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00:00This morning, we have a new exchange of hostages and Palestinian prisoners in the Gaza Strip with the announcement of the reopening of the passage of Rafah, first of all for sanitary evacuations.
00:30In Tunisia, her health condition inspires concern. The president of the Institution of Sovereignty and Dignity has been in prison for four months. She must have been hospitalized shortly after a hunger strike.
00:41In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the control of Goma in the east by the men of the M23 and the Rwandan soldiers who galley, we know, pointed fingers, who galley at the heart of ethnic tensions and convoys of huge mining resources in this region.
00:57We are the 1st of February, announced by Donald Trump customs taxes on certain products that would come from China, Canada and Mexico up to 25% of taxes.
01:07Situation scrutinized with a lot of concern on the other side of the border. We will be in Mexico later with our correspondent Lucia Char.
01:16Finally, sport, European football, will return on the draw of the Champions League match. We will be with Hakim Tamim at the end of this edition.
01:27Hello, hello to all. Thank you for joining us on our shadows of the Maghreb and Africa.
01:35The Maghreb first of all with King Mohammed VI who therefore addressed his condolences yesterday to US President Donald Trump.
01:42Message after the collision between a military helicopter and a airliner above Washington. Collision that caused the death of at least 67 people.
01:51We are of course interested in the Middle East. This Saturday, Israel and Hamas must proceed to the fourth exchange between Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners.
02:01Three hostages against 183 Palestinian detainees.
02:05And then to note this 1st of February, I told you in title, the Rafa border post between Egypt and Gaza reopens and for the first time since at least 8 months.
02:14This is of course within the framework of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel.
02:17So at first today, the passage will be used for medical evacuations.
02:23The World Health Organization has declared that at least 50 patients will be directed.
02:29They will leave Gaza to then be treated abroad.
02:32Jean-Raphaël Poitou works for Action Against Hunger in this region.
02:36For him, it's a good thing, but there is a risk for the Palestinians who will leave the Gaza strip.
02:43The Rafa passage point will mainly allow to evacuate the injured people, the people who will also want to flee the situation in Gaza.
02:52We also hope that it will be able to increase the number of trucks that can enter the Gaza strip.
02:58We must also see the possibility of increasing human resources for humanitarian organizations to be able to meet all these needs at the moment since the implementation of this ceasefire.
03:09So it's a bit of everything we hope with this reopening of Rafa.
03:15But it will also be necessary to have conditions, that is to say that the people who will want to leave Rafa must have the possibility to return to Gaza when they wish.
03:25We are also worried at the level of NGOs about their possibility of returning.
03:30There were statements from certain members of the Tsar's army explaining that those who will leave Gaza will never be able to return.
03:36If this were to come to fruition, it would be a serious violation of international law.
03:42That's it, concerns for this reopening.
03:45It was Jean-Raphaël Poitou, he responded to Mounia Bellarbi.
03:48And then in this region, Lebanon, following the Israeli strike yesterday in the east of the country, at least two people were killed.
03:54A dozen others injured in the Bekaa plain, which had already been targeted in mid-January by Israeli aviation.
04:00The Maghreb at one o'clock this morning with Morocco and the government that is taking a whole battery of measures to combat measles,
04:10in coordination with, on the one hand, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education.
04:16Why? Because it is necessary to vaccinate students against this disease in schools.
04:22There will be a lot of measures from the beginning of next week, Monday, February 3.
04:26Classrooms must be excluded, including students whose parents have refused to vaccinate them in the event of an epidemic in these establishments.
04:35Well, they will have to close. In this case, students will be able to attend classes remotely.
04:40We will of course come back to this in our next editions.
04:43In Tunisia, the support of Siem Ben-Sedrin, who denounces his arbitrary detention.
04:48The president of the Verity and Dignity Institute has been in prison since August.
04:51She had to be hospitalized this week because she was following a hunger strike.
04:56His lawyers, in fact, claim his release, while his detention has just been extended for four months.
05:02We make the point with Alicia Miami.
05:04Siem Ben-Sedrin's advisers believe that the chases against her are a revenge for having revealed to the public the atrocities committed by the former regime.
05:13It was the mission of the Verity and Dignity Institute.
05:15And for Ayesha Mami, one of her lawyers, cited by RFI, it is precisely the report published after four years of work that made Siem Ben-Sedrin a target.
05:25A report that would have hindered the various mafia and oppression networks of Ben Ali's regime, according to the lawyer.
05:31It is indeed this report that is at the heart of the chases.
05:34Siem Ben-Sedrin is accused of having falsified it.
05:37An accusation chief who allowed her to be placed in detention under the famous Decree 54.
05:43A decree supposed to fight disinformation, but which is actually used to smear any dissident voice in the country.
05:50For the International Federation of Human Rights, the harassment of which Siem Ben-Sedrin is a victim is part of, I quote,
05:56in a restoration process of systemic repression under the dictatorship of Ben Ali.
06:00An opinion shared by many human rights defenders, who have been denouncing for several months the authoritarian drift of President Haïs Tayyèd.
06:09We will leave Tunisia, but stay on the continent.
06:12The Democratic Republic of Congo, with this last report, at least 700 people killed,
06:16nearly 3,000 injured in the fighting since the beginning of the week for the control of the city of Goma in the east.
