MEDI1TV Afrique : Presse Afrique - 18/08/2023
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00:05 Thank you for following Mediain. Welcome to this news tour in Africa.
00:11 Let's start with Benin, which closed its borders with Niger
00:16 in accordance with the injections of the CDAO following the coup d'état of July 26 against President Mohamed Bassem.
00:24 Result, more than 1000 Benin trucks are blocked at the border with Niger.
00:30 It is in the African press agency APANews, the cooperative of transports of Benin,
00:36 a union that defends the interests of the transporters, is worried about the situation of the trucks blocked at the border.
00:43 Most of these trucks are loaded with food waste that rot
00:48 and the transporters have already lost billions of CFA francs since the closure of the border.
00:56 The Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Congo voted the lifting of the military regime
01:03 in the provinces of Luthuri and North Kivu, currently Cameroon, in its columns.
01:09 The state of siege where the military authority has replaced the civil regime
01:14 was put in place by the central government of the RDC in May 2021
01:19 to fight the armed groups operating in the two provinces.
01:23 However, this did not improve the security situation in these regions.
01:28 The situation has worsened in the two provinces.
01:31 There is a recent report to the UN Security Council by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
01:38 The decision to lift the state of siege now belongs to the President of the Republic.
01:45 In Mali, the country withdrew from all the organs and institutions of the G5 Sahel, including the Joint Force,
01:55 due to the absence of the 8th Ordinary Session in February,
02:01 which was to mark the beginning of the Malian presence of the regional structure.
02:06 Information relayed by AFRIC MEDIA TV.
02:10 According to the Malian government, this decision was taken because the absence of the session
02:16 violates a decision taken by the institution and the basic texts of the G5 Sahel.
02:21 The decision was described as "unfortunate" and "regrettable" by a senior UN official
02:28 who exhorted the countries of the region to double their efforts to protect human rights.
02:36 In Burkina Faso, the court of the great Waga 1 instances
02:41 has given its verdict in the Vincent Dabilgou case
02:45 and 6 other people, more than a month after his suspension.
02:50 The former minister in charge of the transports presented as the main figure in this case
02:54 was found guilty by the occult financing court of political parties,
03:00 of capital laundering, of public denial and illicit enrichment.
03:06 Vincent Dabilgou was sentenced to 11 years in prison,
03:10 according to Wakatsera.
03:13 The president of the New Temps for Democracy
03:16 will also have to pay a fine of more than 3 billion francs CFA.
03:20 His party, the NTD, was suspended for 5 years
03:23 and will recover a fine of 10 million francs CFA.
03:28 The international organization for migration
03:33 has announced that more than 60 migrants are presumed to have lost their lives
03:39 on the edge of a pirogue off the Senegalese coast in early July
03:43 and found stranded off Cape Verde.
03:46 This is what we can read on African News.
03:49 The number of people killed has risen to 63,
03:52 the number of survivors is 38, including 4 children aged 12 to 16.
03:57 Cape Verdean authorities have mobilized all the means necessary
04:01 to assist the passengers,
04:03 7 of whom were hospitalized after their landing on the island of Salle.
04:10 This is the end of this African news.
04:13 Thank you for following it.
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