MEDI1TV Afrique : LE GRAND JOURNAL MIDI - 17/11/2024
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00:00Hello and welcome to Mediard TV. Thank you for joining us for this new newscast. Here are the headlines.
00:23Voting day in Senegal. More than 7 million voters will go to the polls this Sunday to elect the 165 seats of the National Assembly. Details in a few moments.
00:34The outbreak in Beirut is hit by new Israeli attacks. More than 3,450 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 8, 2023.
00:44Vladimir Zelensky says he is ready for the end of the war in Ukraine in 2025 by diplomatic means. Donald Trump's election seems to restart the debate on negotiations.
00:54More than 7 million Senegalese voters will go to the polls this Sunday to elect the 165 seats of the National Assembly.
01:09The Commission of the CEDAO and the African Union announced the deployment of their joint electoral observation mission composed of 104 observers.
01:18The mission arrived on November 12 and 13, has for mandate to observe the last days of the electoral campaign, the voting operations, the closing procedures and the clearing of the votes.
01:28We are now in Dakar with our correspondent Daoud Asso. Hello Daoud.
01:40Yes, hello.
01:44The polling stations officially opened their doors this Sunday at 8 o'clock. How has the voting been going since the opening?
01:51Since the opening, the vote usually takes place in the different polling stations that have been visited since this morning.
02:03The observation that has been made is that for the moment, it is not the rush in the different polling stations, but nothing surprising either.
02:10This is understood because even the last elections, organized in any case in Senegal, we see that voters go out the most often in the afternoon to vote.
02:20In the morning, it is more the elderly who are found at the level of the different polling stations to do their civic duty in the different polling stations also visited.
02:30All the voting takes place normally, except today, just a few shortcomings in some offices where today there may be missing tables, chairs for the representatives of the political parties.
02:44But overall, the polling takes place normally in the different polling stations that we have visited since this morning.
02:51So, the influx is much more expected this afternoon, especially since it is very often the case that it happens during the different polling stations here in Senegal.
03:01So, what about the organization? Are there any innovations brought to this polling station?
03:07As far as the organization is concerned, for this election, we can say that we have seen a certain transparency in the organization of this polling station,
03:21since the Minister of the Interior, in this case General Jean-Baptiste Thin, and the General Directorate of Elections affiliated to this ministry,
03:28since the beginning, we had to meet the different lists or the different coalitions on the list, the 41, to try to discuss the modalities.
03:38So, all the decisions that were taken were taken after discussions between the different coalitions on the list during this election.
03:45And as a result, there are innovations and there are many, since for the previous scrutinizes that we have had in this country,
03:51just the electoral file, the opponents or the opposition often complained that they did not have access to the electoral file.
03:59So, the current General Directorate of Elections has put the electoral file on its website, an internet site that has been updated,
04:07and many other information is also available on this website.
04:12Namely, today, how can a voter find his polling station?
04:14Just by typing these indications or affiliations on this site, the number of voters registered according to the different departments,
04:22the number of women in the electoral file, the number of men, the number of young people,
04:27as many innovations, in any case, brought this year by the General Directorate of Elections for a good outcome of the polling station,
04:34and especially for a transparency today of this election.
04:36And this has even been saluted by coalitions today on the list in this scrutinize,
04:42coalitions of the opposition or other independent actors have also saluted this organization,
04:47and especially this transparency and these innovations committed by the General Directorate of Elections.
04:52Well, thank you Daudasso for all these details.
04:56I remind you that you were with us from Dakar and that we will meet you again throughout this day
05:01to have more details on this electoral process.
05:04And we talk a little more about these issues, these anticipated legislative elections in Senegal,
05:10and for that we are live from Casablanca with Bachir Thiam, journalist and specialist in public relations. Hello.
05:17Hello.
05:20So we will perhaps remind our viewers the issues of these anticipated legislative elections
05:25and perhaps also a word on the political forces present.
05:29Yes, for the issues, perhaps there are at least two, two important, in any case two major ones.
05:35One, the PASTEF, the party in power, the issue is to obtain a net majority,
05:40that is to say the three fifths of the 165 deputies to be elected,
05:43or 99 at least, to lead and keep the electoral promises of the campaign,
05:49because the issue is the party in power.