06:23This is what was announced yesterday by a spokesman for the UN.
06:25The men of the M23 in the West are supported by Rwandan soldiers who gallop pointed fingers at the heart of ethnic tensions.
06:33It has been going on for years.
06:35Convoitises also of huge mining resources on the other side of its border.
06:39File on which the historian Mohamed Diouf returns.
06:42Rwanda is looking for two things.
06:44I spoke about the FDLR, the Democratic Fund for Liberation of Rwanda,
06:49which is a movement that was created in 2000 by former Hutus who had left Rwanda
06:55and let's not forget that it was these Hutus who had massacred the Tutsis.
06:59These Hutus are fighting to regain power at the level of Rwanda.
07:03So President Rwanda has within the FDLR a movement that wants to destabilize,
07:10or even take power in its place.
07:13This is extremely clear.
07:15But this is not the most important thing, because this movement does not have a certain strength at the time we are talking about.
07:20The other reality that is there is that this area where the war is taking place is one of the richest areas at the level of the FDLR.
07:27The only region of Kivu houses between 60 and 80% of Coltan's world reserves.
07:33While we also have gold, tin, diamond, tungsten at the level of the same region.
07:38It is clear that Rwanda, as well as Uganda, is interested in these resources at the level of the RDC subsoil.
07:45Here is the historian Mohamed Diouf.
07:47He was answering the questions of Mounia Bellarby.
07:49Mohamed Diouf will be our guest.
07:51Le Grand Journal, it's noon.
07:53Meeting at 1.05 p.m.
07:55The United States, February 1st.
07:57And for Donald Trump, well, this Saturday rhymes with the promise,
08:01promise to sign a decree that will impose customs rights on Canadian, Chinese, Mexican products.
08:08Rights that should be applied to several products.
08:11We are talking about semiconductors, gas, oil, steel.
08:14It could come into force as early as mid-February and reach 25%.
08:19It's huge.
08:21So, for Mexico, at the border, it's obviously a big concern for the maquilas industry.
08:25It's a disastrous measure for this industry.
08:28These factories ensure the economic balance of the north of the country.
08:32They depend on imports to the other side of the border.
08:35This is the report of our correspondent in Mexico, Lucia Char.
08:39In Ciudad Juarez, as in all the cities located on the northern border of Mexico,
08:42the economy revolves around the maquilas.
08:45These factories, which receive the raw materials from the United States,
08:48transform it and assemble it before sending the fully manufactured parts back to the United States.
08:53Alejandro Brugues is an economist and director of the College of the Border of Ciudad Juarez.
08:58If they really impose these taxes on all products,
09:02sales will decrease in the United States, because it's the number one market.
09:06If sales decrease, so do exports, and therefore production in maquilas as well.
09:10A large part of the 300,000 workers in these factories will lose their jobs.
09:15This would have a terrible impact on the city's economy.
09:19A terrible impact, and for a reason.
09:2260% of Ciudad Juarez's workers are employed in maquilas.
09:26If they were to close, more than half of the city would be unemployed,
09:30like Celia Perez, a 40-year-old maquiladora.
09:33I have a child to feed, and I'm a single mother.
09:36I come from another state, and here I have to pay the rent,
09:40the electricity, the school, my son's clothes.
09:43All of this is my responsibility, and I don't know how I would do if I lost my job.
09:49If President Claudia Sheinbaum promised to have a plan to avoid bankruptcy,
09:53the United States is by far Mexico's first economic partner.
09:57It will therefore be difficult for her to do without her northern neighbor.
10:01Lucia Achar, in Ciudad Juarez, for Média.
10:03Concerns on the Mexican side, and the American president has said
10:07that the European Union could be concerned in turn.
10:11Let's move on to football, with first of all this information concerning Morocco.
10:15The Moroccan Football Museum opens its doors to the general public every weekend.
10:20Starting this Saturday, it is located in the center of Mahamora, in Salé.
10:24The museum, which is a permanent exhibition of contemporary collections,
10:29is dedicated to the great epic, notably the Lions of the Atlas.
10:33About football, at the European level, draw at the end of the match,
10:37it was yesterday in Switzerland, among the big posters,
10:40for a place in the round of 16, there will be the Manchester City-Real Madrid clash.
10:44We are with Hakim Tamim.
10:46Emilio Botragueño, former Real Madrid striker,
10:49today vice-president in charge of sports affairs of the Spanish club,
10:53had his face closed at the time of the draw announcement.
10:56He is a determined high-level opponent, with talented players, he said.
11:00The English formation is not at the top of its game, but remains competitive.
11:05It is the third year in a row that the two formations face each other in the Champions League.
11:09In 2023, City had pushed Real Madrid away in its path to the title.
11:13Last year, Real Madrid took its revenge, before going for a 15th trophy in this event.
11:19For the time being, there is no picture.
11:22The Real Madrid leader of the league is far ahead of City, which is experiencing a crisis of results.
11:26The charm of the competition remains, everything remains possible,
11:30even if Pep Guardiola, the Spanish coach of City,
11:33makes Real Madrid the big favorite for the final victory,
11:36and not only for the double confrontation.
11:39And it is with this draw that this edition ends.
11:42I wish you an excellent morning listening to our programs.
11:45We are together until 9 o'clock.
11:56See you soon.