Soir infos (20:00) - 16/06/2023
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00:00 Good evening, welcome to this newspaper, here are the main headlines.
00:08 A new sporting achievement for Morocco, the national team of Futsal won the Cupara for the third time in a row after its victory over the Coet 71 this Friday in Jeddah.
00:21 Details are in a moment.
00:26 Khaouz El Khja, Minister of Delegation in charge of the budget, President of the Moroccan Royal Football Federation and President of the Committee in charge of the candidacy of Morocco to the World Cup 2030, a title that is attributed to him by King Mohammed VI. Details later.
00:44 Good news to start with, we are going to Nigeria where four new memorandums of understanding have been signed for the realization of the Gasoduc Nigeria-Morocco, this mega project for the benefit of Africa but also other countries, other continents, especially Europe.
01:08 Good news to start with, the Moroccan national team of Futsal won the Cupara for the third time in a row after its victory over the Coet 71 this Friday in Jeddah.
01:28 Good news to start with, the Moroccan national team of Futsal won the Cupara for the third time in a row after its victory over the Coet 71 this Friday in Jeddah.
01:38 The men of Hicham Degig dominated the matches of the B team taking the lead on the Komor islands 5-0, Lebanon 6-0 and the Coet 4-2.
01:48 The men of Hicham Degig dominated the matches of the B team taking the lead on the Komor islands 5-0, Lebanon 6-0 and the Coet 4-2.
02:13 The King Mohammed VI awarded Faouz El Kheja to the Minister of Budget, President of the Moroccan Royal Football Federation, the Presidency of the Committee in charge of the candidacy of Morocco in the World Cup of Football.
02:25 It is in the context of a joint candidacy between Morocco, Spain and Portugal. The King had announced on March 14th, at the occasion of the awarding to Kigali of the Prize of Excellence of the African Football Confederation for the year 2022,
02:41 awarded to the King Mohammed VI, the decision of the Kingdom to present with Spain and Portugal a joint candidacy to host the World Cup of Football in 2030.
02:50 At this occasion, the King had underlined that this joint candidacy will be that of the junction between Africa and Europe, between the North and the South of the Mediterranean, between the African, Arab and Mediterranean worlds.
03:03 Discussions on the mega-project of Gasoduc Nigeria-Morocco are underway.
03:11 A delegation of the National Office of Hydrocarbons and Mines, led by the Director General, Amina Benhadra, is in Abuja this Friday for interviews with the Director General of the National Petroleum Company of Nigeria.
03:24 The meeting took place in the presence of the Ambassador of the King Mohammed VI to Nigeria, Mouhaoua Elitagma, the Director General of ONIM, and the President, Director General of the NNPC,
03:36 and signed a memorandum of understanding with Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia and Belgium.
03:42 Note that this Gasoduc will extend the West African coast from Nigeria through Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia, Senegal and Mauritania to Morocco,
03:57 and will be connected to the Gasoduc Maghreb-Europe and the European Gas Network.
04:05 In Morocco, the Minister of the Interior, Abdiou Afif Tite, held a work meeting with the Minister of the Interior and Health, Moshe Arbel, this Friday in the Arabian Ministry.
04:16 High-ranking officials from the departments of the interior of the two countries took part in the meeting.
04:21 Tite exchanged points of view with his Israeli counterpart on issues relating to the attributions and areas of competence of their respective departments, according to a statement from the Moroccan Ministry.
04:33 Bilateral issues of common interest and means to strengthen cooperation between the two countries were discussed.
04:40 We are on June 16 and we are celebrating today the World Day for the African Child, the opportunity to return to the achievements and to address the perspectives.
04:58 I have the pleasure of welcoming in live Hind Youbi Edelissi, Professor at the University of Mohenjo-Daro, member of the United Nations Committee on Child Rights. Good evening, Professor, and welcome.
05:09 So, starting with the state of the children's rights three years after the coronavirus pandemic, what about access to school and health care on the continent?
05:27 Good evening, thank you for your invitation and for your question. So, three years after the COVID-19 pandemic, we cannot really talk about a real recovery,
05:37 especially at the level of the African continent, we are still experiencing many difficulties in accessing health care,
05:44 the losses in terms of learning, especially early childhood, access to pre-school education. There are a lot of challenges, the acute malnutrition that has worsened at the continent level.
05:59 So, there are a lot of challenges that persist on the African continent, among the countries where the largest infant mortality is the largest, infant to juvenile and also maternal.
06:14 So, girls, but also young women in Africa are experiencing extremely difficult conditions, especially in certain countries in particular.
06:23 What can you tell us about the evolution of their situation on the continent?
06:28 I may have misheard your question. There is a problem.
06:35 But you are talking about the situation of girls, the situation of young women in Africa, who are experiencing difficult conditions, especially in some sub-Saharan countries.
06:49 What can you tell us about the evolution of their situation today?
06:55 I may have misheard your question. There is a blood problem. But you are talking about the situation of girls.
