MEDI1TV Afrique : MEDI1 MORNING - 19/09/2024
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00:00Welcome to this new edition of Mediamorning, here are the headlines.
00:24New weather alert in Morocco. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
00:39A new wave of explosions of Hezbollah transmitting devices killed 20 on Wednesday and more than 450 injured across Lebanon, exacerbating fears of a total war with Israel.
00:54In this newspaper, also hundreds of thousands of lives are threatened by fighting in the city besieged by the Fashers of Sudan,
01:00warned yesterday by senior UN officials who are worried about the escalation of the war in Darfur.
01:08New weather alert in Morocco. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
01:26New weather alert in Morocco. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
01:47New weather alert in Morocco. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
02:17New weather alert in Morocco. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
02:31New weather alert in Portugal. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
03:01Two new evacuations in the region of Porto. Firefighters speak for the time being of an uncontrollable situation.
03:11New weather alert in Portugal. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
03:31New weather alert in Casablanca. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
04:01New weather alert in Lebanon. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
04:31New weather alert in Lebanon. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
05:01New weather alert in Lebanon. Storms, hail and gusts of wind are expected from Thursday to Sunday in several provinces of the kingdom.
05:21We are waiting for a response from Hezbollah and what could be its consequences in a region already on the brink of implosion? Listen to Rajahi Barakat, an international relations expert.
05:35We are waiting for a response from Hezbollah and what could be its consequences in a region already on the brink of implosion? Listen to Rajahi Barakat, an international relations expert.
05:55We have seen quite often that every time there was an Israeli aggression in Lebanon or even in Iran, there was a period of waiting before retaliation. So I don't think Hezbollah will attack Israel directly.
06:14We know that the goal of Netanyahu is to provoke a regional war and try to involve the United States in this war. So I don't think Hezbollah will attack Israel directly. So I don't think Hezbollah will attack Israel directly.
06:44So I don't think Hezbollah will attack Israel directly.
06:59The UN General Assembly is calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. The first resolution, presented in the name of the Palestinian State Observer, was adopted by 124 votes for, 14 against, Israel and the United States, and 43 abstentions.
07:20The non-constraining text requires that Israel put an end to its illegal presence in Palestinian territories, and that this be done 12 months after the adoption of this resolution.
07:35In Gaza, a new Israeli attack targeting a school has killed five people in the Palestinian enclave for several months. This has the firm aim of school establishments sheltering Hamas fighters. Accusations, each time refuted by the Palestinian movement.
07:57Human evidence is constantly being reviewed in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian authorities have identified five civilians killed in an air strike targeting a school. Many school establishments serving as shelters for displaced people have been targeted by the Israeli army in recent months.
08:14Without concrete evidence, Israeli troops accuse Hamas of using these establishments to hide fighters among the civilian population, while the Palestinian movement denies these accusations.
08:26To try to put an end to this conflict, the US Secretary of State is on a business trip to Egypt. During an interview with the Egyptian president, Antony Blinken pleaded for a cessation of hostilities in the Gaza Strip.
08:39I would like to emphasize once again how much Egypt has been a partner for regional peace, regional stability and regional security, not more than in the efforts to end a ceasefire. We are truly grateful for this partnership. Egypt plays an essential role.
08:58The vast majority of the 2.4 million inhabitants of the Gaza Strip have been displaced several times since the beginning of the hostilities. At least 41,300 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombings since October 7. The majority of the victims are women and children.
09:17Hundreds of thousands of lives are threatened by the fighting in the city besieged by al-Fasher in Sudan. On Wednesday, high-ranking UN officials are concerned about the escalation of the war in Darfur.
09:32Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped in al-Fasher and are now facing mass violence. In front of the Security Council, Marta Poubi, UN Secretary-General for Africa, the war broke out in April 2023 between the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary forces of rapid support led by his former adjutant Mohamed Hamdan Dakhlo.
09:58The war has caused tens of thousands of deaths and displaced millions of people, causing one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, according to the UN, with risks of widespread famine.
10:10Senegal, where a financial judiciary has been officially established, replaces the Court of Repression of the Enrichment. It calls for the main mission to investigate the financial irregularities in public institutions and to judge in the event of a collapse of funds, according to this subject, from Marie-Madiop and Moussindir in Dakar.
