MEDI1TV Afrique : Soir infos (20:00) - 02/08/2023
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00:12 New edition of Journal on Mediain TV, welcome.
00:15 If you join us right now, the summary.
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00:21 Alaa Una Ahmad Hachani is now the Prime Minister in Tunisia,
00:25 a former senior member of the Central Bank.
00:27 The President appointed her in place of Najla Bouden,
00:30 who removed her shortly before midnight.
00:32 Qaïsa Yedda asked Ahmad Hachani to overcome colossal challenges.
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00:40 In a tense context after the coup in Niger,
00:43 the heads of state of the countries of the West African bloc,
00:46 who did not give up their strength against the Putschists,
00:50 met on Wednesday in Abuja,
00:52 while a Nigerian agency emissary arrived in Mali.
00:55 The developments follow.
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01:00 And this crisis in Niger is a new turn for the French President in Africa,
01:04 Emmanuel Macron, who intends to renew relations with his country,
01:08 with his former African colonies.
01:10 We'll talk about that later.
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01:16 The Moroccan Foreign Minister, Nasser Bouletta,
01:19 met this Wednesday with the British State Minister
01:22 for the Middle East and North Africa.
01:24 South Asia and the United Nations.
01:27 Lord Tarek Ahmad of Wimbledon,
01:30 of the latest developments in the situation in the region and in Africa.
01:33 In Califian, this interview with Constructive Ahmad of Wimbledon
01:38 revealed in a tweet that the exchange
01:40 brought on several subjects,
01:42 including the situation in Israel and in the Palestinian territories
01:45 occupied in Niger and Libya,
01:47 as well as bilateral and regional issues.
01:50 On this occasion, Lord Tarek Ahmad of Wimbledon
01:54 transmitted his warm wishes to King Mohammed VI
01:56 on the occasion of the throne ceremony.
01:58 Relations between Morocco and the United Kingdom
02:00 are under continuous strengthening.
02:03 In May, the two kingdoms held their fourth strategic dialogue session in Rabat.
02:09 Ahmad Hashemi is now the Prime Minister of Tunisia,
02:15 a former member of the Central Bank.
02:18 The President appointed him in replacement of Najla Bouden,
02:21 who replaced him shortly before midnight.
02:23 Qaissa Ayed asked Ahmad Hashemi to overcome the colossal challenges
02:28 that Tunisia is facing today.
02:32 Najwa Bechane tells us more from Tunisia.
02:34 Tuesday, August 1, shortly before midnight,
02:39 Tunisian President Qaissa Ayed decided to remove his explanation.
02:43 The head of the government, Najla Bouden,
02:45 replaced him by a former member of the Central Bank,
02:49 Ahmad Hashemi, to whom he asked to overcome the colossal challenges.
02:54 Is this the right profile?
02:56 Theoretically, yes, because we now have a new Prime Minister
03:01 who has an important economic background.
03:04 He worked before in the Ministry of Finance.
03:07 He also held important positions within the Central Bank.
03:12 Economically, he has the profile, but does he now have the roadmap?
03:18 According to experts, Najla Bouden's performance in managing certain cases
03:23 was below the expectations of the Tunisian President
03:26 and has accelerated its limoge.
03:29 Their last meeting was tense.
03:31 We saw the Tunisian President blame the government
03:34 for his management of the bread crisis.
03:37 At this meeting, the head of state was angry,
03:40 calling for solutions, saying that bread is a red line for Tunisians.
03:46 The bread crisis, the lack of basic elements,
03:49 the cold relationship between the government and national organizations,
03:53 all this has put the Najla Bouden government in peril.
03:56 Today, it is no longer possible for the President of the Republic
03:59 to bear the burden of this government.
04:01 That is why he wanted to take a new breath through this change.
04:06 During the passing ceremony of power between Najla Bouden
04:10 and the new head of government, Ahmed El Hacheni,
04:12 the Tunisian President said that there was a project
04:15 to revise the nominations of the last ten years,
04:18 which he said were based on political affiliations and falsified diplomas.
04:23 He tried to emphasize the importance of purging the state's wheels.
