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00:00Welcome to Media Unsoir, it's time for the news, we start with the headlines.
00:19The Republic of Ghana suspended its diplomatic relations with the Pseudo-Race
00:23thanks to a decision announced on the day of President Dramani's investiture in Mahama.
00:34International flights have resumed today in an atmosphere of jubilation at Damascus International Airport
00:40for the first time since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
00:45And then the report of the powerful earthquake that struck the Himalayan region of Tibet,
00:55climbed to 126 deaths, we also talk about it in this news.
01:04The Republic of Ghana decides to suspend its diplomatic relations with the Pseudo-Race.
01:09This decision was communicated in an official document of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
01:14and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana.
01:17The document was addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Morocco,
01:21document in which the Republic of Ghana expresses its support for the efforts of good faith deployed by the Kingdom of Morocco
01:27in order to achieve a solution accepted by all parties.
01:31As a reminder, the Republic of Ghana had recognized the Pseudo-Race in 1979
01:37thanks to the impulse given to the question of the Moroccan Sahara by His Majesty the King Mohammed VI.
01:4546 countries, including 13 Africans, have broken or suspended their relations with the Pseudo-Race since 2000.
01:54We stay in Ghana, where the new President-elect John Mahamad
02:00has sworn an oath today in Accra, the capital.
02:03The ceremony took place in the presence of about 20 African heads of state,
02:07led by an important Moroccan delegation, the President of the House of Representatives,
02:11Rashid al-Bihalami, who yesterday represented His Majesty the King Mohammed VI.
02:16The Moroccan delegation is made up of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita,
02:21but also of the Ambassador of His Majesty the King to Ghana, Aymen Ouadil.
02:26Elected in December with more than 56% of the votes,
02:30John Mahamad had already been President between 2012 and 2017.
02:44It is a first since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria.
02:49International flights have resumed today at the Damascus International Airport,
02:54a first plane of the Syrian Airlines, which took off for Sharjah,
02:59so in the Arab Emirates, a flight of 4 Airways was also expected in Damascus.
03:05The company announced the resumption of its flights to the Syrian capital after almost 13 years of interruption.
03:19In this context, Washington announced a temporary easing of sanctions against Syria in order not to hamper
03:28the supply of essential services to the Syrian population.
03:31This easing of sanctions is scheduled for six months,
03:34during which the US government will continue to monitor the evolution of the situation on the ground.
03:40The Treasury Department specifies that its initiative does not raise in any case
03:44to freeze the assets of people, including Al-Assad, the Syrian government,
03:49the Syrian Central Bank, which is now in power in Damascus.
04:00And on his side, the head of Jordanian diplomacy has affirmed the disposition of his country
04:05to work with Syria against the trans-frontal arms trafficking.
04:10This is a statement of Ayman Safidi after his meeting with his Syrian counterpart, Assad Sheibani.
04:17The Syrian head of diplomacy is accompanied by the Syrian Minister of Defense and the head of Syrian intelligence services.
04:24The Jordanian minister announced in this context the creation of joint committees in the respective areas of energy,
04:31health, but also trade and water.
04:34He added that Amman was also ready to provide electricity and gas to neighboring countries
04:41and assure Damascus of the fraternal support of Jordan.
04:53And in Syria, in transition, a powerful group that controls the region of Daraa does not exclude
05:00the Syrian Ministry of Defense.
05:02The new authorities have indeed announced on December 25,
05:06an agreement with armed groups for their dissolution,
05:10but also their integration in this ministry.
05:12First concerned, Colonel Nassim Aboeval, spokesperson of the South Operation Chamber,
05:18this former officer in the army of Assad,
05:21had defected in 2012 when the repression of demonstrations had turned into civil war.
05:27Civil war that had caused more than a million deaths.
05:30According to him, his group can be integrated within the Syrian Ministry of Defense,
05:35but as a military organization, keeping its integrity according to its own formula.
05:47There is no place for terrorist organizations in Syria under these new Islamic leaders.
