MEDI1TV Afrique : Presse Afrique - 07/01/2025
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00:00We are delighted to welcome you to this African press conference on Média, which we are starting in Mozambique.
00:14Opponent Venosio Mandlijn announced his return to Maputo on January 9, 2025,
00:20a few days before the resignation of President Daniel Shapo of FRELIMO.
00:25Information to read on AFRICA NEWS.
00:28In exile after the disappearance of two of his relatives, Mandlijn denounces an electoral hold-up and promises to regain power.
00:37His calls to protest have already made victims and paralyzed the economy, pushing thousands of Mozambicans into exile.
00:44The SADC expressed its concerns about post-electoral violence and encouraged dialogue between the parties.
00:51In Benin, activist and pan-African leader Stelio Gil-Robert Capo Chissi, better known as Kemi Seba,
00:59announced his candidacy for the presidential election in April 2026 in Benin.
01:04The information site La Nouvelle Tribune reports that on his social networks,
01:08Kemi Seba expressed his desire to present himself to fight against the country's social and economic inequalities and the presence of certain foreign powers.
01:18According to our colleagues, he proposes an enlarged militant coalition for reforms
01:23allowing all candidates to participate in the presidential election.
01:28And then in Mali, the army neutralized an armed group in Ras Elma,
01:34in the Goudam circle, located in the region of Tumbuktu, reports Malijet.
01:39During a reconnaissance mission, Malian forces located and successfully launched an offensive against this group.
01:47As a reminder, on January 4, 2025, the military had announced that they had destroyed a logistics depot belonging to a member of ACMI.
01:56This depot served as a supply point for the armed groups operating in the Gour Mara Rousse circle.
02:03Also in the region of Tumbuktu, the information site specifies.
02:09Now let's go to Zimbabwe.
02:11The abolition of the death penalty was made official on December 31,
02:16after the signing of the law commuting the penalties of all prisoners of the death penalty in prison.
02:23APA News reports that this law was signed by President Emerson Nangangwa.
02:28The European Union saluted the decision of the Zimbabwean president
02:32qualifying the abolition of the death penalty as a major advance in the history of human rights in the country.
02:39Zimbabwe thus joins the majority of countries that have abolished the death penalty.
02:44To finish in Senegal, the Pro-Cacef border security cadastre project
02:50aims to allow the women of the municipality of Banconto, located in the department of Benigara in the southeast of the country,
02:57to access lands intended for agriculture and housing.
03:01According to the daily report, the project plans to reserve 30% of the land to women and young girls.
03:09The goal is to promote their inclusion in the border property.
03:13To do this, a team has been mobilized to raise awareness of rights holders,
03:19to identify concerned plots and their owners, to carry out topographic surveys, and to ensure their registration.
03:28This is the end of this African Press Review. Thank you for following it.