MEDI1TV Afrique : Presse Afrique - 12/06/2024
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00:00Welcome to the news in Africa, we are opening to Malawi, a plane carrying the vice-president
00:15of Malawi, Solos Shilima, and 9 other people were found without survivors, after having
00:22disappeared from the radars, the information is to read on Africa News, the military plane
00:28had left Lilongwe to go to Muzuzu, but had to push back on the road due to poor visibility,
00:36notes the information site, President Lazarus Chakwera paid tribute to Solos Shilima, who
00:46died in the accident and decreed a day of national mourning, among the victims is the
00:54former First Lady, notes the online newspaper.
00:58In Rwanda, a 65-year-old Rwandan-Belgian, Emmanuel Kondouime, also known as Bonboko,
01:10was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his participation in the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda
01:18in 1994.
01:19According to All Africa, which is in the information, he was found guilty of genocide, war crimes,
01:26murder and rape.
01:27Bonboko was tried in Belgium for helping Hutu militiamen, notably Robert Kajuga and
01:34George Rutanganda, who perpetrated the Tutsi massacres in Kigali.
01:40He was found guilty of killing three people, of assisting or giving orders to execute
01:48others and of raping a Tutsi woman, All Africa specifies.
01:52Now let's go to Gabon.
01:55The National Gabonese Assembly has created a sub-committee to examine the project of
02:02electoral law, a crucial step in the implementation of the electoral reform that has long been
02:10awaited, notes the newspaper of Gabon.
02:13This sub-committee, made up of members of the National Assembly, will be in charge of
02:18examining the bill and providing recommendations for its adoption.
02:22The Gabonese deputies hope that these reforms will improve the transparency and regularity
02:28of elections in the country.
02:30The Democratic Republic of Congo condemned the barbaric acts of the Democratic Forces
02:38of the Congo, which had been a member of the ADF, after a series of murderous attacks
02:44near Maginot, in the east of the country.
02:48The still uncertain balance has risen to at least 41 deaths, according to the government,
02:5357, according to the UN, and more than a hundred, according to civil society, informs Press Afrique
02:59in its columns.
03:01This attack, one of the most murderous carried out by the ADFs in the region, in the face
03:06of the threat of a new war, the government has promised to take all the necessary measures
03:10to fight this threat.
03:12It has called for a strengthening of security and information in the area.
03:18Let's finish with Senegal.
03:21The country is officially becoming a hydrocarbon producer, with the announcement of the Australian
03:29Woodside Energy, at the beginning of the extraction of oil from the Songomar field.
03:36It is written on Viwa Afrique.
03:40This first extraction precedes the entry into production in our Grand Tortue Armiyim project,
03:46which should produce about 2.5 million tons of natural and liquefied gas per year.
03:52The production of oil and gas will be intended for export and domestic consumption, generating
03:59billions of dollars in income and an accelerated transformation of the economy.
04:04The Director General of Petrocen Exploration and Production, Thiernoly, has qualified this
04:10day as a historic day for Senegal and the oil industry.
04:16That's all for this review of African news.
04:18Thank you for following it.