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00:00Thank you for joining us for this round of news from Basse-Littra.
00:24The Israeli army led in the night of Thursday to Friday
00:28in the south of Beirut, one of the most violent raids since it intensified its bombardments on Lebanon.
00:34The official Lebanese press agency ANI reported more than 10 consecutive strikes.
00:40Details in a few moments.
00:44News of the death is the report announced by the Palestinian Authority
00:48after an Israeli strike in South Jordan, where the Israeli army claims to have eliminated a local chief of Hamas.
00:56Tunisian presidential election.
00:59The voters will be in the polls on Sunday to elect their next president.
01:03An unprecedented scrutiny between three candidates.
01:06A scrutiny also where the president comes out in a new mandate.
01:10We meet right away for the development.
01:16Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the conflict in the Middle East.
01:19The Israeli army led in the night of Thursday to Friday
01:23a new strike in the south of Beirut, one of the most violent raids since it intensified its bombardments on Lebanon.
01:32The official Lebanese press agency ANI reported more than 10 consecutive strikes.
01:38The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the death of 37 people in 24 hours.
01:45Israel had stated that it would continue to inflict severe blows on Hezbollah.
01:50According to official figures, nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon,
01:55of which more than 1,000 since September 23, with 1.2 million displaced in one year
02:02of transversal violence between Hezbollah and the Israeli army.
02:06During this time, the Palestinian Authority announced last night that 18 people had been killed
02:16following an Israeli strike on the refugee camp of Tulkarem in northern Jordan.
02:23The Israeli army claims to have eliminated in an air raid Zahir Abdel Razak,
02:29alias Zahri Oufi, local chief of the Hamas.
02:32This is the deadliest Israeli strike in Jordan since 2000,
02:38indicating a source within the Palestinian security services.
02:42In his statement, the Hamas condemned a cruel attack marking a dangerous escalation.
02:51The situation remains explosive in the south of Lebanon and in the heart of the capital.
02:57On the ground, the population fears the worst.
03:00So several countries are currently organizing the resettlement of their refugees.
03:05Details are with Soheil Jalil.
03:12Tzahal continues his strikes on Beirut and in the south and east of Lebanon.
03:16According to the official Lebanese NNA agency, Israel continued its offensive in Lebanon on Thursday night,
03:23with 17 raids on Beirut and its southern border.
03:26For the second time, a strike hit the very heart of the capital,
03:30reaching Hezbollah's civil protection center in the Bashoura neighborhood.
03:34Israel has intensified its military operations in this area since mid-September
03:38to weaken Hezbollah and allow the return of tens of thousands of inhabitants
03:43from the border regions with Lebanon.
03:48Infiltrate a border using classic and normal military schemes in wartime.
03:53Battles can never be decisive without ground operations.
03:56That said, in the case of the Lebanese,
03:58the resistance of Hezbollah on the battlefield at the border proved effective yesterday.
04:08At the same time, more than 75 rockets were fired by Hezbollah on Thursday morning
04:12towards the north of Israel, triggering sirens in the cities of Safed, Tiberias
04:17and many other locations in Galilee, forcing the inhabitants to take refuge in shelters.
04:22Many rockets were intercepted, according to the IDF,
04:25while others hit open areas.
04:35This war is hard. It is a justified war.
04:38And we are entering its second year.
04:40There will be other battles, other victories and other achievements for our nation.
04:44We will accomplish other achievements,
04:46like the ones we have won throughout the recent period.
04:53On the ground, several countries have organized evacuations of the refugees.
04:57A French navy building has been dispatched from the southeast of France
05:01to pre-position itself off the coast of Lebanon
05:03in case of evacuation of French refugees.
05:06Berlin has sent a military plane to Beirut
05:08in order to evacuate employees of the German embassy in Lebanon and their families.
05:12The United Kingdom has announced that it has intercepted a commercial flight.
05:17The Portuguese have already repatriated 28 national citizens and their families,
05:21a total of 44 people, via Cyprus, on Saturday night.
05:25Canada has also announced that it has booked 800 seats
05:28on commercial flights to help its refugees leave Lebanon.
05:32The Canadian army has set up emergency resources in Cyprus
05:35in case commercial flights were interrupted.
05:38The United Kingdom has also announced that it has pre-positioned
05:41The Canadian army has set up emergency resources in Cyprus
05:44in case commercial flights were interrupted.
