MEDI1TV Afrique : LE GRAND JOURNAL MIDI - 21/12/2024
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00:00Hello and welcome to this newspaper. Here are the headlines.
00:20His Majesty the King Mohammed VI received in Casablanca the Mauritanian President Mohammed Oudelsheikh el Rezouani.
00:31In the United States, the Christmas shutdown will not be better. The country avoided a budgetary paralysis on Saturday.
00:42And in Mali, Bamako is home for the first time since 2016, the quarterly session of the Council of Ministers of the Economic and Monetary Union West African.
00:53And we start this news with the visit of the Mauritanian President to Morocco, Mohammed Oudelsheikh el Rezouani, who was received yesterday in Casablanca by His Majesty the King Mohammed VI.
01:07This meeting is part of the solid relations of trust and cooperation between the two countries and the two brotherly peoples.
01:15And on this occasion, the two heads of state congratulated each other on the positive evolution of the Moroccan-Mauritanian partnership in all areas.
01:24They also affirmed their determination to develop strategic projects, particularly the Atlantic African Gas Duke and the initiative aimed at promoting the access of the states of the Sahel to the Atlantic Ocean.
01:40And we stay in Morocco always since Tangier welcomes the second national sessions of the advanced regionalization.
01:50And on this occasion, His Majesty the King Mohammed VI, who gives a very special importance to this project, addressed a royal message to the participants.
01:59And in this message, the sovereign called for the development of a clear and consensual roadmap that defines the strategic orientations for the next step of this reform.
02:10The sovereign also raised this major challenge, however, on the effective application of the National Charter of Administrative Deconcentration,
02:20the audit and operationalization of the attributions of territorial collectivities, in particular regional councils,
02:28and the strengthening of participatory democracy at the regional and local level in accordance with the provisions of the constitution of the kingdom.
02:40How to accelerate the pace on the path of regionalization, better manage the issue of water and household waste while improving public transport?
02:56And to answer these questions, four framework conventions have been signed during these sessions in Tangier.
03:03You will find more details in this report by Sheyma Fikri with the story of Alaa Ben Ali.
03:14Focused on the theme of advanced regionalization between today's and tomorrow's challenges, the second national sessions of regionalization have started this Friday in Tangier
03:23with the signing of four framework conventions signed by members of the government and presidents of the 12 regions of the kingdom.
03:30The president of the Association of Regions of Morocco insisted on the imperative of the moment to accelerate the operationalization of regionalization
03:38to succeed in meeting the challenge of territorial development.
03:50The first framework convention focuses on the acceleration of the operationalization of regionalization
03:56in order to put in place a common methodology to achieve this.
04:00We are talking here about the definition of specializations, decentralization and financing.
04:06The second convention focuses on water management.
04:09Know that regions have already injected 10 billion dirhams to face this issue.
04:15Mbarka Bouaida also emphasized that this meeting represents an important strategic workshop
04:21that deals with the implementation of public policies on the ground in the territorial domain and aims to achieve territorial justice.
04:30The third convention focuses on the management of household waste.
04:3427 billion have been allocated to this issue, of which 10% will be paid to the regions.
04:40Finally, the fourth convention focuses on public transport and mobility extension
04:46to achieve integrated regional development.
04:49It has been authorized by the Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
04:54a financial envelope of 11 billion dirhams from the regions and a third, i.e. 3.4 billion dirhams.
05:10This second edition of the National Regionalization Assemblies
05:14constitutes an opportunity to carry out a collective and participatory assessment
05:21of the state of progress of the implementation of the multiple components of this project.
05:28The National Regionalization Assemblies have known the participation of several government officials,
05:35regional presidents, elected representatives of the municipal councils and experts,
05:39as well as Moroccan and foreign political and economic actors,
05:42with, according to the organizers, more than 1,500 participants,
05:47160 international guests and more than 45,000 participants from afar.
05:54And we open the international page.
05:56A missile from the Yemeni rebels, Houthi, exploded in Tel Aviv after the failure of its interception
06:02by the Iron Dome, the Israeli air defense system.