05:53It is the warning of the Turkish president,
05:56supposed to target the Kurdish forces in this neighboring country of Turkey,
05:59Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
06:01expressed himself in the context of a meeting in Ankara with the Prime Minister of the Kurdish region,
06:05Mazlour Barzani.
06:08Erdogan reminded that Turkey is forced to prevent the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria
06:14from provoking a new instability in the region.
06:19Ankara accuses one of the main Kurdish forces in Syria,
06:24namely the units of protection of the people,
06:27of having links with the Workers' Party of Kurdistan, the PKK,
06:31banned in Turkey.
06:39Direction Tunisia now.
06:41The country is experiencing a serious supply crisis.
06:44Domestic gas bottles intended for household consumption,
06:48a situation that concerns most citizens,
06:52whether in rural or urban areas.
06:55Najwa Bechat.
06:59In the governorate of Kairouan,
07:01located 150 km southwest of the capital Tunis,
07:05Sahbi, a resident of this city,
07:08travels 7 km on foot
07:10to get a domestic gas bottle.
07:16With the decrease in temperatures and the cold wave,
07:19finding a domestic gas bottle
07:21has become a hard and tiring daily task.
07:25Imagine that we traveled long distances,
07:287 km and more,
07:30to get a gas bottle,
07:33knowing that there are women and elderly men
07:36who cannot travel these distances.
07:39These last few days,
07:41citizens are facing great difficulties
07:43to get gas bottles.
07:45Queues of people are losing sight
07:47in front of supply and distribution stations,
07:51waiting for the arrival of some.
07:56I have been looking for a natural gas bottle for three days.
07:59Today I left my house at 5 am,
08:02but I did not find a single bottle in all the districts of Kairouan.
08:05Today, the available gas bottles
08:07are sold in secret at exorbitant prices,
08:10going up to two or even three times the initial price.
08:14Today, we no longer know where to start
08:17with these persistent shortages in raw materials.
08:21Do we have to look for sugar, semolina or tea?
08:25According to experts,
08:26the crisis began due to the delay of the ship
08:29from Algeria to the port of Bizerte,
08:33as well as the aftermath of the incident
08:36that occurred in March 2024
08:38in a refilling centre.
08:41Unfortunately, we had a supply problem
08:44during the last two weeks,
08:46which posed a challenge to the producers.
08:49There was no production when demand was at a peak.
08:52Currently, the crisis is partially resolved,
08:55especially in Greater Tunisia,
08:57after receiving shipments from Algeria.
09:03But in the north of the country,
09:05the crisis still persists
09:07and is being resolved gradually.
09:11The President of the Union Chamber
09:13of Domestic Gas Bottle Distributors
09:15said that following the incident
09:18that occurred in March 2024,
09:20the RADS refilling centre
09:23is currently recording a loss of production
09:26estimated at between 10,000 and 15,000 bottles per day,
09:31while it was previously able to produce
09:35between 180,000 and 200,000 bottles per day,
09:39without any alternative
09:41to compensate for this decrease in capacity.
09:45On the other hand,
09:46and to reassure citizens,
09:48the Ministry of Energy estimated
09:50in a statement that the situation
09:53should return to normal soon
09:55with the arrival of 12 new natural gas vessels.
10:03And the news is also this powerful earthquake
10:06that occurred in the Himalayan region of Tibet,
10:08in southwestern China.
10:10At least 126 people were killed.
10:12The earthquake caused the collapse of many buildings.
10:16It was felt up to the neighboring Nepal,
10:19with a magnitude of 6.8 on the Richter scale.
10:24The earthquake hit the canton of Dingri,
10:26not far from the Sino-Nepalese border.
10:29The American Geopolitical Institute
10:32reported a magnitude of 7.1.
10:40Namibia,
10:41the first step of an African tour of Wangui,
10:43the head of Chinese diplomacy.
10:46The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Beijing
10:49saluted the old friendship
10:51between Africa and its country,
10:53which he qualifies as the most reliable partner on the continent.