05:47In national news, the government closely monitors the situation
05:51of the Moroccan community in Lebanon
05:54in a context of military escalation in this country.
05:57For Moussa Fabaïtas, spokesman for the government,
06:00a crisis cell has been set up at the level of the Moroccan embassy in Beirut
06:05with the aim of maintaining direct contact with members of the Moroccan community
06:11to guide them and ensure their safety.
06:14Moreover, a number of Moroccan refugees and their families
06:18have already left Lebanon and no injuries have been reported among them.
06:26Let's now talk about the general assessment of the population and the habitat of 2024,
06:31in which the data collection operation with the households will be completed on September 30.
06:37It will allow Morocco to have an exhaustive and detailed database,
06:42geographically, socially and economically.
06:46Yesterday, the High Commissioner for the Plan, Ahmed Larlimi Alhami,
06:52at a press conference, Mr. Larlimi also indicated
06:55that the High Commissioner for the Plan will take action
06:58over the next ten years on this database
07:02to develop the main statistical indicators
07:06relating to poverty, prices, social disparities, economic and social conditions.
07:17This Friday, the French-speaking summit will open in Paris.
07:21The Moroccan Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication
07:26also took part yesterday in the French capital
07:29at the preparatory ministerial meeting of this meeting.
07:32At the heart of the discussions presided by the General Secretary of the IEF,
07:37the declaration of the summit,
07:39that of the resolution on crisis situations,
07:42but also the mechanism of follow-up and evacuation.
07:46During his speech, Mohamed Merdi Ben Saïd reiterated the support of Morocco
07:51and his commitment to the challenge of climate and biodiversity financing.
07:55He also reiterated the position of the Kingdom,
07:58which believes that the cessation of hostilities must be carried out
08:02in parallel with the opening of a political horizon
08:05likely to establish a just and sustainable peace in the region.
08:12Let us now look at the US presidential election,
08:15with the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris,
08:18who appeared, I said, with the Republican, also Liz Cheney,
08:23who called on the Americans to choose the side of truth rather than Donald Trump.
08:29In the key state of Wisconsin,
08:31the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney
08:34played the luxury spokeswoman for Kamala Harris in Ripon,
08:40where the Republican Party was imagined in 1854.
08:44On the 33rd day of the November scrutiny,
08:47the Vice President and Democratic candidate
08:50hoped that this kind of support, taken from the conservative camp,
08:54could influence the few remaining undecided.
08:57At a meeting yesterday in Michigan,
08:59another key state, manufacturer of the rust belt,
09:04Donald Trump boasted about his heavy-tax projects on imports,
09:09supposed to protect American industries,
09:12and continued his violent attacks on immigration.
09:16Between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump,
09:19the confrontation transcends the electoral competition
09:23to become an identity battle
09:26between a Democratic Party in favor of the establishment of broad freedoms
09:30in the field of reproductive rights,
09:33including the right to abortion,
09:36and a conservative Republican Party
09:38that calls for the tightening of laws in this area.
09:43As Democrats call for the strengthening of individual freedoms
09:47in the field of reproductive health,
09:49Republicans emphasize the need to preserve conservative family values
09:54by mobilizing voters against the wakism movement
09:58carried by the Democratic camp.
10:00According to American media,
10:03the fierce debates on reproductive rights
10:07have accelerated the elections in favor of Democrats
10:11since the cancellation of the Rose-Wade arrest,
10:14which Harris's campaign did not fail to exploit.
10:21Presidential elections in Tunisia.
10:23Voters will be called on Sunday
10:25to slide their ballots into the ballot box
10:28to elect their new president.
10:30Three candidates, including the outgoing president,
10:34will face Zohair Maghzaoui,
10:37a defender of Pan-Arabism,
10:39a supporter of a real electoral base.
10:42And Dayachi Zamal,
10:44imprisoned on the day of the confirmation of his candidacy
10:47for falsification of sponsorship,
10:50has recently been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
10:57Let's stay in Tunisia,
10:59where many NGOs denounce
11:02a tailored scrutiny for Haïssa Saïd.
11:05Left-wing parties have called on the ballot box
11:09to be opened from October 6.
11:13Some political analysts believe
11:16that the boycott will only benefit the outgoing president.
11:19This is the subject of the Tunisian news.
