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00:16You are watching Mediun TV Africa, thank you for joining us for this round of news, here are the headlines.
00:21The launch of the African Academy of Health Sciences,
00:25several Moroccan and African health experts took part in this event,
00:29which aims to highlight the complex challenges of health systems in Africa.
00:33Details in a few moments.
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00:38The Israeli army continues its offensive in the Middle East.
00:41More than 50 people were killed on Saturday in strikes in Lebanon.
00:45Israel claims that its country would continue to act with determination against Hezbollah.
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00:53This is the summit of the COP29, a chaotic event.
00:56Developed countries have committed to pay 300 billion dollars a year,
01:00with a financial commitment qualified as an insult by the South.
01:06See you in a moment for the development.
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01:13Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
01:14Faced with the complex challenges of health systems in Africa,
01:18the African Academy of Health Sciences positions itself as a key player
01:23in the scientific and medical development on the continent.
01:26This is how it was born in Dakhla, Morocco,
01:29thanks to the MoMEDESIS Foundation of Sciences and Health
01:33to meet the critical needs in the management of chronic diseases,
01:37health emergencies and epidemics.
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01:45President of Dakhla, Jean-François Meillet,
01:47Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology,
01:50Honorary Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Libreville
01:53and Director-General of the CHU, Mayor-Child of Libreville, Gabon.
01:57He comes back, moreover, on the importance of this sovereignty of health
02:02on a continental scale.
02:04I propose to listen to him.
02:07I would like to thank you first.
02:09I would like to thank the MoMEDESIS Foundation
02:12who invited us and all the organizers.
02:14I would like to tell you that the sovereignty we are talking about,
02:18you know that when we talk about health, it is our first wealth.
02:22As human beings, health is our first wealth,
02:25and access to health care is our first freedom.
02:30We have all noticed during COVID
02:33that most Western countries have abandoned us.
02:37We found ourselves facing ourselves,
02:39to be able to face this disease.
02:41And so we had no sovereignty to take care of this disease.
02:45Neither did advanced countries like Morocco.
02:47I would like to congratulate the Kingdom of Morocco
02:49who took the initiative to help a number of countries
02:52from the beginning of this disease.
02:54Because most African countries were in a difficult situation
02:59and could not cope with this disease.
03:01So if we have health sovereignty,
03:03we will not need external help
03:05and we can make sure that things work very well.
03:09The necessity of this academy, the importance of this academy,
03:13will try to federate a group of researchers
03:17so that we think in the same way,
03:20so that our health policies are impacted
03:22and have the same vision,
03:24so that we can federate our energies,
03:26so that we can have the same objectives,
03:28so that we can find the means,
03:30so that we can define the necessary strategies
03:33to be able to face these health problems.
03:38And you know that in today's Africa,
03:41where the major problems are essentially infectious pathologies,
03:47are essentially emerging pathologies,
03:50such as diabetes and hypertension,
03:53of course, cancer problems as well.
03:55If we work together,
03:57maybe we can move forward for great sovereignty
04:00and to make Africa move forward in terms of health.
04:03In the conflict in the Middle East,
04:05more than 50 people were killed on Saturday
04:07in Israeli strikes in Lebanon,
04:09especially in Beirut,
04:11according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
04:13These bombings destroyed a building
04:15in the Basta district,
04:17in the heart of the capital,
04:19causing a huge crater.
04:21The Israeli Minister of Defense,
04:23Yisrael Katza,
04:24said that his country would continue
04:26to act with determination against Hezbollah.
04:29Details with Oswald Jalila.
04:35Multiple strikes in the heart of Beirut.
04:37Multiple salvos hit the Lebanese capital on Saturday,
04:40when a series at dawn completely destroyed
04:42a residential building
04:44in the heart of the Lebanese capital
04:46with five missiles in the Basta district.
04:49The strike damaged several buildings nearby
04:51and several ambulances
04:53hit the site of the targeted building,
04:55which turned into a pile of rubble
04:57in this densely populated popular neighborhood.
05:06We shout loudly
05:08that the false Israeli allegations
05:10according to which a military personality
05:12or a figure of the resistance
05:14would have been targeted in this building.