04:28 A delegation from the Economic Community of West African States
04:34 is currently in Niger to negotiate with the members of the National Council
04:38 for the Preservation of the Country,
04:40 the council that overthrew Nigerian President Elu Muhammad Bazoum.
04:45 This is what one of the community officials said at the opening
04:48 this Wednesday of the meeting of the West African State Council
04:51 in Abuja, Nigeria, at the center of the discussions
04:55 about the possibility of a military intervention in this country.
04:58 And know that Nigeria has cut its electricity supply to Nigeria,
05:03 that is, to the island.
05:05 Meeting of the heads of state of the CDAO from Wednesday to Friday in Abuja.
05:14 A meeting to put even more pressure on the new masters of Niamé.
05:18 The West African leaders, gathered at an extraordinary summit on Sunday in Abuja,
05:22 had condemned the putsch and given a week to the Zint to establish
05:26 President Elu Muhammad Bazoum in his position,
05:29 while reserving the possibility of a recourse to force.
05:32 A delegation of the CDAO led by the former Nigerian President Abdul Salami Aboubakar
05:37 must also go to Nigeria this Wednesday.
05:39 Under the cover of anonymity, another person in charge of the West African organization
05:44 and a military officer in Niger.
05:46 Recalling that on Monday night, Burkina Faso and Mali,
05:49 neighboring Nigeria, and also governed by military,
05:52 showed their solidarity with the putschists by stating that any military intervention
05:57 to establish Muhammad Bazoum would be considered a declaration of war to their two countries
06:02 and would delay the withdrawal of the CDAO.
06:04 They added in a joint statement that they refuse to apply illegal,
06:08 illegitimate and inhumane sanctions against the people and Nigerian authorities,
06:12 also decided on Sunday by the CDAO in Abuja.
06:18 In Niamé, the military in power announced yesterday the reopening of the Nigerian
06:23 and air borders with five border countries,
06:26 Burkina Faso, Mali, Chad, Algeria and Libya.
06:30 A reopening that occurs a few days before the end of the ultimatum of the CDAO
06:34 to establish their sub-constitution.
06:37 And in the meantime, France and Italy continue the evacuation operations of the resettlement.
06:47 Three planes have already landed in Paris and Rome.
06:50 On board, there were hundreds of French, Italian and other nationalities.
06:55 But Paris has made it known that the evacuation of French soldiers in Niger
06:59 is not on schedule.
07:01 The French president intends to renew relations with his country,
07:09 with its former African colonies.
07:11 On the contrary, he is picking up on the ups and downs in the region,
07:14 on the future of the French military presence.
07:17 In December 2018, Paris said it was committed against extremists in the Sahel
07:21 until the victory was complete.
07:23 Five years later, French soldiers left Mali, Burkina Faso,
07:27 at the coup d'état theater.
07:29 Further south, they had to withdraw from Central Africa.
07:33 On the other hand, Russia is calling for national dialogue to avoid a degradation
07:41 of the situation in Niger, a country destabilized by a military coup
07:45 that occurred last week.
07:47 Moscow has put on guard against any foreign armed intervention.
07:51 According to the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
07:54 Maria Zakharova, African problems require African solutions.
07:58 And the threat of resorting to force against a sovereign state
08:01 will not help to defuse tensions and to resolve the situation in the country.
08:08 In Senegal, the first elements of the investigation into the attack
08:12 on the Molotov cocktail of a minibus in a neighborhood of the Dakar suburb
08:16 on Tuesday suggest a terrorist attack.
08:19 This is what the Dakar Parquet says in a statement published this Wednesday.
08:23 The provisional report states two women who died of female calcinia,
08:27 five injured by burns, two of them in a serious condition.
08:30 Violent demonstrations broke out on Monday in Zimbabwe,
08:33 the city of which Ousmane Sonko is the mayor.
08:37 This is due to the deposition of the former PASTEF party leader, the Patriots.
08:42 Former President Ivory Henry Conan Bédié died Tuesday in Abidjan at the age of 89,
08:57 following a malaise in his hometown of Daoukro.
09:03 Conan Bédié was president of the National Assembly for 13 years from 1980 to 1993,
09:10 before accessing the supreme magistracy of the country
09:13 after the death of Félix Oufoué Bouani,
09:16 following some reactions from Ivorians in this report.
