MEDI1TV Afrique : Presse Afrique - 21/03/2025
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00:00Welcome to the African news magazine on Média1.
00:12Let's start in Senegal, the country is preparing to industrialize its ore silo thanks to a partnership between Lefonsis and SOMICEN-ESA
00:22aiming to create a national counter and a refining plant to process the ore from artisanal and semi-mechanized mines.
00:31The information can be found on REUMI.com.
00:34This project, part of the Senegal Vision 2050 agenda, aims to strengthen economic sovereignty
00:41by replacing refining abroad with a local infrastructure,
00:46allowing better revenue control and job creation.
00:50The initiative is part of a logic of valuing locally exported raw resources to maximize economic returns,
01:00indicates the Senegalese information site.
01:03In Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recently announced the inauguration in six months of the Renaissance Great Dam,
01:11a $4 billion hydroelectric project launched in 2011, information given by 360Africa.
01:20This 1.8-kilometer-long and 145-meter-high dam, located on the Blue Nile near the Sudanese border,
01:29must produce 5,000 megawatts, twice the country's current capacity.
01:35Several turbines have been operational since 2022, but the full calendar of powering remains vague.
01:44Egypt and Sudan are concerned about their water supply,
01:48denounce a unilateral project and demand a three-party agreement on the filling of the reservoir,
01:54specifies 360Africa.
01:57Let's go to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
02:00Afrique sur 7 tells us that the rebels of the M23 took control this week of Walikal,
02:08a strategic city in northern Kivu.
02:10They seized the city almost without combat, according to local sources.
02:15This advance comes a day after the joint call of Congolese President Félix Kisekedi
02:21and Rwandan Paul Kagame to stop the immediate fire in order to speak to Doha.
02:27The M23, accused of benefiting from Rwandan military support according to the UN,
02:32continues its offensive despite diplomatic tensions, concludes the Afrique sur 7 information site.
02:40The Sudanese army, for its part, would be about to regain the presidential palace
02:45by means of rapid support, at least that's what the Sudanese public television has announced.
02:52Indeed, our Afrika News, which gives the information,
02:55the fights there reached a rare intensity on Wednesday evening,
02:59with clashes of a rare intensity that opposed the two camps near this building located in Khartoum on an island shore.
03:09The two forces, allied during the coup d'état of 2023,
03:13have been fighting since in a devastating war, having displaced millions of civilians.
03:20In Angola, to finish, Minister Teresa Rodrigues announced on Thursday in Luanda
03:26the creation of 18,850 jobs between January and March 2025,
03:33with a focus on real estate, commerce, construction.
03:37According to FAPA Info, which gives the information,
03:40these figures illustrate a growing economy, although the stability of jobs remains a challenge.
03:47According to the person in charge, in 2024, 225,157 jobs had been generated at the national level,
03:55despite 6,488 losses related to licenses or company closures.
04:02The public sector has also trained 34,216 officials, exceeding 71%.
04:11The objectives of the national development plan note the source.
04:15These data are part of a wider dynamic of economic diversification,
04:20supported by agro-industrial projects and international funding aimed at reducing oil dependence.
04:29This is the end of this African Press Review.
04:32Thank you for staying with us.
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