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the i, i'm eddie micah junior and you welcome to the program. we stopped and nothing. it tells you where the federal on boots months, as many as 400 people stopped to death over the past 6 months. among the regions where the situation is most desperate as to drive due to the ongoing drought and conflict. regional officials say the on the verge of humanitarian catastrophe, similar to the finding in the 1980s about precedent documents, central government has dismissed it and denies any one has died from hunger farming . is it sensitive issue we need to, if you take lately, because of the one that investigates of the country 40 years ago, the you ins? well, food program has expressed concern about the west and food security in the region. i'll speak to them in a moment,

but that's as go to that. you'd see that district. yeah. and mckayla and t, right. well, officials reports more than 18 hung i related that's in the last few months it took hours fully to see here. got to carrie had 2 year old son to get to the town with him nearest hospital just in time. it seems as gonna have someone as well when my son got the seriously ill, i brought him, he has told me that they gave him an additional supplement called tempe, not to what had this time feeding him with that no later than have 2 in goose who is getting back to get into has been assignments like many in the region, but the ongoing drought has killed of all the crops and animals. we have starving. i have been begging for food and nearby town since october for my son is starving. i haven't received any help back in the village, the many people in

a similar state. she tells us that there too weak to make the journey. those who do reach the hospital already in a very bad condition. no, she was difficult to. michael says, in the past 3 months, malnutrition cases have tripled. now was that now with the we have taken care of more than 120 children who came to our hospital and even die on getting enough support. we are amount of a 100 and we cannot accept any more because we don't have the results is to help them that somebody who comes difficult when they suffer at home and they run the risk of those, you know, have my husband who's the he's worried about the long term consequences can be mount nutrition because the system problems for the next generation when we have those malnourished children will be affected physically, mentally, and the general developments of a role in the town of each. sheila has witnessed one of the was fee is battles

bombed all trucks can still be seen along the roads. following the 2, you will, that ended in 2022, a months of drought. in march 2023, the united nations and the united states halted food aid for the t cry region and later to the whole country because of a wide spread scheme by fuel pen officials to steal humanitarian green. after reforms were put in place, 8 agencies resumed deliveries 2 months ago. but of the over 3000000 people targeted only 14 percent of so far received any from 25 kilometers outside the town. if you tina from us and by a given to celeste, he and his wife a desperate to find anything to eat for the next day. without them know me, we need a term. the government is i'm done is not what i thought we facing. the no one will survive. we need attention because we are human to, you know,

across if you'll be out one and 6 of the 120000000 population need food age. because of the route conflict and rising in place. and by a who hasn't had a proper meal in weeks hopes it won't arrive too late. for me on those last spring, getting clear, neville sees the weld food programs, books, press and forth you. if you hello and welcome to a program that you organization says it's trying to feed about 3000000 ethiopians. why is it so difficult to feed people? thank you for helping me. so let me check here. it's very complex or rates and environment. we have multiple. ringback crises, assets, one conflicts, droughts, rising inflation, a disease outbreaks or lots of time which push people 5 into savannah on the w p and all the actors in the country, the law delivering agitated speech assistance. and so often, facebook,

the impediments have been security, which is in fact too many regions to proceed to right now. funding is the service to check um, delta p as the funding to keep delivering to people that might need it right now. we'll get some of the funding and the best buy the well food program was among those that stopped 8 for 6 months due to reports of food being diabetic. how confident are you that the aid is now region people who really need them a salute. a we have activated strong guys, delivery method is to all ration since nots jim. but to the bank that may just step in reaching the home resource collections across. if you know people who are affected by trout loving complex since december, when we received pages to students, we breached to 1000000 people with rocky knob to reach premium. i'm one of the