10:57Beijing traditionally celebrates
10:59its first diplomatic visit of the year to Africa.
11:02Wangui was to then go to Congo
11:04before visiting Chad and Nigeria.
11:06This week, Beijing is the first commercial partner
11:09of the African continent
11:10with nearly $168 billion in bilateral exchanges
11:13in the first half of 2024.
11:16The Asian giant sent hundreds of thousands of workers
11:21and engineers to the continent
11:23to gain privileged access to its natural resources
11:27such as copper, gold or lithium.
11:36Chad deplores the contemptuous attitude
11:39of French President Emmanuel Macron,
11:41who said, I quote,
11:43that African leaders had forgotten to say thank you to France
11:46in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel.
11:49End of quote.
11:50The words also condemned by Senegal.
11:53The Senegalese Prime Minister
11:55has also contested the alleged negotiations
11:58between Paris and Dakar
11:59generated by the withdrawal of French soldiers from his country
12:02in the week of his death.
12:03It is written in false with virulence
12:05against President Macron's words
12:07and especially on French military engagement in Africa.
12:15In Ivory Coast, two Siamese sisters
12:17were born bound by the womb
12:19and who shared several organs
12:21were successfully separated in Ivory Coast
12:26at the Bingerville Maternity Hospital
12:29at the end of a rare and complex surgical intervention.
12:33The explanations in this subject
12:35by Max Soubi and Ferdinand Kouakou.
12:39Bound by the womb at birth,
12:41the Siamese Marie-Dominique and Crace-Dominique
12:44had to undergo a surgical intervention
12:47before being separated here
12:49at the Bingerville Maternity Hospital.
12:51The operation, piloted by an international team
12:54of Franco-Swiss and Ivorian doctors,
12:56lasted 17 hours.
12:58There is a principle that must be respected
13:00to be able to separate Siamese
13:03because not all are separable.
13:05There must be vital organs for each,
13:08for example a heart for each
13:10and the organs in common must be divisible.
13:13So these fillets met the criteria.
13:16In principle, to operate this kind of patient,
13:19you need at least 7 surgeons.
13:21So the team was completed with the local skills,
13:24the pediatric surgeons of the Maternity Hospital
13:27who completed the team,
13:29and the anesthesiologists,
13:31there were 3 of the Maternity Hospital,
13:33and resuscitators, there were 2.
13:35Each year, these are new performances
13:37that we see in this hospital
13:39and what has just been carried out today
13:41shows that health is still progressing in Côte d'Ivoire.
13:44In a few hours, Maruis and Charlotte,
13:47the parents of the separated Siamese,
13:49went from a state of absolute anxiety
13:52to one of extreme joy.
13:54When they told me there was a problem,
13:56they didn't specify it
13:58because I didn't believe it at all.
14:00When I saw them, I said,
14:02Lord, you sent me,
14:04but I trust you
14:06because it is you who creates man,
14:08you create man in your image
14:10and today I am happy,
14:12my children are separated,
14:14I thank God.
14:16Marie-Dominique and Grâce-Dominique
14:18now have a chance to lead a normal life
14:21and benefit from the support of the First Lady,
14:23Dominique Ouattara,
14:25who came to visit those who, by chance,
14:27became her daughters.
14:29Sometimes, you know,
14:31when we have a problem with a Siamese child,
14:33they can be rejected.
14:35Today, of course, this is not the case.
14:37They are normal children
14:39who will live their whole lives normally.
14:41Congratulations to our doctors.
14:43The separation of the twins
14:45is a historical fact for the Ivory Coast,
14:47but above all,
14:49it is certainly the most beautiful story
14:51for this family.
14:53Actualités au Baroque with the authority
14:55of control of insurance and social planning
14:57which carried out a feasibility study
14:59on the introduction
15:01of a mandatory housing insurance.
15:03More details in this report
15:05carried out by Ayub Deleza,
15:07Younes Meissouri
15:09and a story by Dina Mredi.
