MEDI1TV Afrique : LE GRAND JOURNAL MIDI - 05/11/2024
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Welcome to Mediante TV.
00:19Right away, the headlines of this edition.
00:22It is the day of the presidential election in the United States, on Tuesday, November 5th.
00:30From Kamala Harris to Donald Trump, America will be elected, facing a historic choice.
00:40On Monday, the Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip accused the Israeli army of bombing and destroying the hospital,
00:46the only one still in operation, causing many injuries among medical personnel and patients.
00:5460 days after the floods that killed more than 200 people in Spain,
00:58water pipes fell on Barcelona, today on red alert.
01:04And before we develop these headlines, we will go straight to the IOU,
01:14where our special envoy Khadija Ihsan will tell us about the special coverage on the occasion of the commemoration of the 49th anniversary of the Green March.
01:24Hello Khadija, how are the preparations for the special coverage going?
01:34Hello, as you can see behind me, our teams have set up a special studio here at the IOU, more precisely at the IOU Mediatheque.
01:44It is the second largest library after the National Library of Rabat, the largest library in Morocco and one of the largest in Africa.
01:53These studios will host special programs in the company of those who act in favor of the socio-economic development of the southern provinces.
02:06We will devote a program to youth, to civil society, but we will also host diplomatic representatives from the consulates of foreign countries
02:15who have chosen the southern provinces to open their diplomatic representations in the kingdom.
02:21This special program will also include reports, testimonies of the socio-economic impacts of the new model of development of the southern provinces
02:33initiated by His Majesty the King Mohammed VI in 2015.
02:36It was on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the celebration of the Green March.
02:42These reports will convey to you the progress of the work in structural projects such as the port of Akhla Atlantik,
02:51which constitutes the gateway to Africa, but also to the Americas.
02:58It is also about feeling the effect of this express line between Tiznit and Akhla,
03:05which fluidifies trade to the southern provinces, but also to African countries.
03:13A lot of investment has been made in the southern provinces and we will take you to see them.
03:19It is also about collecting testimonies from the populations on site,
03:24how these populations benefit from this momentum of development that affects these southern provinces.
03:33All our teams are mobilized to make you experience this special occasion,
03:40but also what it represents for the populations living in the southern provinces.
03:46We are in Lyon.
03:48With our correspondents in Akhla and in other cities and provinces of the Sahara,
03:55we will also convey to you the atmosphere of celebration.
04:00Many activities are scheduled and throughout the day we will broadcast them to you
04:06through all the special programs here from the southern provinces.
04:13Thank you Khadija Ihsan for all these details. I remind you that you are our special envoy from Lyon.
04:19These are the last moments of a tense campaign at the White House.
04:33Immediately, the chapter dedicated to the American elections.
04:49These are the last moments of a tense campaign at the White House.
04:58Who will emerge victorious from Kamala Harris or Donald Trump?
05:02The dice are cast, but nothing has been played yet.
05:06Millions of people will add their voices to the more than 80 million bulletins
05:11already deposited in advance or sent by mail.
05:15The polling stations open at 6 a.m. local time, noon in Morocco, on the east coast of the United States.
05:23Some polling stations are silent, in fortresses, monitored by drones,
05:28and with elite shooters on their roofs.
05:33The images of January 6, 2021, when the seat of the American Congress was attacked,
05:40still mark the spirits.
05:42This Tuesday concludes a stupefying race,
05:46marked by the entrance of the Vice President in July,
05:50in place of Joe Biden, and by two assassination attempts against the former Republican president.
05:56The rest remains a great unknown.
05:59One thing is certain, whatever the winner,
06:02the verdict of the urns will be historic.
06:07Once the polling stations are closed on Tuesday,
06:11the counting of votes begins in all American states,
06:16in a country as extensive as the United States, with six time zones.
06:20The closure of polling stations will extend from 11 p.m. GMT on Tuesday in Indiana
06:26and Kentucky to 6 p.m. GMT on Wednesday for the most western territory in Alaska.
06:34More than 80 million Americans, including Kamala Harris,
06:38have already voted in advance by correspondence at the polling stations.
06:42States cannot take the lead to unseal their ballots,
06:46but they have for the most part allowed the voters to prepare them.
06:51Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, two key states,
06:54however, do not allow this preparation before the day of the vote.