things that we've introduced is and the way that we identify those who are in need of food assistance is left by the community. we needed to re register them so that we can verify them in teacher without food assistance. the feedback from communities has been very positive on this, and they told us the presence is transparent and the thing nice dispute is reaching . that is like speech right now. that's great. i mean, as you said earlier, funding is very t, u cool. you depend on donors for the funding i did convince to keep doing more considering that there are many other conflicts going on. what exactly right and especially considering the know with simon humanitarian crises, library, our funding apoplexy, any guarantee yet spar and expand that the bread. so w p how's the big stokes in countries,

but as needs an additional $142000000.00 to keep reaching onto you, bring it to the right speller lecture me are and including red jeep and funding for refugees will complete the run out from april which is huge, we can send it with the mouse. if people still coming into their pros, you down and bring the items up to speak to seat assistance, right? we also build resilience declined that we can make sure what to go and do the ones who need. yes. yeah. so it does have sufficient fund day to day. today's resilience build a program that humanitarian needs tomorrow to be trips to peak, which is right, right? to clinical w feasible expressive for you to of yeah thank you. thank you so much now has mentioned that yeah. one of the major factors driving hung up any 2 of you has been

the security situation not just in t drive at the nava states like higher the countries and the 2nd biggest problems of how it is under a state of emergency with a military class and with a so called final groups the us and the you have called for investigations into the recently report that killing somebody's 45 civilians that area. i discussed this with rob and alam of the advocacy group at the i'm our association of america and got his views on the conflict as the conflicting you do. a prism har region is one of the worlds of deadly as conflicts unfolding under network blackout. the entire region has actually been under a state of emergency since last august, and under siege since last april. and we are the mar association of america, has actually witnessed a pattern of impunity, which has claimed tens of thousands of lives. this, the start of the war, tripoli has recorded a tax on civilian targets including schools, hospitals, sites of worship, using heavier jewelry and drones. and so what the, what this has led to has actually been devastation including civilian massacres,

ethnic cleansing profiling mass, arrests and concentration camps. rape as a weapon of war, weaponized hunger, collective punishment tactics. a tax on the free press and civil society in statements of hatred and violence, including by government officials. and most recently, we've actually seen a har civilians who escaped it's massacres in western or romeo region to him, our region being forcibly displaced and relocated back to western or romeo, where they faced imminent danger from state and on state farm to groups such as the ormal abrasion, army and, or on the original special forces. oh, well that's, i mean you're using, you're using a lot of the strong words that you use the ethnic cleansing. i'm assuming these are investigations that i own go in before it can be proven or not about you talk about the fights and yeah, it's mainly between the military and the so called funnel self defense melisha, who are they and what are they fighting for?

yes, thank you. uh the i'm her fun nor actually what have the most misunderstood. i am the groups by international analyst and observers. firstly, on the fundamental level, fundamentalism is a cultural practice of the in the heart of people of taking up arms in self defense during times of for an innovation and this practice dates back into the bank many centuries. but the modern fund, no armed insurgency is a manifestation of decades of genocide, subjugation, and repression under consecutive authoritarian regimes from the autumn of prosperity party that's currently rolling back to the ship to the people's liberation front and the communist derek, one time before them. so it's important, it's important to understand currently the i'd be regime is the aggressor that rejected calls for peaceful reform during peaceful protest. and instead declared war on the heart of people. and so the find are exercising the right to self defense with their own private arms without the backing of any 4 in states, whereas obese, receiving budgetary support,

and weapons from various international patrons. so the final currently have effective control. sorry, no, no. have i didn't mean to catch you? i was just trying to address ends and again, very strongly as you mentioned, a wed genocide. again, these are not what we're gonna officially say is what is happening underground by the investigations? i still ongoing um just just to try to wrap up here at the end of the day, this is the fight and that's been going on for a while. we wanted to and what do you think needs to be done to end the ongoing conflict as a certainly i think it's been a cycle of infinity in ethiopia. and so the structural causes of this conflict and violence needs to be addressed. and i think the people no longer have an appetite for cosmetic change. they weren't fundamental change. and that starts with removing the immediate cause of the problems which is prime minister of the i'm and his prosperity party. and so i think there's several actions that the international community can take, including targeted sanctions against government officials and military leaders

