MEDI1TV Afrique : MEDI1 MORNING - 29/01/2025
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00:00Welcome to a new edition of the Média Morning. Here are the headlines.
00:23In Lebanon, the Ministry of Health has reported 24 injured,
00:29including two Israeli strikes in the south of the country this Tuesday,
00:32despite the ceasefire being in effect since the end of November.
00:43In Republic of Denmark, the port of Goma, the capital of the east of the country
00:46was sealed off.
00:47This Wednesday, the M23 and the Rwandan Army
00:50control the airport and now occupy
00:52almost all of Foburg's downtown
00:56before a meeting scheduled for the day between the Congolese and Rwandan leaders.
01:06And then this January 29, 2025, marks the effective departure of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the CDAO a year ago.
01:16Day by day, the heads of state of the three countries had made the formal announcement in Miami.
01:27In Morocco, the number of citizens wishing to benefit from the Direct Housing Assistance Program has exceeded 114,365 in 2024.
01:36This is what the Secretary of State said yesterday in the House of Representatives to the Minister of Housing, Urbanism, Habitat and City Policy.
01:47In response to an oral question about the Direct Housing Assistance Program,
01:53Urbanism indicated that the number of beneficiaries of the program rises to more than 63,000 people in Moroccans living abroad represent a share of 25%,
02:03while young people represent 32%, specifying that 63% of beneficiaries have received assistance of 70,000 dirhams, while 37% have benefited from assistance of 100,000 dirhams.
02:14The Direct Housing Assistance Program has generalized the support for covering cities that have not sufficiently benefited from this program,
02:22as did Fays Taz, Eljenida Bensliman, Oujdaa Berkane and Tseza, to underline the Secretary of State,
02:30as well as the annual production of housing units for the low-income and middle-income,
02:37from 113,000 to 94,000 beneficiaries of the Direct Housing Assistance Program.
02:46We are still in Morocco, where the significant increase in cases of measles is worrying at the highest level.
02:53This disease, in rapid propagation, particularly affects children.
02:58The National Mobilization has taken precedence over this epidemic.
03:03Driss Bousrahana went to the University of Tangier hospital where a medical pavilion was dedicated to the patients affected.
03:12Dinam Rini for the story.
03:15With 25,000 declared cases and 120 deaths recorded since September 2023, the measles epidemic is worrying in Morocco.
03:23In the face of this unusual propagation, an integrated medical pavilion was dedicated to the hospitalization of the infected patients at the University of Tangier hospital.
03:38Measles is a viral and infectious disease.
03:41It particularly affects children and infants, but also adults with immunodeficiency and pregnant women.
03:49This disease can cause serious complications, especially in unvaccinated people.
03:59Measles propagation is mainly done by contact with infected people, by coughing or by the simple breathing of individuals carrying the virus.
04:09In this sense, health professionals, including pediatricians, are alert to this situation.
04:15Moreover, the vaccine is free and easily accessible in the public sector.
04:20The best way to prevent measles is vaccination.
04:23We therefore invite parents to go to health centers as soon as possible to vaccinate their children.
04:29Vaccines are available and free in all medical institutions.
04:33Vaccination against measles, administered between 12 and 15 months, is an effective way to prevent this disease.
04:41Protection against measles can reach up to 95% among vaccinated individuals.
04:47A reminder is sometimes recommended to strengthen this protection, especially in regions where the incidence of the disease remains high.
04:56We continue this news with the European Parliament, where members of the Polisario were invited this Tuesday to a weekly hearing of the Commission of Foreign Trade.
05:06This session, organized by the initiative of the European extreme left, has aroused a strong reaction from several European MPs who see it as an act aimed at compromising relations with Morocco.
05:19Morocco's Thierry Mariani, a French MEP, firmly expressed his opposition to the hearing of members of the Polisario, denouncing the invitation of a separatist militia supported by Algeria for this initiative.
05:33But the credibility of the European Parliament is at risk of damaging the privileged relations that the European Union maintains with its key partner in the fight against terrorism, the management of migratory flows.
05:50The invitation of the members of the Polisario to the European Parliament is taking place in a tense context, where certain European political groups are multiplying attacks against Morocco.
06:00How do you explain this approach and what is the role of the European extreme left?
06:05Here is an answer with Mustapha Tossa, editorialist and political analyst.
06:11In your introduction, you talked about a weak law, which is by definition a great discretion.
06:18But what we know is that this weak law has been massively boycotted by many parliamentary groups.
06:25How do you explain this approach?
06:27The European extreme left, especially the French one, expresses a certain tropism towards the separatist adventure and openly supports the Algerian agenda.
06:42It takes advantage of all the wheels of the European Parliament to advance this agenda.
06:48This could compromise the relations between the European Union and Morocco if these parliamentary groups manage to impose resolutions whose respect would be mandatory for the European states.
07:05However, what we know is that this extreme left, which remains very minoritarian, does not have an absolute majority to impose its views.
07:15What it provokes today is much more media noise than real political projects.