06:58The result is then certified by the voters,
07:02who are elected or named according to the legislation
07:05and transmitted to the authorities of the state and local officials of the political parties.
07:11In the event of a close vote, one or more recounts are necessary.
07:18Former President of the United States, Donald Trump,
07:21again in the race to return to the White House.
07:24Donald Trump, who after his defeat in 2020 against Joe Biden,
07:29has questioned the results of the last elections,
07:32a period marked by the assault of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
07:38But who is really Donald Trump? Where does he come from?
07:42How did he get where he is today?
07:45Back on his journey in this subject of Suhail Jalil,
07:48who gives us the portrait of the former tenant of the White House.
07:53Who is really Donald Trump?
07:55A person who divides Americans and even the whole world.
07:59The 45th President of the United States
08:01is for the third time in the American presidential election
08:05and will face Democratic candidate Kamala Harris on November 5, 2024.
08:10Born on June 14, 1946 in a remote New York neighborhood,
08:14Donald Trump grew up in a wealthy family.
08:17His father, Fred Trump, was a successful real estate promoter.
08:21Despite a difficult education,
08:23Donald managed to get a diploma in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
08:28With the fortune offered by his father,
08:30he started his own career in real estate and built a commercial empire.
08:35In 2016, Donald Trump won the presidency
08:38despite the predictions that saw him lose to Hillary Clinton.
08:42His slogan, Make America Great Again, convinced many voters.
08:47His mandate was marked by controversial decisions,
08:50such as the ban on entry to the United States for people from this Muslim country,
08:54the construction of a wall on the Mexican border
08:57and the separation of families from expelled clandestine families.
09:00Despite several accusations and trials,
09:02Donald Trump remains very popular among American voters.
09:06He has recently been targeted by several assassination attempts,
09:09but this did not prevent him from continuing his campaign
09:12with fracas between buzz and murderous sentences.
09:15Polls show a close competition between Donald Trump
09:18and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris,
09:20making this election one of the most disputed in decades.
09:24As the elections approach, the question remains,
09:27will Donald Trump succeed in becoming president again?
09:32She could become the first woman in charge of the United States,
09:36first black woman elected prosecutor of San Francisco,
09:39then first black woman elected Attorney General of California.
09:43Kamala Harris embodies everything that the supporters of Donald Trump
09:48hate.
09:49Who is behind the character of the Democratic presidential candidate of 2024?
09:54Souheil Jolil shows us the portrait, look.
10:02Kamala Harris, a pioneer against the last glass ceiling.
10:05Carrier of hope for Democrats,
10:07Kamala Harris is racing to the presidency of the United States.
10:11Harris wants to get his party out of the lethargy
10:14established by Joe Biden and stopped by Donald Trump.
10:17The 59-year-old Californian has been a rising figure in the Democratic Party for a long time.
10:22The one whose first name means lotus flower in Sanskrit
10:26embodies a multiplicity of origins.
10:28From a Jamaican family on her father's side,
10:31economist at Stanford and Indian on her mother's side,
10:34oncologist at Berkeley,
10:35young Kamala lived as a teenager for several years in Canada
10:38after the divorce of her parents.
10:40For her higher studies, she returns to the United States.
10:43She graduated in political science and law,
10:46joined the California Barreau in 1990.
10:49In 2003, she became prosecutor of the San Francisco district,
10:53then in 2010, Attorney General of California,
10:56each time a first for a woman and of color of superstition.
11:00After two prosecutor's offices in San Francisco,
11:02she was elected twice.
11:04Attorney General of California,
11:06then becoming the first woman and the first black person
11:09to lead the state's most populous judicial services in the United States.
11:13Criticized for her severe repression of small offenses,
11:16which, according to her opponents, mainly affected minorities,
11:19in 2022, Kamala Harris vigorously took up the defense of the right to abortion,
11:23challenged by the Supreme Court.
11:25If Kamala Harris is elected,
11:27there will be, for the first time,
11:28an American of the second generation in the White House.
11:31Her battle horse is the right to abortion.
11:34Kamala Harris has been campaigning for a long time
11:36to guarantee again access to abortion in the United States,
11:39which is no longer the case throughout the country since 2022.
11:42She also does ecology,
11:44the defense of minorities,
11:45central issues.