05:52The second point for the opposition, even if it is a dispersed north of Daudasso,
05:56your correspondent in Dakar mentioned it,
05:59it is first of all to impose an ungovernable coalition in Senegal for the PASTEF,
06:04because the issue for the opposition is that, if they cannot really give them that chance.
06:09Also, it should be remembered, these elections are presented as the second half of the match
06:15between Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, head of the PASTEF district,
06:18in the party in power, and former President Macky Sall, who leads the Takou Senegal coalition.
06:24Beyond his political ambitions, he plays himself in these elections between these two men,
06:36in personal destinies, with an instinct of revenge between Macky Sall and the duo,
06:44Sonko and Djamay Faye.
06:47For Macky Sall, it is not to give up.
06:54For the party in power, it is to push Macky Sall to give up.
06:59There has been a malversation, there has been a turn of public opinion,
07:03and the president left immediately after his presidential defeat.
07:08So, for the party in power today, it is to win these elections
07:11and to be able to bring Macky Sall back to Senegal,
07:15where he is currently settled in Morocco, to take over Senegal.
07:18These were electoral promises, so I think that the main issue for the PASTEF,
07:23in any case, is to win and to keep all these promises, which go beyond the revision of the elections.
07:29So, after three weeks of electoral campaign,
07:33what were the highlights of this campaign, which seems to be moving?
07:38Yes, it was very moving.
07:43There was a lot of violence, first of all, verbal violence at the beginning,
07:47because I think that the media also have a share of responsibility.
07:50The Senegalese media, of which I speak, have a large share of responsibility in the debates.
07:54These are very, very violent debates.
07:56On TV channels, these are live investigations.
08:00These are almost body-to-body fights on the platforms.
08:05It is very violent in the debate.
08:08So, it inevitably translates on the ground, because it also gives a message to the voters
08:15to be able to hit each other, allow me to use this expression,
08:18because in the end, there was no debate of words.
08:21A debate was planned between the outgoing Prime Minister,
08:28the former Prime Minister in any case, and the current Prime Minister, Osmane Sonko.
08:32A debate was planned between the two men.
08:33It might have given a better orientation of ideas to put in place,
08:38but no, the debate did not take place.
08:40In the end, they confronted each other in the streets.
08:42We burned political party seats.
08:46We rocked, we threw stones on campaign caravans.
08:51It was violent, it was really violent.
08:54Three weeks of campaign, but very, very violent, in the end.
08:57So, according to you, dear Thiam,
08:59how does the African continent and the whole world view what is currently happening in Senegal?
09:06Yes, we look very closely at Senegal,
09:09because Senegal, we must remind them, is surrounded by countries in political disintegration.
09:14In this case, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Guinea.
09:18Not in a good way, perhaps, but in any case,
09:21all around Senegal, these are countries in political and social difficulties, in the end.
09:27So, the world has a very particular view of Senegal,
09:31which is also on the verge of limitation,
09:35because every time we are in a campaign or we are in an electoral period,
09:39it really breaks apart.
09:42So, the whole world, Africa in particular,
09:45also has a very, very particular view of Senegal.
09:48And the strength today of Senegalese political actors
09:51is always, at least for the moment,
09:53to be able to, from the next day, perhaps,
09:56to start again on a good basis,
09:58to turn the page of the campaigns
10:00and to really start again, much more proactively,
10:03on the issues of the country,
10:05because the country faces very, very important issues,
10:08economic, social, political, in the end.
10:12So, Senegal really needs to recover,
10:16because it is seen as a model.
10:19I don't know if it is.
10:21In any case, it is seen as such.
10:23To maintain this rank, and the whole world,
10:26the whole world, in any case,
10:28the world that is interested in Africa,
10:30is also campaigning to achieve this challenge.
10:32I think that is also the stake for Senegal in general.
10:36Well, thank you very much, Bachir Thiem,
10:39for your answers.
10:41I remind you that you are a journalist and specialist in public relations.
10:46We continue this news.
10:48In the Middle East, the Israeli army intensifies its attacks
10:50the day after the incessant bombing
10:53targeting the southern border of Beirut.
10:55New strikes have targeted the surroundings of a hospital
10:58and a residential building near a church.
11:00The vast majority of the inhabitants of the southern border,
11:03about 600,000 to 800,000 people,
11:06fled this sector devastated by Israeli attacks.
