MEDI1TV Afrique : Midi infos - 02/10/2023
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00:12 Welcome back to the big news news.
00:14 Welcome to you.
00:15 Right away, the headlines of your edition.
00:17 The Moroccan Minister of Agriculture is visiting the province of Tal Oudin
00:22 to see the effects of the earthquake of September 8th on the agricultural sector.
00:27 Details in a few moments.
00:30 There is this historic meeting in Kiev with the heads of the European Union Diplomacy
00:37 in solidarity with Ukraine.
00:41 We are talking about it.
00:43 And then a detail advance offered by two Hungarian and American doctors
00:49 in the field of messenger RNA vaccines.
00:51 They were distinguished by the prestigious Nobel Prize in Medicine.
00:57 We start in Morocco where the Minister of National Education,
01:03 Shakib Ben Moussa,
01:05 made a field visit this weekend at the level of several municipalities
01:09 in the province of Ouarzazate.
01:12 There, he visited schools affected by the earthquake.
01:16 The Minister of Education ensures that important measures have been taken
01:22 to guarantee the continuation of the education of trained students.
01:26 The Ministry of National Education is now working on the reconstruction
01:31 of schools affected by the earthquake.
01:34 We stay in the kingdom where the Minister of Agriculture,
01:40 for his part, made a field visit in the province of Tal Oudin.
01:44 Mohamed Sadeqi was there to observe the effects of the earthquake
01:48 of September 8 on the agricultural sector.
01:52 This visit also allowed to observe the effects,
01:56 especially on infrastructures, irrigation network,
01:59 but also the production chains of agricultural and animal products.
02:03 After Ouarzazate, Sadeqi went to Tal Oudin to assess the damage of the earthquake.
02:09 The Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fishing,
02:12 the Ministry of Rural Development and Water and Forestry,
02:15 made a field visit in the province of Tal Oudin,
02:18 affected by the earthquake of September 8, 2023,
02:21 to assess the devastating impacts on the agricultural sector.
02:24 A visit accompanied by a fruitful work session
02:27 with members of the Agriculture Chamber of the region of Souss Massa,
02:31 representing the devastated territorial communes.
02:34 Today, in this meeting, we see the important damage
02:39 that the earthquake has caused to the infrastructure.
02:43 This field visit has allowed to observe the effects of the earthquake
02:47 on the agricultural sector, especially on infrastructures,
02:50 irrigation network and production chains of agricultural and animal products.
02:53 This visit is an opportunity to learn about the implementation
02:56 of the Emergency Intervention Programme.
02:58 This programme includes agricultural and forestry sectors.
03:01 In the agricultural sector, it is about guaranteeing access
03:05 and unblocking the exploitation and land
03:07 through the rehabilitation and construction of agricultural land.
03:11 In the second sector, it is about the development, construction
03:16 and equipment of the units of appreciation and cooperative premises,
03:20 and the leveling and rehabilitation of the slaughterhouses.
03:23 In the third sector, it is about the reconstruction of the agricultural production capital
03:28 and the restarting of the animal sectors through the reconstruction of the shepherd,
03:32 the distribution of livestock feed, as well as the implementation of projects
03:36 of solidarity agriculture and other income-generating activities.
03:39 This plan is part of the development plan for the areas affected by the earthquake,
03:43 which has an envelope of 120 billion dirhams
03:46 and whose instructions have been given by His Majesty.
03:49 The day ended with a work session in the headquarters
03:58 of the Agriculture Chamber in Tiarudant.
04:00 During this meeting, Minister Sadeqi stressed that all the services
04:03 of the Department of Agriculture at the central and regional level
04:07 have immediately mobilized their efforts to assess the damage in the agricultural sector
04:11 and to develop an intervention programme aimed at supporting the affected populations,
04:15 rehabilitating and developing agricultural activity.
04:20 The Kigali Direction, now with Mohamed Harouchi, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the UAE,
04:26 has announced that 76% of the budget of the African Union has been allocated
04:31 in previous years for peace and security operations.
04:35 The remaining 14% was a response to the aspirations of development.
04:41 The strictly security approach has therefore shown its limits.
04:45 This was confirmed during this conference on the Nexus Peace, Security and Development.
04:52 This new approach will allow to allocate a large percentage of the budget to development projects.
04:58 I propose to listen to Mohamed Harouchi on this.
05:01 Madam Ambassador, I would like to underline two points in particular.
05:09 First, I would like to stress that the African Union has not only allocated a large percentage of the budget,
05:16 but also a large percentage of the budget for the development of the African Union.
05:22 This is a very important point.
05:25 The African Union has not only allocated a large percentage of the budget,
05:31 but also a large percentage of the budget for the development of the African Union.
