Dakar, January 10 (APS) – The daily newspapers are mainly concerned with economic news for their edition this Friday, the newspaper EnQuête evoking “tensions” in the international market at the origin of a “complex equation” ‘ for the Senegalese authorities.
”Households are struggling to see the impact on the market [local] of the envelope of 53 billion CFA francs intended to reduce the cost of living”, affirms the same daily, adding: ”Faced with tensions, wholesalers are circumventing the law by fueling a lucrative parallel trade.”
”After having reduced the opposition to its simplest expression, Ousmane Sonko and his government should face their toughest adversary: the cost of living,” continues EnQuête.
L’As believes, alluding to the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, that ”the Sonko-Diomaye method is worrying”.
He reports, on the basis of a text made public by ”state agents”, ”fanciful projections” on the budgetary level, ”underperformance of finances”, a ” lack of transparency of the finance law” and an ”excessive politicization of the administration”.
”Three national companies in critical condition”, headlines Libération, speaking of the La Poste group, the National Recovery Company and the National Company for the Management and Operation of State Built Heritage.
These three public sector companies are facing a “deteriorating situation [de leurs] capital”, states the newspaper, saying it has consulted an official document which mentions it.
”The lean period”
Faced with the ”discontent” of two-wheeler drivers, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Land and Air Transport ”is banking on dialogue and consultation, trying to calm the anger”, while remaining ”intransigent on the application of the measure,” observes Le Quotidien.
This ministry asked drivers of two-wheeled vehicles with a cylinder larger than 49 cubic centimeters to register them for safety reasons, a measure that some of them denounce.
Certain two-wheeled vehicles cannot be registered because, having entered Senegal in spare parts, they do not have a certificate of release for circulation, according to an expert in logistics transport and road safety interviewed by L’ Observer.
”We need a political negotiation around this matter,” suggests the same expert.
”Despite the bronca, the authorities […] do not intend to back down,” notes Yoor-Yoor, suggesting that they want all the vehicles concerned to be registered.
Le Soleil devotes its front page to the local milk sector. ”The lean times”, he headlines.
”At a time of the proclaimed objective of food sovereignty, local milk faces numerous challenges which hamper its growth,” notes Le Soleil, adding that this sector ”is subject to the Union’s import law European”.
The ”intriguing silence” of Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo
The general director of the Autonomous Port of Dakar, Waly Diouf Bodian, reports the existence of “fictitious agents”, “political clients and [de] entire families accommodated” by this national society.
”I want to revolutionize the Autonomous Port of Dakar,” promises Mr. Bodian, whose remarks are relayed by the daily Yoor-Yoor.
Sud Quotidien is especially interested in the First Lady’s commitment to “inclusive education” for girls. ”I solemnly undertake to advocate for the promotion of girls’ education in Senegal and throughout the world,” reports Sud Quotidien, quoting Marie Khone Faye.
L’Observateur speaks of the ”intriguing silence of the man who aspired to become Macky Sall’s heir apparent”, former minister Abdoulaye Daouda Diallo.
”His silence arouses as much skepticism as mystery, regarding his political future,” comments the newspaper.
WalfQuotidien believes that the Alliance for the Republic, Macky Sall’s political party, is facing ”a planned death”, ”which seems to result from the combination of several factors, including [sa] non-structuring, the absence of a dolphin”, as well as ”transhumance’, personal power and human rights violations”.
”The problem of the APR is that it did not have time to form a successor, because, barely born, the party came to power,” a political analyst told L’Observateur.
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