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00:00Welcome everyone, I am delighted to see you again for a new edition of the major newspaper
00:20Média Mornay.
00:21Here are the headlines.
00:22In Morocco, the government plans to make a first presentation on the reform of pensions
00:30in January.
00:31This was announced on Monday by the House of Representatives, the Minister of the Economy
00:36and Finance.
00:37Yesterday, the Israeli army said it had intercepted a missile before it entered its territory.
00:46In Ethiopia, more than 70 people were killed in the south of the country after a vehicle
01:07of the Israeli army.
01:08In Bulgaria, more than 1,000 people were killed in a car accident.
01:09In Morocco, the government plans to make a first presentation on the reform of pensions
01:10in January.
01:11This was announced on Monday by the House of Representatives, the Minister of the Economy
01:12and Finance.
01:13In Morocco, the government plans to make a first presentation on the reform of pensions
01:24in January.
01:25This was announced on Monday by the House of Representatives, the Minister of the Economy
01:31and Finance.
01:32Nadia Ftah answered a question on the reform of pensions during a session of oral questions.
01:38Nadia Ftah stressed that this reform is based on the agreed principles in the framework
01:43of social dialogue, including the creation of two public and private poles, the definition
01:47of the mechanisms of transition towards a new system while preserving rights and
01:52gains, as well as the improvement of governance.
01:55In this framework, the Minister noted that social dialogue has enabled an increase in
02:02wages, which has enabled us to gain two to three years.
02:07She also reiterated the government's commitment to address this issue, which she described
02:13as difficult, in collaboration with all parties concerned.
02:18In the Middle East, the Israeli army said yesterday that it had intercepted a missile
02:28fired from Yemen, where the rebel Houthis had recently launched several attacks on Israel.
02:35A missile fired from Yemen was intercepted by the air force before entering the Israeli
02:41territory.
02:42It was declared in a statement after alarm bells were sounded in the center of the country.
02:48Israel made several strikes on Yemen on Thursday, especially at the international airport of
02:54Sana'a.
02:55They claimed to have targeted Houthi military infrastructure.
02:58The army claimed to have responded to repeated attacks by Houthi rebels since the beginning
03:04of the war in Gaza.
03:06Houthis have launched numerous attacks against Israel, claiming to act in solidarity with
03:12the Palestinians.
03:15The health system in the north of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed.
03:20This is what the Red Cross International Committee is announcing.
03:24The WHO is asking Israel for the release of the director of the hospital, Kamal Adwan.
03:30Dr. Hossam Abu Zafi was captured after an Israeli raid this weekend.
03:35More details with Raja Engo.
03:45Kamal Adwan Hospital is now empty and out of service.
03:49Repeated bombings inside and around hospitals have destroyed the health system in the Gaza
03:54Strip.
03:55Israel launched a major raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital on Friday and Saturday.
04:00The medical personnel and patients were forced to take refuge at the Indonesian hospital
04:05in the south of the enclave.
04:07Kamal Adwan Hospital was attacked.
04:10People were transferred to the Indonesian hospital, but it is a non-functional hospital.
04:15Everywhere around us, the fighting continues.
04:18People here have no food, no water, no sanitation, nothing.
04:22There are still people in Jabalia, in the north.
04:25We must be able to join them.
04:29The World Health Organization asked Israel on Monday to release the director of the
04:35Kamal Adwan Hospital, arrested after the vast raid on the establishment.
04:39The director of the hospital, Dr. Othman Abu Safia, accused of being a Hamas militant,
04:44will be transferred to Israel for further investigation.
04:47In Gaza, the medical staff is still active and some patients, refugees at the Indonesian
04:52hospital, fear that another raid will strike the hospital in southern Gaza.
04:56We have listened to the patients here evacuated from the hospital to another, who have told
05:01us how serious it was, how difficult it was for them to leave Kamal Adwan Hospital and
05:06come to the Indonesian hospital, and they fear that this will happen again in Gaza City.