implicate in atrocities that you, one can potentially impose a no fly zone in them. hard all region to mitigate this really in a text using drones to match or agencies consent, emergency assistance in order to reach millions in need. and then we just as an account ability, which are key. and these include independent investigations into the emerging a side which are, which are needed through an international mechanism. and as we have seen just weeks before, there was a very large skilled massacre in a town called marrow. we, which prompted outcry from the international community which was very promising. the lead more of this because these, these atrocities continued to happen and more innocent people continue to die on a daily basis. okay, probably i'll, i level director of communications with you. i'm harass association of america. thank you. thank you. 1000 failings. i've been screening of as the, as addition of the berlin international film festival, also known as spanish knowledge, among them out several productions from africa,

including 3 that have been selected for the competition phase of the festival. let's take a look. boy, a woman says no, they had her own wedding. i a, comes from the ivory coast dreams of a new life and finds it in china and the african diaspora of kwan jude as a sales woman in the t store. she gets closer to her boss chi. a tender love story takes its course mark only by prejudice and racism towards the end of the film. and the i think the found in dice stuff. i'm not going to. so the super so that's not the central theme of this movie. it's more about an encounter with one self and with others elephant closed download the encounter between i and kai, between african and asia, and abdur rahman, s c sa goes black, t takes place on an equal footing full of mutual respect and openness. a bit you

topic selma, sort of the top so size of the tongue photoshoot. you're also in the competition, a documentary film from french senegalese director about the deal to home me documents the return of 26 art objects to the ban need. artifacts looted by french troops in 1892, and returned by the french government in 2021. there are hot topic of discussions for students in the name of the columbia. they just need to

ensure 68 minutes max co gets to the heart of the debate on restitution and de colonization through cost is to keep the static but the more than anything the ethical principle was to film this return from the african perspective to make them the subjectivity of the narrators of their own story, just to tell the story in their own narrative. well, how cool is the generation section for film? same, the young people features the coming of age drama, disco, africa, that kwame, who digs for sapphires and secret mines and madagascar and lose as his friend in the process. this turns his life upside down. a generation caught between corruption, unemployment and revolt director lucas guys, and john shows the awakening of a political consciousness. kwame has to choose between making a quick buck or standing up for his country. i think us good. every time. it's what

i'm saying. body the morning. the truly, my god, i see my house all might have gas guns and young africans to ask themselves what their place is, what they can contribute to the country each at their own level. people, even if they don't have a degree in love in this exam, it's an appeal that i've been to, but enough for the good news. and i do need to it's the 1st film for madagascar ever to be shown at the ballot nodding. and definitely what's the appetite for more one of the failings that did not compete, and the festival that was premier, that is the german times any and documentary, the empty grave documentary tack holes the dock chopped out germany's colonial past . it photos join in bondo and his wife on a mission to find the human remains of jones great grandfather. so in the bundle community leader who was executed by the gentleman colonial army,

the families morning has been passed down through the generations. that something he has great where his body is buried, that without his head. instead this head will ship to do you have any for basic research purposes on which i can? joining me now in the studio is cc him lie and on this lisa vac, though the other wrecked us of the, found the empty grave, which was committed at the bedding film, festival valley knowledge. hello and welcome to program guys. thank you so much on their solutions. on the movie premiere thing. yeah. yeah. all excitement to tell us a little bit about the empty grave of the film is really a story about 210 demand families who have had a loss that has been stretching over a 100 years and grief that's been passed on from one generation to the next because their families remains, were violently taken away to german institutions during the colonial era.