05:36 This is confirmed by the relevance of the approach of the Nexus Peace, Security and Development,
05:47 announced by the Summit last year and signed in the conference on the Nexus Peace, Security and Development.
05:56 This new approach will certainly allow to allocate a large percentage of the budget for development projects
06:11 necessary to ensure stability and to face the multiple factors that cause instability on the continent,
06:28 such as development deficits, unemployment, food insecurity, health insecurity, etc.
06:41 I would like to ask the Commissioner to develop more in this retreat the relevance of this approach
06:50 based on the Nexus Peace, Security and Development.
06:54 Finally, I would like to confirm the willingness of my country, the Kingdom of Morocco,
07:01 to share its experience and expertise in financing development and objectives for sustainable development
07:10 and aspirations of the 2063 Agenda.
07:14 Your Excellency, Madam President.
07:18 A little earlier, Mohamed Harouchi said that Morocco insisted on the need to accelerate the institutional reform of the African Union,
07:27 a reform that remains a tax on an effective and efficient implementation of the second plan of the 2063 Agenda of the African Union.
07:37 The ambassador to the Kingdom's permanent representative to the United Nations has thus underlined that it was obvious
07:44 that a common approach to development required an inter-African solidarity,
07:49 sharing of experience, but also regional integration.
07:53 And always, according to Mohamed Harouchi, the realization of a prosperous vision of Africa
07:58 must be done through a strong involvement of regional communities, taking into account the specificities of African states.
08:08 The ambassador and permanent representative of Morocco to the African Union
08:14 also reminded that according to previous statistics of the United Nations on African youth,
08:19 40% of the youth have less than 25 years.
08:23 A figure that reveals that the African continent includes about 700 million young Africans under 25 years.
08:31 Given this development, we will have 230 to 250 million more young people by 2063,
08:39 which forces us to keep in mind the role of youth in the development of the Agenda.
08:45 In 2063, Mohamed Harouchi also insisted on the importance of involving young people and their representative bodies.
08:58 Morocco, which also supports the request of Somalia of a three-month technical break for the withdrawal of the troops from the ATMIS,
09:05 an affirmation made at a meeting of the UN Security Council organized this weekend by videoconference.
09:13 Morocco took this opportunity to express its support for the transition mission of the African Union in Somalia,
09:20 aiming to help the Somali federal government to gradually transfer the responsibilities in terms of security of the ATMIS
09:27 to the national security forces of the country, thus preventing a security vacuum from settling in Somalia.
09:34 What happened in the Mursi disco in Spain?
09:41 It is at the end of the day that local authorities will go through the ruins of this disco where 13 people lost their lives yesterday, Sunday,
09:51 after having judged unlikely that other bodies were found in the rubble.
09:56 The authorities have therefore confirmed that all people had been found.
10:01 24 hours after this tragedy, the inhabitants of the city were invited to respect a minute of silence,
10:09 three days of mourning were decreed and a welcome cell was set up.
10:15 And the news is also this fire, this time in Egypt, which ravaged one of the largest buildings in the city on the Suez Canal,
10:28 killing at least 25 people.
10:31 The fire was declared in the direction of the security services before dawn.
10:35 The flames devoured the many floors of the imposing stone building occupied by the military.
10:42 Fires often born of short-circuits are not rare in Egypt, the most populous country of the Arab countries, with 105 million inhabitants.
10:52 In August 2022, an accidental fire had already killed 41 people in a church stuck in a alley in a popular district of the Cairo,
11:03 triggering a lively controversy over the infrastructure, but also over the reaction time of the Egyptian firefighters.
11:15 In the rest of the international news, I read you the title, there is also this historic meeting of the foreign affairs ministers of the European Union in Kiev,
11:25 a meeting aimed at expressing solidarity with Ukraine, faced with the Russian invasion,
11:33 and what the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, learned.
11:38 This is the first time that the heads of EU diplomacy have met outside the borders of the European Union,
11:45 but within the future borders of the European Union,
11:49 the Ukrainian foreign affairs minister, as a reminder, Kiev has asked to urgently join the 27 after the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022.
11:59 The European Union has agreed to give him the official status of candidate, but no calendar has been established for the moment.
12:09 30 years later, a UN mission to put on the back this Sunday at Nagorny Karabakh.
12:19 The objective is to evaluate the humanitarian needs on the spot.
12:24 As a reminder, the Armenian separatists who controlled Nagorny Karabakh for three decades after the displacement of the USSR,
12:34 surrendered last week against Azerbaijan,
12:39 and now there are a total of 600 dead who are deplored in the wake of this offensive.
12:46 Since the enclave was deserted by its inhabitants, with more than 100,000 refugees fleeing to Armenia,
12:53 for fear of reprisals from Azerbaijan.
