Inter News Review: Bolsonaro/Lula Duel, Wadagni at Macron, Embalo Reacts

Beninese Minister Romuald Wadagni makes his first official visit to Paris to strengthen diplomatic relations with France. In Brazil, Bolsonaro’s son and Lula remain neck and neck in the polls. Guinean President Umaro Embalo agrees to allow his supporters to return to Bissau and calls for calm, while supporters of Imam Mohamed Kindo in Burkina Faso are released after months of detention. The BEAC is preparing new ratios to regulate public securities purchases by banks, with total debt exceeding 10,000 billion FCFA for six African states. The death of former Cameroon Constitutional Council President Clément Atangana is announced in Paris. Madagascar’s Prime Minister Mamitiana Rajaonarison reports over 1,200 hydraulic infrastructures built. Internationally, the US evacuates B-1 bombers from the UK amid Iranian threats, and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to cut food taxes from 8% to 1% for two years. In India, protests to defend democracy continue.