MEDI1TV Afrique : Revue de presse - 09/01/2025
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00:00Hello and welcome to your press review on Medihan TV, and we start with Morocco today.
00:15The daily news is about the statistics of the sales of new vehicles, data freshly published by the Association of Importers of Vehicles in Morocco.
00:24The year 2024 ends in green for automotive sales. Indeed, the new market closes the year with a growth of 9.22%,
00:33with 176,401 units sold against 161,504 during the year 2023.
00:39Also in the daily news, by segment, the light utility vehicle shows a 2-digit increase, plus 18.8%,
00:47with 19,262 sales made during the year 2024 instead of 16,202 sales during 2023.
00:55As for private vehicles, their sales increased by 8.15% compared to 2023.
01:01By brand, Dacia occupies the first place on the podium with 39,331 sales in 2024,
01:07making a growth of 16.26% compared to the year 2023, where sales were at 33,830 units.
01:15The Franco-Roman brand has a market share of 25.03%.
01:20The second position of the best sales during the year goes to Renault, which sold 23,697 units,
01:27recording a 5.7% daily growth.
01:31In 2024, Renault made a market share of 15.8%.
01:35Despite a drop of 14.30% of its sales, Hyundai occupies the third place on the podium,
01:41with 11,898 private vehicles sold in 2024, compared to 13,884 a year earlier.
01:49It is followed by the fourth place of the French Peugeot, with 10,517 sales during 2024,
01:55thus revealing a 12.55% decline compared to 2023, where it reached 12,026 units sold.
02:02Peugeot has a market share of 6.69%.
02:05The fifth place goes to Volkswagen, which sold 10,336 private vehicles in 2024,
02:12accounting for 18.82% compared to 2023, where sales were at 8,699.
02:22And we continue with the morning.
02:23According to Le Quotidien, Morocco consolidates its place among the main suppliers of the British agricultural market.
02:30It has thus represented 7.5% of British agricultural imports in 2023, according to the UKFSR 2024 report.
02:38Morocco is one of the confirmed suppliers of the British fruit and vegetable market.
02:42The report, recently presented to the British Parliament, highlights the non-negligible role of the Kingdom,
02:48which the United Kingdom Food Supply reports in the newspaper.
02:51According to the report carried out by the British Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,
02:56Morocco accounted for 7.5% of total agricultural imports from the United Kingdom in 2023,
03:02with a predominance of fresh vegetables.
03:05Similarly, according to the newspaper, this dynamic reflects both the quality of Moroccan products
03:09and the Kingdom's ability to ensure regular supply,
03:13despite the disruptions caused by international crises and climatic conditions.
03:18The United Kingdom ensures a diversification of import sources,
03:22a need at a time when the consequences of geopolitical conflicts and extreme climatic events
03:27weaken global supply chains.
03:30For Morocco, this ability to regularly supply countries such as the United Kingdom
03:34is based on national programs such as the Green Morocco Plan, mentioned this morning.
03:39Place now to BBC News.
03:41The information site is interested in a major earthquake that killed dozens of people
03:46and damaged more than 3,000 buildings in a region far from Tibet, near Everest.
03:51According to BBC, a large-scale rescue operation has been launched,
03:55the survivors being subjected to additional pressure,
03:58while temperatures should drop to minus 16 degrees Celsius during the night.
04:03Earthquakes are common in the region, which is on a major geological fault line,
04:08but Tuesday's was one of the deadliest in recent years in China.
04:12The magnitude 7.1 earthquake, which struck at a depth of 10 km,
04:17according to data from the US Geological Survey,
04:19was also felt in Nepal and in some regions of India near Tibet.
04:24Temperatures in the Qingri County, near the epicenter in the northern outskirts of the Himalayas,
04:29were already as low as minus 8 degrees Celsius before the nightfall,
04:33according to the Chinese Meteorological Administration, the newspaper said.
04:37Electricity and water were cut in the region where journalists cannot go freely.
04:41More than 40 replicas were recorded in the first hours following the earthquake.
04:46Located at the foot of Mount Everest, which separates Nepal from China,
04:49the Qingri County is a popular base for mountaineers,
04:52who are preparing to climb the highest peak in the world.
04:55The Shigatse region, which has 800,000 inhabitants,
04:58is the traditional seat of the Panchen Lama,
05:00a key figure of Tibetan Buddhism,
05:02whose spiritual authority is surpassed only by that of the Dalai Lama.
05:07The spiritual leader in exile said he had been deeply saddened
05:11by the news of the earthquake, according to BBC Africa.
05:15To the news of the Canadian daily La Presse, the world according to Trump.
05:19Renowned the Gulf of Mexico, annexed the Great Island, the Panama Canal, Canada.
05:24For La Presse, Donald Trump exposed Tuesday his boundless ambitions
05:28during a press conference in Mar-a-Lago, his residence in Florida.
05:32This is not the first time that the designated American president is interested in the Great Island.
05:37During his first term, he had repeatedly claimed to want to buy the island,
05:41but he went further on Tuesday by refusing to rule out the possibility
05:45of having recourse to the army to annex the autonomous territory of Hanoi.
05:49Last month, Donald Trump accused Panama of swindling the United States
05:53by imposing ridiculous costs on them to use its canal.
05:56Questioned on this subject on Tuesday, the designated president refused to ensure
06:00that he would not use force to regain control of this navigable route.
06:05On his return to the White House, Donald Trump would rename the Gulf of Mexico
06:09as the Gulf of America.
06:11If it were to be realized, this name change would be a symbolic attack on Mexico,
06:15which must cease to allow millions of people to flow into our country, reports La Presse.
06:21The American billionaire who demanded that NATO countries increase their military spending
06:25by 5% of their GDP, reveals the newspaper.
06:28The ICC, even the United States, which is among the member countries
06:31devoting the most money to defense, does not reach this target.
06:34Once again, Donald Trump has evoked the idea of annexing Canada,
06:38instead of using economic force to achieve it.
06:40For several weeks, the Republican leader has been posting messages on social networks
06:45in which he expresses his intention to make Canada the 51st American state, reports La Presse.
06:52And finally for Clore, this press release, an intense fire forced, on January 7,
06:57about 30,000 people to evacuate the hills on the Los Angeles bridge, observes La Croix.
07:03If many structures are already destroyed, no injured person has to cry for the moment.
07:08A spectacular fire, shaken by violent winds, spreading the flames and posing a mortal danger,
07:14according to the authorities.
07:15The fire finally broke out in the morning in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood,
07:19populated with villas worth several million dollars, in the mountains northwest of the city.
07:24The fire broke out at the worst time for Los Angeles, swept away by violent gusts.
07:29Hot winds from Santa Ana, typical of the California winter, must blow up to 160 kmh
07:35in the region Tuesday and Wednesday without American meteorological services.
07:39Scientists regularly remind that climate change increases the frequency of extreme meteorological events.
07:47Thus, we come to the end of this press release.
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