11:47In the anti-chamber of power,
11:48Kamala Harris will become,
11:50despite everything,
11:51president of the United States.
11:54This Tuesday, American citizens will elect their new president.
11:58However, the voters do not designate a person,
12:02but the political color of the great voters of their state.
12:06Concretely, how does the system of the great voters work?
12:10Here is the answer and the analysis of our political analyst, Henri Nzouzi.
12:17First of all, it must be remembered that it is a system
12:19that goes back to the American Constitution of September 17, 1787.
12:26The legislator planned in articles 2 and 12
12:30the indirect vote.
12:32They wanted to make a compromise between the popular vote
12:35and the indirect vote.
12:37This means that in reality,
12:38the American people do not directly elect the president,
12:41but rather the electoral college,
12:44which itself is composed of great voters.
12:48And it was since 1964
12:51that it was necessary to obtain a majority of 270 great voters out of 538
12:58to win the suffragettes.
13:02It is therefore a rather particular system,
13:04even if for reasons of transparency,
13:06American voters will see on their ballot
13:09the name of the president and vice president to be elected.
13:14It is therefore a system that Americans have loved for a long time now.
13:21Israel and the UN
13:30Direction of the Middle East,
13:32where the gas band has plunged into a humanitarian disaster
13:35after more than a year of war.
13:38Israel has officially informed the UN today
13:40of the ban of UNRWA in the occupied Palestinian territories.
13:45The UN Office for the Rescue of Palestinian Refugees
13:49is considered the backbone of aid to refugees.
13:53It has stated that its ban in Israel
13:57could lead to the collapse of the aid system in the Gaza strip.
14:06The Ministry of Health of the Gaza Strip
14:08accused the Israeli army on Monday
14:10of bombing and destroying the hospital,
14:12the only one still in operation,
14:13causing many injuries among medical personnel and patients.
14:18According to the Ministry of Health,
14:20the army continues to violently bomb and destroy
14:23the Kamal Edwan hospital,
14:25which it targets all parties.
14:27The director of the establishment
14:29described a catastrophic situation
14:31after strikes without prior warning.
14:35The third floor of the establishment
14:37would have been hit again,
14:39injuring six children,
14:41said X, the head of the World Health Organization.
14:48The Spanish Meteorological Agency
14:50assured that the crisis situation
14:52in the Valence region had ended.
14:54It, however, placed Barcelona on red alert
14:57and its agglomeration, Le Point,
14:59with Younes Ben Zilf.
15:02A few days after the heavy floods
15:04that have caused many deaths,
15:06the weather situation is still very complicated.
15:09It is not easy to predict
15:11what will happen in the next few days.
15:14After many deaths,
15:16the weather situation is still very complicated in Spain.
15:19The disturbance is moving north
15:21in the region of Barcelona.
15:23The floods have caused strong floods,
15:26especially near the city airport.
15:32Upon arrival at the airport,
15:34the underground parking was completely flooded.
15:36They would have said a real river.
15:38Then, upon arrival at the airport,
15:40it was chaos.
15:41It was a disaster.
15:45The garages and underground parking
15:47are already partially submerged.
15:49Inside the airport,
15:51about 15 flights were disrupted.
15:53The water also overflows in several spaces,
15:56making traffic very complicated.
15:58I arrived here around 10 a.m.,
16:00something like that.
16:02I arrived here at 10 a.m.
16:04and the highway was already flooded.
16:06I noticed that the flight was already canceled.
16:08I saw that the flight was already canceled,
16:10as soon as I arrived.
16:13The screens displayed the cancellations,
16:15so I wanted to take the car to go to work,
16:17but all access to the parking was submerged.
16:23The police advised us
16:25not to go to the parking lot.
16:27We are stuck here.
16:31The stormy floods,
16:33always due to the cold drop
16:35located above Spain,
16:37are falling on other cities like Tarragona,
16:39while a part of the south is still maintained
16:41under orange vigilance.
16:45It's time for the guest of the big news.
16:48Today we are going to be interested
16:50in the opening of the works
16:52of the first edition of the Business Forum
16:54of the ZLECAF,
16:56the African Continental Free Trade Zone,
16:58under the theme
17:00Central African Commerce, Perspective and Opportunity.