06:06Assessment, 16 injured and victims of glass shatters.
06:09They were transported to two hospitals in the region.
06:12This strike took place two days after Israeli bombings against ports and energy infrastructures
06:18of the Houthis in Yemen, more than 1,500 kilometers south of Israel,
06:23which killed nine, according to the rebels.
06:31And in Syria, the new authorities in Damascus, which overthrew Bashar al-Assad after more than 13 years of conflict,
06:37say they want to contribute to regional peace and build strategic partnerships with the countries of the region.
06:43A will is displayed at the end of the first official meeting between Ahmad al-Sharq,
06:50a new leader of Syria, and an American diplomatic delegation.
06:54Just after this meeting, Washington announced that it had abandoned the offer of reward
06:59for the arrest of the new Syrian leader, who is no longer considered a terrorist by the United States.
07:08And in the United States, the Christmas shutdown will not take place.
07:12The country has precisely avoided a budgetary paralysis,
07:16which would have sent hundreds of thousands of officials home for the holidays.
07:21But finally, a tumultuous sequence of several days involving Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
07:26The American Congress has widely adopted a law that ensures the financing of the federal state until mid-March.
07:33The text includes more than $100 billion in aid for recently devastated American regions due to natural disasters.
07:44And in Denmark, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was killed this Saturday in Metzburg,
07:51in a car attack on his Christmas market.
07:55Four dead and 41 seriously injured.
07:59An attack whose motivations remain troubled despite the arrest of the alleged author.
08:06In 2016, Germany had been the target of another bloody attack on a Christmas market
08:12that had killed 12 people in the heart of Berlin.
08:19And in Bamako, the Malian capital, for the first time since 2016,
08:24the quarterly session of the Council of Ministers of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa is taking place.
08:29This session, which brought together the delegations of the eight member countries of the Union,
08:34embarked on the Economic Health of the Union and adopted several major texts.
08:40Report from Bamako from our correspondent on the spot, Mohamed Danyoukou.
08:45Presided by Adama Koulibaly, Minister of Finance and Budget of the Ivory Coast,
08:50this fourth session of the Council of Ministers of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa
08:54was held in a context of consolidation of global economic activity and the decline of inflation,
09:01which had a positive impact on the GDP of the Union.
09:06The latest estimates of the Union's quarterly GDP
09:11state an acceleration of the progression of economic activity in the third quarter of 2024,
09:16with a 6% annual growth after an increase of 5.3% in the second quarter.
09:26A GDP in good health, a rather stable public finance management after nine months,
09:31the prospects for 2025 are looking good.
09:36According to the latest forecast of the ECB, the growth rate of the GDP of the Union in real terms
09:42will reach 6% in 2024 and 6.3% in 2025.
09:49This acceleration will be driven in particular by the poor quality of extractive and manufacturing production
09:56as well as commercial and financial activities.
10:00Bamako's session allowed, among other things,
10:03the adoption of the report on the economic and monetary situation of the Union
10:08on 30 September 2024 and the macroeconomic framework of the Union for the years 2024 to 2029.
10:16The adoption of the report on the updated financial prospects for 2025-2029 of the ECB
10:23will allow our Development Bank to preserve its financial balance
10:29on the basis of the objectives of activity and the conditions of the proposed intervention.
10:34The regulatory project on foreign financial relations of the EU Member States
10:40was also adopted during this fourth and final session of the year 2024.
10:48And a word of golf and the return of Tiger Woods to the competition this weekend in the Doldrums.
10:54In September, Tiger Woods made his return at the PNC Championship alongside his son Charlie.
11:00The tournament is held in Orlando, Florida, in the United States on 21 and 22 December
11:05and brings together 20 duos made up of a major tournament winner
11:10accompanied by a member of his family, Tiger Woods, who will celebrate his 49th birthday on 30 December.
11:15He will participate with his 15-year-old son Charlie for the fifth time.
11:20They finished second in 2021 and fifth last year.
11:31And this is the end of this news report.
11:34We will be back in a few minutes.