07:22This explains why, whatever we do, this European extreme left will always express sympathy for this separatist adventure of the police.
07:32But it will not endanger the precious relationship between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco.
07:40The polisario militia armé is responsible for the violence at the meeting of civilians involved in humanitarian aid detournements.
07:48When will we see the polisario classified as a terrorist movement and what would be the impact of such a decision?
07:56Mustapha Tossa, editorialist and political analyst.
08:01We are talking about this decision to classify the polisario in the list of terrorist organizations, especially in the American political arena.
08:12We are asking the administration of Donald Trump to want to adopt this position to put pressure on regional actors to find a political solution to this crisis.
08:25If tomorrow it is realized that the polisario is classified as a terrorist organization, it will have a major impact on the positioning of European countries,
08:35who will have trouble maintaining any relationship with a terrorist organization.
08:43It will have a major impact on African countries.
08:46It will accelerate the exclusion of the famous Rast within the African Union.
08:54There will be many African countries that will review their positioning and relations with the polisario and the Rast.
09:01But the major impact is that it will automatically transform the Algerian regime into a sponsor of a terrorist organization.
09:11This will force him to review his vision, his strategy and his relations with his international environment.
09:18In Lebanon, the Ministry of Health reported 24 injured in two Israeli strikes on Tuesday in the south of the country, despite the ceasefire in force since the end of November.
09:29The official Lebanese agency reported that an Israeli enemy drone had struck with a guided missile, targeting a small truck near the city of Nabatia, about 10 km from the border with Israel.
09:42According to the Ministry of Health, 20 people were injured in this strike and four others in a second raid, which targeted, according to the Lebanese agency, a road 2 km further.
09:54The Israeli army said it had targeted a truck and another vehicle of the Lebanese Hezbollah, carrying weapons, according to its spokesman, Abishai Adraei.
10:03The Lebanese Prime Minister, on his side, Najib Mekati, condemned the two strikes, denouncing in particular a new violation of Lebanese sovereignty and a blatant violation of the ceasefire accord, according to a statement from his office.
10:20In the north of the Gaza Strip, more than 376,000 Palestinians returned between Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon in favor of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
10:35This is what the UN Office for Humanitarian Affairs said yesterday.
10:39The men represented half of those displaced, women and children.
10:44Because everyone specified the Office for Humanitarian Affairs, citing figures from a working group, including several organizations that have set up counting points in different parts of the territory.
10:56Pregnant women, elderly people, disabled people, chronic patients in need of urgent medical care, or unaccompanied minors are among the key vulnerable groups among these displaced people.
11:12This difficult journey on foot, said the UN Office.
11:16The Hamas government had previously indicated that 300,000 displaced people had returned Monday to the north of the territory after the Israeli army authorized this return in the morning.
11:30In the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country was ready to negotiate to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine while rejecting direct discussions with Volodymyr Zelensky.
11:49He also estimated that the conflict would end in two months.
11:55Vladimir Putin says that negotiations are possible, but not with Volodymyr Zelensky.
12:02The Russian President said that his country was ready to negotiate to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine while rejecting direct discussions with his Ukrainian counterpart and affirming not to see Kiev's will.
12:15The idea of negotiating between Moscow and Kiev has been evoked more and more often in recent months by the two parties, as well as their respective allies, but nothing indicates for now that it will materialize.
12:26It is possible to negotiate with anyone, but due to its illegitimacy, it is not possible to sign anything. If he wants to participate in negotiations, I will designate people who will issue them.
12:43The Russian President added that any negotiation would be illegitimate if it were held now, citing a decree by Zelensky, excluding in October 2022 any negotiations as long as Putin was in power.
12:59The Kremlin master nevertheless argued that it would be possible to find a legal means to hold talks if Kiev wanted it.
13:07We will strive to obtain what we need and what corresponds to our interests, but as far as the signing of the agreement is concerned, precisely as far as the documents are concerned, we need confirmation by legal experts of the legitimacy of the people appointed by the Ukrainian state to sign these agreements.
13:29The positions of Donald Trump at this stage are difficult to discern. His country is the first military support of Ukraine and he has criticized this aid several times, but he has also recently threatened Moscow with more sanctions due to disagreements with Kiev.
13:44Ukraine fears to be pushed to the negotiating table in a disadvantaged position because it is at risk of being forced to give up its territories occupied by Russia.
13:54Moscow warns that any potential agreement to put an end to the conflict must take into account the realities of the field.
14:00The Kremlin, in substance, demands the surrender of Ukraine, that it renounces to join NATO and that Russia keeps Ukrainian territories as long as it claims annexation.
14:11The news is also in RDC, where the fate of Goma, a large city in the east of the country, seems to be sealed.
14:19This Wednesday, the M23 and the Rwandan army control the airport and now occupy almost all of the center and Foburg before a meeting scheduled today in the day between the Congolese and Rwandan leaders.
14:33This meeting between Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi and Rwandan Paul Kagame, convened by Kenya, must attempt to untie this new crisis in the border region shaken for 30 years by violence between armed groups in the provincial capital.
