MEDI1TV Afrique : Revue de presse - 08/01/2025
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00:00Hello everyone and welcome to Mediun, to go over the news of the day.
00:15Essaouira is over a million tourists, that's what was said this morning,
00:20with more than a million tourists, Essaouira Mogador has crossed a historical threshold in 2024,
00:25said the president of the provincial council of tourism of Essaouira, Redouane Khan.
00:30In a statement making the assessment of the past year,
00:33Khan confirmed that the city of the Alysées has also set a new record by recording more than 3 million nights.
00:41These figures only reflect the performance of the established establishments,
00:44specifies the provincial council of tourism, noting that it is necessary to add the very substantial flow
00:50of informal and rental services to the inhabitants,
00:52which traditionally have always represented a very significant part of the tourist market of Essaouira.
00:58Heading to the Doukaimden ski resort, which finds its splendor with the first snowfalls,
01:04according to today's Morocco.
01:06Located about 75 km from Marrakech, this resort, one of the highest in Africa,
01:11offers its numerous Moroccan and foreign visitors various sports, entertainment and discoveries
01:18that make it a must-visit place.
01:21Endowed with a total budget of 148 million dirhams,
01:24financed as part of a convention concluded between the Ministry of the Interior,
01:28the Ministry of Equipment and Water, the Moroccan Society of Tourism Engineering
01:33and the Council of the Marrakech-Safi Region.
01:35The project of restructuring and enhancing the Doukaimden tourist resort
01:40aims at the development, reinforcement of roads and improvement of services.
01:45A total investment of 230 million dirhams is also allocated to the modernization of the resort
01:52and the development of new leisure infrastructures.
01:55The Tunisian press reports that the shortage of domestic gas bottles persists in Kairouan.
02:01Citizens have expressed their discontent with the unavailability of domestic gas bottles,
02:06which forced them to move early in the morning to Raqqada,
02:11about 7 km from the city of Kairouan, in search of gas.
02:15On the other hand, a regional director of Kairouan Commerce, Salaheddin Jabari,
02:21confirmed that the distribution process continues daily
02:25due to 3,360 bottles per day to four distributors in the meridional provinces of this city.
02:32According to The Washington Post, Trump's lawyers asked Attorney General Garland
02:36not to publish the report of the Special Attorney.
02:39Attorney General Merrick Garland indicated that he would make public
02:43any report of the Special Attorney with the necessary writings that would reach his office.
02:49Donald Trump's lawyers have read the Special Attorney's report project.
02:53Jack Smith details the conclusions of these two investigations on the new president
02:57and exhorts Attorney General Garland to dismiss Smith and block the public publication of the report.
03:04According to a letter addressed to the Attorney General included in a request
03:07filed Monday evening in front of a federal court in Florida,
03:11Trump's lawyers claim that the publication of the report in two volumes,
03:15a few days before their client resigns as president, would disrupt his transition.
03:21Directing the Silicon Valley with the British daily Financial Times, which was titled Meta,
03:27puts an end to its third-party verification system while preparing for Trump's return.
03:33Facebook's owner will now count on its users to report false information.
03:39Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Meta, said,
03:43I quote,
03:44It is time to return to our roots around freedom of expression on Facebook and Instagram.
03:50End of quote.
03:51The company said on Tuesday that it would allow more expression by lifting restrictions on certain subjects,
03:57which are part of the dominant discourse,
03:59and would adopt a more personalized approach to political content.
04:04Sweet drinks are at the origin of more than 3 million cases of diabetes and cardiovascular accidents per year.
04:11According to El Pais, a study published this Tuesday in the journal Nature Medicine,
04:15based on the analysis of data from 184 countries,
04:18concludes that these products are responsible for a new diagnosis of type 2 diabetes out of 10.
04:24Sex, level of education or rural or urban context influence their consumption.
04:30The highest proportion of cases was recorded in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean,
04:37which the authors attribute to the change of diet,
04:41imitating a more Western and industrialized way of life.
04:44The study estimates that in 2020, 2.2 million new cases of diabetes
04:49and 1.2 million cardiovascular accidents were attributable to this type of drink.
04:55According to an analysis by the British Medical Journal,
04:58the incidence of type 2 diabetes rose by almost 60% in three decades among teenagers and young people.
05:06We come to the end of this press release.
05:08Very good follow-up of the programs on Mediain.