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  • 09/02/2025
MEDI1TV Afrique : Revue de presse - 08/02/2025

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00:00Hello everyone, and welcome to Medea, to take a look at this week's highlights.
00:18The Ministry of Health is working on a plan to combat the spread of measles,
00:23according to the Moroccan website H24info.
00:26The Minister of Health and Social Protection, Amine Tahraoui,
00:29indicated last Thursday that his department has adopted a multiaxial plan
00:33to combat the spread of measles.
00:36During his presentation at an exhibition in front of the Government Council,
00:40Tahraoui said that this plan focuses on the extension of the national vaccination campaign
00:45as well as the vaccination catch-up,
00:48which has allowed to verify the vaccination status of more than 8 million children under the age of 18.
00:54According to the French news website Euronews,
00:57Trump and Musk want to dismantle the USAID.
01:00Since his inauguration on January 20,
01:03the new American president has temporarily frozen all foreign aid
01:07and fired hundreds of people at the American Agency for International Development.
01:12According to several American media,
01:14USAID could be reduced and absorbed by the US Department of State.
01:19Its website has already disappeared over the last weekend,
01:22and according to the same article,
01:24Elon Musk, who is running a federal government exam in the name of Trump,
01:28has described the agency as proof of a criminal organization that should die.
01:32Musk has also stated on his platform X that he is closing the agency.
01:36The work stop order has already led to the free fall of health programs
01:40financed by the United States in low-income countries.
01:44The 360 has shed light on an alarming study published by the magazine Nature Medicine.
01:50It has looked at the presence of microplastics and nanoplastics in our body
01:55and mainly in our brain.
01:57As part of this new study,
01:5952 samples of human brains located in the frontal cortex,
02:03i.e. the part of the brain responsible for judgment, decision-making,
02:07and muscle movements, were taken between 2016 and 2024.
02:12In parallel, samples of liver and kidney were also taken on the same individuals.
02:17In comparison with 2016,
02:19samples of brain tissue taken in 2024
02:23show much higher concentrations of MNP, up to 50%.
02:28Overall, brain samples contained between 7 and 30 times more microplastics and nanoplastics
02:35than liver and kidney samples.
02:37This is especially the case for people with dementia.
02:40Direction Greece, where the state of emergency was declared last Thursday in Santorini.
02:45And this because of an intense and continuous seismic activity
02:49shaking the popular island of the Aegean Sea and others nearby,
02:52such as Amorgos, Anafi and Loss.
02:54The Greek site Hecatimerini reported that the state of emergency will be in force until March 1,
03:00while continuous shakings shake the region,
03:03increasing the risk of serious landslides and stone falls.
03:07In the only night of Wednesday,
03:096 earthquakes of a magnitude greater than 4
03:12were recorded in the maritime area around Santorini,
03:15followed by a stronger 5.2 earthquake in the south of Amorgos.
03:20The activity also had repercussions on the residents who decided to stay on site.
03:25Not far from Greece, specifically in Italy,
03:28a referendum could make the region of the Molise disappear.
03:31This is what the International Courier published.
03:34In the face of the lack of public services in this region,
03:36the least populated part of Italy,
03:38some of its inhabitants have launched a petition for their attachment to neighboring Abruz.
03:43The number of signatures that have been reached for a referendum
03:47could therefore be organized and make this region disappear,
03:50which has always been an exception in the country.
03:53The proposal may seem a bit far-fetched,
03:55but it is actually quite serious.
03:58It is a debate carried out for years by inhabitants of the province
04:01who complain about the lack of elementary public services offered by the Molise.
04:06In this region, it is indeed difficult to move
04:09because of the poor transport network
04:11and the health sector has been bankrupt for 15 years.
04:14This is one of the reasons why the Molise is becoming more and more depopulated,
04:18with only 290,000 inhabitants in 2023,
04:21against 313,000 10 years earlier.
04:24Speaking of space, according to the Geo magazine,
04:27the ninth planet in our solar system
04:29is about to be revealed by science.
04:32And this, thanks to a new telescope
04:34which will soon be put in service in Chile,
04:36at the Observatory Verace Rubin.
04:39Since Pluto lost its planet status,
04:41astronomers are perplexed.
04:43In 2006, the International Astronomical Union
04:46estimated that this star did not meet the criteria
04:49to be an entire planet.
04:52For many years, the precision of telescopes
04:55has prevented the discovery of this possible very distant star,
04:58but this could soon change, according to Scientific American.
05:02Reborn from their ashes of old manuscripts,
05:05this is the promise of this new technology,
05:07invented by a team of British scientists
05:10as part of the Vesuvius Challenge.
05:12According to the site L'Humanité,
05:14this device mixed with X-ray and artificial intelligence
05:17has already allowed the unfolding of a papyrus,
05:20yet reduced to the state of pieces of coal
05:22by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD.
05:26A confidence that convinced the University of Oxford
05:28to send part of these fragments of history
05:30to the Diamond Light Source.
05:32Last year, the team decrypted 5% of another roll
05:35containing writings of Greek Epicurean philosophy.
05:39The AI, which can work miracles,
05:41is also at the origin of a new phenomenon,
05:43the slop.
05:44To do slop is to create a lot of images or videos
05:47by making fun of whether they are credible or not
05:50to flood the web with viral content.
05:52This is what the site Radio France explained.
05:54These images are a way of detecting
05:56potential credible internet users,
05:58future victims of scams.
06:00The other problem with this phenomenon
06:02is the amount of images of this type that are created.
06:05According to a Figaro survey on apps like Pinterest,
06:08up to 70% of the content is done by AI,
06:11which makes the real content less and less visible.
06:14We reach the end of this press review.
06:16Very good follow-up of the programs on Medea.
06:24Transcription by ESO. Translation by —