MEDI1TV Afrique : Revue de presse - 07/01/2025
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00:00Hello everyone, and welcome to Medihand to take a look at the news of the day.
00:16The city of Agadir is preparing to celebrate Eid al-Adha in 1975, the new year in Mazir,
00:22with a program rich in festivities from the 10th to the 17th of January.
00:26This is what the Moroccan daily, L'Economiste, reported.
00:29It is part of the royal decision to set the 14th of January as an official holiday,
00:35underlining the central place of the Mazir culture in the Moroccan identity.
00:40And in the program, an artisanal exhibition produced by Terroir,
00:43a thematic conference on the Mazirité and cinematographic projections.
00:48Let's stay in Morocco, but this time with a less festive news.
00:52According to the 360, a fire broke out on Sunday night in the forests of Mouglata,
00:58in El Kitan, east of Tetouan.
01:00More than 100 hectares of plant cover were ravaged by the flames.
01:05Thanks to the massive intervention of the teams of the Civil Protection and Forest and Water Department,
01:10the fire could finally be circumscribed after several hours of effort.
01:15An investigation has been opened to determine the causes of the disaster.
01:19The Tunisian press has reported four new cases of gas asphyxia,
01:25in a statement on a private radio channel.
01:27Kamal Melti, regional director of the Abéja Civil Protection,
01:31confirmed the recording of four new cases of gas asphyxia in the Abéja region on Monday, January 6.
01:39According to the same source, a couple and their two sons in the Azema district of Abéja
01:44felt headaches and several other symptoms due to an asphyxia to carbon monoxide.
01:50They were urgently transported to the hospital by the Civil Protection.
01:54Thus, the number of people asphyxiated by gas in Mjézalbab,
01:58following a use of heating, has fallen to eight,
02:01after four members of another family have also been asphyxiated by gas in the Toukaber region.
02:08A first in the United States.
02:10A tax on bottling will come into force in New York.
02:13The international courier explains that the Big Apple
02:16has become the first big American city to pay heavyweight drivers and motorists
02:21who want to drive in its downtown.
02:24According to the New York Times, the measure is far from unanimous.
02:28Most motorists now have to pay $9 to drive in the regulated areas of the Big Apple
02:35during rush hours and $2.25 the rest of the time.
02:39The British newspaper The Guardian has looked at the human metapneumovirus,
02:44the recrudescence of HMPV cases in northern China has aroused some concern online,
02:50but experts say that the risk of another Covid-type pandemic is low.
02:55The human metapneumovirus is a respiratory disease
02:59that causes symptoms similar to those of the flu or cold,
03:02but which can increase the risks or cause more serious complications
03:06such as bronchitis or pneumonia,
03:08especially in the elderly, young children and immunodepressed people.
03:14The country's disease control center has recommended to the population to take precautions
03:19in terms of health and hygiene,
03:21but has also refuted online allegations
03:24that hospitals are overcrowded and fear a new Covid-19-type pandemic.
03:31CNN highlights the Chinese filmmaker who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison
03:37for his documentary on national demonstrations against the measures of confinement
03:42related to Covid in China at the end of 2022,
03:45while Beijing seeks to erase the public memory of terrifying scenes of dissent
03:50against its management of the pandemic.
03:52Chen Pinlin was sentenced on Monday by a Shanghai court
03:56at the end of a three-hour trial in Wicklow,
03:59to declare a person close to the case to CNN.
04:03The 33-year-old man was found guilty of trying to cause conflicts and trouble,
04:09a fraudulent crime frequently used by the Chinese government
04:13to silence dissent and imprison activists, lawyers and journalists.
04:18Chen's documentary was broadcast on YouTube and iX, two banned platforms in China.
04:23His accounts on these two platforms have since been deleted.
04:27We come to the end of this press review.
04:30Enjoy the rest of the program on Mediun.