09:20 It is with great sadness that the Ivorians begin this August.
09:25 A reconnaissance Bédié, president of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast
09:28 and former president of the Republic,
09:30 suddenly left the world of the living, following a malaise.
09:33 The populations are still in shock.
09:35 For them, this departure constitutes a real loss for the whole country.
09:39 The one who could really boost this peace, the one who just fell.
09:44 This is really a river that has just been washed away.
09:48 We, the fish, have something to worry about.
09:51 He did a lot for the Ivory Coast after the death of the first president,
09:56 Ivorian Félix Oufoué Bouani.
09:58 He is someone who is truly cold-blooded,
10:02 and who was able to reserve a lot of things in the Ivory Coast.
10:10 In Nemo, he is a man of peace, a man who calls for social cohesion.
10:15 He is also a really nice man.
10:18 It is in the kiosks of Journaux d'Abidjan, the Ivorian economic capital,
10:22 that some people discover the information.
10:24 The different daily lives of the country have it displayed on their own.
10:27 For this psychology student, the disappearance of this pioneer of Ivorian politics
10:31 will inevitably impact his political training, the PDCI RDA.
10:35 As Pateba could say, when an old man dies,
10:39 it is a whole library that burns, that goes on fire.
10:45 And now the Ivory Coast is losing a lot of archives.
10:51 The PDCI is a large party, a party that has been formed since independence.
10:56 I know that the party has put in place a lot of reservists,
11:01 and this is the moment now that many will shine.
11:06 Born in 1934 in Daoukro, Henri Colombidia led the Ivory Coast from 1993 to 1999.
11:13 But before that, he held the post of Minister of Economy and Finance from 1966 to 1977,
11:19 and he was elected President of the National Assembly of the Ivory Coast from 1980 to 1993.
11:25 Former US President Donald Trump, accused by federal justice for his pressures
11:33 after the 2020 presidential election to reverse the election result in his favor,
11:38 this is his third inculpation in the most serious penalty so far.
11:43 Trump accused for his attempts to stay in power in 2020.
11:49 The former president was accused on Tuesday, August 1, by a Washington DC grand jury,
11:54 for his attempts to reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election.
11:58 A third reprehensible accusation in the penalty of the former president,
12:02 who still wants to return to the White House.
12:05 An unprecedented fact for a former US head of state.
12:08 The indictment shows the painstaking efforts that Trump has made
12:15 to try to establish that there was fraud during the election,
12:19 and that at every moment the courts, his advisors, his lawyers, his staff,
12:23 the intelligence, told him that there was no evidence of fraud.
12:32 The billionaire could be forced to appear in front of a court in the middle of an election campaign next year.
12:38 The great favorite of the Republican primaries is accused of conspiring against the US state.
12:42 An official procedure is being worked on and it is up to the electoral rights.
12:46 The calendar will bring us right during the elections and maybe even beyond.
12:56 And I think that the best defense of Trump in many of his trials would be to be re-elected,
13:01 and therefore to be in charge of the Ministry of Justice.
13:04 And I think that this is perhaps the line of defense that he is most closely pursuing.
13:09 As a reminder, Donald Trump announced on July 18 that he had received a letter from the special prosecutor, Jack Smith,
13:20 informing him that he was personally targeted by the federal investigation
13:23 into attempts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election,
13:27 and in particular the assault on the Capitol on January 6.
13:30 That day, he gave a fiery speech in front of his supporters,
13:33 calling them to fight like devils against the results of the presidential election that the elected officials had to certify.
13:39 A crowd had then invaded the Capitol, scenes of violence and chaos that had shocked America and the world.
13:45 And to come back to the inculpation of the former US president, Donald Trump,
13:53 I have the pleasure of joining live Calvin Darke, political analyst from Washington.
13:58 Good evening and welcome.
14:00 Good evening.
14:03 So, this third inculpation of Donald Trump is the most serious.
14:07 It concerns the attempts to reverse the trend during the 2020 elections,
14:14 knowing that Trump is also a candidate for 2024.
14:17 How do you interpret this situation?
14:22 Yes, as we know, this is the third actual trial of the former president Trump.