11:24Five Tunisian parties have announced their boycott
11:27of the presidential elections,
11:29scheduled for Sunday.
11:31Progressive democratic parties have called on Tunisians
11:34not to participate in the elections
11:37and to boycott the vote,
11:39considering that the results of this scrutiny
11:42seem to be in advance.
11:48We are facing a second coup d'état
11:51aimed at establishing a tyrannical regime.
11:54We have gone from a liberal political system
11:57to a new regime based on tyranny.
12:00We are calling on Tunisians to boycott.
12:03On the other hand,
12:05the Free Syrian Democratic Party
12:07has also called on the boycott,
12:09considering that these elections
12:11are devoid of transparency,
12:13integrity and lack of legitimacy.
12:17Our party will remain faithful to its principles,
12:20to its convictions,
12:22in the fight against political corruption
12:24and absolute and individual power.
12:27We will not participate in the 6th of October elections,
12:30neither close nor far.
12:37I think that the boycott calls
12:39show the weakness and incapacity of the opposition.
12:42The boycott is not a political position
12:44and will not affect the real events.
12:46President Kays Saïd will benefit from this boycott.
12:51In Tunisia, the presidential election on the 16th of October
12:54is held in a tense climate,
12:56marked by the arrest of opponents
12:58and the exclusion of many candidates.
13:00It should be noted that
13:02only two days before the elections,
13:04the Tunisian justice condemned
13:06Raïchi Zamel,
13:08one of the two candidates
13:10to appear before the outgoing president,
13:12to 12 years in prison.
13:14He has been incarcerated
13:16for more than a month.
13:19Still on these Tunisian elections,
13:21I propose to listen to the point of view
13:23of Sirhem Badi,
13:25former Tunisian minister,
13:27political activist.
13:29We are still in the autocratic,
13:31authoritarian drift,
13:33in all its splendor.
13:35We have only one candidate,
13:37really,
13:39we have only one candidate,
13:41which is Kays Saïd,
13:43because there is one who is condemned
13:45and who cannot campaign behind the bars.
13:47And there is another candidate
13:49who is also condemned
13:51to be faithful to his master,
13:53to be faithful to Kays Saïd.
13:55So it's just to make a good impression
13:57that he is there.
13:59So we have only one candidate
14:01who is leading the campaign alone,
14:03of course,
14:05using everything he has
14:07in his position,
14:09everything that belongs to the state,
14:11he puts it in his position
14:13to lead alone,
14:15and I say alone, his campaign.
14:17Of course,
14:19these elections
14:21start from beginning to end.
14:23First,
14:25exclude all other candidates,
14:27put the only candidate
14:29who has been validated in prison.
14:31So we can't talk
14:33today
14:35about presidential elections
14:37that are transparent
14:39and that take place
14:41in normal conditions.
14:43How many times
14:45there has been a disrespect of the law,
14:47whether it is
14:49of the House of Representatives
14:51or of the President.
14:53Even if we change
14:55the rules of the game
14:57a week before
14:59the scrutiny,
15:01before even going to the polls,
15:03which is completely illegal,
15:05we can't change the rules of the game
15:07during the game.
15:09So there, he still changed
15:11the laws, and even the laws
15:13that were voted by his assembly,
15:15they were still
15:17corrected and rectified
15:19even after the decision
15:21of the Assembly.
15:23It's time to invite him
15:25to the big news.
15:27And as the legislative elections
15:29anticipated on November 19
15:31in Senegal are approaching,
15:33political negotiations
15:35are accelerating for the formation
15:37of alliances.
15:39So the challenge
15:41is to win the votes
15:43and also to fail
15:45the new power in place.
15:47To talk about it, we meet
15:49live from Dakar, dear Salihou Ndiaye,
15:51political science specialist.
15:53Hello to you.
15:59Mr. Ndiaye,
16:01President Basseurou Ndiaye
16:03last March announced
16:05on September 12
16:07the dissolution of the National Assembly
16:09and fixed the legislative elections
16:11for Sunday, November 17.
16:13How are the political
16:15negotiations in progress
16:17for the formation of alliances?
16:19Indeed,
16:21since the announcement of the elections
16:23with the dissolution of the National Assembly,
16:25we have seen that there have been political negotiations
16:27within the opposition as well as within the government
16:29to really bring a new
16:31political cartography to Senegal.