07:04 The situation of girls, so we cannot talk about a homogeneous situation. There is a great diversity of situations, but if in a global way,
07:15 we cannot say that all girls are discriminated against, excluded from those who have access to education.
07:21 No, the statistics, the situations have shown us that, on the contrary, in many countries, school retention is more at the level of girls than boys.
07:31 The situations are changing, but we cannot talk about a general trend. So far from a homogeneous situation, but girls continue to suffer the most violence.
07:43 We know that children targeted by military groups, armed forces, non-state forces, target more children.
07:52 And girls are the biggest victims. They are removed by these groups and so on.
07:57 Girls also during the COVID-19 pandemic, they were confronted with forced marriages, premature pregnancies and more violence.
08:07 But as I just said, we cannot generalize. There are situations, there is a significant evolution, but there is still a persistence of problems,
08:19 especially in terms of violence, premature marriages, premature pregnancies and sexual violence perpetrated against girls.
08:28 I hope you hear me now. What are the commitments of the African states? Are they honoured? And what about international cooperation?
08:42 African countries have all ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The majority have ratified the two optional protocols on the sale, prostitution, pornography,
08:53 children in armed conflicts. So there is a lot of work that has been done on the laws, on the mechanisms, on the institutions
09:06 charged with the rights of the child, the government structures of the different countries.
09:11 But the problem, the problem, as we can say, is that the laws exist. There are a lot of policies that are written, action plans are developed.
09:25 But there are problems, problems of implementation, coordination problems, of providing tangible, verifiable, credible, dis-aggregated data.
09:37 And also the nerve of the war, namely having a substantial budget that allows the implementation of the rights of the child.
09:46 So the African states have made progress, but they must continue to make progress and to keep their commitments when they have joined these international instruments.
09:58 And on the other hand, African states must internalize the fact that the rights of the child are a whole, an indivisible whole.
10:08 There is not only the right to access health, nutrition, education, but there is protection, there is participation.
10:15 The child has become an actor of these rights. And so the African child must indeed participate in a structured way and not only in an episodic way
10:25 when there are events here and there. International cooperation is something very, very important.
10:31 To recover from a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic or other crises cannot be done at the level of states alone.
10:38 The international community must also respond to its obligations towards other countries.
10:45 And so there must be solid, viable partnerships and urgent actions to be taken by investing in the rights of the child.
10:53 Otherwise, it is really the present and the future of children in Africa that will be impacted.
11:02 Thank you very much, Professor Al-Jazeer, Professor Mohamed Seng of Rabat, member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
11:11 Thank you for answering our questions.
11:13 Thank you.
11:15 In North Africa, Qays Saeed is still in the spotlight of the opposition.
11:21 In Tunisia, one of the main opponents, the President, accused him of criminalizing all forms of opposition
11:26 before being questioned at the anti-terrorist pole as part of an investigation for conspiracy against the security of the state.
11:32 The interrogation of Ahmed Nejib Shebbi, 78 years old, President of the Front National Salute, lasted three hours.
11:39 Since February, the authorities have arrested and imprisoned about twenty opponents, including several former ministers and businessmen.
11:46 The figure is alarming.
11:52 More than a million children have been displaced to Sudan, more than a quarter to Darfur, a region cut off from all communication and on the brink of a humanitarian disaster.
12:01 This is what the UN said was the cause of the conflict that has been raging for two months between the army and the paramilitaries in the country.
12:08 Children represent more than half of the 45 million Sudanese.
12:12 According to UNICEF, more than 13.6 million of them need humanitarian aid.
12:18 More than 120 Syrians were on board the migrant boat that sank Wednesday off the coast of Greece.
12:28 A large number of them were taken and disappeared.
12:31 The search continues this Friday, but the hopes of finding survivors are dimming two days after the tragedy.
12:38 On Wednesday, 78 bodies had been recovered, 104 people were rescued.
12:43 The International Migration Organization said it feared that hundreds more people had drowned.
12:50 The South African president was visiting Ukraine.
12:56 This Friday, Kiev and Moscow were on the move during a joint press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart.
13:02 Cyril Ramaphosa was accompanied by a delegation of African leaders who came to try a mediation.
13:08 In the morning, the delegation was in Bucha, theater of a massacre of civilians,
13:12 imputed to the Russian army before meeting Volodymyr Zelensky.
13:15 It will return to Russia on Saturday.
13:24 Back on the continent, the Malian Foreign Minister asked the UN Security Council
13:30 to withdraw from the UN mission without a delay.
13:34 He denounced the failure of the MINUSMA to meet the security challenges.
13:38 But the Malian government remains willing to cooperate with the United Nations in this perspective.
13:43 This is what Abdullahi Diop said, rejecting all options for the evolution of the peacekeeping mission mandate
13:49 proposed by the UN Secretary General.
13:52 A word from Agriculture now, with this study day in favor of the Rarbes farmers in Morocco,
14:02 an initiative of the Association of Agricultural Management of the region.
14:05 New seeds for the culture of potatoes have been presented.
14:10 A new variety of potatoes could change the situation for Moroccan farmers.
