Dakar, May 6 (APS) – The daily newspapers received Monday at the Senegalese Press Agency mainly focused on the support of the President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye for the Palestinian cause, during the 15 summit of the Organization of Islamic cooperation (OCI) and the decisions of the first meeting of the political office of Pastef (African Patriots of Senegal for work, ethics and fraternity).
The President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye took part in the 15e summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference which was held from May 4 to 5, in Banjul, the Gambian capital.
”The President, advocate of the Palestinian cause”, reads Le Soleil on its front page. The national daily underlines that ”during the 15the summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in Banjul, Gambia, the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, pleaded the Palestinian cause, in the name of Islamic solidarity, but above all by simple humanism”.
”In Banjul, the Head of State castigated the indifferent view of the international community and the inertia of the Security Council,” notes Libération, adding that President Faye also affirmed that ”Senegal is particularly concerned about the catastrophic situation in Gaza.
Sud Quotidien reports that at the opening of the OIC summit, on Saturday May 4, 2024, in Banjul, in the Gambian capital, the Senegalese head of state, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, renewed Senegal’s unwavering support for legitimate demands of the Palestinian people for a viable and sovereign State, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions. The newspaper headlines: ”Senegal will remain faithful to its commitment”, on the demands of the Palestinian people.
15e OIC summit, the President of the Republic Bassirou Diomaye Faye ”renews Senegal’s unwavering support for a Palestinian state”, headlines Yoor-Yoor.
”The Head of State reiterated Senegal’s unwavering support for the legitimate demands of our Palestinian brothers and sisters, for a viable and sovereign State, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions,” writes the publication.
“Dakar denounces a +genocide+ in Gaza”, for its part highlighted Le Quotidien, stressing that the President of the Republic, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, “defended the Palestinian cause” on the 15e OIC summit.
”Mr. Faye at the same time called for a more substantial mobilization of the Islamic Ummah for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza,” notes the newspaper.
The daily newspapers were also interested in the decisions and conclusions of the first meeting of Pastef’s political office, chaired on Sunday by its leader, Ousmane Sonko.
Vox Populi mentions ”that after the episode of dissolution and the return to legality, the Pastef party held the first meeting of its political bureau”.
”PASTEF: 2e act of resurrection after the seizure of power”, puts the newspaper on its front page.
”Sonko announces the resumption of PASTEF’s activities, with a view to organizing its first congress in a few months. The party will assume its pan-Africanist and sovereignist option, its rapprochement with the juntas of Guinea Conakry, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, but also the warming of existing relations and exploitation of the numerous new requests coming from all continents. , writes the newspaper.
”Pastef favors its partners: +the putschists+ and Mélenchon”, displays Les Echos. The newspaper announces that a PASTEF tour ”will start with Guinea Conakry, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger”.
”A delegation of French rebels made up of elected officials and led by Jean Luc Mélenchon in Dakar from May 14 to 18,” adds the publication.
”Sonko to conquer Africa”, headlines WalfQuotidien.
”Pastef takes a new direction”, according to l’Info. The newspaper notes that “it is relief among the patriots, who saw their party reborn from the death to which the fallen regime of Macky Sall had predestined it”.
“And yesterday, Ousmane Sonko, chaired the political meeting of the political bureau for the first time since then.”
“An opportunity to return, at length, to the current position of Pastef, who is in power, with his allies, but who must be the locomotive of the rupture and the positive transformation promised to the populations,” indicates the newspaper.
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