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What is the Economic Community of West African States going to do about Niger? Awaiting a precise answer, tension is at its peak in West Africa. Niger thus closed its airspace on Sunday “in the face of the threat of intervention which is becoming clearer”, shortly before the end at midnight of the ECOWAS ultimatum urging the soldiers who took power in Niamey to restore the overthrown President Mohamed Bazoum under pain of using “force”. In a press release, the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP), which took power on July 26, specifies that “any attempt to violate the airspace” will lead to “an energetic and instantaneous response”. In the afternoon, some 30,000 coup supporters, many waving flags of Niger, Burkina Faso and Russia, engaged in a show of force in Niger’s largest stadium in Niamey.
Patrick Drahi is playing big at the start of the week. The billionaire who has built a telecoms empire at an accelerated pace on both sides of the Atlantic, thanks in particular to his mastery of the financial cogs, has seen his machine jammed since the revelation of a corruption scandal at the heart of his group. . To reassure creditors, he will therefore step up to the plate on Monday, but also on Tuesday, during conferences on the sidelines of the publication of the results of Altice International and Altice France. He is particularly expected on the arrest in mid-July in Portugal of his right arm Armando Pereira, suspected of having enriched himself at the expense of the company.
Will the octagon become the latest fashionable place to settle your problems? After the Booba-Kaaris soap opera, here is now the Musk-Zuckerberg series. Now in direct competition, since the launch of Threads by Meta, which uses the same functionalities as X and has 120 million users since its launch in early July, the two entrepreneurs have increased their more or less bitter exchanges. Highlight, at the end of June, Elon Musk posted on his account “I’m ready for a cage fight”, referring to the cage in which MMA fights take place. A challenge accepted in stride by Zuckerberg. The latter also indicated on Sunday that he was “ready today” and had “proposed August 26”. Musk’s response, which assures him that “the first episode will be on X-video”, is pending.