11:09More than 3,450 people have been killed in Lebanon
11:12since October 8, 2023.
11:15The Israeli army carried out intense strikes
11:18this Sunday on the Gaza Strip,
11:20killing at least 20 Palestinians.
11:22The most deadly strike targeted a school
11:24and a house in Al-Burayj.
11:26Five people were killed by a missile
11:28launched by an Israeli drone in Rafah.
11:30Three women and a child were killed
11:32in a strike against a house in Nusayrat.
11:34According to Palestinian authorities,
11:36the Israeli offensive in Gaza
11:38killed more than 43,700 people,
11:40and the majority of the victims
11:42are women and children.
11:44The Ukrainian energy network
11:46is facing a new Russian attack this Sunday.
11:48National authorities are reporting
11:50two deaths and fifteen injuries
11:52across the country.
11:54According to Kiev,
11:56Moscow would have destroyed
11:58half of Ukraine's energy capacity.
12:00Kiev suffered one of the largest
12:02air strikes launched by Russia
12:04estimated this Sunday
12:06by the head of Ukrainian diplomacy,
12:08Andriy Sibiga.
12:10According to President Volodymyr Zelensky,
12:12120 missiles and 90 drones
12:14destroyed 140 of his targets.
12:16Volodymyr Zelensky is ready to do anything
12:18to get the end of the war
12:20in his country in 2025
12:22by diplomatic means.
12:24A position expressed in particular
12:26after the return to the White House
12:28of Donald Trump,
12:30who relaunched the debate
12:32on negotiations and explanations
12:34with Sheikh Mahafikli.
12:36A really complicated situation
12:38is what Volodymyr Zelensky
12:40said about the Eastern Front.
12:41A region where the Russian army
12:43is progressing rapidly
12:45against Ukrainian troops
12:47less numerous and less well-armed.
12:49Faced with rapid Russian advances,
12:51especially in Donbass,
12:53the debate on possible peace negotiations
12:55swept by the Ukrainian president
12:57has intensified
12:59in recent weeks.
13:01We, Ukrainians,
13:03together with our partners,
13:05we must change the situation
13:07so that the war ends.
13:09We, Ukrainians,
13:11together with our partners,
13:13we must change the situation
13:15so that the war ends.
13:17Whatever the will of the Russian president,
13:19Vladimir Putin,
13:21we must all change the situation
13:23so that Russia is constrained to peace.
13:25If we begin to move forward
13:27with this idea,
13:29with this specific plan of victory,
13:31now we can end the war
13:33as late as next year.
13:35The desire for the end of this war,
13:37which has lasted for almost three years,
13:39is also shared
13:41by the G7 countries.
13:43They estimated Saturday
13:45that Russia remained the only obstacle
13:47to a just and sustainable peace
13:49and reiterated their support for Ukraine.
13:51Kiev, however, fears
13:53to lose the support of the United States
13:55after the victory of Donald Trump
13:57in the presidential election.
13:59The Republican has often criticized
14:01the help provided by his country
14:03and has assured that he will be able
14:05to resolve the conflict in 24 hours
14:07without ever detailing his method.
14:09Trump has stated
14:11that he would put pressure
14:13on the two parties
14:15to conclude an agreement.
14:17He will tell Zelensky
14:19that he will withdraw American aid
14:21if he does not agree to negotiate.
14:23He has stated that he would increase
14:25aid to Ukraine if the Russians
14:27did not sit at the negotiating table.
14:29He is trying to use his tools
14:31to force some sort of negotiated settlement.
14:33Russian and Ukrainian positions
14:35remain opposed.
14:36They are territories occupied
14:38by the Russian army
14:40while Moscow places it as a condition.
14:42Russia repeatedly
14:44is open to negotiations
14:46but with concessions from Kiev.
14:48The Russian Ministry of Defense
14:50has also claimed on Saturday
14:52the takeover of two new villages
14:54in the Donetsk region.
14:56In Gabon,
14:58nearly 860,000 voters
15:00voted for or against
15:02a new constitution project,
15:04an adoption case.
15:06A presidential election
15:08is scheduled for August 2025.
15:10Kevin Oswald Okaga has more.
