MEDI1TV Afrique : Presse monde - 14/06/2023
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00:00 "South Africa is the turning point of financial jihadism, while it does not seem to be affected
00:20 by the rise of Islamic movements on the continent.
00:23 South Africa would actually be at the center of the financial strategy of the Islamic State group, "the magazine writes.
00:30 A situation that the United States denounced first by sanctioning companies in 2022 and
00:37 exporting to South Africans, suspected of facilitating fund transfers in favor of the Islamic State.
00:43 In March, the financial action group GAFI, a fight against whitewashing based in Paris,
00:50 placed South Africa on a gray list of countries lacking rigor in the fight against the financing of illicit activities.
00:57 A phenomenon notably linked to the democratic nature of the country, a very developed and sufficiently open banking system to allow all kinds of activities.
01:08 Quoting a survey by the South African weekly Sunday Times, the publication explains that money flows through a multitude of transfers of too low sums to attract attention.
01:19 The equivalent of more than € 315 million has thus left South Africa for Kenya, Somalia, Nigeria and Bangladesh,
01:28 via some 57,000 unregistered SIM cards between 2020 and 2021.
01:33 In France, the press is dealing with the diplomatic crisis with Russia.
01:38 "Russian disinformation campaign, what we know after the accusations of France against Moscow," writes the Parisian newspaper.
01:46 "Russia is accused of leading a vast campaign of digital disinformation by creating false websites of identical information to those of certain French daily."
01:57 And to continue that several government websites have also been targeted.
02:01 According to the same source, this is the Opel-Ganger operation, already documented in 2022,
02:07 notably by the European organization DeezInfolab and the American giant Meta.
02:13 At least three other French daily, Le Figaro, Le Monde and 20 Minutes, have been victims of the operation,
02:19 but other major media have also been targeted, notably German and British.
02:24 For France, these actions are part of the hybrid war of Moscow and are unworthy of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
02:33 Still in the wake of the war in Ukraine, the United States wants to reintegrate UNESCO to counter China's influence, reports The Wall Street Journal.
02:42 Under Joe Biden's leadership, the United States has officially asked for reintegration into the United Nations
02:49 for the education, science and culture they left in 2018.
02:54 In detail, the United States has decided to join UNESCO and pay its backers,
02:59 which is raising $619 million to counter China's growing influence and other US adversaries within this agency in Louisiana.
03:09 The United States had announced its withdrawal from UNESCO in 2017 under the presidency of Donald Trump
03:15 while the agency was accused at the time of a continued anti-Israeli bias.
03:20 This decision took effect in December 2018 and since then China has become one of the largest contributors
03:27 to the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture.
03:32 The acceptance of the return of the United States to UNESCO will be after a vote in the majority of other states by July.
03:40 A vote that will undoubtedly be positive given that the Biden administration has committed to filling the UNESCO coffers, concludes The Wall Street Journal.
03:48 "We stay in the United States to talk about justice. Trump would not have found new lawyers to defend him during his appearance," writes The Guardian.
03:58 According to the British newspaper, the former president had trouble recruiting a lawyer in Florida,
04:04 whose case classified documents have brought to the mara-la-goo.
04:08 Several prestigious names would have refused to join his team before his first appearance, notes the newspaper.
04:14 According to sources in the British newspaper, the lawyers who will appear will be the former federal prosecutor Ted Blanche
04:22 and the former attorney general of Florida Chris Casey.
04:25 However, the old Trump and his team spent the afternoon having interviews with unsuccessful lawyers.
04:32 "The former president and current Republican candidate did not seem to be able to find a specialized lawyer in national security," concludes the media.
04:42 We come to the end of your PressMond review. Excellent follow-up to the programs.
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