16:33Now, President Basseurou Ndiaye
16:35really, with his alliance
16:37the PASSEF, which will be
16:39led by Prime Minister Ousmane Soko,
16:41will go to the legislative elections
16:43under the banner of the PASSEF party.
16:45Now, as you know,
16:47this party brings together
16:49a lot of coalitions, a lot of big personalities
16:51who are going to face
16:53practically the opposition,
16:55the actual opposition, which had a majority
16:57within this National Assembly.
16:59And this majority really, which practically
17:01prevented, according to the words of the President of the Republic,
17:03which prevented him from working, which blocked
17:05certain proposals and bills.
17:07So we have now seen
17:09the President convening
17:11early elections, and the National Council
17:13has quite simply
17:15validated these elections by excluding
17:17the sponsorship, because we know that
17:19these are early elections, so you have to go without
17:21sponsorship. This has created
17:23a lot of coalitions. We are talking about
17:25hyperbolic coalitions, we are talking about
17:27hybrid coalitions, because we have seen
17:29the former President, who is invested
17:31at the head of the list of the opposition,
17:33a large coalition with the Democratic Party
17:35of Senegal.
17:37Precisely, in this same dynamic,
17:39because we are going to come to it, of course,
17:41the Parliament, today, with
17:43this President Basir Yom Hafez, who found himself
17:45today in a Parliament
17:47still dominated by the former majority,
17:49he was able to dissolve it
17:51rather than, in September,
17:53wait for the anticipated legislative elections.
17:55Can we expect a crushing victory
17:57of the Pastif Party?
17:59Indeed.
18:01We can expect a crushing victory,
18:03or we can simply expect a majority
18:05of this party, because until now,
18:07the President Basir Yom Hafez
18:09and his Prime Minister have benefited
18:11practically from a sympathy, but also from a popularity
18:13within the masses,
18:15within the Senegalese youth.
18:17This party has been able to convince
18:19practically the Senegalese with its program and its project.
18:21You have seen during the presidential elections,
18:23for the first time,
18:25the opposition has accepted the first round of power.
18:27This is significant,
18:29because Senegal has gone through a serious
18:31political crisis that is felt today,
18:33from 2021 to 2024,
18:35it was a deep crisis that almost
18:37destabilized the country.
18:39But the Senegalese have behaved
18:41as mature populations.
18:43The Senegalese went directly to the polls,
18:45to the polls, and voted for the new regime.
18:47Now, as this new regime
18:49has been established, President Yom Hafez
18:51simply asks to have his hand
18:53placed on the National Assembly,
18:55to be able to pass these bills,
18:57so that Senegal can change,
18:59can take a new economic direction,
19:01with the exit of the Prime Minister,
19:03with the errors that he blames
19:05the old regime.
19:07The old regime today has in its head
19:09Macky Sall, who leads this coalition.
19:11We even saw within this coalition,
19:13led by Macky Sall,
19:15to have criticisms.
19:17You just noted,
19:19concerning the opposition coalition
19:21in Senegal,
19:23you just noted,
19:25concerning the opposition coalition
19:27in Senegal,
19:29the former president Macky Sall,
19:31the head of the list,
19:33quite legislative, anticipated.
19:35Is there a return to political affairs
19:37for the latter?
19:39We can talk about a return to political affairs,
19:41but we can also say that
19:43this coalition
19:45will have its reason to be,
19:47because within this same coalition
19:49there has been friction,
19:51because Amadou Barr came out of this coalition
19:53to launch his coalition,
19:55simply blaming the former PDS,
19:57who had accused him of being corrupted,
19:59of having corrupted judges
20:01from the top magistrates.
20:03So there is friction within this coalition.
20:05Now, whether this new
20:07Senegalese political cartography
20:09will settle in front of
20:11the national political scene,
20:13because there is a page that has turned
20:15during the presidential elections.
20:17Now we have to wait.
20:19Will this be confirmed during these legislative elections?
20:21Will the Senegalese people have a certain maturity
20:23at the level of these elections,
20:25either on the side of power,
20:27or on the side of the opposition?
20:29It is now up to the former president
20:31to take responsibility for
20:33what is currently happening in the country,
20:35because many of these men
20:37are practically point of the finger
20:39in relation to reports
20:41due to the management of affairs
20:43in relation to the directions of the ministries.