05:16What is true, however,
05:18is that at 4 a.m. people were sleeping,
05:20children, women, all civilians,
05:22and that they had been ripped apart by salvos.
05:28On the move to Nicosia,
05:30Josep Borrell,
05:32the High Representative of the European Union
05:34for Foreign Affairs and Vice President
05:36of the European Commission,
05:38said at the conference of the Coalition for Two States
05:40that, according to Borrell,
05:42some people benefit from the conflict
05:44and need it,
05:46which is why he continues to promote it.
05:48The Secretary General of the United Nations
05:50is not an anti-Semitic.
05:52The Prime Minister of Spain is not an anti-Semitic.
05:54I am not an anti-Semitic.
05:57The Secretary General of the United Nations
05:59is not an anti-Semitic.
06:01The agencies working for the Palestinian people
06:03are not anti-Semitic.
06:05You should not use this word as a banal word.
06:07You cannot say that every time
06:09someone disagrees with the policy
06:11of an Israeli government,
06:13he is accused of anti-Semitism.
06:15I am in my right to criticize
06:17the political decisions of the Israeli government,
06:19whether it is Netanyahu or someone else,
06:21without being accused of anti-Semitism.
06:23This is not acceptable.
06:25This is enough.
06:33In addition,
06:35US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
06:37reiterated the commitment of the United States
06:39in favor of a diplomatic solution in Lebanon
06:41during an exchange with his Israeli counterpart
06:43Israel Kadz.
06:45Israel still claims to want to put out of state
06:47of harm Hezbollah and Hamas.
06:49First political and military support
06:51of Israel,
06:53which claims to want to end
06:55these conflicts by diplomatic means.
06:57Washington never ceases to repeat
06:59his desire to see an improvement
07:01of the disastrous humanitarian situation
07:03in Gaza, where the 2.4 million
07:05inhabitants besieged by Israel
07:07for more than a year are threatened
07:09by famine, according to the UN.
07:13Day after day,
07:15after the only truce in the Gaza Strip,
07:17negotiations are still at a dead end
07:19due to the absence of mediators.
07:21Qatar, which played this role,
07:23temporarily took its distance
07:25in this conflict between Israel
07:27and Hamas.
07:29For now, it is the flood of fire
07:31in the Palestinian enclave,
07:33where at least 120 people have been killed
07:35in the last 48 hours,
07:37more than 44,000 since the beginning
07:39of the war.
07:41The humanitarian situation remains
07:43the most catastrophic.
07:45The European Union
07:47called back on Saturday
07:49to consult its ambassador
07:51in Niger.
07:53After a questioning,
07:55according to the EU,
07:57the modalities of its humanitarian aid
07:59in these West African countries
08:01were indicated by a spokesperson
08:03of the European Diplomatic Service.
08:05In a statement issued on Friday,
08:07the Nigerian transition authorities
08:09denounced the offer by the EU
08:11of humanitarian aid of 1.3 million euros
08:13if it had not been informed in advance.
08:19At the end of a chaotic summit
08:21in Baku,
08:23developed countries committed
08:25to pay 300 billion dollars
08:27per year
08:29by 2035
08:31for the countries threatened
08:33by climate change.
08:35An agreement through the throat
08:37of the southern states,
08:39the head of the negotiators
08:41said it was too weak
08:43and too late.
08:45The Nigerian Nkuruka Madwekwe,
08:47chairman of the National Council
08:49on Climate Change,
08:51qualifies this agreement
08:53as an insult and a joke.
08:55His Malawi counterpart
08:57qualifies the sum as derisory.
09:01The reactions did not take long
09:03after this agreement at COP29
09:05for the head of the climate union.
09:07It is not the time to make
09:09a statement of honor.
09:11US President Joe Biden
09:13said it was not important
09:15in the fight against climate change
09:17for France.
09:19The text is disappointing
09:21and not up to the challenges.
09:23Baku was a painful experience,
09:25said Marina Silva,
09:27Minister of the Environment of Brazil,
09:29who will host the next COP in a year.
09:31EU Secretary-General
09:33Antonio Guterres
09:35said in an article on X
09:37to hope for a more ambitious result.
09:41This concludes this news.
09:45See you next time.