10:41The financial judiciary is the new legal body responsible for repressing economic and financial infractions. Composed of magistrates and technical staff, it emphasizes the commitment in favor of transparency and responsibility in the management of public finances.
10:59The establishment of the financial judiciary is a response to the many challenges posed by the citizens' demand for profitability, the globalization of the economy, the rapid influx of capital, the development of information and communication technologies, as well as the multiple criminal networks that do not know borders.
11:29The judiciary is therefore not able to be dismantled only by adapted judicial mechanisms.
11:36The financial judiciary replaces the Court of Repression of the Enrichment. However, it wants to be more innovative.
11:47The financial judiciary combines the needs for efficiency in repression and efficiency in the management of human resources. It also has a more extensive field of expertise. In this sense, in addition to the illicit enrichment, the judiciary takes into account other incriminations.
12:11I urge you to give your best to achieve the objectives assigned to this judiciary. The State, on the other hand, will not make any effort to put you in optimal conditions of performance and professional development. The appropriate means will be deployed in accordance with the needs of the partners in development.
12:37For several decades, Senegal has always fought against public money laundering by creating specialized institutions such as the Court of Accounts, the General State Inspection, the National Office for the Fight against Fraud and Corruption, among others, in order to allow ethical and exemplary governance.
12:59And right away, the guest of the big media morning news. Two simultaneous attacks on Tuesday, September 17. A school of gendarmerie, a military base located within Bamako airport. These attacks were claimed by JNIM, a terrorist group affiliated with Al Qaeda.
13:23To talk about it, we are live with Cédric Abba, a journalist, writer and specialist in the Sahel. Hello Cédric Abba and thank you for being with us.
13:39Hello.
13:41So, the day after these two attacks against Bamako, his school of gendarmerie and his military base, the looting of the area continues, according to the Malian army. A return to these attacks took place on a symbolic date.
13:58So, the attacks were perpetrated, indeed, at the time when the creation of the Sahel States Alliance was celebrated, which was formed in September 2023 by Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.
14:22The choice of this date to perpetrate these attacks, in the heart of Bamako, is not innocent. They aim to have the widest media echo, the greatest visibility and to show that despite the blows that have been dealt to the terrorist groups in recent months or recent years, they are still active.
14:44They have a resilience capacity and they are even able to carry the fire in the heart of the Malian capital in two strategic places, which are the school of gendarmerie and the airport area that you mentioned.
14:59So, we can say that with this double attack, is the field of action of the JNIM, an affiliated group with Al Qaeda, no longer limited to the north of Mali?
15:14That's right. We can say it. You know, there are two major terrorist schools in the Sahel, the Islamic State in the Great Sahara and the JNIM, which is in French the group of support for Islam and Muslims.
15:29Of these two major schools, the JNIM is the most active. It has the greatest territorial occupation capacity since it is present in the north of Mali, in the center of Mali and more on the area of the three common borders between Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali.
15:51With this operation, it shows that no part of the territory can escape it, that it is able to project its action on the entire Malian territory. We know that before this attack, there was also the attack of Kulikoro, there was the attack of Kati, which is one of the most fortified barracks in Mali.
16:11And then there is a willingness to expand group actions towards the Cai region, which is not far from Senegal. When we look at the cartography of the different regions that are attacked by the JNIM group, we have the impression that it has the capacity to deploy on the entire territory and to carry out its actions, including in the capital.
16:34It must be remembered that this is not the first time that the capital is attacked by terrorist groups. But it must also be said, since zero risk does not exist, that other capitals, including Western capitals, have been attacked because terrorist groups prosecute with local complicity, with dormant solids that help them to carry out this type of action.
16:57Between January and June 2024, the NGOs estimated the total number of civilian victims in the three countries of the Sahel alliance at 3,000. How do you explain the recidivism of attacks by armed groups in these three countries?
17:17Yes, there are several factors that seem. As you said, among the victims who have been recensed, there are about 75 to 80% of civilian victims today. Because since the end of 2019, the beginning of 2020, the civilian group has changed paradigm.
17:34They now attack a lot of villages, they attack civilians. In Burkina Faso, there were 200 deaths not long ago. The recidivism is explained both by the competition between terrorist groups, the persistence of the situation in Libya, where weapons and fighters often come from, and also the efforts that have been made by the defense and security forces, which means that the groups no longer have sanctuaries.
