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Vol.8 No.130 Monday, July 30, 2018.Cdr eTwhe French Version Inside N TDRULYa INDwEPENDnENT VOL. 8 NO. 130 MONDAY, JULY 30, 2018 PRICE LD$40.00 a g Taylor’s name is a Pe11 total embarrassment -Veep Taylor Mrs. Taylor & her ex-husband a g Pe11 Weah boasts Pres. Weah & WB Country Director Larisa Leshchenko break ground as officials & other dignitaries look on of int’l backing MONDAY JULY 30 2018 w w w .thenewdawnliberia.com N E W D A W N 2 Zimbabwe rivals promise victory in pitch for votes at final election rallies imbabwe's President Tens of thousands of MDC certain. If we miss our chance yellow and red party regalia as internal security and vice E m m e r s o n supporters in the party's red on Monday we are doomed for the party tries to win in the president but since coming to ZMnangagwa and his c o l o u r s c o n v e r g e d i n life," Chamisa told supporters capital for the first time since power has cast himself as a rival Nelson Chamisa held downtown Harare in a carnival and urged them to stay at 2000.Little separates the two reformer with his Zimbabwe is final election rallies on atmosphere, dancing to music polling stations to prevent men's policies but Mnangagwa "open for business" mantra. Saturday and both vowed to denouncing ZANU-PF. vote fraud.A few miles away, is 75 and represents the war "This coming Monday we rebuild an economy shattered "Today we are celebrating. ZANU-PF supporters met at generation that has ruled will win the election. We are by Robert Mugabe's long rule. Change is inevitable, victory is the national stadium in green, since independence in 1980, voting for the future. We are Monday's vote is the first while Chamisa, a 40-year-old voting for generations to since Mugabe was forced to lawyer, embodies the hopes of come. Together we will unlock step down in November after many young people. the potential for our beloved a de facto coup and, as such, The election could confirm homeland," Mnangagwa told is a major national test. the country's rehabilitation his party supporters. Mnangagwa is favourite after years as a pariah under Mnangagwa has outspent although the latest opinion Mugabe and help unlock Chamisa on the campaign trail, poll said the race was too foreign investment, especially buying all-terrain double cab close to call. i f We s t e r n o b s e r v e r s , vehicles for more than 300 T h e r u n - u p t o t h e monitoring for the first time ZANU-PF parliamentary p r e s i d e n t i a l a n d since 2002, declare it fair. candidates. He has occupied parliamentary election has Mnangagwa held senior most billboards in major towns been peaceful compared to p o s i t i o n s i n M u g a b e ' s and dominated the airwaves previous polls but there are governments as head of with adverts.-Reuters reports of intimidation and c o e r c i o n i n r u r a l constituencies, and state Somalia's president media is biased towards the ruling ZANU–PF party. A run-off will be held in S e p t e m b e r i f n e i t h e r A woman walks past election posters in Harare, pays rare visit to Eritrea candidate wins outright. Zimbabwe, July 19, 2018. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo Egypt court sentences 75 to death Share n Egyptian court has constitution. Morsi was ousted, with sentenced 75 people Their cases will now be hundreds of demonstrators Ato death for their role referred to the Grand Mufti, and dozens of security in the violence that erupted who must be consulted personnel killed after the after President Mohammed whenever the death sentence latter moved in to break up Morsi's removal in 2013. is applied. two sit-in protests. The group, including But while Egyptian law Among those arrested that leaders of the banned Muslim requires the opinion of the day was the award-winning Brotherhood, are part of a Grand Mufti, the country's photojournalist, Mahmoud mass trial of more than 700 highest Islamic legal authority, Abou Zeid, better known as people. it is non-binding - although Shawkan. Rights group Amnesty rarely ignored. He was detained while President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed attends the 30th International has called the The August 2013 clashes taking pictures of the dispersal Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and trial "grossly unfair" and a took place a month after the of a protest. He has been held the Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, v i o l a t i o n o f E g y p t ' s democratically-elected Mr in prison ever since and faces a series charges. A decision in his case was omalia's president Eritrea of supplying weapons postponed by the judges on paid a rare visit to to Islamist insurgents fighting Saturday. SEritrea on Saturday in the fragile government in In the months that followed a sign that Asmara is trying to Mogadishu. Eritrea has said the clashes, there was a use the opportunity created t h e a c c u s a t i o n s w e r e crackdown on the former by a rapprochement with concocted by Ethiopia. president's supporters, and on Ethiopia to improve its Eritrea and Ethiopia the Muslim Brotherhood group regional ties. fought a border war between to which he belongs, which Eritrea's President Isaias 1998 and 2000 during which Egypt later declared a Afwerki's decision to invite tens of thousands died. The "terrorist organisation". President Mohamed Abdullahi war was followed by a In a statement, Amnesty Farmaajo marks a new military stalemate but in International pointed out that, chapter for the countries April they signed a peace while many thousands of after years of sour relations. deal. people have been arrested Discussions will focus on Asmara walked out of the since, "Egyptian authorities "regional issues of interest to East African bloc IGAD in 2007 have never questioned or both countries," Eritrea's in protest as Ethiopian forces prosecuted any of the security information ministry said. entered Somalia to fight force personnel" who were P r e v i o u s S o m a l i militants.-Reuters Image copyright AFP: Defendants involved in the clashes.-BBC look out into the court in Cairo administrations have accused MONDAY JULY 30 2018 w w w .thenewdawnliberia.com N E W D A W N 3 Commentary By Bernard-Henri Lévy A national call for peace and unity Macron and the Piranhas PRESIDENT GEORGE MANNEH Weah sounded a passionate Ever since Alexandre Benalla, a now-former security aide to call Thursday, 26 July during Liberia's 171st Independence French President Emmanuel Macron, was caught on video beating Day celebration at the Centennial Pavilion on Ashmun Street, Monrovia when he called on all Liberians, including members up demonstrators on May 1, France's populists have been leading of opposition political parties to join him in helping to build a political feeding frenzy. By focusing on Benalla, they hope to Liberia. bring down another of Europe's few remaining liberal leaders. “NO MATTER WHO you are and where you are, opposition or ARIS – The faults of Alexandre Benalla, a video of Benalla beating a demonstrator played not, in the rural parts of the country or in the Diaspora, in the former top security aide to French in a loop on the news channels, running nearly towns or villages or in the city, so as long as you are a President Emmanuel Macron who was simultaneously with grotesque speculations Liberian, it is your patriotic and nationalistic duty to put your P caught on video beating up a demonstrator on about the private life of the presidential hands on deck to help us build our country,” he pleaded. May 1, are inexcusable. And it is well couple. In Hans Christian Andersen’s fable, the understood that Macron committed several emperor had no clothes; he was not stripped of WE BELIEVE THIS is a call coming from the bottom of the errors of judgment by trusting for too long a them. And this band of political piranhas heart of a truly patriotic leader that Liberians irrespective of young, inexperienced, showy bruiser who decided not to leave the least scrap of flesh on political, tribal, economic and religious diversity should imagined himself to be a cop or a hooligan. Macron. answer to in our common goal to see Liberia progress. Credit is owed to the journalists who compelled the Elysée Palace to end two and a We know this scene all too well. Our world has SUPPORTING OUR NATIONAL leaders in ways that would half months of culpable silence and cut ties been animated by base desires and reactive promote peace, national unity and development should with Benalla.1 immediateness for some time now. Nor is it new never be seen as a weakness. Rather, it is a demonstration of that the public, puffed up by the winds of the not only national pride, but sincere commitment to the But beyond this scandal lies a more chilling web as if by nationalist mantras, seems to have country we all claim to love as Liberians.
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