15:12In total,
15:142,835 polling stations
15:16have been deployed
15:18across the country.
15:20This scrutiny,
15:22which is a great test
15:24for the military in power,
15:26took place in calm and serenity.
15:28It is a joy because
15:30it is a change.
15:32We hope it will really be that.
15:34But it is a joy
15:36because it is a new constitution
15:38and it brings us forward.
15:40The president of the transition
15:42voted in the first round of Libreville.
15:44Accompanied by his wife,
15:46Brice Clotaire Oligingema
15:48saluted the electoral process.
15:50I have a feeling of joy and pride
15:52and above all to be Gabonese,
15:54to belong to a nation
15:56that is respected today
15:58where the vote is transparent.
16:00And I also congratulate
16:02the organizers of this election,
16:04especially the Ministry of the Interior
16:06at 6.30 a.m.
16:08and all the Gabonese who come to vote
16:10in transparency.
16:12An electoral process
16:14saluted by international observers
16:16who came to supervise
16:18this constitutional referendum.
16:20For a few days,
16:22I have realized that
16:24it is a process that has triggered
16:26and is not perfect.
16:28But I realize that
16:30I respect the rules
16:32related to the functioning
16:34of a normal election.
16:36At 6.45 a.m.
16:38the voters are already lined up
16:40which is quite rare
16:42because the voters
16:44always take their time
16:46to register.
16:48The participation rate
16:50remains one of the issues
16:52of this referendum consultation.
16:54The Ministry of the Interior
16:56announced that the provisional results
16:58will be communicated quickly.
17:00The constitutional court
17:02will then proceed
17:04to the definitive validation
17:06if the constitution is adopted.
17:08The next step will be
17:10the holding of a presidential election
17:12currently scheduled for August 2025
17:14to put an end
17:16to the transition.
17:18In Niger, hundreds of people
17:20responded this Saturday
17:22to a call to demonstrate
17:24launched by civil society organizations.
17:26A march aimed at reaffirming
17:28the support of the population
17:30to the military authorities.
17:32The demonstrators even denounce
17:34attempts to destabilize the country.
17:36At 8 a.m. this Saturday
17:38only a few groups disappeared
17:40seem to have responded
17:42to Niamé's protest.
17:44But very quickly
17:46dozens and then hundreds of people
17:48fled the neighborhoods of the capital
17:50responding to the call to demonstrate
17:52launched by the synergy
17:54of civil society organizations
17:56for a renewed support
17:58to the National Council
18:00for the safeguarding of the country.
18:02The support is always the same.
18:04The support has not failed.
18:06We are with the Sanduria people.
18:08We are with them from the bottom of our hearts.
18:11And for the demonstrators
18:13the message is clear
18:15and seems to remain the same
18:17as at the first hour
18:19and have followed the accession
18:21of military authorities to power.
18:23Not to the CDAO,
18:25to the CIFA front
18:27but also to a return to democracy
18:29that would appeal to the so-called imperialist forces.
18:31We tell them that
18:33in the face of these multiple threats
18:34we will not give up.
18:36Because this revolution
18:38is the revolution of the people
18:40and I would like to tell you
18:42that power does not belong to these military
18:44as you think.
18:46Power belongs to the people
18:48because it is the people
18:50who give these military the credit
18:52to stay.
18:54That is why today
18:56the people protect their revolution
18:58the people protect their power.
19:00A power that these demonstrators
19:02would still like to see
19:04in the face of the election.
19:06I am against the election
19:08and we must continue
19:10until we sweep
19:12the country
19:14and the country
19:16at this time
19:18they do what they want.
19:20Today organizing elections
19:22would be a step backwards
19:24because we are going back
19:26in the drift of politicians.
19:28They did nothing in 30 years
19:30unlike the CNSP
19:32which gave us our sovereignty
19:34and today Nigeria
19:36can finally hope to benefit
19:38from these resources.
19:40It should be noted
19:42that this new popular demonstration
19:44is due to new accusations
19:46of interference
19:48and the arrest of a presumed
19:50French spy in Nigeria.
19:52The military authorities
19:54have also decided
19:56to put an end
19:58to the activity of two NGOs
20:00whose French agency
20:02has been operating in the country
20:04for a long time.