15:13Is it possible to introduce
15:15a mandatory housing insurance in Morocco?
15:17The authority of control of insurance
15:19and social planning has just launched
15:21a strategic study in this direction.
15:23It will be a question of evaluating
15:25the real needs in terms of housing insurance
15:27and of setting up a status quo
15:29of existing offers on the Moroccan market.
15:31This approach is part
15:33of a context marked
15:35by growing challenges
15:37concerning the risk coverage
15:39related to housing,
15:41especially in the event of natural disasters.
15:43It also aims to modernize
15:45the insurance framework in Morocco.
15:49We are currently witnessing
15:51the implementation of a feasibility study
15:53on the introduction of a mandatory housing insurance
15:55while waiting for the implementation
15:57of a complete legislative framework.
15:59This insurance essentially aims
16:01to provide better protection
16:03for citizens against natural disasters
16:05as well as a reduction
16:07of the economic impacts of disasters.
16:09Morocco thus positions itself
16:11as a regional model
16:13in terms of risk management
16:15and social planning.
16:21Despite the notable progress
16:23in housing access
16:25and initiatives aimed at promoting
16:27multi-risk housing insurance,
16:29this product remains
16:31mainly registered
16:33for assets acquired
16:35through bank financing.
16:37This leaves many owners
16:39without coverage in the event of a disaster.
16:43The insurance contract
16:45allows the protection of the assets
16:47of the insured in the event of a disaster
16:49as well as the protection of their neighbourhood.
16:51This reform could transform
16:53the insurance landscape in Morocco
16:55by applying its practices
16:57to international standards.
17:01The implementation of housing insurance
17:03aims to protect citizens,
17:05strengthen the resilience
17:07of the real estate sector
17:09and align Morocco
17:11with the best international practices
17:13in terms of risk coverage.
17:15Currently, housing insurance products
17:17are offered in the form of custom offers
17:19according to the needs and means
17:21of the insured.
17:23The basic offer generally includes
17:25coverage against fires, floods
17:27and thefts, with an average cost
17:29ranging from 300 to 500 dirhams per year.
17:31The premium can reach
17:33600 dirhams per year
17:35when the insured wishes to add
17:37additional guarantees.
17:39We stay in Morocco
17:41with this training program
17:43New Generation Video Game Creator
17:45launched by the Ministry of Youth
17:47in collaboration with
17:49the French Embassy in Morocco
17:51but also with the
17:53Rabat International University.
17:55So what are the challenges?
17:57The answer in this report
17:59by Maha Gemel Youssef Ouhamou
18:01on a story by Dina Mredi.
18:05The training program
18:07New Generation Video Game Creator
18:09has just been launched in Morocco this Monday.
18:11It is intended to structure and
18:13dynamize the video game industry
18:15ecosystem in the country
18:17by offering the training of 40 young Moroccans
18:19in the field of gaming development.
18:21An initiative
18:23that aims to support
18:25the cultural and creative development in Morocco.
18:35When we talk about industry,
18:37it is necessary to be interested in the training
18:39of young people who will be the creators of tomorrow.
18:41The program New Generation Video Game Creator
18:43has been launched in partnership with
18:45the ISART school, which is recognized as the second
18:47best video game school in the world,
18:49in collaboration with the French Embassy
18:51in Morocco as well as the Rabat International University.
18:53This project aims to strengthen
18:55the professional skills of young Moroccans
18:57in order to support the development
18:59of the gaming industry in Morocco.
19:07Video Game Creator
19:09is a unique program
19:11that was built with
19:13the Ministry of Culture,
19:15Youth and Communication
19:17and the French Embassy.
19:19It is a beautiful
19:21object of cooperation
19:23since the objective is to create
19:25a video game ecosystem in Morocco
19:27that also promotes
19:29the culture, heritage
19:31and artistic and technical
19:33richness of Morocco.
19:35Morocco has a unique opportunity
19:37to stand out as a key player
19:39in the video game industry in Africa
19:41and even more broadly
19:43on the international scene.
