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BOUTEFLIKA UNDER PERMANENT VITAL THREAT AND THE SUBSTANCE OF ALGERIAN REVOLUTION
Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been hospitalized in Switzerland for about ten days. The daily Tribune de Genève obtained information on the state of health of the 82-year-old Algerian president, candidate for his own succession. The Geneva patient would be "under permanent threat of life". "Weakened, Bouteflika is" under permanent threat of life, "announces the Tribune de Genève on Wednesday, March 6. According to the Swiss daily, the Algerian president, treated at the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) for ten days," suffers from neurological and respiratory problems. "The head of state is 'under permanent threat of life' because of the degradation of his neurological reflexes. He does not suffer from any lethal harm in the short term, but it is an old man who is struggling to recover from the consequences of his 2013 stroke. Because it is because of the HUG's expertise in neurology that Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been there since February 24th. " The Swiss newspaper reports that the situation of the 82-year-old patient has deteriorated dangerously in recent years. "From a state of fragility but allowing a more or less normal life, he has turned into a patient whose condition is very precarious and requires constant care. " The conditions are met to organize the April 18 presidential, however assured Wednesday the Algerian authorities, despite the unprecedented challenge raised by the candidacy for a fifth term of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. However, according to the foreign daily, former minister Ali Benouari said that no doctor wants to issue a certificate attesting that the Algerian president is able to represent himself. Bouteflika, 82, severely disabled that he is now suffering from a stroke in 2013. He has been hospitalized in Switzerland for more than ten days for officially "periodic medical examinations" and we do not know the date of his return to Algeria. Despite language disorders and a worrying health situation, Bouteflika is in the running for a fifth term after filing his candidacy Sunday night. The presidential election on April 18 against and against all Algerian authorities went from their couplet in favor of the presidential elections of April 18th. The presidential election will be held "in accordance with the Constitution, under the conditions of transparency, serenity and tranquility," said Algerian Foreign Minister Abdelkader Messahel, on the sidelines of a ministerial council of the Arab League in Cairo. The army and security forces are "resolutely committed to guarantee" the security of the presidential election, to allow Algerians to vote "in a climate of serenity, tranquility and stability," said Wednesday the leader said staff of the Algerian army, General Ahmed Gaïd Salah who "seems to abandon the belligerent tone he used until then to talk about the political situation in Algeria," noted the French daily El Watan, his counterpart Freedom evoking "a speech of appeasement". And yet the camp Bouteflika seems to crack gradually in recent days before the extent of the challenge of Algerian students in the street. The "fifth term" front is cracking In a statement, the powerful National Mujahideen Organization (NOM, which brings together the veterans of the war of independence), traditional support of his comrade in arms Mr. Bouteflika, has provided unexpected support to the challenge. The NOM denounces in a statement institutions "not up to the aspirations of the people" and "an unnatural alliance between influential members of power" and people "who were opened the doors to take control of the public money ". On Monday, Sid Ahmed Ferroukhi, a former minister and deputy of the National Liberation Front (FLN) announced his resignation from his mandate and his departure from the party chaired by Bouteflika. Resignations have also been announced by various media in the Forum of entrepreneurs (FCE), employers' organization led by Ali Haddad, deemed close to the Bouteflika clan. Even the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA), a union totally in the service of the fifth term by its secretary-general, Abdelmadjid Sidi-Said, is experiencing defections and calls to support popular protest. These reversals are a sign that the abandonment of the option of Bouteflika's candidacy is beginning to be considered within the regime. The Algerians' challenge a "peaceful revolutionary situation" Since February 22, protesters have unveiled the image of a people full of determination. Since February 22, the largest protest movement of the last two decades in Algeria has pushed tens of thousands of people on the streets to express their opposition to a fifth term of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The day of mobilization promises to be strong Friday, coinciding with the celebration of the International Day of Women's Rights. Lawyer Mokrane Ait Larbi, a respected human rights activist, said the country was living a "peaceful revolutionary situation." "This historic phase can not achieve the break through the electoral path, whose fraud has already begun in the Constitutional Council, and before the national and international opinion," he said.