17:02Organized under the high patronage
17:04of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI
17:06by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce
17:08and the Moroccan Confederation
17:10of Exporters,
17:12this event brings together
17:14African ministers of commerce
17:16and industry, experts
17:18and representatives of organizations
17:20dedicated to commercial promotion.
17:22To talk about it,
17:24we are live from Casablanca
17:26with Salwa Khakri,
17:28President of the African Commission
17:30of the ASMEX.
17:32Hello.
17:34Hello and thank you
17:36for your invitation.
17:38Thank you for accepting.
17:40It's a pleasure to have you with us.
17:42This forum constitutes
17:44a new opportunity
17:46to boost inter-African exchanges.
17:48What do you think
17:50are the objectives of this forum?
17:54Indeed,
17:56placed under the patronage
17:58of His Majesty the King,
18:00this forum aims
18:02to popularize,
18:04to explain and to demonstrate
18:06all the opportunities
18:08that this agreement of the Intercontinental Free Trade Zone
18:10which was signed
18:12in 2018, offers
18:14to the different Moroccan operators.
18:16It is indeed a market
18:18of more than 1.2 billion dirhams
18:20and a GDP of 3.4 billion dollars.
18:24On the one hand,
18:26there are also opportunities
18:28of investment
18:30for Moroccan operators
18:32throughout the continent.
18:34I remind you that Morocco
18:36was among the first countries
18:38to ratify this agreement
18:40and since 2019
18:42there has been a decree
18:44to set up a committee
18:46for the implementation of this agreement.
18:48Today, we receive representatives
18:50from a dozen countries
18:52in addition to Morocco in Africa.
18:54The objective is
18:56that each country
18:58presents a list
19:00of products that are already
19:02in the process of dismantling
19:04at the level of customs law.
19:06We also have the honor
19:08to receive the Secretary-General
19:10of the ASLECAF
19:12for 24 hours in Morocco
19:14who comes to explain
19:16what steps have already been
19:18carried out, what are the results
19:20because there are already concrete results
19:22at the level of each country
19:24and especially what is the process
19:26in the future.
19:28You know, the European Union
19:30did not do it in a few years
19:32so it is a long process
19:34but it is a process that is guaranteed
19:36without going back
19:38and that will offer
19:40our continent the largest
19:42area of free economic exchange
19:44and therefore
19:46prosperity for all
19:48and employment for our young people.
19:50A forum therefore
19:52on important economic issues.
19:54What is the status
19:56of intra-African exchanges?
19:58You talked about the results.
20:00What is the result?
20:04Currently,
20:06intra-African exchanges
20:08represent only 2% in the world
20:10but in terms of exports
20:12the World Bank
20:14estimates that
20:16thanks to the ASLECAF
20:18there can be a growth of 29%.
20:20What is important
20:22to say is that
20:24in Morocco since January
20:262024
20:28the Moroccan Customs Administration
20:30has already
20:32published its circular
20:34with all the products
20:36that benefit
20:38from a dismantling of customs rights
20:40up to 80%
20:42and it is the reciprocity with other countries
20:44and so that means
20:46that it is a huge market
20:48that is offered to our companies.
20:50We as ASMEX
20:52in collaboration
20:54with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry
20:56carried out an important study
20:58that has shown
21:00that there is a growth
21:02in the number of business exports
21:04that can reach 100 million
21:08dollars
21:10in growth
21:12in complementary growth
21:14for exports.
21:16There is another study
21:18carried out by the
21:20International Chamber of Commerce
21:22that shows that there are 100
21:24chains of industrial value
21:26that can be carried out on the continent
21:28with the products of the continent
21:30and since Morocco
21:32has an important
21:34industrial experience
21:36and that the continent
21:38has important raw materials
21:40and resources
21:42it is the only way
21:44to strengthen
21:46our industrial capacity
21:48across the continent
21:50and that says industry
21:52that says growth
21:54that says job creation
21:56that remains the challenge for all the countries of the continent.
21:58A real potential
22:00today to exploit
22:02South-South cooperation
22:04we know it suffers
22:06from the lack of investment
22:08or financing.
22:10What are the issues of investment and financing
22:12of the projects launched by African investors
22:14today?
22:18For the implementation
22:20of the ASDECAF
22:22there were tools
22:24to accompany
22:26and instruments to accompany.
