00:09 Let's start with Mali.
00:11 The country has signed its return to the Economic Union and West African Monetary Union, UMOA,
00:17 after the lifting of the economic and institutional sanctions imposed in January 2022.
00:23 This is what African Faux Mali says.
00:26 The heads of state of the UMOA members met in extraordinary session in the Guinean capital Bissau
00:33 to discuss progress that was made or not by the authorities of the transition of Mali
00:39 in view of a return to the constitutional order.
00:43 The economic sanctions of the UMOA were lifted in July 2022,
00:47 but the political and diplomatic sanctions were still in place.
00:51 The newspaper indicated that the session in Bissau was an opportunity to decide whether to lift or not
00:57 the rest of the sanctions of the UMOA on Mali, notes the newspaper online.
01:03 The news in Africa is also the announcement of the candidacy of the president of Gabon,
01:12 Ali Bongo Odimba, for a third term in the presidential election on August 26.
01:18 Information to read on VOA Africa.
01:22 The information site must specify that President Ali Bongo has been in power for nearly 14 years,
01:28 having been elected for the first time in 2009 at the death of his father Omar Bongo Odimba,
01:35 who has been leading the country for more than 41 years.
01:38 His candidacy will have to be completed by an investment congress
01:43 scheduled for next year from his all-powerful Democratic Party of Gabon,
01:47 notes the newspaper online.
01:50 And for his part, Bola Ahmad Tinobu, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,
01:58 was elected President of the Conference of Heads of State of the Economic Community of States of West Africa,
02:06 said yesterday on News Abidjan.
02:09 It was during the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Sub-Regional Organization held on Sunday in Bissau.
02:17 Tinobu succeeded Umar Osisokor Mbalo, President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau,
02:22 at the meeting of the Heads of State of the Sub-Region,
02:26 the ongoing transitions in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea.
02:31 It was also a question of the advancement of the future force of the CEDEAO,
02:35 which is called upon to fight terrorism or to intervene if necessary in states
02:40 in order to restore the constitutional order.
02:44 And then in Zimbabwe, the Coalition of Citizens for Change
02:52 was banned from organizing a rally before the elections on August 23.
02:58 According to Afrikanews, in the information,
03:01 their pre-election campaign rally was blocked by the police last Friday
03:06 and their call was subsequently rejected by the first instance court.
03:12 According to the largest opposition party in Zimbabwe,
03:15 the meeting was the sixth to be banned or illegally disturbed in a week.
03:21 This ban came into play in a context of deterioration of the political climate
03:26 as it approached a critical and tense moment in Afrikanews' history.