MEDI1TV Afrique : Revue de presse - 31/03/2025
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00:00Hello everyone and welcome to Medihan, it's time for the press review.
00:14We start in Morocco with the Espresso information website, which titled
00:18Email security in Morocco, 62% of brands' unprotected domains.
00:23A recent analysis by the American firm PowerDemark, specialized in
00:28email security and authentication, highlights significant gaps in
00:33the protection of e-communications in Morocco.
00:37This study, which examined 307 domains belonging to various strategic sectors
00:42such as the bank, public administration, health and education, reveals that
00:46essential security protocols remain insufficiently adopted, exposing
00:51institutions to serious risks of cyberattacks.
00:54Among the protocols analyzed, the DMARC, Domain-Based Message Authentication,
00:59Reporting and Confirmance, designed to prevent fraudulent emails,
01:03allowing better authentication of exporters.
01:06It is correctly configured only on 36.48% of the examined domains.
01:11Worse still, 62.21% of the domains simply did not implement this protocol.
01:17Another email security protocol, the SPF, Center Policy Framework,
01:22which limits the risks of identity usurpation by verifying the legitimacy of exporters,
01:27is much more widespread.
01:29According to the report, 71.34% of the domains in Morocco have correctly configured this protocol,
01:35while 26.06% do not have any at all.
01:39The finding becomes even more alarming when it comes to the MTA-STS protocol,
01:44Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security, designed to guarantee
01:48a secure transmission of emails between servers, thanks to encrypted connections.
01:53The report therefore reveals that this protocol is not implemented in any of the sectors studied in Morocco,
01:58thus exposing electronic communications to high risks of interception and falsification.
02:04PowerDMARC warns that this absence constitutes a critical flaw,
02:08increasing the vulnerability of institutions to attacks by degradation of security.
02:13Let's stay in Africa.
02:14Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, who left the CDAO to join the Alliance of States of the Sahel,
02:21have established a 0.5% common customs law on imports from non-member countries of their confederation.
02:28This is what the magazine Jeune Afrique reported.
02:30In January, the three Sahelian countries left the CDAO, which they consider, in particular,
02:35unfunded to France and formed the EES.
02:38But they still benefit from the advantages of the organization,
02:41including the free movement of people and goods,
02:44while waiting for an agreement between the two parties on the modalities of their separation,
02:49which should soon intervene.
02:51Meanwhile, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have instituted a confederal EES
02:57common on non-member countries of their confederation and those with whom they do not have a customs agreement,
03:02according to a document signed by the Chief of the Malian Agency and President of the EES, General Assimi Goita.
03:08Direction l'Hexagone, where French doctors have launched a consortium
03:12to develop research on animal grafts to humans.
03:15The French biotech Xenothera, based in Nantes, has already started a pig farm
03:20which will be intended for Xenografts.
03:22According to the site France Info, the first clinical trials must start within two to three years.
03:27The consortium launched by these doctors is currently being formed.
03:30At this stage, there is a group of twenty-odd participants who seek to expand.
03:35Xenografts are therefore advancing at the pace of giants in recent months.
03:38Experiments have already been carried out with an American woman who has been living for more than four months with a pig farm.
03:44Other organs are already being considered.
03:46These are the heart, liver and tissues.
03:49Olivier Thonin, professor of immunology and nephrology at the Civil Hospices of Lyon,
03:53explains that the pig is the perfect animal for these Xenografts,
03:57since it allows to be genetically modified.
03:59This modification aims to improve health security and immunological compatibility.
04:06China and the United States are the first countries to carry out Xenotransplants on living patients.
04:12Xenograft is therefore still a very experimental practice,
04:15but it is a solution to alleviate the lack of organs in the world.
04:19The National Geographic site was looking at this huge iceberg
04:23which has been hiding a rich marine ecosystem confined for centuries.
04:27This phenomenon is a new proof that life can thrive even when it is locked under a thick layer of ice.
04:33On January 13, an iceberg the size of Chicago detached itself from the huge ice platform George VI in Antarctica.
04:40Scientists who were not far from it aboard a research ship
04:44then decided to go there to observe the seabed that had just been unveiled in broad daylight.
04:50Almost all parts of the oceans shelter life,
04:53from shallow sunken waters to the complete darkness of the depths, sometimes volcanic.
04:58This is why the research team of the ship Hervé Falkor of the Institute Chimie de l'Océan
05:03expected to find animals on site.
05:06However, these scientists did not think to make the discovery of a sponge forest,
05:10giant sea spiders, ice fish,
05:12huge coral, anemones,
05:14and drowning jellyfish of the depths.
05:17A real life-saving effect that was until then confined under the thick layer of ice of the iceberg.
05:24We will close this press release in China where researchers from the University of Nanjing
05:28have developed an electrochemical device capable of directly decomposing carbon dioxide
05:34into carbon and pure oxygen.
05:37The Science Post article explains that this major scientific advance
05:41could play a key role in space exploration,
05:43especially on Mars, but also in other extreme environments
05:47such as seabed or air purification systems.
05:50Until now, producing oxygen from CO2 required complex procedures,
05:55often limited by temperature and strict pressure conditions.
05:59Scientists have long tried to artificially reproduce natural photosynthesis,
06:04but these attempts have proved ineffective due to numerous technical constraints.
06:09With this new approach, Chinese researchers have managed to overcome these difficulties
06:14by using an innovative electrochemical method.
06:17Their device relies on a process involving lithium
06:21as an intermediary and a nanometric catalyzer based on ruthenium and cobalt.
06:26The result, a yield in oxygen greater than 98.6%
06:31well beyond that of natural photosynthesis.
06:34We will touch on this at the end of this press release.
06:36Very good follow-up of the programs on Median.