05:11To the south, we must rehabilitate hospitals and support the health system.
05:16Kamal Adwan Hospital previously benefited from the material support of the Red Cross.
05:21It was the last large hospital, still operational, in the north of the Palestinian territory,
05:26devastated by more than a year of war.
05:30In South Korea, a court issued a restraining order this Tuesday against the president-elect
05:36Yoon Soo-kyeol to force him to appear in front of investigators who want to question him
05:42on his failed attempt to impose martial law.
05:46The restraining order and the search warrant against President Yoon Soo-kyeol were issued
05:52this morning in a press release.
05:55In the joint investigation on him, no schedule has been established for the rest of the proceedings.
06:01It is the first time in the history of South Korea that an exercise president is targeted
06:07by a restraining order against Yoon Soo-kyeol, who is still officially in office, while the
06:12Constitutional Court is considering his dismissal, adopted on December 14 by the National Assembly.
06:20He is currently suspended from office.
06:23In order to confirm or confirm his dismissal by mid-June, Yoon had besieged the country
06:31on December 3, by surprise proclaiming martial law and sending the army to the parliament
06:35to mutilate him.
06:37He was forced to step back before dawn the next day under the pressure of deputies
06:43and thousands of protesters.
06:48In Syria, former rebels whose foreign fighters are appointed to command posts in the future
06:56armed by the new leader Ahmad al-Sharif.
07:00In the context of the reconstruction of the country, the Syrians will have to wait four years
07:05to elect their new president.
07:10The new Syrian leader, Ahmad al-Sharif, has appointed former rebels to command posts
07:16within the future army of the country, including former foreign fighters of HTS.
07:22The decree was published late Sunday evening on the Telegram account of Commander-in-Chief
07:27Ahmad al-Sharif lists 49 names, including those of Syrian rebels and former officers
07:32of the army who deserted at the first hour and rallied the rebellion.
07:36The seven highest-ranked seem to all be from the ranks of HTS, the Syrian Observatory
07:42of Human Rights has identified at least six foreign jihadists on the list, including
07:47an Albanian, a Jordanian, a Tajik, a Uighur, but also a Turk from HTS.
07:53Questioned on Sunday evening by Saudi television Al Arabiya about the nominations going only
07:58to his camp within the transition government, Ahmad al-Sharif admitted that it was true.
08:03When we have a temporary government in the long term, we will be able to have a larger
08:07participation, he said.
08:10The organization of the new elections could take four years, according to Ahmad al-Sharif.
08:15He added that the rewriting of the constitution could take three years.
08:19The new Syrian leader has also stated that he is ready to discuss with the Syrian Democratic
08:24Forces dominated by the Kurds for their integration into the future Syrian army.
08:29And in order to guarantee security and stability, the security forces have launched an operation
08:34to pursue the pro-Assad militias throughout the country.
08:37This operation would have allowed the neutralization of several armed groups loyal to the former
08:41president.
08:42While the new Syrian authorities are working on security, in the north of the country,
08:46fights continue.
08:47The fights between the groups supported by Turkey and the Syrian Democratic Forces dominated
08:52by the Kurds, supported by the United States, continue, killing several people in both camps.
09:00In the rest of the news in Ethiopia, more than 70 people have died in the south of the country
09:06after 15 vehicles, probably overloaded, crashed into a river.
09:10A statement made by a local official on Monday, deploring a horrible accident.
09:16Road accidents are frequent in Ethiopia, where the roads are often poorly maintained.
09:21The worst is the most deadly in the second most populated country in Africa since at least
09:27the year 2000.
09:29The vehicle crashed Sunday around 5.30 p.m.
09:34in the Jelana River, in the region of Sidama, located about 300 km south of the capital,
09:42Addis Ababa.
09:43Of the 76 passengers, 71 have died so far, according to a report on Sunday night by
09:49the regional police, which specifies that among the victims are 68 men and three women.