14:29 But this accusation is the most serious because, as you said,
14:34 it is about his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 elections,
14:41 and also he is the favorite candidate of the Republican Party for the 2024 elections.
14:48 So, now he even says that he won the 2020 elections.
14:54 So, this is really an unprecedented situation, to have a president, a current candidate,
15:00 who says that he won the previous elections and is in trial for his efforts to reverse the results.
15:09 Most Republicans reject 100% this accusation that he qualifies as a political maneuver by the Democrats
15:18 to stop Donald Trump's campaign.
15:21 What is your opinion on this?
15:23 Yes, this is the really sad part because the reactions here in the United States are divided by political trends.
15:33 Most Republicans think that these are just Biden's political maneuvers.
15:38 They want to stop Trump's campaign.
15:40 Even Trump says that his efforts are to stop the ambitions of the base of support he has within the Republican Party.
15:49 So, unfortunately, this is not the legal side for the court.
15:54 These are not political issues, but for the Americans, we are divided between the two parties.
16:01 And now the Republicans qualify all these accusations as purely political.
16:08 And the American president, Joe Biden, does not really have a choice, especially since federal justice is at work.
16:16 What do you think?
16:18 Yes, Joe Biden really tried to show that he lets the Department of Justice do its job without interference.
16:29 And I know that the prosecutor who was chosen for this trial, he does a lot of things to assure people
16:38 that there are no political motivations behind his choices, to present his accusations.
16:44 And I'm sure Biden doesn't get involved in this case, but it doesn't stop Trump and his supporters from saying that it's purely political and it's not fair.
16:54 But we will see in the trial, it will depend on the decision of a jury of Americans.
17:00 And can we talk about an unprecedented situation today in the current electoral context in the United States?
17:07 Is there a risk for the Republicans if they continue to support Donald Trump?
17:13 Yes, it's really a risk because if he is the candidate chosen by the Republican Party,
17:21 they have a next year's judge, we're going to have a president, a candidate, in the middle of three trials.
17:31 And if the trial doesn't take place before the elections, what are the Republicans going to do?
17:37 And I think that if the Republicans realize that as a candidate, they are not strong against Joe Biden,
17:45 but at the moment they support their candidate 100%, but I think it will change before the election.
17:53 Thank you very much, Calvin Darke, political analyst. You have been live with us since Washington.
18:02 Around Morocco, where unfortunately road accidents are multiplying in the summer,
18:11 the need in terms of blood donation is increasing.
18:15 A situation that pushes blood transfusion centers to redouble their efforts to strengthen their stock.
18:20 Details in this report.
18:24 The summer period is in full swing and the number of accidents is clearly rising due to the significant road traffic.
18:33 A situation that rings the alarm bell and pushes blood transfusion centers to mobilize more
18:39 to meet the need for blood growth, this vital biological fluid.
18:43 In normal situations, blood can be given in less than two hours. In the case of an emergency, on average 30 minutes.
18:52 In extreme cases, blood is given on the field at least.
18:56 We call on the Moroccans to generously donate their blood so that the stocks are never dry,
19:03 especially during this period of festive holidays, which is known for many emergency cases.
19:09 Certified ISO for its work according to international standards of the WHO,
19:14 the Rabat Blood Transfusion Regional Center is an example in terms of new technology.
19:20 By giving my blood, I save lives, especially in this period of the summer,
19:28 when road traffic is congested and accidents are multiplying.
19:32 And so the victims need a lot of blood to survive, as well as for the sick.
19:38 Once the blood is taken, it is transported to a room for analysis.
19:46 Once this important step is accomplished in international hygiene standards,
19:51 the doctor assigns his type and the red fluid can be distributed in hospitals in the kingdom,
19:56 according to the demand or in blood banks.
20:00 When we analyze the donor's blood, we make sure that it is not contaminated by any bacteria or disease.
20:06 We usually take between 400 and 500 ml of blood in less than 10 minutes.
20:11 We then keep the blood in sterilized plastic bags and for unique use.
20:17 In comparison to 2021, the year 2022 saw an increase of 6% in terms of blood donation.
20:25 In Morocco, the blood donor rate has reached just 0.92%, while the WHO recommends a minimum of 1%.
20:35 End of the news. Thank you for your attention and see you later.
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