14:50More than a million inhabitants. The fighting intensified on Tuesday. Only the M23 fighters and the Rwandan forces remain visible.
14:59The airport has fallen. The seat of the provincial government has been taken.
15:04The fighting has resulted in more than 100 deaths and nearly a thousand injured, according to a last report from the hospitals.
15:14While tensions are still alive in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Morocco reiterated on Tuesday,
15:21during a ministerial meeting of the Council of Peace and Security of the African Union on the examination of the situation in the east of the RDC,
15:30its commitment to the fundamental principles of the sovereignty of the states, of their national and territorial unity,
15:38good neighborhood and non-interference in their internal affairs of all African states, including the Democratic Republic of Congo.
15:47This is what the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bouroueta, said in a speech read in his name by the permanent representative of Morocco to the African Union and the UN Security Council, Mohamed Harouchi.
16:01In the rest of the news, thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday in Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali to support the withdrawal of their country from the West African organization, which is becoming effective.
16:19This Wednesday, thousands of demonstrators marched in the city center.
16:25They chanted the slogans of hostility to France, but also to certain heads of state in the region with whom Niger maintains tense relations.
16:36This January 29, 2025, marks the effective exit of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the CDAO Ilian, day by day, the heads of state of the three countries.
16:53We made the formal announcement in Niamey, a birthday celebrated yesterday by thousands of people gathered in the Nigerian capital, of course, with our correspondent on site, Jean-Dybril William.
17:07On May 29, 2024, it was here in Niamey that the heads of state of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso had announced the withdrawal of their respective countries from the economic community of the states of West Africa.
17:20A year later, the divorce is now official and has been celebrated by thousands of people since the first hours on Tuesday in Niamey.
17:29Today we celebrate the courage of our three heads of state who dared to say no to imperialism.
17:35We are officially out of the CDAO and it is a feeling of freedom and pride that drives me this morning.
17:43We are going to make our own decisions, we are going to do everything ourselves. So really, we are out of slavery, we are very proud of that.
17:54If it took a year to see this withdrawal fulfilled in accordance with the texts of the regional body, for the Nigerian military authorities, the decision to leave the CDAO will never have suffered from any question.
18:07We are out of the CDAO and this decision is irreversible.
18:12A year ago, our countries decided to leave this regional organization that did not hesitate to impose inhumane sanctions on our populations.
18:20With the alliance of the states of Sahel, we are going to create the conditions for our people to be protected and to flourish.
18:25Exit the CDAO. For all this, the time has come for a new departure and a look now turned to the alliance of the states of Sahel, which Nigeria shares with Burkina Faso and Mali.
18:39And for the actors of the civil society gathered in Niamey on Tuesday, new deadlines are already announced.
18:45It is the Europeans who have come to draw subjective, obsolete borders. We are breaking these borders. We are unifying the same people of Sahel.
18:57But all this must necessarily go through the currency and then through industrialization. We are creating a currency that will allow us to establish a stable economic development.
19:07Like Mali and Burkina Faso, the exit of Nigeria should be made official by the CDAO on January 29, after a delay of one year planned by the regional board.
19:19The three countries had ignored a call to extend six additional months to discuss with the West African community.
19:26Speaking of this withdrawal of the CDAO, it is today that the exit of Mali from the CDAO will be officially enacted.
19:34Analysts and journalists give their opinion on a separation that has become inevitable and that will certainly have consequences.
19:44Let's listen to our correspondent Mohamed Danyoukou.
19:47Mali is preparing to leave the CDAO. If Mali is part of the founding fathers of this institution,
19:53the recent events in Mali and in the other countries of the Sahel State Alliance have made the difficult situation and the impossible cohabitation between the CDAO and the IAS, as explained by the teacher-researcher in community law, Yuba Nimaga.
20:09When Mali, on January 9, 2020, was hit by CDAO sanctions, following the coup d'état in Burkina Faso and that of Nigeria,
20:23they led the community organization to inflict heavy sanctions.
20:28At 24 hours of this exit, several questions arise about the possible consequences and future relations between the two entities.
20:36First of all, the consequences can be economic.
20:42First of all, the community organization was built on the economic pillar.
20:48And then, the political part was taken.
20:52This means that we will have to go back to a large market, like the CDAO.
20:58But also, the question we ask ourselves is whether we should leave an organization to rebuild,
21:07in favor of an organization to build or to experiment.
21:12Faced with an irreversible situation, some believe that other paths could have been preferred instead of divorce.
21:19For me, as it is a reverse, if we could stay in the CDAO, even create the IAS, it could be done.
21:25But as they have decided, we will see what happens next.
21:30Otherwise, people are divided between concern and opportunity.
21:34At the exit of a meeting of the ministers of foreign affairs of the three countries, held on January 26 in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso,
21:41the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali, Abdoulaye Diop, reassured the population about the CDAO press.
21:48Voilà pour l'essentiel de l'actualité. Merci de l'avoir suivi. Bonne suite de programmes sur nos antennes.