MEDI1TV Afrique : Revue de presse - 15/02/2025
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00:00Hello everyone, and welcome to Mediun to take a look at this week's highlights.
00:19Because of a blatant deficit in reanimator anesthesiologists,
00:23intensive care facilities in the Meknes region are plunged into a sharp crisis.
00:29For the past few months, the region has only had one reanimator doctor for one million inhabitants.
00:35This is what the Moroccan website Le 360 said in the newspaper Al Arbar.
00:39The reasons for this deficit, explains Le Quotidien,
00:42lie in the management of human resources in this region,
00:45since the specialists who have been retiring for a few months are no longer being replaced.
00:50Thus, the number of reanimator anesthesiologists in Meknes has terribly fallen
00:54from 196 doctors before the Covid-19 epidemic to be between 28 and 32 doctors today.
01:01Still in the kingdom, but this time with good news,
01:03Moroccan scientists are at the heart of the discovery of a very high-energy neutrino,
01:08a world premiere.
01:09This is what was quoted in the morning.
01:11This major scientific discovery was made thanks to the KM3Net submarine telescope,
01:16to which the kingdom is actively participating.
01:19The national coordinator of this project in Morocco, Professor Yahia Tayalti,
01:23explains that this telescope is a large multidisciplinary research infrastructure
01:28made up of a network of submarine detectors,
01:30installed in the Mediterranean abysses at a depth of 3,000 meters.
01:34The scientist recalled that the signal,
01:36nicknamed KM3-2302-13A and with an energy of about 220 billion billion electron volts,
01:42was captured on February 13, 2023 by the KM3Net detector.
01:47This discovery, equivalent to 10 times the energy produced by the largest particle collider in the world,
01:53opens new perspectives on extreme astrophysical phenomena,
01:57such as supermassive black holes, supernovas and gamma sources,
02:01sources of ultra-energy cosmic neutrinos capable of crossing the universe.
02:05Professor Yahia Tayalti also underlined that the kingdom,
02:08which joined the collaboration in 2016,
02:11established two construction sites for this submarine telescope,
02:14the only ones outside Europe.
02:16Direction Japan, where scientists from the University of Tokyo
02:20have developed bacteria-hostile substrates, but favourable to cells.
02:24According to the site Santelog,
02:26the goal is to allow the culture of cells and tissues without the risk of infection.
02:30These nanostructured surfaces of aluminum
02:33constitute an important step for regenerative medicine.
02:36The surfaces resistant to bacterial contamination
02:39play an essential role in public health and in our daily lives.
02:43This goal can be achieved with powerful antibiotics and chemicals,
02:47which implies a negative environmental impact,
02:50health risks, as well as the potential emergence of antibiotics.
02:54There is therefore a huge need for non-toxic alternatives
02:58to control the spread of bacterial pathogenic agents.
03:01These technologies promise to be able to cultivate without danger,
03:05with considerable implications for regenerative medicine
03:08and the opportunity for high-quality cellular culture
03:11without bacterial contamination and without the need for antibiotics.
03:15The International Courier has, on its part,
03:17shed light on solar moms.
03:19In the Zanzibar archipelago in Tanzania,
03:22an Indian NGO has set up a program
03:24to train photovoltaic technicians.
03:27These women, often mothers of families
03:29who have not had access to a very advanced education,
03:32come to take over the electrification work in the villages.
03:36They assemble, install, repair and maintain photovoltaic equipment
03:40in these villages of the archipelago.
03:42It is at the Barefoot College Zanzibar,
03:44a local association, that they received their training.
03:47The article explains that only half of the almost 2 million inhabitants of Zanzibar
03:51have access to electricity,
03:53because of high cost of connection,
03:55even in some areas, impossible access to the network.
03:59Unusual news, in the Czech Republic,
04:01beavers have built dams on a protected natural site.
04:04This is what France Info revealed.
04:06In the Berdy region, 50 km south of Prague,
04:09a local dam project had been planned for more than 7 years.
04:12It was about setting up a protected site in a wet natural area,
04:16but the project was suspended due to administrative procedures.
04:19The building permit was always waiting.
04:22And that's when, in the space of two nights,
04:24at the end of January, the beavers saw the emergence,
04:26through the river, of piles of stone, mud and wood.
04:30These complex constructions allowed to slow down the flow of the river downstream.
04:35According to the experts of the Czech Agency for the Protection of Nature,
04:38the beavers have done an excellent job.
04:40They built a wet area with pools and canals.
04:43This initiative of the beavers allowed to save a small million euros.
04:47The Geo website looked at steel manufacturing.
04:50It took them 10 years of research, but they succeeded.
04:54A team of Chinese scientists managed to manufacture steel
04:57with a new method, 3,600 times faster than what is usually done.
05:02A discovery that could revolutionize the industry,
05:05while taking care of the planet, according to Professor Zengweni.
05:08The main author of this study,
05:10his method of accelerated steel production
05:12can produce steel in 3 to 6 seconds,
05:15unlike the 5 to 6 hours required by conventional furnaces.
05:19This new process relies on the infusion of pure oxygen into the melt,
05:23which allows to obtain molten steel.
05:26Given the elimination of coal in this Zengweni production process,
05:30it is estimated that this new method could reduce by a third
05:33the energy cost of Chinese steel production.
05:36A way to get closer to national objectives
05:39of drastic reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
05:42China is now the first steel-producing country in the world,
05:46and by producing this metal faster
05:48and potentially in greater quantities,
05:50the country could become even more competitive in several industries.
05:54Let's talk about paleontology.
05:56Near Nice, the Maritime Alps Customs
05:58discovered 9 dinosaur teeth
06:00during a check on the 8th,
06:02on January 27, 2025, at the Monton level.
06:04A very particular seizure,
06:06said the French site.
06:08The authorities examined a shipment of packages
06:10in a truck registered in Spanish plate.
06:13The driver indicated that the two packages
06:15were intended for Italian individuals
06:17with genes and 1,000 years old.
06:19On their side, the customs officers asked
06:21for the support of a conservation specialist
06:23at the Monton Regional Prehistory Museum
06:26to identify this seizure.
06:28The findings are a pair of marine reptiles,
06:30Plesiosaur, Zaraphasora oceanis,
06:333 pairs of Mosasaur,
06:35and 5 pairs of fossilized reptiles,
06:37probably belonging to a Dirosaurus phosphaticus.
06:40According to the regional management of Nice Customs,
06:43additional investigations are underway
06:45to identify the recipients
06:47and decide what to do next.
06:50We conclude this press release
06:52on an archaeological note.
06:54Still in France, more precisely,
06:56in the heart of the Isle of Ré,
06:58on a 900 square meters land.
07:00The archaeologists of the National Institute
07:02of Preventive Archaeological Research
07:04discovered about 50 graves
07:06housing a rich funerary material.
07:08These vestiges, as extraordinary as intriguing,
07:10date from the 8th to the 10th century.
07:12This is what the site
07:14Connaissance des Arts reported.
07:16It will have been enough for archaeologists
07:18to dig a few centimeters under the surface
07:20of the ground to make these discoveries,
07:22which still pose many questions
07:24but which testify to contact
07:26with the populations of the North Seas.
07:28It is therefore likely that the Isle of Ré,
07:30like other islands on the coast,
07:32is used as a shelter for different populations
07:34moving for commercial or bellicose reasons.
07:36We come to the end of this press release.
07:38Very good follow-up of the programs on Médien.
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