so it's, it's a bit dock as some well described, the movie, you know, reading going back to those colonial era days. how has it been received sofa, or very well very positively. um, i think a lot of people, we had 33 names here in berlin, at the very nylon people were mostly in shock to find out about these historical choose and current. choose of these assets to remain still being kept away here in our institutions in germany. and other european countries, we've heard a lot of positive feedback so far. i think it's time to, you know, come to terms with, with the history and the current situation. and people are actually welcoming to, to learn more about this. yeah, i mean, the thing is when it, when i saw the movie, knowing what it's about, and maybe forget my curiosity to really find out more about the past. you know,

what happened during the colonial era times. it's a beautiful movie, cool. produced include directed, you know, tons on the side of it, versus the germany side of it. how important is it for such calibrations who think, well, what is the the topic of the phone itself was something that we wanted to do. where we had a creative team, not just on the direct to level, but even on the producing level where we were all sort of going to a chart this very difficult subject matter, but from the oppressor and the oppressed side. um, and the reason why it's been sort of a really great collaboration also is because in most cases when films like this has been done in the past, it's sort of been people come to the continent. do the story,

have fixers from our side, and then leave with the stories. and there's never any real creative input from the people who have lived with those communities in our story colors themselves. and so this collaboration really wanted to change not only the dynamics of how the story was being told, but how it was being approached as well. um, suzy, from times in the no disrespect to the film industry in terms of the you don't really hear much about, uh, it's from that side, give us a brief view of what it is like in the country. well, 1st of all it's, it's interesting when people say that because we are the 2nd largest producers of films on the continents, i can only to dollywood major, but it is very much a local market that we're talking about. and so, films from there have started traveling internationally to film festivals and but you know,

the challenge as wouldn't be in any african country really well, let me not say any aspect of the country, but it was the industry on the continent. is that there's a question of funding. yeah. and then because it's never long term and only one or 2 filmmakers will get funding for a project. then there is no real like structural long term thing that's happening within those industries. that's allowing them to grow in terms of me, i would say that has been the challenge. but um i, as we haven't been working towards thinking differently and shifting that to them through our production company, we do workshops and mentorships with young filmmakers because we do want to be able to pass on this knowledge to them. but also it's a question of like also thinking about how these things get distributed because you

also do want these phones to be seen by our audience. yeah. and so hopefully, you know, it's, it's, it steps forward, slow steps, but it is happening now. thank you for pointing out the west african by as we like to feel like, you know, everything we do is as, you know, dominating the whole cards. now it's good to know a good, a good info about times any i'd be number 2290. when it comes to add the, the film industry, and now you talked about some of the challenges of corresponding is key. we talking about markets in distribution. and i mean this how do you try to address that for the field as well? in our case, our film was completely funded by german money, 100 percent, which, you know, was, i mean, we were very grateful for the funding that we got, you know, that's, that's needless to say. however, our regulations with our so on funding in germany, we, you know,

there are restrictions on, on how to spend the money and where to spend the money. we have to spend a huge amount in the federal states that we got the funding from. so i think when the idea of this kind of call collaboration is something that germany wants to take seriously, then that is something that we should, you know, take a very close look at. yeah. to see, what are you seeing from african filmmakers that excites you about the future of the film industry. last year we had the largest number of songs playing con, from here, from, from africa. i mean, obviously we, there is so much more to do. but in the last 10 years, the number of films that have come out of the content, it just been absolutely exciting. it's sort of like we're entering a new phase with phenomenal documentary filmmakers fiction for makers. i mean, a, myself, personally and you know, i, i know that these are

a lot of period pieces that are being done. and so right now it feels as though there's a really intentional pushed. and the great thing about what's happening is that these filmmakers are not only looking out to just create these films that will be going to play internationally. but they're also striving to make sure that these phones are being seen by audience, on the continent. because how do you change the story, towing is your own audience. doesn't have access to it. and so it's a really, really exciting time. my new way for african simon mind. it's just been really great to be a part of it. great. the future looks bright, very much the same lie and unless the south of baghdad, thanks for coming and all the best things. thank you. thanks for having. and that's where we draw the captains for more of our stories. go to our website or visit us on social media. so your next time, bye for now, the

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