MEDI1TV Afrique : Midi infos - 09/11/2023
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00:00 We are still together on Mediain TV. Thank you for staying loyal to us. Here are the
00:07 headlines of your newspaper.
00:09 In this edition, we will be in Marrakech where the fourth edition of the Forum for Investment
00:15 in Africa continues. Since its launch in 2018, this forum has been able to mobilize nearly
00:21 143 billion dollars in investment interest.
00:24 While Qatar is trying to negotiate the release of some hostages in exchange for stopping
00:31 the three-day fall, in Gaza, Israeli strikes continue, making the humanitarian situation
00:37 more and more disastrous.
00:40 In Niger, CDAO spokespersons demand the lifting of sanctions from the West African organization
00:48 against Niamé. They broke the pavilion yesterday in the capital.
00:54 Let's go straight to Marrakech where the fourth edition of the Forum for Investment
01:00 in Africa continues. Yesterday, the King Mohammed VI, in a message addressed to the participants
01:05 elected by his advisor Omar Khabaji, called the African private sector a "real locomotive
01:11 for financing projects, even to free the potential of the continent, often suffocated
01:18 by debt."
01:20 Marrakech is therefore the capital of investment in Africa since yesterday. Many heads of state
01:26 have made the trip to take part in the Africa Invest Forum, which since its launch in 2018
01:32 has mobilized nearly 143 billion dollars in investment interest.
01:37 The African Development Bank is organizing a major event in Marrakech, with the participation
01:44 of nearly 600 heads of state and government, public and private decision-makers and investors
01:51 involved in the economic and social development of the continent. This event is the most important
01:58 platform for economic meetings on the continent, with the aim of bringing significant added
02:05 value to investors.
02:06 This meeting is dedicated to investment in the African continent. Africa is full of
02:13 immense potential. The aim of such a forum is to make known this potential, the skills
02:20 and ambitions of this continent to foreign investors and global financial institutions.
02:25 Morocco, under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, invests greatly in South-South
02:31 relations, especially in the African continent, because it represents a gateway for African
02:38 leaders.
02:39 "Morocco, thanks to the royal vision and everything that has been done in recent years,
02:46 between 2014 and now, we have gone from 100 million foreign investments in Africa, Moroccan
02:53 investments, to 800 million now. We are the second African country to invest in Africa."
03:01 High-level project presentations and sectoral debates are organized during this edition,
03:07 which is about the liberation of African value chains. The President of the Union of Comoros
03:12 and the President of the African Union, Azali Asoumani, called on Wednesday in Marrakech
03:17 to deepen regional integration in order to free African value chains.
03:21 "It is to show everything that has already been done at the level of the African Union,
03:28 but also with the agenda of the African Union, especially in terms of leadership, but also
03:36 everything that has been done, how to advance at the level of the continent. It is about
03:41 everything that is import-export, but also the great projects like Zelle-Caf, which
03:45 he wants to implement, but also he insisted on the resilience of Morocco in relation to
03:54 the earthquake."
03:55 Assuming that this forum is the place where bankable projects in Africa meet investors,
04:00 heads of state and government in investment boardrooms, the President of the African Development
04:05 Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, stressed that African economies offer some of the best investment
04:11 opportunities in the world.
04:13 "We are here in Morocco, there are many projects here that we will present, including
04:19 OCP projects, which are a global company that we support a lot. We are very happy to be
04:25 here."
04:26 In addition to emphasizing the potentials of the continent, the President of the African
04:30 Development Bank also noted that Africa is not as risky as we think, citing the analysis
04:35 of Moody's Analytics, which confirms that the deflation rate of the continent is the
04:39 lowest in the world, i.e. 2.1%, compared to that of Eastern Europe, which exceeds
04:44 largely 10%, and that of Asia, which is well above 8%.
04:48 In the royal message addressed to the participants of this forum, we also find the new African
04:55 vision of King Mohammed VI, turned towards the Atlantic front, a vision with as a locomotive
05:01 the provinces of the South. Let's listen to the economic analysis of Risset-Saville.
05:05 "On the message, what is said? It is asked to Africans to strengthen investment, to strengthen
05:19 the role of the private sector, but particularly to strengthen all these data that already exist.
05:28 I spoke of the provinces because they are at the heart of this strategy. Morocco has
05:34 taken an important African approach in its foreign policy. On the economic level, it
05:43 is necessary to talk about investment. And when we talk about investment, we talk about
05:51 how we will be able to help African countries. Because the region we are talking about,
05:59 the one that is close to the Moroccan Saharan provinces, is a region that is considered
06:05 to be a country that is devoid of all views on the sea. They are not endowed with natural
06:13 effects that allow them to move differently. But there are projects on which Morocco has
06:21 invested a lot. For example, the project of the Nigerian gas pipeline in Morocco, which
06:29 will open up enormous possibilities for African economies and ensure that investment becomes
06:38 the essential lever by which these countries can develop. This is the meaning of the messages
06:44 that were developed by the royal letter addressed by the advisor of King Mohammed VI.
06:51 What does it say? We must ensure that investment becomes this fundamental lever.
07:01 And that is what is being done. If you want, we can analyze the role of the gas pipeline,
07:10 what it will create as wealth in the 15 countries that will be affected by the gas pipeline.
07:16 We can talk about investment in agriculture. We can also talk about investment in the
07:23 field of renewable energies, in agriculture. So all of these are sectors that are affected
07:31 by this letter that was addressed to the participants.
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08:05 We are working together as friends and partners of the Palestinian Authority and Israel to
08:14 see how we can exercise our influence to ensure that each life really matters.
08:22 You know, we say "Inna lillah" for the 1,400 people who lost their lives in Israel.
08:28 We say "Inna lillah wa inna ilayhi raji'un" for the 10,000 people who lost their lives in Palestine.
08:35 [English]
08:39 Each life matters, whether it is Palestinian or Israeli, whether it is Christian, Muslim or Jewish.
08:46 We have all agreed, and certainly the United Kingdom and Morocco, that the creation of a
08:52 safe state of Israel, alongside a safe, secure and defined Palestinian state, should be the
08:58 final objective.
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09:04 We need to ensure that we provide that, with our key partners, including the United States
09:10 and the Gulf countries. We will work in this direction and we acknowledge that it is a
09:15 difficult period, but we should never lose hope.
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