12:56 We are going to Niger, where thousands of people marched yesterday to celebrate the departure of the French ambassador, Sylvain Hite.
13:07 But for Nigerians, this is only a first step.
13:10 You will see in this report that the demonstrators now want to accelerate the withdrawal of French soldiers.
13:16 Their effective departure is expected by the end of the year.
13:19 And this Sunday, the Patriotic Front for Sovereignty maintained the mobilization started a month ago by the people of Gibraltar.
13:29 More than a demonstration, it was a march of celebration that several thousand people prepared for the place of the resistance of Niamé.
13:38 Demonstrators came to celebrate the departure last Wednesday of the French ambassador,
13:43 but who are less and less patient when the withdrawal of French soldiers is announced.
13:48 The French ambassador left, Sylvain Hite.
13:50 Now we want the French army to leave.
13:55 We will not leave here, we will sleep day and night so that they will leave our country.
14:00 We are an independent country, we are sovereign, our country belongs to us.
14:06 I am very happy with the departure of the French ambassador because it is already a first victory for the Nigerian people.
14:11 Now it's up to the French soldiers to leave and that we can finally have peace.
14:16 A departure that, according to French President Emmanuel Macron, should take place by the end of the year.
14:24 But for the actors of the Patriotic Front for Sovereignty,
14:28 it is not a question to release the pressure exerted for a month on the now undesirable hostages.
14:34 People thought that the Nigerians would not resist.
14:37 One day, two days, and here we are, we have been here for a month.
14:42 And we will continue until the departure of the last French soldier on this base.
14:47 Break with France, but remain open to the world and cooperation.
14:51 This is the essence of the words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
14:55 who addressed the population but also the international community on Sunday.
15:00 Fault of having been able to do so during the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations.
15:05 Long live Niger!
15:08 Long live Niger!
15:11 We have the power and we want to share this prosperity with the Nigerian people.
15:20 The Patriotic Front for Sovereignty in Kantalu issued a three-week ultimatum
15:25 for the departure of the 1,500 French soldiers present in Niger.
15:28 In his interview broadcast on national television,
15:32 the head of the military agency in power nevertheless mentioned Saturday night
15:36 future relations with France, this time dictated by the Nigerian people.
15:41 He is the French diplomat who will have spent the most time in Algiers.
15:45 In an interview with the French newspaper Nice this morning,
15:48 former ambassador Xavier Driancourt did not speak his mind about the former French colony
15:55 and called for less naivety on the part of Paris.
15:59 He said that since the election of Emmanuel Macron, France has totally bet on Algeria
16:04 and that it is a Paris that is turning into a trap, according to the high diplomat.
16:09 We only collect insults and humiliations on the part of Algiers
16:14 and we have made a mess with Morocco, which demands that France recognizes its sovereignty over the Sahara,
16:19 as Spain has done.
16:20 Today, France is not good with any country in the Maghreb and this is rather worrying,
16:26 says Xavier Driancourt.
16:28 France has lost its aura, he added, according to the latter,
16:33 with the economic difficulties that France is experiencing.
16:36 The hexagon is less important in the Algerian diplomatic panorama.
16:40 He also reminded that under the leadership of the United States,
16:43 the Abraham Accords and their subsequent normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel
16:48 are pushing Algeria to get closer to its historical and natural ally, Russia.
16:54 We go to Gabon, where the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs changes president.
17:01 It is in the unanimity that the imam of Franceville has been appointed,
17:05 new amir of the Muslim community of the country,
17:08 Benyamin N'Djoua has been officially appointed.
17:12 Accounts made by Ismail Oubiangse.
17:15 At 48 years old, Benyamin N'Djoua Ouboulogue replaces the imam Ismail Ouseni.
17:21 The now amir of the Muslim community of Gabon,
17:24 heirs of a Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs,
17:27 faces multiple challenges.
17:29 He calls for the synergy of forces to strengthen the code of ethics and good religious practices.
17:34 It is true that I will be the head of the community,
17:36 but I will need the support and help of all Muslims
17:39 in order to achieve the prosperity of Islam in Gabon
17:43 and for Islam to be a great force of action in the new march of Gabon.
17:52 A new era opens at the head of the CESEC,
17:55 with strong expectations among the actors who make up its members.
17:59 Today, with social networks, we know each other without knowing each other.
18:03 We follow a little the imam Benyamin N'Djoua in his positions.
18:09 We know that he has a beautiful side to the woman,
18:13 and we are proud to have him at the head of our community.
18:16 Like the women's groups, young Muslims also accompany the authorities
18:20 of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in their mission.
18:23 But they already have some problems on the table.