18:02They no longer have a background where they hide. Because as you know, since the creation of the Sahel alliance, there has been a desire to build a transnational response, a common response to the three states. And the group is doing a kind of race against the clock.
18:17It will do its best before the balance of power is reversed and the armed forces of the various countries take over.
18:25According to you, Mali, Niger and Burkina still struggle to effectively coordinate their civil and military policy of fighting armed groups?
18:56They organized in May 2024 in Tawa, in the northwest of Niger, joint military maneuvers in the three countries associated with Chad and Togo.
19:07And today there are liaison officers from each of the countries in the three countries. And that allows us to start a common response with units that fight on both sides and other territories, which prevents mobility.
19:22Because the challenge for these countries is that the borders are very porous, the groups can move, and from the moment the countries work together, they mutualize information, they mutualize resources.
19:36There is a beginning of results that have begun, but we must accelerate. We must move forward, have common units, have units between the two countries, that is, Nigerian-Malian brigades, Nigerian-Burkina brigades, so that the armies work together and there is interoperability between the means they have.
19:59At the moment, if we add this to the question of development, to the question of governance, because we must remind and insist on this, the military and security response cannot be sufficient alone.
20:11The development aspect, the governance aspect, the social cohesion aspect must be integrated into a holistic response that allows this country to raise the security challenge and to tackle the development issues.
20:26Because the most important thing for these countries is security, but also development, education, health, and all this cannot be done in a war context.
20:36Precisely, speaking of the security challenge, can we talk about a defection of the Alliance of the States of Sahel? If so, does this risk their loss of weight and credit on the regional and international level?
20:52Yes, there is a will today to build a common response, and this will goes beyond the simple military question. The Alliance of the States of Sahel today has a common diplomacy, has integrated a common development project.
21:08This will allow us to have more visibility and more weight on the international scene than if the countries worked in isolation. That is to say, Burkina Faso does not weigh as much as the Alliance of the States of Sahel.
21:22But the fact that these three countries have come together will allow them to have a weight on the regional, African, and international scene.
21:31You saw the last time when there was a start of Ukraine's involvement in the war in the Sahel, it was the three countries that together seized the United Nations Security Council and their demand was much higher than if it was a country that did it.
21:46From this point of view, we must hope that this alliance evolves because one of the most important aspects of this alliance is first to count on oneself before counting on others, and also to have sovereignty on the security level and sovereignty on the diplomatic level.
22:03To put an end to what we have known so far, which is vertical diplomacy with certain partners. These countries today demand to be respected in their relations, in their cooperation, and in my opinion, this is a paradigm shift that must be looked at with great attention in the coming years, in the coming weeks.
22:21Very well. In addition to the security challenge, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are considering other projects, including political and economic, such as the creation of a biometric passport and a common currency. What is the future for the ambitions of the Alliance of the States of Sahel in the face of this persistent security challenge?
22:47No, it is absolutely important that these countries can at least face the security challenge. This insecurity has taken time, its solution will take time, but we must already hope that one day it will come to an end because what is missing here is common work. And with the Sahel alliance, we feel that there is a desire to work together.
23:10But the international community must also pay the same attention to Sahel as it does to the Middle East or during the war with Russia. Today, the projectors are oriented towards other theaters. We forget a little about that.
23:27So we need the support of the international community to allow these countries to solve the security issue and to be able to move forward on other aspects. The biometric passport aims to ensure the free movement of people and goods, which is an important step in integration.
23:45Then to build common projects, structuring projects on the level of infrastructure, on the level of health, on the social level. And in my opinion, if these countries today, with the will they have to count on themselves, with the philosophy they have put forward, with the will to work together, are supported by important investors, there is hope that Sahel will no longer be the same in a few years.
24:12That Sahel will also be an area of prosperity, an area where we can live together, an area that will raise the will of these children to expatriate. Because as you know today, in some Sahel countries, young people only dream of expatriating.
24:31They dream of expatriating, often during the course of their lives, through Libya, trying to take the oceans. If today we help the countries of the Sahel alliance to do a consistent job of bringing security, to develop the region with structuring projects, with massive international support, I think it will find prosperity and we will find the Sahel that we knew 20 years ago, 30 years ago.
24:53Cédric Abba, thank you for answering our questions. And I remind you that you are a journalist, writer and specialist in Sahel.
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