10:04We are now heading to Senegal, where the promoters of beauty shops are rivaling
10:10strategies to seduce their customers in this end-of-year period.
10:15A way for them to increase their turnover by attracting more customers for the holidays
10:20of the new year.
10:21Look, it's a report signed by Ayshatta Diakite and Sheherndaou.
10:26A few hours before the end-of-year party, the Achillem market in the Senegalese capital
10:32is full to the brim.
10:33In some shops, digital screens broadcast makeup tutorials, an effective strategy
10:39to attract customers.
10:55To be beautiful, these women are ready for anything.
10:58In this shop, they have the choice between aesthetic or natural wigs,
11:02whose prices range between 15,000 and 300,000 francs SIFA, or about 23 to 400 euros.
11:08Welcome also plays an important role in convincing these customers.
11:14The welcome here is really captivating.
11:16I came here for the first time, but it is thanks to the welcome that I came back twenty times.
11:20So I came to get my wig styled and even tomorrow to be all beautiful with them.
11:262024 was a year marked by many challenges.
11:30But some entrepreneurs were still able to be rejuvenated thanks to the grocery shoppers.
11:35It was complicated, but mashallah, it went well anyway.
11:40There are a lot of people who come and there are also fewer people who don't come.
11:44It depends.
11:45To follow trends and boost their sales,
11:48the makeup and wig shop put active communication on social media.
11:56But right now, it's time for the guest of the major media newspaper, Morning 2024.
12:03The year 2024 draws its reverence in Africa.
12:07The year 2024 was marked by presidential elections,
12:12tensions between the CDO and the Alliance of States of the Sahel,
12:16the reaffirmation of the sovereignty of certain African countries
12:19through the withdrawal of French military bases
12:23and other significant events on a political level.
12:27We are live with Mr. Sediq Abba, a journalist, writer and specialist from the Sahel.
12:33Hello, Mr. Sediq Abba.
12:36Thank you for accepting our invitation.
12:41Hello, Madam, and hello to all your viewers.
12:45So, it's time for the report of the year, which ends with the political event
12:52which is difficult to list in its entirety.
12:56According to you, on a political level, what marked Africa in 2024?
13:04Yes, one of the events that you mentioned so well at the beginning of this interview,
13:10there were a few presidential elections in many African countries,
13:14presidential elections that took place in Mozambique,
13:19that took place in Tunisia, in Algeria, in Namibia,
13:23in other countries of the continent,
13:26and also in Ghana, since we are in December,
13:29and the presidential election took place in Ghana on December 7.
13:33There were presidential elections in Chad,
13:35and also legislative elections in Chad.
13:37So, the electoral year was very intense and very dynamic
13:41throughout the African continent.
13:44Apart from the example of Mozambique,
13:47we can consider that in most cases,
13:50the presidential elections went more or less well.
13:54There are now also military transitions,
13:57since we know that in the Sahel, particularly,
14:00military coups were carried out in Mali, in Niger, in Burkina Faso.
14:05So, there are also these military transitions.
14:07So, it is still on the political level of a year that was very intense,
14:12that was marked by a certain number of presidential or legislative elections in some cases.
14:20Let's still talk about the elections.
14:23Mr. Sidi Kabba, a total of 14 countries on the continent
14:27were affected this year by electoral elections.
14:32In Senegal, Bassirou Diomayfay of the PASTEF party
14:38was elected 44-year-old president.
14:42He thus became the youngest head of state since the country's independence in 1960.
14:48In Ghana, also a country in which an opponent won the elections this year,
14:54can we say that Senegal and Ghana are affirmed
14:58as models of stable and dynamic African democracy?
15:04Yes, we can say that.
15:06I think that these presidential elections in Senegal and Ghana
15:12consolidate the democratic anchorage of these two countries.
15:16In Senegal, we had created the worst with the different attempts
15:20that there were to report the presidential election.
15:23In the end, the presidential election went well.
15:26The candidate who came second in Maduba recognized his defeat
15:31and called President Diomayfay to congratulate him.