18:26 The first problem is the monitoring of our imams to strengthen our faith,
18:32 so monitoring the converts.
18:34 That's the biggest problem.
18:36 Once the faith is not stable, all other problems can arise.
18:42 With an almost consumed alternation for many Muslims,
18:46 the achievements of the previous office of the council remain to be consolidated.
18:50 We are happy to have a heritage that we must preserve,
18:56 especially in education.
18:59 We have primary, secondary and university institutions.
19:05 These are achievements that must be preserved.
19:07 We will open our work, especially in the environment sector.
19:12 According to the Muslim community of Gabon,
19:15 the change in the head of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs
19:18 is in line with the dynamics of the restoration of the country's institutions.
19:23 On October 2, 2022, on October 2, 2023, one year ago,
19:29 Ibrahim Traoré resigned as Lieutenant-Colonel of AMIBA
19:35 and became President of the Burkina Faso Military Transition.
19:40 So where are we today?
19:42 Joseph Alain Sissaho, Burkina Faso researcher, was our guest this morning.
19:47 He comes back on the assessment of a year of transition of Ibrahim Traoré.
19:51 Let's listen to him.
19:52 It's been a year since the government, the MPSRD, took power.
20:00 And so President Ibrahim Traoré has made a press conference
20:07 with Burkinabe journalists
20:10 to make a report on this year of transition.
20:17 And I think there are many things that stand out from this interview,
20:23 especially the first strong idea that stands out,
20:28 which is that Burkina Faso has decided to take its fate into its own hands,
20:34 in particular by organizing internally
20:41 to not only raise the many challenges in terms of the organization of the army,
20:51 in terms of the organization of the administration,
20:56 but also to try to give, I would say, the possibility to Burkinabe
21:07 to have endogenous initiatives,
21:12 especially by initiating projects that can allow them to transform
21:21 or create micro-businesses that will allow them to not only, I would say,
21:31 to be able to get rid of them, but also to be able to reduce the importation of certain raw materials
21:40 that we produce and that really kill the budget of the state
21:45 and also contribute to a certain popularization of the population.
21:50 So I think it's a message of assessment of this transition
21:58 that has certainly many challenges, but also that has made a lot of progress.
22:04 In terms of the territory, there is an organization, for example,
22:12 with the recruitment of the BDP, but also with the organization of the state
22:18 and also with the diversification of partners,
22:21 and faced with certain difficulties that the regime has encountered,
22:29 especially through the importation of certain weapons that have been refused by certain Western countries,
22:40 it was necessary to return to new partners.
22:45 And that's what the regime has done, and that has allowed not only to equip the army,
22:55 but also the BDP, the BDP, the Volunteers for the Prevention of Progress,
23:03 which are in a way civilians who have decided to enroll to be able to defend their territory.
23:09 In the United States, the civil trial of Donald Trump and two of his children
23:13 today in New York, they are accused of having inflated colossally for years their real estate assets.
23:20 This trial clearly threatens the economic empire of the former president of 77 years.
23:26 It is also the prelude to a judicial marathon for the favorite of the Republicans at the 2024 presidential election.
23:34 The latter also announced that he was going to be present on Monday at the opening plebiscite
23:41 in front of the Supreme Court of New York.
23:43 He is mentioned as a witness.
23:46 Trump has already announced the color of his testimony on the platform True Social,
23:51 calling the Attorney General of New York corrupt.
23:56 And I told you, Donald Trump must also appear from March 4 next year in front of another court,
24:03 the federal court of Washington, this time to have attempted to reverse the 2020 presidential election
24:12 won by Joe Biden, according to the chiefs of the prosecution.
24:17 New tension in Turkey.
24:22 Yesterday Ankara warned the members of the PKK and carried out air strikes against the Iraqi Kurdistan Party
24:29 a few hours after a suicide attack by the organization that injured two people in the heart of the capital.
24:36 The Kurdistan Workers' Party, considered a terrorist organization by Ankara, claimed the attack.
24:43 Suicide attack that aimed at the police headquarters on the spot.
24:47 And according to the Turkish interior minister, one of the two attackers in Ankara was blown up,
24:54 the other was shot in the head.
24:59 I told you, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to the Hungarian Catalin Karikó
25:08 and the American Drew Weissman for their advances in the field of mRNA vaccines.
25:16 This is a decisive discovery in the fight against COVID-19.
25:21 Researchers have been distinguished for their discoveries, more specifically,
25:27 the modifications of the nucleic bases that have allowed the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
25:37 I remind you that the Nobel Prize in Medicine is accompanied by a reward of 11 million crowns,
25:44 that is, 920,000 euros.
25:49 This concludes this edition. Thank you for watching.
25:54 Stay tuned, the information continues on our channel. See you later.
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