Joanne Courbet for DayNewsWorld

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SOUTH AFRICA UNDER THE SHOCK A STAR IS BEING BEAT
A video published by a South African singer showing the young woman repeatedly beaten by a man in a room sparked a shockwave on Monday in South Africa, where the government and police denounced the scourge of violence against women. women. On the night of Sunday to Monday, Bongekile Simelane, of his stage name Babes Wodumo, posted on his Instagram account a video where a man shirtless and in boxer shorts. The video, which has since been removed from the account, has become viral on social networks, causing an avalanche of outraged reactions from the fans of the singer, but also the South African authorities. Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa said he was "absolutely horrified". "The South African government will never tolerate gender-based violence. [...] We call on all South Africans to isolate the culprits, to fight and put an end to gender-based violence with the same zeal as we have fought against racism, "he added, saying that the author of the blows was the singer's companion, the musician Mampintsha. On Twitter, the South African government said there was "no excuse for the violence. People can only help if they know. Speak. [...] # Stop the Violence Made to Women ". The police study the video in question to "establish and verify the identity" of the man and woman who appear there. In a tweet published Monday afternoon, Babes Wodumo, singer of gqom (mix of African traditional percussion and house music), explained not being able to "respond" immediately to interviews, because it is "still very shocked. South Africa is plagued by high crime. Last year, more than 20,000 people were murdered, 57 per day. Women are particularly vulnerable. In November, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that "we must end the rapes and feminicides that are never prosecuted.



Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld

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ALGERIAN YOUTH IN THE STREET AGAINST BOUTEFLIKA
Is the revolution going on in Algeria ? Algerian youth is in the street. Mass protests took place Friday, higher than last week, throughout the country but the Algerian power remains inflexible. Abdelaziz Bouteflika must officially apply for a 5th term Sunday. Although the rallies were generally peaceful, the situation escalated in the evening on the outskirts of the presidential palace in Algiers. The clashes left 56 injured among police and seven among protesters, police said, quoted by national television Slogans hostile to power have been chanted with shouts of "Power assassin". The police carried out 45 arrests during the day, including five people who tried to enter the hotel El Djazaïr, said the television, quoting a statement from the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN). Demonstrations took place in nearly two-thirds of the wilayas (prefectures) in the north of the country, the most populous region. According to security sources, other rallies were held without incident including in Oran and Constantine, second and third cities of the country. Amnesty International on Thursday urged security forces to "refrain from excessive or unnecessary force to disperse peaceful protesters". Some observers fear that the support of the Head of State will use the strong way to avoid an election campaign marked by the physical absence of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Campaign director Abdelmalek Sellal, who had led the three previous successful campaigns (2004, 2009, 2014) of candidate Bouteflika, has been sacked. He is replaced by the current Minister of Transport, Abdelghani Zaalene, simply indicates the APS. "His dismissal could be a first response" to the dispute that agitated Algeria for over a week and directly targets Abdelaziz Bouteflika, but it may be a bit short, "commented an observer.



Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

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MUHAMMADU BUHARI PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA
Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected President in Nigeria. The Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria announced, on the night of Tuesday 26 to Wednesday 27 February, the name of the winner. Outgoing Head of State Muhammadu Buhari of the Congress of Progressives (APC) was re-elected for a second four-year term as head of the most populous country in Africa. At 76, the retired general won 56% of the vote, against 41% for his main opponent, Atiku Abubakar. During the campaign, former General Buhari (76), who had led the country in the 1980s, did not deny the shortcomings of his mandate. "It has not been a long, quiet river," he said, asking his compatriots to consider "the important progress" made by his government and to give him the opportunity to complete the projects, particularly in terms of anti-corruption, security and economic. Outgoing President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to take his country to a higher level and do better if he is re-elected. "We are determined to deepen the work that we started during this first term so that the assets and resources of the nation continue to be organized and used in a way that serves the Nigerian citizen," said the outgoing president at the meeting. his campaign. But at 76, his health raised many questions while he was hospitalized several times in London. An economically poor country despite its hydrocarbon resources. Indeed the economy of the most populous country in Africa is very badly in point. The crisis caused by the vertiginous drop in hydrocarbon prices in 2015, on which the Nigerian economy depends, has had a lasting impact on the country. Growth was only 1.9% in 2018, remaining at a lower rate than population growth in a country where unemployment affects a quarter of the labor force, and even more than half of 15-35 year olds . In this country of some 190 million inhabitants - whose population is expected to double by 2050 - this sluggish growth, against a backdrop of high inflation, can not stop the spiral of extreme poverty. According to the World Bank, Nigeria is surpassing India to become the country with the largest number of people living on less than $ 1.90 a day. The recovery of the economy will inevitably go through a diversification of activities to stop this spiral of poverty ... Security challenges with the threat of Boko Haram and land conflicts. In addition to the economic challenge, security was a major theme of the February 23 presidential campaign. Determined in the victory of Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 a former general who led, with an iron fist, a military regime in the 80s, security will still dominate the agenda of the next mandate, particularly with the rise of community clashes in with the ever-present terrorist threat of Boko Haram. Muhammadu Buhari had indeed promised to stop the jihadist insurgency Boko Haram that has killed more than 20,000 and 2.6 million displaced since 2009. But in the north-east of the country Boko Haram group remains a real threat to the security of the population, even if in four years, Boko Haram has given a little ground against the government of Buhari. The terrorist group has increased in 2018 attacks and suicide bombings in several cities in the north-east. In particular, the kidnapping, at the end of February, of more than a hundred girls in a boarding school in Dapchi (Yobe State) and the double bombing of May 1 that killed nearly a hundred victims in Mubi. In March2018 the Nigerian administration has armored US 414 million euros, including surveillance planes and attack, to quell the jihadists. In addition to Boko Haram, there are other conflicts in Nigeria that need to be addressed, such as pro-Biafra separatist tensions challenging the Abuja authority that still persist in the Southeast, and the old land dispute between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers. There are many deadly clashes between farmers and pastoralists, particularly in the states of Benue, Taraba, Nasarawa, Plateau and Kogi. Farmers are accused by farmers of ransacking their farms. But to this grievance is added a dimension of identity between the predominantly Muslim breeders and the mostly Christian farmers. By 2018, Muslim herders reportedly massacred two priests and sixteen Catholic faithful in a church in the central Benue state. The following day, in retaliation, eleven Muslims were lynched in the capital of the state of Benue. The bishops of the states of Benue and Nassarawa had denounced, in a statement, "a clear program of Islamization of the Nigerian central belt" whose goal is "to hit Christians". In the first economy of Africa the challenges to be met by the new head of state, President Buhari, are immense. Deteriorating corruption, restoring security and carrying out the promised economic reforms are the stakes of President Buhari's new mandate.



Joanne Courbet for DayNewsWorld

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ALGERIA CONTESTATAIRE FACING A PROBABLE REELECTION OF ABDELAZIZ BOUTEFLIKA
Algeria took to the streets to protest against the announced re - election of Abdelaziz Bouteflika. More than a hundred thousand people found themselves in the capital on Friday at the initiative of the movement Mouwatana (opposition). And there have been marches organized throughout the country, from Oran to Annaba through Kabylia and southern cities, bringing together, according to human rights associations, nearly 800,000 protesters. The reason : the refusal to see Abdelaziz Bouteflika run for a fifth term on 18 April 2019 while Mouad Bouchareb, coordinator of the FLN, compared the head of state to a prophet. "God sent Bouteflika in 1999 to reform the Algerian nation and give it the place it has," he said recently. The opposition parties praised the mobilization, within the Socialist Forces Front (FFS) or the MSP (Islamist, Muslim Brotherhood trend), including the leader Abderrazak Rachid Nekkaz. A. Rachid Nekkaz is a Potential Candidate for Algeria's Next Presidential Election "Candidate of youth and change".



Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld