MEDI1TV Afrique : LE GRAND JOURNAL MIDI - 15/12/2024
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00:00MédiaNTV, thank you for staying loyal to us. Here are the titles of your newspaper.
00:22OCP Africa, a subsidiary of the OCP Group and the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock,
00:28sign an agreement on the transformation of agricultural value chains in a partnership supported by the World Bank.
00:38Let's move on to a resumption of negotiations to silence the weapons in Gaza,
00:45in any case on the Qatari side, the main mediator, where we are talking about a new momentum.
00:52For the United States, Hamas seems to soften its position.
00:56Abuja hosted today the summit of the heads of state and government of the CEDEAO.
01:05Mali, Nigeria and Burkina are reunited within the confederation of the states of the Sahel,
01:12will still be the great absences of this summit.
01:16OCP Africa, a subsidiary of the OCP Group and the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock,
01:25sign an agreement on the transformation of agricultural value chains in a partnership supported by the World Bank.
01:37OCP Africa, a subsidiary of the OCP Group and the Nigerian Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock,
01:43sign an agreement on the transformation of agricultural value chains in a partnership supported by the World Bank.
01:55End of the Atlantic Dialogues.
01:57This international conference lasted three days in Rabat, organized by the Policy Center for the New South.
02:05It recorded the participation of Omar Khilal, the permanent representative ambassador of Morocco to the United Nations,
02:13who came back on the launch of the UN reforms.
02:18For him, Morocco, under the leadership of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI,
02:22is the best placed country and has the greatest legitimacy to represent Africa as a permanent member of the Security Council.
02:36We stay in Morocco with this denial of the Ministry of Health,
02:40following the two deaths that occurred five days ago at the hospital center Moulay Youssef in Rabat.
02:48Contrary to what circulates on social networks,
02:51the Ministry, after conducting an investigation,
02:54assures that the deaths were not due to a technical failure at the level of oxygen supply channels.
03:02A commission of the General Inspection of the Ministry was dispatched to shed light on this matter.
03:12We stay in Morocco to open the annual report of the Court of Audits,
03:18which reports several recommendations,
03:20among which the strengthening of the integrated management of hydrogen resources.
03:28The Court of Audits recommends the strengthening of the integrated management of hydrogen resources.
03:34In its annual report for 2023-2024,
03:38the Court of Audits also pleaded for the use of unconventional resources
03:42in the desalination of seawater, the reuse of wastewater and the collection of rainwater,
03:48the reduction of losses in transport and water distribution networks,
03:52as well as a better protection of dams against flooding,
03:55in addition to the acceleration of projects related to the interconnection of hydraulic basins.
04:01To mitigate the impact of the water crisis,
04:03in particular in terms of the securitization of drinking water supply
04:07and the satisfaction of the needs of the productive sectors,
04:10the Court of Audits recalled that at the beginning of 2020,
04:12the National Programme for the Supply of Drinking Water for Irrigation 2020-2027,
04:17the PNAEPI was launched, mobilizing a budget envelope of 143 billion dirhams.
04:23Thus, with the commissioning of a set of dams,
04:25whose construction began before the launch of the PNAEPI,
04:28the total storage capacity went from 18.7 billion cubic metres in 2020
04:34to 20.7 billion cubic metres at the end of 2023,
04:37specifies the report,
04:38noting that some large dam projects have recorded a delay in relation to forecasts.
04:43Concerning the management of demand and the valorization of water,
04:46the surface equipped with a localized irrigation system reached, at the end of 2023,
04:51nearly 50% of the surface irrigated at the national level against 43% in 2020.
04:57In addition, the PNAEPI envisages the reuse of 100 million cubic metres of water used and treated per year by 2027.
05:04However, this reuse remains limited to the industrial sector and the irrigation of green spaces,
05:10while its use in agriculture remains insignificant.
05:13Concerning the high risks,
05:15it is necessary to mention the worsening of the water situation due to an accentuation of climate change,
05:20the delay in desalination projects,
05:22of reconversion to localized irrigation,
05:25of interconnection of hydraulic basins and dam projects,
05:28in particular in areas with strong rainfall.
05:31Among these risks is also the delay in the implementation of the liaison project
05:35for the transport of electricity based on renewable energy,
05:39in order to supply desalination stations with clean energy,
05:42as well as the problem of mobilization of the necessary funding.
05:49We are heading towards a resumption of negotiations to shut down the weapons in Gaza.