14:17 Here in the Rarbes region, this study day aims to present the latest innovations and technologies
14:23 of sustainable agriculture, suitable for ensuring national food security.
14:28 Supervisors and agricultural experts have presented new varieties of seeds,
14:32 better resisting drought and diseases and guaranteeing higher productivity.
14:46 The new seeds are more productive and less greedy in pesticide treatment
14:50 and will be better adapted to national needs.
14:53 These are Red Bull and Melmando species.
14:56 These varieties give about 50 to 70 tons per hectare.
15:00 The new varieties of potatoes are resistant to diseases and less harmful to the aquatic bed.
15:12 In terms of crop production, potatoes are third after beetroot and wheat.
15:18 They are a valuable currency for the country, with an annual average value of about 138 million dirhams.
15:25 Some of the old varieties are no longer compatible,
15:31 while the new ones are perfectly adapted to our ecosystem.
15:37 In Morocco, potatoes are the first crop in terms of surface area and production.
15:42 In Africa, potato cultivation has reached 20 million tons of production.
15:46 With 2 million tons, Morocco is the third country to produce potatoes in the Maghreb,
15:50 ahead of Tunisia and behind Algeria and Egypt.
15:54 In Ivory Coast, Moroccan companies continue to gain ground in several sectors of activity.
16:00 This is the case of Wafa Assurance Ville, which confirms its leadership.
16:04 The group has launched a new range of offers for Ippoliti companies in July.
16:09 Moroccan companies are illustrating themselves in a very beautiful way in various sectors of activity in the Ivory Coast.
16:15 From telecoms to BTPM, through insurance and the banking sector,
16:18 these companies stand out for the quality of their services.
16:21 This is the case of Wafa Assurance Ville, Ivory Coast.
16:23 Installed in the country since 2016, the group occupies an important place in the field of insurance banking
16:28 with a turnover of 7 billion francs CFA for 300,000 customers.
16:33 At the end of 2022, this company, which represents the Kingdom of Morocco in the Ivory Coast,
16:37 obtained a net result of 2.4 billion francs CFA.
16:41 To confirm their leadership in the field, the group's top managers decided to move on
16:46 by innovating with a new range of offers, which was launched in Abidjan,
16:50 in the presence of several actors in the sector.
16:52 When you have to give your money to a partner, an intermediary,
16:57 it is important to be sure that you will find that money when you need it.
17:02 And in the conditions of commitment that have been taken.
17:05 What sets us apart is that.
17:07 It is our uniqueness, it is the will of our group to work for the development of the African continent.
17:14 It is the quality of the South-South partnership that really sets us apart from other companies.
17:20 Several business leaders, members of civil society, as well as economic operators
17:25 were present at this important economic activity.
17:28 For the latter, this innovation of a Moroccan group specializing in the insurance banking sector
17:32 is of great importance.
17:34 At the level of the Chamber of Commerce of the Moroccan Industry in the Ivory Coast,
17:37 we will push for very advanced and very advanced contacts with Oafa Insurance V.
17:44 And we will exhort our members to go and negotiate contracts with this beautiful tool that is present to us.
17:52 We are proud that a Moroccan company can be among the leaders in this field of activity.
17:59 The business leaders have also indicated that they will do everything in their power
18:03 to maintain their leadership in the Ivory Coast and thus strengthen economic relations between the two brother countries.
18:09 In Mali, the national budget allocated to the protection of childhood must be reviewed at a high level.
18:19 This is a recommendation from the Malian Coalition for the Rights of the Child,
18:23 which organized a two-day workshop.
18:25 Mohamed Danyoko for the details.
18:27 For two days, several organizations, members of the Malian Coalition for the Rights of the Child,
18:33 will make the state of the financing of the protection of childhood by the state.
18:38 The reason that pushed the Malian Coalition to realize this
18:43 is that the state has allocated little money to the protection of the rights of the child.
18:50 Now, who wants to make a protective budget for the rights of the child must invest a lot.
18:57 So this investment is very low, 0.23% of the national budget.
19:03 And if we look at the level of the municipalities, it is almost non-existent by far.
19:08 The goal is to realize the actions of the taxpayers, which must produce an amelioration of the budget allocated
19:15 to the protection of the child at the national, regional and municipal level.
19:20 The National Direction for the Promotion of the Child and the Family estimates
19:25 that the efforts of the state, although considerable, are limited by the multidimensional crisis
19:31 that has been going through the country for ten years.
19:35 Given the current context of the Malian Coalition,
19:38 we have been going through a crisis for a decade that does not end here
19:44 and that hinders the financing of the protection of the child.
19:48 And despite everything, the authorities have reserved a significant part
19:52 to allow the state structures and also to accompany the civil society organizations
19:58 to work on the issue of the child.
20:00 This workshop is also an opportunity to attract the attention of partners,
20:05 to know the existing budget of the last three years,
20:09 to be able to build actions of the taxpayers so that this budget can be raised
20:15 according to the realities of the country.
20:19 Thank you for following this news.
20:21 The information continues on our radio.
20:23 See you later.
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