15:34There was a new democratic alternation in Senegal
15:38and it consolidates Senegal's anchorage in democracy,
15:42the reinforcement of democratic culture.
15:44We can say the same thing in Ghana.
15:47It was the candidate of the opposition, John Mohamed Dramani,
15:50who won this election, a former president.
15:53In Ghana, there was not only this democratic election,
15:58but also the respect for the limitation of mandates,
16:02which has become a kind of democratic tradition in Ghana.
16:05I think that these two countries can inspire the rest of the continent,
16:09especially West Africa, in the context that I mentioned earlier,
16:13that of the different coups d'état.
16:15We can come to power through democratic means.
16:18It is important that we consolidate democracy in African countries
16:22so that Africa can devote itself, after the chapter of democracy,
16:26to the chapter of development, which is the most important challenge for it.
16:30Although countries like Senegal or Ghana have a culture of scrutiny
16:37that results in recognition by the loser of the victory of the winner,
16:42the issue of alternation remains an important challenge on the continent?
16:48Absolutely. We can say that alternation remains an important challenge.
16:54Today, more generally, there is a desire to remain in power for as long as possible.
17:01When you take the Central African countries, which I will not name,
17:05there is a tradition of longevity,
17:07which means that the heads of state pass three, four, five, up to five mandates.
17:11I think that this is a great challenge for the African continent.
17:14The respect for the limitation of mandates.
17:17We must be aware, both in Ghana and in Senegal,
17:20that in political life, everyone contributes,
17:24and then passes the baton to someone else.
17:26Alternation is a real challenge.
17:29The respect for the constitution with the limitation of mandates is a real challenge.
17:34And the organization of elections too.
17:36Because for a long time, it was believed that the National Independent Electoral Commission
17:41could organize democratic scrutiny.
17:43And when we see what has just happened in Mozambique,
17:46where the post-electoral crisis is not yet over,
17:48we have concerns about this plan.
17:50Globally, our country, our continent, still needs to make progress to strengthen democracy.
17:56Especially since Africa is getting younger and younger.
17:58Young people have aspirations for democracy.
18:00I think that the old Africa, where you can stay in power for a long time,
18:04where you can confiscate elections,
18:06this old Africa, we have turned the page.
18:08And the leaders of the continent must be fully aware of this.
18:11Now, let's go to Namibia,
18:14which made history in the 2024 elections.
18:17For the first time, a woman is running for president.
18:20A woman president is not just a symbol,
18:24it is a model for all women on the continent.
18:27What do you think?
18:29Yes, I think it's a very good thing.
18:32It's a very good sign that Namibia has sent.
18:35Not far from Namibia, in Tanzania,
18:37there is already a woman who is president,
18:40who is doing an enormous job.
18:42And we remember Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia,
18:45who also did an excellent job.
18:47In my opinion, maybe the salvation of democracy in Africa,
18:51in any case, the salvation of good governance,
18:53could come from women.
18:55And I think that in 54 countries,
18:57if we only have three women,
18:59we still have to make progress
19:01so that the continent has more women,
19:03because women have shown virtuous governance.
19:06When we take the examples I have just given,
19:08I believe that we must continue,
19:10we must follow the example of Namibia,
19:12so that there are more and more women.
19:14We have tried a few women prime ministers in the continent,
19:16there are still some in Togo,
19:18there are some in other countries on the continent,
19:20but we have to move forward
19:22so that women can access supreme magistracy
19:25and that they can contribute to their task.
19:28Because when you take some of our countries,
19:30women are the majority in the population.
19:32So there is no reason for them to be excluded from political life,
19:35for political life to be a man's affair,
19:37because when we look at the continent's balance sheet,
19:40I am not sure that the balance sheet is very flattering for men.
19:43So we have to give women a place in politics
19:45so that they can access the highest functions of the state.
19:49The member countries of the Sahel State Alliance
19:53have left the CDAO,
19:55the Sahel State Alliance,
19:57created in September 2023.