19:45This training is part of a large-scale
19:47project that aims to create
19:49a structured system capable
19:51of attracting international studios
19:53and investors.
19:55Today we welcome
19:57the launch of the first training
19:59of students in the gaming industry
20:01in general,
20:03but we also hope
20:05that this training will be the beginning
20:07of a long cycle on all
20:09the training around culture
20:11and around the cultural industry
20:13and also
20:15everything related to coding in general,
20:17both coding for gaming
20:19but also for other sectors.
20:21It is going on for nine months
20:23from January 6 to October 3, 2025.
20:25This training is distinguished
20:27by its commitment
20:29in favor of inclusion
20:31with a female participation
20:33that reaches 35%.
20:35This approach aims to reduce
20:37gender disparities in an industry
20:39that is still mainly male.
20:41It also seeks to promote
20:43a sustainable and inclusive transformation.
20:47This nine-month program
20:49will allow me to create
20:51my own studio
20:53where I can develop
20:55my video games to support
20:57this cultural industry in Morocco.
21:05I am very happy
21:07to familiarize myself
21:09with new technologies.
21:11I already have an experience
21:13in development and this training
21:15allows me to put my knowledge
21:17into practice.
21:21We want to learn new techniques
21:23and build links with professionals
21:25in the field of gaming.
21:27By highlighting
21:29the importance of the video game sector
21:31and the prospects it offers
21:33in terms of qualified employment,
21:35this program could contribute
21:37to reverse the flow of brains.
21:39According to the Minister of Youth
21:41and Culture, Morocco is able
21:43to develop a high-level
21:45cultural and creative industry
21:47capable of competing
21:49on the international market.
21:51Morocco is still
21:53with the provincial services
21:55of the province of Ifrane
21:57that have been mobilized
21:59to establish traffic
22:01on the roads
22:03disturbed by snowfalls
22:05that occurred overnight.
22:07These traffic disturbances
22:09have been recorded
22:11and snow removal operations
22:13have allowed to open
22:15the road between Azoulou
22:17and Timahadit,
22:19while efforts continue
22:21between Timahadit and Oufla.
22:25On Sunday,
22:27the center and east of the United States
22:29were swept away by a heavy
22:31winter storm.
22:33Five people lost their lives.
22:35Millions of inhabitants
22:37were also affected.
22:39Raja Henko has the details.
22:43In Washington,
22:45a white snowstorm
22:47covers the streets
22:49and up to 30 cm of snow
22:51are expected in the US capital.
22:53Weather services have warned
22:55that any movement
22:57can be dangerous
22:59on snowy and icy roads.
23:01Our teams continue
23:03to work 24 hours a day,
23:057 days a week,
23:07in a better state.
23:09Once the rain stops,
23:11it will really help.
23:13Be patient.
23:15Do not put your feet
23:17on the roads yet.
23:19Not far away,
23:21the two main airports
23:23of the capital,
23:25Dulce and Ronald Reagan,
23:27were forced to cancel
23:29more than 500 flights on Monday.
23:31More than 50 million people
23:33were affected
23:35by school closures
23:37and road accidents.
23:39Blocked by snow layers,
23:41the inhabitants manage
23:43as best they can.
23:47It couldn't be worse.
23:49You have to break the layer first,
23:51otherwise you lose your time.
23:53I removed a few layers yesterday
23:55and I still have to work tomorrow.
23:57According to the country's weather services,
23:59thunderstorms accompanied by hail
24:01and potential tornadoes
24:03could hit the southern states.
24:05These powerful winds
24:07could cause material damage
24:09and prolonged power outages.
24:11In the center and east of the country,
24:13temperatures should drop
24:15to minus 18 degrees Celsius.
24:17Scientists say
24:19that extreme weather phenomena
24:21are becoming more and more frequent
24:23and more and more frequent.
24:25and more and more frequent
24:27and more and more serious
24:29due to global warming.
24:31This is the end of the news.