22:28Among these instruments
22:30we can mention an important instrument
22:32which is the Pan-African
22:34Payment and System
22:36which will allow
22:38the African continent to exchange
22:40with a local currency.
22:42As you know
22:44with a unique currency
22:46there are more than 40
22:48local currencies on the continent
22:50which is very expensive
22:52in exchange rates
22:54and in interest rates
22:56which is estimated at about 5 billion
22:58dollars per year.
23:00This system will allow
23:02to reduce these costs.
23:04The ASDECAF also plans
23:06to set up
23:08a virtual payment system
23:10with a virtual continental currency.
23:12There is a fund
23:14which has also been set up
23:16by the ASDECAF
23:18to compensate
23:20the countries that will have
23:22a shortfall after the dismantling
23:24and there is the BAD
23:26which accompanies all the financing
23:28of infrastructures
23:30because infrastructures and logistics
23:32remain an important challenge
23:34and the means to increase
23:36these intercontinental exchanges.
23:38You talked about
23:40a unique currency,
23:42a virtual currency,
23:44a digital currency.
23:46How do you see the prospects
23:48of South-South cooperation
23:50and regional integration
23:52between African countries
23:54in view of the implementation
23:56of the ASDECAF?
23:58These currencies
24:00that I mentioned,
24:02for example,
24:04if we take the virtual currency,
24:06the ASDECAF
24:08approved
24:10and ratified
24:12the digital trade agreement
24:14which offers,
24:16as I said earlier,
24:18a market of more than 2 billion consumers
24:20even for our young people,
24:22for our startups,
24:24which are innovative
24:26and as you know,
24:28it is the continent
24:30with the most young people
24:32in the world.
24:34For the PME-PMI,
24:36there was the creation
24:38of trade associations
24:40which are actually
24:42commercial agricultors
24:44who will stimulate and facilitate
24:46trade for the PME-PMI.
24:48There is Afrixem Bank
24:50which accompanies
24:52the whole ASDECAF process
24:54and the tools were implemented
24:56in a few years
24:58and now I would say
25:00that the ball is in the hands
25:02of the investors.
25:04In Morocco, the committee was implemented
25:06by the Ministry of Commerce
25:08and Industry.
25:10Just go to the website.
25:12The trade negotiations
25:14in the ASDECAF case have started.
25:16By the way, at the forum,
25:18we have all the ministries present
25:20to talk about it,
25:22including the Trade Office,
25:24the Customs Administration, etc.
25:26And I can tell you that
25:28there are already 30 billion dirhams
25:30exchanged since January 2024
25:32in the ASDECAF case
25:34and more than 50 companies.
25:36By the way, at the end of the day
25:38at the forum level,
25:40we will have companies
25:42who will give concrete testimony
25:44on how it happened,
25:46what they have gained
25:48at the ASDECAF level
25:50and what are the difficulties
25:52to be removed
25:54and what are the procedures
25:56to be improved.
25:5830 million dirhams exchanged
26:00since the beginning of the year,
26:0250 companies.
26:04At the end of this business forum
26:06of the ASDECAF,
26:08strategic recommendations
26:10will certainly be made
26:12by the participants
26:14in order to benefit
26:16from this African free trade zone.
26:18Can we have a little overview
26:20of these recommendations?
26:22Indeed, we are working
26:24hand in hand
26:26between the Department
26:28of Industry and Commerce
26:30and the SMECAT,
26:32which is the Confederation
26:34of Exporting Moroccans.
26:36And so,
26:38we will make some recommendations.
26:40Above all, we will benefit
26:42from the experiences
26:44of other countries,
26:46some of which are a little more advanced
26:48and others less,
26:50to adjust what has been adjusted.
26:52And we even propose
26:54an African Union
26:56of exporters.
26:58And we want to push more and more
27:00to consume African goods.
27:02And as was pointed out
27:04this morning by one of the participants,
27:06we want to produce
27:08what we consume in Africa
27:10and we want to consume
27:12what we produce.
27:14Produce what we consume,
27:16what we consume,
27:18to take up your terms.
27:20Thank you, Mrs. Selwa Kakri.
27:22I would like to remind you
27:24that you are the president
27:26of the African Commission of the SMEC.
27:28It is a pleasure to have you with us
27:30for Le Grand Journal.
27:36This is the end of this newscast.
27:38Thank you for your loyalty.
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