19:59It was officially enacted in 2024.
20:03What do you think of this political, military and economic alliance
20:07between Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger?
20:10And what is the future for the Sahel State Alliance
20:14in the current context of tensions with the CDAO?
20:20Yes, I think that the project
20:22that underpinned the Sahel State Alliance
20:25itself is a credible and justified project.
20:28The security challenge in the Sahel,
20:30which has become endemic and chronic,
20:34the security challenge in the Sahel
20:36is a transnational challenge.
20:38It is no longer a national challenge.
20:40It is a challenge that is posed at the same time
20:42for several countries at the same time.
20:44So the answer must also be transnational,
20:46it must be regional.
20:48The fact of setting up the Sahel State Alliance
20:50has good intentions.
20:52To get together to respond to the security challenge,
20:55to share the resources we have,
20:57to share the information,
20:59to share everything that can be shared,
21:01to build a response to the transnational threat,
21:05seems to me to be a good approach.
21:07Now, the debate that arises from my point of view
21:10is whether creating the Sahel State Alliance
21:14must necessarily lead to the withdrawal of the CDAO.
21:18In my opinion, it is in this regard that there is a debate,
21:21but the alliance itself is a good thing
21:23and it must continue to move forward.
21:25For the moment, there are more good intentions
21:28than concrete projects that the alliance has managed to put in place,
21:31including on the military level.
21:33We must go towards mixed brigades,
21:35Niger-Malian, Niger-Burkinabé,
21:38and this step must be crossed.
21:41The alliance has taken some important initiatives.
21:45In May 2024, in Niger,
21:48there were large-scale military exercises
21:51between the three countries to which Togo and Chad were invited.
21:56There were some important initiatives.
21:59There is a project to set up a common passport,
22:02a common economic space,
22:04but in my opinion, we must go much further
22:07while trying to maintain links with other countries.
22:10Today, when we take the security plan,
22:13the threat is leaving the Sahel
22:15to go down to the countries of the Gulf of Guinea,
22:17Benin, Togo, Ivory Coast, Ghana.
22:20So the alliance must absolutely work with the countries of the CEDEAO.
22:24Mr. Sediq Abba, on the security and defense plan,
22:27we are mainly thinking about the withdrawal of the French forces from Chad
22:31and soon from Senegal.
22:34What does this inspire you?
22:38This is a historical event, in my opinion,
22:41because when you take Senegal,
22:44the French have been in the military since the 17th century,
22:48since the 18th century.
22:50In Chad, the French have been in place since 1900.
22:53And no one thought that these countries,
22:56which until now were considered as the most faithful allies of France in the Sahel,
23:01could one day denounce in an unilateral way
23:04the defense agreements and demand the withdrawal of the French forces.
23:09I believe that Africa is opening a new chapter,
23:12that of the affirmation of its sovereignty,
23:15that of the diversification of its partnership.
23:18For a long time, the notion of precariousness was in force.
23:21France considered its former colonies as a kind of precariousness.
23:25And today, with competition, the arrival of new actors,
23:29Russia, Turkey, China, Africa is changing.
23:33And in my opinion, this withdrawal,
23:36this demand for the withdrawal of French forces from countries like Senegal,
23:41like the Sahel, opens a new chapter.
23:44And it is no longer bad to redefine,
23:4760 years, more than 60 years after independence,
23:50the conditions for new partnerships between France and other countries.
23:54I don't think that France is totally rid of its former colonies,
23:58but there is a new type of partnership that takes into account the new actors.
24:03And in my opinion, we must now work so that relations are more win-win,
24:09as the English say, between France and its former colonies.
24:14Mr. Sediq Abba, thank you for this precious insight.
24:19Thank you for answering our questions.
24:21I remind you that you are a journalist, writer and specialist from the Sahel.
24:26You are welcome.
24:31This is how our edition ends.
24:34Thank you for following it.
24:36See you soon for another programme on Mediatheque.