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Senegal: Ousmane Sonko filed a criminal complaint against Macky Sall

A legal counselor of Ousmane Sonko filed a criminal complaint against Macky Sall in a French court on Thursday and furthermore asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate the Senegalese government’s new dangerous crackdown on protesters.

The 168-page record blames President Macky Sall and others for “violations against mankind.” It comes following destructive fights recently, ignited by criminal accusations against Sonko that pundits accept were politically propelled.

The court documentation, which was introduced at a news gathering on Thursday in Paris, subtleties 50 passings since March 2021. It names Senegal’s president, interior minister, the head of police, alongside in excess of 100 other Senegalese and French authorities, as being complicit in “politically spurred viciousness against unarmed demonstrators, activists, writers, legal advisors, and common residents.”

“This fits every one of the rules of the ICC of wrongdoings against mankind regarding gravity, concerning ward,” said Sonko’s legal advisor, Juan Branco, in a meeting with the Press.

Branco, who accumulated and introduced in excess of 600 pieces of evidence in the authority grievance, recently addressed WikiLeaks organizer Julian Assange and individuals from the Gilets Jaunes development in France.

Senegal’s administration didn’t promptly deliver a response to Thursday’s court filing, however, specialists have rejected that police activities have added up to exorbitant power.

Branco referred to numerous explanations behind filing the complaint in France, including the way that few individuals hurt by the public authority reaction have dual citizenships in France and Senegal. The move is likewise expected to demonstrate that the Senegalese justice system is corrupt.

Sonko’s lawyers said that they are confident the ICC examiner will treat the case in a serious way given the strength and extent of the evidence.

“We truly anticipate that he should open quickly a primer assessment looking into it,” Branco said. “Also, we think he has adequate evidence at this stage to really go to the pretrial chamber and request to open an examination.”

Sonko, long seen as the best political danger to Senegal’s decision party in the following year’s official political race, presently faces exclusion subsequent to being given a two-year jail sentence recently following his conviction on charges of debasing youth.

In one more body of evidence brought against him, the opposition leader was vindicated on charges of assaulting a lady who worked at a massage parlor and conveying passing intimidations against her.

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Africa as Mediator between Ukraine and Russia?

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Four African leaders, Macky Sall (Senegal), Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa), Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (Egypt), and Hakainde Hichilema (Zambia) are currently in Ukraine in an attempt to play a mediator role in the Ukraine-Russia War.

After discussions with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian head of state, they are also preparing to meet Vladimir Putin, the Russian president.

Conviction of Laurent Gbagbo in the case of the looting of the BCEAO

New Statute of Former Presidents in Angola

International

Angola Parliament will discuss and vote in favor of a Draft Regulation on the Resolution of the Previous Presidents of the Republic on June 22, the Parliament Agency’s most memorable secretary Manuel Lopes Dembo declared, Friday in Luanda.

Manuel Dembo made the declaration toward the finish of the Gathering of the heads of the Parliamentary Gatherings, which intended to set the plan of the seventh Normal Whole Gathering of the Public Gathering.

The administrative drive of the proposition viable means to change the freedoms, obligations, and resistances of previous Presidents and their solitary helper body in the activity of Leader Power.

The seventh Entire Gathering of the first Regulative Meeting of the fifth Council will likewise hold the last general vote in favor of the Draft Regulation on Work Technique Code and for the three certificates that approve the Leader of the Republic, as Top of the Public authority, to administer on the revision of the Financial System of the Concession of Blocks 30, 44 and 45.

The Parliament will likewise cast a ballot, in over-simplification, for the Proposed Changes to the Regulations on the Rule of Columnists and on the Natural Law of the Media Administrative Authority as well with respect to two draft goals on the solicitations for authorization for the twofold reception, worldwide, of minors Kiary André and Eduardo Suculenta.

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Conviction of Laurent Gbagbo in the case of the looting of the BCEAO

International, Politics

According to the Spokesperson of Ouattara’s government, the charges against Laurent Gbagbo in the case of the looting of the BCEAO were served to him through his lawyers.

“Contrary to what Mr. Laurent Gbagbo wants to make people believe, the charges brought against him in the case of the looting of the BCEAO were served to him through his lawyers,” stated Touré Mamadou, Minister of Youth Promotion, Professional Integration, and Civic Service, and Deputy Government Spokesperson of the Ivorian government. He made this statement following the council of ministers presided over by the Head of State, Alassane Ouattara, on Thursday, June 15, 2023, at the presidential palace in Abidjan-Plateau.

“According to the information I have, at various stages of the legal process, lawyers representing Laurent Gbagbo came to serve him with decisions and summonses, to which they responded. The problem this poses is how they were able to represent the former Head of State and respond to legal summons and hearings. Either his lawyers engaged in forgery, and in that case, Laurent Gbagbo has the right to seek justice to ascertain their intentions, or it’s a way to delay the process,” questioned Mr. Touré.

According to Touré Mamadou, “Decisions are rendered according to the principles that govern our judicial system. The second thing is that beyond the decision itself, unfortunately, we observe a selective interpretation of the 2005 law regarding the status of former presidents of the republic. If Mr. Laurent Gbagbo, from whom this law originates, had a complete understanding of the law, he would know that the same law states that offenses committed during electoral processes are not subject to the exceptional procedures for heads of state or former presidents of institutions.” According to the government spokesperson, “this means that all offenses committed during the post-electoral crisis are subject to a process without considering the status of the head of state,” and he added, “it would have been desirable for this aspect to be revealed to the public.”

The former Head of State, Laurent Gbagbo, President of the Ivorian Popular Front (PPI-CI) party, visited the annex offices of the Independent Electoral Commission in Cocody Angré 8th tranche on Thursday, June 8, 2023, to file a complaint regarding his removal from the voter list. After addressing the electoral authority to assert the existence of one of his rights, the former Head of State (2000-2010) stated that he did not recognize the allegations of the looting of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO). “After a trial that judged me for allegedly robbing the BCEAO, I vehemently refute such an accusation. Throughout my life, I have always worked to ensure that I have no shame in my criminal record.”

Laurent Gbagbo supported his argument by stating that he was the President of the Republic from 2000 to April 2011 and that the trial of a former head of state follows specific procedures. “I am Laurent Gbagbo, President of the Republic from October 2000 to April 2011. You don’t just judge a former president in any way and before any jurisdiction. There is a procedure for implicating and trying a former president of the Republic and former presidents of institutions. It’s a law from 2005.” And he concluded, “I don’t know why I was judged; no one summoned me because for there to be a trial, the accused is contacted and handed a summons.”

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