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Much has been made in France in recent times different figures between organizers and police on "The demos for all" (and we bet they will still be valid for shows from May 1).

But in Dakar, even make a (rare) event (in this case, the support of Karim Wade after his committal for trial), so do it well:

For a long time we did not mention reading recommendations on this blog. It is therefore all the more necessary to report the release, there are nearly a month, the "book" version of the excellent blog Geoffroy & Olivia , both erudite and humorous. This is the (very recommendable) Perseus Publishing, and it is still called

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(Or whatever you would never have thought to ask about India, but did not fail to excite)

Since Friday, the local press is largely up to the arrest and indictment, Karim Wade, son of former President Abdoulaye Wade, and one of his senior ministers (often called "Minister of Heaven and Earth "because its portfolio included including air and land transport).

It is particularly suspected of personal enrichment (it is said in some circles Dakar that for every building built in Dakar since 2000, when it took power from his father, Karim Wade has taken a "tithing" in kind an apartment ... for the building frenzy, it's still a lot of flats!).

The magistrates now have six months to complete their investigation. If sent to the Court of repression of illicit enrichment, Karim Wade faces a sentence of 5 to 10 years in prison and a fine of one to two times enrichment suspected or still a whopping 694 to 1388 billion CFA francs (1.1 to 2.1 billion euro!). This compares to 2.2 trillion francs annual budget Senegalese ...

Excellent April-May issue of the bimonthly Way View (Le Monde Diplomatique) at the end of borders (although with a question mark). We're just a little disappointed not to have more articles on non-state actors (religious, terrorist, MNC ...), nor be found intervention excellent Bertrand Badie, an expert on the subject.

PS: sorry if the loading time of the blog are a little slow last night, we had set up (together) a third anti-spam engine ...

Ten years ago the Joola sank, marine shuttle ensuring Dakar / link Ziguinchor, Casamance. Planned for 550 passengers, the ship had more than 2,000 on board when sunk in a storm off Gambia, leaving only 64 survivors. This tragedy (1863 officially dead, probably more than 2000 actually, a dozen nationalities) is today the fourth largest maritime disaster in history (in peacetime). No serious investigation has been conducted to establish the responsibilities of the wreck and the wreck was not rising.

If a Place of Remembrance had been arranged in Dakar, and a monument in Ziguinchor, the 10th anniversary is also an opportunity for a group of families to revive the idea of ​​a Memorial Museum. The press, for its part, considers that the causes which led to this disaster still persist on the ship, Aline Sitoé Diatta, who took over the operation of the line in 2008.

If ads for products depigmentation were ubiquitous in India, they are in Africa rather a specialty of central and eastern Europe. So when a brand of cream out that:

attack against the "Black is beautiful" is mobilized quickly on Facebook:

Black is really beautiful, in these conditions, even if the work was facilitated by a commercial basis particularly missed ...

It is reported to readers africophiles the publication of a number "Focus Africa" ​​Geo for September. The menu initiatives fared, call centers, elephants and rhinestone dresses.

Polka reading in September / October of the story of Robin Hammond on the lives of mentally ill prisoners is recommended in central and eastern Africa. And follow Visa pour l'Image 1 to 16 September in Perpignan.

According to the local population, so it was the turn of the French established in Senegal to vote for their new president. It was voted at the Embassy of France in an office very mestizo vote ("Office 4 of Hajaali to Mbhat"), with a third of toubabs third bi-national and third Franco-Lebanese.

Very low final participation (around 30%), with a slightly different landscape in 2007:

(Mappings do not want absolutely scientific, except when it comes from the same party)

So here we have also a "Mélenchon phenomenon", although it is less pronounced than on the mainland. Bayrou, the third man in 2007, collapsed more than in the rest of the country (900 military parties last summer had all their Orange Card?). The scores of the two main candidates are remarkably homogeneous (there would have been no "effect of Royal" for the child in the country). The far right is logically very contained.

Curiously, the office where 4 was voted unusual: the seven offices across the country (six in Dakar, one in St. Louis), is the only one who gave a (relative) majority of the outgoing President, he also offered his highest score to François Bayrou (8.7%).

PS 25/04: and the overall results of the French from abroad, it is HERE , with comments from Slate LA .

The first government Macky Sall was announced last night. It logically pride to the members of the coalition which had enabled him to win, as well as civil society, despite a greatly reduced number of departments, twenty five.

Anecdotes CV marked the passage:

• There are two Catholics in the government, including the new minister of the armed forces, the third in order of protocol, Augustin Tine, dental surgeon training after narrowly abbot;
• Another Catholic, Benedict Sambou happens only ninth in protocol order, but inherits the heavy case of agriculture and rural infrastructure, while harvests are particularly bad this year;
• Aminata Toure, the new Minister of Justice, is a former senior official of the United Nations specialized issues Human Rights and a former activist of the local Communist Party;
• Amadou Kane, the new Minister of Economy and Finance, is a banker, like the Prime Minister, Abdoul Mbaye. He was previously head of the BICIS local subsidiary of BNP Paribas, and had met a few weeks ago;
• Main announcement relayed in Western media, the appointment of Youssou Ndour as Minister of Culture and Tourism;
• One of the unfortunate presidential candidates joined the team, Cheikh Bamba Dièye, as Minister of Planning and Local Government;
• The new Minister for Ecology and Conservation, Ali Haidar, is highly respected in the field. He was previously head of the Océanium company's flagship environmental awareness in Senegal (including organizing diving courses and de-pollution);
• last but not least, the new Deputy Minister for the Budget, Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo, is nothing less than the former head of the National Lottery ...!