05:54In any case, on the main Qatari mediator side, we are talking about a new momentum.
05:59For the United States, Hamas seems to soften its position.
06:04The possibility of reaching a truce was yesterday at the heart of the meeting
06:08between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi,
06:11the American Council on National Security, Jake Sullivan,
06:14and the American coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa.
06:22In Syria, a week after the fall and flight of Bashar al-Assad,
06:26Turkey says it is ready to provide military aid
06:30if the new power asks for it.
06:33In this context, more than 60 Israeli strikes have targeted Syrian military sites
06:39in a few hours across the country.
06:50Abuja hosts today the summit of the heads of state and government of the CDAO.
06:55Economic and security issues will be at the heart of discussions.
06:59Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso,
07:02which is now part of the Confederation of States of the Sahel,
07:06will still be the main focus of this summit.
07:10These three fronting countries have slammed the door of the West African organization
07:15and do not intend to reintegrate it.
07:18Moreover, their departure should be finalized in January 2025.
07:23The question will be raised during this summit,
07:26as our correspondent in Abuja, Gilbert Tamba, will tell us.
07:31This is mainly the subject that will dominate the debate.
07:35You know, in January 2024, these three countries asked to leave the CDAO.
07:40So today, the heads of state must speak out on their decision.
07:45We are almost at the date of victory, which is January 28th.
07:50So this situation will be debated during this summit today.
07:54But also, there is the situation in Guinea-Conakry,
07:57where people have not yet given the date for the elections.
08:00Then, the security situation, as you announced in the title,
08:04in the West African sub-region.
08:07But also, I emphasize that this is a budgetary summit,
08:11because the heads of state must determine the budget of the CDAO,
08:17which must function for 2025.
08:21End of the UN Conference on Desertification.
08:25The COP16 in Riyadh has shaken the hopes of a binding protocol
08:31to fight against drought.
08:33Negotiators have not reached an agreement to deal with this flood.
08:41After the partial failure of the negotiations on biodiversity in Colombia,
08:45the inability to reach an agreement on plastic pollution in Korea
08:49and a disappointing agreement on the financing of climate action
08:53for developing countries during the COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan,
08:57it was the turn of the negotiations in Riyadh to fail.
09:01Negotiators have not managed to agree on solutions
09:04at the closure of the COP16.
09:06Ibrahim Thiaw, Secretary-General of the United Nations Convention
09:10on the fight against desertification,
09:12indicated that the parties needed more time
09:15to find a consensus on the best way forward.
09:21Together we have accomplished a lot,
09:24but our work is far from being completed.
09:26The scientific evidence is clear and indisputable.
09:29The way we manage our lands today
09:31will have a direct impact on the future of life on earth.
09:34The restoration aims to secure the foundations of our economy,
09:38our security and our humanity.
09:46According to the UN,
09:48droughts, accentuated by the destruction of the environment by man,
09:51generate an annual cost of more than 300 billion dollars worldwide
09:55and should reach 75% of the world population by 2050.
10:05For the first time in the history of humanity,
10:07we are faced with a risk that science forces us to take into account.
10:11We are halfway through a decisive decade,
10:14one that will probably determine the future of humanity for future generations.
10:19Unless we manage to reverse the trend
10:22and transform ourselves deeply
10:24in order to return to the safe space of a resilient and healthy planet.
10:29Today, scientific evidence is overwhelming.
10:31We risk destabilizing our environment,
10:33losing our resilience and compromising the ability of life to survive on earth.
10:38Recent discoveries show that we are following a trajectory
10:41that could lead to a warming of more than 3 °C
10:44of the world average temperature by the end of the century.
10:53Before the negotiations in Riyadh,
10:55the United Nations Convention on the fight against desertification
10:58had estimated that 1.5 billion hectares of land
11:01had to be restored by the end of the decade
11:04and that global investments of at least 2.6 trillion dollars were necessary.
11:11Unrooted trees, roofs or tiles
11:16in a territory where precarious living
11:19concerns at least a third of the population.
11:22Mayotte is devastated after the passage of the Chido cyclone
11:26in this French archipelago.
11:28The provisional report states 14 deaths.
11:31It is likely to climb, according to the French Minister of the Interior,
11:34of the missionaries.
11:36A crisis meeting was held this morning at La Réunion,
11:39another French island in the Indian Ocean,
11:42to coordinate the rescue action.
11:49This is the end of this newspaper.
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