20:45Is he back in front of the political scene
20:47to defend himself?
20:49Is he back in front of the political scene
20:51to have a certain majority that will allow him
20:53to have a say in the current regime,
20:55knowing that the current regime
20:57benefits from popular sympathy
20:59at the level of the masses,
21:01because Senegal, as I said earlier,
21:03is going through political situations.
21:05But what we are currently seeing
21:07is a new generational alternation
21:09that is taking place.
21:11These are young people who claim power.
21:13These are young ministers who are appointed.
21:15At the level of the directions,
21:17it is the same thing.
21:19Now it is up to him to see
21:21whether we are going to support
21:23the masses of young people
21:25belonging to this party,
21:27this coalition led by the past party,
21:29or we are going to support
21:31the other assemblies
21:33that Senegal has benefited from for years.
21:35These are the assemblies
21:37that have practically caused a lot of problems
21:39in this country.
21:41When we talk about the old power,
21:43we talk about Macky Sall,
21:45but also about this new government
21:47embodied by the president,
21:49will Senegal go to the forefront
21:51of a new confrontation
21:53between the two main actors
21:55of an iron fist of several years,
21:57between Macky Sall
21:59and Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko?
22:01You know, the confrontation is there
22:03because Macky Sall
22:05was the president of the Republic
22:07and he had a strong opponent
22:09named Ousmane Sonko.
22:11Ousmane Sonko was practically
22:13at the forefront of the political scene
22:15when he was in the opposition.
22:17He had the intelligence
22:19to be at the forefront
22:21of the scene
22:23with his right-hand man
22:25Bassir Oujama El Fahy
22:27who finally won the elections.
22:29Now there is another battle
22:31that will unfold
22:33between the former president of the Republic
22:35and the current Prime Minister
22:37who benefits from all the powers
22:39at the level of this executive.
22:41Will this confrontation
22:43be a healthy confrontation
22:45or will it only confirm
22:47what happened during the presidential elections?
22:49Because we also know
22:51that Ousmane Sonko
22:53really surpasses
22:55the Senegalese political class
22:57especially because he has more positions
22:59in relation to internal problems,
23:01in relation to socio-economic problems.
23:03Now as Prime Minister,
23:05he has presented a project,
23:07a program that he intends to implement
23:09in the next 5 years to allow Senegal
23:11to be part of these emerging countries
23:13that will take responsibility
23:15in relation to their sovereignty.
23:17Now this duel
23:19may be really grandiose
23:21in front of the Senegalese population
23:23because the Senegalese are mature
23:25on the electoral level.
23:27The Senegalese have been voting since the 18th century.
23:29Speaking of these Senegalese,
23:31today many in the national opinion
23:33also deplore
23:35coalitions against nature
23:37between former allies of the former regime
23:39and former supporters of the ruling party.
23:41What analysis do you make?
23:43Indeed,
23:45as I told you earlier,
23:47we witnessed the emergence
23:49during these legislative elections
23:51of hybrid coalitions.
23:53Because there are
23:55men who fought
23:57against this system.
23:59Now, after the collapse of this system,
24:01we have seen political tenors
24:03ally with the
24:05owners of this system.
24:07This is what is currently causing problems,
24:09this debate at the level of the Senegalese political society.
24:11So why did those who fought
24:13against nature yesterday
24:15want to ally with it today?
24:17We are talking about the Senegalese Democratic Party
24:19and other parties.
24:21So now it belongs, as I said earlier,
24:23to the Senegalese political class
24:25to show its maturity.
24:27And this political class has always shown,
24:29I want to talk about it twice,
24:31because the Senegalese,
24:33during these past presidential elections,
24:35have confirmed this change they were waiting for,
24:37because Senegal has always
24:39gone through difficult elections,
24:41but the people have always
24:43been on the right side.
24:45And we also expect the Senegalese people
24:47to be able to choose
24:49in the most beautiful way.
24:51A choice that will be made on November 17th.
24:53Dear Sadi Bouniaï, thank you again.
24:55I remind you that you are also a political analyst
24:57specialist and you have intervened
24:59from Dakar on the election
25:01in Senegal, scheduled for November 17th.
25:03Thank you again.
25:07And this concludes this edition.
25:11The news will be back on Mediatheque d'Afrique.