20:06The first NGO
20:08is the Biennale Africaine
20:10de la Photographie
20:12with the theme
20:14La Parole.
20:16This 4th edition
20:18will bring together
20:20more than 80 artists.
20:22Morocco is an honoured guest country.
20:24This is a report from Bamako
20:26by Mohamed Tanioko.
20:28Honoured guest country
20:30of the 14th edition
20:32of the Biennale Africaine
20:34through the Royal Air Maroc
20:36an official transporter
20:38of artists
20:40Morocco congratulates itself
20:42on this space of exchange
20:44which allows to discuss
20:46the place and role
20:48of African photography.
20:50The Biennale of Bamako
20:52opens this debate
20:54about African identity
20:56and the history of Africa
20:58but also the image
21:00of art in Africa.
21:02This platform
21:04is prestigious
21:06and allows us to have...
21:08In front of these works
21:10the Malian photographer
21:12Seiba Keita
21:14through his lens
21:16traces the condition of women
21:18in his Malinke community
21:20a community where the theme
21:22of this edition
21:24is not always free for women.
21:26In the Malinke community
21:28women do not have the right to speak.
21:30When you exchange with these women
21:32during their marriage
21:34they say a lot of things
21:36but they do not have the right to speak.
21:38A...
21:40although we say that women
21:42are...
21:44they represent
21:46the cornerstone of our house.
21:48For this 14th edition
21:50which marks the 30th anniversary
21:52of this Biennale
21:54and to marry the political context
21:56the organizers wanted
21:58sovereignty to be felt
22:00through the installations.
22:02Under the sign of Malian sovereignty
22:04you have seen my motorcycle
22:06it is in the land of Djené
22:08so we want to give an anchor
22:10a little more popular to the event
22:12and that's it.
22:14For two months
22:16more than 80 photographers
22:18will amaze the population
22:20with quality clichés
22:22on a dozen exhibition sites.
22:25The 4th edition of the
22:27Feminine Forum Jawahir
22:29finally ends this Sunday
22:31in the city of Smara
22:32in the 4th edition of the
22:34Feminine Forum Jawahir
22:36of the Sahara.
22:38An event that aims to highlight
22:40the skills of women
22:42from the southern provinces
22:44in all areas.
22:46This forum is part of
22:48the celebration of the
22:50glorious Green March
22:52and the Independence Day.
22:54The important thing
22:56in the meeting
22:58is to show
22:59the dignity of women
23:01in the Sahara.
23:03The most important for us
23:05is that this 4th edition
23:07of the forum is placed
23:09under the patronage
23:11of His Majesty
23:13the King Mohammed VI.
23:15This proves the trust
23:17that the sovereign
23:19gives to the Moroccan
23:21woman in general
23:23and to the Sahrawi woman
23:25in particular.
23:27And this only encourages
23:29the participation
23:31both at the national,
23:33regional and provincial level
23:35in the scientific,
23:37academic, associative
23:39and human rights
23:41and media domains.
23:43It is a unique tribute
23:45in a unique city
23:47in a unique forum
23:49under the patronage
23:51of His Majesty.
23:53This event once again
23:55demonstrates the will
23:57of the Kingdom
23:59to work in parallel
24:01and this can be seen
24:03in all the domains
24:05where it is present.
24:07I am very happy
24:09to be here
24:11in the city of Smara
24:13to participate
24:15in the 4th edition
24:17of this forum.
24:19This cultural,
24:21political and social event
24:23brings together
24:25all the female elites
24:27who shape the socio-economic
24:29and economic development
24:31of the Sahrawi women.
24:33We will now watch
24:35a video sequence
24:37about the different
24:39infrastructures
24:41within the province
24:43of Smara,
24:45its musical repertoire
24:47and the highlights
24:49of the previous edition.
24:51The Sahrawi Women Forum
24:53is an annual event.
24:55We are proud
24:57to participate
24:59in this event.
25:01We are at 22% today
25:03and there is still a lot
25:05of effort to be made
25:07to meet this challenge.
25:10The program of this forum
25:12which brings together
25:14experts,
25:16university researchers
25:18and representatives
25:20of civil society
25:22included artistic exhibitions,
25:24workshops on the economic
25:26autonomy of women
25:27and on integration
25:29in socio-economic life.
25:31This is the end of this news.
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